The Fog May Lift Tomorrow in Panhandle Weather
Fog may lift tomorrow as freezing fog persists to noon with possible drizzle. Snow flurries marked the Panhandle yesterday and today boosting the winter total. Texline Dalhart and Santa Fe report varying accumulations while Fort Worth Denver notes clearing south of Clarendon.
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Mr. Collman
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Amarillo
Spearman
Santa Fe
Etter
Boise City
Texline
Dalhart
Fort Worth
Denver
Clarendon
Wyoming
Texas
Collman
Listening Post Plan Advances To Monitor Short Wave
Washington February 2 The Senate appropriations committee backs a $40 000 increase for FCC to build a new silent monitor station near Anchorage Alaska to detect espionage in high frequency airwaves Chairman James Lawrence Fly says a compact transmitter can be built with inexpensive parts and used for covert transatlantic links.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
James Lawrence Fly
Communications Commission
Senate Appropriations Committee
FCC
Anchorage
Alaska
Fly
Oklahoma City Starlings Moved To New Roost
Firemen and police answered A J Brunswig plea to rid his clothing store eaves of starlings by firing 72 roman candles. The birds scattered but soon returned until searchlights drove them away. A second fireworks attack was planned after a crowd of about 10 000 dispersed and the birds relocated to a building nearby.
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Oklahoma City
A. J. Brunswig
John J. Lynn
Russians Drop Troops as Finland Fights Back
Finnish high command reported Russian planes dropped many patrols over Finnish soil with troops captured or killed. On the Karelian isthmus Russia used tank pushed armored sledges, but the enemy was repulsed after a night battle. Air raids on Rovaniemi continued with 43 Russian planes dropping 200 bombs, raising foreign aid appeals.
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Helsinki
U.P
Karelian Isthmus
Finland
Rovaniemi
Russia
Allies Assert Rights in Seizing U S Mail Parcels
Paris reports France's blockade ministry backs Britain's claim that Allies may inspect United States and other neutral mail for contraband destined for Germany. The communique cites seizures of currency jewels and goods believed sent by Nazi agents, including foodstuffs marked as commercial samples.
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Paris
France
Britain
United States
Germany
Movie Stars Gable and Lombard Missing Near Ensenada
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, married MGMs stars, vanished after leaving a ranch 115 miles south of Ensenada yesterday morning. Studio officials organized a search amid heavy rain and rough roads, fearing an auto accident.
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Ensenada
Mexico
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Here
Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer
Hattie Hamilton
Gable
Otto Winkler
Erick Carpenter
M-G-M
Tax Meeting Held by Potter County Taxpayers League
The Potter County Taxpayers League will meet at 7:30 p m Monday at the Amarillo Hotel. Officers will be elected and the organization policies will be discussed as the meeting was moved from Tuesday to avoid a Knife and Fork Club event.
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Potter County Taxpayers League Organization
Amarillo
Knife and Fork Club
Norwegian Steamer Varildi Sinks with Sailors Lost
The 1,560 ton Norwegian steamer Varildi sank in the North Sea with the loss of about 15 crew members. The cause of the disaster was not disclosed as of today from Haugesund Norway.
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Haugesund
Norway
Varildi
Romania Signals Possible Pact with Germany and Moscow
Belgrade reports from the Balkan entente meeting indicate Romania may seek guarantees of its frontiers with Hungary and Bulgaria from Germany in exchange for full economic cooperation. Rumanians might pursue a non aggression accord with Moscow via Berlin, while Britain contemplates limiting exports to Romania to pressure oil supplies.
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Jugoslavia
UPI
Romania
Bucharest
Germany
Soviet Russia
Hungary
Grigore Cafencu
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Rumania
Reich
Gafencu
Moscow
Berlin
Bessarabian
Russia
Britain
Dallas Federal Reserve reports bright district outlook for 1939
The Eleventh District's year end review cites December 1939 gains in trade and industry, heavy department store sales into January 1940, sustained wholesale activity, and a sharp rise in construction. Petroleum output remained near peak, agriculture improved with rains, but January chill hurt crops and livestock. Loans remained above year-ago levels.
