Amarillo Police Embrace Paraffin Test and Education Drive
Amarillo police promote the paraffin hand test to detect gunfire by residue, praising scientific crime methods. The force also expands fingerprinting, photographic casts, and sends officers to FBI and Northwestern University training, while painting school safety lanes to guide children across streets.
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Pampa
Amarillo
Virgil Beavers
Leo
Federal Bureau of Investigation Rr
Sid Harper
Northwestern University
Pan American Conference Abandons Racial Persecution at Lima
In Lima Peru on December 13 delegates at the eighth Pan American Conference advanced three resolutions to oppose racial persecution and foreign interference. The Uruguayan proposal seeks a declaration that no foreign doctrine or action may intervene in a country's sovereign life or influence its citizens.
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Lima
Peru
U.P
United States Project
United
Americas
Ludwig Lewisohn to Speak on The Jew and the World at Temple
Noted novelist Ludwig Lewisohn will lecture Sunday at 8 PM at Temple B nai Israel on The Jew and the World. He has written Upstream Mid-Chan nel As a Jew Thinks and Forever Wilt Thou Love. He travels Europe and Near East and is a member of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Civic clubs and the public are invited.
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Ludwig Lewisohn
Temple B'nai Israel
Building Here Now Nears Three Million In Amarillo
Construction costs in Amarillo this year approach 3 million dollars as new building permits push the total estimated improvements to 2,896,185. A $32,000 gymnasium permit for Buchanan Street School boosts totals, and a $4,800 brick veneer five room home at 3402 Harrison Street for A. H. Wagner by J. C. Finley Latest permits show ongoing residential growth in the city.
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Amarillo
Buchanan Street
Harrison Street
A. H. Wagner
J. C. Finley
Negro attacker denied clemency must die Friday
The Texas pardons board declined to recommend clemency for Morris Norman a 21 year old Black man sentenced to die December 16 for raping a white woman in Donley County The decision was announced in Austin on December 13 7.
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Austin
State Card of Pardons and
Thay
Morris Norman
Donley County
Gang Killers Kill Target Inside Sing Sing Prison
OSSINING N Y Dec 13 Underworld killers who fled John F O Hara a young New York financial investigator killed Matthew J Kane 41 in Sing Sing prison Kane was slashed with a sharpened knife and died after infection Five convicts were placed in solitary confinement as authorities probed the slaying O Hara was shot to death at his Sunnyside Queens apartment no motive was found and O Hara was not known for criminal ties
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Ossining
N. Y
John F. O'Hara
New York
Sing Sing
Matthew J. Kane
Kane
O'Hara
Sunnyside
Queens
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
The forecast for Amarillo and West Texas calls for fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. New Mexico should remain generally fair tonight and Wednesday, colder in the north portion and warmer in the east portion on Wednesday. Temperature extremes show a maximum of 36 and a minimum of 27.
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Texas
New Mexico
Snow Flurry Sweeps Amarillo and Panhandle Area
A cold front from southeastern Colorado brought scattered snow across Amarillo and northeast Panhandle this afternoon. Dumas and Dalhart saw light to moderate accumulations, with heavier falls near Pampa and Miami. Denver temps rose as the front moved south, with Amarillo forecast for fair weather tomorrow.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Colorado
Dumas
Dalhart
Here
Canadian
Shattuck
Booker
Oklahoma
Colonel Ayres Predicts 1939 Business Boom
Col Leonard P Ayres vice president and statistician Cleveland Trust Co predicts 1939 will see a business boom in the first half with a possible slump later. He cites pump priming and rising employment while warning against inflation and borrowing to finance recovery.
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Cleveland
U.P
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Ayres
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Fisherman killed by army bomb near Plum Tree Island
Milton Hoffman aged about 35 from Messick was killed at Plum Tree Island when a bomb dropped from a Langley Field bomber exploded near his boat while crews practiced on the Langley Field range. He had previously served at Langley Field and was clamming in Back River opposite the island.
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Langley Field
Milton Hoffman
Messick
Plum Tree Island
Hoffman
Langey
Back River
Bull tosses man over fence in New Hampshire pasture
In Rochester New Hampshire a bull tossed Thomas Gilbert over a pasture fence, breaking two ribs but likely saving his life by keeping him away from the animal. The incident occurred yesterday as Gilbert escaped the enraged bull.
