Enlistments Surge Beyond Quotas Across Services
June reports from Dallas recruiting offices show Navy quotas for northern Texas at 200 already surpassed while San Diego-bound recruits increase. Marine Corps notes up to 50 applications in a single day across Texas. Army recruitment via the northeast district totals 229 enlistments since June 1, with enlistees sent to Fort Sill Oklahoma for artillery training.
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Dallas
U.P
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Texas
San Diego
Calif
Army Post
Fort Sill
Okla
Auction of used cars and parts offers many models in Amarillo
Listings show numerous vehicles from 1936 to 1940 including De Soto Chevrolet Ford and Buick models with prices from 145 to 695. Extra details note radios heaters and condition. Motor parts and wrecking services offered by Capitol Battery Co Elmer Bros and King Trailer Co with contact numbers and addresses in Amarillo.
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Keith Motor CO
Toney Chisum, Inc
Polk
AMAR
H. B. White
J. J. Ransom
Amarillo
Oldsmobile Co. Inc
Tyler
Service Capitol Battery CO
Jackson
Ford
Olds
Elmer Bros
N. Fillmore
King Trailer CO
East 10Th Phone
Panhandle politics mixs humor and campaigns
Dusty Miller of Amarillo mocks party races as a baseball team while promising a speaking tour. Shamrock's Gene Worley and Perryton's Tom Ellzey tout canvassing and slogans. Panhandle candidates plan rallies, pie suppers, and tour stops from Shamrock to Canadian. Amarillo hosts major GOP gathering as Philadlephia convention looms.
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Gene Worley
Shamrock
Tom Ellzey
Perryton
Tom
Harry
Helium or nitrogen gas at Texas wildcat in Childress County
The Texas Company No. 1 B. P. Smith Land and Cattle Company wildcat well in northwest Childress County blew in with a salt water and gas stream for 18 hours before being capped. Officials doubt helium, citing odorless gas and nitrogen similarities, awaiting high company officials for plans and laboratory analysis to confirm the gas type.
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Childress
Texas Company No
B. P. Smith Land and Cattle Company
Childress County
Wildcat
United States Helium
Panhandle
C. W. Seibel
Conductor Shouts All Out Sparks Coeburn Jump
In Coeburn Virginia on June 18 a 14 year old black boy Cy Hald rode a train he was making his first trip. The conductor yelled all out and Cy leaped from a moving train at about 40 miles per hour. He returned to the station twenty minutes later muddy and bruised saying he thought the train would not stop. A separate item notes the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation bought 43.3 million pounds of rice for distribution to needy families.
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Coeburn
Cy Hald
Coeourn
FSCC
Washington
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
KGNC Adds AP Night News for Round-the-Clock Coverage
KGNC announces augmented news service with the complete AP night report added to its day service from United Press. The AP night feed runs 4 PM to 12 AM, complementing NBC features and local studio operations.
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KGNC
Associated Press
United Press
News-Globe
United Press News
NBC
H. V. Kaltenborn
William Hillman
Fuqua
Kgnc News
News- Globe
NBC News
Willkie Urges Staying Out of War in New York Speech
Wendell Willkie declared that the United States must stay out of the war to best serve democracy. Speaking to about 1,200 people at a Young Republican Clubs event in Brooklyn, he argued no president should lead the nation toward war.
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New York
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Young Republican Clubs
Brooklyn
El Paso County To Get Bridges
The second deficiency appropriations bill in the House proposes 310000 for nine Rio Grande bridges across El Paso County Texas and Dona Ana County New Mexico. Canalization has rendered old bridges useless. new structures would cost 450000 with 40000 requested next year.
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Washington
House
Rio Grande
el Paso
Tex
Dona Ana County
N. M
International Boundary Commission
Courchesne
Country Club
Borderline
Vinton
Dona Ana
Berino
Vado
Mesquite
Shalem
Hatch-Rincon
GMC Offers Higher Wages to Workers
Detroit June 18 AP United Automobile Workers CIO says a new General Motors contract will be submitted for ratification. It provides wage increases totaling about 12 million dollars annually for about 135000 workers in 54 plants. New features include vacation pay as a dividend of roughly 7 million and an umpire plan to arbitrate grievances.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Uaw-Cio
National Labor Relations Board
Legion Post Urges Airplane Production Speed
Hale Center reports Pete Wilson Post of the American Legion urges President Roosevelt and Congress to act immediately on airplane production and mechanized units for national defense. Telegrams sent by commander T. A. Greenwood ask Washington to dispense with bureaucracy and propose Henry Ford be employed to build thousand airplane motors daily.
