Tax Office Closed For Internal Revenue Instruction
The collector of internal revenue office on the third floor of the post office building will be closed until Monday morning as deputy collectors attend a Dallas income tax procedure school. Attendees include Harry T. Warner H. H. Cooper Jr L. P. Herndon R. L. McKnight Theodore Combest W. L. Clement and Ted Blackburn.
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Collector of Internal Revenue
Post Office
Dallas
Harry T. Warner
H. H. Cooper, Jr
L. P. Herndon
R. L. McKnight
Theodore Combest
W. L. Clement
Ted Blackburn
Fort Worth
Ralph Kenniston
I. C. Powell
Powell
Tests Defrosted Pie As Future Dessert
Syracuse University College of Home Economics conducts an apple pie freezing study led by Dr Ruth Nason. The project tests freezing apple varieties unbaked pies and baked pies with results read in December and final pie storage opening in April. Future tests include pumpkin pies cakes and cake batters.
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Syracuse
N. Y
U.P
College of Home Economics
Syracuse University
Ruth Nason
Gilmer Becomes Speaker Amid Texan House Debates
Kerrville politician Claude Gilmer is expected to assume the Texas House speakership without opposition as the 49th legislature opens. A former Edwards County judge who survived Rock Springs tornado chaos, he leads a large body with 181 representatives and around 30 committees.
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Austin
Tex
Claude Gilmer
Kerrville
Gilmer
Edwards County
Rock Springs
House of Representatives
House
West
Texas
Dallas Blankenship
Dallas
Meridian Junior College
Bosque County
Pantex Reuses Battlefront Shell Casings Under Salvage Plan
Pantex Ordnance Plant begins receiving large quantities of 105 mm cartridge cases that were loaded, fired, and recovered for a second use. Col. F I Gilbert of the Army Service Forces Ordnance Department announces a salvage program returning battle area material to Army depots. Capt. R M Smith says Pantex is expanding facilities to repair obsolete tools and loading devices and adapt buildings to new loading requirements.
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Pantex Ordnance Plant
Pantex
Col
F. I. Gilbert
Army Service Forces Ordnance Department
R. M. Smith
PTA Council Holds Meeting in Amarillo Junior High
Mrs. N. C. Ferguson presided over the Amarillo Council of Parents and Teachers as they met in the Elizabeth Nixson Junior High auditorium. Members were asked to promote magazine drives for Amarillo Field hospital and to report contributions through their groups. An update reported 2605 local unit members.
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N. C. Ferguson
Amarillo
Charles M. Rogers
Dwight Morrow School
Vivian Doherty
Leo Mendoza
Senators Shuw Policy Issue Framers Debate Foreign Policy
Washington dispatch notes Administration supporters oppose Senate moves on foreign policy before Roosevelt meets Churchill and Stalin. Senator George says delaying declaration would better serve the President. Connally opposes any immediate action to avoid dividing the country. Hatch and Ball push for majority support behind a policy declaration as Republicans and some Democrats plan to debate when the Senate reconvenes.
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Washington
Administration
Senate
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Connally
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
George
Georgia
Hatch
New Mexico
Ball
Minnesota
Cuban immigrant Mario Freyre faces new illegal entry indictment
In Miami on January 9 1940 Mario I Freyre a Cuban national with five prior deportations and one eight month sentence for illegal entry was indicted again by a federal grand jury for the same offense.
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Miami
Fra
Mario I. Freyre
United States
Future Papa Honored With Stork Shower
Amarillo railroad conductor C. E. Knight was surprised by a stag stork party at his home 319 East Twenty fourth hosted by fellow rail workers. About 20 men attended including switchmen trainmen engineers and roundhouse staff gifting corned zoot suits baby items and essentials for the forthcoming father and child. The father to be remained unnamed.
