French Warship Heads to Djibouti Amid Italian Moves
Paris reports a 1,969‑ton D'Iberville sails from Beirut toward Djibouti to reinforce French Somaliland amid Italian pressure. Parallel dispatches claim six posts in French Somaliland seized and propaganda claiming Djibouti will fall. Daladier to visit Tunisia and Corsica. Reynaud announces 175 million florin loan to refinance French rail debt abroad into a 30‑year loan at 4 percent.
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Paris
Djibouti
Red Sea
Somaliland
D’iberville
Ethiopia
French Somaliland
Rome
East Africa
Tunisa
Corsica
Savoy
Nice
Suez Canal
Addis Ababa- Djibouti
de Soir
Addis Ababa
Daladier
France
Reynaud
Bids Opened for Four Additional Hospital Buildings
The Amarillo veterans hospital program moved forward as bids for a second building group, totaling over a million dollars, were opened in Washington. W. S. Bellows Construction Company of Oklahoma City submitted the low bid of 347 000 for four buildings and 41 000 for attendants quarters, with 52 600 for roadways.
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Amarillo
Veterans’ Hospital
Washington
W. 8. Bellows Construction Company
Oklahoma City
Veterans’ Administration
Derming Construction Company
Central Construction Company of
Dallas
W.S. Bellows
Oklahoma City Construction Company
New Year Drive to Place Tenants in Vacant Homes
Advertises urgent need to fill vacancies in a New Year period. Encourages posting FOR RENT notices in the Globe-News Want Ads and promises quick response from daily readers seeking warmer rooms apartments or houses.
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Globe-News
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for fair conditions and warmer temperatures Wednesday across Amarillo and West Texas. In New Mexico expect fair weather with rising temps. hourly notes show daytime highs around the mid 80s and overnight lows near the mid teens to mid 30s, with yesterday's high 85 and low 14.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Postal deficit reported by Postmaster General Farley
Postmaster General Farley told President Roosevelt that the post office ran a 1938 deficit of 43.8 million dollars, with free services costing 48.2 million and total receipts at 728.6 million. He noted air mail growth, 520 rural routes consolidated, 63 new routes, and 276 new buildings plus 33 extensions. Offenses by 16 employees were recorded in postal investigations.
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Washington
Farley
Roosevelt
Philatelic Agency
Panhandle-Plains Farmers To Elect Committeemen Today
Farmers of the Panhandle-Plains area gather at county seats to select five committeemen for the year to handle agricultural conservation matters including wheat price adjustments loans crop insurance and cotton quotas. Meetings are scheduled across Potter Carson Hartley Dallam counties with times listed.
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Panhandle-Plains
Agricultural Conservation Association
Potter County
Carson County
Court House
Panhandle
Hartley County
Channing
Hartley School
Dallam County
Dalhart
Violent Deaths in Texas Rise in Holiday Toll
The Associated Press tally lists at least five deaths from firearms and auto crashes in Texas yesterday, raising the three day holiday death total to 40 with four new fatalities. Clarence White 19 Beaumont burned to death while pleading for help after his car hit a kerosene truck. Private Walter D. Hardin 40 Fort Sill injured fatally in a Wichita Falls crash. Garrett Moore 20 Wichita Falls enlisted man at Fort Sill injured critically. Charles J. Nevins 25 Coleman killed in a three car crash near Brownwood. Joe Patterson CCC worker injured. A T Norman attorney found fatally wounded in his Houston office. Justice of the peace had not yet reached a verdict. Norman left a note to his daughter. Charles Werhman 28 Houston found shot to death beside the Houston Tomball road near his cafe. Tommy Thompson cafe operator said Werhman had left his cafe a half hour earlier. Dan Thompson 38 El Paso police captain killed when car struck a bridge abutment near Uvalde. His father J. H. Thompson 85 Leakey injured. Buck Rutherford of Leakey critically injured. Sylvester Louis Miller 21 San Antonio fatally wounded. Sebastian Hernandez found dead in a San Antonio driveway possibly struck by a truck. Jesse C. Howard Midland negro died at Big Spring from car injuries suffered Sunday.
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Texas
Clarence White
Beaumont
White
C. W. White
Texas A
A. T. Norman
Houston
Justice of the Peace
Norman
Inez Norman
Charles Werhman
Houston-Tomball Road
Tommy Thompson
Werhman
Dan Thompson
el Paso
Uvalde
J. H. Thompson
Leakey
Buck Rutherford
Sylvester Louis Miller
San Antonio
Sebastian Hernandez
Jesse C. Howard
Midland Negro
Big Spring
Airports Ready In Caribbean
National air defense focuses on the Caribbean as the Panama Canal's protection. Congress may authorize about 10 000 new warplanes, with many bases in the Caribbean and canal defenses. Expansion has grown from seven safe landing fields in 1928 29 to 38 land and sea bases, mainly commercial but defendable in emergencies. The Caribbean hosts top weather and radio navigation aids aiding rapid position fixes.
