RAF Plans Guarded French Vessels as Axis Ties Grow
Coast Guard orders armed guards aboard all French ships in American harbors amid signs of Germany and Vichy collaboration. Ships listed include the Normandie and twelve others at ports from New York to San Francisco. Roosevelt says France could not join a voluntary alliance delivering its empire.
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Senate OKs Ship Seizure Bill for War Aid
The Senate approved by 59 to 20 a bill authorizing the President to requisition idle alien vessels in American harbors for national defense aiding Britain. About 80 ships are affected including German and Italian craft. amendments sought to prevent transfers between belligerents. Convoy measures to Britain also dominate debate as war risk grows.
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Aerial War Expands as Vichy Joins Axis in Middle East
Britain accuses Vichy of aiding Germany as RAF strikes German aircraft in Syria and Iraq. Reports say German bombers and technicians reach Baghdad while Italian and German officers arrive in the region. Churchill and Eden condemn French collaboration as Washington and London brace for wider hostilities.
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O'Daniel's Texas program advances as Senate backs pay-as-you-go aim
Gov. W Lee O Daniel sees momentum in his state program after the Texas Senate and House approve measures on revenue controls. A constitutional amendment to bar appropriations beyond revenue moves toward voter submission on Nov 3 1942 while other actions include a pay as you go plan starting 1945. The session also vetoes and overrides on liquor board funding and debates on death penalty and poll tax relief.
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Cotton crop insurance approved by Senate
Washington May 15 The Senate approved legislation to bring cotton under government crop insurance and sent the measure to the House.
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Student Pilot Injured In Plane Crash Near Amarillo
John Peter Zimmer, a student in the advanced Civilian Pilot Training course, was injured yesterday afternoon when his Ryan monoplane crashed about six miles northeast of Amarillo. He suffered a broken collarbone, leg injury, and head cuts, and was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital in stable condition. Civil Aeronautics Bureau inspectors headed to Amarillo to investigate the crash in the wheat field near the Allison school. This marks the first injury in the government flying school’s two year history here, which has educated over a hundred primary and several dozen advanced students without a serious accident. Zimmer, formerly a WTSC student at Canyon, had come to Amarillo for the advanced course.
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Allison School
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WTSC
Canyon
Third Victim Dies In Childress Wreck
Harold Smith a 19 year old Childress resident died in a local hospital Thursday afternoon becoming the third victim of a two car highway crash last Sunday on Highway 287 two miles west of Childress. Weldon Poling 17 and Emma Dean Jackson 16 were killed instantly in the crash. C R Thornton the driver of the car Smith was in was charged with negligent homicide.
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Hundred Cars of Wheat Inspected at Amarillo Exchange
The Amarillo Grain Exchange inspected 100 cars of wheat yesterday, the largest single day total this year. Much of the wheat had been stored in community warehouses on government loans.
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Globe-News Want Ads Attract Wide Job Pool
Employers increasingly use Globe-News Want Ads to reach a broad applicant field. Readers see the classifieds as a quick path to finding qualified workers. A sample notice notes a successful pickup of a small family on a ranch at 713 A West 13th with phone dial 6262.
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Breakfast Table Tips News Menu
National Resources Planning Board offers pointers on Southwest development. Dumas boosters plan a tour of POSIT Baik es. WTCC opens annual session with defense studies. Texas Medical Association holds Birch 5 wine event. Prohibition issue discussed in Bona Tro G5. Draft may crush hopes of Southwest football squads with MTs. Atlantic patrol highlights old stuff for veterans. First defense housing unit at Dumas near completion. Governor Miles seeks federal flood aid. U S farm aid program extended in Senate vote. Sabotage angle emerges in million dollar Philadelphia fire. Latin stenographers to Washington to aid hemispheric goodwill. French liner Normandie queen of ghost fleet as Coast Guard takes charge. Rudolf Hess ankle improving. Iraq asks Turkey for right of way for German assist. News of women's activities on theater row. Spring work on Texas farms and ranches accelerates. Plains highway death toll climbs. Mail to congressmen protests waste of strikes. Two shiploads reach French North Africa from U S. Texans in Washington enjoying as senators. France speeds 1500 mile railway across Sahara to Dakar. Babson discusses pilots as major factor in war and peace. The men who run the armies of the United States. Ness' view on peace possibility. What war does to art. Royal portable for home typing by Russell Stationery Company.
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Anti Nazi Plot Heard In Canada
Montreal broadcast reports Dr Otto Strasser claiming a secret German foreign ministry official revealed a plan to overthrow Hitler. He says Prussian militarists doubt Nazi win and plan to retreat after a first military defeat, delaying invasion of the British Isles.
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If Using Sulfa Do Not Drive
Chicago reports a warning from the Journal of the American Medical Association advising sulfanilamide and its derivatives may impair coordination and judgment. It cautions these drugs, while beneficial for certain diseases, can have dangerous toxic effects on patients and the community.
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Weather whiplash across West Texas and New Mexico
The Amarillo area sees partly cloudy skies with little temp change. West Texas faces more clouds and thundershowers in the southwest and north Friday with cooler air northward, then overall warming Saturday. New Mexico anticipates showers in the northeast Friday, with fair and rising temperatures statewide Saturday.
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Critic of FDR Gets Key Post
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina won a Senate Democratic steering committee vote 12 to 3 to chair the Senate military affairs committee. The move follows seniority rules, with Reynolds slated to take the permanent chairmanship after ratification, succeeding the late Morris Sheppard of Texas.
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Texas
Dies Will Speak in Amarillo in June
Rep. Martin Dies the U S Senate candidate announced he would visit Amarillo on June 14 or 15 for a campaign speech. He noted crowds of 3 000 to 3 500 and said a definite Amarillo date would be announced soon. Dies, head of the House committee on un American activities, spoke in Amarillo last fall and tickets had previously been sold for that talk.
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Amarillo Man Charged With Draft Induction Evasion
Cecil Ray Broaddus 25 was charged with failure to appear for induction as a draftee at Cordell on March 24. FBI chief Harold E. Anderson said Broaddus was arrested at Waxahachie Texas and held for return to Oklahoma City. he listed Amarillo as his home.
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Cecil Ray Broaddus
Cordell
Harold FE. Anderson
FBI
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Waxahachie
Tex
Amarillo
Navy pilots save trapped lieutenant in midair rescue
In San Diego on May 15 Navy Lieut W W Lowrey and aviation machinist mate J R McCants performed a daring rescue of Marine Lieut Walter S Osipoff who dangled head first for 80 minutes after a parachute became fouled. Lowrey drove a Hell Diver bomber to 20 feet of the other plane and slashed the shrouds with the propeller while McCants pulled Osipoff into the cockpit. Osipoff, conscious but injured, may have a broken arm. The rescue is described as possibly the most remarkable aviation feat and the men were recommended for commendation and possible decoration.
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Naval Air Station
Washington Joins U S Navy as Finest Man of War
The 35 000 ton battleship Washington was commissioned in Philadelphia with bugles sounding To the Colors. The navy hailed her as the finest man of war on the seven seas as Secretary of War Knox advocated convoys in a later interview.
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Lindbergh Pamphlets Circulated in Mexico City
An informed source says 200000 copies of Charles A. Lindberghs recent attacks on U S aid to Britain and his forecast that Britain would lose the European war were printed in Spanish and distributed across Mexico. The pamphlets circulated free by pro Nazi elements.
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