Amarillo Airport Expansion Urged By Chamber Leader
Rex Baxter, Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager, urges planning now for future air transport needs. He notes Roosevelt's proposed $58 million for airport development and discusses potential new runways at English Field, plus airline route applications and a possible bomber base, while also noting a Panhandle ammonia nitrate plant prospect and potato marketing quota bill.
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English Field
Amarillo
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
CAA
Braniff
Continental
Twe
Phillips Petroleum
R. C. Joplin
Mr. Riddie
Harris
Panhandle
Phillips
Hereford
Baxter
Former French Leader Ill in Hospital
Gen Maurice Gustav Gamelin aged 71, former commander in chief of French armies and held for responsibility in defeat, is ill with erysipelas and is hospitalized at Pau after leaving Portalet prison. His condition is described as serious given his age.
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Vichy
Maurice Gustav Gamelin
Gamelin
Pau
Portalet
Kansas City Livestock Prices Amid Mixed Market Activity
Livestock market report from Kansas City on November 16 shows hogs salable 4,000 with steady to 5 cents higher, top at $10.30. Cattle and calves total 9,000 and 1,700 respectively with steers up about 25 cents, stockers and feeders up 25 cents, cows around $6.00 to $7.50. Sheep buyers active with early lambs at $10.50 to $10.65, few higher. Financial security fund price at 1 3867 with offering $1.52.
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Kansas City
U.P
U. 8
D. A
Colorado
Red Gloves Lost Near Woolworths on Polk Street
A reader reports losing dark red gloves Wednesday afternoon either inside Woolworths or just outside on Polk Street. The finder should call 9915. the owner will retrieve them, noting the writer is a colored woman.
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Woolworth
Polk Street
Pickets Pledge Labor Unity Over Mining Stoppage
Six hundred delegates at the Moose Temple backed a CIO executive resolution in support of John L. Lewis United Mine Workers union for captive pits run by steel firms. They also endorsed Murray’s report praising union shop as a future bargaining pattern and defended the right to strike while urging economic aid to foes of Nazi Germany.
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Ers
Moose Temple
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
CIO
Philip Murray
Roosevelt
Nazi Germany
BLACK-DRAUGHT Laxative Proves Effective Across Generations
A herbal laxative, marketed as BLACK-DRAUGHT, is described as a reliable in use test across four generations. The blend includes an intestinal toning herb to stimulate lazy intestinal muscles and other herbs to aid gentle, easy action.
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Southwest
Japan Will Not Declare War, Sir Hubert Wilkins Says
Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer and lecturer, predicts Japan will not declare war on the United States. He spoke at the Knife and Fork Club dinner at the Country Club after a three month Orient tour. He argues war would be US driven, cites Japanese expansionism and Axis ties, and urges a mobile US military expeditionary force to deter aggression.
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Japan
United States
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Country Club
Sir Hubert
Orient
East Asia
Russia
Pacific
Tokyo
Germany
C. Don Hughes
Man Sells Hot Tamales with Moonshine in Piney Woods
In San Augustine inspector R. T. Bailey followed a street vendor who hawked hot tamales. The man sold tamales in a double boiler on his vehicle containing moonshine liquor. He paid a fine and Bailey left town after hearing the vendor’s final spiel.
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R. T. Bailey
San Augustine
Bailey
Japan seeks East Asia peace amid Washington talks
In parliament the issue focused on stepping back from crisis and pursuing diplomatic means to end the China affair and foster East Asia prosperity. Foreign Minister Togo warned negotiations with the United States are near a limit, while stressing Japan's aim for justice and peace and noting Britain and the United States froze assets after Japan moved into Indo-China.
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Nichinichi
United States
Gotaro Ogawa
Washington
China
East Asia
Togo
Japan
Thailand
Indo- China
Indo-China
Great Britain
Britain
Dutch East Indies
Chungking
Dutch Lunch to discuss West Sixth Avenue widening in San Jacinto
Mayor Joe Jenkins and city commissioners invited to a Dutch lunch at Fist Ansley s Musical Pig to push the West Sixth Avenue widening. About 80 percent of extra right of way secured. a circus owner property remains to be located. City will fund curb gutter sidewalks. state to pave the widened strip.
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West Sixth Avenue
San Jacinto
Joe Jenkins
City Commission
Bob Epperson
Oscar Hargett
Santa Fe Railway Reports Nine Month Income Rise
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reports net income of $20.93 million for the first nine months of 1941, up from $4.91 million a year earlier. September net income is $3.37 million versus $1.46 million in 1940.
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Chicago
U.P
Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Grange Master Is Elected At Worcester Convention
Albert S. Goss of Washington DC was elected national master of the Grange at its 75th annual convention in Worcester Massachusetts. He succeeds Louis J. Taber of Ohio who served as national master for 18 years. An Anchorage Alaska ice sale highlights high prices amid scarce local ice.
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Worcester
Mass
Albert S. Goss
Washington
D. C
Federal Land Bank
Washington State Grange
Louis J. Taber
Ohio
Okmulgee
Okla
Anchorage
Alaska
Jim Kendrick Dies at Waco
Jim Kendrick 48, noted Texas Aggie end from 1913 to 1915, died at his Waco home. He played for the Aggies in the 1915 upset of Texas, served in World War I with the Second Texas Infantry and air corps in France, was Baylor assistant coach in 1920, then a decade of professional football. Survived by widow, four sons, four sisters, three brothers, and two aunts.
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WACO
James Marcellus
Jim) Kendrick
Texas Aggie
Kendrick
Aggie
Texas
Second Texas Infantry
Air Corps
France
Baylor
Blanch Kendrick
Dallas
Hood Hill
Little Rock
Ben Kendrick
Houston
J. I. Kendrick
Amarillo
Hester Ish
Roosevelt seeks six and a half billion war department funds
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a supplemental appropriation of 6,687,369,046 dollars for the war department. In Puerto Rico an Axis merchant vessel captured by a U.S. cruiser arrived escorted by the cruiser at 1:30 P M.
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Washington
U.R
Roosevelt
Congress
War Department
San Juan
P. R
U.P
Amarillo Chamber Mulls BTU Invitation for 1943 Meet
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce convention committee led by Tom Cotten meets to consider hosting the Baptist Training Union in April 1943. A preliminary discussion occurred after a Dallas HQ letter, following a meeting with Joe Cooley and Harry Miner. The 1941 convention runs for the last four days of this week.
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Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Tom Cotten
Baptist Training Union
Joe Cooley
Chamber of Commerce
Harry Miner
First Baptist Church
Dallas
BTU Convention Seeks Fort Worth Site for 15000 Attendees
BTU officials named Fort Worth as the convention city expecting 15,000 attendees and submitted site requirements including a poster of a $300 guarantee for a suitable program.
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Fort Worth
BTU
Convention City
Envoys Reach Teheran Amid Snowstorm Flight
A plane carrying Soviet ambassador Maxim Litvinov and U.S. ambassador Laurence Steinhardt landed in Teheran at noon after a five day journey from Kuibyshev in heavy snow.
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ERAN
Iran
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
U. S
Laurence Steinhardt
Kuibysnev
Russia
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Pix
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North East Third Avenue
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Ross Street
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East 42Nd Street
New York, N.Y
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Bellig
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Maxor Drug CO
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Fisk Bldg
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