Wide Nitrate Conspiracy Indicts 29 Firms in U S and Abroad
A federal grand jury charges 29 corporations including E I Du Pont de Nemours with a world wide scheme to monopolize nitrates used for munitions and industry. Indictments name 66 executives and involve about 30 foreign co conspirators across nations from Norway to Chile with activity back to 1920. Rudolph Ilgner is accused of destroying records to shield Chemnycon in the probe.
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New York
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
William Bondy
du Pont Company
Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation
Chilean Nitrate Sales Corporation
Synthetic Nitrogen Products Corporation
Barrett Company
Solvay Process Company
Syracuse
N. Y
United States
Norway
Britain
Switzerland
Germany
Canada
Sweden
Poland
Belgium
Japan
Chile
Rudolph Ilgner
Ilgner
Chemnycon, Inc
Grand Jury
Chumley Named Amarillo Food Stamp Director
Bill D. Chumley was named Amarillo food stamp director by the city commission. He will oversee operations for distributing surplus commodities and purchases. bonds total under 16 000 dollars. The plan includes orange and blue stamps, with blue stamps covering surplus purchases.
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Bill D. Chumley
Amarillo
Chumley
Ross Rogers
Surplus Marketing Administration
Jack Bramlett
Mr. Bramlett
M. F. Egan
Department of Agriculture
Keting
West Fifth Avenue
Bramlett
Jones backs British loan as Germany oil slips
In Washington Jesse Jones calls Britain a good risk and signals readiness to fund aid. The move comes as London seeks information on finances and officials hint at a major new decision in the British aid program amid talk of a $2.5 billion loan with a lien.
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Jesse Jones
England
Morgenthau
Frederick Philips
United States
Sacaour Y
New York
The
Herald Tribune
Marriner 8. Eccles
Federal Reserve System
Britain
Hit and Run Injures Man. City Adopts Tree Pruner Licenses
Walter Talley was struck at Twelfth and Arthur Street and hospitalized with a sprained back after a hit-and-run incident. Orville Sadler, a taxicab driver, picked him up at the scene and Talley is not seriously injured. Police have no lead on the fleeing driver. Separately, city hall faces a surge of appeals from tree workers as officials push an emergency ordinance requiring pruning contractors to prove qualifications for permits and licenses, with tests by the city forester.
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Walter Talley
Houston Street
Twelfth
Arthur Street
Talley
Northwest
Texas Hospital
Orville Sadler
Forrester
Chester Fitz Warns Parents Over Park Tree Climbing
Chester Fitz, superintendent of parks, warns that children should avoid climbing trees in Ellwood park after storms. He says he will thrash unruly kids and urges mothers to ensure behavior is checked, citing danger and the risk to squirrels.
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Ellwood Park
Chester Fitz
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tonight Through Thursday
Weather forecast from the U.S. Weather Bureau for Amarillo and vicinity shows fair conditions tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. West Texas and New Mexico areas expect mainly fair skies with variable high cloudiness and slight clouds in portions, unchanged temperatures. Observed 24 hour extremes at 6:30 A.M. show a minimum 66 and a noon reading of 52.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Greek Seeks His Italian Friend
Gusets Lambros, a Greek restaurant operator in Oakland, asks police to locate his Italian friend Giovan ni Lazoni who runs a flower shop next door. Lazoni stopped visiting after Italy invaded Greece. Lambros says Lazoni is missing and not at his shop or home.