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Dallas
U.P
Federal Reserve District
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Texas
Sheriff Uses Letter to Reclaim Jail Breaker
Hardy Arkansas February 2 Sheriff Ralph Hall handles jail break by writing a polite letter to the escaped prisoner asking him to return. The inmate complied and Hall then secured him a job so he could pay the remaining fine.
Unnamed Globe News Want Ad Promises Low-Cost Salesman
A bold want ad touts a salesman who would work for under 15 cents per day, claiming to place facts about products in 33,000 homes daily. It invites readers to call 6262 at Globe News Want Ad Headquarters for engagements. The ad is placed by Russell Stover?
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Globe-News
Great Britain declares foodstuffs contraband for Germany
Feb 2 1915 marking a wartime policy where Britain lists all Germany bound foodstuffs as contraband affecting trade and supplies. The note reflects early World War I wartime economic measures and signaling heightened tensions between Britain and Germany.
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Great Britain
Germany
Fog and Light Snow Forecast for Amarillo Area
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for continued fog and slightly colder tonight with light rain or snow. Saturday to be partly cloudy with cooler temps. West Texas and New Mexico regions expect cloudy skies with occasional rain or snow, colder tonight, and temperatures near 28 to 29 degrees by noon.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Japanese War Diet in Uproar Over War Duration Question
Takao Saito of the Minseito launched a caustic attack in the Tokyo Diet demanding a statement on how long the China war would last. He was condemned by members of his own and other parties as harming imperial ideals while the army denounced his remarks as insults to the sacred war. The foreign office said James R. Young of International News Service faces a civil trial for alleged slanderous reports about Japanese forces, with a potential three year sentence. trial date was not announced.
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U.P
Takao Saito
Minseito Party
China
Saito
Harvard University
Foreign Office
James R. Young
Texas Government Faces Fiscal Crisis and Obsolete Machinery
Texas State Auditor Tom King warns in his annual report that the state’s governmental apparatus is obsolete and overburdened by a fourth branch of appointive boards and commissions. He calls for abolition of redundant units, a central budget and tax system, merit hiring, and post-audit review to restore accountability to the governor and curb waste.
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Austin
Texas
Republic
Tom C. King
King
Europe
Harvard Freshman Dates By Climbing Tree on Cambridge Common
Haywood Kirby of Rye New York a Harvard freshman climbed a tree on Cambridge Common to secure a date with Libby Esler of Pittsburgh Radcliffe freshman. He stayed perched until she agreed and they went on the date last night with ten dollars he won from classmates on a wager.
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Mass
U.P
Haywood Stuart Kirby
Rye
N. Y
Harvard
Tarzan
Kirby
Cambridge Common
Libby Esler
Pittsburgh
Radcliffe
Frank E. Crawford
Sheffield
Esler
Two Billion Deficit for First Seven Months of Year
The treasury reports a deficit of 2.4217 billion dollars for the first seven months of the fiscal year ending June 30. By January end spending stood at 5.4805 billion with revenues at 3.0588 billion, versus last year’s smaller gap. President Roosevelt projects the total deficit could reach about 4.033 billion by year-end.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Kaiser Calls for Nazi Finnish Alliance in Peace Plea
Exiled former German ruler Kaiser Wilhelm, writing from Doorn Netherlands and mailed January 16 to biographer Poultney Bigelow, urges Germany and the Allies to declare peace and then join Finland to rid the world of bolshevism.
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New York
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm
Finland
Doorn
Holland
Poultney Bigelow
Illinois Democrat Demands Action on Wagner Act Amendments
Rep. Frank Fries, a Democrat from Illinois, urged the House labor committee to act on Wagner Act amendments, charging the committee has been idle while people are being murdered.
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Frank Fries
Illinois
House Labor Committee
Committee
Reconstruction Finance approves loan for Kansas Pipe Line project
Allen W. Junkin of St. Paul says the Reconstruction Finance Corporation tentatively approved an 11.5 million dollar loan to Kansas Pipe Line and Gas Company to build a gas line from Hugoton and Panhandle fields through Texas Kansas and Oklahoma to Minnesota iron range. Approval covers half the project cost and awaits detailed financing plans.
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Washington
Allen W. Junkin
St. Paul
Emotional disturbances linked to common cold say Chicago analyst
Chicago psychoanalyst Dr. Leon Saul reports studies from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis suggest prolonged or severe frustrations of love, care, or relaxation may trigger colds in some individuals. The findings tie emotional disruption to physical illness and emphasize psychological factors in common ailments.
