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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
6
Music students of Amarillo Public School will present their annual festival Sunday at 3 PM in the high school auditorium. The event inaugurates National Music Week with choral glee and instrumental groups on stage. Seven of the smaller schools will be represented.
A massed chorus of about 150 voices is being organized by the department of music under the direction of Miss Gertrude Elliker, director of music, with teachers arranging the program.
London announces curb on milled wheat products not for human food with prohibition after May 6 under special license. Ministry of Food issues order affecting grain use and food production authorities.
Lubbock Texas gears up for the eleventh annual Clean-Up and Paint-Up from May 6 to 20 with seven thousand children and thousands of adults already at work. Since 1930 the city has won the national trophy for ten consecutive years, a feat credited to broad citizen participation and cooperation of local agencies.
A review of Amarillo council minutes traces the push from wooden bridges to grade separated underpasses and viaducts. Budgets from the federal roads bureau enabled key crossings, including East Third Avenue and West Sixth Street, to reduce traffic hazards as citizens lobbied since 1904.
London authorities move against Peace Pledge Union members with police summonses served in London Oxford and Cambridge as disclosed by the press association.
Elliott Roosevelt stated on radio that Franklin D. Roosevelt would seek a third term only if public demand compelled it and would declare himself before the Democratic national convention in July. He said the President preferred retirement if the world situation allowed but warned a third term could split the party.
Paris dispatch notes the Czech national committee news service reporting that German forces used Czech positions for troop training. The item emphasizes enemy use of occupied territory to rehearse operations.
After beginning to dismantle the Czech Maginot line the army is reusing sections of the fortifications to train troops for operations on the western front.
Chinese military dispatches reported that troops smashed a large Japanese offensive launched last month in northern Hunan Province, southern Hupeh and northern Kiangsi.
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