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Oakland
Cal
U.P
Gusets Lambros
Giovanni Lazoni
Lazoni
Italy
Greece
Lambros
Dallas Lineman Succumbs Here
Danner C Nolen 24 and a Western Union lineman who came from Dallas to help repair storm damage died this morning at 10 o clock in a local hospital from acute appendicitis He was survived by his parents Mrs and Mr W Nolen of Dallas a sister Mrs R B Hoyle and a brother W F Nolen Jr also of Dallas He was a member of the Methodist Church The body lay in state at the N S Griggs and Sons Chapel pending funeral arrangements BOMBER TAKES OFF FORT WORTH Dec 4 The second British patrol bomber manufactured by Consolidated Aircraft Corp for shipment to England took off from Lake Worth at 5 A M today en route to Halifax Nova Scotia
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Danner C. Nolen
Western Union
Dallas
W. Nolen
Nolen
Manchuria
R. B. Hoyle
W. F. Nolen, Jr
Methodist Church
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Fort Worth
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
England
Lake Worth
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Houston Dairy Workers Strike Shuts Six Plants
Houston dairy workers walked out at six major plants supplying 90 percent of the city's milk. Busier milk trucks idle since Sunday as wage disputes linger. side workers bottling and pasteurizing during negotiations. Inside crews kept minimal operation at one plant to serve schools, hospitals, and institutions.
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Houston
U.P
Dairies
British Press Seeks U.S. Aid As War Looms
WPI Senator Hiram Johnson says the United States is on the brink of war and criticizes leaders as reckless. British and Axis reports highlight raids on Birmingham and renewed calls for U S naval patrols of Atlantic trade routes. Parliament hears on oil refineries, mobilization, and reconstruction plans amid ongoing bombing.
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Britain
United States
Atlantic
Birmingham
English Midlands
Hugh Dalton
Germany
Dalton
Army Confident It Can Meet Any War Emergency
Washington dispatch notes army officers affirm confidence in handling current and future emergencies. A tour of Fort Bliss Fort Sill Fort Knox Fort Sam Houston Fort Benning Randolph Field reveals modernized forces, armored units, and improved infantry deployment shaping a tougher, faster, better coordinated army.
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John A. Reichmann
Washington
Continental Defense Establishment
National Army
Army
Fort Bliss
Tex
Fort Benning, Ga
Fort Sill
Okla
349Th Field Artillery
France
Fort Knox
Ohio River
Armored Corps
Horse
Randolph Field
Young
Texas Plains
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Benning
Second Armored
Sandies Top Texas High School Poll in Writers Vote
Amarillo Golden Sandstorm named No 1 in a unanimous writers poll with 55 points. Port Arthur Yellow Jackets and Fort Worth Masonic Home tied for second. Paris Wildcats third, followed by Longview and Corpus Christi with limited support.
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Tom W. Miller
Dallas
U.P
Amarillo
Texas
United
Port Arthur
Fort Worth
Masonic Home
Yellow Jackets
Paris’ Wildcats
Longview
Corpus Christi
Paris
Brackenridge
Stephenville
Wichita Falls
Temple
Jeff Davis
Lufkin
Big Spring
el Paso
Greenville
Sunset
George Short
Kilgore
L. Warren Wilcox
Masonic Home Masons
Bob Ingram
Fl Paso
Advertising forecasts mark 1941 as big year for newspapers
C L Jordan of N W Ayer predicts 1941 will be a peak year for newspaper advertising due to the defense program. He says rising incomes will boost local market coverage and advertisers will use multiple papers to reach moneyed families. Also in Berlin a German court sentences nine Poles to death for abducting 52 farmers and killing nine on day one of the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
C. L. Jordan
N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc
Jordan
Berlin
Posen
Education Talk by Ella Enslow on The Little Red Schoolhouse
Ella Enslow discusses modern schooling and homework in a talk titled The Little Red Schoolhouse Goes to College at Amarillo Country Club. She notes her Kentucky teaching start at 14 and fame from Country Schoolhouse in the Hills articles. Dinner for Knife and Fork Club members starts at 7 with reservations due by noon tomorrow at Maxor Drug Store and Amarillo Hotel newsstand.
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Ella Enslow
Little Red
Maxor Drug Store
Fisk Building
Amarillo Hotel
Building Permits Total Nearly $20 000
City hall records show building permits issued over the past two days totaling nearly $20,000. Among the latest is a $7,200 eight room brick home for A R Granberg at 1601 Crockett Street.
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City Hall
A. R. Granberg
Crockett Street
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WPI
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Republica of California
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America
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Hannah
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