Robertson's Rites Tuesday for A B Robertson
Funeral services for A B Robertson 63 year old Santa Fe Railroad veteran will be held Tuesday at 4 pm from Boxwell Brothers Chapel. C B Lawler Christian Scientist reader will officiate. Masonic burial rites at Llano Cemetery. Survivors include wife two daughters son George and two brothers.
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A. B. Robertson
Santa Fe Railroad
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
C. B. Lawler
Christian Scientist
John E. Dyer
G. A. McCullough
R. C. Martini
John Wheatley
W. A. Askew
W. L. Shafer
Llano
Masonic Halls
Techapel
Robertson
Amarillo
Pleasant Hill
Miss
Hagerman
N. M
Masonic Lodge
Harrison Street
F. M. Yarbrough, Jr
Piedmont
Ala
George Robertson
P. M
Frank W. Robertson
C. P. Roberts
Whitesboro
Teacher Training Institute Tuesday at Central Presbyterian Church
Presbyterians hold a one day Teacher Training Institute at Central Presbyterian Church with courses approved by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and the International Council of Religious Education. Leaders include Mrs Hudson Hereford and Rev A M Dorsett Canyon among Amarillo delegates from multiple Texas towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterians
Central Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
Philadelphia
International Council of Religious Education
G. M. Hudson
Hereford
Chas. Wolflin
Amarillo
B. Paul Hovey
H. Ray Allman
A. M. Dorsett
Canyon
E. C. Ochsner
Frank Travis
Childress
C. N. Wylie
Tulsa
White Deer
McLean
Pampa
Hopkins
Dawn
Magic City
Borger
Jumbo
Plainview
Memphis
Dalhart
Woodmen To Install Officers Thursday
Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circle officers to be installed Thursday night at 8 at Woodmen Hall in a joint ceremony. J R Sims state manager and C R Hamilton state organizer will officiate. Mrs Laura E Krebes state manager of the circle will officiate circle officers with Mrs Elizabeth Massey and Mrs Georgia Easum assisting. The Woodmen Drill Team led by Clyde Garrison will assist. A social meeting will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodmen of the World
Woodmen Circle
Woodmen Hall
J. R. Sims
Woodmen
C. R. Hamilton
Woodmen Log Rollers
Dallas
Laura E. Krebes
Austin
Elizabeth Massey
Georgia Easum
Clyde Garrison
Trivial Labor Cases Won’t Hinder Defense Work
Undersecretary Robert P. Patterson told the House military committee that trivial labor disputes will not stop work on defense contracts. He noted the War Department aims for quick material delivery and explained a Ford Motor Company challenge to a labor clause in a $10 million truck contract. Ford feared the clause could allow rescission of the order due to labor complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert P. Patterson
War Department
House Military Committee
Patterson
Ford Motor Company
Ford
15 Accidents Reported To Police In Amarillo Over Weekend
Police records show 15 traffic accidents during the weekend in Amarillo. Two injuries were reported, with W. E. Wicker of 301 North Johnson Street hurt at Third Avenue and Buchanan Street. Mrs. H. J. Neeley of 305 Tennessee Street injured on West Sixth Avenue. Neither injury serious.
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Amarillo
W. E. Wicker
North Johnson Street
Third Avenue
Buchanan Street
H. J. Neeley
Tennessee Street
West Sixth Avenue
Amarillo Tax Office Lifts $17 000 in Late Payments
Property owners in Amarillo showed about $17 000 across the tax collector counter at the city hall on Saturday, the last day for full payments without penalty. The deadline payments of only $13 000 were below the amount collected at this time last year.
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Amarillo
Asth Division to Move to Abilene in March
Washington February 3 Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples 64 former head of the procurement division of the Treasury died today of pneumonia. He retired for age last November and had been connected with Todd Shipbuilding Corporation. His last government assignment was general inspector of the navy supply corps on the West Coast.
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Washington
Christian Joy Peoples
Treasury
Todd Shipbuilding Corporation
Navy
Manpower notes and job notices page fragment
Classified snippets show individuals seeking work from Perryton to Amarillo with elevator, ranch, cooking, nursing, and garage experience. A Fort Sill item reports the 45th Division move to Abilene, Texas, by late February with 7,980 personnel initial move and ongoing camp construction details.
