City Hall Attaches Describe Suspected Sabotage in Amarillo
Messy scene at a moving family’s apartment in Amarillo ends with a nitroglycerin bottle found in a refrigerator. A health official explains the container held heart medicine spirits of nitroglycerin and warns of dangerous handling and possible explosions. The incident prompted a cautious police response and humorous relief.
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Amarillo
Light Brigade
Health Department
Jack Wyatt
Gas Tax Rationing Threat to Texas Schools
Governor Coke Stevenson warned directors of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association that gasoline rationing would cut state tax receipts and badly disrupt Texas schools and care for orphans. He cited livestock industries as vital to wartime needs and supported excluding short wool from conservation orders.
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Kerrville
Tex
Texas
Coke Stevenson
Texas Sheep and Goatisers Association
Stevenson
Courthouse records and marriages listed in San Antonio
Courthouse records show several warranty deeds filed in 1942 from Beverley Eppler to Sunset Park and others with nominal sums. Marriage licenses list several couples including Christie and Miller. Twenty soldiers joined about 200 new citizens at two naturalization hearings before Judge Keeling, under a new rapid naturalization law.
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Henry M. Beverley
Phoebe Eppler
Sunset Park
San Antonio
United States
W. A. Keeling
Federal District Court
American Legion Plans Streamlined 1942 Convention
The American Legion announced a streamlined convention for 1942 to be held in Kansas City Missouri in September. Committeemen aim to conserve transportation facilities and urge posts to encourage attendance of only elected delegates. Originally New Orleans was the site but the war prompted the inland shift. Thirty two thousand Mexican families will benefit from a government project to aid agrarians.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Legion
Kansas City
New Orleans
Mexico
Religious Objectors Appeal to Court
The fifth U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the appeals of two Jehovah's Witnesses sentenced to two years for refusing induction. Pete Buttecall of Richmond Texas and Dennis Horton Fletcher of Lake Charles argued their stance as conscientious objectors should have placed them in class 4 D instead of 1 A BOY DROWNS WHILE WADING IN SAN ANTONIO RIVER.
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New Orleans
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pete Butte
Horton Fletcher
Lake Charles
San Antonio
Bohe
Gayaso
Riverside Golf Course
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N. C
Courthouse Records
Thomas B. Smith
J. F P. Coffee
S. G. Adamson
L. E. Thompson
F. P. Works
We C. Speed
Grace Lover
Curtis Adda
O. R. E. Barfield
Bernie B. Morgan
Eakle
H. B. Agee
U. S
San Jacinto
FOX
Jergens
Apees
Pablum
Dr. West
Phillips Milk Mag
Armand
Face Pond
Woodbury Face Po
Woodbury
Barbara Gould
Paris
Fisher Plantation
Hoyt
Putnam Dye
Hinkle
Gillette
Abidisiad Jr
Convary
Convoy
Sida Felig
S.A.E
West
Wescote
ISE
Frn. & Sat
Western Auto
Highway
POLK
Marjorie Evernden
Oak Park
Inl
Chicago
American Legion Convention
Call of
Richmond, Tex
Dennis
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