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Rochester
N. H
Thomas Gilbert
Gilbert
Holiday Time Slows Up Wheels of Justice
Judge E C Nelson hands the 47th district criminal court to Judge St Nick for the holiday term. Jurors are released until after Christmas as cases are postponed to easing the Christmas season burden amid defense and DA concerns. Judge St Nick will handle criminal matters through the term while Nelson hears non jury and civil cases.
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Wheels of Justice
Lewis Nordyke
St. Nick
47Th District Criminal Court
E. C. Nelson
Nelson
District Attorney's Office
8. C. St. Nick
Criminal District Court
Mules and Goat Die of Mysterious Malady
A small family on 2019 North Arthur Street loses their income after both mules and a fattened goat die within a weekend. William Nichols, his 72 year old mother, and helper S. M. Emerick face hunger as WPA funds have ended and no funds remain for food or clothing. The cause of death for the livestock is unknown, leaving the trio to seek new means of survival.
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Dick Martin
William Nichols
Nichols
North Arthur Street
S. M. Emerick
Emerick
Nichol
Bill Emerick
Europe Worries Over Two Fold War Crisis
The article warns Britain and France face danger as Nazi Fascist axis pressure grows on the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. Mussolini presses for control of the Suez route while backing Franco in Spain, signaling a looming bigger war threat this decade.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Munich
Cates
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Mediterranean
Berlin
Soviet
Russia
Great Britain
France
Poland
Roumania
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Britain
Corsica
Tunisia
Spain
Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Drug Firm President Held in 18 Million Shortage Case
U S Commissioner warrants issued for F Donald Coster president of McKesson and Robins Inc and two associates in an 18 million shortage of listed assets. Affected are George Dietrich and George Bernard. Officials say Manning and Company acted as a phantom banking agent for the drug firm.
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New York
U. S
Garrett W. Potter
F. Donald Coster
McKesson & Robins, Inc
Coster
George Dietrich
George Bernard
Manning & Company
Royal Bank of Canada
Montreal
Joseph F. Ruggieri
Canada
Colter
Kaufman
Vernard
Amarillo School Delivers Perfect Unannounced Fire Drill
Miss Olga Juniger and Ed Spann praised Buchanan Street school in Amarillo for a flawless unannounced fire drill testing 1,380 pupils in 90 seconds under adverse conditions. They noted the drill followed no prior announcement and doors had been blocked for construction.
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Texas
Olga Juniger
Amarillo
Buchanan Street School
Ed Spann
Miss Juniger
State Fire Insurance Commissioner
Spann
Juniger
Dies Warns of Pressure Over Un-American Activities Committee
Rep. Dies of Texas predicted the administration would exert full pressure to block the House Committee on un American activities from obtaining authority to continue its work next year.
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Washington
Dies
Texas
House Committee On un-American Activities
Jap Generalissimo Challenges Chiang To Decisive Battle
Japanese forces in South China face calls for a decisive clash as General Rikichi Ando invites Chiang Kai-shek to meet with 1,000,000 Japanese troops. Chinese units move toward Canton while Kwantung Province mobilizes new troops under Chiang’s orders.
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Hongkong
Canton
China
Kwangtung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rikichi Ando
Ando
Girl, 15 Mistakes Father for Burglar and Kills Him
Denver reports Mary Wine, 15, told police she shot and killed her father Max Wine, 33, a former racketeer, after mistaking him for a burglar. The incident occurred as she described it in the hours after the event.
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Girl
Denver
U.P
Mary Wine
Police
Max Wine
Speicher accuses GM manager of graft tied to army favors
Frank E. Speicher, a government witness, testified in U. S. District Court that Norman K. Haig, GM fleet sales manager, embezzled thousands of dollars on the pretext of influencing army leaders including George Dern, Harry Woodring, and Douglas MacArthur. Speicher said no money was paid to the officials.
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Washington
Frank E. Speicher
U. S. District Court Today
General Motors
Army
Speicher
Norman K. Haig
Haig
George H. Dern
Harry H. Woodring
Douglas H. MacArthur
Eden Makes Capital Visit Under Informal British Banner
Anthony Eden begins a two day Washington visit denying any official mission. He plans meetings with President Roosevelt and Sumner Welles and will tour Mount Vernon and the Lincoln Memorial. Eden attracts a flutter of attention from clerks and admirers at the State Department.
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Washington
Anthony Eden
Roosevelt
Eden
State Department
Sumner Welles
White House
National Press Club
Mount Vernon
George Washington
Robert Eden
Maryland
Lincoln Memorial
Potomac
Edens
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Malcolm MacDonald
Colonial and Dominions
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Department of Justice
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