Solons Give Plea Cool Reception
Governor W. Lee O Danial urged abolition of capital punishment in a 3000 word sermon to the Texas Legislature. The House voted 70 to 56 to print a minority report abolishing the death penalty in favor of irrevocable life sentence. The sermon by Rev Dr M E Sadler urged ending the death penalty as a moral issue and potential political leverage for O Daniel.
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Austin
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
State Board of Pardons
United States Senate
House of Representatives
M. E. Sadler
Central Christian Church of Austin
O'Daniel
State Public Welfare Board
Chicago Lead Proves Futile To Sheriff
Sheriff H L Wilbanks planned a return to Spearman Texas for further inquiry into the March 20 murder of Leota Murphy 45 of Marion and the intended Chicago marriage. He sought to question locals who knew the proposed husband after a hammer beating death on a lonely road twelve miles west of Grover.
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Chicago
U.P
H. L. Wilbanks
Spearman
Texas
Leota Frances Murphy
Marion
Wilbanks
Murphy
Grover
Tex
Heaviest Raid Pounds Berlin and Greece Fronts
Allied lines in Greece shift to a new defense position as German forces press toward Kalabaka and Mount Olympus. The RAF mounts its heaviest Berlin raid using four engine bombers, while Britain warns of retaliatory strikes on Rome if Athens and Cairo are attacked. London confirms heavy Berlin damage and reports Axis losses in Tobruk and Sollum.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Greece
Great Britain
Europe
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Rome
Athens
Cairo
London
Tobruk
Sollum
North Africa
Nanedlems
Youry Vubliy
Albania
Porto Edda
Mount Olympus
Kalabaka
Trikkala
Larisa
Balkan
Olympus
Sarandaporan Pass
Servia
Grevenz
Metsovo
Argyrokastron
Adriatic
Porto Palermo
Premet
Premeti
Danver
Grevena
Forecast for high clouds and cooler temperatures
Mr. Collman forecasts high clouds and a slight tem perature drop after a low of 42 degrees this morning. Tonight should dip to 39 or 40 with little chance of moisture as northwest winds shift to 15 to 20 mph.
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Mr. Collman
Cornell student times pasture to study cow behavior
Keith Kennedy of Vancouver Washington observed a pedigreed Aberdeen Angus on a Cornell University pasture for 24 hours. He found the cow grazed eight hours, lay down twelve hours, and spent four hours standing or walking, taking up to 90 bites of grass per minute in moments of famine and averaging 50 to 70 bites most of the time.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Keith Kennedy
Vancouver
Wash
Kennedy
Panhandle Panoram ic Weather and Photo Exhibit Highlights
Weather outlook for Amarillo region shows partly cloudy skies with cooler temps around 38 to 40. West Texas and Panhandle areas expect clouds with showers then clear tonight into Saturday. New Mexico may see mountain snow and west coast showers, temps trending colder. An Associated Press Panhandle exhibit displays 1940 area news images, spotlighting the Amarillo ice storm, rodeo shots, and regional crashes with award-winning photos by Ratliff, Brown, Demic, Holbrook, Park, and Oswald.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Panhandle
New Mexico
Plainview
West Texas- New Mexico
Associated Press
C. W. Ratliff
Lubbock
Luren Brown
Plainview Evening Herald
Spot News
Joe Demic
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Demic
Groom
Amarillo College
Raymond Holbrook
Amarillo Daily News
Chester Park
McCormick Company
Jimmie Oswald
Plainview Herald
Press Freedom Debate Opens Panhandle Gathering
The Panhandle Press Association marks its 32nd annual meeting with a focus on press freedom. Tex DeWeese lauds Roosevelt’s news free speech stance amid censorship fears while Mrs. Seth B. Holman touts newspapers as key community service.
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Panhandle
Tex DeWeese
Pampa News
Panhandle Press Association
Roosevelt
American Society of Newspaper Editors
DeWeese
Seth B. Holman
Hereford
The
Press Association
Photo Exhibit Mirrors Texas News in 1940
The Panhandle Press Association hosts the Associated Press Exhibit of 1940 Texas news photographs in Amarillo. The display, believed the largest single collection shown there, features more than 160 images illustrating Stark tragedy, thrills, pathos, beauty and humor.
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Associated Press
Texas News
the Panhandle Press Association
Amarillo
Public viewing set for AP photograph exhibit in Amarillo
The Associated Press exhibit is hung in the convention hall with extended viewing hours for the public. It will also be shown Saturday afternoon and evening in the Crystal Ballroom at the Herring Hotel, inviting amateur photographers and others to inspect the display, hosted by the Amarillo Globe News.
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Associated Press
Herring Hotel
Amarillo Globe News
Senator charges Navy secretly convoyed merchant ships
Senator Tobey claimed in the Senate that the Roosevelt administration authorized U S Navy convoying of merchant vessels about a month ago. He cited a letter from the Atlantic seaboard and a naval source confirming convoys were being used. Democratic Leader Barkley said Navy Secretary Knox denied any such convoying and that American war ships had not convoyed munitions ships.
