Amarillo Letter Page Highlights War Nerves and Local Bits
A long mixed-column from Amarillo, teeming with opinion, jokes, and notices. It cites FBI caution against impersonators, local stock bets on Roosevelt, farming tales from Hereford Irish potatoes, and praise for the Bordwell Ranch O Tel auto hotel. It closes with notes on city life and trivia from Sheboygan to Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. P. Bordwell
Ranch-O-Tel
West Sixth Street
Plains Country
Foreman
Bordwell
Mr. Murphy
Roy Davis to take two week vacation in Denver area
Amarillo hotel room clerk Roy Davis will depart tomorrow for a two weeks vacation in Denver and surrounding northwest regions. The note also mentions abundant unexploited forest land in the Bahama Islands.
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Roy Davis
Amarillo
Denver
Points Northwest
Bahama Islands
I Give You Texas By Boyce House
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls visits to a grandmother on a farm with a log cabin and a cozy kitchen. Vivid details include fried chicken, mashed potatoes, garden produce, and a fond family routine of wagons and train departures. The author ends with a prompt: why not start Grandmother Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyce House
Rocky Hills
Niagara Falls
Pisa
Grandma
Grandpa
Frank Haggart Rites Are Set
Final tribute to Frank Armstrong Haggart will be paid tomorrow at 10:30 AM from N S Griggs and Sons Chapel with Dr C C Grimes officiating. Masonic burial rites accompany the funeral at Memorial Park Cemetery Amarillo Lodge No 731 A F and A M. He retired from the Santa Fe railroad after 42 years and died yesterday in Santa Fe Hospital Clovis NM at age 61. He is survived by his wife Ada B Haggart and several brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Armstrong Haggart
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Cc. C. Grimes
Polk Street Methodist Church
Frank Hackley
N. C. Halley
Sam T. Harmon
Arthur McKay
Henry Hertner
L. M. Teed
Memorial Park Cemetery
Amarillo
Haggart
Santa Fe Railroad
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Milwaukee
Rio Grande
Santa Fe
San Marcial
N. M
Plains
Santa Fe Hospital
Clovis
N.S. Griggs and Sons
Ada B. Haggart
Windsors Likely to Skip New York Visit at Bermuda
The Duke of Windsor and his Duchess may abandon the Excalibur at Bermuda en route to the Bahamas where the Duke will govern. Officials noted a Bermuda stop was possible but not confirmed, while Nassau remains the expected destination.
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New York
U.P
Duke of Windsor
Lisbon
Bahamas
Bermuda
Nassau
Conscience Money Sent To Store Here
Louise Pin ley manager of Lord s 725 Polk Street found two dollars in an unsigned letter postmarked in Amarillo. The note said Sam is sending payment for a dress he took from the store, which the manager said had been considered a shoplifting loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Louise Pinley
Lord's
Polk Street
Sam
Table Tennis Tops Summer Recreation In Amarillo Youth Program
Amarillo youngsters line up for a city summer recreation effort with 797 players in table tennis and 428 in basketball. The July report to city manager H. R. Smith by Thomas H. Haynie and Mrs. Mattie Sorenson lists 789 boys and 480 girls enrolled, with boxing and dancing each at six participants.
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Amarillo
H. R. Smith
Thomas H. Haynie
Mattie Sorenson
Claims Nazis Control Japs
London reports an authoritative British source accuses the Gestapo of influencing Japanese internal affairs via a representative in the Japanese home office. It notes nine Britons in custody in Korea with six released and two more arrested in an anti-British espionage drive. Franz Huber is named as the Gestapo information officer in Tokyo since 1937.
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London
Gestapo
Home Office
Korea
Japan
Franz Huber
German Storm Troop Security Department
Correspondent Sails With Jast Fleet
Correspondent reports from sea aboard the British Eastern Mediterranean Fleet flagship racing to smoke out the Italian fleet. He describes aircraft carrier escort, destroyers, target practice with a canvas ship, night illumination, and gunfire from Repulse and Renown in a 1916 era action setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Yindrich
Repulse
Renown
Sleepy Firemen Bemoan Early Morning Call
Sleepy firemen in Amarillo woke to a 1:53 AM alarm at Fourteenth Avenue and Buchanan Street. The incident, during a heat wave, was a false alarm after dormitory swelter and sleepy routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Fourteenth Avenue
Buchanan Street
Army Seeks Air Cannon Plants From Automakers
United States defense planners seek two midwestern factories costing 7 million each to mass produce aerial cannons for new warplanes. Chrysler GM and Bendix linked to cannon and gun production. 34,000 trucks also planned under a 54 million auto industry contract.
