Swim School Opens Today at Gem Lake
The Red Cross swimming school at Gem Lake begins intermediate classes today and runs for six weeks. Twelve girls, 20 boys and 15 adults passed the beginners exam led by Marvin Chamberlain, with tests covering breath control flotation glides and dives.
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Red Cross
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Marvin Chamberlain
Waterfront
Dolores Davis
June Thompson
Cherry Ann Blair
Verna Lou Singleton
Wanda Brown
Norma Lee Hoyt
Meredith Williams
Mary Louise Broome
Nancy O'Brien
Toinette Stallings
Edna Russell
Patsy Washburn
Dovid Cox
Roy Bassett
Charles Watson
Leroy Dixon
Edward Norman
Clyde Rehmeyer
Eugene Klein, Jr
Bill Hogge
James Dossey
Joe Billy Jordan
Tom Hackler
David Hackler
Louis Robinett
Ray Williams
Anvil Park Rodeo Boosters Tour Amarillo Parade
Canadian guests arrive with a 25 car motorcade and police escort promoting the Anvil Park Rodeo to be held July 3 and 4. The event offers two thousand dollars in prizes, three rodeo performances, three dances, and a pioneer parade, with stops at multiple Texas towns.
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Horn
Amarillo
KGNC
KFDA
Southwest
Mobeetie
Wheeler
Shamrock
McLean
Alanreed
Groom
Conway
Panhandle
Borger
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Army Enlistments Open in Amarillo Recruiting Surge
Army enlistments at the Amarillo recruiting station rise with quotas for four new assignments. Quotas include coast artillery unassigned at Fort McArthur California infantry unassigned at Fort Douglas Utah cavalry unassigned at Fort Bliss Texas and field artillery unassigned at Fort Bliss. Sergeant R A Jackson invites interested men to contact the station at the post office building. The White House is noted as Washington’s first public building.
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Amarillo
Field Artillery
Fort Sill
Okla
Coast Artillery
Fort McArthur
Calif
Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
Utah
Cavalry
Fort Bliss
Tex
Fort, Bliss
R. A Jackson
Markets Kansas City Livestock Summary June 24
Kansas City stockyards report hogs trading up to 5.25 with loads at 160 to 270 pounds and many lines around 4.35 to 5.25. Cattle and calves mixed with feeders and stockers steady to strong, top fed steers around 10.25, vealers firm, grass cattle varied. Sheep with clipped lambs up 25 cents, top around 8 dollars, native spring lambs above 10.25. Also notes Pan American Airways planning trans Pacific service and new Argentina schedule starting next month.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Pacific Airlin
New York
Pan American Airways
South Pacific
Australasia
Argentina
War Waged on Grasshoppers Across Western Front
Modern mechanized forces aided by planes attacked grasshopper outbreaks from Canada to Northwest Texas. Northern Montana saw the heaviest activity with 194 federal machines and private gear spreading bait. Saskatchewan and Montana faced damage but losses may stay at 5 percent. Baiting expands in North Dakota and South Dakota counties. hoppers remain light in parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Oklahoma leads in chinch bug efforts with 18000 gallons of creosote supplied for trench harriers.
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Canada
Texas
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Saskatchewan
North Dakota
South Dakota
Huron
Wyoming
Colorado
Oklahoma Panhandle
Baca
Colo
Oklahoma
Spain Eases Visa Rules for War Refugees Fleeing to U S
Spanish authorities cut visa formalities allowing 500 to 1 000 Americans fleeing the war zone to cross from Southern France into Spain toward the United States. Refugees will travel by special trains to Bilbao Bay of Biscay to await word on American vessels. A group has already reached Lisbon aboard the destroyer Herbert.
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France
Spain
United States
Bay of Biscay
Bilbao
Lisbon
Herbert
Vega Kiwanis Club Returns Visit With Orchestra Program
Vega Kiwanis Club members returned a visit to Amarillo to present a weekly program at the Amarillo Hotel. Archie Castleberry spoke on Europe’s unrest citing France destroyed by Germany and Italy. Music by the Vega group plus guests Judge Pulliam and others accompanied the talk.
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Vega Kiwanians
Amarillo Hotel
Archie Castleberry
Vega Club
Europe
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Sim Kelly
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Minneapolis
Panhandle Boys Attend National Hi-Y Congress in Oberlin
Four Amarillo and Panhandle youths join the National Hi-Y Congress closing in Oberlin Ohio. Gordon Tompkins Stanton Morris from Amarillo Marion Newberry Billy Brown from Dalhart and Harrd L. Nichols district executive director represent the Great Plains District Y M C A among 1200 delegates from the U S Canada and South America attend.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Oberlin
Great Plains
Young Men's Christian Association
Gordon Tompkins
Stanton Morris
Marion Newberry
Billy Brown
Dalhart
Harrd L. Nichols
Canada
South America
SCS Leases County Land for Central Shop
The Soil Conservation Service leased county land at the fair grounds to build a central barn and shop for the region. The commissioner's court approved details this morning. The site lies between the north entrance and the Texas Highway Department shops and may host several buildings with about 25 employees. The county will receive an annual $1.