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Washington
U.P
Charles W. Tobey
New Hampshire
Senate Today
Roosevelt Administration
United States Navy
Tobey
Maritime Commission
Atlantic Seaboard
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Bowman Jarrott Dies Suddenly at Home
Bowman Jarrott general claim agent for the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad was found dead at his home at 1804 Taylor Street after becoming ill at work. A coroner's inquest ruled death due to natural causes from a heart attack. He had lived in Amarillo since 1912 and held varios railroad claim roles. Funeral plans were to be announced.
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Bowman Jarrett
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad
Taylor Street
Santa Fe
Justice of the Peace
J. D. Cazzell
Jarrett
Amarillo
Kentucky
Pleasant Hill
Nevada College
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Santa Fe System
Newton
Kaw
Texas Southwest Railway
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Southwest Freight Claim Conference
Masonic Order
Boxwell Brothers
Lighting Could Tattoo Or Heat Blanket The Future Says Engineer
Samuel G. Hibben, lighting engineer from Bloomfield New Jersey, told the Southwestern regional Illuminating Engineering Society convention that future light may perform many tasks including tattooing and warming blankets. He cited infrared lamps for hair drying and laundry work and paint drying, and noted ultraviolet rays could be used for skin marking or temporary tattooing with stencil controlled sun tanning.
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Dallas
Samuel G. Hibben
Bloomfield
N. J
Hibben
Illuminating Engineering Society
Senate panel backs deferments for medical and dental students
An attache for the Senate military committee said the panel unanimously approved legislation to defer compulsory military service for medical and dental students hospital interns and residents and teachers of medicine or dentistry.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
FDR Admits He Has No Plan for Tax Increase
President Roosevelt said he did not know how to raise 3.5 billion dollars in new taxes but opposed a sales tax. Administration and congressional leaders agreed on a program to lift government revenue to two thirds of expenditures next fiscal year, with House Ways and Means to determine methods. He remained adamant he dislikes a sales tax.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
How Many Handcars Can A Woodchuck Chuck
Kansas City Kan April 18 a woodchuck on a railroad track chucked a handcar into a ditch Sidney Garber railroad maintenance man on the handcar sustained lacerations and a back injury at the hospital His fate was not reported
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Kansas City
Kan
Sidney Garber
Fire at gas line pump injures nothing at Ted Lakey’s
Firemen answered a 12:58 alarm from Ted Lakey’s 116 Fillmore Street where a gasoline pump burned briefly. There was only slight damage as crews and equipment returned to central station eight minutes later.
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Ted Lakey
Fillmore Street
Central Station
City Hall
Here’s New High In Fish Stories
Oregon City report: Roy Woodward hooked a fine trout but it slipped from the line as he flipped it toward shore. The fish vanished from sight and proved elusive, finally escaping through the creel slot as he headed home.
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Oregon City
Ore
Roy Woodward
Old Squeeze Play Yields Evidence in NJ Case
New Jersey liquor board agents raid a Camden home and squeeze a damp carpet to uncover untaxed alcohol. A woman is fined $150 as evidence shows bottles broken on the rug. Gardeners are urged to read Classification 53 in the Globe-News Want Ads for plant supplies and garden tools.
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Camden
New Jersey Liquor Board
Globe-News
American made patrol bombers reach Singapore and Bermuda move announced
American made patrol bombers arrived in Singapore as RAF Brewster Buffalo fighters escorted them. Lockheed Hudsons joined the flotilla to meet the long flight, while Bermuda bases received their first naval facilities and a contingent of troops sailed from Brooklyn aboard the American Legion.
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Singapore
U. S. Navy
South China Sea
San Diego
Calif
United States Navy
Pacific
Island
Pan American Airway
Hawaii
Navy Department
Washington
War Department
Bermuda
American Legion
Brooklyn
N. Y
Atlantic
Great Britain
Measles Force FDR To Cancel Hyde Park Trip
President Roosevelt was to visit Hyde Park New York for a weekend trip but an outbreak of German measles at the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis prompted cancellation of the plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Warm Springs
Auto Tire Theft Reported Amid Traffic Stop
In Charlotte Ike Davis told police a new automobile tire was stolen from the rear of his car while he waited at a green light. He provided a name in making the report.
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Charlotte
N. C
Ike Davis
New Diet Proves Fatal to Cow in Indiana Farm
Elkhart Indiana report says Ralph Correll’s Jersey cow tried to eat a bright yellow ball near her stall. The cow died and Correll must buy a new electric light bulb and a replacement cow.
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Elkhart
Ind
Ralph Correll
Correll
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Qomum
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Greer
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David M. Warren
Berger and Spearman
Mr. Warren
Jack Dempsey
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Lewis H. Day
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Fort Sill
Jack Frye
TWA
Jim Harrigan
Airlines
Frye
John Snider
Kerr Paper Company
Amarillo Gas Company
Ross Rogers
Blackburn-Shaw-Quartet
John Maynard Lbr. Co
U.S. Navy
Bowman Jarrott
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River Rouge
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