Japs Move to Affect Talks With United States
Tokyo reports say the Japanese foreign office sent a new communication to its Washington mission and a rapid development is expected, though no details are given and optimism is discouraged. Berlin dispatch notes Japan will join the anti-Comintern conference in Berlin without violating the Soviet neutrality pact.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
United States
Washington
Domei
Dome
Nichi Nichi
Berlin
Japan
Soviet Union
Mass Meetings Planned to Curb Worthless-Check Swindle
Sheriff Bill Adams calls 3 county meetings of merchants in Amarillo to discuss stopping losses from hot checks and forgery. Grocers meet Thursday, dry goods stores Friday, all other merchants Saturday in the 47th district courtroom to hear proof and plans to identify and prosecute swindlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Better Business Bureau
Bill
Adams
Ehuge
Singer's Voice Forces Prowler to Flee in Philadelphia
Eleanor Kade and her mother confronted a rooftop prowler on the Hotel King sun deck. Mrs Kade fired a pistol but the intruder grabbed her before it could be used. the singer shouted and her 84 note range and 34 notes of scream drove the intruder away.
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Philadelphia
Eleanor Kade
Miss Kade
Hotel King
Kade
Warmer Weather Predicted Here
Clear and warmer weather is forecast for today tonight and tomorrow with a low around 26 and a high near 52 The morning low was 24 degrees and yesterday morning dropped to 14 The record cold of the season was 11 on November 18 1940 Winds run southwest 12 to 20 mph and may shift to west northwest tonight
Two Tulsa Men Plead Guilty To Car Theft
Monroe Harris and Thomas Harris, both Tulsa residents, pleaded guilty in the 47th district court to automobile theft charges. They received three year suspended sentences after claiming they were cheated by a travel bureau while trying to return home from California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Thomas Harris
Tulsa
47Th District Court
California
Bainbridge Claims Brave Bunnies in Town
In Bainbridge township Sheriff Harland says he saw a rabbit chase a hunting dog and backs his tale with two witnesses. The incident, reported from Chardon Ohio, adds local color to a quirky rural report while noting the oddity of the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chardon
Bainbridge Township
Stuart Harland
Freak Human Skull Found In Oklahoma
A skull found in Ellis County Oklahoma lies about 25 feet underground and resembles both Peking man and the ape man Pithecanthropus in shape. Scientists call it a potential earliest American, with features of modern man such as a developed chin and small teeth. Dr. L Shapiro at the American Museum notes a flat brow and heavy brow ridges, suggesting it could be a very antique American or a degenerate form.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
New York
Navy
The
Special News Service
Oklahoma
America
Java
Ellis County
New World
American Museum
L. Shapiro
Shapiro
Garner donates grinder and saddle horse to Boys Ranch
C. R. Garner answered a Sunday News and Globe appeal by gifting a usable feed grinder and a well-broken three-year-old saddle horse to the Boys Ranch. The ranch supervisors and sponsors express gratitude for his generosity and the two gifts will aid the stock feeding and day to day work at the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Garner
Sunday News and Globe
Boys Ranch
Mr. Garner
Licensing Provisions Return to Price Bill Exemption for Farmers
The House banking committee reversed and restored licensing provisions to the administration price control bill but exempted farmers from licensing. The revision bars farmer sales of their own products and also would bar licensing of radio time, while exempting newspapers books and other printed matter.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Markets Dow Jones Stocks and Kansas City Livestock Report
Market roundup shows Dow Jones industrials at 11745 up 20 amid mixed trade techs rails and fibers. Kansas City livestock markets report hogs weaker with limited demand while cattle and calves show firming trends and selective strong bids for fed cattle and high quality stockers. Financial Security Fund quotes liquidating price at 14011 and offering price 1.54.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kansas City
Nev
D. A
Financial Security Fund
Retail Meat Dealers Meet Tonight at Amarillo Hotel
Retail meat dealers will gather in a special session at the Amarillo Hotel to discuss the Food for Defense program and its impact on housewives and dealers. A motion picture on effective meat merchandising will be shown as part of a series of educational meetings begun over a year ago. Ray Pinkney will preside, assisted by Glen Curtis of Armour and Company and H. B. Anderson of Switt & Company.
