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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1940
Page
23
Portales New Mexico June 18 Milton Van Dyke son of Mr and Mrs J R Van Dyke Portales has been awarded a $1000 Harvard University scholarship Harvard officials announced this is the second Portales High School student to receive the award in three years.
United States Atty Harold M Kennedy described William G Bishop as a salesman of hate fear and prejudice and leader of a 14 man Brooklyn conspiracy to overthrow the government. He called Bishop Macklin Boettger and Claus Ernecke the three musketeers and noted Ernecke died before trial while Boettger remains on trial with Bishop as the case heads to the jury.
In Austin on June 18, Herbert W. Chalberg announced the government’s recruitment drive for highly skilled workers to support national defense efforts. The event emphasized manpower needs across industries and the importance of qualified personnel.
Chalberg urged workers during a statewide radio broadcast to contact local civil service secretaries or post offices for information on qualifications and employment details. He noted no shortage of clerical and unskilled labor, and recalled 1909 when applying 27 coats of paint took six weeks for an automobile body.
Washington June 18 A House Ways and Means subcommittee tabled the Patman chain store tax bill after hearings and an executive session motion to report it favorably was rejected then adjourned sine die The plan would tax chains of 10 or more stores with a levy from 50 to 1000 dollars per chain McCormack said lawmakers favored a regulatory rather than punitive approach and the measure would not be within the committee’s jurisdiction.
Lieut. L. Laverents opened Texas Oklahoma examinations for naval aviation cadets with 210 applications. He said the proposed 10,000 additional naval planes to Congress would be manned without difficulty once Corpus Christi and other new training fields are opened.
Berkeley anthropologist Dr John Barr Tompkins spent four years locating the Codex Fernandex Seal in a Crocker Bank vault in San Francisco. The nine foot parchment depicts a pre Hispanic migration from Guatemala toward Oaxaca, possibly Cuicatecan, with battles dances and rituals. The Bancroft Library will receive the fragile document, hailed as a major finds in early Mexican history.
Newton George, 55, master mechanic for a Silver and Lead Mining Co., was fatally injured 67 miles south of here when struck by the safety plug of an exploding compressor. He died after arrival for treatment.
In Minneapolis on June 18 Kiwanis International delegates urged immediate compulsory military training for high school and college youths. The meeting also pressed to bar the Communist Party from ballots and supported raising the national debt limit. Harold Hippler of Florida stressed that permanent security rests on high national morale as Calvin Keller of Missouri spoke to delegates.
An old remedy claim promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a diuretic and kidney stimulant for backache nervousness and night awakenings due to kidney trouble. It urges buyers to avoid substitutes and notes a 35 cent to 85 cent price range and the gold medal box label.
The speaker urged delegates to acknowledge the vital role newspapers play in national and community life. He noted progress, comparing automobile battery uses, now nearly 30 versus 14 a decade ago.
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