Amarillo Early Winter Notes and Local Anecdotes
A breezy Amarillo column covers a mild cold spell and playful street lore. It notes a youth ditch-um game on South Polk Street, a radio pigeons feature by Jim Howe on NBC KGNC, a local gun club promotion, and wordplay on gin rummy prodigy Taylor Bassett with a walnut of small town humor from Ashton Stevens.
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Amarillo
South Polk Street
Tuck
Jim Howe
Walnut Creek
Cal
NBC
KGNC
Amarillo Salesmen Urged Club and Banquet
Rex Baxter touts Amarillo as a wholesale and distributing hub with at least 600 traveling salesmen based there. The News Globe plans a complimentary banquet to honor the group with a notable speaker, entertainment, and future club ideas.
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Rex
Rex Baxter
Amarillo
News- Globe
News-Globe
Wolf swindles wife after marriage for money
In the Panhandle tale a hard working couple saves 20000 dollars. A con man pressures the wife to divorce and she gets half. The man marries her, drains the funds in two weeks, then disappears. She begs her ex-husband to return, with their children hoping for reconciliation. The piece notes men marrying for money in cities as well.
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Panhandle
Desire for a taxidermy tiger and a giant Great Dane on sale
A man named Mendel Eagle returns from the Army after serving as a top air force sergeant in Tenpur India. He hunted a tiger at dusk, firing a near dark shot that killed the 12 foot long, 800 pound tiger. Separately, a Russian division story reflects wartime atrocities during the Berlin advances. Maj Evan Roberts plans to sell a black 17 month old Great Dane for $100, noting its large size and strong pedigree.
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Mendel
Army
Air Force
Tenpur
India
Mendel Eagle
M. D. Eagle
Maj
Evan Roberts
Major Roberts
Free Train Ride to California for a Caring Companion
A sick woman is being sent to Los Angeles and needs a reliable female companion for the journey. A compartment with two berths is reserved for Sunday afternoon. The traveler will have her tickets purchased and presented. Call 25965 or 2592 to offer references and arrange to accompany her with Mrs. Mabel Ray between 9 AM and 5 PM tomorrow.
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California
Los Angeles
Mabel Ray
Funeral Tomorrow for Carl Bremer, Amarillo resident
Funeral services for F. Carl Bremer 48 a Santa Fe boiler maker who died here Wednesday morning will be held at 4 pm tomorrow in the Griggs Funeral Chapel Rev F R Foster of the Assembly of God Church will conduct the rites Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Bremer had lived in Amarillo since 1923 coming here from Big Spring The family home is 2504 Cleveland Pallbearers are Troy Adams E W Warren W D Hollingsworth Sr Aubry Elliott C D Pratt and Jess Coberly honorary pallbearers E L Briley J L Beeman Pete Weatherly Dr Ernest Shearer Jess Lovern and A R Beene
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F. Carl Bremer
Santa Fe
Griggs
F. R. Foster
Assembly of God Church
Llano Cemetery
Bremer
Amarillo
Big Spring
Cleveland
Troy Adams
E. W. Warren
W. D. Hollingsworth, Sr
Aubry Elliott
C. D. Pratt
Jess Coberly
E. L. Briley
J. L. Beeman
Pete Weatherly
Ernest Shearer
Jess Lovern
A. R. Beene
Near Freeze Predicted For Amarillo And Panhandle
A near freeze is forecast for Amarillo tonight with lows around 35 degrees. Cold air moved in early this morning with 43 degrees in town and north winds. winds should ease this afternoon then shift southeast tomorrow warming the Panhandle. Weatherman Winburn says Sandies may face a windy game with Odessa as colder air spreads to San Angelo and Odessa, reaching the state by tomorrow.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Canadian
Winburn
Odessa
San Angelo
Esquire Artist Varga and Wife Stop in Amarillo
Artist A Varga known for Esquire Magazine pretty girl drawings spent a two day stop in Amarillo with Mrs Varga leaving Longhorn Lodges. He signed an Esquire calendar for Palo Duro Canyon manager Arthur James of Panhandle Highway tourist court owned by J W Triplett. The Vargas reside in Chicago.
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A. Varga
Esquire Magazine
Amarillo
Nazis on Trial Indictments Read as 24 Nazi Leaders Face Nuernberg
The International Military Tribunal set November 20 in Nuernberg for the war crimes trial of 24 high Nazi figures. Indictments were served after major charges were issued in Berlin, with Martin Bormann at large. Defendants sought counsel, some reacting emotionally, as Goering and others received formal charges.
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Nuernberg
International Military Tribunal
Berlin
Reichsmarshall
Hermann W. Goering
Erich Raeder
Niaas Fritzsche
Inerlin
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp
Reichsbank
Walther Funk
Funk
Harmon Dies While On Carpentry Job
Emory Monroe Harmon aged 70, a carpenter living at 611 Alabama, died at work on a house at 3810 Hayden early this morning. A Amarillo resident for 25 years, he is survived by a brother and sister in Statesville North Carolina a daughter Mrs Ted Anderson Amarillo a son Mandy E in the U S Army and two granddaughters Mrs R E Howard Amarillo and Lona Pearl Harmon Halstead Kan. Funeral arrangements are pending at Blackburn Shaw.
