20 Dec 1940
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
1
A breezy mix of weather optimism for a Fort Worth football game, holiday bonus advice for business workers, and anecdotes from Winston County Alabama. It includes public health tips on flu remedies, a Winston County political note, a note on corn silage preservation, and a local saying about office buzzers.
Captain Valdemar Nielsen reports Queen Mary carried at least 6 000 Italian prisoners from Egypt to Bom bay and Capetown, while Queen Elizabeth prepared to ferry 16 000 or more Australian troops to reinforce Egypt. The briefing includes other wartime notes and historical curiosities.
Stocks climb with the Dow Jones up while rail and utility components push higher. Kansas City livestock reports show hogs steady to firm and cattle and calves generally steady amid active sheep trading and varied grade prices.
Winter sports fans find good conditions at Agua Piedra and Hyde State Park with fresh powder in Gallinas and Big Tesque areas. Cedar Creek and Cloudcroft have no skiing due to no snow while roads to Big Tesuque are closed and others require chains. Temperatures will rise above freezing by day and drop well below freezing at night. Aqua Piedra Taos reports 20 inches depth, 6 inches new powder. Hyde 20 inches depth, 6 inches new. Big Tesque 28 inches, 12 inches new. Gallinas 24 inches, 12 inches new with breakable surface.
Dear Tack helps a widow with a six-year-old son seeking housekeeper work on a farm or in a home without a mother. Continued on page 23.
Santa Rosa investigators report an extortion attempt tied to the De Tristan kidnapping. FBI agent R J Bobbitt and a posse tailed a elusive man in a black overcoat to a cabbage patch before the suspect vanished with a cigar box full of worthless paper. Muhlenbroich, the earlier kidnapper, remains in San Quentin serving a life term.
Glen McNatt of Pampa began work as selective service appeals board clerk in the ninth district covering 50 Plains counties. The office is in the old county library building and the first meeting is set for 11 tomorrow morning. Chairman R. E. Underwood and secretary H. G. Hamrick are named.
A 1915 item notes British forces repelling a German assault near Ypres. The 1939 leather trade figures state U S usage of 26 million cattle hides 45 million sheep and lamb hides and 16 million calf skins.
Mr Collman predicts fine football and Christmas shopping weather with no change in sight. He says it will run through the weekend. Last night’s low was 29 rural, 34 town, today near same. High around 55 with light west wind.
An excited woman telephoned police claiming a man rattling her porch window. The desk officer clarified the disturbance was an earthquake, not a burglary, after verification. Public safety note from SAUQGUB, Mass. dateline, December 20.
The food stamp office at 115 West Fifth Avenue will stay open until 7 PM on Monday and Tuesday nights to serve WPA workers eligible to buy stamps. Paydays for WPA fall on those days next week. The plan began in Amarillo and Potter County last Monday with several hundred dollars in stamps sold on opening day, buyers receiving proportional stamps for surplus commodities.
The John B. Golding Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will host a supper and party at 8 o'clock tonight at the Odd Fellows Home. The event is for post and auxiliary members with no business session planned.
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