Women of quiet generosity inspire Dale Carnegie
Carnegie honors two remarkable women Florence Griswold of Old Lyme Connecticut and Madame Spander of Volendam Holland for their selfless acts. Griswold housed and aided artists despite poverty and never pressed for payment. Spander ran a modest hotel that uplifted guests and inspired others to give.
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Florence Griswold
Old Lyme
Connecticut
Miss Griswold
Willard Metcalfe
National Academy
Volendam
Holland
Madame Spander
Zuider Zee
Whistler
George Inness, Jr
John Singer Sargent
Sir John Everett
Millais
John la Farge
Madame Spander’s
Vital Change Is Charged to Government
The British Labor Party and Trade Unions Council demand an immediate general election to challenge the government over foreign policy. Prime Minister Chamberlain says no duress behind the decision to reopen talks with Mussolini. Paris reports a defense committee discussion and plans to raise 3.2 billion francs for a special defense fund.
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London
British Labor Party and Trade Unions Council
League of Nations
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Benito Mussolini
United Press
Paris
Senate
Army
Finance Committee
Marie de Medicis
Joseph Caillaux
Chinese Planes Raid Formosa Troop Base
Chinese airmen conducted two raids on Formosa killing ten and wounding thirty. They bombed Taihoku Shinchiku and Chikutuch causing substantial property damage and claiming destruction of Taikoku air base with 70 planes operating from a southeast Chinese base.
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Formosa
China Coast
United Press
Taihoku
Shinchiku
Chikutch
Shimonoseki
Associated Press
Japanees
Furosan
Hankow
French Ready in Marseille for Indochina Threat
In Marseille on February 23, Inspector General Jules Buhrer announced that French colonial defenses are all ready to repel any invasion of Indochina by foreign powers.
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Marseille
France
Jules Buhrer
Indo-China
Senate commerce panel backs probe into commodity costs
The Senate commerce committee approved a resolution offered by Sen. Josiah W. Bailey to conduct a sweeping investigation of costs, prices, and profits of principal commodities. The measure was debated in Washington amid calls for broader oversight. Amarillo Shade & Equip. Co. is noted in the text.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
More Helium Containers Delivered for German Dirigible
A third shipment of steel helium containers was unloaded from the Chester Valley in Houston. Over 500 containers await rail shipment from Amarillo to the port for filling and export to Germany for the dirigible LZ 130. The navy holds a world monopoly on helium transport.
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Houston
Germany
Chester Valley
Bremen
Amarillo
Zepplin Company
Grand jury reconvenes in Potter County
The Potter County grand jury re convened this morning after a recess of several days. The jury likely will make a report to Judge E. C. Nelson late in the day.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
E. C. Nelson
Driver Dies From Gas In Truck
Charles W. McLain a 29 year old truck driver from the Rio Grande Valley was killed by monoxide gas in his truck last night. His body was found about 6 am with the truck parked on Third Avenue between Fillmore and Taylor Streets. The engine and heater were on and the doors locked from inside. Justice of the Peace H W Duke held an inquest confirming monoxide gas as the cause. See McLAIN Page 2.
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Charles W. McLain
Rio Grande Valley
Third Avenue
Fillmore
Taylor Streets
T. P. Bailey
A. T. Warren
McLain
Justice of the Peace
H. W. Duke
Parker Gilbert dies in New York hospital
Parker Gilbert financier and former agent general for reparations died at Doctors Hospital from cardiohepheitis a kidney and heart condition. He was a partner in J P Morgan Co and director of several leading companies.
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New York
U.p—S
Parker Gilbert
Doctors Hospital
J. P. Morgan & Co
Willie the Whale Hunter Fails to Find Willie in San Francisco
Jim Moran famed whale hunter claims to have searched San Francisco Bay for Willie the Whale and Mamie the Monster but found neither. He reports his harpoon and publicity crew hindered by bay cruisers and ferries as he contemplates returning home.
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Jim Moran
Jim
America
Washington
San Francisco
Willie
Mamie
Frisco
San Francisco Bay
Hitler Seeks Worldwide German Expansion and Influence
Berlin reports Hitler directs a global campaign to form little homelands for 25 million Germans abroad. The plan includes consulate registration, club networks, Nazi films and holidays, and pressuring Jews’ legal and medical services, with citizenship risks for distant Germans.
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Hitler
North America
South America
Africa
Asia
Germany
Fuehrer
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Foreign Office
Berlin
New York
Cold Panhandle Weather Relents Amid Snow Flurry
Snow fell in Amarillo today but was a light dry flurry while the Panhandle ice spell loosens. Ice will melt today and below freezing temperatures return tonight with fair skies likely tonight and partly cloudy tomorrow. No additional moisture is expected soon. Neely-Greenhill Agey for Insurance.
