Roosevelt White House visit disputed in wartime contract inquiry
The records show Meyer forms of entertainment for Hughes wartime contracts and list expenses including $169,000 spent entertaining officials. Payments to young women appear as Meyer's guests. A $76 dinner with Roosevelt is cited on the night Roosevelt claimed he was at the White House.
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White House
Statler Hotel
Hughes
Meyer
Roosevelt
Army Air Free Army Air
Government buy plan tied to Roosevelt reply on plane sale
The account notes a forces colonel and a $50 fee for girls, mentions Col. Harry Eidson in a Roosevelt headed mission that proposed purchasing Hughes' photo reconnaissance plane. A $22 million contract followed Roosevelt's recommendation after Army Air Forces experts had ruled...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Harry Eidson
Roosevelt
Hughes
Army Air Forces
Clean Up My Moral Record Amid War Debate
The late President's son, questioned by Chairman Ferguson, challenged a hotel dinner expense. Roosevelt demanded to clear up his moral record as Meyer described costs for a group of people at a hotel gathering.
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Ferguson
Subcommittee
Meyer
Roosevelt
Roosevelt cites firms entertained during war in rebuke
President Roosevelt listed more than twenty firms he said entertained him during the war. He named Lockheed Douglas Fairchild Glenn L. Martin Consolidated the Aluminum Corp of America Reynolds Metals General Motors Ford Chrysler Victor Em Manuel and others. He then quarreled over Pan American Airways in the case and accused Meyer of falsifying expense reports while demanding Meyer's testimony.
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Roosevelt
Hughes
Lockheed
Douglas
Fairchild
Glenn L. Martin
Consolidated
the Aluminum Corp
of America
Reynolds Metals
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Victor Em Manuel
Pan-American Air
Gipsy Smith Draws Amarillo Crowd For Evangelist Revival
The renowned evangelist Gipsy Smith, born March 31, 1860, spoke in Amarillo's Municipal Auditorium during a 15 night revival starting January 2, 1938. People from the Panhandle, western Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico packed the 2,500 seat venue, with some nights selling out despite snow. He preached daily noon meetings and radio broadcasts and refused to skip Saturday sessions.
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Amarillos
Gipsy Smith
Christ
Gipsy’s
Amarillo
Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Amarilo
Amarillo Bus Firm Fights Polk Street Ban
Officials of the Amarillo Bus Company oppose prohibiting bus traffic on Polk Street in the business district. The franchise holders argue against barring operations in Amarillo’s bus route area.
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Amarillo Bus Company
Amarillo
Polk Street
Gipsy Smith Evangelist Dies Aboard Queen Mary
Rodney Smith 87 known worldwide as Gipsy Smith British evangelist died of a heart ailment aboard the Queen Mary on her first postwar voyage. The ship reached port today with the death announced.
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New York
Rodney Smith
Gipsy Smith
Peace Delegation Flies From Amarillo Toward Alamogordo
About 20 international peace advocates travel from New York to Chicago and Amarillo for a program observing the second anniversary of Hiroshima. Ruth Nichols piloted the DC-3 as the group, including a New York rabbi and a Washington Catholic father, heads toward Alamogordo for events marking the day.
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Amarillo
Alamogordo
Hiro
Ruth Nichols
New York
Washington
Chicago
Kansas City
Old Tascosa
Herring Hotel
Hiroshima
Emergency World People’s Congress
J. Holmes Smith
Amarillo to plan English Field upgrades with 250000 grant
City officials announce a 250000 federal grant to upgrade English Field in Amarillo. Plans from runway extensions to new terminals aim to raise the airport from Class 3 to Class 4 as War Assets Administration transfers progress.
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English Field
Lawrence Hagg
Amarillo
Gress
Joe Jenkins
Thornton Oxnard
Fred Vaughan
City Public Accountant
War Assets Administration
Army Air Forces
WAA
Army Engineers
Carroll Fry
Grand Prairie
Texas
Panhandle
Plainview
Borger
Wellington
Shamrock
Quanah
Memphis
Sudan
Matador
Canyon
Pampa
Littlefield
Rotan
Paramount Director Bill Russell Steers Dear Ruth at State Theater
Amarillo notes Bill Russell, former Amarillo Little Theater director and son in law of the Shaws, now Paramount director, quelling rival showings as Dear Ruth plays its final night unless held over. Russell, Iowa graduate, joined Paramount in the mid thirties and has directed or supervised several notable productions.
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Bill Russell
Amarillo
H. A. Shaws
Ruth
Paramount
State Theater
Jack King
Russell
Mota Arnold Maye Shaw
Steve
Jack
Chicago
Hollywood
Norman Krasna
Air Forces
Edward Arnold
Arnold
Joan Caulfield
William Holden
Mona Freeman
Russell Page
Twenty Die in Waxahachie Highway Crash
A multivehicle crash near Waxahachie killed twenty people including eighteen Black laborers en route to Dallas. Four others survived. two drivers died among the white victims. Authorities cited a driver swerving into a gasoline truck amid a fatal inferno that drew a thousand spectators.
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Waxahachie
Dallas
Here
Jess Cariker
Ellis County
Morris Robertson
Clovis P. Mitchell
Boze - Saxon- Mitchell Funeral Home
M. L. Wall
Iowa Park
Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Forecast Update
Partly cloudy with little temperature change this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Winds strong this afternoon diminishing by late afternoon. West Texas mostly cloudy with cooler Wednesday Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers mainly north. High 93 low 69 at 6 30 am noon 87.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Stricken War Bride Returns Home To Die
An English war bride Nina Belcoure 23 accompanies her grieving GI husband Charles Belcoure and their baby daughter on a military flight to Norwich England to die of cancer. General Spaatz approved the loan of an Army plane with aid from American Legion Lions and Rotary clubs totaling 520 dollars to fund the trip and support the family.
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England
Houston
Nina Maude Belcoure
Norwich
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
Charles William Belcoure
Charles
Nina
Montgomery County
Conroe
Magnolia
Florence Willgrass
Air Force
Ellington Field
American Legion
Lions
Rotary Clubs
Belcoure
Thomas Adams
Veterans Service
E. M. Coe
Conroe Baptist Church
Tom Pickett
Albert Thomas
Army
General Spaatz
Adams
Willgrass
Coe
Field
Ellington Field Library
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Trans-World Airlines
Smith
United States
South Africa
France
Paris
Gipsy
Epping Forest
London
Polk
Nuss
Nussbaum
Fowler
Tyler
Taylor Streets
Nussbaums
Second
Ninth Avenue
Taylor
Lefty Fowler
George Baum
John Maynard
Roller Palace
Sixth
Jefferson
Berger
Russell Stationery Co
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes—Insurance
Lish
Hagy
Truman
Globe
Grace Truman Summer
Harry Truman
Martha Truman
John Cage
West
Jack Cage
Bushland
Anneta Cage
Tommie Cage
Jack Cages
Summer
Adda
DEAR
University of Iowa
E. A. Regal Co. Insurance Real Estate
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