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Emory Monroe Harmon
Carpenter
Alabama
Hayden
Harmon
Amarillo
Statesville
N. C
Ted Anderson
Mandy E
U. S. Army
R. E. Howard
Lona Pearl
Halstead
Kan
Blackburn Shaw
Meacham Loses Damage Suit Against Yellow Cab Co
Joe Meacham recovered no damages and was ordered to pay court costs in the 108th District Court suit against W A Mays doing business as the Yellow Cab and Baggage Co. Meacham claimed injuries from being struck by a Yellow Cab. A jury ruled for the cab company.
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Joe Meacham
108Th District
W. A. Mays
The
Yellow Cab and Baggage Co
Meacham
Yellow Cab
Cab
Fire destroys garage of Susie Braxton in North Fillmore
A garage owned by Mrs. Susie Braxton at 1001 B North Fillmore burned this morning. Several pieces of furniture stored in the garage were destroyed. Firemen answered the call at 9 08 o clock.
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Susie Braxton
North Fillmore
Markets and Livestock Reports From New York and Kansas City
Dow Jones averages at 1 P M show Industrials near 186.78 with slight movement as 60.30 off for some components. Kansas City reports cattle offerings around 600 salable of 2,000 total with cows dominant and steady prices, vealers dull, hogs steady with good and choice hogs at 14.55 and sows at 13.80.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Chicago Livestock Market Report Indicates Varied Movements
At Chicago, October 19, hogs run 7,500 with activity steady. good and choice barrows and gilts around 140 pounds. Cattle 2,200 with calves 500. steers scarce, cows weak after a 25 cent drop. vealers firm. Sheep 7,500, activity down. native lambs around 15.00, yearlings about 12.50, most slaughter lambs 5.00–6.50.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
Mrs McAfoose Dies At Daughter's Home
Mrs Mary Elizabeth McAfoose aged 79 died at 6 this morning at her daughter's home in Amarillo where she had been visiting. She was a Brownington Missouri resident with four daughters and a son surviving. services to be held at N. S. Griggs & Sons.
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Mary Elizabeth McAfoose
O. B. Argo
Maryland
McAfoose
Brownington
Amarillo
Argo
G. S. Stewart
Hobbs, N. M
Thomas Hurst
Deep Water
Margaret Hobbs
Grand Junction
Colo
Rose Skeith
Savanna
Okla
James D
Kansas City
N. S. Griggs & Sons
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Tack
Associated Press
China
Peking
Rillo
D. L. MacDonald
Mr. Mac
Bob Underwood
Taylor Bassett
J. R. T. Bassett
Taylor
Bill McSpadden
San Jacinto
Bob
MacArthur
Tokyo
Co. V. Bradford
Louisiana
Mr. Tack
Ashton Stevens
D. L. McDonald
Pennsylvania
East
McDonald
South Dakota
Tom Cubbage
Foster Marion
Ed Connelly
Borger
Guy Cubbage
el Reno
Mendel Eagle of
Winchell
Germany
Stalin
Stalingrad
Carl Bremer
Varga
Esquire
Martin Bormann
Alfred Jodl
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Englsh
Julis Streicher
der Sturmer
America
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Karl Doenitz
Hitler
Fuehrer
Wilhelm Keitel
Hannover
Teoes Ou
NEW York Stock Exchange
Pierce Fenner & Beane
Armour & Co
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Loco
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
Braniffereeasvese
Briges Mfg
Budd
Del
Enn
Cont Motors
Curtiss Wright Eee Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
Nena
General Motors
Gillette Razor
Goodyear
Harvester
Kennecott Copper
Ae Eee
Glenn L. Martin
Gulf Oils Coreee
Nat Can
Eee
Nor Am Aviation
Ohio
Ereseesen Ae Ewan
Packard Wtee Bu
Pan Amer Airways
Paramount
Terereee Teee
Penn RR Wena
Phelps-Dodee Co
Wee
Phillips Fete
Nor Pac RR
Radio Corp Ete Eee
Rep Steel Te
Stand Oil
Stew Neee
Studebaker
Spiegel, Inc
Waits Wensoveses
Texas
Tex Gulf Eee
Tidewater
Bulph
Union Eee
United Aircraft
US Rubber Weer
U_ S Steel
Wilson & Co
White Motors
Warner Bros Een
Chicago Grain Table
Saratoga Cafe
Financial Industrial Fund
Barbara Howard
Ora Haile
Don Meek
Beatrice Brown
Wilma
Dial
Gladys
Beauty Service
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors
Rita Faye Meeks
Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde
Bowen
C Madison
Creamery
Vetesk’s
W. 16Th Ph
Southwestern Public Service Company
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