Texas sect protests spark violence in Odessa and Waxahachie
Associated Press reports mob demonstrations by a pacifist religious sect in Odessa and Waxahachie, Texas, prompting arrests, street clashes, and calls for loyalty to no man made government. Hundreds blocked streets, fireworks and literature sparked turmoil as guards escorted prisoners. The flare followed similar acts in Del Rio, Brownwood, San Antonio and Harlingen.
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Associated Press
Texas
Odessa
Waxahachie
United States of America
del Rio
Brownwood
San Antonio
Harlingen
Joe Roy
Roy
Forrester Hancock
E. C. Randle
Bankhead
Reeder Webb
Brownfield
Rankin
Webb
Ector-Midland County
Midland
O. E. Gerron
G. Ward Moody
American Legion
A. H. Dennison
Amarillo Youth Drowns When Boat Overturns
Leroy Sebesta a 19 year old Amarillo youth drowned when a motorboat with three companions capsized during a trot line outing on City Lake. High waves hampered rescue as 12 boats, flood lights, and city officials, including Commissioner Joe Jenkins and Fire Chief Chester Moore, led efforts through the night. Three others were saved as divers and volunteers searched for the body amid persistent darkness and receding currents.
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City Lake
Leroy Sebesta
Amarillo
E. J. Sebesta
Bill Cottle
Cottle
Sebesta
Jeff Bentley
Southwestern Public Service Company
Joe Jenkins
Chester Moore
Fire Department
W. A. Ford
Harry Brasher
Dewey McGee
Ed Wiseley
Bruce Huey
Jack Greathouse
Jack Stubblefield
J. O. Wyatt
Hardy Ellis
Peck Vermillion
The
Plains Boat Club
Jim Golding
Buffalo Lake
Vssioner Jenkins
Thousands Fish At Many Lakes On Opening Weekend
Thousands of Panhandle residents turned anglers at Buffalo Lake Amarillo City Lake Beautiful Lake Marvin and others over the weekend weather ideal and fish biting. Winners at Buffalo Lake took $25 prizes with a 21½ inch bass by Mrs Phil Reppert and a 10 inch crappie by T B Atkins Jr while B Y Newman won first prize with a 15 inch catfish. A boy Wilmer Jones of Paducah hauled a 31 ½ pound bass at Lake Marvin for the $25 prize. The event drew large crowds for motor boat races and a Dixie Dice water show with divisions led by Frank Huskins Wayland Merriman and C N Barber. A drowning at City Lake marred the weekend.
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Panhandle Plains
Big Buffalo Lake
Amarillo City Lake
Lake Marvin
East Texas
Buffalo Lake
Old Tack
Phil Reppert
Amarillo
T. B. Atkins, Jr
B. Y. Newman
Plainview
Jim Golding
J. Gotcher
Pampa
Goteher
Canadian
Jo Lawrence
Wilmer Jones
Paducah
Dixie Dice
Frank Huskins
Wayland Merriman
C. N. Barber
A. Phillips
A. L. Jones
L. Horn
J. K. Green
Earl McConnell
City Lake
Mechanized Army To Invade Amarillo This Afternoon
A detachment of sixty Highth Infantry soldiers will roll into Amarillo this afternoon en route from Louisiana war games. The unit travels in light reconnaissance cars, not tanks, and will pitch camp at the fair grounds under the command of about 120 officers and men.
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Amarillo
Fair Grounds
Louisiana
Warns of Idle Gossip in Time of National Prep
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel urged Texans to avoid idle gossip, animosities, and hatreds to prevent provoking serious trouble during national preparedness. He cautioned against hysteria that could undermine unity and resolve in a tense period.
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Iel
Stin
W. Lee O’daniel
Swedish Troops Shoot Down German Planes
Stockholm reports a large number of foreign planes near the Swedish Norwegian border in northern Lapland on Sunday. The neutrality patrol fired several times, downing two German planes. one was destroyed and crews parachuted to safety. Two officers and seven men were interned.
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Stockholm
Lapland
Bombs Dropped Near London In Open Norfolk Area
The air ministry reported two bombs fell in open country in Norfolk near London. An official statement said the bombs came from an unidentified aircraft and the area is northeast of the capital.
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London
Air Ministry
Norfolk
Bargain Day In Amarillo
Dollar Day in Amarillo fills shops with summer goods as merchants offer bargains. Downtown buyers urged to spend today to enjoy savings before the next Cosey Day arrives next month.
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Amarillo
Dunkerque Holds As Allied Forces Fight Waist-Deep Water Assault
German infantry advanced waist-deep in floodwaters around Dunkerque to sever the Allied hold on the channel port. French high command praised heroism and tenacity as retreating forces pressed a costly rearguard action amid naval air resupply and ongoing bombardment.
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Associated Press
Dunkerque
English Channel
Channel
Flanders
Germany
Leopold
Bulletin
Belgian
France
Calais
Somme
Aisne
Rethel
High Command
Telefrance
Marseille
Italy
Paul Reynaud
Somme Front
Henri Philippe Petain
Raoul Dautry
Paris
Somme- Aisne
England
German Drive on Paris Signals New World War Front
Nazi air raids on Marseille spread the war to the Mediterranean. Two merchant ships burned in Marseille harbor as German forces push toward Lyon and Dunkerque. Observers foresee a possible drive on Paris, with outflanking strategy highlighted from the Schlieffen Plan.
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Paris
Marseille
Mediterranean
Italy
Mussolini
France
Rhone
Lyon
Corsica
Dunkerque
High Command
Nieuport
Adinkerke
Ghyvelde
DNB
Channel
North Sea
Flanders
Artois
al- Hed
Nelson
Ione
Britain
New York
Abbelville
Somme
Aisne
Montmedy
Schaieffen
Paul Hasse
Alfred von Schlieffen
Schlieffen
Lack of a Bank Account Opens Doors to ENMC Education
ENMC in Portales has grown from a one building junior college to a four year institution serving 700 students, with 450 working through college. Students fund education by cows, dairy coops, home work, printing, farms, and crafts while 100 NYA boys build a $50,000 dormitory and a cooperative dormitory houses 50 girls. The program personalizes study with teacher counselors and individualized fields, offering low costs, summer field trips, and extensive student activities including rodeos and arts with broad student leadership.
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Horatio Alger
Eastern New Mexico College
Garrett Blackwell
Seneca
N. M
Garrett
Vivienne Crain
Clovis
Portales
ENMO
Elizabeth Adkisson
Grady
Kenneth Hubbard
St. Louis
Raymond Holbrook
Southwest
New Mexico
Congress
Donald William MacKay
Portales College
ENMC
Notre Dame
NYA
Mexico City
Mardi Gras
California
Washington
Eastern
H.C. Gossard
Hfe
MacKay
Gossard
Floyd Golden
Kenneth Brough
America
Chines
Weather synopsis for four states with unsettled skies
WEATHER WEST TEXAS Increasing cloudiness Monday partly cloudy Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening Somewhat cooler in the Panhandle Monday afternoon and Tuesday NEW MEXICO Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday with increasing cloudiness in higher elevations Somewhat cooler northeast on Monday afternoon east Tuesday OKLAHOMA Scattered thundershowers Monday except partly Panhandle Tuesday sea showers cooler in Delaware
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West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Panhandie
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