25 Dec 1938
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Newspaper
Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1938
Page
1
The piece notes rapid advances in air power since 1918, with long range bombers and new defense needs. It discusses defensive measures, anti air craft guns, and three main plane types pursuit attack and observation, plus fears of future chemical and strategic threats.
In Portland judge Julius Cohn freed 38 year old John Collier on vagrancy charges after he pleaded that he has spent 11 Christmases in jail and wished to be out for this one. The judge ruled it a reasonable request granting release for Christmas.
Train robbers boarded an express from Baguio to Manila and killed two messengers with bolos. They looted the baggage safe containing 150000 dollars in cash and gold bullion, a crime uncovered on arrival in Manila from the northern mining district.
An Albuquerque mother arrives in Amarillo seeking her child lost after her husband deserted her. She retrieves the two to three year old with help from city police who collect funds from officers to aid her return trip to Albuquerque. Christmas Eve mood remains poignant as she travels home with the red-headed child.
The outgoing Houston city council raised firemen and policemen pay to 150 dollars a month effective retroactively from April 1937, per a state supreme court ruling. Back pay could reach 200 thousand dollars. annual cost may near 100 thousand dollars.
Scientists claim all bird species trace their ancestry to lizards. The assertion links birds to reptilian origins, suggesting evolutionary relationships across amniotes and highlighting shared vertebrate traits observed in fossils and modern species.
In St Charles Virginia Bertha Sybert, nine, reportedly awakes from sleep every sunset as villagers and visitors crowd the mountain cabin. Robert Sybert fears bewitchment and vows day and night protection while UT professors Axel Brett and George Haslerud study the bed bouncing. The grandmother laments exhaustion and plans to move Bertha for a quiet Christmas Eve.
The article notes Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen announced the discovery of the X-ray 42 years ago on January 23, 1896.
In Elyria Ohio on Christmas Eve a father was killed while buying a Christmas tree for his two daughters, William Rousseau. Deputy sheriffs delivered gifts, a tree, and 26 dollars to Geraldine Rousseau 11 and Sarah Rousseau 8. William Case 84 pleaded innocent to manslaughter and remained jailed.
Dr. S Le Roy Brown of the University of Texas unveils a 15-foot machine weighing a ton that performs 61 mathematical operations at once and solves equations to the 15th degree. The device, called a multiharmonograph, uses electric wave impulses to chart differentials in minutes, a task months of work for a human computer. Brown spent five years building it and will present it at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington DC December 27 to 29.
Herbert Jamison, a postal worker, tends 45 Italian honey bee hives. Last summer he harvested over 7,000 pounds of honey, earning a sizable profit from the hobby.
New York December 24 1914 The article highlights Christmas birthday Americans notable in U S history including Clara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross and Evangeline Booth longtime head of the Salvation Army Barton known as the Angel of the Battlefields helped form the Red Cross while Booth led the Salvation Army in the United States Barton authored A Christmas Carol poem and Booth remained active in athletics despite frail health
In the United States health officials note more than 500000 active tuberculosis cases, highlighting a persistent national public health challenge and the need for expanded screening and treatment.
In Shafter California a troupe of movie actors including Edward G Robinson Jackie Cooper Gloria Stewart Eddie Cantor and Melvyn Douglas visited a migrant workers camp to lift holiday spirits and highlight rural poverty. About 5000 residents in the camp work in cotton fields or orchards, earning around a dollar a day.
The cold wave across Great Britain pushed the death toll to 84 as a week-long freeze coated roads with packed snow and ice. Highways were blocked, deep drifts formed, and many villages were isolated with numerous automobiles and trucks abandoned.
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