Army maneuvers plan to use Texas highways nationwide route survey
War department officials met at the Herring Hotel to map large scale troop movements across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico highways. Texas officials including DeWitt Carey and James Lott described anticipated traffic problems while an Army mobilization of 1 418 000 men was projected for June 15 requiring 250 000 vehicles and major road strengthening.
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War Department
Texas
Texas Highway Commission
DeWitt
Tyler
Julian Montgomery
Greer
West Sixth Avenue
Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Jenkins
James Lott
Division
Bushland
Herring Hotel
Col
Homer Garrison
State Department of Public Safety
B. F. Chadwick
Fort Sam Houston
Eighth Corps
M. C. Connors
Oklahoma
Alfonso de Baca
New Mexico Motor Vehicle Department
Joe Roach
New Mexico Highway Patrol
FE. W. Helms
Public Roads Administration
C. R. Weaver
General Staff Corps
Washington, D.C
L. &. Harris
State Department
Bureau of Public Relations
Texas Truck Weight Bill Up to 38000 Pounds May Become Law
Texas legislators move toward a new truck weight limit of 38000 pounds on state roads possibly becoming law by Monday night. The measure, aided by emergency status, would supersede the 7000 pound limit and ease crop shipping constraints amid pressure to action.
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Austin
Hoase
Senate
House
Friends
Rail and
Tuck Transportation
Texas
Olan R. van Zandt
Tioga
Railroad Commission
Sheriff's Deputies
Skiing Good At Two Spots This Weekend
Weekend forecast shows good skiing at Hyde State Park and Big Tesuque with snow depths around 14 to 34 inches and powdery surfaces. Agua Piedra is poor for winter sports with 34 inches of wet surface and high elevations may see flurries and showers. Cedar Creek and Cloudcroft have no winter sports.
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Hyde State Park
Big Tesuque
Agua Piedra
Aqua Piedra
Cedar Creek
Cloudcroft
Independent Petroleum Association Objects to Venezuela Trade
The Independent Petroleum Association of America attacked the reciprocal oil trade with Venezuela. It urged maintaining duties on crude oil and argued that all grades needed in the United States can be produced domestically and opposed further imports.
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de Rea CO
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Venezuela
Burglars Steal Jewelry and Cameras in Daylight Home Break‑In
Loot valued at 1750 dollars included diamond jewelry such as a platinum wrist watch a brooch and several rings two watches and two diamond cameras with gear. The items were kept in a strong box hidden in a closet at Jesse A Rogers 1023 West Eleventh Avenue. Police hold a loot list.
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Jesse A. Rogers
West Eleventh Avenue
Mr. Rogers
Roosevelt oil report faces industry opposition and calls for action
The President's oil and gas report to Congress prompts expected pushback from the petroleum industry. It argues private enterprise alone cannot solve waste, cites wasted reserves and capital, and urges stronger governmental reporting on crude grades. The critique notes industry resistance to long held views and anticipates state actions ahead.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Inter-State Oil Compact
Veterans of Foreign Wars Meets at Odd Fellows Hall
John B. Golding Post No. 1475 of the VFW will hold a regular business meeting at 8 pm tonight in Odd Fellows Hall. Commander E. B. Bruce will preside.
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VFW
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John B. Golding
Odd Fellows Hall
E. B. Bruce
$1 000 Gift Supports Boys Ranch Building Drive
Mary E. Bivins donates $1000 to the Boys Ranch building fund raising total to $2538. Alton G Weeks, superintendent, writes to Ollie M. Childers praising supporters and urging continued help to lift the debt and aid displaced boys toward upright citizenship.
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Boys’ Ranch
Mary E. Bivins
Alton G. Weeks
Ollie M. Childers
P. S
Kansas City Livestock Markets Report March 21
Hogs total 1,000 with top at 8.00, most 140 to 170 lb at 7.25 to 7.85, cattle 200 salable, calves 100, stockers steady, fat cows 6.25 to 7.50, canners 4.50 to 6.00, lambs 10.25 to 10.50. financial fund prices show liquidation at 1.4774 with offering 162. The report notes slow uneven trading and mixed dealer activity in Kansas City livestock trading.
