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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1939
Page
2
The writer notes 47 degree nights and describes a dry fall with no rain in sight as wheat is planted. The piece shifts to sports boasting the Reds could win the World Series, analyzes Yankees slumps, and includes humor and political reflection with Will Rogers praised.
A wide mash of notes questions British morale and German aims while lampooning misinformation. The column laments censorship, cites artificial insemination, royal gossip, Prague and Vienna resistance, obituary shifts, and a Sicilian clock lion and rooster that mark noon and sunset.
Leading Washington observer Raymond Clapper warns a Roosevelt third term bid would trigger unprecedented bitterness surpassing the Hoover Smith 1928 clash. Trade gossip notes 240 U.S. radio stations in the red last year. Christian Indians call Sunday the day and the day before the day Saturday while Monday is the day after the day. Trans Atlantic Clippers offer a smoother ride than Zeppelins, with no rolling sensation for travelers.
A wartime scene shows Bathing Girls with boxed gas masks helping pile sandbags around a south coast English resort. In London at Queen Charlotte's Hospital a baby named Neville Mooney, after the Prime Minister, is born to Mr. and Mrs. G Mooney.
At the London Zoo George the Chimp reopened after early war closure and bore a sign indicating where he would go if London was bombed. A rescued hula dancer from the liner Athenia charmed sailors on City of Flint, having a rope skirt braided and dancing on a hatch cover.
A five room frame residence and garage at 1504 Lipscomb is approved for C L Martin to be built by Floyd Richards at a cost of 3800 dollars. Norton Baker gets a three car garage with servant quarters at 3000 Hayden costing 2500 dollars with F W Jesse as contractor. A greenhouse and display room at 2700 Fillmore is approved for R C Stout costing 1000 dollars with I B Stark as contractor.
Itinerant merchant A. H. Hamond died this morning after two weeks illness. The body lies in state at Roxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel pending communication with relatives. Funeral services will be announced.
A burglar broke into the Phillips Petroleum Company station at Sixteenth Avenue and Tier Street last night and took only a flashlight, according to station attendants. A layoff note then mentions Dr. Jackson B. Hester of North Carolina soil technology advising a lime spray for potato scab control.
CORVALLIS MONT UP Bears avoid camps when onions are present. Charles F Schwab, an onion grower, lent onions to Mr and Mrs Claud Osborne who were visiting Yellowstone. The bears sniffed the odor and fled, showing onions deter bears in the park.
The Cushing Hutton Concerters present a radio revue of song and story on Thursday night October 12 at the Margaret Wills School. Eileen Hutton soprano and Wilfrid Cushing tenor perform operetta opera folk songs skits and novelty numbers. Admission 10 cents children 25 cents adults. Public invited.
The Potter County Red Cross chapter announced the sale of its interest in the highway first aid station at the Bivins Booster Plant in Moore County to the newly organized Moore County chapter. The Moore County unit will continue operating the station, created when no local chapter existed previously.
American ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew expected to leave San Francisco today aboard the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru for Tokyo after a four month absence. The Feejee mermaid exhibited nationwide by P. T. Barnum was described as a monstrosity constructed from a monkey head and a fish body.
Thomas G. Dodd, hospital construction supervisor, announced that moving trees funded by the city will begin as construction allows. The city offered up to 3 000 young trees from the McDonald Water Site, where about 8 000 trees exist, to the new U S veterans hospital.
Amarillo police department bids will be opened at the city commission meeting tonight. The car replaces one demolished in a collision weeks ago. Other agenda items include golf course clubhouse estimates, bids on a gasoline car, rezoning and paying petitions.
The Amarillo High School yearbook photo sessions begin tomorrow. Over 1,700 individual pictures will be taken for the yearbook. Principal R B Norman announced. Faculty sponsors are Miss Minnie Feierabend and Albert Berg.
Alvin Andrew Stewart a former Pampa High School football star was shot to death at his Purcell Oklahoma home. Raymond Glasco pleaded innocent to murder and wounding charges after surrendering to police. Stewart’s wife Gladys was wounded and in grave condition. Stewart was 24 and had played for the Pampa Harvesters in 1934 and 1935.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary L. Hughey will be held tomorrow at 4 30 PM from the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Chapel. Pallbearers include George Hayden Charles Feierabend Sumner Phillips Dick Holcomb H Stanbow Edgar Seeward John Snider and R B Manning. She died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital after a two month illness. A longtime Amarillo resident she came here with her parents in 1894 and married W N Hughey in 1904. He died in 1932. She was a Christian Church member and is survived by one son three sisters four brothers and a granddaughter.
Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3 to 1 in the opener of a double header to move within one victory of clinching the National League pennant. A win in the second game would seal the title.
The Sandstorm, Amarillo High School's student publication, launched its yearly subscription campaign this week and will run until October 6.
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