08 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
1
A Dallas News piece reviews public opinion on gambling and liquor, laments celebrity deaths, and critiques tax sentiment and gambling operators. It discusses the folly of dupes, warns readers about con artists, and reflects on moral and legal angles of vice in Texas.
About 1,500 workers walked out at the Budd Wheel Company plant in Detroit as nationwide tensions rose over labor actions. In Lansing Governor Murphy intervened to push quick end to a Lansing labor holiday amid arrests of eight pickets and a heavy UAW presence around government buildings.
A Brownwood Bulletin column mocks airline safety standards by arguing nagging wives threaten pilot calm more than weather or mechanical defects. The piece jokes about single men piloting and notes men may manufacture worries at home or elsewhere, presenting a satirical take on domestic life and aviation.
In Manila June, a crazed tribesman named Boli, armed with a head ax, killed thirteen people including children and a wife across villages in Cagayan Province. He fled after injuring twenty, sparking a regional manhunt as villagers retaliated and a broad assault followed.
A patient in Camas Valley after twin surgery smiles at a nurse, her eyes bright with relief and laughter as she rests post procedure.
Insurgent commander Franco ferried 14000 troops from Spanish Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar for a major assault on Bilbao and Madrid. The force includes 1500 foreign volunteers and teen youths, aiming to break Loyalist defenses and isolate Madrid before harvests pull troops off the line.
Frederick Snite Jr. of Chicago travels aboard the SS President Coolidge en route to home for infantile paralysis treatment. He is in an iron lung, in good spirits, singing California Here I Come with his father, nurses, and technicians aboard. A $50,000 trip home is funded for the journey.
Washington June 8 The Senate judiciary committee approved legislation to punish persons who steal cattle hogs sheep horses and mules moving in interstate commerce.
Los Angeles reports say Jean Harlow died after uremic poisoning spreading to the cerebrum. Her friend Violet Denoyer recalls a premonition she would not return. Funeral is set for 10 am tomorrow.
In the Pacific the U S Navy and National Geographic team seek a clear view of the longest total solar eclipse in 12 centuries. In Utah searchers recover a human leg bone and large fuselage fragments from a Skyliner crash near Alpine. In Madrid police unveil evidence linking a German spy to a propaganda hub in Spain before the civil war.
More than $4 900 on four Val Verde County applications have been certified for payment by the Texas AAA to the General Accounting Office. J B Kidd, Val Verde County agent, said Tuesday with payments under the 1936 Agricultural Conservation program nearly complete. The four Val Verde County applications total $4 55471 and have been certified for payment. Total payments for the state are expected to exceed 33 million dollars. To date the Texas office has certified 182 929 applications totaling $32 482 416 53 according to figures released by George Slaughter, chairman of the Texas Agricultural Conservation Committee.
Partly cloudy conditions persist in Del Rio and surrounding areas. Yesterday’s high reached 93 degrees with a low of 74. Tonight remains partly cloudy with a mild overnight low around 76 degrees expected.
In San Angelo on June 8, Forte Dupree and Sawyer buyer Guy Burton purchased 40 000 pounds of 12 month wool at 36 cents a pound from West Texas Wool and Mohair Co. Merizon, Ferguson clip, rains draw buyers. market expected to gain speed after roads dry and shearing resumes. Sanderson Woot and Commission Co announces a sealed bid sale for June 11 offering 200 000 pounds of 12 month and 200 000 pounds of eight month wool. Joe Kerr, manager, reports.
Acoustics expert G. D. Bell from Dallas surveys the Princess Theatre in Del Rio for new sound equipment. Paul J. Poag manager of R. & R. Theatres says installation will not begin for about three weeks.
Across the continent a plane delivered a tiny lead pencil cap to a boy in Van Nuys after it lodged in his windpipe. Surgeons, who failed to remove it with bronchoscopy, obtained a matching cap from New York stores and prepared an instrument to extract the object from Andrew Blakeley Jr.’s lung.
Washington June 8 Pr House chiefs reviewed the legislative state with President Roosevelt and predicted Congress would sit until late summer. Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn urged swift action on Supreme Court expansion and other reforms while signaling no immediate action until Senate agreement.
Dallas reports a duck in North Dallas went berserk after the season's heaviest rainfall. Officers subdued the bird as spectators recalled ducks reacting wildly to sudden rain after a long dry spell.
The Bishop of Birmingham Dr. Ernest William Barnes urged reform of divorce laws. He warned the church would oppose the Windsor Warfield wedding and advocated communion for the divorced.
A rugged Papago worker Jose Alvarez, longtime University of Arizona lab janitor since 1902, argues education harms native culture while praising hard work and honesty. He recalls hiring four replacements when away, recalls birth unclear, and notes belief in medicine man alongside white science. He led Indian chiefs council and weighs white doctrine versus native traditions.
Governor Alfred signed bills providing 750 000 for Big Bend Park 250 000 for a research laboratory and 800 for replacing burned Cass County school. He also signed liquor regulators and flood control measures as legislators mark time in an anti gambling push.
Several Del Ricans plan to attend the quarterly meeting of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association in Kerrville on Thursday June 10. Wardlaw, in town for his son Whitehead Wardlaw’s graduation at Southwestern University, plans to reach Del Rio on Thursday and join the convention weekend with Stevenson and Serris.
The House passed a bill to extend the Public Works Administration for a similar length of time. It would allow selling an additional 40 million dollars of securities to fund grants, supplement 95 million dollars of unobligated revolving fund balance, and keep about 124 million dollars available for loans.
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