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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1940
Page
2
A guest column by GEO. L. TUCKER praises Amarillo’s optimism and climate, jokes about Old Tack’s Alaska trip and defense talk, notes Will Rogers quips, shares rabbit punches about catfish humor, and lauds the Dallas Variety Club for aiding crippled children.
A long reader submission contains multiple classified notices seeking housework and general labor. It lists several individuals, including a Christian woman 55 to 72 seeking a live-in housekeeper, a colored laundress seeking domestic work, a married man seeking farm work, and a widow offering trimming hedges. The notices include contact names and phone-style dial numbers.
A 16 year old boy requests employment and thanks the paper for printing his appeal. He signs as Nelson Dawson and provides a contact number Dial 2-2416. A lost white bulldog named Casey with a black ear is missing. owner asks to notify Route 1 Box 24.
In Dallas a screening room shows The Return of Prank James a colorful technicolor sequel with less gunplay and more comedy. It continues the Jesse James story with the same cast and runs four days at the Paramount starting Saturday. A roadside hitchhiker jokes himself into laughter claiming the punchline he already heard. Old Tack’s weather prognostications are mentioned as a local note.
Two fugitives captured after a running gun battle tossed a bullet-pierced body from their car and critically wounded Ben D. Clark, Stillwater area police said. Bill Hall and Joe Lovelance were injured and guarded in hospital as patrolmen held them under guard near Perkins after abducting Bill Glimp and stealing two cars on a north central Oklahoma chase. Jeanne Culp was identified as the slain woman.
British observers describe a morning of heavy air combat as RAF fighters engage more than 100 Luftwaffe bombers and fighters. German losses include several bombers shot down and crews captured, while British ships report damage and a destroyer’s mission to defend coastal targets. The Mohamed Ali El Kebir liner sinks in the Atlantic with 120 dead, survivors landed in Scotland.
John Cudahy US ambassador to Belgium, reprimanded last week by Under Secretary Sumner Welles for comments on Belgium, departed for the United States by Clipper. Orme Wilson American consul at Brussels also aboard.
Washington Aug 12 Senator Barkley proposes annual registration of all men aged 21 to 44 to map industrial and military manpower. The plan would modify the Burke Wadsworth bill to expand the 21 30 bracket to 21 44, with Senate debate expected to run about 10 days and House hearings to reopen.
Stormkeeper described his store looted and a three day crisis with no water or food as families hid on the second floor. The smell of dead animals filled streets at night while residents sought refuge. Louis Trahan reported three babies born in rice warehouses as aid waited. Two mothers from the flood zone bore stillborn babies at Lake Charles. A Coast Guard plane carried three physicians from New Orleans to Gueydan and 27 others traveled by bus to the flood zone.
Governor Jones said state troops may be released for emergencies and urged evacuation of Crowley due to rising floodwaters and cut water supply. The homeless were moved as authorities warned of possible epidemic risk, with full rehabilitation expected after waters recede.
The report says Albanian nationalist leader Daut Hoggia was assassinated by Greeks on Albanian soil near the Greek frontier. Italy would protest to Greece and warn of serious consequences as diplomats note Italian German pressure to pull Greece into the Rome Berlin axis. Athens denies Greek responsibility and rejects Italian accounts as fantastical.
Vichy reports demobilization of the French army will finish Wednesday with release of last specialists like bakers and butchers. Of about 5,000,000 mobilized, 2,000,000 were captured by Germans, few released to date.
A two day search ended when 20 year old By ron Bellar of Sudan Texas was killed on a highway two and a half miles north of Clovis New Mexico. He rode his bicycle from a filling station driveway into the road and was struck by a car driven by W C Hawkins a Curry County farmer. Bellar died within minutes while Hawkins rushed him to Clovis Memorial Hospital. Parents say he left home Saturday without telling them and police were asked to locate him. sheriff reports no inquest requested.
Chester South Carolina August 12 Mrs J L Glenn Sr mother of a federal judge is enrolled in an astronomy class at Winthrop College summer school at age 81 The story notes learning never ends and highlights the judge's mother as the learner
Amos and Amer Lewis two twins charged with murder in the beating death of George Lewis 55 were released to former Sheriff Perry Browning at a Wichita Falls district court hearing. They will report to the September grand jury when their status as juveniles or adults will be decided. The twins reach adulthood at age 17 next Saturday.
A chemical laboratory in Boston reports the theft of formulae and samples used in U S Army lubricant research. The stolen items include formulas for making low grade oils with properties of high grade lubricants.
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