Ash and Haynes appeal win in fluoroscope rings case
Amarillo court affirms convictions of David Ash and David Haynes for receiving and concealing stolen jewelry valued at $800. The ruling notes officers used a fluoroscope to reveal rings swallowed by Ash, the legality of the method and the broader implications for crime fighting and evidence collection.
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Court of Mutinel Appeals
David ‘Smokey
Ash
Amarillo
Texas
United States
E. C. Nelson
Court of Criminal Appeals
David Haynes
Haynes
Yselding
Coronado's Children May Day Pageant Stars 600 Amarillo Students
More than 600 Amarillo school children from 20 schools perform Coronado's Children at Butler Field at 6 30 PM. The program previews Coronado Cuarto Centennial celebrations and features a five part pageant with band, processional, Coronado, coronation, and Maypole tableaux. Dorothy Morris is May Queen with C M Rogers officiating and an R O T C guard from Amarillo High School.
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Coronado
Butler Field
Amarillo
Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission
Albuquerque
N. M
Southwest
Mexico
Cibalo
Dorothy Morris
Amarillo High School
C. M. Rogers
Mary Elizabeth Hunsley
Buddy Lum
Ida Lou Nesbitt
Dick Lieurance
Dorothy Latham
Robert Stanlind
Yvonne Bennett
Richard Kile
Leera Bell DeFries
Bud McMurtry
Mary Elizabeth Ballard
Peggy Lou Hooper
Guydell Ekelund
Mary Lou Milton
Micky Vineyard
Bill Andrews
John Jenkins
Carol Hamilton
Queen's Guard
Sam Houston
Stancil M. Bagwell
Annie McDonald
Mattie Sorenson
Wanda Newman
Central Junior High School
Frank Coulter
Margaret Wills
Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company
Gulf Oil Company
Norwegian and Allied Forces Clash Across Norway Front
Unconfirmed reports claim Norwegian troops and Swedish volunteers retook Storen and Roros as German withdrawals shift along the Dombas Storen corridor. British and German statements reflect cautious, conflicting updates on Oslo Trondheim fronts with potential Italian involvement.
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Associated Press
Storen
Trondheim
Roros
Oslo
Tynset
Ulsberg
Dombas
Roros-Storen
Norway
Namsos
Steinkjer
Berlin
Stavanger
Fornebu
London
Air Ministry
Aalborg
Germany
Lillehammer
Lomm
Stockholm
Andalsnes
Britain
Mediterranean
Italy
India
Far East
Africa
Kansas Wheat Prospects Improve After Warm Week
Kansas and nearby areas saw warmer weather boost the winter wheat outlook. The Santa Fe road bulletin today estimates the U S wheat crop has risen by about six million bushels from last week’s forecast as conditions improved across the state and winter grain fields filled in.
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Kans
U.P
Kansas
Parents Seek Court to Reopen Lake Worth School
Fort Worth May 1. Parents of striking Lake Worth students say they will seek a court order to force the school to reopen after the board closed it indefinitely. Seventy two pupils walked out to protest the termination of principal W. R. Ramsey amid accusations of making embarrassing remarks about Germany's re population program. A wire fence blocked entrance until officers removed it.
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Fort Worth
Lake Worth
W. R. Ramsey
Ramsey
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Diary Clues Prompt Spy Probe of Pretty Girl
Federal agents continued to examine a diary seized from a 19 year old woman in Eagle Pass after officers found a letter to a Canadian contact. The letter claimed German troops could cross the U S border from Mexico for one peso per man as a potential espionage lead.
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Eagle Pass
U.P
Canada
United States
Mexico
Thompson Says He Will Run For Governor If People Want
Ernest O. Thompson, rail road commissioner, said he would run for governor if enough people urged him. He noted receiving many letters from across the state and clarified a radio address next Friday night is not an announcement. Thompson was runner up for governor in 1938 and had been asked to seek Congress.
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Austin
Ernest O. Thompson
Thompson
Railroad Commission
Amarillo
Col. Thompson
Congress
No More Live Coyotes For Nebraska Bounty
Beatrice Nebraska May 1 County Clerk E E Powell rejects live capture bounty policy. Favorable hunting weather led to curtailing live trapping and he will pay only for detached coyote scalps as the state bounty.
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Nebraska
Beatrice
E. E. Powell
toNee
Stork Leads Grim Reaper by Four in Amarillo Births
In Amarillo the deputy registrar notes 270 births and 133 deaths in the first quarter, a surplus of 137. The usual two births per death is exceeded by four. April statistics are not yet compiled.
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Amarillo
Georgia Ferrat
Headache Powders Should Have Been in Demand
Burl Haynie an Amarillo police statistician tabulated arrests showing 14 380 persons were arrested in Amarillo and Potter County over seven years on drunkenness charges. City officers made all but about 3 000 of the arrests.
