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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1938
Page
4
Community items include births and new arrivals at homes on Cleveland, Lincoln, Virginia, Madison, and Polk streets. Dances, Cotillion Club schedule change, and wedding invitations advertised. Airline notices list multiple destinations. Northwest Texas Hospital updates report dismissals and medical patients. Obituary poem notes admiration for a graduate’s bouquet.
The Globe announces the final Bridge Contest week with a citywide tournament for weekly entrants. Send five complete hands to AATT care of The Globe by Monday 9 AM. Prizes include travel tickets, desk set, cookware, cosmetics, flowers, and more from local sponsors.
Rev Hoytt Boles pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Tulsa will deliver the commencement address at Amarillo College this evening at 8 30 in the college auditorium. Special musical selections by the college music department will accompany the program with President John F Mead presiding. Public invited.
The Cathedral Young People's Club presents Here Comes Charley a three act comedy Tuesday at 8 15 pm in Cathedral Hall. Directed by Mrs. Robert Nelson the Dramatic Club features William Thalk en Clementine Drexler Regina Herrmann Gerald Keller Josephine Clark Franklin Bottoms John Davidson Frances Morrow Vernon Bromert Mary O'Donnell with William Morrow Bernard Brands Johnnie Edwards and Eunice Handley assisting. Admission is 40 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Public is invited.
A severe ten minute quake struck northeastern Honshu causing property damage. No casualties were reported. Train service near Fukushima 150 miles north of Tokyo was suspended due to road-bed displacement. Walls cracked roofs fell and windows shattered.
An advertisement declares Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery restores appetite and digestion to boost strength. A Texas resident testimonial from Mrs Fritz La fuente of Austin reports renewed weight gain and better well being after using the tonic.
A corps of women volunteers under Mrs. W. W. Fergus will distribute poppies in Amarillo on Poppy Day Saturday May 28. Team captains lead unpaid workers to fund rehabilitation and welfare for disabled veterans and families of the dead and disabled as part of a national effort of 100000 volunteers.
Sugar Land May 23 Up The fish refused to bite and convict Vernon Doutwell 24 lay in the sun with convict Robert Meeks 22 and thought of his wife Both were trusty convicts granted permission by Capt W W Hall of Central Prison Farm to fish in a creek They took along Chaplain Ross Straker s bird dog for company Doutwell serving five years for robbery and Meeks under a two year sentence for auto theft decided to take a stroll They stopped at a farmhouse took a change of clothing from a line and
Nationwide observance honors war dead and raises aid for the living. Disabled veterans in government hospitals and Auxiliary work rooms across 40 states have produced more than ten million poppies for the day. Contributions are expected to reach one million dollars.
Douthwell and Meeks reached the Houston area after marching 25 miles and were met by Police Detectives A C Thornton and L A Bryan. Today they were back in prison but not as trusties.
State securities will be guarded in a death vault in the Finance Building under construction. The space between double steel walls will be filled with poisonous chemicals that would escape if the vault were attacked by torch or drill.
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