Farm Councils Planned Here In War Effort
Groundwork for County Agricultural Victory Councils in District One of the Texas Extension Service was laid in a Crystal Ballroom meeting. About 50 attendees heard plans to form councils staffed by community reps to relay emergency farming information within six hours after College Station input. Sessions will run across Panhandle counties this week with visits by Extension staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Extension Service
Panhandle
Herring Hotel
State of Texas
College Station
Knox Parr
Sesson
Doris Deggitt
Myrtle Murray
M. R. Bentley
R. E. Callender
C. A. Price
Callender
Moore County
Sherman County
Dallam County
Hartley
Miss Leggitt
Potter County
Oldham
Deaf Smith
Randall
Parr
Hutchinson County
Hansford
Ochiltree
Lipscomb
Miss Murray
Carson County
Gray County
Roberts County
Hemphill County
Price
Armstrong County
Donley County
Amarillo Pilot Fred Smith Becomes North American Test Pilot
Fred Smith, veteran Amarillo pilot, signs a two month contract as a test pilot for North American on the B-25 Billy Mitchell Bomber and the Mustang. He will wring out the ships at the California factory before resuming Amarillo Air Service duties in June. Red Holmes oversees operations in his absence. Thornton Oxnard assists Pan-American Airways with multi engine experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Uncle Sam
Fred Smith
Pioneer Plains
Amarillo
North American
Smith
California
Axis
Mr. Smith
Pan-American Airways
Markets slip and cattle lead mixed trading report
Market data at 1 P M show Dow Jones industrials up modestly while stocks and rail shares drift. Kansas City livestock report notes hogs steady to higher, cattle weak with many breeders and feeders down, sheep selling slowly and lamb values easing from earlier highs amid uneven demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Californian in Jail Here as Ruse Fails
Ray Tarrach 26 of Oakland California walked into Amarillo police HQ posing as John Carver to learn if he was wanted. He admitted he was Tarrach after questioning and signed a statement tying him to a burglary at an Oakland market on April 19. He listed Peralta Apartments Thirteenth and Jackson as his address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Tarrach
Oakland
Calif
Amarillo
John Carver
Tarrach
Police
California
Peralta Apartments
Thirteenth and
Jackson
Coast Guard Office To Close for a Week
The Amarillo Coast Guard recruiting office will close Thursday for about a week. Recruiter Jim Duffer will be reassigned to San Antonio for at least seven days. After his departure interested men should write the Fort Worth office at 1011 Electric Building. The Amarillo office opened Dec 1 and has enlisted between 175 and 200 men. Shipped 9 men today including the Bates brothers of Bovina and others from Quanah and Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Amarillo
Jim Duffer
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Electric Building
Bates Brothers
Robert L. J. R
Earl F
Bovina
Edward D. Fiero
James L. Cross
Quanah
Ralph D. White
Frank E. Coan
Roy C. Long
Cecil L. Ballard
Mindanao Island Reports Japanese Landings Stir News
On Mindanao Island in the Southern Philippines the communique said Japanese forces were continuing operations after recent landings on the north coast. Tokyo broadcasts claimed landings at Calagan and Tagoloan, 75 and 100 miles north of Parang, with about 30,000 U S and Philippine troops still resisting on Mindanao.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Mindanao
Philippines
Cagayan
Tagoloan
Parang
Tokyo
United States
Nazi Bomber Pilot Held in Texas
San Antonio reports Hans Peter Krug a 22 year old Nazi bomber pilot captured last Friday after escaping a Canadian camp. He is held awaiting a US Canadian authorities conference to decide his fate. Krug traveled 3000 miles across the United States after stopping at a hotel manager’s tip near the Mexican border. Officials say he hoped to swim the Rio Grande to reach Mexico and then Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Hans Peter Krug
United States
W. M. Acers
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Krug
Mexican
Rio Grande
Mexico
Germany
Driver's License Examiners Shake Up In District
Foster Nelson, senior examiner, has been moved to Houston after months of service in this district. Joe Cantrell now heads Amarillo district examiners. C R Moore of Margaret and H E Harmon of Houston join the examiner force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster Nelson
Houston
Joe Cantrell
Amarillo
C. R. Moore
Margaret
Texas
H. E. Harmon
Louis Johnson Taken by Death
Louis Johnson, farmer and longtime St. Francis resident, died last night in a local hospital at age 66. The body is in state at Boxwell Brothers Chapel awaiting word to relatives. Hunter bags his 175th lion. Steve Avila, a Monterey County hunter, killed his fourth big cat this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter
City
Cal
U.P
Steve Avila
Monterey County
Priority Problems to Be Discussed in Amarillo
People with priority problems in the Panhandle may get them solved tomorrow or Wednesday in Amarillo. Bob Harper of the War Production Board will be at the Chamber of Commerce offices Tuesday and Wednesday, his first Amarillo stay under a Chamber agreement. He will spend two days each week in Amarillo to hear local priority cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Amarillo
Bob Harper
War Production Board
Bureau of Field Operations
Chamber of Commerce
Harper
Rex Baxter
Mrs Ora B Gee Succumbs Here
Mrs Ora B Gee wife of C C Gee died this morning at 11 at her father G W Qualls home in Pleasant Valley. She had lived in Amarillo 16 years and was a Church of Christ member. She was 37. Survived by husband, parents, son Ivan, daughters Oleta and Edith Carroll, three sisters Laura Stokes Hazel Littlejohn of Amarillo and Dorothy Hensley of Dalhart. Body in state at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ora B. Gee
C. C. Gee
G. W. Qualls
Pleasant Valley
Amarillo
Church of Christ
Ivan
