Economic shift lifts retail as auto sales surge in first half
Commerce department data show a 40 percent rise in automobile sales driving a six percent gain in total retail turnover to 17.9 billion dollars for January through June. Prices fell, boosting real sales while General Merchandise and food costs declined. Texas jobs improve in July with large permanent placements and stable labor turnover, signaling potential savings from merit-tax reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commerce Department
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economists
Europe
Austin
U.P
Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission
Orville S. Carpenter
Texas State Employment Service
Carpenter
Texas
Son of Tarzan Found on Ecuador Island
A 10 year old boy described as a real life son of Tarzan was found living wild on a Galapagos island 600 miles off the Pacific coast. He survived 45 days on fruits and herbs, was nude and sick, and was rescued by the government aboard the warship Presidente Alfaro and brought to Quito for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guayaquil
Ecuador
U.P
Tarzan
Robinson Crusoe
Pacific Ocean
Presidente Alfaro
Galapagos Archipelago
Jose Perez Quiteno
Charles
Floreana
Zavala
Ee Presidente Alfaro
Quito
Gran Cole Would Go To Another Panhandle
Channing residents recall Gran Cole, 86, a vigorous Panhandle pioneer who lived through cattle trails, XIT Ranch days, and early Panhandle history. The article notes her long marriage, her husband Dan Cole’s work, and her unique memories of Old Tascosa and frontier life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gran
Cole
Panhandle
Channing
Mrs. Cole
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Gran Cole
The
Dan Cole
XIT Ranch
Rita Blanca
XIT
Old Tascosa
John Lang
Oregon
Louis Dozeman
Oklahoma
Play Medicine Proves Fatal
In Boston a two year old, Richard Adley, and his sister Margaret, four, played doctor with medicine from an ash barrel. Eight year old Eddie Tompkins administered medicine by drinking it and putting some in Richard's ears. Richard went blind and suffered brain inflammation, died during an emergency operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
U.P
Richard
Adley
Margaret
Eddie Tompkins
Eddie
Hyman Millner
Hearing Date Set On Refinancings by Southwest firms
The SEC set September 1 for a hearing on refinancing declarations from Southwestern Development Company West Texas Gas Company and Amarillo Gas Company. Southwestern seeks replacement notes totaling 6 883 068 with various Guaranty Trust Company collateral securities and approval for bond and note transfers. Amarillo Gas seeks substitute notes and a Panhandle Pipe Line Company note acquisition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Southwestern Development Company
West Texas Gas Company
Amarillo Gas Company
Southwestern
Guaranty Trust Company
Guaranty
South Plains Pipe Line Gas Company
West Texas
Panhandle Pipe Line Company
Texas Tech Exes To Dine and Dance in Amarillo
Former Texas Tech students from the Panhandle area are invited to the Amarillo Texas Tech Alumni and Ex-Students Association second annual reunion. A banquet will start at 6:45 pm at the Amarillo Hotel, followed by a dance at The Nat at 9:30 pm. Gene Jordan chairs the event with 92 members, Ward Garrison as vice president Naomi Allison as secretary and H. C. McFarland as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Technological College
Panhandle
Amarillo
Texas Tech
Gene Jordan
Ward Garrison
Naomi Allison
H. C. McFarland
Maharajah of Tripura sails Normandie toward tropics
New York August 16 The Maharajah of Tripura sails ahead of schedule on the Normandie bound for tropical Indijia to cool off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Tripura
Normandie
Mercy slaying case shocks Allentown hospital
In Allentown Pennsylvania on August 16 an elderly sister, Margaret L Cowan 71, was questioned for killing her 67 year old sister Laureila Saeger at Allentown State Mental Hospital. Cowan admitted shooting Saeger twice in the chest and said she felt happier now. hospital staff found Cowan kneeling beside the body and placing flowers in Saeger s hands. Saeger had been admitted November 1 1937 for paranoia and age related mental condition. Cowan had complained the sister was being abused or not treated properly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allentown
Allentown State Mental Hospital
James L. Christine
Margaret L. Cowan
Laureila Saeger
Christine
Mrs. Saeger
Miss Cowan
H. I. Clapp
Cowan
Plains Oil Men Applaud 15 Day Shutdown Order
The Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association praised a 15 day Texas railroad commission shut down on Texas oil wells. Directors condemned price cuts as unjustified and endorsed those maintaining regular prices while a telegram lauded Col Ernest Co Thompson for bolstering crude prices and criticized his tax stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
State Railroad Commission
Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association
Lynn Boyd
Association
Commission
Herring Hotel
Boyd
Col
Ernest Co. Thompson
Panhandle Producers & Royalty Owners Association
Panhandle
Railroad Commission
Mid-Continent
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Nearby Regions
The region faces scattered thundershowers and cooler temperatures Thursday. West Texas may see cloudy to partly cloudy skies with local thundershowers in the west portion and a cooler Panhandle Thursday. New Mexico expects partial cloudiness Thursday. Yesterday's Amarillo high reached 92 and low 67 with a high of 90s and a low around 38 to 38.71.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Cadae
Ecsee
Five States Join Texas Shutdown Strike To Halt the Flow of Oil
Five states align with Texas in a shutdown strike to stop oil production. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana shut wells and closed fields as Govs move to curb price slashes. Texas led with a 15 day halt affecting about 87 000 wells.