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Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Fairweather
Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Forecast
Fair tonight with a low around 25. Thursday partly cloudy. West Texas fair tonight and Thursday slightly warmer in the south. New Mexico fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Temperature range 41 to 28.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Battleships under fire as reports claim flaws in air attack defense
Lawmaker Maury Maverick accuses the Roosevelt administration of suppressing tests showing surface ships vulnerable to aerial attack. Navy officials and war department deny specifics as secrecy covers Pacific fleet maneuvers for six weeks of mock warfare with 50 000 personnel and ships.
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Maury Maverick
Texas
Roosevelt
United Press
War and Navy Department
Maverick
House Military Affairs Committee
Pacific
United States
Associated Press
Naval
The
House
Naval Committee
William B. Dun Bose
Naval Construction
Atlantic
Navy
Alaska
Samoa
Panama Canal
Block
McCraw criticizes drag on his wife in Texas probe
Attorney General William McCraw of Texas denounces the investigation as uncivil after subpoenas target his and his wife’s bank accounts. He accuses Senator Holbrook and Senator Joe Hill of launching a smear campaign and defaming his family. In Dallas, Tom Clark faces questions about a spike in earnings after McCraw took office.
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Washington
William McCraw
Texas
State Senate
Dallas
Joe Hill
Holbrook
Senate
McCraw
Tom
Clark
United States
Glamor Gals With An Accent Third in a Hollywood Series
Hollywood report on Viennese talent raiding by U S studios. The piece notes actresses like Rose Stradner Luise Rainer and Tillie Losch among those in Hollywood and hints at the talent shortage in Vienna. It frames the pull of glamor and the flight from Austria to America.
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Hollywood
Paul Harrison
Vienna
Tresses
Rose Stradner
Luise Rainer
Tillie Losch
Della Lind
Luli Deste
Hedy Keisler
Hedy LaMarr
Mother-in-Law March Parade To Crown Amarillo Festivities
Amarillo readies what may be the Panhandle’s grand parade with a world’s longest float designed by Macon O Carder built by Randall Construction and powered by W G Street. The 500 to 600 mothers-in-law will ride eight truck wheels while Happy’s 35 piece band adorns Uncle Sam uniforms and Mrs Roosevelt lectures draw tickets. Governors and high ranking officers join the event as Amarillo anticipates its largest crowd ever.
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Macon O. Carder
Amarillo
Randall Construction Company
W. G. Street
Western Tent & Awning Company
Happy Will
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Municipal Auditorium
Lois Black
Globe News
Texas
Secret Executions Revealed Of Soviet Navy Chiefs
Moscow reports reveal that former Russian navy chiefs Admiral Vladimir Orloff and Admiral A K Sivkoff were secretly executed. Commissar Voroshiloff described them as fascist bandits and spies, alongside Marshal Tukha chevsky, in a speech on the eve of the Red Army's 20th anniversary.
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Moscow
Klementi E. Voroshiloff
Vladimir A. Orloff
A. K. Sivkoff
Voroshiloff
Red Army
Orloff and
Sivkoff
Mikhail Nikolaevitch Tukhachevsky
Amarillo Girl Earns Top Surgery Honors
Ernestine Smith of Amarillo, a Galveston medical student and daughter of City Commissioner H Ernest Smith, achieved a top 96 in operative surgery. She graduates this spring and will intern at Parkland Hospital Dallas after earning an AB from ABMU and completing Amarillo High School and Amarillo College.
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Ernestine Smith
Amarillo
Galveston
Miss Smith
H. Ernest Smith
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Roosevelt Recommends Large Federal Education Grants
President Roosevelt sent to Congress a report from the advisory committee on education proposing new federal grants totaling 855 million dollars to states over six years to improve public schools. Beginnings would be 70 million, rising by about 30 million and then 20 million annually until 1944-45, after a year’s delay.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Advisory Committee On Education
Cranium Crackers Editorial Quiz Questions
A set of five trivia items appears on the editorial page asking: what is a Congo bongo, how basalt differs from table salt, the origin of a wake phrase about Kirby, the main difference between gasoline and Diesel engines, and which has greater area between a 9 foot square and a circle with 10 foot diameter.
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Kirby
Traffic Toll Too Big Yet Going Unnoticed
An editorial argues 108 Americans die daily in traffic and highlights Texas losses. It urges city action to reduce crashes by painting clear lanes for vehicles and pedestrians at downtown intersections, noting police cannot enforce at every corner.
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Texas
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Dale Carnegie
McNaught Syndicate
Joe W. Lowe
Sam Houston Junior High
Amarillo Globe
Joe
Chas. C. Lowe
Palo Duro
Globe
Sam Houston Band
Amarillo Shade & Equip. Co
U.P
Adolf
Neely-Greenhill Agey
By Lyle C. Wilson
Irks McCraw
Philadelphia
New Orleans
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