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Amarillo Hotel
Ray Pinkney
Glen Curtis
Armour and Company
H. B. Anderson
Switt & Company
Five Cab Drivers Acquitted in Soldier Death
Alexandria jurors found five cab drivers not guilty of manslaughter in the July tavern beating death of Pvt. Carl E Hoppe a 25 year old Camp Livingston soldier from Oshkosh Wisconsin The acquittal came after about two hours of deliberation and freed Ernest Dykes Earl Franks Albert Marcotte Kermit Keltner and W M Smith
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Alexandria
Carl E. Hoppe
Camp Livingston
Oshkosh
Wis
Ernest Dykes
Earl Franks
Albert Marcotte
Kermit Keltner
W. M. Smith
Aged Senator Takes Over Paper Route in Washington
In Washington on November 24 Senator Gillette of Iowa briefly ran his son Guy's newspaper route when the 12 year old was ill. The veteran senator, 62, stepped in during a recess to deliver papers to homes as the boy recovered from a cold. Nearby Carlsbad New Mexico notes report men baking at a church party as a playful switch to give ladies a rest.
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Washington
Senator Gillette
Iowa
Guy
Senate
Carlsbad
N. M
Wu.p
Vault Battle: Big Shovel Puts Amarillo Bank Vault to Test
The Klock Construction operator drives a power shovel at the Amarillo National Bank building as a vault alteration proceeds. By 10:30 a wall shows light and by noon a sizable hole appears, yet the vault resists. Bank officials watch. workers anticipate doors and hours to determine if the two story vault will survive the day.
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Klock
Minnie Stelman
Amarillo National Bank
Bill Baker
Arthur Ware
Vic
Amarillo
Courthouse Deed Notices And Divorce Filings Highlight Local Records
Courthouse records list warranty deeds with names like M J New and Crouch's Sub and stakes of ten dollars per lot in Bakle Fuqua Dev Co. Riddley and Eakle families appear with ten dollar deeds. Also noted are multiple divorce petitions Enrique Almonzar versus Ciilio Almonzar and Carl Massey versus Clara Massey, plus several marriage licenses and new car registrations including Fort Coupe and Studebaker models.
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M. J. New
Norman
Crouch’s
Charlie Pride
Mary Louise Morgan
Old Town
C. R. Stover
J. P. Mask
Bakle
Fuqua Dev. Co
E. H. Klein
Fuqua-Barfield
Mattie M. Riddley
Hugo WM Loewenstern
Eakle
Lula Pegues
Emily Pegues
Plemons
Leonard Eppstein
C. L. Munday
Holland
J. L. Bivins
E. S. Burgess
Bivins
Robert. Moutchens
O. W. Wright
Morningside
M. N. Twaddell
Et Ux
Kenneth McMahan
Univ. Heights
Bera M. Butler
Ada M. Smith
S. J. Heights
G. Ordway
Faye Weatherly
Southside
Enrique Almonzar
Ciilio Almonzar
Carl E. Massey
Clara Bell Massey
W. H. Files
Genev Bautista
Eugene W. Joyce
Dorothy J. Lindsey
Paul Hamilton
Ellen Faye Parker
Wayne
I. N. Glidewell
Louise Blackwell
Jacob Henry Abendschan
Nora May
Bear
Cleophus Sides
Elizabeth Jane Adams
Samuel Wesley Jones
Berandine Clementine Biggers
Fort
H. Cluck
Studebaker
R. L. Westfall
W. W. McEntire
Hudson
C. J. Killgore
Buick
N. M. Glycerine Co
Eve Curie Visits African Front With British Army
Eve Curie daughter of radium discoverers visits the North Africa front with the British Army arriving in Egypt aboard the new Pan American Airways Africa service. The Nov 24 date marks her first trip on the route.