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New York
Armed Services of
United States
Caribbean Sea
Panama Canal
Caribbean
Congress
Canal
Charles A. Lindbergh
Latin America
Pan American Airways
Trans- Oceanic Air Transport Company
Armed Service
Panhandle Cattlemen Seek Truck Load Hike and Hopper War
Panhandle cattlemen push to raise the truck load limit from 7000 pounds and oppose compulsory Bangs disease testing for range cattle. Directors of the Panhandle Livestock Association praised federal and state agencies for grasshopper control while planning earlier spring campaigns and urging legislature action after studying a Bangs disease bill. The group noted eggs in Panhandle areas and discussed vaccine research, stressing beef stock safety and upcoming conventions in Amarillo and Houston.
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Panhandle
Texas
The
Panhandle Livestock Association
Amarillo
C. E. Weymouth
Joe Sneed
Jay Taylor
Jack Roach
Julian Bivins
Hap Johnson
W. E. Herring
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Bureau of Animal Industry
Association
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Inc
Sneed
Taylor
Houston
Opera Diva Mary McCormic Sees Opera’s Day End
Nationally known soprano Mary McCormic says opera has had its day and won’t be understood by the masses in America. She tours Amarillo during Christmas with family and plans to perform in Chicago for an American Legion show, noting Europe still loves opera and markets vary by region.
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Mary McCormic
Diamond Jim Brady
Amarillo
J. H. Harris
Chicago
American Legion
America
Jim Bradys
Samuel Insulls
United States
New York
Reed Lawton
Italy
France
Germany
Noted Artist McComas Dies in Pebble Beach at 64
John Francis McComas, a renowned watercolor painter famed for Monterey Cypress trees in California scenes, died at his Pebble Beach home. Born in Tasmania in 1874, he was 64 years old.
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del Monte
Calif
John Francis McComas
Pebble Beach
Tasmania
Cold Wave Grips Plains Ahead of Severe Freeze
A broad deep cold spell blanketed the Panhandle and Plains with wind gusts over 30 mph. Amarillo dropped to 14 degrees at night while English Airport registered 1.8 degrees above zero. Frigid air spread into the Midwest and East, with subzero readings in 10 states and multiple deaths attributed to the weather.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
English Airport
Atlantic Seaboard
Warroad
Minn
Canadian
Michigan
Marquette
Manistique
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Salt Ste. Marie
Petroskey
Straits of Mackinac
Lower Michigan
Hudson
Mich
Buffalo
N. Y
Toledo
Maumee River
Lake Erie
Erie
Presque Isle State Park
Pennsylvania
Canada
Texas
Florida
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Tennessee
New England
New York
Embargo May Be First Step in Economic War
Mexico imposes an embargo on cattle shipments to the United States, threatening American operators in Sonora and Chihuahua who own and graze half a million head of cattle. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association members fear the move could precede further expropriation of foreign interests and worsen U.S. cattle business amid previous oil seizures by President Cardenas.
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Texas
Mexico
Cardenas
United States
Sonora
Chihuahua
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Inc
Canada
Mexican Department of Economy
Rio Grande
Marvin Jones Warns Defense Faces Major Issue Ahead
Congressman Marvin Jones returned to Washington after holidays and warned that national defense will be the big problem before the coming session. He urged emphasis on building the air force and noted plans for soil conservation with provisions to continue the work.
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Congress
Marvin Jones
Jones
Washington
H. K. Jones
Time selects Adolf Hitler as Man of the Year 1938
Time Magazine names Adolf Hitler Man of the Year for 1938, citing his prominence over the past year. An etched portrait by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper accompanies the feature, depicting Hitler as an emblem of Nazi desecration of Christian ideals.
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New York
Time Magazine
Adolf Hitler
Time
Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper
Spanish Rebels Smash Forward in Catalonia Drive
Spanish insurgents report gains across Catalonia as government eyes transfer of the capital from Barcelona. Front-line fighting continues with heavy casualties and claimed town seizures as multiple corps participate in the advance toward the Mediterranean coast.
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Hendaye
France
Catalonia
Barcelona
Spain
Madrid-Valencia
Méditerranean
Madrid
Valencia
Navarre
Legionnaires
Moroccan
Aragon
Maestrazgo
Urgelch
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