Flying Veteran To Speak Here At Noon Today
Col Roger Q Williams aviation ambassador of understanding will speak at a noon luncheon for the senior and junior chambers of commerce. He has 15,000 flight hours, 69,000 passengers taught to fly, and promotes flying education over selling lessons. He questions the air safety board reorganization and urges tailored teaching methods for four pilot aptitudes. Demonstration flights follow from Whiten III field.
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Roger Q. Williams
Chambers of Commerce
Williams
United States
Chamber
New York
Rome
FDR
Roosevelt
Air Safety Board
Stratford
Connecticut
Stanley Beach
Beach
William
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Liams
Readers Digest
Wwtnict
Pal Field
Weather brief for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy conditions expected in Amarillo and vicinity on Wednesday with light showers possible in the northern portion Wednesday morning. West Texas forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and light showers in the north Wednesday morning, followed by variable conditions Thursday.
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Amarillo
Wednday
West Texas
Jersey City
N. J
United States Rubber Co
Noow
Bek
Amari
New Tire Resists Bullet Punctures
United States Rubber Company announces a newly developed tire with bullet puncture resistance and self heating properties. The item was showcased amid wartime production and foreign demand, with weather and schedule notes accompanying the report.
Goat Ad Promises Quick Sale of Turret Tube and Goats
An ad in the Globe-News touts a presh white saanan goat with twin kids and a tube said to be superior to any of its kind. B Davis Jr reports that the ad sold the item in under three days at the annual stockholders meeting, noting its speed and low price despite rifle damage to the tube. The piece highlights the ad’s effectiveness and calls for wants to buy goats guns boats and more.
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Ted
B. Davis
Davis
Rat Nuar Ta iSla
U S Opens Direct Relations With Orphan Iceland
Washington April 16 Secretary Hull announced direct diplomatic relations between Iceland and the United States after Denmark’s fall to Germany. Icelandic Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson said Iceland would conduct its own foreign policy and hoped to open a U S consulate in Reykjavik soon.
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Washington
Iceland
United States
Denmark
Germany
New York
Hull
Hermann Jonasson
Reykjavik
Dewey Tour Brings Big News to Amarillo Visit
Tom Dewey arrives in Amarillo for a full day of receptions and a 11:15 luncheon as part of a cross country GOP tour. Officials say tickets at 75 cents are selling fast with reserved tables for groups. a party conference and press breakfast precede his departure to Albuquerque and Los Angeles.
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Tom Dewey
Dewey
New York
James C. Hagerty
The
New York Times
Edwin 8. McIntosh
New York Herald-Tribune
Roscoe Dramond
Tom Bureau
Christian Science
Amarillo Hotel
Robinett
Amarillo
Southwest
R. B. Creager
Brownsville
Texas
Louis McCoy
Ruth Hanna Sims
Herring Hotel
Hugh Exum
L. 8
Curly” Hobbs
Santa Fe Grand Canyon Limited
Belen
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
E. Kancher
Rock Island
Oklahoma City
Plains Oil Order Postponed by Railroad Commission
The Texas Railroad Commission postponed the effective date of a Panhandle district regulation from April 15 to May 1. The rule bases oil well allowable on a 50 50 split between acreage and bottomhole pressure, with Panhandle wells allocated the same. Other orders set a 933-300 foot spacing for the Wade City field and authorize gas repressuring on the Blair lease in the Payton field Yates sand area, Ward County.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Panhandle District
Panhandle
Wade City
Jim Wells
W. P. Luse
GC. O. Ice
Blair
Yates
Payton Field
Ward County
Tighter Pacific Blockade Near Washington
Washington reports a tighter British blockade in the Pacific to cut supplies to Germany routed via Russia. The Treasury will base tariff rates on the pound value fixed by Britain, not the free market rate, to shield American customs from exchange swings. Additional items include Greenland and Iceland notes, Monroe Doctrine scope, relief aid funding, aluminum demand, hydro power contracts, trade rise to 344 million in March, and Sweden’s gold shipments.
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Washington
Pacific
Germany
Russia
Lord Lothian
Treasury
Lothian
Canada
Great Britain
Greenland
Iceland
Hull
Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Herbert Hoover
Aluminum Company of America
Coumbia River
Vancouver
Wash
Commerce Department
Sweden
United States
Survey Finds News Ads Attract High Readership By Gender
Advertising readership across ten studies shows news ads beat content for both sexes, with 93 percent of women and 75 percent of men reading ads other than classifieds. Left page copy drew more attention, and picture pages captured nine of ten readers, while hometown, society, and sports features also attracted readers.
