Scottish tenement bombed as raids sting southeast cities
German raiders dropped bombs in southeastern Scotland trapping residents in a debris filled tenement as British ships fended off aerial attacks along the northeast coast. A Henschel 126 plane was seen off the south coast. raids extended to Ghent Gesenkirchen and Gulf areas with several deaths reported.
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Gesenkirchen
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Tunbridge Wells
Kent
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Aldershot
Plattsburg
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House of Commons
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Army Demonstration At Amarillo Fair Grounds Draws Public
A U S mechanized cavalry unit arrived in Amarillo to let civilians inspect Army equipment and shoot blank rounds. Lt J J Carusone said 20 000 to 30 000 rounds were provided. The parade Saturday at 10 AM will showcase machine guns anti tank guns and a Garand rifle with a Fifth Cavalry band concert on the courthouse lawn.
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Port Clark Texas
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Panhandle
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Texas
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Roosevelt Accepts Call As Wallace Triumphs Over Revolt of Demos
Roosevelt accepts the Democratic party’s vice presidential nomination for Wallace after a divided convention in Chicago. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, is praised for farm policy while boos mingle with cheers from delegates.
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Country Life Commission
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Charles L. McNary
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Alabama
Henry Stegall
William
Stegall
Arkansas
Frank O'Connor
Dubuque
Colorado
Delaware
Oklahoma
Don Welch
FDR
William Bankhead
New Toothbrush Uses Fountain-pen Action
Two South Carolina dentists perfected a brush that delivers dentifrice through a hollow handle into the bristles like a fountain pen. They claim the device targets about 91 million Americans who never use a toothbrush, a figure cited from American Dental Association estimates and manufacturers’ data.
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New York
South Carolina
American Dental Association
Weather roundup for Amarillo and West Texas
The Amarillo area reports scattered thundershowers and cooler conditions Friday afternoon. West Texas shows partly cloudy weather with scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday and Saturday, cooler in the far north Saturday. New Mexico forecasts similar activity east and mountain areas Friday into Saturday with little temperature change. Yesterday’s Amarillo hour by hour table notes 39 to 64 degrees and trace precipitation in the 24 hours ending yesterday evening.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Greeks rename bombed islet Hood Rock after mistaken attack
In Athens on July 18 Greeks joked about a rocky islet near Cephalonia naming it Hood Rock after Italian planes bombed it, thinking it a British warship. It was learned that the Greek naval auxiliary vessel Orion was bombed on Saturday in error, but all 60 bombs failed to hit the ship as the crew returned.
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Cephalonia Island
Hood Rock
Orion
Senator Klem Gets His Taxi Easily
Umpire Bill Klem nicknamed senator in Chicago got through a Democratic convention crowd in Cincinnati. Lee Ballanfant and Rick Campbell, officiating the Reds-Boston series, described how a crowd parted as they followed Ballanfant’s call to a taxi, with three policemen guiding the way.
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Bill Klem
National League
Chicago
Lee Ballanfant
Rick Campbell
Klem
Ballanfant
Explosion on Fifth Avenue prompts police scene in New York
Police reported a man threw a package over the Central Park wall on Fifth Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets. An explosion created a one foot hole in the wall. Three men fled on a northbound bus as Mayor LaGuardia arrived at the scene. A Clipper from San Francisco reached Auckland inaugurating Pan American Airways fortnightly transpacific service.
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69Th Streets
Central Park Wall
Auckland
N. Z
San Francisco
Pan American Airways
Army To Try Parachute Troopers Experimental unit planned and training set
War department disclosed formation of parachute troops with two officers and 48 men from the 29th infantry at Fort Benning. Training July 29 to August 3 at Safe Parachute Company New Jersey. Also a new multi engine crew school to open March 15 at Ellington Field Houston with 1 6878 800 appropriation.
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Houston
Tex
Germany
Fort Bliss
Fort Clark
Fort Brown
Fort Ringgold
Texas
Sadler Attacks O'Daniel At Amarillo Rally
Jerry Sadler criticizes Gov. W Lee O'Daniel from the stage in Amarillo. He vows to fire labor commissioner Joe Kunschik if elected and urges a special session tax on natural resources to fund social security obligations. The rally features Harley Sadler and entertainers Lew Childre Leon Huff and Jarrin John Kimbrough.
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W. Lee O'Daniel
O'Daniel
Amarillo
Sadler
O’daniel
Joe Kunschik
Harley Sadler
Texas
Harley
West Texas
Panhandle
Harry Hines
Ernest Thompson
Lew Childre
KGNC
Leon Huff
Jarrin
John Kimbrough
Texas A
Jack
George
John
Globe-News Want Ads Sell Pianos and Instruments
Music Hath Charms with training the poorest child is rich. For a small weekly charge you can buy a piano or other instruments. Secure primary lessons at the same low rate. Check classification 38 for good-as-new trade-ins and demonstrators. Dial 6263.
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Globe-News
Western Senator Urges Two-Term Tradition Against Roosevelt
Nebraska Democrat Senator Burke publicly pledged support for Wendell Willkie and urged education against a Roosevelt third term. He wrote to Willkie that the two-term limit is essential. Other Democrats and Republicans weighed the issue as campaign talks centered on renomination and public opinion.
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James A. Farley
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Wendell L. Willkie
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Colorado Springs
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Rep. Martin
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Holt
Senate
Coolidge
Rep
Coffee
Garner
Nickel deposit found in northwestern Arizona
Col. Charles H. Rutherford said the United States has located the largest nickel deposit in the country in northwestern Arizona near Little Field about ten miles from the Utah and Nevada lines. W. J. Graham of the Arizona Mineral Resources Board reported on the find, with International Nickel Company of Canada and a large steel firm sending experts to examine the site.
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U.P
Charles H. Rutherford
Phoenix
Utah
Nevada
International Nickel Company of
Canada
Murdered Girl Rita Wheaton Found Near Groton
The body of 18 year old Rita Wheaton of Westerly Rhode Island was found in a swift stream five miles east of Groton. Hugh B. Kenyon of Pawcatuck aged 20 has been charged with murder after admitting he struck Wheaton with a blackjack when she refused his marriage pleas and dragged her 42 feet from his car to the brook.
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Conn
Rita Wheaton
Westerly
R. L
Arthur T. Whitmarsh
Hugh B. Kenyon
Pawcatuck
Kenyon
Whitmarsh
Methodist Conference appeals for aid to American Methodists
In Sheffield on July 18 the Methodist Conference resolved to seek all possible help from American Methodists at what it called the most critical moment in civilization’s history.
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Congress
Sheffield
England
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