Amarillo notes aid drive and local talks on industry
A long Amarillo diary discusses the Junior Welfare League donating $200 to the Milk Ponch fund, local blooded Herefords sales in Oklahoma, and calls for broader charity. It praises community effort, urges telephoned or bank donations, and suggests the Junior Chamber of Commerce explore eastern manufacturing ties to attract payrolls to Amarillo.
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Wales Madden
Junior Welfare League
KGNC
Ben Lipshy
Zale’s
Toney Chisum
John Fullingim
Charley Keffer
Hugh Norman
John McCarty
Jack Agkins
Mason King
Grady Camp
Archie Goldfine
Levine's
Zale
Herman Pipkin
John Ballard
Hardin
Globe-News
Odser
White & Kirkachat
Sam Davis
Chamber of Commerce
Bert Levy
Amarillo
Dallas Woman Responds to Amarillo Criticism in Letter
Mrs Louise N Watkins of Dallas writes from Amarillo defending her city while noting water quality and crime fears. She recalls burglaries near Van Buren Street, Polk Street thefts, and unhelpful conditions, but affirms love for both cities and plans to stay.
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Winchell
Louise N. Watkins
Harrison Street
Dallas
Reader letter condemns dictators and praises humane views
A reader from Amarillo expresses strong disgust with Hitler and Stalin, endorses the editor's "The End of the Road" piece, and urges Americans to reject communism. The letter also includes a poetic verse and suggests sending a one way ticket to those praising the dictators.
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Finland
Amarillo
Hitler
Stalin
U.S. A
Census Shows Habits of People
The 1940 census analysis highlights urban shift from farms, migration trends, and birth rate changes. It notes 24 percent rural support, 32 million farmers out of 130 million, and urbanization driven by industrial employment. It also cites birth rates dropping from 25 per 1000 in 1915 to 17 and declining share of young children since 1880.
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Great Frontiers
America
Census Bureau
Japs Renew Raid on Chinese Lifeline
Hongkong reports Japanese air raids along the Haiphong Kunming railroad described as China's lifeline to French Indo China. In Hongkong area a one hour gun battle killed three marauders and wounded several as police foiled a raid by bandits near British bases.
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Hongkong
Haiphong-Kunming
China
Britain
Kwangtung
Firemen Find Water Not Fire At 96 Polk Street
Firemen answered an early alarm to 96 Polk Street where a plumbing leak drenched offices of Western Sand & Gravel Co. No fire was found. The item also notes 1930 U.S. demographic shifts with urban growth, immigration, mechanization, and changing living patterns, hinting at future focus on living opportunities. Tomorrow: Industrial Changes.
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Polk Street
Western Sand & Gravel Company
Gavagan to Strike Labor Provision from Anti Lynching Bill
Rep Gavagan Democrat of New York announced in Washington he will move to remove from the anti lynching bill a provision exempting violence tied to labor disputes. He spoke as debate opened on a measure penalizing peace officers who permit lynchings and the subdivisions where they occur.
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Washington
Gavagan
New York
House
St Andrews Church Elects Vestrymen This Week
The annual parish meeting of St. Andrew's Church elected vestrymen James M. Paul, C. P. Wells, Henry Thomson, and William Van Landingham. Lay delegates and alternates for the convocation to meet next Sunday and Monday were H. V. Elkington, David B. Brown, T. R. Cross, Arthur Ware, Jack Kaether, with alternates F. E. Edwards, A. J. Arnold, E. B. Burgess, Clifton Henderson, and Thomas J. Dacus.
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St. Andrew's Church
James M. Paul
C. P. Wells
Henry Thomson
William van Landingham
H. V. Elkington
David B. Brown
T. R. Cross
Arthur Ware
Jack Kaether
F. E. Edwards
A. J. Arnold
E. B. Burgess
Clifton Henderson
Thomas J. Dacus
Chasteen Infant Dies at Home Here
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs R N Chasteen died at 3 40 this morning at the family home 1413 East Fourth Avenue Funeral services set for 10 30 tomorrow at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Chapel with Rev H C Smith of San Jacinto Methodist Church officiating Burial will be in Llano Cemetery
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R. N. Chasteen
East Fourth Avenue
Blackburn-Shaw
H. C. Smith
San Jacinto
Scout Executives Meet Here Today in Amarillo
The Llano Estacado Council Executive Board will convene at 4:30 P M at the Capitol Hotel. James P Fitch Regional Boy Scout Executive of Dallas is in Amarillo to review the current executive C A Clark who has resigned.
