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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1941
Page
2
A long reflection on Willkie and Roosevelt shapes, noting Willkie as a unifying figure appealing across party lines. The piece discusses publicity’s double edge, political loyalties, and the wartime stance of Britain and the United States, including Navy ships and coffins orders, plus social notes and reader classifieds.
A widow with a two month old searches for work with room and board, asking for a motherless home or farm in Texas. She offers small pay and mentions her child, contacting Mrs L F at Pampa Amer Hotel Apt 13.
In Brighton today crowds including shoppers clerks and pedestrians hurried on masks as tear gas clouds covered three quarters of a mile in the city center. The first mass gas test by air raid precautions authorities was publicized in advance but date kept secret with warnings given two days prior.
Two drunken driving cases were filed over the weekend by the highway patrol. H. S. Durham of Morse was charged Friday evening near the Amarillo police station. Charles C. Duncan of Memphis was charged last night after his car pulled from a service station at Eighteenth Avenue and Polk Street.
Douglas McLaren a power linesman who said his home was in Hobbs New Mexico was charged last night with attempted criminal attack on a 16 year old girl. He was released on a 2500 dollar bond set by Justice of the Peace Carder.
Boy Scout leaders of the Amarillo District of the Llano Estacado Council will hold their regular monthly meeting tonight at 7 30 in the cafeteria of Horace Mann School.
Walter E Wertz contractor broke ground for the Amarillo College Mechanical Trades School building to be located about 200 feet east of the gym on Twenty fourth Avenue. The 65 day construction limit was set by Wertz in his bid, with calendar days specified to progress despite weather. Equipment is funded and provided by the federal government for at least five years.
Funeral services for Mrs. A. M Green, who died yesterday, were held at Blackburn Shaw Chapel with Rev. E R Foster officiating. Pallbearers included C L Lille H N Henderson Arthur James J P Newman Emmett Grimes and Walter Smith. Mrs Green lived in Amarillo 25 years at 608 Mississippi. Survived by husband two daughters Christine Stages Amarillo and Frances Worrell Chicago two brothers A P Squires and Walter Squires Red Oak Okla a niece Mrs Walter Young Plain View and two grandchildren. Burial at Llano Cemetery.
Kansas City story notes a person offers ten dollars to any driver who deliberately runs over a pet fox terrier. Howard Oats, owner of the dog on 7736 Mission Road, says he would pay the money and then pay the driver with a licking. He adds the reward is worth that much to him.
Miami Feb 17 Organized printers campaign for a direct federal tax on radio revenues. John B Haggarty president of the AFL s International Allied Printing Trades Council cites radio stealing 25 ,000 jobs from newspapers and allied industries and a council study showing radio took 35 cents of every advertising dollar last year versus two cents in 1929.
Six West Texas lads sail for duty in the coast artillery in the Philippine Islands. Names include Bishop D. McKendree and James E. Bales of Vega Avon Holt of Chilicothe Joseph W. Hough of Whiteflat William W. Morris of McLean and William W. Curby of Silverton. Four men go to the air corps station at Las Vegas Nevada Lloyd D. French Gar land J. Wilson of Amarillo Earl J. West Jr of Perico and Pat New of Nashville Tenn. Sgt Cyrill A Barnes reports Amarillo station maintains a high enlistment average with many vacancies for air corps at Las Vegas and coast artillery in the Philippines.
In Montreal a jealous husband warned he would die by his own hand at 1 A M. Police rushed to his home after learning the threat. They found him slumped in a chair asleep with a revolver in hand, having dozed off before the fatal hour.
Four women played a friendly bridge game at Mrs. Augusta Young’s home in San Jacinto. East was Mrs. Young with seven diamonds and six spades, later bidding five hearts. North and South held diamonds and spades, while the others held hearts and clubs, creating four two-suit hands in a rare, uncited bidding sequence.
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and their ladies will gather tomorrow night at the Amarillo Hotel for the Khiva Temple divan reception and dance. The party starts at 9 o clock and marks the first big event of the year since Jerry Briscoe became potentate.
Mr Collman says the sky will be free of moisture with a high about 55 degrees and a low around 30s. He notes no significant moisture within 500 miles of Amarillo, a balmy south breeze at roughly 10 miles per hour, and little dust as conditions improve.
Among hundreds of laxatives sold in the Southwest, only a few remain bestsellers. BLACK-DRAUGHT stands out as the family laxative praised for being agreeable and easy to take, punctual and thorough when used as directed, easing constipation's headaches biliousness and other distresses. Its tonic-laxative element also helps tone lazy intestinal muscles.
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Earl Browder, former 1940 Communist party presidential nominee, for using a passport obtained by false statements. He received four years in prison and a $2000 fine. The case centered on Browder’s 1934 passport application and later use of other names.
The West Texas Common Carriers Association will host a public safety meeting and film showing at 8 tonight in the Amarillo Hotel blues room. association president Delbert Dalby and vice president Ben Andis urge all interested to attend.
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