Deskins Wells Enters Panhandle Congressional Race
Deskins Wells publisher of the Wellington Leader announces his candidacy for Congress from the Panhandle area. He opposes U.S. entry into a European war, vows to support agriculture and farm labor, and aims to continue Marvin Jones’s legislative work while outlining a forthcoming platform on oil, business, and other issues.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Wells
Marvin Jones
Texas
Congress
Mr. Wells
the Panhandle
United States
Congress of the
Washington
Wellington
Orcer
Punandle
Ian
Creer
Marvin, Jones
Hijacker robs Dryden station for about $20
Hudson Hendricks an 18 year old attendant at Dryden Service Station reports a six foot hijacker with a blue steel gun held him at gunpoint last night. The robber estimated 25 year old, 1180 pounds wearing black coat and hat forced Hendricks under a table and emptied the cash register skipping pennies before fleeing. Hendricks earlier witnessed a separate dryden station robbery by a man and a girl.
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Hudson Hendricks
Dryden
Thirty- Sixth Avenue
Washington Street
Hendricks
Four Million Dollar Fire Devastates Colon District
A major fire in Colon Panama April 14 destroyed much of the tenement area. Officials blamed a slow alarm and shifting winds for the rapid spread. The blaze left about 4 million dollars in damage and 10 000 homeless with no casualties. Fire chief Louis J. Ducruet said firefighters fought a losing battle from the start as Red Cross units mobilized to aid victims.
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Colon
Panama
Tocay
Louis J. Ducruet
Canal Zone
Red Cross
al Zone
Tucumcari Man Slain in Home Shooting
Salome Valverde, 53, was shot dead at his Tucumcari home. His wife Matthea Valverde, 35, surrendered to police and is held in Quay County jail as investigators probe the case.
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Tucumcari
Salome Valverde
Matthea Valverde
Quay County
O Daniel Eulogizes Cureton In Sunday Broadcast
Governor W Lee O Daniel dedicates Sabbath radio time to music and a eulogy of the late C M Cureton chief justice of Texas Supreme Court. The vacancy remains unfilled as two appointees Gerald C Mann and Eugene P Locke of Dallas have declined to serve.
Furniture Bargains Galore in Globe-News Want Ads
The Household Goods classification of the Globe-News Want Ads is brimming with hundreds of big values in new and used furniture and appliances. If any home furnishing is missing, refer to Classification No. 37 for full details of the year’s best furniture buys.
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Globe-News
Streit to clash with Butler at Knife and Fork Club
Clarence K Streit author of Union Now and proponent of a world federation of democracies will speak at the Knife and Fork Club at the Country Club tomorrow night. Gen Smedley Butler will be the club’s May speaker, urging the United States to stay out of European affairs. Reservations for the Streit dinner lecture are due noon tomorrow at Maxor Drug Store or Amarillo Hotel news stand.
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Knife and Fork Club
Clarence K. Streit
Union Now
Smedley Butler
The
Marines
Streit
Country Club
Butler
League of Nations
United States
Federation of Nations
Europe
Maxor
Fisk Building
Amarillo Hotel
Home Demonstration Agents Meet Today At Herring Hotel
District home demonstration and county agents will meet today at the Herring Hotel. On Tuesday the Home Demonstration Association district meeting will be held at the Polk Street Methodist Church, District Vice President Mrs. Curtis Roach of Ochiltree County will preside.
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District Home Demonstration
Herring Hotel
Home Demonstration Association
Polk Street Methodist Church
Curtis Roach
Ochiltree County
Honesty Returns Five Dollar Payment to Store Owner
A. J. Suit of Richmond Kentucky received a letter with a $5 bill and a note confessing a child’s unintentional theft. The writer, anonymous, explained they did not know how to return the item and chose to send the money by mail, hoping the store would accept it.
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Richmond
A. J. Suit
ICC Chairman Sees Surplus in Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, argues public aids to rail, water, road and air carriers have produced a surplus of facilities and little public benefit. He cites total public aid totals and warns subsidies sustain uneconomic competition, urging deliberate planning and potential repeal of mail and troop carriage rate provisions.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastman
ICC
Fastman
Germans Deny They Are Aggressors in War Debate
Berlin reports quote German sources denying aggressor status after President Roosevelt condemns Nazi invasion of Denmark and Norway. They argue no nation desires war, seek a short front for Germany, while noting the Altmark incident and British mining signal a new neutrality concept.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
Denmark
Norway
Germany
Altmark
Anatolia Suffers Earth Shocks
ANKARA April 14 A series of earthquakes in northern and central Anatolia sparked panic as residents feared a repeat of the December January catastrophe. Early reports say six killed and many injured at Yorgad with hundred houses destroyed and many more damaged. Shocks were felt at Ankara Kirsherhir Tokat Sivas Kayseri and Samsun.
