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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1940
Page
7
The Texas Press Association adopted a resolution backing President Roosevelt's defense program and another endorsing soil conservation. Charles K. DeVall of Kilgore Herald was elected president with Dave Werren of Panhandle Herald as vice president.
Dr Frank L Turner president of McMurry College told a packed San Jacinto Methodist Church audience that four stones must be removed from the heart to become good Christians. The stones are Unforgiveness, Disloyalty, Unbelief and Indifference, needed for a renaissance of Christianity amid times of strife. A large choir with two pianos performed under Clifton Janak. Rev H Clyde Smith is the church pastor.
Congressional naval sources say the administration will propose a powerful Atlantic fleet built around a new type warship to deter Nazi capture or destruction of Allied fleets. The plan keeps battleships and large carriers, with a second pair of 45,000-ton battleships planned, and a fast armored cruiser of 20,000 to 28,000 tons as the Atlantic core.
Col Augustine W Robins aged 57, commander of the air corps training center at Randolph Field, San Antonio, died suddenly of a heart attack at 5 03 A M in his quarters. He had just returned from Washington to confer with Maj Gen Henry Arnold on the training program and was guest of honor at the cadets dance the previous night.
PORT ARTHUR June 16 Scouts from Troop 74 led by Scout master Clem Wall fished a lake of trout along Village Creek near Silsbee. Four boys and their boat snagged 28 trout measuring 10 to 14 inches as fish leapt into the craft and onto the bank, then were shared and eaten.
Berlin reports that the Allied oil supply is nearing a critical shortage while Germany gains from Italy’s entry into the war. DNB cites increased Russian deliveries, seizure of oil stores in the Netherlands and Belgium, and Italy’s war declaration as factors helping Germany, though no figures were released.
Seventeen Texas osteopathic physicians will appear on or participate in the forty-fourth annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association in St Louis from June 24 to 28. Included are Lester J. Vick of Amarillo and R. H. Peterson of Wichita Falls.
Democratic leaders voiced optimism about adjournment by weekend as the Senate weighs a $1,007,000,000 defense tax bill and a $1,706,000,000 emergency defense appropriation. Barkley of Kentucky forecast quick Senate passage, while House members weighed midweek steps if in session during the Republican convention.
Potter County American Red Cross aims to finish war relief fundraising today, seeking to surpass a $6,760 goal. By Saturday night $5,100.13 had been raised with promises pending. Drive chairman Fancher Upshaw, county chapter captain Howard Anderson, and executive secretary Mrs. Floyd Cooper lead the effort.
Rock Island Lines released carloading figures showing 23,434 for the week ending June 8, 1940, up from 21,036 the prior week and higher than the 22,493 loaded in the corresponding week last year, according to E. M. Durham Jr., CEO.
Roosevelt asked Congress to boost defense and the nation moved quickly. Congress approved nearly 5.0 billion for army navy and allied agencies with more to come. An air force of 50 000 warplanes is planned and a larger training and production network is being built across the country including new navy ships planes and a Texas training center.
The British government rejected peace rumors and declared they would continue the war against Hitler until victory. Churchill’s policy emphasized Britain and France can sustain the struggle, with support from the empire and United States as Italy joined the war.
In The Hague a local court heard two tearful mothers claim a baby boy lost during a bomb strike on a maternity home in the Nether lands conquest. Each said she handed the infant to a pedestrian for safety on May 10 and alleged the other woman took possession at an air raid shelter. The defendant, seven weeks old, insists the baby is hers.
Graveside funeral services for Phillip Grady Smith infant son of Mr and Mrs Claude C Smith will be at Liano Cemetery at 10 this morning. The child died late Saturday night in a local hospital. Rev H C Smith will officiate. Survivors include the grandparents W A Smith of Amarillo and Mr and Mrs C Needham of Wellington. The body lies in state at Blackourn Shaw chapel until services.
W E Sherman principal of Silverton high school for four years has accepted a position as principal of the junior high at Plainview. The Sherman family plans to move to Plainview in the near future.
Japanese raid on Chungking hits foreign district targets. U S gunboat Tutuila sheltered as bomb fragments showered. One huge bomb destroyed Chungking Hostel and foreign cemetery headstones. Five hundred bombs left 10,000 homeless and about 100 casualties. Sixteen Chinese planes downed five raiders.
Italy said on Sunday its land air and sea forces are fighting with ever more promising results. The bulletin claimed forty French planes, two British planes and an Allied submarine were destroyed as the conflict widened in Europe.
Tyrone was the site of last rites for BE. H. Bus Riffe 1 years old, brother of Earl Riffe Stratford, and a well known figure in this Arena. He died earlier this week at Optima, home of his sister Mrs. Paul Wright, with four brothers Harry Tyrone Jess and George Texhoma Earl Stratford among survivors. Riffe ran an elevator at Goodwell until retiring due to ill health.
A Central Fire Station fireman rushed to a small blaze at 104 South Georgian. Woken by the alarm, he slid down the pole in shorts, then dressed to fight an electric fire that burned through a floor.
In Asheville on June 16 a civil service applicant to the police force answered questions with plain terms. He defined larceny as working and embezzlement as trying to get away with something wrong. He explained incendiarism as the state of being on fire.
Blue ribbon winners model a simple quick stitch design pattern 661 percent showing transfer image 15 by 19 inches plus color chart and stitch illustrations. Send ten cents to Amarillo Daily News Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY with name address and pattern number.
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