Army Seizes Air Plant as Riots Bring Tear Gas to Panhandle
In Washington DC and Amarillo a clash over a struck air craft plant escalated as Col Charles E Branshaw led 600 troops to reopen the factory under government control after police used tear gas on CIO pickets. A wounded veteran and several strikers treated for hand burns marked the day of tense occupation and near-riot conditions.
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Army
Struck Airplane
CIO
Roosevelt
Washington
Charles E. Branshaw
U. S. Army Air Corps
Branshaw
United Automobile Workers
PST
Violent Panhandle Storms Kill Four and Wreck Towns
A sweeping Panhandle storm system caused four deaths and injures at least 30 as it moved from Littlefield to Clarendon and beyond. Roofs and homes were demolished, crops damaged, and rail lines washed out with extensive property losses estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, while power and communications were disrupted across Donley and neighboring counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Santa Fe
Red Deer Creek
Canadian
Miami
Amarillo
A. W. Tooley
Otis King
Carl Bookout
Bookout
Singleton
J. C. Stultz
Fairmont Avenue
Ed Singleton
Kentucky Street
Silverton
O. L. Fink
J. L. Bulls
Clarendon
Sam Braswell
Drennan
Ethelyn
Northwest
Texas Hospital
T. W. Welch
Frank Bourland
Tom Tucker
Deserters Join Allies Drive into Syria Front
Allied columns moved into Syria and Lebanon as British and Free French forces pushed toward Damascus and Beirut. Vichy and Berlin denied German troops, while French leaders warned of grave danger as RAF bombed Damascus and Aleppo and landings near Tripoli were reported.
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Associated Press
Syria
Vichy
Cairo
France
Middle East
Beirut
Lebanon
Palestine
Tripoli
Haad
Paris
Jacques Benoit Mechin
Germany
Reuters
Sea of _sililee
Christ
Damascus
RAF
Aleppo
Levaya
Great Britain
Berlin
Iraq
Mosul
Trans-Jordan
Druses Nin Jebel Ed Druz
Soudeida
Jebel Ed Druz
Sea of Galilee
Banias
EU Phrates River
Deir-Ez-Zor
Tyre
Cleopatra
Phoenicia
Great
Nebuchandrezzar
Suez Canal
Britain
Philippe Petain
Levant
Charles de Gaulle
Henry Maitland Wilson
British ships damaged in clash with French destroyers off Lebanon
Beirout June 9 report from the French high command says two British naval units were seriously damaged in an engagement with two French destroyers off the Lebanese coast north of Sur. The exchange occurred at sea during daytime operations and details of casualties were not disclosed.
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Lebanon
Beirut
London
Merdjayoun
Tyre
Sour
Merjayoun
Damascus
U.P
Sur
Lions Meet in Holiday Mood at West Texas Convention
Delegates to the state Lions Clubs convention focused on enjoyment and electing a district governor. The race between Pascal Buckner of Big Spring and Dr H C Blue Pender of Lubbock for District 2 T governor drew interest as model luncheons promoted the candidates. About 500 attendees registered at noon with expected totals over 600, including remarks by officials and Lions International president Karl M Sorrick.
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Lions Clubs
Pascal Buckner
Big Spring
H. C. “Blue” Pender
Lubbock
Amarillo Lions Fail To Serve English Peas At Midland Meet
Henry Munn, president of the Amarillo Lions Club, announced that the Midland convention program fulfilled its pledge from 1940 to serve no English peas. The statement notes the English pea staple was missing from today’s ban quet table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Lions Clubs
Amarillo
Midland
Henry Munn
Lions Clubs Convention Figures in District Governorship Bids
The convention's climax comes this afternoon as Buckner and Pender, past district and local club presidents and deputy district governors, bid for district governorship. Mrs. Avery Rush presided at a noon luncheon. Pender teaches at Texas Tech and Buckner oversees vocational education for the State Board. President Sorrick will attend a district governors banquet tonight, followed by a dance. The convention concludes with a business session and luncheon tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Clubs
Avery Rush
Buckner
Pender
Texas Technological College
West Texas
State Board of Education
Sorrick
Failing Eyesight Plagues Pickpocket in New York
Joseph Martino, 57, accused of pickpocketing since 1919, was brought to a police lineup after two women officers nabbed him in a department store for deftly opening a shopper’s purse, peering inside with glasses, then closing it as the haul proved small.
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New York
Joseph Martino
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for fair skies in Amarillo tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. West Texas shows showers and thunderstorms in the southeast portion with fair conditions elsewhere this afternoon through Tuesday, cooler in the southeast and cool elsewhere. New Mexico enjoys fair conditions this afternoon through Tuesday with scattered showers over higher elevations in the north this afternoon and continued cool. The 24 hour temperature extremes were 56 to 85, with noon at 74. Precipitation over the last day totaled 1.15 inches.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Vance Survives Edge of Texas Tornado Near Clarendon
R B Vance manager of Montgomery Ward and wife escaped the edge of a powerful storm near Clarendon after returning from the U S Open in Fort Worth. He described severe electrical display, and near miss lightning on the road toward Amarillo, with sympathy for storm victims and relief at reaching home.
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R. B. Vance
Montgomery Ward and Company
Clarendon
Amarillo
Plainview
Mr. Vance
Fort Worth
Denny Shute
Jimmy Demaret
Shute
Demaret
Vance
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Compton
Cal
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Carl Clement
Clement
Littlefield
Kress
Woodward
Okla
Guymon
Texhoma
D. P. Singleton
R. E. Drennan
Allan Green
Sarah Davis
Denver
Lockney
South Plains
Quitaque
Green
Davis
Weather Bureau
Roswell
N. M
Clarendon Junior College
Mobeetie and
J. L. McMurtry
Lena Antrobus
George E. Willard
Joe Holland Cooye
Clarendon College
Kiwanis
Ida Mae McClure
Miss McClure
Hear Mobeetie
Kimball Milling Company
Woodward Pentecostal
Jerusalem
Henri Dentz
Joe Jenkins
H. Sim Kelley
Kiwanis Clubs
Robert C. Dow J
Amarillo Lions Club
Murry H. Fly
Odessa Lions Club
Karl M. Sorrick
Springport
Mich
Lions International
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Dwight Newbys
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