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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1940
Page
10
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A varied entertainment program opens at Liberty Center for a three day run featuring These Three with Joel McCrea Merle Oberon and Miriam Hopkins and The Lone Wolf Strikes with Warren William Joan Perry and Eric Blore. The current bill closes Thursday.
Lieut. Gen. Sir Cyril B. B. White, head of the Australian army staff, and three Commonwealth cabinet ministers died in a fiery airliner crash near Canberra airport along with six others. Ministers en route from Melbourne to Canberra for a cabinet meeting were Brigadier Geoffrey A. Street J W Fairbairn Sir Henry Gullett. Also killed were Sir Cyril's aide Col Thornthwait Street's secretary and the four crew members.
Farmers and grainmen in the Panhandle hold meetings led by E A Miller of Texas A M Extension and F T Dines of the Texas Wheat Improvement Association to discuss preserving high wheat grades. They warn that a growing influx of inferior wheat threatens premiums, noting a troublesome unmillable variety that could penalize Panhandle growers if not checked. Sessions continue today at Canyon and Hereford with invitations extended to all farmers elevator operators and grainmen.
Three people died when British bombers attacked Amsterdam and northern Holland last night. The Wilhelmina hospital in Amsterdam was seriously damaged and an asylum for women in Castricum was struck, officials said.
Lovely dark eyed Linda Darnell wins new laurels in Star Dust a 20th Century Fox vehicle opening at Star Theatre. John Payne co stars in a tale of Hollywood discovery and comeback with Roland Young Mary Beth Hughes and others in a film directed by Walter Lang from a script by Ellis Logan Malo and Kahn.
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