28 May 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1937
Page
1
A reader chronicles ongoing rainfall and its impact on farming at the Big Bull Ranch with plans to resume planting next week. The note toggles between humorous vignettes, desert oasis lore, political gossip, and assorted quips about weather, jokes, and local life.
The water works and sewage operators conference ends tonight at city hall after three weeks of sessions. The event reports a state record attendance with more than 100 participants from ten Panhandle points and an average of over 40 present per session. Instructors JON Hinter and J. Oliver led the program.
Hollywoodsters Mary Pickford Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks end their motion picture producer partnership. They will sell United Artists stock for about 82 000 each, with Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda listed as buyers.
Citizens urged to donate flowers to decorate graves of veterans. Call Mrs Miner at 7833 or Mrs Wal lace at 3381 to arrange donations. Flowers are to be placed Sunday morning with a committee meeting Saturday for distribution.
A reader from the Panhandle details a fishing trip to Point Isabel and attacks a "shrimp and mullet trust" that controls prices. He urges fishermen to organize a strike and seeks Texas Fish Commission action to curb monopolistic pricing affecting bait and seafood accessed by visitors.
Gordon James of the Dallas Social Security Board will speak at Amarillo Hotel in the Canary Room tonight about Social Security basics. He will explain qualification for monthly benefits at age 88, benefit calculations, the role of Social Security numbers, and employer wage record-keeping. The open meeting starts at 7 o clock and welcomes all questions.
George Hayden discovered a leather bound hymn book published in 1801 among his mother’s effects. The Philadelphia produced volume has been kept by the Hardens and may be donated to the Canyon museum.
Senator King of Utah, first to oppose the bill, calls the wage and hour proposal worse than NRA. He says it shifts power to a federal bureau to set wages and hours, claiming it mirrors Mussolini’s plan to control labor.
An associate of the Duke of Windsor disclosed that Edward and Wallis Warfield were arranging a United States trip as a second honeymoon. The abdicated king and his bride-to-be would stay briefly as part of a world tour.
Lufkin man Mary Jim M Cansier was acquitted of murder in the death of 60 year old Alpert Warren. A district court jury deliberated about ten minutes before returning a not guilty verdict, ending the case tied to the youth who killed his father.
A permit for interior improvement and a new front at 613 Polk Street was issued yesterday to the Dixie Dress Shop, now at the Ninth Avenue Polk Street corner. Contractor F. W. Jesse sets July 1 completion. Rittenberry Carder designed plans. estimated cost 4500 dollars.
Rain floods near Conchas City force evacuation of about 200 families into government quarters. Heavy rainfall continues. creeks overflow, endangering the 1,200 workers on the Bent Brothers construction job as seven hundred families relocate to the government city.
Large crowds welcomed Postmaster General Farley in Higgins, Amarillo, Pampa, and other towns. He praised Democratic gains and Roosevelt’s popularity, hinted at possible court reform stance, and avoided early talk of his own candidacy while receiving a cowboy hat from Amarillo’s Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Lonnie Joiner a 38 year old who murdered his wife was executed in the state prison electric chair after confessing his crime to Warden W Ward He thanked officials and admitted guilt.
Miss Alma Miles, Fleming Business College student, collapsed at Sixth and Taylor Street and was transported to her Moore Hotel home by Griggs ambulance. Her condition this afternoon was reported satisfactory.
Amarillo police officers will switch to made to measure khaki shirts and trousers with khaki caps for summer duties. About 30 members of the force are expected to wear the new uniforms.
Joan L Mayo director of the CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee in Youngstown disputed Republic officials over continued operations at the Warren plant. The company claimed 1000 workers remained on the job while Mayo estimated 20 to 300. Mayo toured the picket lines and found them quiet as Philip Murray planned district tours later.
Reported heavy rains caused a car to become stranded near Amarillo. A man named Pelich reportedly died as floodwaters swept a vehicle off a riverbank. Authorities described the Conchas River as at flood stage and noted ongoing efforts to retrieve the body from the wreckage.
The special gifts campaign committee aims to raise 5000 for a new two story brick Salvation Army building at 507 Van Buren Street with a 30 day option. Directors include W H Brymer F C Lacy Bond Burgess and others. Contributions are to be mailed to F C Lacy at Amarillo National Bank.
Senate and House conferees reached a compromise bill to extend the Civilian Conservation Corps life by three years. The agreement, announced in Washington, aims to keep CCC programs running and funded through the extended period.
A recount from Charley details brutal discipline by his father on the Arkansas farm, including whipping Charley, his sister Evelyn, and his mother Maw. He recalls long plowing days, fear of punishment, and threats to drive Maw away, as Maw’s illness worsened.
A harsh scene describes a family where the father withholds water and scolds others while the mother dies next day. Grandmother Jesse Wallace vows to raise the young, who are undernourished. The children recount a life of rationed food and drinking, with a tobacco-chewing child noting his habit since age six.
Rescue teams found two small girls and a man tourist dead after flood waters swept a family along the Tucumcari San Jon Road. Bodies scattered down the arroyo, one carried 2.5 miles. Family from Forest, New Mexico, en route from Tucumcari. Roads across the state blocked as Pecos and Hondo rivers overtop banks. Farmers report heavy losses with Captain D. C. Mossman alone estimating $15,000 in Hondo Valley damages. Santa Rosa, 42 miles northwest of Fort Sumner, is isolated as floodwaters surround the town with no entry or exit.
The Pecos river flood blocks routes near Roswell and Clovis with several roads washed out or impassable while other highways remain temporarily open. Alamogordo dam faces heavy testing as rivers rise. Tucumcari and Albuquerque planes forced down amid cloudbursts and a delayed Carrie Tingley Hospital dedication follows flood damage. Socorro evacuation affects 500 acres as waters surge.
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