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Kansas City
Funeral services for Mrs Ethel Blackwell Saturday
Mrs Ethel Blackwell aged 54 dies after brief illness at Texarkana. Funeral at West Amarillo Christian Church Saturday at 10 with Rev Powell A Smith officiating. Pallbearers listed. Burial in Clarendon Cemetery. Survived by Lloyd Blackwell Lewis M Blackwell and Mrs Madison Grider. Body in state at 4212 West Thirteenth Avenue.
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Ethel Blackwell
West Amarillo
No Wonder It Was Settled Out of Court
Artemus Knuckles sued in a justice of the peace court to recover a pig that wandered onto a neighbor’s farm and was confiscated. His lawyer was David Hogg citing a Sullivan Circuit decision by Judge Martin L. Pigg based on an Indiana Supreme Court opinion. The matter was settled out of court.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Artemus Knuckles
Justice of the Peace Court
David Hogg
Hogg
Sullivan Circuit
Martin L. Pigg
Pigg
Indiana Supreme Court
John G. Berkshire
William Moberly
Pig Knuckles
Knuckles
Seven Blind Men Deliver Maps Ahead of Schedule
Seven blind men working for the Lighthouse for the Blind completed a defense contract eleven days early. They produced 7,500 maps for the army at a rate of 75 dozen per day, shipping the final batch to the Atlanta quartermaster depot yesterday. The shipment arrived well before the April 1 due date.
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New Orleans
Atlanta
Canadian Honker Steps Through Portland Intersection
Residents watched a Canadian goose cross an intersection in a comic procession as cars halted and horns blared. The bird emitted a series of high pitched honks with each measured step before finally taking off after a final loud honk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Italian Charged With Selling Dog Meat as Mutton
Police in Brescia investigate a case accusing a local butcher of passing dog meat as mutton and selling dog fur as fox. A customer reported the meat did not taste like mutton and later discovered the fur being sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brescia
Italy
U.P
Civil Service Reports 308000 Defense Jobs Placed
The Civil Service Commission said 308000 persons have been placed in national defense positions since last June. About 296000 were hired outside Washington while 12000 were placed within the capital for work in the War and Navy Departments.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
War and Navy Departments
Gunmen Display Unexpected Courtesy
In Chicago on March 21 two shotgun robbers entered a tavern and stole $25 from the till. They revived a fainted barmaid, Anna Chill, with water and ordered her to sit as they took another $25 from three patrons.
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Chicago
Anna Chill
Oil Mendelegates and Engineers Meet in Amarillo
Oil delegates welcomed by Mayor Ross D. Rogers with praise for Amarillo leadership. Tom J. Hamilton of Oklahoma City chaired API remarks. Clark F. Barb of Colorado School of Mines spoke on Rocky Mountain secondary recovery and water flooding studies in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Ross D. Rogers
Tom J. Hamilton
Oklahoma City
API
Hamilton
Amarillo
American Conference of Mayors
Rocky Mountain
Clark F. Barb
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Colo
Barb
Oklahoma
Kansas
L. M. Arnold
Geologic Standards Company of
Tulsa
Nowata-Rogers County
Bartlesville
R. C. Barlougher
Geological Standards Company of
L. L. McWilliams
Phillips Petroleum Company
Oklo
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Fenner & Aed
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OX Cities Service
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Ny. Ngowse
Polk
Blackwell Funeral Services
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France
Ginger
Hollywood
Ginger Rogers
Lew Ayres
Miss Rogers
Ayres
R. C. Kay
Tom C. Hamilton
League of Women Voters
Crystal Ballroom
Municipal Auditorium
U. S
National Resources Planning Board
Oil Conservation Agency
Ross
Tom B. Holman
Amarillo Printing CO
Wuari
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