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Burl Haynie
Amarillo
Potter County
Roosevelt Approves 4.9 Million USH A Loans to Agencies
President Roosevelt approved 4.879 million dollars in United States Housing Authority loans for five states. Texarkana Texas received 917 thousand dollars, covering about 90 percent of the estimated 5.426 million dollar cost of the five developments.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Housing Authority
Texarkana
Texas
USHAA
Who's Who in Amarillo Business Directory Ad Offer
Advertisers can place ads in the Who's Who in Amarillo business directory for as little as 4.40 per month, advertised as 440 per month with a 30 day cycle in both the Globe and the News. The promo claims over 990000 impressions and urges calling 6262 for want ads.
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Who's Who
Amarillo
Handy Business Directory
Globe and the News
Globe-News
Census Enumeration Request Form Prompt
If you have not been counted please send in this blank. Fill in your address and preferred call time for an Amarillo Census office enumerator. Include all residents such as roomers or servants for accurate counting.
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Amarillo
Oliver-Eakle
Negro Slaying Shocks Houston Couple. Suspect Sought
John Frank Lee 42 was shot in the left eye and killed in his Houston home as his wife Lola Lee 37 was assaulted by a Negro man who had earlier been chased from the house. Officers searched the area with bloodhounds but found no trail. Neighbors and sons heard the events as the assailant, described as 20 to 30, about 5 feet 4 inches, wearing a dark work shirt and rolled trousers, fled after the murder. Justice Maes ordered an inquest pending investigation.
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Ash
Sherif Bill Adams
Heriff Adams
Thefficers
Tom L. Beauchamp
Nelson
Texas
United States
Jtriége
Houston
John Frank Lee
Lee
Lola Lee
Police
Justice of the Peace
Tom Maes
Edgar
Earl
Yistice Maes
Earl Lee
J. F. Willis
Frank Murray
Traffic Accidents Run Two Per Day in Amarillo
Last month Amarillo logged about sixty city limit traffic accidents at a rate of two daily. Five people were injured, while the police traffic squad chief Captain Sid Harper called it a good record for a city of its size.
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Amarillo
Texas
Sid Harper
Neighbor sues over chicken killing charge in Irving
C. R. Brand posted a $200 bond in a Dallas justice court after being accused of killing Bud Cooper's chicken. Brand and Cooper are neighbors in Irving. The notice ends with an advertisement for Fine printing and lithography services from Russell's.
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Dallas
C. R. Brand
Justice of the Peace Court
Bud Cooper
Brand
Cooper
Irving
Drama of Courage as Prof Ned Walker Prepares to Walk
Professor Ned Walker a famed local philosopher is due to leave St Anthony's Hospital next week after healing from a broken hip sustained four weeks earlier at Shrine Circus. Doctors praise the rapid recovery noting the bone knitting like a miracle and Walker predicts a quick return to activity.
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Ned Walker
St. Anthony's Hospital
St. Anthony’s
Walker
Prof Walker
Turf
Seabiscuit
Kansas City Wife Checks on Her Husband
In Kansas City on May 1 a wife tests whether her husband receives her mail. She includes a self addressed postal card in every letter and learns delivery by whether the card is returned. If the card isn’t returned she suspects the letter not delivered.
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Kansas City
House Grants Roosevelt Emergency Power on Foreign Investments
The House without debate completed action on a Senate-approved bill giving the president authority to regulate foreign-held American investments during emergencies. Rep. Williams of Missouri and acting Speaker Rayburn of Texas announced approval, and the measure goes to the President for signature.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Rep. Williams
Missouri
Rayburn
Texas
April Fire Losses in Amarillo Drop From Last Year
Fire losses in Amarillo are down this April compared with last year says city fire marshal Ed Spann. He notes about 20 percent of 1939 losses happened in April and the month saw the heaviest damage from lightning.
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Amarillo
Ed Spann
Marshal Spann
Texas retail sales rise in 1940 first quarter led by Amarillo
The commerce department reports independent Texas stores show 7.2 percent higher sales in the first quarter of 1940 than a year earlier. March sales rose 86 percent from March 1939, with Amarillo leading at 22.9 percent above 1939. Waco followed with 22 percent gains. For the three months, Waco led 158 percent upturn, Amarillo 148, Beaumont 141, Port Arthur 136, and Fort Worth 11-1.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Texas
Amarillo
Waco
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Fort Worth
Mr. Collman Forecasts Fair With Settling Dust
The forecast predicts fair weather with dust settling this afternoon and tonight. A west wind will ease, temperatures rise to about 80 this afternoon, and overnight lows reach around 40 to 45. No rain expected within 400 miles of Amarillo.
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Mr. Collman
Amarillo
British Information Minister rejects suggestion in Commons
In London on May 1 Sir John Reith, the Information Minister, rejected a suggestion in the House of Commons that Britain consult with the United States on measures against German damage in Cuba. The minister dismissed the proposal as impractical.
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London
John Reith
House of
Great Britain
United States
Cuba
Weather Forecast For Amarillo And West Texas
Fair and warmer tonight and Thursday across Amarillo vicinity West Texas and New Mexico. Temperature extremes report a high near 74 and a low around 40 with noon reading around 66.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Banes
Murray
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