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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1941
Page
2
Seven men are reported killed in an explosion at the United Electric Company liquid oxygen plant in Du Quoin Illinois. The incident occurred today and details are pending official confirmation.
James William Hampton a 72 year old smelter worker died this morning at his home in Amarillo after 14 years residence. He is survived by his wife two daughters Mrs Nelly Turnipseed Fort Smith Arkansas and Mrs Oval Markham Bakersfield Cal two sons R J Hampton Dumas and Jess Hampton Fort Smith two sisters Mrs Maud Mayes Wichita Kan and Mrs Lou Burton Galena Mo nineteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 pm from Blackburn Shaw chapel with Rev W M Cooksey and Rev Dennis W Thorn officiating Pallbearers are W W Dorsey B L Counts J N Lundegreen W E Lundegreen J C Whipple and Co C Branson Burial in Llano Cemetery.
Betty Compton Walker plans to file for divorce from former New York Mayor James J. Walker in Dade County Florida next Tuesday. The couple, once a celebrated romance, met in the 1920s Greenwich Village era and married in Cannes after Walker resigned during the Seabury investigation.
Hollywood actress Jean Parker will marry radio commentator Doug Dawson in San Diego late today. Parker recently obtained a final divorce from George MacDonald, a New York newspaperman, about a month ago.
In Maine the Century Club shows 23 women and 10 men among members aged at least 50 years. Sponsored by the Maine Public Health Association, each member receives a gold medal and a recruiter from the association helps grow the group. The oldest member is 105-year-old Capt. Thomas Newman of Southwest Harbor and the youngest is Capt. Colin Justin of Portland, who turns 101 on January 9, 1941.
South Africa rushes scrap iron to support government iron and steel works at Pretoria. Farmers urged to bring old implements chains and other scrap to nearest railway station for transport. station masters pay on the spot with bank credit vouchers.
A Washington dispatch recalls the visit of Lord Halifax aboard the battleship HMS George V in 1914, including a photographer in an improvised tub, the engraved plow-shaped paperweight, and remarks on Dalton Dowding's strict rules for pilots, plus Mayor Maverick’s lighthearted Mexico election intervention. The piece blends humor with diplomatic curiosities and early war tensions.
London reports the British government banned all trade with Romania as diplomatic relations were severed last Monday. The move follows the breakdown of ties and signals a punitive stance in the escalating dispute.
A series of classified want ads from readers seeking employment. Individuals offer farming or ranch labor and housework, some willing to exchange housing for work, plus requests for practical nursing, child care, and laundry tasks. Contact details and addresses included.
Local column items include requests for a housekeeper and housing, a call to locate owner of left behind items with Virginia Yeager on books, a donation offer of a female police dog, and a job ad seeking a refined woman for light housework. Also mentions a nursing or cafe work possibility and a note about a new New York magazine project and a Kansas City livestock report with prices for hogs cattle calves and sheep.
Ralph A. Bard of Illinois was nominated by President Roosevelt to be assistant secretary of war. The nomination was announced in Washington on February 14.
Five year old Lynn Goodell of 205 Carolina Street received a lamb shaped birthday cake from a relative in Indiana. The cake, with shredded coconut wool and a neck ribbon with a bell, is to be cut for his fifth birthday party tomorrow.
Six ships of a British convoy steaming northward between Madeira and the Azores are believed sunk by a German surface raider, possibly a pocket battleship, according to information received in Funchal Madeira on February 14.
Wilson College officials announced a new series of lectures titled An Intelligent Approach to Marriage. Dean Margaret C. Disert said the program, designed to complement each other and show a many sided picture of matrimony, will cover eugenics budget systems psychology of matrimony and civic and family responsibilities as part of a program for young women graduates.
In Columbus Ohio Dr F M Edwards presents Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy to aid bowel movements and stimulate bile flow. Advert says over 20 years of practice treating constipation and related symptoms and offers 15 30 and 60 cent sizes for sale tonight.
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