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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1936
Page
14
Washington budget officials said next year's defense costs likely exceed one billion dollars as departments rush to file 1938 estimates with Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Hearing dates and a deadline for filings were set, with a call to reduce demand to stay within appropriations.
An official report states the national defense outlay for the next year will rise above the 920 million dollars projected for the current year due to an expanding program. Officials say requests for allotments may surpass 1 billion dollars as costs for already begun features grow heavier.
A grand red barn bears a yellow message reading Go home and vote for London. The entry notes include political signage and a humorous aside about presidential fashion from Coolidge to McKinley, plus aviation and border-crossing anecdotes at the Canadian port of entry. A Sydney Australia radio schedule follows with segments and sports scores.
Filings with the secretary of state show at least 16 of Texas 21 Democratic House nominees face opposition in the November 3 general election. The GOP hopes to gain two or three seats. Ernest W. Clemens seeks to unseat Maury Maverick. Several incumbents had no opponents yet. Eight-column statewide ballot with six parties filing presidential electors. Prohibition filed no state candidates.
The column muses on Civil War echoes in Alexandria Virginia and a north south classroom incident. It recalls a Colorado man donating a coin to the conscience fund and Idaho Governor C Ben Ross’s retold childhood vow to be governor.
Victor Scarraffia and Vicente Espasa, Argentine students, began a two year 8000 mile bicycle trek from Buenos Aires to Dallas and on to New York. They faced sickness malarial fever deserts and jungles and plan to return by boat after reaching New York while promoting Esperanto in the United States.
City files reveal Toledo once employed an official bell ringer. January 4 1852 records approve a $5625 claim filed by Robert Whiteford for ringing the city bells.
Tuesday evening and Wednesday schedule lists multiple music programs led by John Josey Bob Crosby and others with dance matinees, news, sports, vaudeville and variety acts across dayparts from early morning to late night.
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