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Legion Post
Hale Center
Pete Wilson
American Legion Today
Roosevelt
Congress
Legion
Washington
T. A. Greenwood
Henry Ford
House panel approves 3.5 million boost to public building costs
The House appropriations committee recommended raises totaling 3.5 million to cost limits for 33 public building projects and would lift the 1937–38 authorization from 130 million to 133.5 million. Officials say no new appropriations are needed before 1942, with increases including Austin Texas post office to 580 thousand and Gladewater Texas post office to 105 thousand. Brenda Marshall files for interlocutory divorce from Richard Houston Gaines on grounds of desertion.
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House Appropriations Committee
Austin
Tex
Gladewater
Ollywood
Brenda Marshall
Richard Houston Gaines
Dog Troubles For Postmen
Washington reports post office officials note dogs cause seasonal trouble for carriers. From Hyattaville Maryland, carriers cite 90 to 120 dogs per route and an average of five vicious at this time. If a dog is at large after warnings, mail is not delivered and returned to the post office.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Hyattaville
E Murray Goyer
Mexican Laborer Situation Remedied
MOREHOUSE Mo June 18 a tense district crisis from about 200 Mexican farm youths brought to two plantations to chop cotton ended with their return to southern Texas Deputy Sheriff W M James said Morehouse and vicinity breathed relief after removal A local youth was stabbed to death by five Mexicans last month and serious clashes were narrowly averted The five Mexicans accused of first degree murder waived preliminary hearing and are jailed in New Madrid awaiting September circuit court Planters will hire local labor at 125 per day—the rate paid Mexicans for a 10 hour day The history of the submarine is noted from 1620 the Plymouth Rock landing year.
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Morehouse
Texas
W.M. James
James
New Madrid
Oil Man Held In Fatal Duel In Dallas
Dallas oil operator Ivy Miller 47 is charged with murder in the fatal downtown gun duel with Samuel Murray 34. Attending bystander Jack Kilgore 16 was wounded in the leg. Murray recently completed a country home in an exclusive Dallas suburb. He stocked his estate with 200 Palomino horses. His widow and two adopted children survive. The United States has about 1,000 miles of coastline.
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Dallas
Ivy Miller
Sportsman
Samuel Murray
Maury Hughes
Miller
Jack Kilgore
Murray
Defense Speech is Demanded Defense Speech is Demanded
Hale Center, June 18 Special. Hale Center American Legion Post No. 203 demands immediate national defense action. Telegrams to Roosevelt and congressmen urge airplane production with Henry Ford to build a thousand planes and motors daily. Commander T A Greenwood signed the messages and urged other posts to join.
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Hale Center
American Legion Post
Roosevelt
T A. Greenwood
Henry Ford
Greenwood
Congress
Bardosky Rites Set For Caldwell Today
Funeral services will be held at Caldwell Texas today for Robert B Bardosky 45 year old Amarillo war veteran and carpenter who died Monday The body was sent to Caldwell his birthplace by N S Griggs and Sons Survivors include two brothers Wd Bardosky of Caldwell Lewis Bardosky of Houston and two sisters Mrs J L Kocurek Dime Rex and Mrs Frank Kinel Taylor
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Caldwell
Tex
Robert B Bardosky
Amarillo
Bardosky
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Catholic Church
The
American Legion
Carpenters’ Union
Wd Bardosky
Lewis Bardosky
Houston
J. L., Kocurek
Dime Rex
Frank Kinel
Taylor
Maurice Moscovich dies after operation in Hollywood
Noted stage and screen character actor Maurice Moscovich died in a hospital following an operation last Thursday. In Hong Kong, the Central News agency said Chinese forces had re captured Ichang, a key Middle Yangtze position, from Japanese control.
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Hollywood
Maurice Moscovich
Hong Kong
Central News
Official Chinese
Ichang
Yangtee
Scout Awards Are Presented in Llano Estacado District Court
The regular monthly court of honor of the Dallam Hartley District of the Llano Estacado Council of Boy Scouts was held Monday night. Second class badges went to Enos Valverde Joe Lee Williams Arthur Waite Junior Carson Claude Frazier Jimmie Clinken beard Chariie Ivens Billie Barnes Wayne McKeegan Clyde Moore. Merit badges went to Faos Valverde Joe Lee Williams Arthur Waite Calvin Brewster and Clyde Moore. John W. Myrose presided as advancement committee chair.
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Dallam-Hartley
Llano Estacado
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