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Old Knight
C. E. Knight
Babylore
Amarillo
Papa Stork
Papa
Mama
Babe
Roundhouse
Conductor Knight
East Twenty-fourth
W. R. Walker
J.C. Duling
F. G. Crandall
L. W
Stenographers With Typewriters In Demand By Legislature
Austin report notes a wartime shortage of typewriters for the 49th legislature. Stenographers with their own machines are in high demand as members improvise with hunches and town visits. Teenage page volunteers are recruited to ease manpower and train on state government duties.
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Austin
Mhany
Houston Cook's Helper Isabel Salazar Knocks Out Panthers
In Belgium on January 9 U.S. forces credited Houston Texan Isabel Salazar with destroying two German Panther tanks during a counter attack. An anti tank gun at 200 yards felled the first tank, and the second fell later with similar precision.
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U. S
Belgium
U.P
Cook
Isabel Salazar
Houston
Tex
Salazar
Red Cross Names Irene Brower To Nursing Recruitment Post
Byron Singleton, Potter County Red Cross chair, announces Irene Brower as chairman of the Red Cross nursing recruitment program for Army and Navy nurses. Brower, a graduate nurse, returns to Amarillo after serving in Tulsa at Hillcrest Memorial Hospital. The program aims to bolster nurse recruitment as draft likely expands, and details will be set at the annual Red Cross meeting next Monday night in the USO Auditorium.
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Byron Singleton
Potter County
American Red Cross
Irene Brower
Red Cross
Army
Navy
The
Armed Services
Singleton
Miss Brower
Amarillo
Tulsa
Okla
Hillcrest Memorial Hospital
St. Anthony's Hospital
Douglas Aircraft
Hillcrest
Uso
Mrs. Davidson and Son Visit Fort Sumner Hosts
Mrs W H Davidson and her son from Fort Sumner New Mexico are visiting her parents Mr and Mrs O L Poss at 708 North Garfield.
Inauguration Crowding Crowing In Kansas Governor Sworn In
Andrew F. Schoeppel began his second term as Kansas governor amid birds crows and ducks at a crowing themed event. A poultry show occupied the basement adding rural ambiance to the ceremony in Topeka.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Indian Troops Enter Shwebo in Burma Campaign
Indian troops of the British 14th Army have entered Shwebo, 46 miles north of Mandalay, according to a Southeast Asia Command communique from Kandy. enemy positions at Kin-U, 15 miles northwest of Shwebo on the Myitkyina Mandalay railway, were attacked.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
14Th Army
Shwebo
Upper Burma
Mandalay
Kin-U
Myitkyina-Manalay
Race to open two vital Sino-Burma roads reported
Bulletin notes two road-building teams race to complete connecting routes between China and Burma with a potential opening soon. Officials say the outcome could speed regional traffic and trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Burma
Ramzel Leaves for Army from Amarillo High
Charles Ramzel son of Mr and Mrs R A Ramzel of 2104 West First left this morning for the Army He was a senior at Amarillo High School and plans to serve his country after graduation, marking a new chapter in the Ramzel family.
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Charles Ramzel
R. A. Ramzel
West First
Army
Charles
Amarillo High School
Grass Grows Hay Business in Salt Lake City
E T Grass operates in the hay business in Salt Lake City noting activity on January 9.
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Salt Lake City
E. T
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Globe News
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Pool Drug
By Mary L. Kennedy
Saarbrucken
Saar District
Germany
Amarillo Hotel
Western Electric Vacuum Tube
Audiphone
T.C. Webb
Western Electric
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Western Electric Company
Maynard Drake
Travis
PTA Council
By Bill Cox
Houston Cook
Post Office Drug
Taylor
Employers Mutual
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Boxwell Brothers
Mbulane
DUMAS
Perryton
Spearman
Ol’ Vernon Sez
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Panhandle
Polk Street
B. C. D. Bynum
J. H. Paul
Grady Oldham
Chester Albritton
John W. Morris
C. R. Brock
Dorothy Wagerle
E. L. Cowart
Dr. L. K. Patton
I. H. Davies
H. C. Pipkin Floyd V. Studer
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
U. S. Depository
Hiterica Nony
MPP
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Greyhound
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