Amarillo Lions host Community Chest and Fire Prevention program
Amarillo Lions presented a joint event with Community Chest speakers and two firemen from Central Station for Fire Prevention Week. Captain Sherrill Burks and Fireman R. P. Hill demonstrated the E. & J. Resuscitator while entertainers from the Dixie Dice School performed. Judge E. C. Nelson urged support for the 1940 Community Chest budget and the Democratic duty to humanitarian causes. City Manager Smith attended an international city managers convention in Detroit while No. 2 Commissioner H. Ernest Smith recovers from severe furnace backfire injuries.
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Amarillo Lions
Community Chest
Amarillo
Sherrill Burks
R. P. Hill
Central Fire Station
Dixie Dice School
E. C. Nelson
Smith
Detroit
H. Ernest Smith
Weather, war notes and odd curios from Old Tack column
Weather forecasts show a forthcoming rain chance and midweek southwest winds with a possible deluge before work ends. News bits include Stanley Mauldin praised as football talent, WWI context, U.S. stance on war, Senator Thomas proposing a film ban, a Lima incident, social gossip on pregnancies, and various unrelated factoids and jokes from the era.
Liberty Editor DeLoss Walker to Speak Here Friday
Liberty Editor DeLoss Walker, Liberty Magazine associate editor and noted business revivalist, is slated to speak at the Knife and Folk Club dinner lecture Friday night. Tickets go on sale at Maxor Drug No 2 and the Amarillo Hotel news stand. Walker is billed as a top orator and proponent of American independence of thought in business.
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Knife and Folk Club
DeLoss Walker
Liberty Magazine
Maxor Drug No
Fisk
Amarillo
Walker
America
Cigaret Smoke Effect Said to Be Minor in Medical Tests
Chicago report cites Dr. Arthur W. Proetz stating the impact of cigaret smoke on nasal and throat membranes appears insignificant. Experiments with a smoking machine and rabbits exposed to standardized smoke showed no detectable tissue changes after six weeks, with varied reactions among rabbits and most showing no distress.
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Chicago
Arthur W. Proetz
St. Louis
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Otolaryngology
Proetz
Widow seeks work in maid or elevator duties
A widowed reader with two children asks for employment opportunities. She mentions experience in maid work, elevator, and telegraph duties and provides contact details, noting the need for support.
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Tack Tama
East Fourth Avenue
Monthly DAR Meetings Held on West Texas Campus
Esther McCrory and Llano Estacado DAR chapters gathered Monday at West Texas State College. Readings by Dr. Baxter Geeting and songs by Canyon guests highlighted a program with forty members and guests. A Llano Estacado patriotic program honored Robert E Lee and Mrs Garnet Lee with tributes followed by a social hour and refreshment plate. Next meeting will feature an Americanization talk by a Legion speaker with Legion Auxiliary guests.
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Esther McCrory
Liano
Danny
Elias Day
Napoleon
Don Bowie, Jr
Canyon
Lee Foster
Don Bowie
Amarillo
Llano Estacado
O. W. Wright, Jr
Sunset Terrace
Robert E Lee
Albert Bivins
John Maynard
Garnet Lee
Robert E. Lee
J. E. Griggs
Lee
Margaret Harris
E. V. Nickell
E. H. Ashcraft
Mabel Aronhalt
Kansas City
W S. Gribble
Houston
Cora L. Crotty
Miss Harris
Mes
John Ballard
H. M. Beverley
Bivins
F. G. Dennis
Griggs
B. F. Harper
C. L. Kilgore
J. Vy. Lee
Maynard
Earl Mayne
M. Miller
Nickell
Dorothy Dutton
Mesdames Wright
Ashcraft
J. I. Kendrick
American Legion
Legion Auxiliary
Elks Carnival Promises Wide Variety in Amarillo
The Amarillo Elks Club launches a three night carnival October 16 to 18 at the Elks Hall featuring new attractions such as an electrocution display a mirror that reveals skeletons and the Brain Tester. Jitterbug contest offers cash prizes with entries via Elks Club or Globe News Jitterbug Editor Fortune telling country store and more accompany a nine piece orchestra for dancing all in Elk Buck admission redeemable within the event.
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Panhandle
Elks Club
Fifth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Globe News
Elks
Amarillo
Better Business Bureau
Germany Calls Up More Working Men for Duty
Berlin October 10 Those reservists of the army classes of 1911 and 1912 who had been exempted when the classes were called up have been ordered to report for duty. The British wireless radio cast intercepted in New York reported that men outside the ages for military service were summoned for labor duty in Germany.
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Berlin
U.P
New York
Germany
Louie Turner Sentenced for Felony Theft
Louie Turner pleaded guilty to felony theft and received a two year prison term from a 47th district court jury. He was accused of stealing watches from a salesman’s car after being indicted June 2.
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Louie Turner
Turner
Johnson
Louie Johnson
Khiva Temple Set to Meet Tomorrow Night
Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine will hold its regular monthly meeting at 6 30 tonight in Masonic Hall Seventh Avenue and Taylor Street Final plans for the fall ceremonial will be made A lunch will be served for Nobles of Khiva and for Master Masons attending Palo Duro Lodge Past Masters Night
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Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine
Masonic Hall
Seventh Avenue
Taylor Street
Khiva
Palo Duro Lodge
Swedish Vistula torpedoed near Shetland. crew missing and saved
The Swedish vessel Vistula from Goteborg torpedoed northeast of the Shetland Islands. Nine crew rescued, nine missing. The ship bound for Hull with pig iron. In Helsinki a broadcast urged civilians to prepare to leave Helsinki and Viipuri as a precaution. German bombers reportedly hit British cruisers off the Norwegian coast. two German bombers damaged and forced to land in Denmark.
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Stockholm
Gotenborg
Shetland Islands
Hull
Helsinki
Viipuri
Urho Kekkonen
Berlin
Norwegian
Denmark
Land Owning Nazis In Latvia Face Repatriation Move
Land owning families with 700 year roots in Latvia arrived in Riga and other cities to be repatriated to Germany. They are allowed only small trunks and suitcases with clothing linen and trinkets. Their money is deposited in special accounts.
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Riga
Latvia
U.P
Germany
Second Fiddle at the Capitol and Plays With Dynamite
Now showing at the Capitol Theater is Second Fiddle starring Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie. At the Rialto another Torchy Blanc entry Plays With Dynamite features Jane Wyman.
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Capitol Theater
Tyrone Power
Sonja Henie
Rialto
Torchy Blanc
Jane Wyman
Germans claim two bombs on British warship off Norwegian coast
German high command spokesmen said Nazi planes dropped two bombs on a British warship in a North Sea clash off the Norwegian coast yesterday.
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Berlin
North Sea
Norwegian
Regular Weekly Meeting of City Commission Postponed
City commission postpones regular weekly session with city manager H. R Smith absent. Only routine matters expected to be considered.
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H. R Smith
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Hemphill County
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M. T. Johnson
Northwestern
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Medicol
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Pearl Cox
J. W. Cox
Glennie Hill
FE. K. Hill
108Th District Court
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Edgar James Horton
Irene Conner
J. M. Conner
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M. D. Key
Sage
Ken Murray
Mexico City
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Tack
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Sam K. Broyles
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