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Llano Estacado Council of Boy Scouts
Capitol Hotel
James P. Fitch
Dallas
Amarillo
C. A. Clark
Four Amarillo Boys Charged With Robbery and Burglary
Four Amarillo youths faced charges in two cases. Carroll Caldwell and Donovan Clark are accused of two robbery counts for the Nelson Grocery hold up at 2811 West Third Avenue and the Angelus Pharmacy theft last week, bonds set at 2500. Van Robinson and Haskell Marshall face burglary charges for the Sixteenth Avenue and Madison Street drive-in theft, with Marshall also facing a December drug store burglary, bonds 1500 each.
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Amarillo
Carroll Caldwell
Donovan Clark
Nelson Grocery
West Third Avenue
Angelus
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
van Robinson
Haskell Marshall
Sixteenth Avenue
Madison Street
Marshall
Carder
Rites Tomorrow for Shooting Victim Finley in Wyoming
Funeral services for Edmon Andrew Finley former Amarillo resident killed January 2 in Rawlings Wyoming will be held tomorrow at 2 PM from N S Griggs and Sons Funeral Chapel Rev O M Addison will officiate Pallbearers are Earl Plemons Leo Plemons Welmer Woods Lloyd Aron Cass Grady Floyd Dowdy He is survived by his wife Vera Finley a son E A Finley Jr his parents Mr and Mrs A B Finley of Amarillo a brother Melvin Finley of Santa Anna California and two sisters Mrs Lily Richie of Brownsville Illinois and Miss Ruby Finley of Santa Anna California Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Edmon Andrew Finley
A. B. Finley
Amarillo
Vera Finley
E. A. Finley, Jr
Melvin Finley
Santa Anna
Cal
Lily Richie
Brownston, Ill
Ruby Finley
Memorial Park Cemetery
Norma Jean Dysart Dies in Hospital
Norma Jean Dysart one year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J F Dysart five miles southeast of Amarillo died this morning at 7 oclock in a hospital. The body is at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel.
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Norma Jean Dysart
J. F. Dysart
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel
Thirty Three Men Wounded in Nazi Attack on Ships
London reports a German air raid off Britain's coast injuring thirty three men mostly by machine guns. One Danish vessel was bombed and sunk, seen from the northeast cliffs as ships evacuated crews and nearby vessels rescued survivors. The encounter occurred close to the coast with the rattle of machine-guns audible to onlookers.
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London
Britain
Benefit Luncheon for Church Building Fund Planned
The Woman's Council of the First Christian Church sponsors a luncheon to support the building fund. It will run from 11 a m to 1 30 p m Wednesday in the church Fellowship Hall.
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Woman's Council of the First Christian Church
Fellowship Hall
Plan for Stockholm Evacuation for Children and Aged
Stockholm officials completed a full evacuation plan in case of emergency. The draft calls for evacuating the capital by all children aged 9 to 14 and by all ill and aged women and men.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U.P
Lions Club Hears Of Census Plans
The Lions Club heard plans for the new census outlined by W. F. Runner, district supervisor. The Williams Sisters sang with Eddie Baumel on piano, and Weldon Jolly of Borger invited members to a Lions zone meeting at Borger on January 16.
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Lions Club
W. F. Runner
Williams Sisters
Eddie Baumel
Weldon Jolly
Borger
Lions Zone
Borge
Police Headquarters Abrupt Renovation in Amarillo Week
Police headquarters in Amarillo lead Clean Up and Paint Up Week with a full redecorating drive. Every room is being refreshed, bulletin boards updated, and the old soundproof radio booth is removed.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Globe Pattern Dept West Address Note
The message requests sending an order to the Amarillo Globe Pattern Department West located at West with St New York N. %.
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The
Amarillo Globe
Pattern Department
St. New York
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