Amarillo Man Joe Butcher Found Dead at Home
Joe A. Butcher 61 a licensed electrician and Amarillo resident of seven years was found dead by his wife Iste at their home 2410 Buchanan Street after returning from a lodge meeting. Authorities say death likely a heart attack occurring about 8 55 p m. He went to the garage to let his wife drive in and collapsed near the front entrance. Surviving are his widow a daughter Mrs Henry Hirod of Long Beach California a son Donald Hirod of Long Beach three brothers and a sister and a granddaughter Barbara Ann Hirod. He was a Baptist employed by Triangle Electric. The body is at Boxwell Brothers Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe A. Butcher
Amarillo
Buchanan Street
J. D. Costell
Loder
Butsher
Ella Mae Putcher
Mra
Menry Hirod
Long Beach
Calif
Dor M
Mre
Rachael King
Alexandria
W T
Dallas
John 8
South Gate
Elias B
Fi Paso
Barbara Ann Hirod
Butcher
Triangle Electric
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Markets Powrones Stock Averages And Livestock Report
Markets report shows mixed stock averages with utilities and industrials off while sales at 1 P.M. reach 380000 shares. Kansas City livestock notes include hogs salable at 3500 head with weights 170-260 Ibs at 8.40 to 18.60, 270-310 Ibs at 8.00 to 18.40, 140-160 Ibs at 8.15 to 8.46, and cattle at 4200 salable with dull Monday close, steady to lower bids, fat steers and yearlings weak, vealers opening steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
USDA
Panhandle Has Plenty Of Water For Industry
D L McDonald told a Amarillo Chamber of Commerce regional meeting that the Panhandle has ample water for industrial use. He cited Phillips Petroleum wells in Hutchinson County producing or able to produce 8 million gallons daily and noted abundant water from Amarillo wells and railroad supply. He urged a comprehensive water survey for submission to Washington to prove ample regional water resources.
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Panhandle
D. L McDonald
Amarillo
Hill
McDonald
Phillips Petroleum Company
Hutchinson County
Office of Production Management
Washington
Help Wanted and Market Prices From Local Area
Classified items include job seeks by Orvel Bronson and Calvin Stapp, a kitten request, and farm market quotes for cattle and sheep with price ranges. Listings mention Tulsa Texas area and general labor, plus grain elevator experience and steady work desires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Orvel Bronson
Calvin Stapp
Tulsa
Texas
Funeral set for Amarillo salesman Edgar Kennedy
Funeral services for Edgar T. Kennedy, a 34 year Amarillo resident and candy salesman, will be held at 10 a.m. from Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Dr Earl G. Hamlett officiating. Kennedy died yesterday in a car crash at the junction of Highways 66 and 60. He leaves wife, daughter Evelyn Kennedy Myera of Amarillo, son Ted Kennedy of Portland, Ore, and siblings in Arkansas and Washington, D. C. Burial will be in Liano Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar T. Kennedy
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Earl G. Hamlett
Polk Street Methodist Church
Sam Elkins
Sim Coker
Elwood Collier
Harold Richey
Tom Mott
Tom Mott and 8. A. Blevire Honorary Pallbearers Will Be J J. Walker
T. H. Knighton
Sam Bond
NB MeIntire
Cut Garrett
Canyon
Lee Sadler
Groom
Joe Molland
Bernard Taylor
Alec Behnrider
Pampa
George Leader
Lonnie Lee
Wheeler
Lawrence Davis
WR Wooten
Shamrock
Jim McCaskey
F. P Ferrell
L. S Bussey
Panhandle
Kennedy
Ark
Sally .Thacker
Paragould
Liano Cemetery
Catherine T. Morrison Dies at 70 in City Hospital
Mrs. Catherine T. Morrison, 70, died suddenly this morning at the local hospital. Her home is 412 West Eleventh. Survivors include three sons Raymond Morrison of Washington DC, A R and J W Morrison of Amarillo. two daughters Mrs. Carl Hamilton and Mrs. Irene C. Park of Amarillo. a sister Miss Mary O'Brien of Kansas City Kansas. brothers James and Michael O'Brien of Kansas City. She belonged to Sacred Heart Cathedral. The body remains at Blackburn-Shaw Chapel awaiting relatives arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine T. Morrison
W. Eleventh
Raymond FE. Morrison
Washington
D .c
Call To Escort Women Bring Out the Army
CAMP BLANDING Florida April 22 The military police sergeant urged volunteers to escort several young women from the camp The whole company turned out He picked six men and led them to a firebreak bowing Then the six MPs chased a herd of cows from the camp for hours
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Camp Blanding
Fla
M. P
Amarillo Chamber Directors Plan Road Session
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors will meet tomorrow at noon with members of the Highway 60 Association to discuss road matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo C
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Highway 60 Association
Local Drive Urges Citizens to Aid Defense Effort
Amarillo chamber committee seeks every resident with craft or manufacturing capacity to file details on productive ability and potential outputs for defense needs. Chairman Ernest R. Archambeau notes the government may want improvised or new products, not just guns or tanks, and cites past wartime needs like 6,000 mess tables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Amarillo Hotel
Ernest R. Archambeau
United States
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Germany
Gulf Coast
Japan
Holland
Minnesota
Jail Shelters British Tommy of World War
Edward A. Hill, a British World War veteran mental case, escaped Miami city jail for one day seeking admission to a suitable facility. The state insane hospital at Chattahoochee refused him due to residency rules, and hospitalization as a veteran was denied because he is a British subject. The British vice consul and Chicago officials consider the problem a shared responsibility of Miami and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
U.P
Edward A. Hill
Hill
City
State Hospital For the Insane
Chattahoochee
Florida
L. A. Oates
Chicago
Rain Tonight and Tomorrow in Amarillo Forecast
Mr. Collman reports showers possible tonight and tomorrow as moisture lingers around Amarillo. Temperatures range from a 60 degree high to a 40 degree low with a 35 degree low last night. A damp southeast wind at about 10 mph persists through the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Collman
Amarillo
Portales Approves NYA Training Shop at Corner Site
The city commission approved a portable glass and steel NYA shop at Third Avenue and Madison Street. The grant, given yesterday, will house vocational training on 1201 Jackson Street for which the city pays rent.
