Clifft Resigns as Potter County Superintendent for State Post
Carl Clifft resigns as Potter County school superintendent effective July 15 to become deputy state superintendent for District No. 1 covering 23 Plains counties. Appointed by State Supt. L A Woods. term through Jan 1, 1943. salary rises from 2800 to 3200 on Sept 1. Commissioners accept resignation. fill by appointment.
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Carl Clifft
Potter County
Plains
Commissioners Court
Canyon
Clifft
State Department of Education
L. A. Woods
Amarillo merchants urged to attend cotton program meeting
Amarillo businessmen involved in wholesale and retail American grown cotton goods are called to a mass meeting at the county courthouse Friday at 8 p.m. Robert Moss of the surplus marketing division will explain the supplementary cotton stamp plan. Stamps from other cotton counties will be redeemable in Amarillo stores. Merchants may file a retailer's statement to accept stamps as legal tender.
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Amarillo
Robert Moss
Alexander
Veteran Peace Officer John Snider Taken Ill
Stricken early this morning by appendicitis John Snider a veteran peace officer is a patient at Northwest Texas Hospital Physicians said the police captain may require an operation He was moved from day duty as a plainclothesman to night police captain and brought home by fellow officers at 1 30 this morning His condition worsened and at 5 15 he was taken to the hospital Noon today nurses reported the patient not in critical condition.
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John Snider
Northwest
Texas
Snider
Amarillo Traffic Campaign Nets $1268 In Fines
From June 20 to July 4 Amarillo police fined motorists $1268 as the city’s traffic safety drive continued. Police tagged 688 violators with 511 paying fines. most tickets came from ignoring traffic signs, totaling 359. There were 32 accidents with six injuries, none serious.
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Amarillo
Milwaukee man wins Paul Bunyan Pancake Crown
PHRAIM Wis July 7 the Paul Bunyan Pancake Crown went to Perry C Hill Jr Milwaukee after he downed 31 standard pancakes one more than prior champion James J Lowe Chicago Hill began with the standard Paul Bunyan breakfast including fruit cereal cream toast eggs bacon before the cake eating segment
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Phraim
Wis
Perry C. Hill, Jr
Milwaukee
James J. Lowe
Chicago
Hill
Paul Bunyan
Canal ports barred at night in Cristobal and Balboa
The commandant of Cristobal port announced new regulations barring ships from entering or clearing Cristobal and Balboa harbors between sunset and sunrise. Captain C. E. Coney of the U S Navy stated the restrictions are effective immediately and to continue during the current emergency.
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Cristobal
Canal Zone
Cristobal Port
Cristobal and
Balboa
Aptain C. E. Coney
U. 8S. Navy
Spemmana
Caribbean Sea
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Roosevelt announces US replaces British troops in Iceland
The United States Navy arrived in Iceland to supplement and eventually replace British forces guarding Iceland. President Roosevelt told Congress the move aims to prevent German occupation of strategic Atlantic outposts and protect Greenland shipping and munitions flow to Britain. He noted no intent to alter Iceland’s sovereignty and referenced similar actions in Greenland.
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Washington
United States Navy
Iceland
Roosevelt
Congress
America
United States
Germany
Atlantic
Denmark
Greenland
North American
North Atlantic
Britain
Showers Forecast Amid Wheat Belt Heat Wave
Mr Collman predicts scattered Showers for today and tonight with lighter, more widely scattered activity than weekend rain that damaged wheat and weeded crops. Report totals include Follett 2.65 inches and Spearman 1.18, with mixed amounts across towns as temperatures rise to around 95 degrees.
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Follett
Spearman
Amarillo
Adrian
Claude
Clarendon
Childress
Dalhart
Dimmit
Wheat Belt
Hereford
Lubbock
Memphis
Miami
Muleshoe
Pampa
Panhandle
Shamrock
Stratford
Boise City
Guymon
Elk City
Clovis
Tucumcari
Des Moines
Clayton
Springfield
Colo
Reds claim counter attack wider as Moscow front holds
United Press reports the Red Army counter attacking German mechanized forces along the central front near Moscow with heavy losses claimed by Moscow and a possible breakthrough claimed by Berlin in the Ukraine. Both sides describe limited details and continuing battles.
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Moscow
United Press
Red Army
Stalin Line
Ukraine
Berlin
Ecuador
Peru
United States
Argentina
Bra
Lonely vigil ends as Edgemere father finds son's body
In seven dawn vigils at Edgemere Long Island, Edward Steffens waited for his 11-year-old son Edward Jr who disappeared while swimming June 28. The fading waves finally returned the boy’s body to the shore yesterday ending the father’s vigil.
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New York
Edgemere
Long Island
Edward Steffens
Steffens
Edward, Jr
History Repeats Itself in Barefoot Recruits Tale
In Kansas City two U S recruits rest shoeless beside a George Washington statue after a Fourth of July furlough. They removed their shoes for comfort while napping in the park awaiting a train back to camp.
