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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1940
Page
23
The 160 mile express route from Middlesex near Harrisburg to Irwin near Pittsburgh will soon open. The roadway includes seven tunnels and promises swift travel between the two cities.
Private crop experts forecast the 1940 wheat crop at 723 million bushels, below 1939’s 755 million. Six estimates average 489 million for winter wheat, above the government May 1 figure of 460 million, with spring wheat at 223 to 255 million.
In Mexico City the Workers National Anti-Communist bloc denounced Elliott Roosevelt for a speech in Athens Texas claiming Mexico must expel subversive groups or risk border security. They criticized his claim that Mexicans are instilled with poisonous hatred toward the United States and urged U.S. enlistments abroad.
The Amarillo Kiwanis clubs plan a 11 15 am departure from the Herring Hotel TWA office to visit the Vega Kiwanis Club for the regular luncheon meeting. Dixie Dice dancers will perform and Wes Izzard will speak on the international situation. A 15 member delegation is hoped, with Amarillo club members urged to attend.
The Ellis County grand jury opened an inquiry into 90 members of a religious sect arrested while distributing literature and playing phonograph records on Sunday. They questioned townspeople to learn what led to the arrests and planned to hear sect members’ accounts.
Rep. Thomson of Texas urged the House Pensions Committee to pass HR 7899 granting aid to six surviving Texas Rangers who served on the Mexican border during the Garza revolution from December 1891 to May 1893. The bill would extend Indian wars pension provisions to Members of Companies FE and F Frontier Battalion. Action was postponed indefinitely.
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