Baltic convoy sinks three ships in German raid
German Baltic convoy came under attack and at least three ships were sunk near the Swedish southeast coast, including the liner Tannenberg. Reports say the fleet hit a mine field amid clashes with Russian vessels, with casualties and wounded docked at Kalmar.
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Holger Hansen
Stockholm
Sweden
Tannenberg
Deland
Kalmar
Heinz Haute
Duisberg
Walter Jungbauer
Westphalia
Measles Name Proves Double in Camp Callan Scene
In San Diego on July 11 a slender youth from Spencer Tennessee arrives at Camp Callan. A corporal asks his name and the man replies James Robert Measles, joking that he has no measles and has not had them since he was 15.
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San Diego
Spencer
Tenn
Camp Callan
James Robert
Parkhill Approved For Deputy Constable Job
U L Parkhill known as Buster was approved by the commissioners court today to serve as deputy constable, succeeding James Wilkinson. North Carolina records show two extremes in average rainfall, 82.41 inches at Highlands and 39.08 inches at Marshall, separated by about 50 miles.
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U. L
Buster) Parkhill
Commissioners Court
James Wilkinson
North Carolina
Highlands
Marshall
Pattern 4799 for misses and women's sizes listed
Pattern 4799 available in multiple misses and women sizes with fabric yardage specified. Instructions ask readers to send fifteen cents to Pattern Department Amarillo Globe at 243 West 17th St New York for the pattern and ten cents more for a Pattern Book showing the season's fashions for matron miss and tot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
Markets Dow Jones Opens Mixed Amid Broad Rally
Market summary notes Dow Jones Industrials up around 12 points, railroads higher, utilities down, and a general rise across listed stocks. The New York Stock List shows gains in Am Can, Am Tel & Tel, and Gen Elec with varied quotes across major names including Chrysler, Dupont, and Bethlehem Steel reflecting a buoyant trading day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones
Fenner and Beane
New York
Associated Press
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Tel & Tel
Am Woolen
At&s F
Barnedall Oil
Beth Steel
Chrysler ( ST
Curtiss Wright
Douglas Aire
TAN
Gen Motors
Goodyear
Greyhound
Houston
Int Harvester
Johns Manville
Aly Lorillard Eevarnl
Boy Pet Corp
Phillips
Plymouth
Wile
Siev
Seaboard
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union
Socony Vacise
Boy Pac
Seman
Tee Ori Mls
Stone & Webster
Tex Pac
Tex Corp
Tex
Tex Gulf
Tex Pac C & O
Gey
Union Oil Cal
United Aire
United Gas Imp
Olton Lions Visit Amarillo For Two Day Rodeo
Olton's Lions Club delegation arrived in Amarillo for a two day rodeo and celebration July 15 16. They were greeted by Fancher Upshaw and his committee and paraded along Canyon highway to Polk Street with a concert by the high school band led by B O Wilson. Leaders Speck Aikman Ray Slatten and Frank Cummings headed the delegation. Jaycee president Bill Ferguson welcomed them. The group plans a return visit to boost the eleventh annual rodeo and will travel to New Mexico next Monday. After lunch they returned home via Wildorado Vega and Hereford.
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Canyon Highway
Fancher Upshaw
Polk Street
Third Avenue
B. O. Wilson
Speck Aikman
Ray Slatten
Frank Cummings
Bill Ferguson
Jaycee
New Mexico
Amarillo
Wildorado
Vega
Hereford
Appeals on Draft Cases Rise in Panhandle Board
The selective service appeals board for 54 counties in the Panhandle and West Texas has received 111 appeals. It affirmed classifications in 53 cases and reclassified 37. ten cases await action. Three reclassifications were made by local boards after returns for extra evidence. Two registrants withdrew appeals. Six cases were not considered due to legal restrictions. Appeals originated from 31 counties. 25 local boards filed no appeals.
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Selective Service Appeals Board
Panhandle
West Texas
Draft Board
Five injured in head on Can yon highway crash
Three of five victims remain in Northwest Texas Hospital with serious injuries. Mrs. J. C. Birdwell bears severe head wounds and fractures, while her husband has a compound arm fracture and possible pelvic injuries. Mrs. Birdwell’s mother and Mr. Webster are treated and dismissed. Cars collided head on at Western Avenue intersection. both cars demolished.
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Canyon Highway
Northwest
Texas
J. C. Birdwell
Buchanan Street
B. C. Birdwell
Western Avenue
Churchill Dictator Claim Spurs Foreign Policy Clash
Senator Wheeler accuses Churchill of steering U S policy through trial balloons while denials and official statements clash over American bases in northern Ireland Britain confirms American workers are employed on projects but denies plans for U S bases in Ireland The Belfast editorials suggest such bases may be closer than expected amid Ireland’s resistance to British naval bases.