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Chicago
Chicago Institute For Psychoanalysis
Leon Saul
Missouri Professor Lets Students Sleep in Office
In Columbia Missouri Breton Berry associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri outfits his office with a six foot army cot for tired students who cannot stay awake. He requires them to sleep during the class hour and marks them absent in the course.
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Columbia, Mo
Breton Berry
University of Missouri
Dies committee grills three congressmen over dinner ties
The Dies committee questioned Rep. Robert Ramspeck, Rep. William Larrabee, and Rep. John Coffree after they attended a January 9 dinner at Gard Ner Jackson’s home linked to the CIO Labor's Non-Partisan League. The letters from William Dudley Pelley cited by the panel were described as forgeries by David Mayne.
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Washington
Dies Committee
Robert Ramspeck
Georgia
William H. Larrabee
Indiana
John M Coffree
Joe Starnes
Alabama
Dies
Gardner Jackson
CIO Labor
League
Jackson
William Dudley Pelley
Martin Dies
David Mayne
Pelley
Amarillo to receive safety award for citywide effort
Amarillo will receive a plaque after placing first in a Texas Safety Association contest. The city’s 48,000 to 98,000 population bracket recorded 4.1 fatalities per 100,000, safer than Beaumont Waco Wichita Falls Corpus Christi Port Arthur Galveston and Austin. The presentation is set for April 15 in Austin with Mayor Ross D. Rogers and George Clarke discussing an Amarillo Safety Council.
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Texas Safety Association
National Safety Council
Amarillo
Beaumont
Waco
Wichita Falls
Corpus Christi
Port Arthur
Galveston
Austin
George Clarke
Association
Ross D. Rogers
Rogers
Robbers Use Telephones To Lure Away Tellers
In Springfield Missouri on February 2 robbers used fake telephone messages to lure tellers from their cages at Union National Bank and stole four thousand dollars before staff flagged the scheme. A clerk noticed two strangers loitering then departing with the loot, and investigators believe a stick was used to drag currency within reach.
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Springfield
Union National Bank
Arthur Sanders
Sanders
Earl Long Promises To Make All Louisianans Colonels
Governor Earl K. Long vowed a broad political pledge in Minden Louisiana promising to elevate laborers farmers and small business people to the rank of colonel. He claimed certificates cost three cents to print and would confer the title.
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Earl Long
Minden
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Woolworth Reports Record 1939 Sales and Profits
F W Woolworth Co announces 1939 sales at 318,839,664 across 2000 stores in the U S and Canada. Domestic earnings rise 2,082,416. Profits for American and Canadian units reach 29,310,353 versus 28,584,944 in 1938.
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New York
F. W. Woolworth Co
U. S
Canada
Real Estate Finance and Insurance Firms Named
See E. A. Regal Co for FHA loans. Build Now. John Maynard Lbn Co and Neely Greenhill Agency listed for insurance services in local notices.
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E. A. Regal Co
John Maynard Lbn Co
Neely-Greenhill Agey
Roosevelt Warns Congress On Farm Budget Reductions
President Roosevelt told Congress that drastic House proposed cuts to the agriculture budget would impair farm program efficiency and cause undue hardship to individuals and economic groups in Hyde Park New York.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Cat frozen to roof saved by operator in Fergus Falls
In Fergus Falls Minnesota Joyce Bondy heard a mewing for days and traced it to a cat frozen on the roof of the telephone exchange building. Workers freed the cat with an axe, gave it a home in the office, and the animal appeared unharmed.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Joyce Bondy
Telephone Exchange
Airplane Lands at Back Door to Ask Airport Route
Farmer John Link watched as a small plane taxied to his back door in Allentown. The youthful pilot asked how to reach the Allentown Bethlehem airport and then flew off from a pasture patch.
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Allentown
John Link
Allentown- Bethlehem
Fink
Hauptmann Kidnapping Victim's Son Awarded Damages
The six year old son of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the Lindbergh baby kidnapper, received 23500 dollars in damages from cartoonist Frank Moser for allegedly permanent leg injuries after being struck by Moser's car on February 2 in New York.
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New York
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Frank Moser
Moser
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