Auxiliary Offices Open To Sign Harvest Crews
Texas Employment Service opens four temporary offices in Perryton Hereford Floydada Panhandle to aid harvest labor as 1941 wheat moves into fields. Officials report plentiful labor with no shortage, Rust and army worm damage expected, projected Amarillo area yield 20-21 million bushels.
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Texas
Panhandle
Perryton
Hereford
Floydada
Borger
Pampa
Childress
Amarillo
Plainview
Lubbock
Amarillo Grain Exchange
Farmers Cooperative Society of Chillicothe
Producers Grain Corporation
N. P. Nelson
Claude
H. B. McGowan
McGowan
Hale Center
Clark McKnight
Nelson
Panhandle Plains
New Mexico
Oklahoma
The
Texas Employment Service
J. J. Boley
Ochiltree
Italian Ship Joins Navy As Marine Rules Lifted
President Roosevelt asked Congress to modify marine inspection laws to allow tankers to carry larger oil loads and to spread experienced seamen over more ships. He argued safety rules should be strictly enforced in normal times, but national security takes priority during the emergency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
British Push On Damascus in Syria Drive
British forces report a hard driven advance toward Damascus with positions captured south of the capital and progress along the Lebanese coast toward Beirut. French counter-offensive stalls as Britain presses east, south and west, while a Vichy report notes exhausted French forces and a limited counter-attack.
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London
Syria
Damascus
Beirut
Palestine
Henry Maitland Wilson
Middle East
Jerusalem
Mezze
Kuneitra
Merdjayoun
Lebaanon
Vichy
Sidon
Pilot Training Deadline Nears for CPTP Courses
The Civilian Pilot Training Program will fund primary flight training for men 19 to 26 at West Texas State College and Amarillo College. Fees are minimal, with eligibility including health, two years of college, and a draft board letter. Applications close next week. contact Amarillo Air Service at Municipal Airport for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
West Texas State College
Amarillo College
Amarillo Air Service
Nation Eating More Meat Reported for Nation
The National Livestock and Meat Board reports about 18.713 billion pounds of meat consumed last year, up 1.25 billion from 1939. It cites a national meat animal population of 143 million head and says the supply is ample to meet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Livestock and Meat Board
Three of Epps quadruplets die in North Carolina
In Durham on June 19 three of the Epps quadruplets died after birth near a log cabin in Person County. The surviving baby was reported in fair condition. Mrs Ian Epps Jr aged 27 was recovering excellently. The couple, Indian tenants, had been married 10 years and previously had Helen 7 Bobbie 6 and David 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
N. C
U.P
Epps
Duke University Hospital
Person County
Ian Epps, Jr
Helen
Bobbie
David
WPA Rolls Shrink as 415000 Are Cut
Washington announced that over 415,000 workers will be dropped from WPA rolls in the next three weeks to cap federal relief employment at 1,000,000. The move aims to reshape relief efforts and shift support across programs. The statement comes from Works Progress Administration head Howard O. Hunter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Howard O. Hunter
Works Projects
Committee approves steep U S defense tax bill provisions
The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively backed a wide new tax plan to fund defense. It would double overall collections with graduated individual surtaxes starting at five percent and higher rates for top incomes, plus a 10 percent special excess profits levy for select corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
North Carolina
Treasury Department
Treasury
In-Laws and Dad Sit Tight in Family Standoff
The case in Fort Wayne centers on Walter Stanford a 42 year old WPA worker who began a sit down protest at his home with a banner Dad on sit downer until in laws and out laws move He blocked the doorway and stood firm as his wifes parents and siblings occupied the upstairs Crowds gathered police did not intervene until a dummy was added to the scene and the in laws remained inside the house Files indicate a likely disorderly conduct charge if the man persists
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
Walter Stanford
WPA
Stanford
Stanfords
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas Friday
The Amarillo area forecast calls for fair weather with little temperature change Friday. West Texas will be partly cloudy Friday and Saturday with afternoon and evening thundershowers in the southwest and Panhandle regions. Yesterday's Amarillo temperatures peaked near 89 and dipped to around 40s, with a high of 89 and a low of 40s in recent readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandie
Defense Study For Santa Fe Officials Lead Conference
Seventy five freight traffic representatives of the Santa Fe Lines met in Dallas to discuss problems related to national defense and seasonal crops. Leaders included H. C. Vincent of Amarillo and Elmer B. Johnson of Galveston with attendees from Arizona California Kansas Texas and other Santa Fe service states.
