23 Mar 1937
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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1937
Page
1
The article explains Easter is fixed by a lunar calculation after March, using an imaginary moon to determine the paschal full moon. Easter falls on March 28 this year, with Faster derived from Latin and Greek roots meaning a spring feast and "east day."
Martials law lifted in the East Texas area after a deadly blast at the Carlisle School near here. Dr E P Schoch and Chief Engineer Gordon C Hawley testified that gas escaping beneath the building produced the explosion and fire that destroyed the basement and killed several people. University of Texas experts suggested an explosion under the floor as a likely cause.
The article claims experts announced a gas leak caused the New London explosion twenty minutes after it happened. It mocks relying on experts and notes other headlines about mobs and political conflict. It names Canada, Detroit sit downers, and Austen Chamberlain in a curiously opinionated recap.
Texas bluebonnets line highways as official state flower planted by highway beautification. A group gathered last Sunday near Weslace to pick none, while the flower enriches soil and could serve as a cover crop. The season runs through Central West Texas hills. blooms stretch from the Valley to San Antonio. Geraldine Farrar comments on turning 55.
Gov Frank Murphy says Walter Chrysler and John Lewis will meet in Lansing on Wednesday to seek settlement of the Chrysler strike. Unionists maintain plant picketing while police remove strikers from a Detroit printing plant and a welfare office amid UAW threats of a general automotive walkout. Homer Martin, UAW president, downplays prospects of a wide strike, while charging Chrysler with withholding evidence from the La Follette committee and blacklisting workers. Hutchinson denies withholding subpoenaed evidence and notes UAW’s broadened claim of burglary and breaking and entering.
The Senate debated raising Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals judges to 10000 dollars annually while approving a bill to lift the attorney general’s salary to 7000 dollars. A constitutional amendments timetable and a planning board study on agriculture related industries were discussed in the House.
The Red Cross figures and Associated Press totals report 455 students and teachers dead in the New London school blast. Fifty three injured with 49 still hospitalized. Farley praises Garner as one of the outstanding men of this generation. He will dedicate the Federal building at Waco and speak to the Legislature in ensuing stops.
President Roosevelt reportedly plans a naval voyage to the Philippines within a year and a half to study the Commonwealth’s progress toward full independence. A Philippine American committee will study feasibility as Paul Vo McNutt and two Indiana aides prepare for posts. Moley argues court reform must come by constitutional amendment, while opponents demand abandoning court expansion plans.
The Rev LC Beasley will continue pre Easter services at 7 30 each evening at First Methodist Church. Topics include The Alabaster Box of Love Despised and Rejected and Gethsemane. Services run nightly March 21 through March 28 ending with an Easter cantata.
Tom Atlee of Alamo Iron Works, based in San Antonio, was badly hurt by a fall on an icy sidewalk in Hondo last month. He traveled to Del Rio on Monday for business, still cane-dependent but able to move about.
County trustees announce participation in a scholastic league meet after selection of 23, with Crosslin arranging the event. Notes mention a county superintendent and local officials, plus healthful work programs amid community life in multiple Texas towns.
The liner Normandie set a new Eastbound trans Atlantic speed record with an average of about 31 knots from Ambrose Light to Bishop's Rock as announced in Paris on March 23.
Crafton Halley a Brackettville Black man was found guilty of murder by a Kinney County jury before Judge Brian Montague and received a three year term in the penitentiary. The case stemmed from a fatal auto collision killing a Negro woman in Brackettville.
Del Rio High School Band will present a concert Tuesday at 8 PM in the high school auditorium. Sponsored by the Del Rio Boosters Club, the event invites the public to attend.
Texas legislators consider a dog poll tax to fund veterinarians and county or district salaries. The plan would tax each dog at one dollar if enough dogs exist, with district allowance, as part of several livestock measures under review.
Jaial Abirrin is shown in a ceremonial cross at Jojo, capital of Sulu island in the Philippines. He assumed power after disputes among royalist factions were settled under American protection.
Berlin reports indicate relations with the Vatican could end after Pope Pius XI accused the Nazi regime of violating the concordat and anti Christian movements. Voelkischer Beobachter signaled possible cancellation, arguing the pact has no sacred/eternal value if terms are not kept.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with generally fair and cooler conditions Wednesday. Yesterday’s high reached 66 and the low 60s. Morning low was 64 with potential thunder showers near Sabine and cooler conditions in the West tonight. east will be mostly cloudy with afternoon showers.
W H Furlong, key figure behind the American Highway from La Mexico City, cannot attend to photograph and publicize the Villa Allende Saltillo project. The meeting notes say Chase Daniel and R M Crosby will explore securing an athletic site for baseball rodeo and fair grounds with three options: old aviation field, Roosevelt Park polo field, and another site.
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