Oleta
Edith Carroll Gee
Laura Stokes
Hazel Littlejohn
Dorothy Hensley
Dalhart
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Six State Price Clinics To Start Tonight in Six States
In Dallas on May 4 U P, Max L. McCullough announced that the maximum price regulation explanation clinics begin tonight across 71 trade areas in six states. The sessions target retailers but welcome all interested attendees. Texas meetings include Childress at 2 PM on May, Amarillo on May 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
U.P
Max L. McCullough
OPA
McCullough
Texas
Childress
Amarillo
Roosevelt tightens rubber transport controls nationwide
President Roosevelt issued an executive order placing all rubber-borne transportation facilities under the Office of Defense Transportation. Joseph B. Eastman, ODT director, said the move gives the office authority to set policies for controls over automobiles including passenger cars buses taxis and trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
ODT
Oliver Burgin Funeral Tuesday at Groom Methodist Church
Funeral services for Oliver Burgin age 63, pioneer of Groom, will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Groom Methodist Church with pastors from the Methodist and Baptist churches officiating. Burial in Groom Cemetery under N.S. Griggs and Sons. Pallbearers: Ray Hermesmyer, Cecil Culver, Jeff Gray, John Ray, Raymond Fields. Survivors include a widow, a son, a daughter, four sisters and four brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Burgin
Groom
Groom Methodist
Groom Cemetery
N.S. Griggs
Navy Recruiting Plans to Ship 100 Men on May 14
Navy recruiting officials announced plans to ship at least 100 men on May 14. The group will include Sea Bees, regular navy, and naval aviation applicants. Applications have been received from 77 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
C. M. Norman
Five More C. C. Volunteers Join Amarillo Chamber Budget Row
Five new members were added this morning to Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, bringing the total toward a threefold $40,000 budget. the organization now needs $7,497. Newly reported volunteers include Burgess Lumber Company Autry Studio E. L. Campbell Dr. J. A. Harper and Meyer Blanke Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Burgess Lumber Company
Autry Studio
E. L. Campbell
Dr. J. A. Harper and
Meyer-Blanke Company
War Costs Still Mount As 1936 Bonuses Push Total High
Spending shows army leading in 1936 outlays as infantry, tank corps and planes deploy globally. April figures list Army 1 256 150 000, Navy 995 443 983, lend-lease 506 847 935, China loan 200 000 000, Maritime Commission 81 776 710, War Shipping Admin 26 707 368, plus smaller sums from defense fund and agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
China
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
President's Special Defense Fund
Selective Service System
National Housing Agency
Federal Works Agency
Allies press grim war talk amid heavy air and sea raids
The report outlines Allied and German actions as wartime losses persist. Stark defends calculated risks to strike decisively while American ships and anti submarine defenses grow. RAF bombs destroy Gneisenau Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen, while Exeter suffers heavy destruction in a German hate raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark
U. S
British
Air Ministry
RAF
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Prinz Eugen
Brest
Atlantic
America
Britain
Russia
Arctic
France
Germany
Hamburg
St. Nazaire
Norway
Belgium
Holland
Exeter
Opposition to nonviolence policy sparks party split
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari denounces the Congress plan for nonviolent non cooperation as insufficient and calls for a new national policy and a national army to face India's foes. On Port Moresby front, UN planes shoot down three of twelve bombers and one escort plane in a defensive victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress Party
Chakravarthi Rajagopalacharkar
India
Australia
United Nations
Port Moresby
United States
Rabaul
New Britain
Japanese inland push risks Port Moresby approach
An Australian war correspondent traced a Japanese move 27 miles up the Markham Valley from Lae toward Nadzab in the interior, seen as reconnaissance with potential inland airfield sites near Port Moresby. No contact with Allied troops was reported as MacArthur’s HQ noted continuing bombardment of Corregidor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon Islands
Port Moresby
Lae
Markham Valley
Nadzab
Douglas MacArthur
Manila Bay
Corregidor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wien Lack
Scout
Clifford Fulton
Call
East 6Th Ave
Beverly Kennels
L. L. Rowley
Pacific Coast
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Financial Industrial Fund
NEW York Stock Exchange
Allis Chalmers
Armour & Coryene
At& SF
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
Calumet
Deere & Coatteees
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
Gen Foods
A& Paper
Kennecott
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
Ain National Biscuit
National Dairy Products
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio
Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures Ry
Penney
Sara Wee
Penn RR
Phillips
Standard Brands
Indiana
Studebaker Newperce Y
Texas Corporation
Sit
Texas Gulf
Tex Pac Coal & Ol
l'Union Carbine Aeee
United Aircraft
U_ S Rubber
Steel Saee
White Motor Oy
Wilson & Co
Teee Tees
Woolworth
Chicago
Ware
San Diego
Jack Cooper
Newhall
Lakeside
Hope
Hollywood
Bob Hope
G. D. Burkett
Timoshenko
Ukraine
Moscow
Semeon Timoshenko
Driver's
Louis Johnson
Tu Ec
Transportation Control Fixed
Gota Cil
Anii Tigi
Wilson Camera Store
Polk
Gunn-Hinerman
Pla
Ballard
C. C
Jayne
CURB
Maxor Drug CO. 16Th
Fisk
Burma
Hugh Sticksel
Optometrist
Zzretimave
TEL
ODAY
Institute OF Life Insurance
East 42Nd Street
New York, N. Y
San Jacinto
Amarillo Traction Co
SAN Jacinto Bus CO
W. 6Th
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!