Markets and classifieds fragment with job seeks and livestock data
The snippet blends stock market figures with classified ads. It includes Dow Jones values, industrials, railroads, utilities, and livestock market notes for Kansas City with hogs cattle calves sheep details. Also multiple personal want ads seeking work and housekeeper positions with contact numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
U.P
Colonel R. P. Smyth of Plainview Dead at 85
Colonel Rawleigh Porteus Smyth, aged 85, longtime Plainview resident and West Texas surveyor, died early today at the Veterans Administration Hospital after a serious illness. He served as Plainview mayor, a Texas legislator, and held high ranks in the Texas National Guard and Masonic orders. He was a pioneer surveyor who mapped vast West Texas and South Plains lands and authored a school land act aiding settlers. He is survived by relatives in Austin. funeral arrangements are pending in Plainview.
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R. P. Smythe
Veterans Administration Hospital
West Texas
Plainview
Texas
Masonic Order
South Plains
Colorado City
Fort Clark
Tex
O. M. Roberts
Texas National Guard
Roberts
Ireland
James S. Hogg
Khiva Temple
Ben Hur Temple
Austin
Khiva
Whikea Tamatn
Eastern Star
Rawleigh Porteus Smyth
Travis County
Jamestown
Texas Military Institute
Texas A. & M. College
Lacey J. Smyth
Mattie Smyth
Funeral services for Larry Frank Wheeler
Funeral services for Larry Frank Wheeler a 2 month old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Wheeler will be held tomorrow morning at 10 from Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Rev E B Fincher officiating Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery He is survived by his parents a brother Jerry Don Wheeler and four grandparents all of Amarillo The page also notes historical reference about the center of population in 1790 near Baltimore The stray sentence about offices held is omitted as irrelevant to the obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Frank Wheeler
Frank Wheeler
Boxwell Brothers
E. B. Fincher
Ellwood Presbyterian Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Jerry Don Wheeler
W. C. Grammer
C. G. Wheeler
Amarillo
Hazlewood Takes Code to Austin for City Ordinance
Wallace Hazlewood, Hazlewood city building inspector, left Sunday for Austin to meet the state fire insurance commissioner. He carries a revised building code developed with New York suggestions by the national board of fire underwriters for submission to the city commission after state approval. The ordinance reflects months of work by a city committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Hazlewood
Austin
State Fire Insurance
New York
National Board of Fire Underwriters
City Commission
Essay Contest Material in Newspapers Seeks Entries
High school students are urged to enter the nationwide essay contest run by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Cash prizes total 2000 with $1000 to the national winner and 24 local winners. eligibility requires current high school enrollment with past winners eligible to compete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
U. S
Congressional Record
Roy C. Andrews
John B. Golding
Supreme Court Rules Union Officers Not Subject to Sherman Act
The Supreme Court ruled that officers of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America are not subject to trial under the Sherman anti-trust law for activities arising from a jurisdictional dispute with another union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinglon, Fed, &Tr
Supreme Court
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Theory of Flight Taught to Jail Inmates
WPA education program will start teaching The Theory of Flight to county jail inmates. Prisoners chose practical law and metal work as second and third courses to be offered alongside flight theory. In Puerto Rico, Pi-Guy J. Swope was inaugurated as the 14th American Civil Governor succeeding Admiral William D. Leahy.
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Kansas City
WPA
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Guy J. Swope
Harrisburg
William D. Leahy
France
Four Douglas Bombers Refuel in Amarillo
Four Douglas Bombers destined for the RAF refueled at English Field this morning. They were en route from the Douglas Aircraft plant in California to Canada, where they will take off for England.
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Douglas
RAF
English Field
Douglas Aircraft
California
Canada
England
Co-Ed Fashion Advice from Westminster Art Professor
Westminster college art department head Harold P. Brennan urges co-eds to choose subtle colors over bright shades and to evaluate dress colors in daylight. He advises using color as accessories, considering texture equally with color, and consulting a frank friend before decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Wilmington
Westminster College
Harold P. Brennan
Westminster
Former Amarillo Woman Dies in California
Sally Crawford Bullard, former Amarillo resident, died recently in Anaheim California. Funeral services were held at Weath erford this afternoon. She belonged to the First Baptist Church and the Llano Estacado Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Crawford Bullard
Rep Dies Resting Comfortably After Illness
Washington reports Representative Dies Democrat of Texas is described by his wife as resting comfortably after an attack of nervousness and flu symptoms. The event follows a sudden illness prompting concern for the congressman.
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Washington
Democrat
Texas
Potter County Scheduled to Draft 28 On March 4
Potter County was notified to be ready to send 28 men to the selective service army on March 4. Inductions will take place at Fort Bliss. Each of the county’s two boards will send 14 white men in the call. Two dozen men will be sent to Lubbock on February 6 amid rumors the Lubbock induction station may close.
