03 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1937
Page
1
Readers detail ongoing rain showers and a dry spell contrast in Amarillo. Anecdotes touch on cattle, farming, local humor, salaries, and a clerk seeking work while weather patterns and crops shape town talk.
The New York State Athletic Commission imposed an indefinite suspension on heavyweight champion James J. Braddock for missing a scheduled fifteen round title bout with Max Schmeling. Braddock and challenger Joe Louis were fined $1,000 each, tied to the canceled Chicago June 22 bout.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a two year extension of nuisance taxes raising about 500 million dollars in the year starting July 1. The 18 to 7 vote along party lines supports extending levies on gas, oil, autos, refrigerators, radios, and admission, plus a 3 cent postage rate.
San Antonio reports Joseph Demack, one of ten convicts who escaped from Retrieve Prison Farm, surrendered to Bexar County deputies after a tip. He recounted three days without food and a mile-long creek crossing to avoid bloodhounds, while wearing torn garb and a two-week beard. Seven of the escapees have been recaptured.
O N Caddell of 312 Fast Fifteenth Avenue was rushed to St Anthony's Hospital after developing pneumonia. Attendants reported a fair night though his condition remains serious. Also noted: cheaper poison mixtures and better grasshopper feeding knowledge could aid Oklahoma farmers this year.
A reader seeking work offers to provide references and work for reasonable wages. The letter asks for a job doing housework and staying nights. A second reader seeks light housework or child care but cannot stay nights.
Paramaribo Dutch Guiana June 3 Amelia Earhart lands at 12 50 PM after a 740 mile flight from Cameroon to Venezuela completing another leg of her world flight.
Baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Cline of 64 Tyler Street was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital this morning with pneumonia.
The Treasury reports June receipts of 28,704,371.37 and expenditures of 36,443,257.74, leaving a balance of 1,745,ANR.A73.66. Customs receipts for the month total 2,183,805.03. For the fiscal year to date, receipts amount to 4,449,828,088.43 and expenditures to 6,838,179,498.08, including emergency outlays of 2,602,845,278.343. The excess of expenditures is 2,388,250,500.76, gross debt 35,211,417,940.94, down 1,390,046.74 from the previous day. Gold assets are 129,005,19088534, including 703,861,973.84 of inactive gold.
Madison Wis Movie cowboys now need little riding skill says Col Tim McCry an old timer of westerns He notes modern filming relies on closeups and easy dismounts contrasting with the rapid production and hospital stays of earlier days He adds that alfalfa boosts soil nitrogen though hay harvests remain heavy stew
President Roosevelt urged Congress to place all but policy forming government positions under the civil service system. He argued reforms would professionalize the federal workforce and improve efficiency.
President Truman charged in the Senate that some railroads have been deliberately looted by financial agents who made Jesse James look like a piker. He asserted the wrongdoing harmed public welfare and called for scrutiny of railroad finances.
Bankers and their families enjoyed a luncheon at Amarillo Country Club followed by a dance. The annual barbecue moved from Jack Halls Ranch to the Municipal Auditorium due to rain. A golf tournament was on the docket at the country club this afternoon.
The Children's Home will host an open house from 3 to 5 PM Sunday afternoon. Citizens' committee chair Oscar Randal led improvements funded by donors and sponsors, with two projects unfinished: a third floor partition and girls' shower baths, to be shown to all contributors.
Mussolini staged a real air attack on a mock naval base near Barbada to demonstrate Italian aviation against a wartime foe. Field Marshal von Blomberg witnessed the display while Mussolini piloted a plane with the German official aboard.
Rain swollen rivers and rising creeks kept highways closed across the region. A train near Perrin carrying 36 passengers was halted for 24 hours and evacuated by wagons. Coleman and Llano saw heavy flooding and the Buchanan Dam neared the highway. Drizzle persisted in the west while some routes, like Dalhart to Tucumcari, reopened.
Weather notes show Amarillo area rainfall totals from Jan 1 to Jun 3 last year at nine and a half inches, about two inches more than this year. Rail lines report drizzling rain in Dalhart Texline and surrounding routes with flood damage estimated at 125000 dollars and backwaters affecting Roswell and nearby towns.
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