U.S. Industry Surges Past 1929 Peak in October Production
U.S. industrial output climbed to a record 128 on the Fed index in October 1940, with September at 125 and 1929 as a reference. Despite gains, unemployment remains high, federal debt rises, and relief rolls total about 17 million. Defense spending and wage growth push income up, while defense mobilization is seen creating 3–4 million jobs by late 1941. Army conscription adds about 80,000 lines to the labor pool.
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United Press
Washington
U.P
Federal Reserve Board
Commerce Department
Pri
Legion Post to Meet at Hanson Hall Tonight
American Legionnaires of Hanson post will meet at 7 30 tonight in their hall 1800 Harrison Street to discuss patriotic programs. Charlie Hoppin urged attendance as head of the post’s attendance committee while John R Boyce leads the executive committee which met at noon with Mayor Ross Rogers in attendance.
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American Legionnaires
Hanson Post
Harrison Street
Charlie Hoppin
John R. Boyce
Ross Rogers
Transient with forged ID under vagrant charge in Tulsa
Sheriff Hugh White reports picking up a draft age transient with no registration card. The man claimed to be George Mason before tearing up the card and is charged as Ora Ward. Federal authorities will cooperate in the investigation.
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Hugh White
Tulsa
U .S. Mer
Bill Lampe
George Mason
Ora Ward
FHA Homes $20 Monthly in Humphries Highlands
Real estate notice offers FHA homes for about 20 dollars monthly in Humphries Highlands. Contact dial 2 4485 for details. Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance guarantees rebuilt adding machines at Russell Stationery Co.
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Humphries Highlands
Dial
Russell Stationery Co
Greece Fights on in Albania as Axis Plans Advance
Greek forces press the defense of Koritza with heavy Italian bombardment and a stalled Axis drive as Germany and Italy seek to shape Balkan moves from Vienna. British and American appeals for aid rise amid Turkey’s cautious stance and renewed Nazi air raids on Britain.
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Italy
Vienna
Athens
Albania
Koritza
Jugoslav
Greece
Bobistica
Ubaldo Soddu
Finland
Red Star
Adolf Hitler
British Empire
Mediterranean
Bulgaria
Salonica
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Balkans
Forrce
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Hungary
Slovakia
Romania
Boris
Turkey
Jugoslavia
Theo Nicoladis
Britain
United States
Russia
Nicoloudis
Snow Forecast as Plains Rapidly Collects Moisture
Rain spread across the Plains with snow possible tonight. Forecaster Collman notes unsettled spells may continue and moisture could push drought toward a wetter cycle. Temperatures fall from 51 to 25 tonight as snow reaches Colorado and New Mexico.
News Tip Prize Won By Mrs Walter Baird
Lion edges porcupine for top news tip prize as Spitfire the zoo lioness escapes and Amarrillo’s Spitback community notes other tips. Mrs T D Newsom will receive $5 once checks go out while Mrs Walter Baird earns $3 for reporting the porcupine’s return. Pioneer auto man W Baker visits Amarillo for Olds meeting earning $2 for Tom Byrd at Amarillo Olds.
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Walter Baird
Spitfire
Potter County
T. D. Newsom
Globe News
General Delivery
Amarillo
Capis‘Stuckus
Baird
Mobile Company
W. Co.Baker
Pioneer Automobile
Oldsmobile
Bill Pittman
Polk Street
B. B. Young
Buchanan
Robert Leon Smith
Taylor Street
W. H.elliott
North Florida Street
Leroy Gill
Fillmore Street
J. M. Beard
Van
Fifth Avenue
John Winkleman
Third Avenue
Labor Unity Plan Cited in CIO AFL Rapprochement
A CIO committee urged unity with the AFL and independent railroad unions only if mass production industry organization is accepted. It called for a new united labor movement, joint convention, and continued peace talks led by John Lewis with Murray and Hillman. The report insists on defense program independence from corporate interests and wage earner protections.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
American Federation of Labor
United Labor Movement
AFL
John Lewis
Lewis
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
Hillman
Labor Defense
Railroad Brotherhoods
Roosevelt
Defense Commission
United States
Postoffice Closed All Day Thursday in Thanksgiving Observance
The Amarillo postoffice will be closed all day Thursday with no delivery or window service. Postmaster W D DeGrassi urged residents not to call his house for duck stamps.
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Amarillo
W. D. DeGrassi
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding area
The U S Weather Bureau forecast light rain turning to snow and much colder tonight with a partly cloudy, slightly cooler Wednesday. West Texas will be mostly cloudy with showers and light snow in the far north, colder in the north and central areas on Wednesday. New Mexico expects cloudy to partly cloudy conditions with snow along the east slopes and Continental Divide, colder east portion tonight. Extremes: 24 hour low 51, high 74. Noon reading 38 with .38 inch precipitation.
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Mr. Collman
Amarillo
Hale County
Collman
Tucumcari
Clayton
Guymon
Waynoka
Roswell
Dalhart
Lubbock
Colorado
New Mexico
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Mountain Ranges
Continental Divide
Dies At Work Nazi Agent Arrest Raises Hearings
Chairman Dies said four witnesses would be questioned as the committee probes un American activities. A Gestapo agent identified as Heinrich Peter Fassbender alias Harry Smith was arrested after service on the West Coast and brought to Washington for questioning. He claimed Gestapo work since 1935 in Spain and Belgium before entering the United States. A Chicago woman described as socially prominent was named in a letter seized by investigators.
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Chicago
Martin Dies
Congressional Committee On un-American Activities
Dies
Heinrich Peter Fassbender
Harry Smith
Gestapo
Fassbender
Washington
Spain
Belgium
American Reporter Among Four Killed in Yugoslav Bomber Crash
The state department was notified that Ralph D. Barnes, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, was among four killed when a British bombing plane crashed on a mountain side in Yugoslavia yesterday. Arthur B. Lane, the American minister to Yugoslavia, reported Barnes a citizen who had been abroad for years. The plane was carrying a large number of bombs.
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Washington, Navy
State Department
Ralph D. Barnes
New York Herald Tribune
Yugoslavia
Arthur B. Lane
Barnes
The
Herald Tribune
Lane
Hitler Grants 30000 French Soldiers R and R
Vichy France reports Adolf Hitler agreed to release 30,000 French soldiers interned in Switzerland and to grant leaves of absence to many in German prison camps. The government announced the measure today.
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Vichy
France
Adolf Hitler
Switzerland
Amarillo School Board Weighs Flag Salute Issue
In Amarillo Texas several pupils refuse to salute the flag and a teacher Miss Virginia Gladish was discharged for not teaching the pledge. The board doubts a legal requirement to salute but will seek an Attorney General opinion on rights and compulsory attendance rules.
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Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Texas
Supreme Court of the
United States
Attorney General of
Gladisa
Boy Scouts
Charles M. Rogers
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