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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
15
Texas April traffic deaths totaled 94, lifting 1938 year-to-date to 830 and marking a 45 life reduction from the same period last year. Pedestrian fatalities remained high with 25 lives lost in 135 pedestrian collisions as 1,135 injured in 1,002 accidents.
Rain disrupted the Amarillo Texas Motor Transportation Association picnic planned for Filwood Park. About 125 members gathered on the sheltered loading docks of Bryan Motor Freight where ladies served fried chicken and other dishes with ice cream supplied by Steffen's. BE. R. Pigg, an association officer, said the event was simply a convivial gathering with no speeches.
In Westchester County court a woman juror was allowed to crochet while testimony was heard in a murder trial. The judge ruled the activity did not disrupt proceedings.
The Amarillo Girl Scout Cookie Sale sponsored by the Kiwanis Club the week of May 8 raised 5 000 boxes for Camp Kiwanis improvements. Prizes went to top seller troop and individual girls. donors included White & Kirk and the Juvenile Shoe Store.
Rescuers worked through the Alicante market ruins seeking survivors after yesterday's air raid. Authorities report at least 250 dead and 1,000 injured from the heaviest single bombardment in the Spanish Civil War.
Frank A. Vreeland of Hartsdale was accepted by both sides to hear the case of two men charged with second degree murder. Acting County Judge James W. Bailey said he would take no judicial notice of crocheting in the knitting bag unless counsel objected. No objection was raised.
J D Whisenhunt rushed home to care for his ailing wife and sick daughter, only to face a string of misfortunes from a pickpocket stealing his tickets to a foot injury on arrival. His wife and daughter were recovering as he, too, regained health. In a separate report from Moscow, four men were condemned to death in Uzbekistan for Fascist terrorism following deadly bombings that struck markets and assault sites in Valencia and Alicante.
The Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission warns that poverty will grow without rapid development of agricultural lands and industry for drouth refugees arriving in Oregon Washington and Idaho. In seven years after 1930 about 36 000 families left dust bowl homesteads 19 000 arriving in the 18 months before July 1937. Measures like irrigationGrand Coulee Dam and land clearance could expand farm units but current schedules fall short by about 2 000 in five years threatening deeper poverty in the region.
America's security program will be explained on air in three addresses over the CBS national hook-up today and on June 2 and June 9. The plan outlines social security details and related policy points for listeners nationwide.
Texans are invited to tune in CBS stations for 15 minute unemployment compensation programs starting at 5 45 P M Amarillo Time The first and last programs feature interviews on Cooperation of States and Nation in Payment of Unemployment Compensation Help Those in Need and Social Security Everybodys Business with George E Bigge Mary Dewson and Frank Bane of the Social Security Board in Washington
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