Mechanics Interviews Set for Panhandle Army Draft
Lt. Col. JohnS. Walker and a group of officers will interview mechanics in Amarillo and travel to Pampa Borger Panhandle Canadian Dalhart Dumas Plainview and Canyon to recruit about 225 workers. Open roles include technicians sergeants welders mechanics and clerks with training at Camp Perry before armored force duty. Walter Irvin heads the maintenance company formation and will coordinate Wednesday applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle Mechanics Army
Johns. Walker
Camp Perry
Ohio
Amarillo
Army of the
Varios Graces
Mechanics Army
Walter Irvin
Panhandle
Mr. Irvin
Silk-Masked Gunman Kills Top NYC Betting Official
In a midnight shooting at the Goulash House in New York, Robert M. Green a Wall Street betting commissioner and Morris Wol en known hoodlum are killed. The gunman fled as witnesses described a broad police sweep for suspects tied to past gaming crimes. The killer's .38 pistol was recovered and Green carried $377 cash along with a $440 check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. Green
Wall Street
New York
Palm Beach
Morris
Dimples) Wolen
Boston
Arnold Rothstein
Park Central
Wolen
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
Sam Adelman
Benjamin Fischer
Harry Kafga
Bejamin Brooks
Sam Boston
Green
Rothstein
Broadway
Red Cross Sends Five Boxes of Clothes Abroad
Potter County Red Cross Sewing Room ships five large boxes of apparel for foreign refugees to St. Louis for transit. Donations include shirts, pajamas, rompers and bed jackets from the Crowell unit torn by a recent tornado. Sewing rooms repurpose scraps into quilts and comforts for soldiers, with Bushland and Do Your Bit Club contributing kits and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Red Cross Sewing Room
M. T. Johnson
St. Louis
Crowell Red Cross
Red Cross
West Tenth Avenue
Bushland Red Cross
Carl Hill
Bushland
Fast Drivers Lose Tires Over 40 MPH
Potter County War Price and Rationing Board chairman C F Weymouth announced that anyone driving faster than 40 miles an hour will lose tire eligibility. Local police tickets will be forwarded to the board, and OPA inspectors will report license numbers of speeders. Police and buses are urged to conserve rubber during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. FE. Weymouth
Potter County
Mark McGee
Texas Opa
Texas Highway Patrol
OPA
ODT
Silence at the Card Table Ends in Brutal Killing
Four bridge players in a Central Park West apartment scene are interrupted by a masked gunman who shoots Kibit zer Wolen, Green, and others. Green falls after a back shot, remains with a strong diamond hand, and the ace of spades drops to the floor as the killer flees. Bertha, his wife, is summoned to identify the body but collapses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha
Central Park West
Kibitzer Wolen
Adelman
Wolen
Riverside Drive
Green
Conchas Water Options to be Discussed in Amarillo
Government engineers Harold W. Mutch and M C Barclay will discuss potential water supply from Conchas Lake New Mexico at the Chamber of Commerce directors meeting Rex Baxter Chamber of Commerce manager invites attendees. Meeting starts at eight o clock in the Chamber conference room 311/2 Polk Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Conchas Lake
New Mexico
Chamber of Commerce
Harold W. Mutch
M. C. Barclay
Rex Baxter
Polk Street
Make Tires Last With Milk Bottle
The highway patrol promotes a device to save tires by placing a milk bottle or drinking glass on the car floor and driving smoothly without tipping it. It claims the test shows how to reduce wear on tires brakes and clutches while warning to avoid pedal interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Patrol
District Court Opens for August Term in Amarillo
The 47th district court opened in Amarillo with Judge E C Nelson presiding. W N Bill Thompson named grand jury foreman as 35 felony cases await action and arrests on felony complaints have more than doubled since year start. Civil matters will be heard this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
47Th District Court
Amarillo
E. C. Nelson
W.N
Bill) Thompson
John Detten
F. M. Lefforage
E. F. Finch
John W .Cliffton
E. H. Chapman
F. B Martin
William M. Frost
E. O. Greer
J. M. Smith
John B. Gilvin
I. J. Tollenson
Nelson
Ira G. Davenport Dies in Hospital at 45
Ira G. Davenport, employed by Frieze Nichols and McKenzie Construction Company, died suddenly this morning in a local hospital at age 45. He lived in Poolville, Texas, and is survived by his mother, daughter, two brothers, and two sisters. The body was sent to Poolville by train, and funeral services are planned there tomorrow.
