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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1940
Page
12
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The Rex Theater in San Jacinto screens March of Time U S Navy 1940 edition with hundreds attending as last showings approach. The broadcast covers current navy topics and features expert commentary from manager Jim Golding.
TWA will start daily passenger service within two to three weeks under a signed operating agreement with Marquette Airlines. The route will connect Detroit Dayton Cincinnati and St Louis with two round trips daily to Detroit and Cincinnati and one to St Louis. Marquette planes remain under ownership while TWA operates.
The mechanized expeditionary force of the marine corps will be split between the East and West coasts. Two transports and two destroyers will be assigned to each coast with interior wrecks converted to large hangar like quarters. Armored decks six inch guns and anti aircraft gear may be added. Six defense battalions join the fleet marine force already split between Atlantic and Pacific posts.
Delay in peacetime conscription debate grows as compromise ideas surface. CIO leader John L. Lewis and Senator Taft oppose compulsory training while Senator Barkley signals support for study time. House Democrats seek a cautious pace. the Military Committees push ahead with bills to register 42 million men aged 18 to 63 and draft about 400,000 aged 21 to 30 by October.
The Cunard-White Star liner Britannic docked in New York with 14 pieces of luggage marked for the Duke of Windsor including his crest. It carried 778 passengers, 272 British children, all with parents, on a ship that left Liverpool eight days prior. The luggage’s destination was not disclosed. Passengers included playwright Noel Coward and Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, a French newspaper editor fleeing Nazi authorities.
United States Ambassador William Phillips departed Rome by airplane today bound for Madrid and then the United States on a short leave of absence to confer with President Roosevelt. He was accompanied by John Cudahy, ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxembourg.
A simple sugar syrup makes sweetening summer drinks faster and more thorough than plain sugar. To make it combine five cups of sugar with five cups of water, boil for ten minutes, then cool and store in a jar or bottle in the refrigerator.
The Agriculture Department forecast no abnormal shortage or widespread starvation in Europe if fall and winter supplies are proportionately distributed. It warned communications have been disrupted and refugees may face inadequate food in cities of recently invaded countries, with dislocation and loss of purchasing power adding to the risk.
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