Germany Plans Wolf Pack U-boat Tactic With Air Help
Berlin reports 100 U boats to operate in coordinated packs guided by long range seaplanes to locate and attack British convoys along the European coast. Flying boats to reconnoiter Atlantic lanes, supply weather data, and rest offshore for days, forming the winter Blitzkrieg strategy to cripple Britain’s economy.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Berlin
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Britain
United States
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Atlantic
England
Italians Claim Ships Attacked
The Fascist high command reports torpedo planes sunk two British cruisers at Suda Bay Crete and a submarine torpedoed a British destroyer in the Atlantic. Albanian front fighting sees Italian troops hold positions amid Greek attacks. Four killed as planes strike Elbasan near Tirana. Somaliland port Alula damaged by a British cruiser.
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Rome
Suda Bay
Crete
Atlantic
High Command
Greece
Elbasani
East Africa
Alula
Somaliland
Bec
Olive Tablets by Dr Edwards offer bile flow help
A vintage health ad urges readers to try Dr Edwards Olive Tablets for constipation and sluggish liver bile. It promotes vegetable tablets to stimulate bile, ease digestion, and improve morning energy, selling boxes for 15 30 and 60 cents at all drugstores.
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Ohio
Tax Payments Considered Better at City Hall
Tax payments are considered better at city hall though total collection is four percent less than at this time last year. Several larger property owners paid taxes in advance last year.
Rock Island and Santa Fe Personnel Changes Reported
Rock Island ticket office duty man Charlie Sawyer returns from Dallas. Roy C. Andrews takes motor car rights on the Buffalo district, displacing B. B. Barnes. R. D. Spann to move to Liberal Kansas. W. Snapp with Burlington Lines aids reconstriction of damaged telegraph lines. Herman W. Clutter notes Rocket service business up. John W. Key and wife motor to Joplin Missouri to visit relatives.
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Rock Island
Dalhart
Charlie Sawyer
Dallas
Santa Fe
Roy C. Andrews
Buffalo
B. B. Barnes
R. D
Jack) Spann
Liberal
Kansas
W. Snapp
Burlington Lines
Chicago
Herman W. Clutter
Herman
John W. Key
Joplin
550 Social Center Girls To Celebrate Christmas At New Home
About 550 girls will take part in Christmas festivities December 13 to 24 at the Social Center for Girls 501 Lincoln Street. Miss Ingeborg Kilstoffe notes the new room will accommodate everyone and thanks helpers as the events unfold including devotional, dinners, parties, a doll party, lantern and caroling activities led by various organizers.
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New
Lincoln Street
Ingeborg Kilstoffe
E. C. Britain
Jim McKnight
B. C. Cornelius
O. P. Cowart
Hattilu White
Mildred Buthker
PF. M. Brasley
Delilah Manire
Co. O McBeth
Lantern Club
Ruth Denton
C. W Seibel
S. B. Whittenburg
W. B. Wingate
Friends of the Center
C. W. Seibel
Rumania Seizes Oil Pipelines and Danube Shipping
Premier Ion Antonescu decreed expropriation of oil pipelines pumping stations reservoirs and associated real estate. Romano Americano owned by Standard Oil loses property. Danube barges tugs and seagoing ships with Jewish stockholders are seized. Reimbursement over 25 years by 3 percent bonds. Oil output falls from 1700 to 1400 tank cars daily due to transport issues and unrest.
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Bucharest
Ion Antonescu
Rumania
Romano Americano
Standard Oil
Danube
Antonescu
Nazis Clear Way for Rebuilding of Coventry
London December 4 report quotes Coventry city architect D E Gibson saying German air raids reduced Coventry to ashes may pave the way for a center of greater riches and beauty. He cites high land values and legal delays that blocked a two year plan to replace old buildings with a dignified city center.
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London
Coventry
D. E. Gibson
Royal Society of Arts
Class Organizes Into Union Then Strikes
In New Brunswick New Jersey on December 4 Rutgers University Professor Walter R Peabody joked about forming a union for his Labor Relations class. The class responded by staging a walkout and awarding themselves blank papers, having quietly formed a union and stipulating quizzes be announced in advance.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Walter R. Peabody
Rutgers University
Fleming Business College Elects Officers
Students of Fleming Business College met in general assembly on December 3 to elect officers. Ernie Schumacher of Hereford was chosen president, Vern White of Amarillo vice president, Mary Francis McRoberts of Floydada secretary, and Louis Stephens of Littlefield reporter. The group set the date for the Christmas dance for December 5 at the National and discussed Christmas holidays. All former students and their guests will be invited.