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Fair Grounds
Commissioners’ Court
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Mrs Weatherman Dies in Hospital at 25
Ora Lee Weatherman wife of C O Weatherman died this morning at 12 50 in a local hospital She was 25 years old Survived by husband two sons Luster and Frank of Amarillo father C F Timbrook of Foresythe Mo sister Mrs Otis Getmann of Foresythe and brother C T Timbrook of Amarillo Body in charge of N S Griggs and Sons to be sent to Branson Mo tomorrow morning on the Rock Island train
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C. O. Weatherman
Luster
Frank Weatherman
Amarillo
C. F. Timbrook
Foresythe
Otis Getmann
C. T. Timbrook
Fannin Street
Amarillo Attorneys Invited to Fort Worth Bar Meeting
Amarillo attorneys were invited to attend the State Bar Association meeting in Fort Worth July 4 6. It marks the first convention for the new state group and the last for the old volunteer association. All licensed lawyers must join the new association. Associate Justice William O Douglas of the U S Supreme Court will be a principal speaker.
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Amarillo
State Bar Association
Fort Worth
New State Association
Old Volunteer Association
William ©. Douglas
U. S. Supreme Court
County to Widen Road Near English Field
The county will upgrade almost three miles of road from U S Highway 287 across Highway 66 to Highway 60 near Pullman to English Field. County Engineer Bill Howren was authorized to draft plans for a WPA project as commissioners court approves improvements near the airport.
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Pullman
English Field
Commissioners Court
Bill Howren
Ben Golding Responding Nicely to Treatments
Amarillo theater and ranch owner Ben Golding is responding nicely to hospital treatments in Fort Worth. Doctors have postponed operations awaiting treatment results, his son Jim Golding said. Jim, Buffalo Lake concessionaire, has stayed with his father at the hospital for a week watching developments.
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Amarillo
Fort Worth
Jim Golding
Mr. Golding
Buffalo Lake
Civil Mobilization Ordered in Bulgaria as Strikes Spread
Sofia reports in June 24 mobilization of industrial workers across Bulgaria as government moves to quell strikes erupting in Sofia and southern regions.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Prisoners killed near Berlin in bombing raid
German news agency reported British bombers killed three French prisoners of war and wounded three others at a prison camp near Hamburg last night. An agricultural note adds that Arizona alfalfa yields range from four and a half to six tons per acre versus a national average of two tons.
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Berlin
DNE
Hamburg
Arizona
Amarillo Officer to Be Promoted to Major in 142nd Infantry
Arthur W. Ball of Amarillo is expected to be promoted to major and command a battalion in the 142nd Infantry Texas National Guard. Nat S. Perrine says orders will come soon. Ball currently leads Regimental HQ Company in Amarillo. Frank J. Hainze will be promoted to captain, succeeding Ball, as the battalion command remains to be decided. בפ
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Amarillo
Nat S. Perrine
142Nd Infantry
Texas National Guard
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Tachment
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Perrine
Karl Wallace
Fort Worth
Perfine
Wallace
John E. Sentell
Snyder
Dies To Hold Texas Hearing
Chairman Martin Dies of the House committee investigating un American activities heads toward Austin to resume hearings on Fifth Column activities along the Mexican border. He travels from Chicago with Committee Secretary Robert Stripling, joined by investigators. Also en route are Reps. Voorhis Dempsey and Mason to confer with agents and local groups amid subversive organization probes.
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Martin Dies
House
Austin
Texas
Chicago
Robert E. Stripling
Mexico City
Jerry Voorhis
California
John J. Dempsey
New Mexico
Noah Mason
Illinois
Stripling
Dempsey
West
Voorhis
One Candidate Fails To Pay Fee In County Race
County Chair Roy Chase reports only one announced candidate did not pay the filing fee by the Saturday midnight deadline. Bil Howren, the elected county surveyor, withdrew after failing to submit the fee, while 28 candidates paid assessments and will file first campaign reports between June 26 and July 2.
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Roy Chase
Bil Howren
Howren
GOP Convention Notes Amid Nomination Talk
Delegates pack the great hall as Alf Landon arrives to applause while Willkie faces GOP doubts over party suitability. Edwin Jaeckle predicts Dewey will lead on the first ballot and be nominated soon. A chorus of voices and a public address by Lamberton mark a tense convention mood with 50 to 60 House Republicans meeting privately.
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Boys
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Edwin F. Jaeckle
New York State Republican Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Alf M. Landon
Hamilton
Republicans Clash Over Willkie Candidacy at Convention
The party’s anti-Willkie faction sparred over the foreign policy plank. Sen. Charles Tobey Jr and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr protested to the sub committee, arguing the plank was unclear and divisive. Rep. George H. Bender floated nominating Wheeler as a second Democrat.
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al Smith
Sen
Charles Tobey, Jr
New Hampshire
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
George H. Bender
Ohio
Burton K Wheeler
Montana
Bender
Roosevelt nominates Col Frank for governorship race
The article notes Roosevelt nominating Colonel Frank for the New Jersey governor race while discussing warship and aircraft contracts, labor restrictions, and Edison’s resignation effective today to pursue the governorship.
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Edison
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Col
Frank
Knox Named Edison Successor Amid Senate Hearing
Chicago publisher Knox is nominated to succeed Edison as head of the Navy. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee has ordered public hearings next week as final selection proceeds. Immediate contracts will cover three aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, nine light cruisers, 30 destroyers, and 22 submarines.
White House cites hundreds of signals on French debt payoffs
Washington reports the White House says State Department received several hundred telegrams and letters urging the United States to seize French assets or the merchant marine as debt payment. Stephen Early notes communications followed France's collapse. No confirmation on a libel claim against the French liner Normandie. Retiring Secretary Edison cites navy data of French fleet units being absorbed by Britain, without official confirmation.
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White House
State Department
United States
Stephen Early
France
Normandie
New York Harbor
Edison
Nervous Weak Ankles and Kidney Trouble Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Cystex as a cure for kidney and bladder issues such as swollen ankles nervousness and back ache. It promises quicker kidney cleansing within a day and a money back guarantee with a 3.50 price.
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