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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 11, 1940

Page

6

Pinkney Offers Chest Prizes In Community Campaign

Ray Pinkney of Pinkney Packing Co has donated 36 slabs of Sun-Ray bacon weighing six to seven pounds each as a prize for the business division of the Community Chest drive. The division meets at 4 pm at the Amarillo Hotel to distribute accounts with chairmen E M Blackburn Jr and Clyde Rehmeyer in charge. About 150 men join the business solicitation committee as Arthur H Truitt and Bert Levy express confidence in the campaign's progress and likely success.

Ray Pinkney Pinkney Packing Company Community Chest Chest Office Amarillo E. M. Blackburn, Jr Clyde Rehmeyer Floyd Garwood Jess B. Gilmer Don Wyatt Gene Jordan Arthur H. Truitt Bert Levy

Market Report Snapshot From Dow Jones Trading Notes

Markets show industrials up 117, railroads up 28.76, bonds inch higher while stock leaders rise. Feeder sales report 310000 with good to choice dealers at 9.00 to 10.50 dollars and some at 11. Sheep offerings total 1200 with lambs 15 to 25 cents higher, Colorado lambs around 9.40 and native lambs near 9.00.

Dow-Jones Fenner & Beane Colorado NEW York Stock Exchange Allis Chalmers Speenecavane Smelt & R T & Tee Armour Co Saeen Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Briggs Mfg Hee Callahan Calumet Hecln Davies Consol Copper Consol Ou Del Curtiss Wright Wee Curtiss Wright Jenene Deere & Co Douglas Aircraft Tees el Power & Li Maeneen General Electric General Foods General Motors Gillette Sane Harvester Weevee Geass Johns Manville Beeue Kennecott Marshall Field Montgomery Montgomery ard ++ % 40'5 Murry Corp Nash_ Kelvinator Nat Biscuit Nat Dairy Tee Nat Pow & New York Shipbuilding New York Central North Ameria North Amer Aviation Ohio Oil Pac Gas & Bl Pacakard Motor Ah Paramount Pix Wees Tee Cary Mh Penney J C Ren Teees Dodge Phillips Pet Plymouth Oil R— CA M Rand Oy B4 Motors Ly Repab Steel Avee Pail Sears Roebuck Shell Union Oil Bly Simmons Secresee Socon Vac Neceseee United Aircraft United Corp Oe Rubber Wee U. Steel See Warner Bros Tee A U. Tel West el & Mig USDA Neima Oice

Past Masters of Palo Duro Lodge Arrive for Amarillo Event

Past masters of Masonic lodges in the Panhandle arrive in Amarillo for an annual affair hosted by Palo Duro Lodge No. 1239. The program opens at 5 PM with a master’s degree, followed by a banquet at 6:30 PM and another master’s degree, honoring 12 living past masters mostly from Amarillo.

Panhandle Amarillo Palo Duro Lodge Taylor Street J. G. Short Los Angeles F. P. Whitmore Wichita, Kan

Mrs. Mary Etta Jarrell Rites Set in Bovina

Funeral services for Mary Etta Jarrell widow of William H. Jarrell will be held at 3 p m from Pleasant Hill Community Church near Bovina. She was 66 born Oct 18 1874 in Missouri and survived by six sons three daughters, 23 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Burial will be in Bovina Cemetery.

Mary Etta Jarrell William H. Jarrell Bovina Pleasant Hill Porter McDougal Ben D. Johnson Lubbock Jarrell Coleman Missionary Fundamental Baptist Church Missouri A. A. Jarrell A. J. Jarrell Joe M. Jarrell S. J. Jarrell W. H. Jarrell, Jr Texico N. M Douglas H. Jarrell Abilene Lena E

Pass Gateman Allows Ticket for 1899 Fair

T. L. Monagan, a Dallas pioneer, presented a bonafide Texas Fair pass from 1899 to a gatekeeper. The pass was valid for entry, and the gateman admitted him, noting the old document still worked. Monagan had found the pass in an old trunk while researching the city’s past.

Dallas U.P T. L. Monagan Monagan

Allied Bombing Sweeps German Ports and London Raid

RAF night raids hit Kiel Krupp yards and Dutch Fokker works as bombs destroy ships docks and rail networks. British air force says all bombers returned and downed two German planes while Nazi reports claim London's heaviest raid yet with hundreds of aircraft dropping about 500000 pounds. Long range guns along the French coast shelled Dover targeting harbor shipping and military objectives.

Berlin Hamburg Cologne Air Ministry Kiel Krupp Fail Ministry Boulogne Calais le Havre Brest France Flushing Amsterdam Netherlands Fokker Germany RAF Channel London England High Command French Channel Dover

Couple Injured in Collision Remain Hospitalized

Mr and Mrs Alvin Merrell were injured last night in a truck collision on North East Eighth Avenue and are listed as resting as well as could be expected at St Anthony's Hospital. Mrs Merrell has a brain concussion and scalp wounds while Mr Merrell suffers multiple broken ribs and other injuries. They were transported by Griggs ambulance.

Alvin Merrell North East Eighth Avenue St. Anthony’s Hospital

Burials of Dead Dogs Rise Prompt City to Cut Funds

YORKVILLE Ohio Oct 11 The city council reports interments of dead dogs rose to 135 last year and will stop donating a dollar for burials. Officials note youngsters received most of the money and some dogs’ burials may have been staged more than once.

Yorkville Ohio

Vanderbilts Visit Amarillo on European War Trip

Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt of New York City, her twin sister Lady Furness, and her son Toney Furness visited Amarillo last night, staying at the Herring Hotel. The party, in the United States during the European War, plans to tour the Grand Canyon Enchanted Mesa and the New Mexico Indian reservations on their Pacific Coast journey.

Amarillo Reginald Vanderbilt New York City Lady Furness Toney Furness United States Pacific Coast Herring Hotel Young Furness England New York New Mexico Grand Canyon Enchanted Mesa California

Trade with Latin America Shows Sharp Rise in 12 Months

The commerce department reports U S exports to Latin America rose 50 percent to 733,135,000 and imports up 31 percent to 615,915,000 in the 12 months ending Aug 31, compared with the prior year. Exports for 1940 likely top 750,000,000, beating 1939. Germany is said to be selling Swedish tractors powered by turpentine from charcoal.

Washington United States Latin America Commerce Department Europe Germany Sweden

Biggest bulb planting under way in Amarillo park

The Amarillo Garden Club led by Mrs. Charlie Hoover advances the largest bulb planting in the Southwest at Thompson Park. City workers prep 15 acre site for a solid iris planting with 65 000 bulbs already in place and 60 000 purchased plus donations slated to grow this total. Poisonous coral snakes noted as only cobras in the western hemisphere.

Southwest Amarillo

German admiral Adolf Von Trotha dies at 72 in Berlin

Vice Admiral Adolf Von Trotha former chief of staff of the German high fleet in the Battle of Jutland died at his Berlin home aged 72. He served prominently in World War I and held key strategic roles during the era.

Berlin Adolf von Trotha Jutland

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