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Dallas
Santa Fe Lines
H. C. Vincent
Amarillo
Panhandle & Santa Fe
Elmer B. Johnson
Galveston
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Arizona
Calofonia
Kansas
Texas
The
Santa Fe
Amarillo Senior High Band Opens Summer Series
The 35 member Amarillo Senior High School band directed by Oscar Wise presents its first summer concert at 8 15 PM in the high school auditorium. Four soloists perform as the program includes William Tell Overture and other marches and numbers. Upcoming tentative dates are July 11 and Aug 1. Soloists are Bobby Rigier Clylas Knight Bert Mathews and J C Wright.
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Amarillo Senior High
Oscar Wise
Wise
G. Rossini
Bobby Rigier
Clylas Knight
Cornet
Bert Mathews
J. C. Wright
R. B. Eisenberg
Navy to require oath against subversive groups for all employees
Secretary of Navy Knox ordered all navy civilian employees to swear they are not members of any organization that advocates overthrow of the government by force or violence. The oath, mandated by the naval appropriations act for the year starting July 1, must be taken before pay checks are issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Navy
Knox
Navy
Naval Appropriations Act
Navy Department
RAF Bombers Hit Le Havre and Coast Defense Posts
RAF bombers backed by fighters struck German coastal positions along the French coast for the ninth night. Docks at Le Havre and an enemy supply ship were hit, with one German fighter down and no British losses reported. Attacks focused near Boulogne and areas southwest of it, while other targets included a German camp and the ports of Bremen and Brest hosting warships.
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London
RAF
le Havre
British
Air Ministry
Channel
Boulogne
Bremen
Germany
Brest
France
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Finland Ready for Worst as War Fears Grow
War fatigued Finland mobilizes reserves and promotes cadets, restricts rail travel to speed troop movements, and evacuates Helsinki amid fear of a Germany Russia war. Authorities report a brisk mobilization along the Moscow Lenin grad line and a Baltic region crisis as international ties tighten.
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Helsinki
Finland
Germany
Russia
Exchange Telegraph
Goteborg
Sweden
Moscow
Leningrad
Gulf of Bothnia
Hanko
Gulf of Finland
Banomat
Eljas Brkko
Baltic
Lotta Corps
Petsamo
Londen
Erkko
Aanomat
Pinland
League of Powers
Steel firms plan $100 million expansion across western states
The Office of Production Management announced that steel companies have completed expansion plans costing about 100 million dollars. The projects would add 1,556,000 tons of ingot capacity and expanded finishing facilities at existing mines and plants in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, with government departments reviewing the program. New Cameo model Dictaphones, Russell Stationery Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Production Management
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
OPM
German drift toward war with Russia feared after Berlin move
Berlin retaliated against Washington by ordering U S consular staff and American Express employees to leave Germany and seven occupied areas by July 15, mirroring Italy. The move came amid heightened tension from a Nazi Turkish treaty and broad warnings of a possible German assault on the Soviet Union while Moscow stayed unusually silent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Soviet Russia
United States
Washington
German Library of Information and Railway Tourist Bureau
Berlin
U. S
American Express Company
Reich
Italy
U.S
Mussolini
Germany
Turkey
Baltic
Black Sea
Finland
Russia
Britain
London
Kremlin
Moscow
Soviet Union
Red Army
Nani
East
Asia Minor
Hitler
Stalin
Poland
Rumania
Ankara
Newark
Detroit
Sicilian
Soviet
Adolf Hitler
Crete
Fuel Ration Plan Considered For Eastern Motors
Washington June 19 officials weighed gasoline ration cards for eastern motorists as a remedy amid a threatened oil shortage. Interior Secretary Ickes said rationing was under consideration after a push for voluntary conservation. An emergency conference of oil industry leaders warned united action was essential to defend democracy and avert broader disruptions in the nation’s fuel supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Ralph K. Davies
Leon Henderson
Office of Production Management
Davies
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SASS
Ochiltree County
United Service Organization
Jebel Ed Druz
Maritime Commission
Clara
Savannah
Newport News
Capitol
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Ray M. Hare
Army-Navy Munitions Board
Johnson
Colorado
Downey
California
Office of Price Control
Globe - News Reader
Morningside
Dial
Want
Dad
Folo Weather
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Spa
A Dee
French Coast
Steel Companies
Russell Stationery Company
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