21 Sep 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1937
Page
1
The opening day drew estimates from 15 000 to 40 000 as crowds swarmed the Panhandle Tri-State Fair. The Ernie Young Revue and circus attractions drew heavy attendance amid fair weather with continued optimism for a lively event schedule through Thursday.
Amarillo will keep the current tax rate of $1.12 per $100 assessed value for the next fiscal year. With no protests at the public hearing, the city commission approved the proposed budget totaling $707,820.68 for the year ending next April 15.
Washington action ends an Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry into the Van Sweringen rail empire after a brief hearing at which large records were introduced. Commissioner Charles D. Wahaffie ordered an indefinite adjournment on September 21.
Baylor University President Pat M. Neff enlarges the school anti drinking rule to all football games featuring Baylor. Violation could lead to expulsion, and previously the ban applied only on campus.
Amelia Earhart’s planned World Flight book will be published as Last Flight, announced by her husband George Palmer Putnam. He said Earhart wrote the manuscript shortly before her solo flight around the world. Also mentioned are regional sports updates and a public notice about a missing gold wrist watch reward.
Dear Tack I would like to find a lady between 24 and 38 years of age to work home near Ploydad She would be expected to care for an inval id and help with the ewe work CONTINUED ON PAGE
Kansas City hogs 2,000 steady to 10c lower with top 11.85 and sows 10-15c off. cattle 8,500 with steady demand for better grades and calves, West ern steers up to 12.75, grass fat cattle 5.50 to 8.50. sheep 6,000 with lambs steady to weak. New Orleans cotton trading quiet with early gains, Oct 8.69 to 8.72, Dec 8.70, Jan 8.74, Mar 8.84, Jul 9.94. buying orders active.
Jacqueline Cochran of New York piloting a Seversky modified pursuit plane broke the feminine world speed mark at Wayne County Airport Detroit with a three kilometer dash at an average of 290 miles per hour reportedly establishing a new record in aviation speed for women.
In Columbia Missouri on September 21 Frank Coleman an African American ex convict was charged with assaulting an 86 year old white woman. A crowd of about 200 marched on the Boone County jail demanding Coleman be kept in custody for safety.
The federal government opened an investigation into the September corn deal as price swings troubled the Chicago pit. The Commodity Exchange Administration asked grain commission houses to report all open September corn accounts as of September 20, while major speculators held firm and prices surged to over a dollar before retreating from a Friday peak.
The Soviet Arctic camp has drifted 240 miles from its starting point near the North Pole in four months. The current position is 85 degrees 52 minutes north latitude on the Greenwich meridian, nearer Greenland than the pole, with 19.4 F temperature, a 29.77 inch barometer, a gentle southwest wind, high clouds, and about two miles visibility.
The Tri State Fair program includes the Hardin-Simmons University cowboy band as a highlighted act. Concerts run before the rodeo and the grandstand revue, with major attractions like the circus at 2 and 8, rodeo at 2, and night show at 8. Grandma Jackson visits Amarillo to enjoy exhibits, rodeo, and the Passing Revue. Banquet for press held by The Tri State Fair with circus management hosting. Amarillo editor John McCarty presided.
Witnesses describe Denhardt as pale and frightened while the Garr brothers glare as they await verdict. Dr Garr, a shell shocked veteran, and Denhardt exchange tense moments as Denhardt testifies about his love for the Garr sister.
An old notice promotes a bladder irregularity remedy claiming to ease nocturnal wakefulness and irritation. It markets a green cap to cleanse waste and acids and mentions purchases at a city drug store and a drug company.
On air listing for KGNC details Tuesday afternoon and evening programs across NBC and local slots. Includes Spearman High School Band, Don Winslow of the Navy, NBC programing, orchestras, bands, variety shows, news, dance and discussion segments.
U S Senator Dennis Chavez and Representative J J Dempsey charged Governor Clyde Tingley with backing tenure amendments to stay in office through gang rule. They led opposition against the regular party organization led by the governor in a statewide dispute over bond issues and pay raises.
Kentucky Day at the Tri-State Fair will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the grandstand. Dr. J. R. Wrather announced a mass reunion of Kentuckians from five surrounding states with notable speakers including Dr. J. W. Bruner of Dallas and ex-Kentuckians from Clayton New Mexico Lubbock Memphis and Pampa.
President Roosevelt will begin a swift cross country speaking tour, making about twenty appearances in eight Northwestern and Middle Western states. He will also visit British Columbia by destroyer, inspect federal projects, and deliver a major speech at Bonneville Dam near Portland Oregon.
The British government filed formal representations with Japan in London through Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie over plans to bomb Nanking. It warned that civilian and British lives and property could be harmed and reserved the right to hold Japan responsible.
Sandra Gene McPherson 17 months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Conrad R McPherson of Vega, died early today in a Dallas hospital after a week illness. Body to be received Wednesday by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. funeral at 3 pm Wednesday from Vega, burial Vega cemetery. Survived by parents and grandparents S B McPherson Elida NM and Mrs W H Purdue Tulsa OK.
National Guardsmen manned two machine guns on the courthouse lawn as the Henderson Young case nears verdict. Texas Rangers guarded the courthouse while testimony wrapped in the racially charged trial of two brothers accused of attacking a white woman in masking robes.
Governor Hoffman's $100,000 libel suit against broadcaster Boake Carter and sponsors ended by amicable agreement in Trenton New Jersey. The case stemmed from Carter's remarks on the Hauptmann murder and Hoffman's public image. Carter invited reconciliation and Hoffman accepted, noting a return to friendly relations.
Maxim Litvinédy of Soviet Russia denounces Italy Germany and Japan as aggressor nations and calls on the League of Nations to aid loyalist Spain and China at once and effectively from Geneva on September 21.
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