24 Jul 1941
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1941
Page
1
A lengthy Amarillo diary reports three days of heavy local rainfall while airport gauges show far less. It notes 3 551 feet drilled with possible pay within 300 feet, and mentions plans for oil or gas discovery. Bright weather anecdotes, agriculture notes, and national tidbits fill the column with regional color.
County Clerk Hubert Cole installed a Morse code victory key and sounder in his office this morning. Visitors tapped the three dots and a dash to signify the British victory. Cole will place the equipment in the lobby for public use and collect brick and money for the Canyon historical museum fund.
Levine's Department Store held its annual employee party last night with 65 employees, family members and guests in attendance. Highlights included a chicken dinner and dancing. Ben Groner served as general chairman of the arrangements committee.
Wong You Jong, a Houston Chinese man, initially rejected at the Fl Paso induction station due to citizenship doubts, proved his citizenship in Amarillo and was sent to Draft Board No. 2 for a Houston board with the acceptance notification received this morning.
Neighbors roused the Willis Board home as a grass fire threatened. They borrowed a garden hose and shovel to douse the flames while Board slept. He learned of the incident the next morning in the Wenatchee World, where he works as a reporter.
Ten Potter County men will be called into selective service Aug. 14 in answer to call No. 22. Each of the county's two boards will send five white men. Board No. 1 has 145 men in the service and No. 2 has 129 men, according to figures released this morning by the boards.
The Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI, will visit Canada soon to study operations of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, with no further announcements until his arrival. The report notes the trip aims at military training program insights and mentions WOOD HOLDS FAVOR on railroad tie patents, contrasting wooden foundations with new non-wooden options.
Classified brief collection moves from a teen seeking light housekeeping or child care to readers offering filing and typing work, two sisters seeking work, a canary hen wanted, a high school grad seeking housework, and a lost toy fox terrier on West Tenth Avenue.
A regional Office of Production Management official A J Langford will speak at 10 o clock tomorrow morning in the Herring Hotel Crystal Ballroom. Rex Baxter of the Chamber of Commerce says the talk will outline an overall picture of OPM problems and prove educational for machine operators fabricators and others in national defense. Attendees will learn techniques to resist threats to the American way of life and the meeting is sponsored by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
More than 400 members of the Mission Union of Clergy of the United States meet in Rochester on June 28 to discuss measures for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. A pontifical mass will open in Red Wing Stadium with about 15 000 Catholics expected. Mgr Thomas J McDonnell national director notes the war impacts on mission work and the need to sustain the society. William Johnson became the youngest Supreme Court justice at 32 in 1804 appointed by Jefferson and served until 1834.
Vichy and Germany reach agreement to return all French vessels under 300 tons seized during occupation. The move covers thousands of pleasure yachts tugs and small fighting boats and may signal no invasion threat against Britain.
In Seattle the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians ends the sawing of pretty girls in two. The trick now uses an arm or a leg. President Charles N. Smith said the change addresses complexity and prop needs after unanimous approval from 300 delegates.
Richard Jaeckel a 55 year old New York furrier fell to his death from the 21st floor of a Michigan Avenue hotel wearing pajamas a suit jacket and a black sleeping mask on his forehead. Investigators found six sealed letters in his Stevens Hotel room.
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