Price rises and shortages hit American households in wartime food survey
A national survey shows retail staple prices climbing 10 to 25 percent with sugar flour lard and butter most affected. Households faced rationing shortages while officials probed profiteering. Dairy and meat costs rose, but wholesalers blamed housewives and demand patterns for the spikes. 800,000 tons of sugar in excess quotas may enter the market.
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New York
LaGuardia
eHaNa
Washington
Johne Bernhardt
Department of Agriculture
Department
Confidence game on Amarillo street ends in running gunfight
John Zager of Clayton New Mexico recovers 3050 of his 4600 dollars in cash after a running gunfight with two men in a car on East Third Avenue. A woman later returns 600 dollars found on East Fourth Avenue. The scheme began when Zager advertised his tourist camp for sale for 35000 and traveled to Amarillo to seal the deal.
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Tex Keirsey
Amarillo
Panhandle
East Third Avenue
Herring Hotel
John Zager
Clayton
N. M
Zager
Fourth Avenue
Sheriff's Department
Confidence Men’s Automobile
Third Avenue
Pierce-Buchanan
Grant Street
Third
Arthur Street
Terrific Battle Impending on Western Front Hints
A French official says Germany has not won a decisive victory in Poland and that eastern front warfare is a maneuver compared to a stabilized western front. Reinforcements move to the Maginot Siegfried line while Saar Basin evacua tion proceeds. Heavy French artillery targets Siegfried line forts as observers expect a major western offensive. Poles dig in near Warsaw and report fierce resistance as last reports come in.
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Great Britain
Tommies
Poland
Luxembourg
Lautenbourg
Strasbourg
Western Front
Associated Press
Germany
Maginot-Siegfried Line
Berlin
Saar Basin
Siegfried Line
Maginot Line
Switzerland
Warsaw
Censorship of News Broadly Detailed Across Europe
The article notes censorship is effective in most European countries and especially strict in Great Britain, France, and Germany. It explains censors disrupt or delay communications to prevent unfavorable dispatches and that some news is transmitted quickly while other reports are delayed or suppressed.
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Great Britain
France
Germany
Air Raids Feared at Marseille
Marseille reports sirens for two warnings of German raids on a key port linking France to North Africa. Other dispatches note Polish radio claims of German air and rail attacks, French artillery on the Siegfried line, and British actions in the Channel with updates on ships inn and merchant vessels.
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Marseille
France
London
Ministry of Information
Vigo
Spain
European Ship Fare Hiked
Passenger fares to Europe jumped as much as 50 percent today with steamship lines signaling potential further increases, reported from New York.
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New York
Europe
Store Operator Hikes Wages in Fort Worth
P. F. Allread, operator of a large Fort Worth food store, announced a 10 percent salary raise for all his employees. He said the increase covers higher living costs since the European war began and will affect 30 or more workers.
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Fort Worth
U.P
P. F. Allread
Allread
Water meeting draws crowds in Amarillo hotel session
Notices sent and large delegations expected for a joint meeting of the Canadian River Flood Control Association and the Panhandle Water Conservation Authority Saturday at noon in Amarillo. Carl Hinton, secretary of the conservation authority, will present a report and discuss the Panhandle lakes program and progress on the Sanford dam on the South Canadian River.
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Canadian River Flood Control Association
Panhandle Water Conservation Authority
Amarillo Hotel
Carl Hinton
Conservation Authority
Hinton
Washington
Panhandle
Grasshopper War Ends With 4 Million Saving for Plains
The grasshopper eradication campaign ends with a claimed 4 million dollar saving for the Plains. Farmers and officials credit careful planning and field work, including early breeding bed surveys and targeted poison to curb the plague. Current field notes show few grasshoppers remain, with egg-laying surveys planned to forecast 1940 risk.