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Eve Curie
North Africa
Mlle
Egypt
Pan American Airways
Africa
Stolen Clothes Recovered After Daylight Theft
Amarillo police recovered more than 500 dollars worth of clothing stolen from Line Avenue Cleaners. Two men arrested as they stepped from a train at Hereford helped recover most items found near the shop. The theft occurred Sunday morning and a separate $400-plus holdup at Kenneth Neal’s service station on Tenth Avenue and Buchanan Street was reported.
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Line Avenue Cleaners
Amarillo
Hereford
L. D. Parker
Parker
Kenneth Neal
Neal
Tenth Avenue
Buchanan Street
McCoy Faces 47 Years After Recurring Jail Escapes
Ben McCoy faces a 47 year term in four Texas robbery cases after a string of escapes and quick returns to custody since 1927. He fled Amarillo area capture multiple times, including California Oregon and Pendleton Oregon before arrest in Burns. Harvard men chuckle over a newspaper typo dubbing Yale chorus as "The Yale Flee Club."
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Ben McCoy
Potter County
Texas
McCoy
California
Oregon
Amarillo
West Coast
Pendleton
Ore
Bill Adams
Burns
Frank Kaiser
Adams
Harvard
Buenos Aires
U.P
Argentina
Yale University
Yale
U S Women s Land Army Planned for Next Harvest
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt announced the Office of Civilian Defense plans to organize a women s land army to help harvest next year s crops. She cited farm labor shortages from migration to industry and noted a House committee is studying defense effects on labor in the Middle West.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
Women's Land Army
Roosevelt
House
Middle-West
American-built armor drives blitz through Axis lines
Allied war machines mirror naval tactics using fast American tanks to outmaneuver German armor. British forces flank, trap and strike swiftly, with roughly a quarter of the Eighth Army’s armoured strength built in the United States. Much motorized transport also comes from the U S or Canada.
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Bri
Eighth Army
United States
Canada
Miners Face Aggregate Fine For Unauthorized Strike
Union leaders warn a $500000 aggregate penalty for an unauthorized strike may be imposed, with $1 per man per day. Production losses in the Pittsburgh area could reach 14000 tons of steel ingots 12000 tons of pig iron 12000 tons of by products coke and 20000 tons of bee hive coke. A separate AFL action in St Louis calls a general strike of about 8000 members of the International Association of Machinists District Nine over a jurisdictional dispute with AFL hoisting engineers.
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Pittsburgh
ST. Louis
Navy
URI
AFL International Association of Machinists
AFL
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Bainbridge
Madrid
Grinder
NEW York Stock Exchange Lynch, Pierce
Merrill Fenner & Beane
Allegheny Lud Steel
Allis Chalmers
Tel & Tri
Armour & Co
AT & B
Aviation Corp Seer
Houston
Mil
Int Harvester i
Packard Motor Tees
Paramount
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union
Socony Vacuum
Stan Oj
Cal Bee Aay
Peeeettos
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
Son
Wilson & Co
Woolworth
Chicago
Pierce Fenner & Beane
Brilly Blige
Ryan
First National Bank of
Fisk
CANS
Msewelry CO
STH & Polk
Santa Fe
Courthouse Records
Fort Worth
C. D. Wells
FT. Worth
Riza
Cretney
U.S. Women’s Land Army
Tolzien
Bary Leh E
Se Ae Es Ltd
Ee A
Schenley Distillers Corp
N.Y
Alita
Griggs
Griggs Burial Association
Fillmore
Amarillo, Texas
Griggs-Thompson Funeral Home
Canyon, Texas
Dre” Basy
Cary
Gunn- Hineftman
Thrift
Cash & Carry
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