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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1938
Page
2
President Roosevelt to meet 50 business leaders for input on anti monopoly measures and planned production. Discussion may cover pump priming and annual wage ideas while examining labor and construction implications amid unemployment figures and industry concerns.
The Amarillo Girl Scout Council elected new officers led by Commissioner Mrs. W. W. Gibson and Deputy Commissioner Mrs. Mark Taylor. A Round Table luncheon for Jan. 25 at Mrs. Guy Owens home will introduce the year's objectives and train new members. The first major event is the Feb. 18 Girl Scout banquet at the Presbyterian Church with 40 cent tickets.
The WP Clipper ship passenger traffic in Pan American Airways Eastern division, based in Miami, exceeds last year by about 1 000 travelers per month. In the latest 90 days 4 349 traveled compared with 3 693 a year ago. A separate fact notes human carbon output could form a 1 carat diamond per hour.
ST PAUL Minn UP Half a century ago a Omaha boy read dime novels in secret. George H Hess Jr now comptroller of the Great Northern Railroad owns nearly 8000 of them at home hoping to find one with his name written inside. After nine years of collecting the hobby remains unfulfilled.
Hollywood notes that love based titles are losing appeal as producers seek provocative, smarter names. The piece cites Samuel Goldwyn and contrasts past booms with 1920s love titles to recent releases like Love Under Fire and Love On The Run, then surveys makeup expert Percy Westmore’s seven face classes and recalls former stage masters who moved into film.
Farouk and Farida Zulficar prepare for a historic wedding in Cairo near Jan 19. The 16 year old bride-to-be completes a 45 gown trousseau packed for Koubbeh Palace while diplomats, including Sir Miles Lampson, arrive with congratulations. Farida, daughter of a Alexandria judge, will join the king at seven palaces after the ceremony.
Testimony to a Commerce board cites ice on the tail fin as a probable cause of the Northwest Airlines crash 14 miles northeast of Bozeman on January 10. Western Air Express dispatcher Bert Castellano testified ice appeared on landing in Butte but melted before the return flight. Arthur Norris, a Montana mine operator, saw similar issues in Seattle involving Nick Mamer, the Chicago bound pilot, and described a problem taking off in Spokane as attendants damaged the vertical stabilizers before a subsequent takeoff.
H. V. Robertson & Co is listed as accountants and auditors with tax counseling services. The advertisement includes contact number 2 2038 and the address 810 in a historic business directory style.
Houston mail carrier A. Kramer delivers mail from a single building and walks over six miles daily while carrying about 207 pounds of mail. The piece notes the golden eagle on the half dollar is not an American eagle.
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee and Committee for Industrial Organization back a campaign led by Philip Murray to win a five billion dollar housing appropriation from Congress. They argue public housing will create jobs and improve housing while boosting steel and construction industries. They claim current federal provision is insufficient and urge rapid national home building to counter depression.
Dr. Richard A. Morgner, with 33 years of practice, has delivered 4,316 babies including 47 sets of twins. He won Tufts Medical School’s infant delivery contest, earning the "stork" title.
A $50 United States savings bond found in the liquidation of Interstate National Bank in Helena was identified as owned by a woman who disclaimed it saying she had sold the bond.
Armiger Dredge Jr a 13 year old from Minneapolis edits Rail Road News a monthly trade paper distributed in six states. The publication started with one subscriber this year and now counts 125 subscribers across New York California Michigan Pennsylvania Wisconsin with most in the Northwest. The four to six page issue features a Q A section and railroading discussions and plans to add illustrations. He expects the paper to last unknown yet one subscriber has signed up for ten years.
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