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R. R. Reppert
Berlin Triumphs in Poland as German Gains Reported
Berlin reports swift German advances in Poland with Warsaw within 20 miles of the northern limit. Goering proclaims air mastery as civilian evacuations spread from Saarbrucken to surrounding cities while officials hint at western operations to come. Continuous coverage continues on page 23.
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Berlin
Warsaw
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Saarbrucken
Trier
Aachen
Alix-Le- Chapelle
Unidentified man executed for refusing defense security work
Berlin reports the official execution of an unnamed man for refusing to cooperate in security tasks for national defense. The sentence was carried out today in a government ceremony.
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Berlin
Risie
Flowers and visits mark front line truces in Alsace
German reports describe both sides decorating bunkers with flowers and exchanging visits and balloons along the Siegfried and Maginot lines. Privates bathed together in the Rhine, while Westerplatte in Danzig fell after six days of assault. French troops press west in Saar Basin while Bitche and Moselle areas see heavy fighting near the German frontier.
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Berlin
Siegfried
Maginot
Rhine
Westerplatte
Danzig
Saar Basin
No Man's Land
Paris
Bitche
France
Germany
Moselle River
Bitche Nestles
Refinery Worker Killed by Wire
STINNETT Sept 7 Special Samuel Fulton 41 years old was fatally electrocuted at the Phillips Canadian plant near Gewhitt about 10 AM. He backed into a high voltage wire and died from a 13 000 volt shock. Survived by wife and two sons Samuel Jr 14 Alvin 13. Funeral services pending at Carver Funeral Home with Likely rites at First Baptist Church.
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Stinnett
Samuel
Pulton
Phillips Canadian
Phillips Petroleum Company
Fulton
Him
Thomas
Walter
Okla
Mra
Maggie Brown
Temple
Nellie Brown
Tipton
Food Handlers Law Repeal Sought by Health Board
D R J Kaufman announced the state board of health adopted a resolution asking repeal of the food handlers health law passed at the last legislature. The board said the law was impractical to enforce and violated medical jurisprudence principles.
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Austin
D. R. J. Kaufman
State Board of Health
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Friday forecast calm and cooler across Amarillo and vicinity with fair conditions in West Texas and parts of New Mexico. Temperature readings show variable hourly values with a light breeze and daytime highs in the mid 80s to near 90s in some locales, cooler nights expected.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Fall Fashion Fair Opens as Amarillo Merchants Showcase Style
Styles To Go on Parade In Elaborate Forecast Styles To Go on Parade In Elaborate Forecast More than 20 Amarillo merchants participate in a grand fall opening at Municipal Auditorium Monday night for National Retail Demonstration Week starting Sept 11. Nearly 100 models will display latest men and women’s clothing with no admission charge.
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Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Shamrock
Glenn A. Truax
Bedford Harrison
Shamrock Chamber of Commerce
Ed Tull
Ray Pinkney
the Fair Association
Cox
Beutler Brothers’ Rodeo
Amarillo
Roosevelt Weighs Special Session To Revise Neutrality Act
President Roosevelt has discussed with congressional leaders the possibility of calling a special session to revise the neutrality act but no decision has been made. Senator McNary said a Sept 18 meeting was proposed to discuss neutrality and adjourn, while the president studies prices and expands his cabinet for emergency duties.
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Chicago
Sears Roebuck & Co
Montgomery Ward & Co
Wall Street
Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
White House
Stephen Early
Early
Senator McNary
Oregon
Salem
Ore
McNary
Europe
Murphy
Wallace
Hyde Park
Hull
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Satan
Verdun
Epinal
Nancy
Lauterbourg
Zurich
Iberne
Duesseldorf Eschweiler
Pstolberc
Pcologhe
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart
Friedrichshafen
Lake of Constance
Hinge
Baden
Goering
Zeppelin Works
Budapest
Lwow
Basel
Saar
Neville Henderson
English Channel
William Smith
Plains
Saar Valley
Tri-State Fair
Milton Cox
Louis P. Lochner
Berliner
FDR
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