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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1938
Page
1
A long column blends weather remarks with local events and jokes. It highlights the Tri-State fair and a Sunset Stables horse show with 25 cent admission, notes plans to fund new High School band uniforms, and includes humorous quotes about Hollywood figures, domestic life, and civic planning ideas for the old post office.
Gov James V Allred proclaims next Sunday as Underprivileged Children's Day urging Texans to address the needs of unfortun ate children. Rosalind Giles notes 16800 Texas children under 16 benefited under the National Social Security Act via the child welfare division since 1986. Potter County Child Welfare Board includes F M Bralley, J N Riggs, Dr R Roach, Bert McCollough, Jim Hudson, Mrs Jessie Ross, with Violet S Greenhill directing state program and county probation advisory support.
Hollywood star William Powell entered Cedars of Lebanon hospital for a major operation to be performed by Dr. E F Clarence Moore. The surgeon called the procedure a very serious operation and Powell was reported resting well ahead of the surgery.
A collage of trivia notes spans politics inventions and global customs. Mentions include Supreme Court Justices Van Devanter and Tompkins, automotive buyers valuing eye appeal, rare vice presidential tenure, Abyssinian marriage guarantors, Miss Nancy Allen as a female fire chief, John D. Rockefeller Jr. called Mr Junior, a fathom's original meaning, patent costs, prolific white rats, and their rapid generation.
A reader at V6 East Fifteenth Avenue asks for work in exchange for a car or furniture. The writer is a painter and paperhanger by trade and offers to furnish references.
President Roosevelt cites a power shortage as a serious threat to national security and forms a special committee to draft a legislative program. Louis Johnson heads the panel with Frederic Delano Basil Manly Harrid Ickes Charles Edison and William Douglas as members.
Douglas Corrigan, famed for his wrong-way transatlantic flight, landed at Dallas, then Fort Worth Municipal Airport. He is to be guest at a luncheon and will receive a ten gallon white cowboy hat as the city escorts him to the downtown parade.
Daniel Dodge 21, heir to the Dodge motor company fortunes, was found dead in the north channel of Georgian Bay by Wesley Rycer. He disappeared after falling or jumping from a speedboat on August 15 while being transported to a hospital following injuries from a dynamite explosion at his estate near Little Current Ontario.
In Aurora Illinois Robert Robinson withdrew his offer to let Cleon Miller of Chicago shoot an apple off his head with a bow and arrow during a trial act. A shot at balloons pierced Albert Bennett's lung and ended the act.
In Castel Gandolfo the Pope told 400 Catholic Action lay teachers that exaggerated nationalism misreads Catholic doctrine and criticized international and national press as spreading erroneous fascist credos. He warned this trend attacks core church teachings.
Japanese columns push south through Henan while another group advances along the Pifening Hankow railroad north of the Taineh Mountains. Two hundred Japanese planes bomb Chinese positions on both Yangtze river banks as land drive stalls.
An opinion piece argues that despite rising national debt and looming deficits, there is no immediate danger. It notes expected Treasury financing details next week, a possible half billion in new borrowing, and debt figures as of July 1938, with bonds yielding low returns amid a firm national credit outlook.
Washington answers on the fair labor standards act of 1938 outline its purpose to end bad labor conditions and set wage and hour rules. The administrator will determine coverage, with reviews by courts, and exemptions apply to common carriers fisheries agriculture and some processing. 750000 to 1000000 workers face pay rules. initial minimum wage is 25 cents, rising to 30 then 40 cents in later years.
Henry Sobel testified in the James J. Hines trial that he obtained 11000 dollars for William Dodge campaign funds in 1933. He said part of the money was given in a sealed envelope by a man he could not identify.
Investors anticipate next week’s financing will include an exchange of old notes for new securities. The new issue should carry a premium on the open market sufficient to absorb losses and yield a profit, despite the negative carry if holders simply cash in on the due date.
Quintus Ticer was charged with murder in the death of C. C. Ricks a 35 year old Childress barber. Witnesses testified they quarreled over U S and Germany military strength and Ticer struck Ricks with his fist twice before Ricks died. Bond set at $2000.
Fires in pine and olive groves on the Ebro River front forced government troops to abandon their positions. Reports say flames and smoke, started by artillery, aided the retreat as insurgent attacks had failed to dislodge the militiamen.
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