Million Men to Guard Home Front Under Civilian Defense Plan
Washington's Office of Civilian Defense aims to recruit a million volunteers for home defense without wartime emergency. Volunteers from Class 3-A will train to protect life and property, safeguard plants and bridges, and serve as firefighters. LaGuardia to head the agency, with two divisions coordinating civilian protection and volunteer participation.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Defense
Sevelt
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Roosevelt
LaGuardia
Defense Agency
Great Britain
Congress
Ireland
Eire
Board of
War, Navy and Justice Departments
Federal Security Administration
Council of State Governments
American Municipal Association
United States Council of Mayors
Wanted: Young experienced sandwich man and clerk
Quick alert from Globe News readers shows a help wanted ad. Contact Jimmy Morris at numbers 20086 or 9515 for fast replies. Dial 6262 for Want Ad Headquarters to place or respond to ads for factory or home work.
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Globe-News
Jimmy Morris
Mud Stopped by Panhandle Ground to Welcome New Citizens
Abram Abel Wiebe and 43 others became naturalized in Dalhart after delays due to mud. Judge James C. Wilson led a ceremony in which Girl Scouts welcomed the new Americans with flags. The district reported a record naturalization class as citizens cited the need for legal status and employability.
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J. L. Daffron
Mr. Wiebe
Mr. Daffron
Dalhart
Panhandle
James C. Wilson
United States
Daffron
Ida Mae McClure
U. S
Wilson
England
Germany
Canada
Russia
Poland
Holland
Turkey
Syria
Palestine
Oil industry backs federal action to avert East Coast shortage
W R Boyd Jr of the American Petroleum Institute says oil firms will cooperate with the government to move crude to the Atlantic seaboard after 25 Gulf to East shipments were diverted to Britain. President Roosevelt urges Congress to enable government pipeline construction for national defense and supports buying or condemning rights of way.
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Tulsa
Okla
W. R. Boyd, Jr
American Petroleum Institute
Atlantic Seaboard
API
Gulf Coast
Eastern Seaboard
New York
Boyd
Washington
Roosevelt
Rep
Cole
Maryland
House Commerce Committee
Rayburn
All Aboard Zamzam Safe After Nazi Sinking Report
German officials stated the Zamzam passengers and crew were rescued and taken to a merchant ship on the German occupied French coast after the liner was sunk in the South Atlantic. Among the 322 aboard were 138 Americans including missionaries and ambulance drivers bound for Africa.
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Zamzam
Texas
Paul O’neal
Birmingham
Ala
Ann
South Atlantic
O’neal
Baylor Hospital
Dallas
The
Baptist Hospital
Nigeria
Africa
Associated Press
Berlin
France
Germany
DNB
Deutsche Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz
German Foreign Office
Dakar
French West Africa
Casablanca
French Morocco
New York
Recife
Brazil
Capetown
South Africa
Ministry of Information
United States
de Gaulle
United States Department of State
Torpedoed romance upsets marriage plans in wartime
CAPETOWN May 20 An RAF officer John Emery sought marriage in wartime turmoil. He left England for Canada to wed Miss Doreen Turner of Toronto but survived the sinking of the Cunard liner Athenia on Sept 4 1938 west of Scotland and returned to England. Emery later went to South Africa as Turner sailed across the Atlantic to meet him, but she became a German prisoner aboard the Zamzam.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
John Emery
Royal Air Force
England
Canada
Doreen Turner
Toronto
Athenia
Scotland
Emery
South Africa
Miss Turner
Atlantic
Zamzam
Plains Pilots A-Wing Saturday in Amarillo
Amarillo hosts Aviation Field Day with 50 or more planes expected at Municipal Field. A mass flight over the city is planned around 1 30 pm under Amarillo Air Service staff, followed by a downtown parade to the Paramount Theater for the Panhandle Premiere of I Wanted Wings.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Air Service
Recreational Areas Planned for Army Texas Units
Washington May 20 two recreational areas one at Port Arthur the other at Galveston will be established for Texas corps in an Army program aims to provide leisure facilities for service members at coastal installations.
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Washington
Port Arthur
Galveston
Texas Corps
British Bid For U S Aid War Plea In London Editorial
The London News Chronicle urges the American people to join the war now and fight to victory quickly. It lauds wartime materials sent by the U S but warns a delayed entry would prolong the conflict and hopes for a joint effort to defeat the enemy by next year.