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NYA
Third Avenue
Madison Street
National Youth Administration
Jackson Street
Grand Canyon Limited Schedule Fragments
Train timetable snippet lists connections from Amarillo to Wichita Kansas City Chicago and San Diego to San Francisco with arrival and departure times across multiple legs. The readable lines show multiple legs of the Grand Canyon Limited route with various city pairings and times.
Nordyke Winners Cash Award for Traffic Safety Entries
Globe staff writer Lewis Nordyke won a cash prize from the CIT Safety Foundation of New York for promoting traffic safety in the Globe and News in 1940. It marks his third straight honor, and he was the sole Texas newspaper man among editorial awardees.
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Lewis Nordyke
Globe
Globe and News
CIT Safety Foundation of
New York
Globe- News
Texas
Sam F. Nash
The
Tyler Courier Times
Nordyke
CIT
Austin
Globe News
Amarillo
Spanish Kitchen Burglary Nets Pistol and Nickels
Burglars broke into the Spanish Kitchen at 821 Fast Tenth Avenue last week. They smashed glass to enter and stole nickels and an electric music box containing coins, officials said.
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Fast Tenth Avenue
Ways and Means Sets 3.5 Billion Minimum Goal for Tax Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 3.5 billion dollar minimum goal for the new tax bill and will begin public hearings Thursday with Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. as the first witness.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Amarillo High School Band to Close Season with National Contest Pieces
The Amarillo High School Band presents its final concert of the season Thursday at 8 pm in the High School Auditorium. Highlights include two pieces for the National High School Band Contest in Waco next month, Borodin’s Second Symphony movement arranged by Leidzen and the Ti Guarang overture, plus a sight-reading selection under student conductor Bill Doherty. Oscar Wise directs. the group earned a high rating at the regional contest and aims for a strong showing. Admission is free.
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Amarillo
Waco
A. P. Borodin
Erik W. G. Leidzen
Carlos Gomez
Bill Doherty
Oscar Wise
Greece Feels Last Stand Around Thermopylae Gap
The report describes a desperate Allied defense in Greece near Thermopylae as German forces push through Othrys Mountain and Lamia toward a final defense line. Evacuation rumors circulate from London to Athens as Germany concentrates three armored divisions in the eastern front.
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Egypt
Suez Canal
Tripoli
Thermopylae
Athens
Germany
Greece
London
Othrys
Lamia
Leonidas
Xerxes
Germans Break Through Greek Defenses In Southwest Greece
German forces widened a narrow pass to three miles and cut steep walls in a key Greek defensive line. They advanced from Metsovo toward Ioannina and threatened retreating Greek troops. Bombers hit near Athens as rapid advance risked isolating Greek units in the southwest.
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Metsovo Pass
Pindus
Ionannina
Alma
Toannina
Arta
Lamia
Athens
Greece
Final Greek Air Attacks Subside After Siren Silence
In Athens area attacks continued almost without pause until war wearied Greeks stopped sounding air raid warnings. German forces did not strike Athens proper. Tecumseh, famed Indian scout, was made a brigadier general in the British army during the war.
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Athens
Tecumseh
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Joe Butcher
Fencer & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Fenner & Reane
Ieee M Close
Alleghany
Tod Steel
Allie
Chalmere
Amet
Bendix Aviation
Keth Steel
Mfg
Buy Minay
Callahan
Certainterdawler SA
Consol
Copper
Consal
Curtin Wright
Curtis Wriant
Fide Douglas Atteratt
Ei Power & Lt
Gen Foods Az Gen Motors
Goodrich
Tia
Goodyear
Greyhound
Harvester Int Power & Pap
Int
Tel & Tel
Johns Mangilloc Kennecott Cop
Marshal Field
Mid Cent Pet
Montgomery Ward Murry Corp
Nash Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Pow & St
Y Central
Amer Co
North North Amer Aviat
Pac Gas
Sty
Packard Motor
Paramount Pix
Plymouth
Rand
Reo Motors
Repab Steel Wander
Sears Roebuck
Servel
Uh Shell Union Ou
Socony
Shetan
Stewart Warner Tree
I'S
Studebaker
Tide Water
Tex Pac Coal & Ol
Wilson
Fenner & Beane
Amer
Arkan Nat
Born & Share
Hecla Mining
Tee Keene Humble
Lone Star Gas
Bly Niagra
DL. McPonald
West 10Th Ave
Kitten
CIAL
E. T. Kennedy
T. Morrison
U.S. Defense
Tommy
Portales
Travel
Santa Fe
Fred Harvey
California
Grand Canyon
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Thrifty Travel
Wichita Seaces
Wichita
R. F. Gill
H. C. Vincent
Sandie Band
Haarlem
Capaul
Jeanite
EN Garde
Insurance
Eee
Plate Glass and Allied Lines of Insurance
Automobile Financing and
F. H. A. Loans
Jayne
USA
Jim Watkins
Aent
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