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Washington
Army
General Motors
Chrysler Corporations
Middle West
Chrysler
Colt Firearms Co
Bendix Corp
Germany
C. M. Wesson
Ordnance
National Defense Commission
Automobile
Soviet Tells Of Finn Fight
Tass dispatch from Moscow reports clashes between workers and police in Helsinki and other Finnish cities with alleged beatings of protesters. Molotov criticizes persecution of pro Soviet elements and warns it strains Soviet Finland relations.
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Moscow
U.P
Tass
Helsinki
Society For Friendship and Peace
Viacheslav Molotov
Supreme Soviet
Finland
Tanner
Vaino Tanner
Society For Friendship With the Soviet Union
Red and Nazi flag shown at sheriff's office in Amarillo
A man brought a 3 by 5 foot red flag to the sheriff on Taylor Street in Amarillo. The banner bore white cutout letters History of the World and a Nazi swastika. Sheriff Bill Adams stated investigators are examining its origin and are not discounting a possible prank.
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Sheboyan
Wis
Princeton
Nassau
United States
James A. Garfield
Columbus
Washington
Russia
Taylor Street
Amarillo
Amarillo Plates Sought by Brooklyn Collector
Mrs Raymond P McKeown of 257 Green Avenue Brooklyn asks the Amarillo chamber of commerce to locate blue and white Staffordshire plates showing local scenes from Amarillo. She recalls searching in Amarillo at the Herring Hotel for English made pieces. The item notes geologists revise Old Faithful Geyser age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Brooklyn
Herring Hotel
Raymond P. McKeown
Green Avenue
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Bombs on England Prompt German Leaflet Raid
German planes dropped eight by twelve inch leaflets over southern and southwestern England. The sheets quoted Hitler’s July 19 Reichstag speech under the heading last appeal to reason. Police and air raid wards intercepted many, but no major effort stopped them. The note mentions troop movements from the Spanish frontier toward the English Channel.
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London
U.P
Adolf Hitler
England
Spanish
English Channel
Hitler
Nazis Approve Molotov Speech in Berlin
German circles praised Soviet Premier Molotov for rejecting British and American attempts to split German Russian relations. They noted his stance against anti Russian and anti European efforts and welcomed his call for Southeast Europe appeasement on a fair basis.
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Berlin
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Britain
United States
Molotov
Russia
Europe
Social Center Girls Go to Camp Kiwanis
Forty eight girls from the Social Center left for Camp Kiwanis for four days of crafts games nature study and dramatics. Tomorrow they return for a Gem Lake swim, with Mrs Key Farr in charge of transport. New counselors include Byron Dodson Jeannie Harrison Sarah Crider and Mary Pryor.
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Kiwanis
Gem Lake
Key Farr
J. N. Childers
B. E. Walker
Byron Dodson
Jeannie Harrison
Sarah Crider
Mary Pry
Nichols family to Alaska on a late summer voyage
Jack Nichols will depart tomorrow with his wife and daughter Nancy from Seattle for an Alaska tour beginning August 8 aboard the Baranof to Juneau. They will travel to Seward then take the Alaska Railroad to McKinley National Park and Fairbanks for several weeks. Mrs Amacker arranged the trip.
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Jack Nichols
San Francisco
Fairbanks
Nichols
Tex McIlroy
Alaska
W. B. Amacker
American Automobile Association
Anti Aircraft Guns Boom in Berlin
Berlin civilians in the city center sought shelter as anti aircraft guns on government rooftops opened fire for about 30 seconds. Two planes flew above low clouds near Wilhelmstrasse and Unter Den Linden. the planes were not identified.
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Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
Unter den Linden
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Amarillo National
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Norway
Belgium
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Navy
Bureau of Investigation
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Roosevelt
Texas
Bedrock
Willkie
Hereford
John
Tack
Mr. Tack
J. L. Linville
Plainview
Mr. Linville
Spring Lake
Lamb County
Jack Lawrence
Lake Marvin
Southwest
Canadian
Binford Arney
Florida
California
Gold Sox
Sox
Pampa
Lubbock
Frank Haggart
Jast
Bill Dee
Fairmondee
Plains Office Supply CO
Merle E. Dawson
S. Arthur
Amarillo Safety Council
Robert A. Wilson
Maynard Drake
W. W. Rusk
American Republics
The
Mexico
Camp
Kawanis
Panhandle Sign & Display
Bea S
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