30 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
1
An informal Panhandle chronicle reports a fading rainy cycle with clear skies ahead and potential Fourth of July weather. It includes a long letter from Roy Hahn’s Briscoe County News amid jokes about newborn Scoops Hahn and community gossip, plus reflections on old timers and jackrabbit bounties.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain called a cabinet session to consider abandoning the hands off Spain non intervention scheme as Germany and Italy oppose a Franco British plan to patrol Spain to stop arms and men. Insurgent forces mass on the Natama front near Madrid and a Franco plane bombed Sarria De Ter near Barcelona killing five.
Fragmentary items mention Miss Marmner's finishing school in Connecticut and twice daily tempera ture checks for two weeks. Other notes reference assassination, iodine sources, Japanese imperial orders, car colors, stomach cancer prevalence among the rich, two African Americans in the U.S. Senate, and an 19th century wool claim.
Lem Browning of Aransas Pass recalls his 1889 voyage to Amarillo in a sail wagon while admiring the westbound Super Chief at Santa Fe station. Browning, who once homesteaded near Amarillo, traveled with Wallace from Washburn guiding the prairie boat across unfenced Panhandle plains.
Byron Gist of Amarillo travels by plane to Washington D C to join a conference planning the 1938 agriculture conservation program. He represents Panhandle wheat interests and farms several thousand acres near Vega and Adrian. His home is 1501 Jefferson Street.
Labor leaders refuse to quit a council meeting despite calls for peace. Mark asks Gov Earle to declare martial law again in Johnstown. In Canton 2000 workers remain interned. violence reported as a non striker vehicle is stoned and a water main damaged. Senate committee cites coroner report on Memorial Day Chicago killings.
The text explains that a person may file an application whether employed or unemployed and may apply for an account number even if over 65. It notes that those over 65 are not eligible for old age benefits, but their account numbers will be used to maintain records by state agencies administering unemployment compensation programs.
Homer F Grounds night manager of Triple A Taxi died at his home 1611 Hayden Street of acute indigestion. A lifelong Amarillo resident, 42, unmarried, he leaves parents H H Grounds and four brothers and six sisters. Body at Boxwell Brothers chapel pending funeral arrangements. He was a Methodist.
In Bucyrus Ohio a safe driving course was added to the upper three grades of all rural schools. Students will earn credits like other studies. The curriculum covers highway rules driving responsibilities mechanics and effects of drinking. Later classes include practical experience using automobiles.
Funeral services for Benjamin Simmonds 52 who died Tuesday in a local hospital will be held at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon Boxwell Brothers funeral directors announced today. A Amarillo resident for 10 years he lived at 205 Taylor Street and is survived by two brothers. An early Civil War note mentions C R Woods of Newark commanding troops aiding Fort Sumter.
Testimony focused on the April 6 election recount issue in Borger. C C McClelland and Col Henry Knight, hold over city commissioners, testified about attendance at the April 12 recount and their voting or viewing of ballots. Several witnesses described poll tax payments by city officials and police, with prior denials by inspector J P MacNellis.
The Angelus temple preacher described as a religious expert says Mrs. McPherson may be subpoenaed to explain how a religious worker reacts to divine manifestations like those in the Hunt case. She denies knowledge of the case but offers to testify if needed and hopes a qualified minister could suffice.
Miss Irene Hill of Des Moines, biology major and Simpson College assistant, says palm reading helped pay three years of tuition. Beginning at Knoxville high school, she read extensively and believes palmistry has truth worth serious study, aiming to prove its basis like mind reading research.
Building activity in Amarillo totals about 550000 for the first half of the year with April at 102020 and May at 44853. Tomorrow work starts on the West Sixth Avenue underpass a 95252 project. Permits include J W Middleton’s 5000 brick veneer home at 2026 Ong Street and A H Brown’s two others for E A Regal at 313 West Thirty six Avenue and G H Tyson at 1107 Lincoln Street for improvements.
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