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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
12
City fruit shop owners urge mediation with officials over ordinances requiring screening of open fruit displays. They argue screens reduce appeal and sales while sanitation could be improved by low cost permanent stands. the city chemist proposes brick or wood structures with front screens to cover raw items.
A small girl struck by an automobile on the North Highway near the Riv erdrive Golf Course is being treated at St Anthony's Hospital. She will only reveal her identity when she is ready, fearing her mother would suffer shock. An Ac kburn Shaw ambulance aided the scene and the motorist brought her in.
Vernon Gunn district agent for TWA addressed the Rotary Club at their regular weekly luncheon, delivering a talk titled The History of Commercial Aviation and sharing insights on early air travel and industry development.
Mrs S J Roberts of Abilene Texas reports rapid relief after using Gly-Cas for rheumatism indigestion and nervous sleeplessness. She says digestion improved, poisons removed from the system and pains vanished, enabling better sleep and daily life. Fox Drug Co sells Gly-Cas locally and through nearby druggists.
Hogs 1,500 generally steady to higher than Wednesday. top $9.20. 170-250 lb $9.10-9.20. 260-300 lb $8.60-9.05. sows $7.00-7.50. Cattle 3,000. calves 600. beef steers and yearlings 25¢ higher. vealers firm. feeders 2¢+ higher. steers $11.25. light yields $11.00. grassers $7.50-9.25. yearling heifers $10.25. grass fat cows $5.50-6.50. veal top $9.00. Sheep 4,000. spring lambs steady to 15¢ higher. Colorado and Texas lots noted. prices listed.
Arthur A. Miller of the agriculture department said the grasshopper plague is under control in the Panhandle. He noted a survey shows hoppers largely under control thanks to continued measures, natural enemies like beetles and ongoing government patrols, with about 25 million pounds of poison spread and monitoring to continue through fall and winter.
In Cincinnati Dr. William H. Schulz told the American Osteopathic Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology that excessive smoking may cause leucoplakia a chronic mouth and tongue inflammation that can lead to cancer. He cited pipe use as the chief risk cigars next and cigarettes least dangerous noting leucoplakia is rarer among women who mainly smoke cigarets.
Mrs. Mary Taylor of 2510 West First Avenue died yesterday at 6 45 in a Wichita Falls hospital after years of illness. Survived by husband S L Taylor of Amarillo and three sons Sam Los Angeles John Denver and Jimmy Amarillo, and four daughters Josephine Schrum Los Angeles Freddi Mae Wilma June and Frankie Amarillo. Funeral arrangements unsettled as body likely to be brought to Amarillo for burial.
County Agricultural Agent Ted Alexander announced the grasshopper poison mixing plant will operate only five hours daily from 1 p m to 6 p m at the Tri-State Fair grounds. Residents of Amarillo and the county may obtain the poison at no cost during that period, down from twelve hours daily in the thick of the hopper fight.
Myron C. Taylor, the United States delegate, was elected president of the inter governmental committee on refugees at the meeting in France. He was nominated by Senator Henry Berenger of France and elected by acclamation. Delegates applauded when Berenger called Taylor the personal representative of the great humanitarian who called the meeting.
In Albany on July 7 Whitey a Buffalo cat who dashed into a burning barn last June 22 to rescue her week old kitten received a certificate of merit from the American Humane Association. Eric H Hansen noted the medal awards committee awarded the certificate for the brave act amid flames and water.
The Texas board of pardons and paroles will recommend life commutation for Willie Caesar a 41 year old Black man from El Campo who was condemned to die for killing Tip M Simmons a special officer in front of an El Campo dance hall on June 16 1936 Governor Allred stated he will follow the board’s recommendation Caesar was slated for execution in Huntsville’s electric chair after midnight tonight
The post office department solicitor ruled that Eastern Airlines may carry airmail free from Houston to Brownsville Texas and ordered a contract drafted to formalize the bid agreement.
A fragmented listing shows Zenith Radio and Yellow Truck and Coach referenced with percent figures 15 and 16, suggesting a trade or stock note. Further readable items include percentages 23 and 23 tied to Zenith and related entities in a partial catalog entry.
Oklahoma City July 7. Candidates prepare for President Roosevelt’s Oklahoma visit with quirky campaigning. T-Bone McDonald hawks T-Bone meals, Huty Long stamps name on tax tokens, Mrs. Ruth Johnson peddles thought waves at 5 A.M., Ernest Albright hitchhiked to Washington, Alfalfa Bills Murray wears tight shorts and a microphone, Orville Allard sends chain letters. Dozens more contenders appear with famous names like Wilbur Wright Brigham Young Oliver Cromwell Robert Burns and Mae West as two Will Rogers run for Congress.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco the Spanish Nationalist leader told the British government he will tolerate no foreign intervention or domination in Spain if the insurgents win the civil war. The assertion was reported from an unimpeachable source in London on July 7 1938.
B. C. Holloway of Stockton California was fined 200 dollars plus court costs after pleading guilty to theft. He admitted taking articles from Bert Levy’s car parked in front of Levy store and began serving the fine in the county jail.
Jack Morris was charged today with aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. The assault charge is in justice court while the pistol complaint awaits in county court.
Austin July 7 U P Liquor revenues collected by the state for June totaled 430693. State Administrator Bert Ford announced today, bringing to 5571780 the collections for 10 months of the present fiscal year as compared with 5449419 for the same period last year.
A new beauty device in Britain uses a champagne spray fountain installed in a West End salon. Dozens of magnums are consumed weekly as the fountain delivers a sparkling treatment to women’s hair.
President Roosevelt will deliver a 15 minute radio address to Texans next Sunday evening from 7:15 to 7:30 announced by Elliott Roosevelt. The speech will be broadcast by 30 Texas stations including subscribers to the Texas Quality network. The talk will be carried over KFJZ in Fort Worth owned by Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. Elliott Roosevelt says the talk will cover current events and no political conferences will be held during the president's weekend stay.
John Bankston a 19 year old transient was seriously injured when struck by a Santa Fe freight train at the 34th Street crossing. He was picked up by B F Bennett and taken to the police station and then to Northwest Texas Hospital. Police located his sister Mrs H F Cayhill of Louisville Kentucky. The extent of injuries was not yet known. N S Griggs and Sons ambulance assisted.
Henry Ford patents a passenger car with the motor mounted over and parallel to the rear axle. The balanced motor drives the axle via gears from the flywheel, with no clear indication of commercial production. Officials note Ford has many radical patents and has not always used them.
Four armed men including suspected Kansas reformatory fugitives fled south toward Texas in a gunpoint theft from Durant hardware merchant. They abandoned a stolen car seven miles south of Durant and left a second car stolen from Enid the previous day, tied to the Hutchinson Kansas reformatory break.
Ford Motor Co. attorneys asked the Supreme Court to review a Sixth Circuit ruling allowing the National Labor Relations Board to reopen its River Rouge plant case. The brief coincided with an examiner’s report in a separate NLRB case at the St. Louis plant seeking reinstatement of 192 workers and sole bargaining rights for the United Automobile Workers Union.
Potter County agricultural agent Ted Alexander traveled to College Station to attend a Texas A M short course. He will remain at the college for a week.
Idaho Senator Borah aged 73 lay in bed under a physician's orders to rest after a breakdown caused by overwork. He is described as the 173yearold dean of the Senate and a leading Republican figure.
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