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Ira G. Davenport
Frieze, Nichols and McKenzie Construction Company
Poolville
Tex
N. D. Davenport
Ouida Davenport
Dave Davenport
Amarillo
Farold Davenport
D. T. Smith
Atlanta
Alta Aldridge
Duncan
Oklo
Blackburn-Shaw
President of Fair To Be Selected This Week
Executive committeemen of the Tri State Fair will meet at 4 o clock Wednesday afternoon to elect a president. Rex Baxter said the group will try to keep the organization intact despite no fair this year. Ross Rogers has long served as first vice president. The meeting will be in the Chamber of Commerce conference room at 3112 Polk Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Baxter
Ray Pinkney
Ross Rogers
Association
Chamber of Commerce
Polk Street
RAF Bombers Hit Axis HQ and Rommel Supply Lines
British communique says RAF fighter bombers raided the Axis HQ in the southern Egyptian front while artillery shelled enemy positions. US heavy bombers aided in strikes on Rommel’s supply lines with attacks also damaging Derna ships. Central front raids destroyed 20 of 200 trucks and hit an ammunition dump. coastal shipping saw one vessel sunk and another set ablaze.
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Cairo
RAF
Qattara
United States
Erwin Rommel
Derna
el Alamein
Egypt
Jester Opens Runoff Campaign for Railroad Commissioner
Beauford Jester of Corsicana begins his Texas run off bid for the railroad commissioner short term with a northeast Texas tour. He says Texas needs a qualified commissioner to protect oil production and transportation for the war effort. He plans a Friday Corsicana radio speech after visiting Sherman Denison Bonham Paris Clarksville Texarkana Mount Pleasant Longview Terrell and Kaufman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
U.P
State Railroad Commission
Texas
Beauford
Corsicana
Sherman
Denison
Bonham, Paris
Clarksville Texarkana
Mount Pleasant
Longview
Terrell and
Kaufman
Quintuplets Survive Birth Near Sligo Ireland
A boy and a girl survive the quintuplets born to Mr and Mrs Thom as Leydon. The infant pair weigh two and a half pounds and one pound more. Two girls and two boys died shortly after birth and three of the five were moved by ambulance to an airlocked incubator room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Thomas Leydon
Leyden
Ear Breaghwy
Sligo
Editors Warn Against Coercion in Second Front Debate
John Cudahy former ambassador to Poland and Belgium urged editors in Chicago that open discussion of a second front with Germany is acceptable but warned against pressing and coercing as it would amount to aiding the enemy. He said decisions on when and where to open a second front should stay with President Roosevelt and his military advisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Cudahy
Poland
Belgium
Germany
Europe
Roosevelt
Cudahy
City Fulfills Record Quota in War Drive
A. K. Baracat, Amarillo’s phonograph record drive chair, announced Saturday that the city met its quota the largest in the state with 20,000 records. Packing and shipping have begun as Records For Our Fighting Men in Chicago reprocesses them for the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baracat
Amarillo
Fighting Men, Inc
Chicago
Bodies of Soldiers Washed Ashore at Digby Neck
Canadian Press dispatch reports the bodies of two U S soldiers and an unidentified man washed ashore on islets at the tip of Digby Neck Nova Scotia. Some other U S service members have recently washed ashore but names are not public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Digby
Nova Scotia
United States
Digby Neck
Bay of Fundy
Enjoin Petrillo Over Recordings Probe in Chicago
The justice department filed a federal complaint in Chicago seeking to enjoin the American Federation of Musicians and listed officers from prohibiting members from making recordings for radio transcriptions. District Attorney Woll filed for the Attorney General Biddle with multiple defendants including President James C. Petrillo and several regional officers. The suit accuses the union and leaders of violating the Sherman anti trust act by forming a restraint of trade in phonograph records and related broadcasting activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Chicago
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
J. Albert Woll
Francis Biddle
James C. Petrillo
C. L. Bagley
Los Angeles
Fred W. Birnbach
Newark
Harry E. Bren
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UPI
America
Maxor Drug CO
Jackson
Fisk
Siery
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
Santa Fe
R. F. Gill City Ticket Agent
H. C. Vincent
Amarillo, Texas
Fair
C. E. von Hoover
Cretney
J.T. Russell
Boxwell Ould
Te and Pe
Amarillo—Dumas
Oleo
West 7Th Ave
Africa
Jester
A. K. Baracat
Globe News
Terai
Enjoin
Petrillo
Eee
Credit Liberal
Credit Managers Association
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