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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1936
Page
1
A crew began pouring concrete for the 27 inch vault walls at Amarillo National Bank. Foundation pillars and vault floor were finished last week. The vault will use 250 cubic yards of cement and 15,000 pounds of steel at a cost of 15,000 dollars. Mosler Safe Company supplies a 15 ton door with 24 steel tumblers.
Amid a citywide revival in construction Amarillo reports active building plans. In March the value of new construction and repairs exceeded 40 000 with January and February totaling 45 029 and 43 805 respectively. The surge involves homes business blocks and larger structures as crews, architects, lumber firms, and investors join the effort.
At least 27 people die and many are wounded across Mexico as rural discontent erupts into fighting. In Durango Canacatlan, officials repelled an insurgent attack with seven rebels killed. a police sergeant and two soldiers were wounded.
Chicago report states former New York Mayor James J Walker and his wife sought custody of a baby girl from an Evanston child placing home, aiming to adopt through a suburban case.
The annual Spring Style Show is postponed until later in the week due to unfinished window decorations. Merchants voted to cancel displays until evening. the event will feature a treasure hunt, orchestra entertainment, living models, and street decorations once weather permits.
In Taiku and nearby towns American missionary families move to safety amid a Communist push through Shansi Province. Yen Hsi-Shan loyalists oppose the advance while two thousand soldiers of the 32nd Army reach Talku to ease fears. Oberlin College in Shansi closes as Communist units push within ten miles of Taiku.
Social security board data show old age pensions for the needy expanding nationwide with about 2 million dollars per month in grants to nearly 250 000 people across 21 states and the District of Columbia. Eight more states await board approval as expansion continues.
Italian planes bombed Jijiga today, reported as the second raid in as many days. Ethiopian sources describe heavy losses from yesterday's attack, and a Finnish Red Cross Hospital at Jijiga was destroyed with one dead and six wounded. Daggah Bur, 100 miles southwest, was also bombed last Saturday signaling a broader offensive.
Two hundred Townsend Club delegates from 17 Panhandle Plains cities gathered for the Eighteenth Congressional District convention in Townsend. The event featured speeches supporting the Townsend Plan with organizers and local officials elected to district roles as delegates registered from Groom Tulsa Canadian Dalhart Perryton Pampa Spearman Memphis Channing Claude Hartley Texline Borger White Dimmitt Estelne.
Film comedian Jack Oakie wed Venita Varden during a 15 minute stop aboard the Southern Pacific Apache. Justice of the peace E A Freeman officiated in Oakie's compartment. After a short honeymoon in Miami they will return to Hollywood for further filming.
Italian premier Mussolini abolishes the Chamber of Deputies and large private industries. He replaces the chamber with a council of guilds called the Chamber of Fascists and Corporations and preserves only medium and small industries for war effort. The move, issued on the 17th anniversary of the Fascist party, follows talks with Austrian and Hungarian leaders.
Major General Johnson Hagood, longtime critic of the New Deal work relief, boarded President Roosevelt’s vacation train en route to Florida for a conference with the chief executive. Officials offered no comments on the meeting, while dispatches in Washington suggested Hagood hoped for return to command.
Five men drift off Point Maternitos Cuba as Coast Guard ambulance plane Arcturus and a cutter join Cuban shore forces in a swift search. The Nemesis and Tillie Sykes head to the scene with a ill passenger aboard, weather hampering rescue. The Arcturus reports all is well despite worsening seas and a failed boarding attempt.
Olive Dionne appeals directly to King Edward VIII to cancel Ontario guardianship over the Quintuplets. He says he wrote the king a month ago and seeks family unity as his sick wife Elzire and the babies remain apart in a special building. Dionne expects a reply once the king is available after his inauguration.
President Roosevelt, accepting Rollins College honorary degree, argues critics of New Deal act from group interests rather than national welfare. He warns observers that business and commerce rivals are largely composed of groups and urges citizens to think of the country as a whole.
Sir Eric Phipps, the British ambassador, disclosed today to have made a personal appeal to the German government to accept the Locarno treaty powers proposals for settlement of the European crisis. He is regarded as wielding significant influence with Reichsführer Hitler.
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday with low around 30 degrees in Amarillo. West Texas reports colder conditions with freezing temperatures north tonight and generally fair, colder Tuesday. New Mexico sees frost and freezing temps tonight, then colder Tuesday.
The AP reports 181 dead across 13 states from a week of storms. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania bear heavy losses as New England faces renewed floods, with 2,000 National Guardsmen enforcing curfews and quarantines while 200,000 homeless seek shelter.
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