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Potter County
Selective Service Army
Fort Bliss
Lubbock
Willkie to Meet King and Queen Tuesday in London
Wendell Willkie, after touring bomb battered Coventry and Birmingham, will confer with industrialists in Manchester then meet King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday. He plans to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday on Roosevelt era British aid. Crowds urged him on as he urged American aid.
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Liverpool
England
Wendell L. Willkie
Manchester
Midlands
London
King George
Queen Elizabeth
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
Willkie
Richard Roberts Promoted to Traffic Dept on Santa Fe Lines
Richard Roberts is promoted by H. C. Vincent from traveling freight and passenger agent to the traffic department on the Eastern Lines of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway. Roberts, a well known Southwest traffic official, will report to Kansas before moving his family later this week. He began with the Santa Fe in Amarillo in 1925 and rose to traveling agent by 1936.
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Richard Roberts
Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway
H. C. Vincent
Roberts
Southwest
Vincent
Kansas
Anna High School
Endon
Margaret Key
I. F. Key
Bryan
Texas
Anne
Trav 8
The
Santa Fe
Amarillo
RAF Pilot Sullivan Honored by Texas Legislature
Ira Lee Sullivan of Hillsboro Texas, wounded while serving with Britain's Royal Air Force, was commended by the Texas House for superior patriotism and gallantry. Sullivan has flown 48 engagements and is en route home via Canada from Great Britain, where the commendation was presented by Rep. L. W. Harris of Whitney Hill County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Ira Lee Sullivan
Hillsboro
Texas
Britain
Royal Air Force
Texas House of Representatives
Sullivan
Canada
Great Britain
L. W. Harris
Whitney
Hill County
RKO Restores Pay as War Dims Continental Market
RKO Radio Studio today restored the 50 percent pay cuts that began in 1939 as Nazis advanced into Poland. Producers feared a movie slump, yet war did not fully ruin business. Stars under contract kept their pay, while other staff saw 10 percent cuts for $5,000 plus, and 50 percent cuts for $75,000 plus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio Studio
Poland
Rko-Radio
Hollywood
Slightly Injured In Auto Accident at Seven Teenth Avenue
O. W. Moore sustained a slight injury in a daytime automobile crash at Seven teenth Avenue and Washington Street. An N. S. Griggs and Sons ambulance rushed him to a physician's office. The other occupants of the two autos escaped injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Moore
Seventeenth Avenue
Washington Street
N. S. Griggs and Sons
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ASTH
Abilene
Joy Peoples
Ross Rogers
Mayor Rogers
Maynard Drake
Admiral Peoples
F. B. Morgan
Southwest 3Rd St
Perryton
North Woodland
H. T. Jenkins
Tack
Hayden Street
Pearl Mae
van Buren Street
Boyd
Fillmore Street
Rear
Fort Sill
Okla
W. S. Key
Key
Walter Krueger
Fort Sam Houston
Eighth Corps
45Th
36Th
Brownwood
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Jackie
Florida Street
Dow-Jones
Fane’. & Beane
East 10Th Ave
J. R. Morris Grover
Watchman
Financial Security Fund
HAL Scrap Lumber
Johnson &J
Fenner & Ei Erat P. M Close
Amer Dynam Op
Arkan Nat Gas
Bell Aircraft
Brewster Aero
Ord Oe
Cities Service
New
Ween Cities Service
Colden Petseneee
Eagle Picher Lend
Elec
Gulf Ou
Hecla
Humble Ou
Lone Star Gas
NEW York Stock Exchange
Fenner & Beane
Allis Chalmers
Alleghany Lud Steel
Secone
Am Tel & Tel
Am Zinc & Co
Anaconda
Armour & Co
S Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Wee
Bendix Aviation
Curtis Wright
Deer & Co
Electric Boat Sence
EL Power & Lite
Gen
Setell
Greyhound Corp
Houd
Houston Oil
Int Harvester
Int Power & Pap
Tel
Telian
Johns Manville
K— Kennecott
Marshall Field
Montgomery Ward
Murry Corp
United Aircraft
United Corpse
United Drug
Uu S Rubber
U S Steel
Warner Bros. W U Tel
West el & Mig
Wilson & Co, Tee ' Woolworth
R. P. Smyth
Plainvew
Col
Order of the
Baltimore
Hazlewood
Amarilloan
RKO
Radio
Representative Fish
House
Europe
Asia
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