24 Oct 1938
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1938
Page
1
Molly the penguin laid an egg on Saturday at the zoological garden. Keeper Malcolm Davis hopes this egg will hatch, unlike two May eggs that failed. Molly previously hatched two chicks last March, but both died in captivity.
News notes a warmer period across Amarillo and the Plains with optimism to spend five billion dollars on military buildup due to Hitler expanding his territory. It urges consumption while alerting to an imminent killing frost. Stephens College promotes charm courses with high marriage rates among alumnae.
Winchell catalogs a carnival of higher education quirks. He notes Brooklyn College courses on courtship, England students wearing white discs for fog safety, a Hitler effigy tackling drill at a football practice, and Yale Bowl capacity jokes. He cites Harvard’s 1860 football ban, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley’s marital stats, Wellesley reunions, and a panoply of oddities from Japan's student exports to a two-room Curtiss College. The piece lampoons academia with absurdities, stats, and anecdotes about colleges, students, and professors.
A column comments on hammer injuries, oil markets, and bicycle messenger safety, then shifts to farm politics and the need for farm price stabilization. It notes Amarillo efforts to back a new government hospital with an $800,000 starter, requiring 200 signatures and a $20,000 site guarantee, with chamber telephones to sign up.
The clashing program grid lists NBC and local segments with matinees and evenings. Highlights include Closing Stock Report, Cadets Quartet, Dance Medley, and large blocks for News, Music, and public service programs spanning morning to midnight.
A Los Angeles radio feature titled The Hollywood Milkman tracks a morning milkman’s cityscape star sightings. Gen Robert Wood, Sears Roebuck president, rises by alarm clock and drives to work in a flivver. An Oriental rugs expert warns against beating fine rugs, advising sweeper use. A jealous rival of Michelangelo allegedly caused his Sistine Chapel commission. A hosiery innovator concedes a front seam line failed to catch on.
A middle aged unencumbered woman sought for permanent housework with nights away from laundry tasks. Requires references and wages reasonable. Contact A Reader at 23 8403. A colored girl seeks work doing house work and child care with references, age 18. Dial 4908. A widow seeks a gentleman 48 to 80, will answer letters. Mrs LW in care of Tack.
Theodor Cardinal Innitzer publicly defends church action in a letter read from Vienna pulpits. He says the bishop must carry out his sworn duty representing God and Church while affirming support of the state. He denies inciting against Hitler or the Nazi Party during a Catholic youth demonstration.
Job seeker with house experience seeks employment. Note indicates continuation on page three.
Floral Park New York October 24 three year old Dean Tripp son of wealthy Wilbur D Tripp was returned to his home by ex marine George O Connell who disappeared with him Saturday on a shopping trip to New York City Federal agents were called Sunday night when O Connell failed to return to the Tripp home Police Chief James Humphreys and FBI agents accompanied Mrs Tripp to Floral Park station where the child was found in O Connell s arms awaiting 8 31 train arrival The charge on which O Connell is held was not learned.
Dr. A. T. McCormack of Louisville says the American Public Health Association opposes compulsory sickness insurance as it would bring political bureaucratic and uneconomic control of medicine. He argues for local and state control of medical practice while supporting federal aid for the needy.
Al Baggett, football coach at West Texas State College in Canyon, has been appointed to teach physical education at Columbia University for the upcoming summer term. This honors his standing in collegiate athletics and education.
SAN ANTONIO Oct 24 Los Angeles and Vancouver authorities asked Bexar County officers to detain Grover Bates also known as George Mason and Fred Sommers 39 and his brother Ray Bates 50 alias Ed Ray in a purported arms smuggling plot into Mexico. Bates faces possible extradition for a gold mine swindle while Vancouver police seek information on an $80 000 swindle.
The process centers on the accomplishment record of the candidate. Many top coaches and athletic directors in the United States seek the position each summer, applying through established channels.
In Calumet the Pichettes confess at Father Harrington they killed housekeeper Miss Doyle. Mrs Pichette said Pichette killed the girl in their Dole Bay home by striking with a flatiron and hammering with a poker while Norma cried. They then hid the body upstairs and fled to the church as snow fell. The article also notes the US has the most dinosaur fossils worldwide.
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