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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1935
Page
2
The forecast suggests a harsh winter with potential light showers in limited areas. The writer notes signs of heavy snowfall through spring and recalls old vaudevillian quips and local anecdotes about droughts, weddings, gondolas, and town humor from Amarillo and Dalhart.
The piece mixes political notes about radicals in Chicago with local weather oddities and humorous observations from The News-Globe in Amarillo. It mentions an initiating congressional committee, Gov Frivd Olson of Minnesota, and quirky hometown scoops about flowers, sprinklers, weddings, and prairie life.
Judge Cushman rejects guilty pleas in the Tacoma kidnapping of nine year old George Weverhaeuser. Prosecution and defense seek jury mitigation as a 19 year old girl’s minor role appears in the case. A panel of 62 prospective jurors awaits questioning.
A dense onscreen time block lists hourly programs from 6:15 PM to 5:45 AM including news, sports, musical variety, talk, and religious segments. Notable items include One Man Minstrel, Dinner Dance Music, Musical Moments, World Revue, and Texas League Final, with multiple orchestras and local talent featured throughout the evening.
The fragmentary text appears to be a letters page with stray phrases about writing to Pear Tata and addressing someone at 309 Jefferson Street. Mentions include Kappa Alpha Theta and Iran related reference, plus a telephone number 4048.
Two car loads of equipment for Potter County CCC camp on the Fuqua Ranch north of Amarillo were seen in the Santa Fe freight yards at noon. One car carried a tractor and trailer attachment billed to H. H. Pinnell erosion work director. The other held knocked down housing likely barracks, billed to the quartermaster CCC Amarillo. Tractor arrived Monday and second car today. Santa Fe office reported no unloading arrangements. Shippers believed responsible for transportation to the ranch.
Miss Sarah Conwell remains under technical arrest in Potter County jail while a writ of habeas corpus seeks to free her. Attendants report she is resting well at Northwest Texas Hospital in good spirits, though doctors warn continued imprisonment could harm her health as she defies a 47th District Court order to return stock certificates.
United Press reports a progressive decline in US farm commodity exports dulls silver as a major 1936 political issue. Roosevelt’s New Deal has boosted silver income for mines while exporters face currency effects and shifting views on gold and inflation.
Evie May McDaniel, 18, wife of Vernon Blackie McDaniel, filed for divorce in district clerk Ben Smith's office this morning citing cruelty and non support. McDaniel is currently serving 19 years in the state penitentiary on two counts of criminal assault against two juvenile girls.
John Criwin Wells aged 11 of Gruver dies after illness in a local hospital. Survived by parents four brothers and two sisters. Funeral services set for Sunday afternoon at 3 from the Stratford church with burial in Stratford cemetery under the care of the Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home.
A Fourth of July celebration led to a garage fire blamed on a Roman candle. The blaze caused slight damage and was reported with details about witnesses and nearby residents.
Dr John R Brinkley of Del Rio Texas left his $500000 yacht with the Halifax sheriff and went fishing after the craft was seized over a $5000 salvage claim. He plans a brief fishing outing before resuming voyage toward Chicago via the St Lawrence and Great Lakes. Earlier the yacht crashed in fog near Cherbourg Point, and Brinkley his wife son four guests used lifeboats.
In Heidelberg Germany July 5 the Sax onlorussia students corps was banned for four terms after members showed disrespect to Adolf Hitler. One member was expelled and others rebuked. Incidents included noisy entry during a Hitler speech broadcast and discussion of how Der Fuehrer eats asparagus in a restaurant.
The Church of the Open Bible on 15th Avenue and Ong marks its second anniversary in its own building with a missionary conference starting tonight at 8 PM. Miss Virginia Howell, nine years in Brazil, will be the speaker with sessions Sunday at 3 PM and 8 PM and a KGNC radio appearance at 6 AM tomorrow.
Texas will obtain from the federal government between one and a half and two million dollars to repair highways damaged by recent floods. D. K. Martin of the State Highway Commission announced in San Antonio that the funds will come from a prior ten million dollar federal highway appropriation and rehabilitation has begun on several roads and bridges.
Former King Alfonso of Spain was slightly injured when the car he drove overturned between Rome and Leghorn. His aide de camp suffered a fractured collarbone. Both were treated by motorists at the scene.
About 50 hurt when a 40 foot board walk at Winnwood Beach collapsed throwing people into the lake. An 8 year old boy was bitten by a snake from the nearby Museum of Monsters. Hal McBride, jailed on liquor manufacture charges, failed to post $500 bond and was sent back to Potter County jail.
Kansas City cattle and calves trade showed fair activity and steady to firm tone with top vealers reaching 8.00 to 8.50. Sheep and lambs remained strong with native lambs at 8.60, fall yearlings around 6.60, hog prices up about 15 cents. New Orleans cotton futures weakened with July at 11.87 and other months lower on Liverpool influence.
Orleans Police and Fire Boards faced proposed pay changes for police and firefighters. A plan would strip city officials of tax collection to the state tax collector. Anti-Long legislators urged support for Roosevelt on pensions amid Long satire.
Army and Navy planes combed the Panama interior for two missing pilots. Lt. Winston B. Graham, 25, of Big Stone Gap Virginia, and Lt. George R. McMahon, 25, of Huntingville Virginia, disappeared after a Wednesday practice flight from Rio Hato to France Field Cristobal. A storm arose and fear grew they were lost.
Marshal Hardeman, a fugitive from Muskogee Oklahoma, waived extradition to face a federal liquor charge. He will be extradited to Muskogee for trial after being held in Potter County jail for two weeks. His home is listed in Choctaw County Oklahoma.
Continuation of dances by the Forty and Nine to aid a child welfare program. A dance will be held tomorrow night at the American Legion Hall. Music by Johnnie Ekelund. Admission is 50 cents a couple. Legionnaires and guests invited.
Bruce Hayes a Whitvenrg truck driver injured in a blast that week is reported improving. Details remain unclear as medical staff describe the scene as chaotic with injuries including bruising.
A bill to permit Hapsburg family members to return to Austria and restore seized royal properties may be ready for adoption by the federal diet next Tuesday. Civil airplanes in the United States carried 1,859,031 passengers in the last year with 461,743 on scheduled lines.
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