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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1938
Page
8
Virginia Brown reports on Amarillo High students playing dangerous thrill games like Ditch Em and Street Car. The piece notes reckless driving, desires for stricter traffic enforcement, and that most students stay within white safety lanes to avoid injuries.
Paris reports say Premier Daladier decisively broke a 24 hour general strike led by the General Confederation of Labor. Mobile guards police and army units protected decree laws as arrests topped 500 in Paris and dozens elsewhere. Subway workers in Paris ended their walkout early.
Berlin reports the government expanded its anti Jewish policy by publishing a police order in the Reichs Gesetzblatt. The order allows provincial police to forbid Jews or those without nationality from leaving their homes or entering certain districts and sets fines up to 150 marks or six weeks in prison for violations. Dec 3 is the nationwide collection day for the winter relief fund.
Dallas reports that retail trade in the first two weeks of November surpassed last year in Texas and the Southwest. Warm October weather hindered activity in the district, while construction values jumped 62 percent year over year and 67 percent from September. Loans and investments of Fed member banks rose to a record high.
Miles Bivins asked the city commission to approve a new 6 7 acre subdivision west of St Marys Academy. The unplatted area lies between West Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, Madden and Joslin additions. If approved the tract would be named Elizabeth addition and Parker Street would remain a dead end.
Mr. Collman asserts no change in weather through tonight and tomorrow. Forecaster absent, and fair conditions continue with little temperature shift. Lowest last night around 30 degrees, likely rising to 32 degrees by tonight.
Amarillo plans to seek a state convention early next week with a delegation including real estate dealers hotel men and Chamber of Commerce committee members. About 1000 men are expected at the Harlingen gathering on December 8 as Gov Allred proclaims Real Estate Week December 12 to 18.
Count Galeazzo Ciano told the chamber of deputies that during the Czech crisis Italy mobilized 300,000 troops in addition to its regular forces, prepared to join Germany in a general war if needed. The foreign minister spoke in a foreign affairs address in Rome.
A Rhode Island superior court judge declared the United Textile Workers of America contract with the Committee for Industrial Organization invalid. The agreement covered an estimated 350000 textile workers.
Villanova College announces its football team will not accept the Cotton Bowl invitation to play Texas Tech in Dallas on January 2. The decision comes from the Villanova College Athletic Control Board in Villanova Pennsylvania.
Amarillo and vicinity expect fair conditions tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. West Texas and New Mexico share fair skies, warmer in the west and south, with a high around 55 and a low near 30.
Mrs. W. T. Coble and Jim Whittenburg of Amarillo were seriously injured, as was cattle buyer J. S. Hudson from Gage Oklahoma, in a head-on collision south of Borger involving a Phillips Petroleum gasoline truck. All three were rushed to North Plains Hospital in Borger.
Harris County representative Jo Ed Winfree led a legislative tour plan to inspect Texas prisons calling the system the damnedest mess. He cited a $717000 annual loss and deficits at Goree and Eastham farms while noting potential cleaning gains. The group includes Houston lawmakers and prison board members will visit Huntsville and nearby farms tomorrow and Friday.
Emile Aymoz the Dorchester chef urged rulers to train behind peoples in the arts of eating. He proposed a chair of gastronomy at Oxford or Cambridge for study of cuisine nutrition and training. He argued national character depends on chefs and good dining sharpens judgment. He praised seven course dinners and noted Americans favor food and the hamburger.
A four motor German Condor touched down at Tachikawa airfield Tokyo after an 8 3754 mile goodwill flight from Berlin. The unofficial time was 41 hours 24 minutes. Thousands cheered as the Focke Wulf crew of four and one passenger completed the journey in four hops following Japan's previous Dying Wind visit to Berlin in 1937.
Five Amarillo men Vergne Talkington C J Charley Boyd Charles Copeland Jimmy Retter and H S Chisel Benton were arraigned before the United States Commissioner on charges of violating the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Bond set at 500 each They allegedly used an airplane to hunt ducks and geese in Castro County The case stemmed from complaints filed by United States Game Wardens A sixth Amarillian is reportedly connected but not yet processed
City Commission awarded contracts totaling over $4 000 in a special session. City Sign Company won a $778 bid to paint the inside of the elevated water reservoir. Dempster Manufacturing and Morrison Supply received $2 998.80 for 4000 feet of six inch water main pipe for the Veterans Hospital. R B George Machinery sold a caterpillar grader for $274.50. No other business was transacted.
Doran Phelps was charged in Justice of the Peace Duke s court today with receiving and concealing stolen property. Bond was set at five hundred dollars.
The Wildlife Federation banquet broadcast from the Herring Hotel at 7 30 tonight concludes two months of KGNC programs on game conservation. John Ballard of KGNC organized talks forums and interviews with game officials and sportsmen. Future programs on conservation will be planned and suggestions can be sent to Ballard.
A wildcat strike by United Automobile Workers body handlers at the Plymouth motor car factory led to the closing of both Plymouth and Briggs body plants. About 15,000 workers were idle as the assembly line halted and 6,000 workers were sent home after a shortage of bodies. The walkout followed demands for higher wages.
Police in Amarillo began a citywide drive against marihuana described as a threat to youth. In three raids A. K. Coleman Sylvester Easom and Max Juana were arrested on possession charges with bonds set at 750 dollars each.
Prague November 30 1938 Emil Hacha a 66 year old head of the supreme court administration was chosen as Czechoslovakia's third president by the national assembly with 272 of 312 votes. Eight German party members boycotted and blanks were cast by communists. Rudolf Be rén becomes premier signaling a pro German course. Masaryk and Benes are noted predecessors.
The Amarillo Texas Tech Association will meet at 7 30 Thursday night in Parlor A of the Amarillo Hotel. An official said the group has important business and hopes for a fine turnout.
Three boys in their early teens confessed at Amarillo police headquarters to a string of burglaries and petty thefts. Victims included J C Penney C R Anthony Sears Roebuck and other stores. Loot was recovered as the youths assisted police. the eldest is 16 and will face a juvenile officer.
Corne liu Zelea Codreanu the 39 year old Romanian Fascist chief and 13 others jailed for treason were killed today during an alleged escape from Rumnik Sarat prison near Bucharest. The deaths intensify the government crackdown on the Iron Guard with royal and military figures implicated.
Police, American Legion members, highway patrolmen and citizens rounded up nearly all of 50 half naked, dangerously insane patients who fled the Stockton Home for the Insane after a morning fire. Dr. Margaret Smyth blamed spontaneous combustion in a straw storage room. One fugitive was captured in Sacramento after fleeing in a taxicab. damage is estimated at 40,000 dollars.
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