Santa Parade Heads Downtown For Holiday Shopping Day
A holiday parade led by Santa Claus will travel from Third Avenue along Polk and Tenth to Taylor and back to Third Avenue. The event features a calliope, Amarillo High School, Sam Houston prize-winning, and Uncle Sam bands, clowns, floats, and characters including Miss Mary Christmas and Three Wise Men with a live camel.
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Third Avenue
Polk Street
Tenth Avenue
Taylor Street
Santa Claus
Amarillo High School
Officer is Killed in Cochran County Battle
A battle in Cochran County leaves one officer dead and a suspect critically wounded. Reports describe a heated clash with combatants and ongoing investigations into the incident's circumstances.
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Cochran County
Trial opens as League acts in Russia Finland case
Geneva reports the League of Nations prepares to hear the first act of the trial of Soviet Russia for aggression against Finland. Finland and Latin American states lead as prosecutors while Britain and France anticipate ousting Russia if it signs first.
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Russia
Finland
League of Nations
Soviet Union
Gulf of Bothnia
Moscow Radio
Karelian
Arctic Circle
Risto Ryti
Summa
Viipuri
Mellbloom
Isthmus
Manner
League
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopa
Great Britain
France
Paris
Jakob Sarits
Baltic States
China
Friends
Tri-State Fair Wipes Out Debt and Plans Ahead
At the Tri-State Fair annual directors meeting in the Herring Hotel, UeSS Ray Pinkney was re elected president as the organization announced it had wiped a roughly 7 000 deficit from its finances. Notes totaling 7350 were signed by businessmen to cover the deficit with repayment from gate receipts of the 1940 exposition.
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Hokland
Gulf of Finland
Helsinki
London
Karelian
Suo‘mussalmi
Russia
Ray Pinkney
Amarillo Packer
Tri-State
Pinkney
Herring Hotel
Association
Gene Howe
J. F
Frank) Ford
Panhandle
W. E. Bennett
Carl Clifft
Lewis P. Fields
Mr. Ford
Lubbock
Albuquerque
Bennett
Fields
Clifft
W. S Norman
T. E. Seigier
Hereford
Roy Cullum
John McKnight
R. V. Converse
Spearman
Roy Britain
Charlies M. Rogers
Elizabeth Nixon
Laura V. Hamner
G. J. Nunn
A. E. Wolflin
C. W. Farr
George Autry
Clay Thornton
Pauline Lokey
Ed Tull
John Boyce
Cat Leaps 250 Feet to Earth From Plane
The Hampton Airport mascot cat Tom jumped from an airplane at 250 feet and survived. Pilot J. P. Atkinson Jr. watched Tom exit the cockpit then recover, spit at him, flick his tail, and scamper away unharmed.
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Dallas
U.P
Tom
Hampton
Caterpillar Club
J. P. Atkinson
Kinson
Atkinson
Remember Tomorrow’s Sunday Globe Want Ads Deadline
The notice advertises placing Want Ads for the Sunday edition at Want Ad Headquarters with a 6 30 P M deadline. It states late ads accepted until 9 00 for Too Late to Classify and promotes 3 day or 7 day rates for savings.
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Sunday News Globe
Want
Want Ad
Globe-News
Landon backs administration foreign policy fully
Alf M Landon stated he supported the administration's foreign policy one hundred percent. He praised the state department and the president for guiding American interests worldwide and said they should determine the steps the nation takes in foreign affairs.
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
State Department
Rubinoff to Play at Municipal Auditorium Tonight
Violinist Rubinoff arrives by Santa Fe from Albuquerque for an 8 o'clock concert with Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti at Municipal Auditorium. A radio program and banquet precede the show, with Lions Club proceeds aiding the Social Center for Girls.
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Rubinoff
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Municipal Auditorium
Jacques Fray
Mario Braggiotti
KGNC
Capitol Hotel
Amarillo Lions Club
EB. W. Cain
Lions Club Committee
Maxor Drug
Fisk
Lubbock
Pampa
Shamrock
Fray and Braggiotti
Lions Club
Social Center For Girls
H. A. Shaw
Amarillo
Pray
Braggiotti
Dragnet Is Out For One Man And Another Jailed
Deputy Sheriff D T Smith shot and killed near Morton as officers pursuit ends with Howard Lackey critically wounded, Raymond Davis jailed, and a dragnet for J W Mann who escaped during the gunfight. The trio face murder charges in Deputy Smiths death with details of the chase and subsequent car thefts and wrecks.
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Morton
Howard €. Lackey
Raymond Davis
West Texas
J. W. Mann
Lackey
Davis
Mann
Smith
Tom Standefer
Justice of the Peace
J. P. Taylor
Standefer
Levelland
Lubbock
Meton Road
San Angelo
Crosbyton
Maritime Black Friday Hammers Allied Shipping
Britain reported successes against German U-boats while noting a heavy maritime loss for the Allies. A Nazi torpedo crippled a British destroyer and five merchant vessels were lost. A suspected bombing attempt targeted the Firth of Forth bridge near Rosyth.
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Great Britain
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Dundee
Glasgow
Irish Republican Army
Rosyth Naval Base
All-America of 1939 Selected by AP Staff
The AP announces its All-America team for 1939 with assignments from reporters across the country. Herbert W Barker directs the process as editors weigh players and records to produce the authentic All-America selection.
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Herbert W. Barker
Associated Press
AP Sports
Felix McKnight
Southwest
Russ Newlaes
Bob Myers
Gail Fowler
Far West
Kenneth Gregory
South
Charles Dunkley
Earl Hilligan
Tom Siler
Mid-West
Loudon Kelly
Rocky Mountain Area
Bill King
New England
L. E. Shelley
Missouri Valley
Harold Claassen
Gayle Talbot
Bill Boni
Dillion Graham
Whitney Martin
Judson Bailey
Sid Feder
Bill White
Fast
Barker
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Saturday fair conditions expected for Amarillo and West Texas west of the 100th meridian. New Mexico also sees fair weather with little temperature change. Previous day temperatures show modest highs and lows, with Amarillo recording notable readings.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Army Pay Raise Sought in Next Congress
Secretary Woodring stated the War Department will renew its push for a pay raise for regular army soldiers at the next Congress. He called current army pay a gross injustice, noting the average sailor earns nearly twice as much.
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Washington
Woodring
War Department
Congress
Wheat Honors Awarded to Benson County North Dakota
Condon Oregon the eastern Oregon wheat league awarded its grand championship trophy for best compliance with the federal wheat program in 1939 to Benson County North Dakota from 1040 wheat raising counties. Benson County achieved 98.2 percent AAA compliance with an acreage allotment of 236. Runners up included Brown County Texas County Okla Baker County Ore Roberts County Tex and Fallon County Mont. Holbrook Working Stanford University economist noted price backgrounds differ from World War I and World War II with only a moderate rise likely.
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Condon
Ore
Dec
Eastern Oregon Wheat League
Benson County
North Dakota
Brown County
Texas County
Okla
Baker County
Roberts County
Tex
Falton County
Mont
Holbrook Working
Stanford University
City Taxes Pouring In This Year
City hall attaches report shows 37.24 percent of total city taxes paid by December 7, higher than 32.30 percent by December 17, 1938 and 33.68 percent on December 18, 1937. Tax office clerks say more residents have paid in full this year than ever before.
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Miss Mary Christmas
Miss Muffett
Jinricksha
Little Red Riding Hood
Grandma
The
Leningrad
Vourella
Council
Assembly
Uess
Landon
Rubinoffs
Romanoffs
D. T. Smith
Cochran
Maritime
Allied Shipping
Thames Estuary
United States
All-America
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