25 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
1
Readers across the Panhandle vent about rain drought heat and pests. Letters from H B R Martin and R L McDonald discuss weather impact and local grievances while Ted Houghton notes rising grasshopper numbers and El Dona county anecdotes surface.
A jumble of anecdotes and gossip covers family tips for quiet nights with infants, local socialites Cecil Ledbetter and Martha Raye, film previews including Mountain Music and A Day at the Races, and various city complaints about fireworks. The piece also references a police inquiry, a photographer’s Congo trip, and miscellaneous trivia on jobs, empresses, and insurance.
Italy aims to reclaim prewar cinema prominence via Mussolini's new European cinema city near Rome, higher foreign film taxes to protect local industry, influx of international stars, and currency rules forcing films to be made in Italy. Officials see it as Europe’s potential movie capital surpassing Elstree.
Charles Baron announces a synthetic oil fuel called carbonite as a domestically produced substitute for gasoline. Developed from charcoal distillation, carbonite resists water, is hard and unbreakable, highly dense for storage, and can be stocked indefinitely. It reduces reliance on sea imports during blockade risks.
Officials say Italy will produce about 180 films yearly through the new studio facility. The choice of using Italian outfits or foreign companies is flexible, as long as Italy and the studios collaborate. Whether this yields the intended dominance in film work remains uncertain.
A startled crowd in Saskatoon watches a red riding hen emerge from under a passenger coach and calmly make its way to an elevator to scratch for food. The origin of the hen remains unknown as passengers share the surprising sight.
Excavations along the Washita River near Pauls Valley Oklahoma uncover a dozen skeletons over seven feet tall. University of Oklahoma and Tulsa University anthropologists estimate the race lived about 750 years ago and may reveal a previously unknown Indian group.
Lester and Louis Dyer, high school brothers, aim to enter 22 animals in seven county fairs, the state fair, and the Mississippi Valley fair at Davenport this summer. Louis shows two trophies and one of ten state honor pins. They have raised 200 hogs from their father’s gift and four they bought, totaling $1,590 in income with $590 for expenses. Last year six Dyer animals placed at the Wisconsin state fair.
Japan seeks a 1212 foot cylindrical shaft for the Tokyo Bay exposition. Promoters plan a light alloy structure with an interior staircase and elevator, mural walls, a beacon, and radio, intended to aid aviation and air defense. Tokyo restrictions cap heights at 100 feet and prohibit structures taller than the Imperial Palace.
Mrs. Flwood Bradford reported her pet cat, mother of five kittens, was found nursing a baby rabbit in addition to her own litter. Local note records a curious domestic scene with the cat caring for multiple young.
In Fond du Lac County, Lester and Louis Dyer won $1,000 and earned 150 ribbons, 90 firsts, since 1931 by breeding Poland China hogs using scientific methods. They scrub prize pigs with tar soap and brushes, bathing them twice monthly in summer and five weekly olive oil scrubbings before fairs.
Considerable attention and visitors will be permitted only on Thursday as pottery arrowheads and relics surface. A jawbone of an animal likely a deer was found. A 20 man WPA crew assists. detailed soil layer analysis will be needed to date the skeletons.
Three Cistercian monks sworn to silence testified aloud by special dispensation in a $15,000 damage suit against the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley. William Devre, an arms seeker injured by a crane at the monastery, filed the suit and the monks witnessed the accident.
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