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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1941
Page
2
A chaotic local column cites weather outlook with chill and high clouds, film recommendations at the State and two top pictures Philadelphia Story and Kitty Foyle. It promotes a men cooking school at Amarillo Hardware on Polk Street at 7:30 PM and reports on illnesses, weddings, and town talk.
An all men cooking school led by Forrest N. Hall of Dallas at 7:30 pm on the mezzanine of Amarillo Hardware. Hall, a Chambers Ranges district representative, will teach barbecue dishes and New Orleans style cooking and is noted for dogs and dog shows. The event is the hardware store's second annual cooking school and invites both entrants and non entrants of the recent contest.
Santa Fe Railway leaders from five states gather for a three day good service meeting in Santa Fe to discuss eliminating delays speeding schedules and reducing passenger disturbances. General Manager J A Gillies leads talks on split schedules smoother switching and fewer car jolts during expansions. Operating officials from the five state Western Lines attend aiming to better Christmas handling and overall timetable reliability.
A Lancaster resident with eight children and many grandchildren is mentioned in a brief city note. Other items reference a fatal motor accident near a music shop, an inquiry about a cafe job by an 18 year old, and a request from a middle aged man seeking work.
A collage of classified notices seeks work across households farms and offices. Listings include Wesley Lage seeking car work with flexible hours at 807 North Harrison Street, Leon and Dorothy Mae at 1607 Ong Street seeking odd jobs, Margaret Williams aiming for hotel or waitressing work in Amarillo, a 26 year old business college graduate seeking office work, Mrs Anne Burtwood seeking a rancher or business contact, and Bill Beechler described as ill and seeking carpentry and farm tasks at Northwest Texas Hospital.
Funeral services for Ura Chandler Snow who died yesterday morning at his home 1013 East Ninth Avenue will be held tomorrow at 11 from Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Rev E B Fincher officiating. Pallbearers include H Z Yarborough Jimmy Cheshire Bill Jones D A Perkins Neal Mann and Ernest Jones. Snow a 46 year old World War veteran and baker at Mann Baking Company lived in Amarillo 14 years and is survived by his wife a son William Snow his mother Mrs Julia Snow Indianapolis a sister Mrs Ralph Oden Indianapolis and three brothers Carmen Fay Snow Crawfordsville Voghn Champaign. Burial site is not yet determined.
The Davis twins aged 19 began a revival at Bethel Tabernacle 2308 West Fourth Avenue last night. Rev. Elmer L. Cutsinger, pastor, invites the public to attend the 7:30 p m meetings. The twins have conducted evangelistic work for two years.
President Roosevelt names a $5 624 WPA initiative under the Soil Conservation Service to study soil and water practices in the Southern Great Plains. The effort, advised to Mayor Ross Rogers via telegram from Senator Tom Connally, covers data on crop history, moisture, erosion, and conservation methods. It awaits state administrator approval for operation.
A riot by French troops at Maison Carree in Algeria caused six deaths and many injuries. Three of the fatally shot were women. Authorities have arrested nearly all ringleaders of the disturbance.
The advertisement touts BLACK-DRAUGHT as a leading laxative used by four generations in the Southwest. It describes the product as all vegetable, spicy and aromatic, easy to take, punctual, thorough, and gentle in action. It emphasizes a tonic laxative ingredient to tone lazy intestinal muscles and improve regularity.
Hostilities between Indo-China and Thailand will end at 10 A M tomorrow under a pact to negotiate peace with Japan as mediator. Negotiations will open at Saigon on Wednesday between French and Thai armistice commissioners with Japan participation.
Ten thousand Amarillo school children begin the second semester with classes in all schools except Amarillo High. At Amarillo High, students reclassify to a six period short schedule this afternoon, with half-length classes. Mid term graduates register at Amarillo College. they have completed high school requirements but will not yet receive diplomas.
The Amarillo Safety Council education division began study of plans to inform the public about traffic regulations. Members met at the Capitol Hotel this afternoon for initial discussion on the new through street system.
Mrs. C. F. Smith of Parker Street finds her sister Mrs. Gilmore Thompson of Boston featured in a double-page Good Housekeeping spread on spring fashions. They have not seen each other in years.
Four hundred Germans from the scuttled liner Columbus depart in secrecy for the first U S internment camp since World War days. They are bound for an abandoned CCC camp near Fort Stanton New Mexico by a special train likely run by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe or Southern Pacific railroad.
Heavily armed border patrolmen guard the future home of 410 German seamen being moved to an isolated CCC camp near Fort Stanton. Border patrol chief Thomas Linnekohl called it a routine precaution as reporters were barred from inspecting the camp grounds in the juniper covered Capitan mountains.
Seven Australian aviators prepared their Consolidated PBYS patrol bomber for a long-range flight into the South Pacific possibly to hunt German sea raiders. The seaplane flew from San Diego to Honolulu where three technicians remained aboard for the journey back to the mainland.
EL PASO January 27 four Arkansas National Guardsmen were rescued from Mount Franklin by fellow soldiers working by three anti aircraft searchlights. One sergeant injured Private Joe S Seever 21 of Jonesboro Ark suffered a badly bruised right arm when a boulder fell on him as he crouched on a ledge. He was taken to William Beaumont General Hospital where Col George B Woodward hospital commandant said Seever was also suffering from exposure but in good condition.
Belated reports from Shanghai say Kao Kuanwu, the Japanese sponsored governor of Kiangsu, was shot and killed at Soochow last week. Martial law was imposed in the city. Some sources call him the most important puppet official assassinated since Pu Liao En, former puppet mayor of Shanghai.
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