High Gear Senate Race Moves Through Texas Campaigns
Gov. W Lee O Daniel spoke in the wind and rain at Waco as a trio of rivals pressed on. Rep Martin DiDes addressed Cisco crowds urging youth to defend free institutions, while Galveston Attorney General Gerald Mann called for higher soldier pay and expanded federal aid. Lyndon Johnson urged keeping Texas leaders in Austin amid pension controversy and federal aid comparisons.
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Associated Press
W. Lee O'Daniel
Waco
O'Daniel
Roosevelt
Washington
Martin DiDes
Cisco
House Committee On
Unamerican
Cisco Junior College
Galveston
Gerald C. Mann
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lyndon Johnson
Goose Creek
Austin
Texas
Classified Wants and Notices From Amarillo
A reel of personal ads and notices seeks work, companionship, and lost glasses. Entries include housework and nanny requests by Ethel and Frances Shaw, cook and laundry help, farm and ranch jobs, and a widow seeking room. Also a June 11 1941 auction bid call for a crawler tractor and motor grader. James H. Ewell offers a reward for lost glasses contact 7397.
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Burroughs
W. G. Martin
James H. Ewell
Buchanan Street
Grain elevator and feed mill man seeking work
Calvin Stapp, 41, married, experienced grain elevator and feed mill man, seeks a job and is willing to relocate. Provides contact options, asking to call 7150 or meet at 706 North Harrison Street before noon Friday or Monday morning.
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Tack
Harrison Street
Louise Buckley
North West
12Th Ave
North Harrison Street
Calvin Stapp
Tulsa
Texas
Navy Aide Walter R Jones Dies in London
The Navy announced the death of Lieutenant Commander Walter Raymond Jones in London. He was assistant naval attaché in London and a former White House aide, born in Ground Ledge Michigan 43 years ago and entering the Naval Academy in 1917. Next of kin listed as his uncle J. B. Jones. Details of death not disclosed.
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Washington
Navy Department
London
Walter Raymond Jones
White House
Department
Jones
J. B. Jones
Ground Ledge
Mich
Naval Academy
Summer Play Program Opens in Amarillo
A WPA sponsored summer program for children opened in Amarillo with supervised play and a well planned lunch funded by surplus government commodities and public contributions. City government provides 100 dollars monthly, Kiwanis Club adds 15 dollars monthly, and a committee led by Ollie M. Childers aims to raise 150 dollars more to cover the summer.
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WPA
Amarillo
Kiwanis Club
Ollie M. Childers
Fancher Upshaw Jr Visits During Marine Officers Training
Fancher Upshaw Jr the first Amarillo native to enter the Marine Officers School at Quantico Va is on furlough with his parents after three months of training. He will likely return to Quantico for a three month active duty tour and further schooling after earning a second lieutenant commission. He joins the Marine Officers Reserve upon completion of the course and is subject to active duty calls. Selection requires college graduation a strong physical exam and high potential as an officer.
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Fancher Upshaw, Jr
U. S. Marines Officers’ School
Quantico
Young Upshaw
Marine Officers’ Reserve
Founder of SMU's Law School Dies
William Alexander Rhea 67 founder of SMU Law School died after a paralytic stroke in May. A Dallas lawyer and former UT instructor, he built the school begun in 1925, preferring teaching and the law library of 22000 volumes. Survived by widow Mary Herndon, a son, a daughter, a sister and two brothers.
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Dallas
U.P
William Alexander Rhea
Southern Methodist University
Rhea
Texas
University of Texas
SMU
M-K-T
Mary Herndon
Nussbaum Re-elected Leader of Amarillo Knights of Columbus
George F. Nussbaum was re-elected Grand Knight of the Amarillo Council of the Knights of Columbus. J. E. James and other officers were also re-elected. Plans for an Irish Picnic on Sunday June 22 were announced at the session.
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George F. Nussbaum
Amarillo
Knights of Columbus
J. E. James
C. A. Drexler
Joseph L. Lawler
Joe Ros
Jim Flynn
William T. Ross
Norman Spillman
George O. Kelley
Malachy J. Kelly
Buffalo Burgers To Open Buffalo Lake Season
Concessionaire Jim Golding contracts 900 pounds of buffalo meat to make Buffalo Burgers for opening day crowds at Buffalo Lake on June 15 marking the 1941 season kickoff.
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Buffalo Burgers
Buffalo Lake
Jim Golding
Amarillo Summer School Opens for 1941 Term
First sessions of the 1941 Amarillo Public Schools summer term began at 7 30 at Amarillo High School and Mc Kinley Elementary School with nearly two thousand students enrolled. Urges enrollment to make up work missed. The article also notes near completion of the world’s longest undersea tunnel between Shimonoseki and Maeoji in Japan for a railway.