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Texas
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kansas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Earl K Long
Miles
John F. Miles
A. A. Andreas
Stock Handlers Strike at Fort Worth Stockyards
A 200 member United Livestock Handlers Union strike began at the Fort Worth Stockyards Company halting trade as hundreds of head of livestock remained on the yards. The CIO affiliate walked out after no closed shop response to a demand, following a one hour shutdown. Kenneth Fry, union representative, called the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
United Livestock Handlers Union
CIO
Kenneth Fry
Promoter Jefferson Pleads Not Guilty in Kidnaping Case
Charles Jefferson, who posed as a theatrical promoter to lure two Miami schoolgirls, pleaded innocent to charges including kidnaping and criminal assault and murder in the death of Frances Dunn, 17. Judge C. E. Chillingworth set the murder trial for September 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
Fla
Charles Jefferson
Miami
Frances Dunn
C. E. Chillingworth
Amarillo calendar makers recall Thanksgiving date mix up
In Amarillo 1940 calendar printers B C Elliott and EB Greer faced a notice after President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week earlier. Their compact one page calendar listed November 23 as Thanksgiving, prompting national attention among turkey growers and football schedulers. The pair praised for their design face careful revisions for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
B. C. Elliott
EB. C. Greer
Elliott-Greer Company
Tyler Street
Amarillo
Roosevelt
Starnes Presses Kuhn in Dies Committee Showdown
At the Dies committee hearing Starnes, Alabama Democrat, lunged toward Fritz Kuhn after a clash over links to the German government. Kuhn denied any connection as a capitol cop intervened amid heated exchanges about Hitler, anti Semitism, and Bund finances.
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Bund
New York
Hitler
Phat
Joseph Goebbels
Rhea Whitley
Starnes
Kuhn
Mr. Hitler
Germany
Capitol
Observer Urged For Red Party Assembly
Congressman Paul Kilday urged Congressman Martin Dies to send investigators to a Communist party meeting planned for August 25 in San Antonio. The city had granted Emma Tenayuca Brooks a permit to use part of the municipal auditorium, with Mayor Maverick's approval, and Kilday warned of possible deportation actions after the Smith bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Martin Dies
Texas
Paul Kilday
Emma Tenayuca Brooks
Communist Party
Maury Maverick
Kilday
Washington
Dies
Maverick
Supreme Court
Kuhn Shows Weak Geography In Bund Testimony
In Washington on August 16 Fritz Kuhn leader of the German American Bund admitted gaps in his knowledge of U S geography during Dies Committee questioning. When asked to name Bund units in Arkansas he cited Kansas City and replied St Louis when asked for Mississippi locations.
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Washington
U.R
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
Dies
Arkansas
Kansas City
Mississippi
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John N. Garner
Uvalde
Ross Bromfield
Jack
Garner
Isle
By Lewis Nordyke
Globe News
Plains Oil
Lake Buchanan
C. R
Bob” Garner, Jr
Bob Garner
C. R. Garner
van Buren Street
Bob
Hospital
Young Garner
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Tulsa
Okla
R. B. Tansel
Jefferson
Dies Committee
Representative Starnes
Alabama
Observer
Red’ Party
St Louis
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