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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1936
Page
2
The Junior Welfare League invites attendance at the Big Ball Saturday night at The Herring. Carleton Scales and his orchestra will provide music for a lively event benefiting the League’s work for children. Tickets available to support the cause.
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves refused a temporary injunction to block enforcement of the commodities exchange act. The Kansas City board of trade challenged the act as unconstitutional and vague but Reeves ruled the act constitutional and not yet time to challenge its pro visions. The act broadens regulation to include cotton and other commodities and requires boards of trade to register with the commodities exchange board. An immediate appeal to the U S Circuit Court of Appeals was planned.
A mosaic of curiosities and facts from 20th century trivia. Items include a cafe robbery in Houston with $25 stolen from an ice box, US life expectancy rising to over 62, and a London newspaper venture by Sylvia Pankhurst. Also notes on the Declaration of Independence, Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, and various cultural tidbits.
Dear Tack, I note in your column the statement that the voice entering a telephone causes vibrations to streak over the wire. Right if you mean voice current impulses and wrong if you mean acoustic impulses. The telephone transmitter modulates a steady direct current to carry the voice.
French sky speedster Lieut Michel Detroyat and manager Rene Racover arrived in Amarillo with Jacqueline Cochran Lloyd Odlum and Donald Douglas aboard an east bound TWA plane arriving at 10 11 last night Detroyat praised US transport planes while noting few if any single motor private planes exist His Renault powered ship from the California meen feed races is one of only three like it in the world and not built by the French government Cochran Odlum planned to compete in the Bendix air derby
Plainview news reports F. C. Austin Jr., 27, died in a hospital from burns after a gasoline explosion while cleaning an automobile horn. He lived eight miles south of Flamot and had resided in Floydada before moving to Flamot.
James Harvey Cowgar, 43, died from swallowing a button, reportedly swallowed on Sunday, as his parents Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cowgar mourn at Gainesville. An albino frog rarity note mentions one example at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Moscow reports say Russian militarists plan to shift focus to the Far East after summer maneuvers on the western frontier end. The government seeks a joint border commission with Japan while warnings of Manchurian troop movements raise Mongolian alarm over a possible encirclement.
Richard Jenkins has been named dog warden for the village of Frankfort expanding his authority to ten villages. The report notes his new duties and confirms his broad role in dog control across multiple communities.
Texas Highway Patrol offers free safety inspections at safety lanes in Amarillo and nearby towns Tuesday through Thursday. Tests cover brakes visibility steering and noise with Captain M L Berry in charge. Blue OK stickers go to passing cars while pink slips are issued for defects.
Burnet goat rancher R. B. Norwood remained jailed pending a habeas corpus hearing after he killed Calvin Ward Jr. yesterday in front of Burnet post office. Norwood said he fired in self defense during a goat dispute and surrendered in Austin. Bystander R. D. Anderson was hit by the bullet but not seriously hurt.
On Sept 9 the treasury reported receipts of 67 054 988 50 dollars and expenditures of 68 452 998 45 dollars leaving a balance of 1 801 796 959 25. Customs receipts for the month totaled 8 935 255 04 and fiscal year receipts since July 1 were 733 824 194 94 against expenditures of 1 178 424 130 26 including 417 055 633 56 in emergency spending, a excess of expenditures of 444 599 935 32. Gross debt stood at 33 360 128 757 73, down 1 284 122 50 from the prior day. Gold assets were 10 736 487 762 79.
In Saluda North Carolina on September 11, the town of 130 people all carry the Rogers name. The Rogers are seen as descendants of Uncle Billy and Mary Rogers, whose passing marked four generations of the family in the WPA American Guide Book project.
Officials of the two day Bass Derby rejected the Santa Clara Nudist group request to compete. The official said no one from the Exposition would be allowed. Botanists note wheat grain life spans about seven years, refuting claims that ancient Egyptian tomb wheat sprouted when planted.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce mails over 2000 invitations for an all Panhandle Air Progress luncheon at the Herring Hotel. Leaders from TWA and the Bureau of Air Commerce attend, with free airplane rides promised. Officials discuss plans for a municipally owned airport and federal funds, warning Amarillo could become a ghost town if action stalls.
Col. Frank Knox Republican Vice Presidential candidate tours cattle country for western votes. He arrives in Wyoming at Chadron for a major address and spoke from his train in South Dakota at Mitchell and Rapid City. A blizzard warning follows his swing through the region.
Lincoln Nebraska September 11 Senator George W Norris veteran Nebraska Independent Republican today accepted a petition filing nominating him as an independent candidate for reelection He said he hoped to retire but the petition from more than 40 000 constituents compelled him to serve the duty to accept the nominating ballot.
Four Japanese warships recently reached Shanghai from Tsingtao and head to Hong Kong to protect Japanese interests in South China. Japanese investigators into a Pakhoi resident’s killing were due in the southern city tonight. Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe said Tokyo instructed him to warn Nanking that Japan will not tolerate further mob violence against Japanese residents in China.
The Adeolus, Lufthansa flying boat, reached the half way point in its attempt to set a second East West transatlantic mark, reported 1,291 miles from the Azores. Its sister Zephyr completed the Azores to Port Washington, marking the first nonstop flight between the Azores and the United States. Kyanite mining noted in northeast Georgia for fire brick production.
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