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Ankara
Turkey
Anatolia
Yorgad
Kirsherhir
Tokat
Sivas
Kayseri
Black Sea
Samsun
Allies Send Troops to Norway As Mine Field Halts Nazis
Quick action of the Central Fire Station pulmotor squad saved a newborn infant boy at the Ralph Rodneys home on Johnson Street. After 50 minutes with no breathing and a strong heart, the pulmotor revived him and respiration soon normalized. Capt. Perry Burke, Arthur Ford, T. B. Gibson, and Tom Spencer were credited with the rescue.
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Central Fire Station
Ralph Rodneys
Johnson Street
Perry Burke
Arthur Ford
T. B. Gibson
Tom Spencer
Mrs Willa Jo Cousins Wins Pampa Dog Show
Pampa April 14 The Pampa Daily News hosted a wide dog show directed by Archer Fullingim drawing 1 500 to 2 000 spectators. Mrs Willa Jo Cousins of Borger won grand champion with a pomeranian. reserve went to a Collie owned by Mr and Mrs John McCarty of Amarillo. The event featured many breeds including mongrels, English bulldogs, Cocker Spaniels and Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
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Pampa
Cousins
Willa Jo Cousins
Borger
John McCarty
Amarillo
Minner
Ray Minner
Frank Dial
Bill Gunn
Fair Park
Tarter
Jake Tarter
Wheeler County
Panhandle
Weather outlook West Texas and New Mexico
WEATHER WEST TEXAS fair with high clouds Monday and Tuesday partly cloudy with little temperature change. NEW MEXICO partly cloudy Monday with light showers on higher elevations Monday afternoon, Tuesday partly cloudy. cooler in northwest area Monday afternoon and in north and west portions Tuesday.
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Texas
New Mexico
Wagner Act Wage-Hour Reform Debated in House
The House plans rapid debate on three wage hour revision bills to amend the Wagner Act and related labor laws. Supporters push exemptions for white collar workers telegraph messengers and insular possessions while farm processing exemptions spark contention. Senate uncertainty looms as hearings on a $655 million naval expansion and additional judges advance.
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Washington
House
Senate
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Senate Labor Committee
Norris Nebraska
Burke
Nebraska
R. L. Cochran
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Senate Naval Committee
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Little Theater Opens Tonight in Shadow and Substance
The Amarillo Little Theater launches a two night run of Shadow and Substance at Municipal Auditorium directed by Howard Graham head of Amarillo College drama. The Ireland based four act play by Paul Vincent Carroll features a ten member cast and elaborate sets by Oma Link Rowley. The performance starts at 8 15 with season tickets honored at the door and individual admissions at the box office. Cast includes Maxael Cook Graham Baxter Geeting Dorothy Reyman Laurence McBee H G Wilson Charlies Whittington Mary Ella Flescher Warren Bisantz Guy Kelley and Mrs Pete Fowlkes.
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Amarillo Little Theater
Abbey Players
Municipal Auditorium
Howard Graham
Amarillo College
Little Theater
Ireland
Paul Vincent Carroll
Oma Link Rowley
Maxael Cook Graham
Baxter Geeting
Dorothy Reyman
Laurence McBee
H. G. Wilson
Charlies Whittington
Mary Ella Flescher
Warren Bisantz
Guy Kelley
Pete Fowlkes
Chassis Vehicle Conquers Drifts
Ken Smith of the south star mail route in Pine Bluffs Wyoming has built a snowmobile like contraption by shrinking a truck chassis to car size, adding a sedan body and 15 inch by 42 inch airplane tires. Report says it can plow through deep snowdrifts where ordinary vehicles sink to their running boards.
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Pine Blupfs
Wyo
Kenneth Smith
South Star Mail
Smith
YMCA Official Arrives to Lead Panhandle Group
Harold Nichols arrives from California to serve as secretary of the Great Plains YMCA. He will oversee a non equipment program of Christian activities for boys and young men across the Panhandle.