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Kansas City
George Washington
Valley Forge
Uncle Sam
Service of Supply
Man, 84, Buried In Self-Muilt Casket He Built
Henry Jefferson Hite of Huntington died at 84 at a daughter's home in Bluffton. Eight years earlier he began a walnut and poplar casket in his basement and finished it months later. He was buried in the casket he fashioned for himself.
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Huntington, Ind
Henry Jefferson Hite
Huntington
Bluffton
Bank cashier Jack Farwell improves after major operation
H. J. "Jack" Farwell, cashier of Amarillo National Bank, who had a major operation last week at Northwest Texas Hospital, showed improvement and was responding to treatment this morning. His condition remained critical after a poor night.
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H. J
Jack” Farwell
Amarillo National Bank
Northwest Texas
Weeds Necessitate Belling of Cow in Amarillo Pasture
In Amarillo last week W. C. Garrett, a pumper at City Lake water site, bought a cowbell to locate his milking cow. Weeds have grown so tall in his fenced pasture that the animal is hidden.
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Amarillo
W. C. Garrett
City Lake
Weather Blamed By Burglary Suspect In Philadelphia
A 34 year old man found asleep in a ransacked machine shop told police he planned theft but dozed off waiting for rain to stop. He faced burglary accusations and said he assembled items with intent to steal then slept.
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Philadelphia
Raid on Alexandria Naval Base Kills Two, Wounds Fourteen
Axis warplanes attacked the British naval base at Alexandria last night. The Egyptian interior ministry said two people were killed and fourteen injured in the raid.
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Catro
Egpt
Alexandria
Egyptian Ministry ,of the Interior
Peru Ecuador border war escalates amid international tension
Reports say Peruvian forces attacked Ecuador at multiple frontier towns amid artillery and air activity. Ecuadorian defense ministry confirms incursions and clashes with casualties, as protests swell nationwide in Ecuador and calls for decisive action against aggression.
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Zil
Ecuador
Peru
Ministry of National Defense
Belzalito
Guabillo
Carcanon
Quebrada
Chacras
Balzalito
Guabito
Prison Strike Idles U.S. Defense Shoe and Brush Factories
Leavenworth Kansas July 7 U P Eleven hundred convicts who run the army shoe and brush plants at the federal penitentiary walked off their jobs, halting defense orders. The walkout began after a Bureau of Prisons rule raised work hours from 39 to 44, with guards citing demands for higher pay and extra sentence time off. The warden said factories have not operated since Thursday and will stay closed while Director Bennett reviews reports and action is considered.
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Leavenworth
Kan
U.P
Federal Penitentiary
Army
Bureau of Prisons
Robert H. Hudspeth
J. D. Bennett
Washington
Hudspeth
Bennett
Weather outlook for Amarillo area with storms this week
The Amarillo region forecast calls for scattered thundershowers this evening and Tuesday evening with little temperature change. West Texas and New Mexico expect partly cloudy skies and scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms today and Tuesday with little temperature change. The 24 hour extremes are a low of 62 and a high of 84, with noon at 84. Build Now. John Maynard Lobr. Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
French Plane Plant Bombed In Heavy Raid
British air forces struck northern France in daylight and night offensives, setting a big French airplane factory near Amiens ablaze and targeting Munster Dortmund and Cologne in the Ruhr. Bombers hit Brest Amden and other naval bases. six British planes were lost.
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London
U.P
Amiens
France
Ruhr
Boulogne
Calais
Germany
Air Ministry
Munster
Dortmund
English Channel
Meaulie
Albert
Duesseldorf
Cologne
Amden
Brest
Rhineland
Emden
Rotterdam
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Ministry
Eagle
Veiled Pilot Fools Nazis And Escapes In Desert Trek
A 22 year old South African tomahawk pilot in the RAF disguised as a veiled Arab woman leads a camel through Cyrenaica to escape after being shot down. He hid six days in a waterhole, then escaped with an Arab guide traveling at night across 100 miles of desert.
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Godfrey H. P. Anderson
RAF
Desert
Johannesburg
Cyrenaica
Those Dollars Stall Rolling For Big Ideas
Opportunity is getting tired of knocking says YOUR IDEAS EDITOR. Amarilloans are urged to write a good idea and send it to YOUR IDEAS EDITOR at Globe News for a chance to win one dollar daily. The editor notes cash has been awarded for months with modest competition.
Marines Reject Whizzer White in Color Blindness Rejection
Denver reports Byron White known as Whizzer White a Colorado All America football star and former Detroit Lions player volunteered for Marine Corps enlistment but was rejected due to color blindness according to the recruiting office.
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Denver
Byron
Whizzer) White
Colorado
Detroit Lions
Marine Corps
Six Drunks Delay Corinto-Managua Train
MANAGUA Nicaragua July 7 The Corinto Managua train arrived long past its scheduled time last night. Inquiries were made today. The train crew said six drunken men were asleep on the track causing the delay.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Corinto
Darlan Leaves for Paris to Resume German French Talks
Premier Admiral Jean Darlan travels from Vichy to Paris to renew discussions with German authorities on collaboration. The fragment mentions printing, stationery firms, and an instruction to refrigerate a 12 can case of Prager.
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