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Wilder Breckenridge
Bureau of Advertising
ANPA
New York
American Marketing Association
Commodore
Advertising Research Foundation
ANA
Four'a
Breckenridge
30 Years Given Society Doctor
Dr. Kent W. Berry, society physician, faces 30 years in state prison for kidnapping and mutilating a coast guard officer he accused of intimacy with his wife. The parole board set minimum terms at 15 years on kidnapping and assault. Berry and three accomplices were convicted last year of abducting Irving Baker in August 1938 and torturing him on a roadside. New judge soon: W. E. Moore to be inducted as chief justice tomorrow at 10 A. M.
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Olympia
Wash
Kent W. Berry
Society
Coast Guard
State Parole Board
Smith Troy
Berry
Irving Baker
Style Sunday to highlight Amarillo fashion displays
Amarillo prepares for Style Sunday on April 21 with ready to wear windows dressed in the latest modes. Crowds are urged to stroll the business district and view the fashion festival prompted by a Cleveland columnist to brighten Easter week.
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Amarillo
Cleveland
Nazi Troops Knife Way Toward Swedish Border In Daring Train Ride
German forces push a troop train through Norwegian-held ground toward the Swedish frontier three miles from cut Norways girth. Norwegian railway staff misled into permitting passage as Nazis concentrate at bridges and Hegra fortress remains in Norwegian hands amid Arctic Narvik reports.
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Stockholm
Norway
Storlien Heights
Trondheim
Trondheim-Storlien
Hegra
Narvik
Oslo
Notodden
Telemark
DNB
Sweden
Narvik Decoy Theory Emerges in War News
The article reports on claims that Narvik served as a decoy to divert British attention from Norwegian Atlantic ports as Germany sought control. It notes a new Oslo government under Ingolf Elster Christensen, with official relations to the German occupiers and widespread endorsement by local institutions. Seven Norwegian pilots fled to Sweden after an air raid and mislaid their way in a snowstorm.
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Berlin
Norway
Trondheim
Sweden
Narvik
Come
Germany
Engand
Great Britain
Oslo
Kurt Brauer
Ingolf Elster Christensen
Harsted
Adolf Hitler
Nse
Supreme Court
Stockholm
Haakon
Johan Nygaarsvold
Balkan Front Shifts to Navy Rule for Black Sea Ports
Bucharest April 16 reports Romania moving to place her Black Sea and Danube ports under naval control as the first step in an intensive program to ready the nation for possible war. Soviet navy units are involved in the developments.
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Bucharest
Romania
Black Sea
Danube
War at Sea Dominates Northern Front as Norway Falls
German high command reports sinking of an unidentified British cruiser and the destruction of a British flying battleship as Norway battles continue. Stavanger raids by British air force persist with anti aircraft batteries planned. Reports of naval clashes in Skagerrak and landings on the Norwegian coast, Faroe Islands occupation, and German merchant losses totaling 363,930 tons. Britain pursues further northern expeditions with urgency.
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Norway
Naw
Narvik
Oslo
Bergen
Stavanger
Trondheim
Air Ministry
North Sea
Skagerrak
Marstrand
Faroe Islands
Denmark
Faroe Talande
Scotland
Admiralty
Britain
Britain mobilizes 850000 men in April and May
An unexpected mobilization order increases Britons aged 27 to 850000 for April and May. By June analysts expect nearly two million under arms with Canadians Australians and Indians joining, as Britain expands two front operations in Norway. Prime Minister Chamberlain remains silent on landings while attacking Germany and planning parliamentary debate on wartime industry sites.
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London
Norway
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Germany
Free Church Council
Commons
Germany May Retaliate For Swedish Blackouts
The article notes mounting Allied hopes and British French actions in Norway and hints at possible German retaliation over Swedish blackout measures. It reports on reactions by Reynaud and Chamberlain, Allied footholds in Norway, and Berlin’s blackout justification while stressing uncertainty over landing points and scale of operations.
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Kirkel. Simpson
Adolf Hitler
Norway
Denmark
Reynaud
Chamberlain
Germany
Hitler
Narvik
Kattegat
Goteborg
Sweden
Kattergat
Berlin
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