French Families To Be Punished
German authorities announced deportations of families of French youths who fled Lorraine. Sons must return by midnight, then fathers and mothers face removal to separate German regions. Reports from Metz and Lyons note priests resisting rule amid riots and bomb incidents in Nice.
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Vichy
France
U.R
Lorrance
Germany
Nice
Riviera
Paris
Lorraine
Josef Buerckel
Alsace
United Press
Lyons
Buerckel
Metz Zeitung
Neuberg
Kahlhausen
Hochschloss
Byrd presses for lease lend spending report
Senator Byrd urged a full accounting of lease lend expenditures to date. He questions how much of the seven billion dollars allocated has been spent and asks for the disbursement report before consideration of any further appropriation. Indications suggest possible Russian needs factor into the projected request.
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Washington
Byrd
Virginia
Congress
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Churchill
Weather data supports Amarillo climate for air school plans
The article argues Amarillo’s temperate conditions and high sun hours suit air corps training in pilot production. It cites official records comparing temperatures, rainfall, wind, cloud and fog days with Albuquerque Oklahoma City Corpus Christi Lubbock Denver and Wichita to refute climate doubts.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Air Corps
Albuquerque
Oklahoma City
Corpus Christi
Lubbock
Denver
Wichita
Kans
Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Rex Baxter
Jahoma City
Wich
Spin Your Own Silk Thread Ailing Chicago Doctor Learns Here
CHICAGO Aug 15 The hospital bound tailor William Vandrasek who once spun woolen yarn as a boy shows nurses how to unwind silk from cocoons He hatched 400 silk worm eggs in May and within 32 days produced enough silk for three pairs of hosiery He suggests crippled patients could help if given space and more eggs from the hospital yard
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Chicago
William Vandrasek
Vandrasek
Austria-Hungary
War preparations and Allied dispositions in Asia Pacific
War officials report a “shadow larder” of 5,000,000 cans prepared under Churchill’s orders to be ready by September 1 as a possible invasion deadline. A large convoy brings thousands of Australian soldiers to Singapore for defense posts while Britain asserts the Far East army’s growing strength to deter any attack on British interests in the region.
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Malaya
Singapore
12 Americans Die in Britain
Aircraft crash in Britain killed 12 Americans eight Canadians and one British person among ferry crew. Victims include Joseph C. Mackey Kansas pilot of the bomber that also carried insulin co discoverer Sir Frederick Banting. Also cites other American and Canadian crew deaths and notes prior Friday crash deaths and sabotage investigations.
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London
Arthur B. Purvis
British Purchasing Commission
United States
Great Britain
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Joseph C. Mackey
Kansas
Frederick Banting
Newfoundland
E. W. Watson
Torrence
Cal
R. F. Davis
Seattle
Wash
M. D. Dilley
Kansas City
Kaw
J. J. Kerwin
Oakland
E. B. Anding
Merrick
N. Y
W. L. Trimble
Fort Worth
Tex
M. J. Wetzel
Jamesburg
Nisk
G. Hull
Royal Oak
Mich
E. Hamel
Braintree
Mass
P. EF. Lee, Jr
Frederick
A. C. Earl
Huntington
W. Va
R. Coates
Dartmouth
J. J. Moffat
Toronto
W. F. J. Goddard
J. P. Cu
Longueuil
R. A. Duncan
Port Arthur
Ont
A. Tamblin
R. C. Stafford
Maidehead Berks
Eng
Atlantic
Fort Wellington Watson
Los Angeles
Lord Beaverbrook
Canada
North Atlantic
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Beaverbrook
Washington
Purvis
Anglo-French Purchasing Board
France
Left-Handed Street Sweeper Sought by Fort Worth
Fort Worth officials faced a quirky staffing dilemma when a street department worker requested a left handed street sweeper to clean newly designated one way streets. The driver could not back up without spilling dirt and the city considered allowing the machine to operate against traffic until a left handed sweeper could be found.
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Fort Worth
W. A. Huffman
Port facility project boosts lend lease shipments to Britain
The Sea Talkrush outlines a $2,000,000 port facilities project in New York to speed lend lease shipments to Britain. White House photos show the 35,000 ton British Battleship Prince of Wales and the U S Cruiser Augusta at scene of conferences held last Saturday and Sunday.
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New York
Britain
White House
U. S
Augusta
Indian Fighter Charlies Cooper Admitted To Amarillo Veterans Hospital
Ninety year old Charlies Henry Cooper, a veteran of the Indian Wars and member of Captain Maltby’s Company E Frontier Battalion, is reported patient at the Amarillo Veterans Hospital after coming from Tucumcari. Cooper, born in 1851 in New York, served under Major Jones and fought Big Foot in Texas. He later settled in Lampasas County, married, ran a ranch, and has three children.
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Herschel Caplan
Veterans’ Hospital
Charlies Henry Cooper
Cooper
W. J. Maltby
Frontier Battalion
Texas
New York
Texas Rangers
Jones
Maltby
Mud Creek
Big Foot
Clay Man
Coleman County
Lampasas County
Tucumcari
William
New Mexico
Louella
California
Estella Elliott
Amarillo
Publisher Ordered To Testify At Radio Hearing
UPI reports U. S. District Judge James W. Morris ordered James G. Stahlman of Nashville Tennessee to testify before the FCC hearing on newspaper ownership of radio stations. The order followed Stahlman’s refusal to answer a subpoena after advice from Elisha Hanson attorney for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Hanson challenged the FCC's authority to proceed. The judge deemed Stahlman eminently qualified to provide information helpful to the commission's investigation.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
James W. Morris
Today
James G. Stahlman
Nashville
Woodworking Shop Trains CCC Camps Furnishings
The National Youth Administration woodworking shop at Twelfth Avenue and Jackson Street has received August orders to furnish nine CCC camps with 120 tables and 240 benches plus 9 ice boxes 9 wash benches 9 kitchen cabinets and other furniture. Additional items in production include 8 home economics tables 24 typing tables 25 office tables 3 office desks 2 music cases and a large mahogany conference table.
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National Youth Administration
Twelfth Avenue
Jackson Street
Harold Hamilton
WPA Picnic Brings 130 Children to East Side Park
Recreation leaders from the Works Project Administration hosted a Wednesday picnic at East Side Park for 130 children aged from one month to 16 years. Attendees enjoyed sandwiches cookies and cold drinks as games were played and final group photos were taken by the organizers.
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Works Project Administration Recreation Project
East Side Park
Beauty Shop Heist After Gunmen Rally Women
Seven women customers at a Chicago beauty shop were herded into a booth by two gunmen who rifled purses and fled with $60. Police investigated the robbery and reviewed nearby surveillance for leads.
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Chicago
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Globe-News
Woolton
Globe News
U.P
Detroit Star
Amarillo Hardware Co
Vet
H. V. Robertson & CO
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Oliver Eatie
Woodworking Shop
Gels
CCC
WPA
Tire Exchange
Fillmore
Kimballs
Lesters
910 Polk
Megert Music CO
Bill
Mothers
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