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London
London News Chronicle
Connally Urges Seizure Of French Possessions
Senator Connally of Texas on NBC urged the United States seize Martinique French Guiana and other French territories in the Western Hemisphere if France aids Germany. He said shock over reports of French Axis aid and declared totalitarian governments must not acquire land in the western world.
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Washington
Martinique
France
Germany
Senator Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
National Broadcasting Company
Connally
United States
French Guiana
Roosevelt restates Thanksgiving date change failure
President Roosevelt announced that his experiments to shift Thanksgiving failed and that from 1942 onward the holiday will return to the traditional last Thursday in November.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Barber Bill Unconstitutional Opposing Price Rules
Austin May 20 Attorney General Gerald C Mann reaffirmed a prior opinion that a bill setting minimum barber service prices is unconstitutional. The ruling mirrors earlier positions and clarifies state policy on price controls for barber work.
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Austin
Atty
Gerald C. Mann
France Accused of Violating Armistice Terms
U S officials say France has exceeded armistice limits by letting German planes use Syrian airfields to strike British forces in Iraq. Hull reportedly warned Ambassador Henry-Haye that a pro-Hitler faction may control Paris and urged the Vichy government to prove impartiality and good faith to restore trust.
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Washington
United States
France
Germany
Iraq
Hull
Gaston Henry-Haye
Henry Hayes
Vichy
Death of Amarillo Printing Pioneer F M Mullen at 96
F M Mullen aged 96 died in a hospital after a fall that fractured his hip. A longtime Amarillo resident since 1910 he was born January 16 1845 in Nashville Tenn and worked in printing with J W Caldwell. Survived by two daughters two sons a sister and four grandchildren his body was at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home pending relatives arrival.
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Francis Marion Mullen
Christian Endeavor Society
Mullen
Ellwood Park
Amarillo
John I. Moody
Bennie C. Mullen
Maryville
Tenn
J. W. Wray
Lewisburg
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
U. S. Bombers Stop Nazis in North Africa Action
In North Africa near Fort Capuzzo a German attack on a six mile front was repelled with American made Martin bombers used from reconnaissance roles. Eight German tanks were destroyed, several more tanks burned, as the invaders withdrew to their base.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Egypt
Fort Capuzzo
Santa Claus of Dallas Dies
I. Rude who for over 25 years played Santa in Dallas giving destitute complete outfits from his store died today. Los Angeles friends were advised of the death.
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Dallas
I. Rude
Santa Claus
Los Angeles
All Invaders Slain or Captured in Day of Bitter Fighting
Cairo dispatches report the air-borne German force that attacked Crete from gliders planes and parachutes has been killed or captured in what observers call a decisive action. British Greek and New Zealand troops reportedly hold Crete with no German division landed.
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Associated Press
London
Cairo
Crete
Reuters
AFI
Winston Churchill
New Zealand
Middle-East
B. ©. Vreyberg
Canea
Malemi
Churchill
Egypt
Mediterranean
Turkey
Britain
Germany
Africa
Greece
B. C
Freyburg
Suda Bay
Canea-Malemi
Cyprus
Heraclean
Syria
Middle East
Middle Eastern
RAF
Palestine
Iraq
Panhandle Hit by Heavy Rain and Hail Storms
Severe storms drenched the western North Plains and spread east and south, with hail in many areas. Lubbock reports flooded basements and damaged crops while three cars in an underpass narrowly escaped rising water. Amarillo totals 1.75 inches, with 4.71 inches for May thus far. Various towns logged 0.30 to 3 inches, and widespread rain extended into central and south-central Texas.
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Panhandle
North Plains
South Plains
Lubbock
Amarillo
Mobeetie
Woodward
Waynoka
Dalhart
Stratford
Dumas
Hereford
Muleshoe
Claude
Dimmitt
Follett
Miami
Pampa
Spearman
Boise City
Guymon
Des Moines
Clayton
N. M
Springfield
Colo
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy with scattered showers Wednesday and little temperature change. West Texas mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday, warmer Wednesday. Precipitation 24 hours ending 4 PM yesterday 1.75 inches. May circulation figures show 35,082.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Max West
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