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Fleming Business University
General
Ernie Schumacher
Hereford
Vern White
Amarillo
Mary Francis McRoberts
Floydada
Louis Stephens
Littlefield
Cleanup of Thompson Park Storm Debris Under Way
Acres in Thompson Park are blanketed with fallen limbs as city crews and WPA emergency workers press to finish debris removal. The city manager says only limbs between sidewalks and curbs owned by residents are being cleared this phase.
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Thompson Park
H. R. Smith
WPA
Roosevelt Is Off The Florida Coast
President Roosevelt travels aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa with two destroyer escorts the Magrante and the Trippe. They were reportedly off the Florida coast with course and destination undisclosed.
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Roosevelt
The
Florida Coast
U.S. S
Magrant
Tuscaloosa
President Roosevelt
Trippe
Florida
Bomb Shelter Company Turns Out To Be Night Club
A Texas charter issued to Bomb Shelter Company in Austin was revealed to authorize a night club instead of distributing steel and concrete shelters. Incorporators R. H. Carnahan H. D. McCord and Sam Lynn had filed under the merchandising clause to ride the shelter notoriety. The basement downtown club will be redecorated to resemble an air raid shelter interior.
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Dallas
Austin
R. H. Carnahan
H. D. McCord
Sam Lynn
McCord
Weather forecast repeats same outlook for week
Mr Collman repeats an unchanged forecast predicting fair weather with little temperature change. Daytime high near 60, tonight’s low around 32 to 34, with last night’s readings 36 in town and 34 at the airport.
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Mr. Collman
Pattern 4624 for misses and women sizes 16 to 44
Pattern 4624 is offered in misses and women's sizes 16 18 20 34 36 38 40 42 and 44. Size 16 requires 334 yards 35 inch fabric and 3 8 yard contrast. Send fifteen cents for this pattern to Pattern Department The Amarillo Globe 243 West 17th Street New York NY. Additional ten cents will bring you latest Glenmore Distilleries Louisville KY Pattern Book.
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Amarillo Globe
West 17Th Street
New York
N. Y
Glenmore Distilleries
Louisville
Bombed London Shelters Rescue Efforts Amid Destruction
Ambulances and Army workers combed a bombed convent shelter in London seeking victims after multiple blasts. Four bodies were later pulled from rubble in another area as a raider damaged hotels and shops along the southeast coast. Dirty weather hampered German raids before 10 PM. In Philadelphia the New Deal Wrecking Co vents frustration at jokers using its name while handing out aprons to customers.
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Scan
London
Army Pioneer Corps
Philadelphia
U.R
New Deal Wrecking Co
Binford Arney Leaves Amarillo Jaycees for Austin
Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce to elect new officers at a Friday meeting after Sam Davis announced plans. Binford Arney bid farewell at the Capitol Hotel luncheon as he moves to Austin next week to start a new chapter. Bert Levy praised Arney for founding the group in 1935 and leading its early growth. He received a wrist watch in departure. Arney recalled the early turbulent days and the club’s rise to 250 members.
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Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce
Southwestern Public Service Company
Sam Davis
Amarillo Jaycees
Binford Arney
Capitol Hotel
Arney
Austin
Bert Levy
The
Jaycees
Italians Claim Greeks Use Explosive Bullets
In Rome reports on December 4 claim Greece is using explosive bullets against Italian soldiers. Newspapers publish photos of bullet fragments and quote captions like Greek Civilization, stating a soldier suffered a serious wound from such ammunition.
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Rome
U.P
Grees
Turin
Gazzeztta del Popola
Italy
Messaggero
Cold snap freezes recording clock at weather station
It was so cold at the official weather station that the recording clock froze. Meteorologist C. N. Bemis said the thermometer hit 26 below zero between 2 and 3 A M, then the clock stopped. Finland reports about 175000 evacuees.
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Northfield
C. N. Bemis
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