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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1938
Page
8
Dale Carnegie cites examples from George Arliss and General Ulysses S. Grant to show the value of strong, consistent performance. Arliss’s willingness to help others and perfect minor roles earns laughs and stardom, while Grant’s even tempered leadership convinces troops to follow.
Washington reports say 28 Senate Democrats back Vice President Garner for the 1940 Democratic nomination amid talk of punitive moves against three senators who opposed Roosevelt's judiciary plan. The targets are Millard E. Tydings Ellison D Smith and Walter F. George.
The Catholic Chancery announces that the Christian Brothers, a lay religious teaching order of 20 000 members, will form a faculty for Price Memorial College in Amarillo beginning fall term. They will set academic standards and select texts, conforming to Texas education guidelines. The group belongs to the St. Louis district and will join 14 modern high schools and two normal schools in their system. They emphasize boys and young men education and come from a global network with universities and colleges worldwide.
A U S Army Douglas bomber crashed in a thunderstorm near Delavan Illinois killing eight uniformed crew and one woman. Witnesses saw a flash and the plane fell amid rain and lightning with recovery of eight men and one woman.
In Brittany at Illiec Col Charles Lindbergh and family arrived after planning to settle in Europe. Threats to his sons prompt police watch and a plan to defer returning to the United States while he maintains American citizenship. He plans scientific work with Dr. Alexis Carrel and builds a wall rumor circling his island compound.
Under a program developed by Coordinator Ted Houghton and aided by county agents judges and commissioners courts and federal and state entomologists about 500 men are active in the grasshopper war across Dallam Hartley Sherman and Moore counties. The force includes 40 National Guardsmen 18 highway department workers WPA crews and Soil Conservation Service and Bureau of Agricultural Economics trucks hauling sawdust and distributing mash with more trucks to be added. Houghton aims to raise mechanical spreaders to 300 or more and to scatter up to 350000 pounds of mash daily in the four counties.
Two young men Walter Johnson 26 and Edward A Cejka 19 were arrested after four holdups and a rape accusation were linked to them. They posed as Floyd Hamilton and a companion, robbed in Bexar County and other areas, and forced victims to exchange clothes. Johnson claimed to be Hamilton at times. Both men face robbery with firearms charges and are jailed in Bexar County.
In Houston on June 10, Franklin Lloyd aged 14 and his sister Frances eight fought with a pillow while their mother shopped. Frances was struck in the eye. Franklin tied a rope to a rafter and hanged himself, later ruled accidental by Justice of the Peace Thomas I. Decker.
Partly cloudy tonight with Saturday thundershowers and cooler conditions. West Texas remains partly cloudy tonight, with Saturday showers possible and cooler air. Panhandle and New Mexico expect similar trends, with cooler temperatures and limited showers in the north central and southeast portions. New roofs of all kinds advertised by John Maynard Lumber Co. phone 5353, 800 W. 6th.
President Roosevelt outlined a cross country itinerary starting July 7 with stops in Marietta Ohio Covington Kentucky Tennessee Oklahoma Fort Worth Wichita Falls Amarillo Pueblo and San Francisco before an ocean voyage to the equator. He will tour Yosemite National Park and visit Cocos Island and the Galapagos Islands en route home via the Panama Canal.
June romance efforts show 13 divorce filings and 5 divorces granted in the period. Court records also report 14 total divorce cases and 18 marriage licenses issued.
A strong quake lasting about ninety minutes was logged on the weather bureau seismograph in Manila. It began at 5 56 P.M. local time, about 4 56 A.M. Eastern, with an estimated epicenter 990 to 1 900 miles away to the north.
Earl Gilbert 23 of Malad Idaho to be charged by the federal justice department with stealing an airplane taken from Ogden Utah. Gilbert held since May 31 in Dalhart under alias Bud Jones and identified by the department. Hall, injured in the Inkham Idaho crash, was captured.
Hollywood star Luise Rainer files for divorce from playwright Clifford Odets, citing cruelty amid a career versus marriage dispute. Odets, author of Golden Boy, urged her to quit acting to keep one family career.
Amarillo business men will attend a 6 30 dinner at the Amarillo Hotel as the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce seeks to complete plans for a Will Rogers memorial celebration. Dinner plates are 75 cents each and reservations are through the chamber.
A lone insurgent air raider using an Italian Savoia seaplane bombed Alicante Denia and Gandia hitting ships warehouses and a dredgeboat. The Brisbane and a Spanish schooner sank while seven people were killed in the Brisbane attack and 13 wounded. US and British naval vessels were in the area as investigations continued.
State's Attorney G A Worley to prosecute Franklin P McCall for kidnaping and murdering five year old Jimmy Cash if a special grand jury returns a true bill. McCall denies involvement in the May 28 abduction and subsequent death.
The article reports statements by Worley about a potential one man job in a kidnaping and murder. Edgar Hoover notes the FBI does not consider the case fully solved. McCall confessed writing ransom notes but denies participating in the abduction. He is held in the FBI offices. McCall's father in law describes the family toll and seeks justice.
The Texas Railroad Commission announced a July 5 hearing in Austin on consolidating and simplifying oil and gas reports. The move stems from Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association recommendations. Proposed changes cover gasoline plant operations, tender operations, condensate and crude produced from gas wells, carbon black plants, combined gas well and gas pipeline reports, gas in natural gasoline plant permits, and residue disposition at gas mingling plants. A June 28 hearing will decide if Shell Company wells in the H and T Railway survey in Comanche County produce from a structure different from the cluster area.
The Plains remain in a shower cycle with recent rains and forecasts of more showers. The weather bureau notes several rainfall reports: Claude 14 inch, Memphis .16, Miami .20, Pampa .24, Shamrock A4. Partly cloudy conditions expected today and tonight.
State auditors J. H. Powell and Boyd Rhea finished an audit of Miss Jewel Davidson's tax collection office. They reported all books and accounts were in good shape.
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