Air Warning Service would spot U S raids quickly
A Pacific Coast network of civilian observers under the army tracks airborne raids. 286 stations around San Francisco feed reports to a central center, enabling hour in advance warnings and siren alerts. Major D W Hickey leads the unit with private lines from Pacific Gas and Electric and support from Southern Pacific, forests services, Navy, and Lighthouse Service.
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San Francisco
United States
Pacific Coast
Uncle Sam
D. W. Hickey
65Th Coast Artillery
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Southern Pacific Railroad
National and State Forest Services
Army Amateur Radio Network
American Legion Network
Navy
Lighthouse Service
Army
Hickey
Manufacturers seek no part in war in neutrality drive
The National Association of Manufacturers plans meetings in key cities to press the claim that industry wants no part of another war. The piece argues profits come in neutrality, while war brings fixed prices and heavy taxes, and notes how past battles shaped industry and society.
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National Association of Manufacturers
America
United States
Churchgoers Turn $100 Gift Into $391 Insight
In Cleveland Rev. Virgil Jump who gave 100 silver dollars to his congregation says the experiment to magnify talents was a success. 96 members joined. totals included $11.08 from baking and selling bread and $9 from recycling old papers. One donor returned the dollar. Bermuda is cited as headquarters for Britain's west Atlantic naval squadron.
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Cleveland
Virgil Jump
Jump
Hazel Schlaupt
Arthur Chalberg
Jumps
Amarillo Personalities: Navy Aviator and CPA Office Revenue
Biography notes an Amarillo resident who served in the Navy aviation branch during World War II and later worked as an income tax specialist in a CPA office. Born in Highland Illinois, educated in Wellington Kansas, attended college fraternity life, and later entered real estate and building ventures in Wachita Kansas and Amarillo.
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NAVY
C.P.A
Highland
Wellington
Kans
Fraternity
Morat College
Wachita
Kansaf
Amarillo
Dale Carnegie to Speak at High School Auditorium
Dale Carnegie will speak at the High School Auditorium on Friday night October 27. Admission is 40 cents. The talk outlines asking favors to win friends, with historical examples including Franklin and Napoleon illustrating the principle.
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Dale Carnegie
The Globe Overview of Subscription Details and Masthead
The Amarillo Globe News paper masthead describes ownership, affiliations with The Amarillo Daily News, and contact details. It lists publishers Gen e Howe and John McCarty, AP affiliation, and subscription rates for carrier and mail. The issue date is Thursday October 19, 1939.
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Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo Globe
the Globe
Unclear Guidance on Favor Requests and Gratitude
The fragment hints that requesting a favor from someone who enjoys giving help may succeed. It suggests the approach works for others and could apply to the reader as well, implying social leverage in reciprocity.
SELECT YOUR FOOD WITH CARE FOR HEALTHY LIVING
The piece argues for a balanced daily diet with all essential elements and warns against extreme fads or single-food regimes. It stresses that meals must provide minerals and vitamins, not just protein or vegetables, and that consumption should be daily. It notes a forthcoming discussion and offers a free chart via Artie McGovern. It also mentions Michigan wildlife statistics on game animals and water resources.
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Artie McGovern
Defense shifts and power struggles echo wartime tensions
Washington dispatch notes shifts in U S defense budgets after European war news. It cites German success in Poland and naval torpedo advances as prompting calls for more bombers and mechanized forces. It also covers a power reshuffle around Harold Ickes and Louis Johnson, TVA and REA maneuvers, and warnings against ceding government control to elites.
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Paul Mallon
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Washington
U. S
Europe
Poland
North Sea
Hitler
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
Harold Ickes
Johnson
Mr. Ickes
National Defense Power Committee
Johns
Power Policy Committee
Ickes
Defense
Cohen-Corcoran-Ickes
PWA
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Slattery
Norris
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
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California
C. M. Chester
Tom Girdler
Howard Coonley
Bermuda
Great Britain
West Atlantic
Rudy
Bobby
Rudy Bauman
Standard Oil
Wichita Falls
PHI Kappa Fraternity
Delta Theta Phi
Amarillo Country Club
National Petroleum Institute
UNI OF Kansas
Higgins
Ben Pranklin
General Assembly
Philadelphia
Franklin
West Indies
Marie Joseph Tasher la Pagerie
Josephine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
THE
Associated Press
News and Business
Asa Aeee
Globe
News-Globe
MAIL
Eo Tse
Donald Duck
Moo Mullins
Otto Lummox
Elmo
MR. Smith
Tine
McKee Industries
MR. Dullard
Rosie
Tarzan and the
Tohr
Ahtea
Tarzan
Dr. Wong
Wong Tai
Maxon
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarean
Michigan
Y Artie McGoveen
Herbert Hoover
Lindbergh
Mr. Hoover
Hull
Japan
Panama Canal
Power Defense Committee
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of Interior
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