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Amarillo
Amarillo High School
McKinley
Shimonoseki
Maeoji
Japan
Fear Miners Trapped After Sea Mine Explosion
Whitehaven England June 31 A number of coal miners were feared trapped tonight in remote workings far under the sea at William Pit following an explosion. Many survivors were rescued but with serious burns. William Pit, sunk in 1812, is Britain oldest sea mine with seven miles of workings beneath the sea.
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Whitehaven
Cumberland
England
William Pit
Britain
Next Axis Goal May Be Malta Next Axis Goal May Be Malta
The piece argues Axis leaders likely target Malta after Crete as a step to block British access to the Suez and to facilitate a Libya Egypt drive. It notes suspected Syrian and Tunisian moves, French collaboration fears, and the Iraq regime collapse hindering Axis stepping-stone routes.
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Weygand
French Africa
Marshal Petain
Suez Canal
Europe
Syria
Cyprus
Malta
Sicilian Straits
Crete
Sicay
Tunisia
Libya
London
Mediterranean
Egypt
Gailani
Iraq
Mrs. Aarons Resting Better After Auto Crash
Mrs. Richard C. Aarons of Hollywood California is resting better at St Anthony's Hospital after a car overturned near Groom injuring her with a fractured pelvis. Her sister Mrs LaMona Hubbard of Carlton California was only slightly hurt in the accident on the highway west of Groom.
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Richard C. Aarons
Hollywood
Cal
Groom
St. Anthony’s Hospital
LaMona Hubbard
Carlton
Aarons
Shriners Invited To Slack Party At Lake Fiver
Shriners in Khiva Temple jurisdiction are invited to a lake party hosted by the Perryton Shrine Club at Lake Fiver near Perryton. The event Thursday includes boating swimming bridge a buffet supper and dancing with directions noting three miles off Highway 83 and marked access.
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Lake Fiver
Perryton
Carlander urges Palo Duro drive to boost Amarillo tourism
Guy Carlander, chair of the Palo Duro Park committee, told the Amarillo Kiwanis Club that Amarillo can become a million-dollar tourist center this year if locals actively guide visitors. He urged townsfolk to keep visitors in town longer, noting a tourist spends about ten dollars daily and that one hundred thousand tourist days could bring in a million dollars.
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Amarillo
Guy Carlander
Chamber of Commerce
Palo Duro Park
Panhandle
Canyon
Carlander
John Josey
Palo Duro
Wade Brymer
1200 Graduates at Texas U Hold Commencement
AUSTIN June 34 1200 graduates of the University of Texas received degrees at the 58th annual commencement last night. Wilbur Joseph Cash editor of the Charlotte News urged graduates to face a changed world with humility and common sense. He praised the South and Texas for potential riches and urged building a good society with renewed courage. Degrees were conferred by President Homer P. Rainey.
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Austin
University of Texas Today
Wilbur Joseph Cash
Charlotte
N. C
South
Cash
Texas
Europe
Homer P. Rainey
Sgt C T Collins Visits His Sisters
Fort Sam Houston staff sergeant C T Collins and wife from San Antonio visited his sisters Mrs T A Williams and Mrs C A Eddle man of 902 N Grant last week. His promotion to staff sergeant came recently and he is a master mechanic with diplomas from three army mechanics schools.
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C. T Collins
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
T. A. Williams
C. A. Eddleman
N. Grant
Army
Pattern 4782 offers wide misses and womens sizes
Pattern 4782 is available in misses and womens sizes from 12 to 40. Size 16 for the full ensemble requires 514 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send fifteen cents to Pattern Department of The Amarillo Globe in New York for the pattern, plus ten cents for the Pattern Book showing the season fashion picture for women and children.
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Amarillo Globe
West 17Th Street
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
Morgenthau Limits New Tax Requests to 3.5 Billion
Secretary Morgenthau announced the treasury will seek no more than 3.5 billion dollars in new tax requests as federal spending projections rise from 19.0 to 22.169 billion. He indicated no plan for additional taxes beyond the 3.5 billion, despite proposed increases in income excess profits gift and estate taxes and new levies on soft drinks gasoline tobacco liquor and autos.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Navy Recruit Optimistic About Training In Deep Sea Diving
Murray Ballou a 17 year old navy recruit from Syracuse New York hopes his past underwater experience will influence his officers to train him for deep sea diving He explains he made numerous underwater excursions at Green Lake using a diving helmet fashioned from a mop pail His note appears in a Globe News Want Ads feature.
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NAVY
Syracuse
U.P
Murray Ballou
Ballou
Green Lake
Bomber Pool Planned by Boeing Douglas and Vega
Three aircraft makers Boeing Douglas and Vega form a pool to build four motored bombers. Army authorities foresee substantial production increases with four plants assembling the aircraft to avoid single-source disruptions. Boring will supply tooling lists and drawings while each company retains control of its methods.
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Seattle
Boeing
Douglas
Vega
Planta
United States
Great Britain
Boring
War Department
Army Air Corps
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