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Germany
Wheeler
U. S
Churchill
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
London
United States
North Ireland
Iceland
Belfast
Northern Whig
Mr. Taft
Eire
Britain
Ireland
New York
Passmore Services Tomorrow at 4
Funeral services for Billy Jean Passmore nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Passmore who died yesterday afternoon in a local hospital will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o clock from the Boxwell Brothers Chapel Rev FE R Foster pastor of the Assembly of God Church will officiate Besides the parents the child is survived by two brothers a sister and three grandparents Mr and Mrs W T Passmore of Amarillo and Lawrence Belcher of Lawton Okla The family home is at 308 Hayden Street Burial will be in Memorial Park
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Olivia Vaughn
Pioneer Panhandle
Boxwell Brothers Funeral
H.C. Smith
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Vaught
Anarillo
Florida Street
Polk Street
C. M. Howe
R. B. Rusell
G A. Tull
Paul WN. Ingram
Liano
Laura V. Nelson
R. B Russell
Paul Ingram
Amarillo
H Vaughn
Kanob
Utah
Josephine Hughes
Coleman
Texas
John Harvick
Wichita Falls
Billy Jean Passmore
W. H. Passmore
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
FE. R. Foster
Assembly of God Church
W. T. Passmore
Lawrence Belcher
Lawton, Oklo
Hayden Street
Memorial Park Cemetery
Shriners May Form Mounted Patrol Here
Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine may field a mounted patrol and join the Will Rogers Range Riders. Booster members on horseback could wear distinct uniforms. The idea was pitched at a morning meeting with Curly Hobbs, Hugo Loewenstern, George Hammock, W. W. Chapman and Fred Galle. Those interested were urged to contact the recorder's office.
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Mystic Shrine
Will Rogers
Fred Galle
Curly Hobbs
Hugo Loewenstern
George Hammock
W. W. Chapman
Recorder
Mr. Galle
$5 000 Violin and Radio Stolen in Santa Rosa NM
A New Yorker reported to an Amarillo policeman that a $5 000 violin in a velvet lined case and a $150 radio were stolen from his car while parked Wednesday in Santa Rosa New Mexico. The violin bore the name Amati and inside inscription Joseph Pertin Detroit Mich 1926.
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Amarillo
John Torrence
Windsor Hotel
Sixth Avenue
New York
Santa Rosa
N. M
Amati
Joesph Pertin
Detroit
Mich
Navy Comes First Adm Kimmel Delays Shoppers in Hawaii
In Honolulu on July 11 Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the U S fleet, paused in a haberdashery to buy trousers as two petty officers browsed for socks and ties. The clerk failed to recognize him and asked him to wait. The admiral replied that the navy comes first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Husband FE. Kimmel
United States
Mufti
Portugal accelerates troop deployment to Azores amid US threat
Popolo Di Roma cites Madrid reporting Portugal stepping up forces in the Azores and surrounding Atlantic islands. New contingents aboard Carvalho and Araujo depart Lisbon to reinforce garrisons as port defenses bolster against a perceived United States invasion. In Vichy circles Dakar defenses are readied for possible landings, while Russia schools total over thirty million pupils.
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Popolo di Roma
Madrid
Portugal
Azores
United States
Lisbon
Carvalho
Araujo
Archipelago
Madeira
Cape Verde Islands
Vichy
Dakar
South America
Tries To Rush Death Which She Expected
Dorothy Powell a 24 year old former Wisconsin outstanding woman flier came to Chicago for a last fling and swallowed poison to hasten death Her parents monitor her in Passavant Hospital Chicago doctors say her chances of recovery are slim A note to a man named Don explains her belief she would die soon and she wanted excitement rather than worry others Powell had left a Milwaukee firm in May and lived with her LaCrosse parents until last week when she planned to return to Milwaukee
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Chicago
Dorothy Powell
Wisconsin
Passavant Hospital
Miss Powell
Don
Milwaukee
Robert Powell
LaCrosse
Wis
Powell Girl Rushed to Hospital with Illness
Powell’s parents arrived from LaCrosse and said the girl was not suffering any illness likely to cause death. The patient was too ill to be questioned, delaying any statements.
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Powell
LaCrosse
Appointed To Take Byrnes Position
Governor Burnet R. Maybank appoints 55 year old Alva Moore Lumpkin of Columbia to fill the U S Senate seat vacated by James F Byrnes who has become a Supreme Court justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Burnet R. Maybank
Alva Moore Lumpkin
U. S. Senate
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Spanish Assets Are Unfrozen
Washington July 11 report says the treasury issued a general license lifting the freezing control on Spanish assets in the United States, allowing access and transfer under eased restrictions.
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Washington
U.P
The
Treasury
United States
Fragmentary WWII war report on German losses and air actions
The dispatch notes heavy German casualties from counter-attacks and states the only active war phase appears to be aerial combat, with latest reports focusing on yesterday’s air actions.
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U. L. Parkhill
H. V. Robertson
Readach
Benson & Benson
Doctors of Optometry
Taylor
Anne Adams
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
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Financial Security Fund
Canada
Russia
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Petrograd
St. Petersburg
Russian Empire
Kiev
Buffalo
Paris
Dnepr River
Vilna
Poland
Baku
Caucasus
Odessa
Black Sea
Bessarabia
Olton
Lions
Lions Club
First National Bank of
Fisk
Passmore
Navy
Dallas - Fort Worth Houston
Texas Panhandle
Miller & Miller Motor Freight Lines
Grant
Byrnes
Amarillo Printing Co
Rinso
Norge
Hilton Hotel
Long Beach
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Hilton Long Beach
Alifornia
Laura Wheeler
COPA
Igat
Needlecraft Service, Inc
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