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Harold Nichols
California
Great Plains Ymca
Pan-handle
Traffic officers attend Texas Police Academy in Austin
Capt Sid Harper and Officer Car ley Price of the Amarillo police traffic squad left Saturday for the Annual Texas Police Academy meeting in Austin. Lieut. Franklin Kreml, a renowned traffic expert, will be the principal instructor at the three day school opening today.
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Sid Harper
Carley Price
Amarillo
Texas Police Academy
Austin
Franklin Krem
Germany Eyes Hull Plan Based Trade Pact With U S
New York April 14 German commercial counsellor Dr Gerhardt Westrick said Germany expects peace soon and aims to build an economic settlement with the United States based on the Hull reciprocal trade policy. He said Germany seeks free access to raw materials, free trade, and foreign exchange, with U S investors in German plants paid in dollars.
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New York
Germany
United States
Hull
Gerhardt Alois Westrick
England
France
Westrick
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht
Siberia
Pacific
John C Bagwell Rites Are Today
Funeral services for John Calhoun Bagwell 87 Armstrong County rancher will be held at the Bagwell residence in Claude at 3 p m with Rev J B Michael Claude Methodist Church and Rev Jeff Moore Claude Baptist Church officiating Burial will be in Claude under N B Griggs and Sons Funeral follows Bagwell a longtime Armstrong County resident survived by his wife Equilla five sons E T G T Charles Oscar Bagwell of Claude J L Bagwell of Amarillo and three daughters Mrs J M Kibler Wayside Emma and Willie Mae Bagwell Claude Also noted as a prominent pioneer with more than 50 years in the county.
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John Calhoun Bagwell
Armstrong County
Bagwell
Claude
Michael
Claude Methodist Church
Jeff Moore
Claude Baptist Church
Griggs and Sons
Equilla Bagwell
E. T
G. T
Charles
Oscar Bagwell
J. L. Bagwell
Amarillo
Daugthers
J. M. Kibler
Wayside
Emma
Willie Mae Bagwell
Recruiting Office Opens In Amarillo
The Amarillo army recruiting office opens today to complete enlistment of applicants for the regular army reserve. Col. C. C. McLaughlin district recruiting officer from Fort Bliss will be in charge.
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Amarillo
Col
C. C. McLaughlin
Fort Bliss
German Vessels Caught In 'Death Trap of Sea'
Allied broadcasts report British and Norwegian forces aiding in Norway while Britain lays mine fields across the Baltic Sea trapping German ships. Narvik battles claim seven German destroyers sunk and Admiral Scheer possibly hit. Sweden reports German transports wrecked by mines off Lysekil.
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Arctic
Admiralty
Germany
Admiral Leheer
Admiral Scheer
Spearfish
Thaie
Traunt
Karlsruhe
BBC
Kiel Bay
Lithuania
Wos
Columbia Broadcasting System
New York
Lysekil
Baltic
Britain
Norway
Stavanger
Hafs Fjord
North Sea
Norwegian
Hardy
Flint
Skagerak
Kattegat
Sweden
Berlin
Balt Ue
Gulf of Bothnia
Luiea
Field
Lulea
London
Denmark
Norwegians Repel German Forces In several Sectors
Norwegian troops using skis battle German mechanized units across multiple sectors as snow falls since Sunday. Exchange Telegraph reports German advances halted at Skarnes and Flyerum while Norwegians defend from Skarnes to Minesund and threaten to blow a bridge over the Vorma river. Oslo front largely steady with Norwegians forming a defense line toward the Swedish border. Hamar serves as government refuge near Lake Mjesen.
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Exchange Telegraph
Goteborg
Sweden
Eidsvold
Skarnes
Minesund
Vorma
Flyerum
Jamal
Munesund
Rakkentad
Norway
Oslo
Lake Mjesen
Hamar
Stockholm
Honesfos
Kongsberg
Larvik
Oslo Fjord
Setendal
Ostsfold
Akershi
Trondelag
Trondheim
Storfosen
Fredrikstad
Sarpsborg
Halden
Haakon
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Germany
Johan Nygaardsvold
Dentist Plans Solo Flight From Corpus Christi to Bogota
Dr. Travis E. Kallenbach of St. Louis said he would likely depart Monday afternoon from Brownsville for a solo flight over Central and South American terrain to Bogota, Colombia. He has been delayed ten days awaiting repairs to a damaged wing spar on his small monoplane after a earlier landing.
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Corpus Christi
Travis E. Kallenbach
St. Louis
Brownsville
Central
South American
Wilds
Bogota
Colombia
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YMCA
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John C. Bagwell
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Rumania
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