25 Oct 1940
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1940
Page
1
Community notes report election interest and little moisture after November 5. Morris Higley praised for improving local newspaper The Index in Childress. Walter Caldwell visits from South Texas. Willkie and Roosevelt discussed in anniversary era reminiscences. City Lake yields strong catfish catches. household humor and notes on cranberry shortages and fruit cake sales.
Maynard Barnes American charge d affaires in Paris was arrested at Austerlitz station while seeing friends off and held for two hours. German soldiers, reportedly unhappy with his credentials, detained him until embassy officials intervened.
The 40 and 8 Auxiliary offers prizes for best and most ridiculous costumes at the Halloween dance tomorrow night at 9. The event will be at the Legion Home on Harrison Street with 25 cent tickets.
A reader seeks work and offers to do tasks in exchange for employment. They request opportunities and express readiness to take on available roles.
Detroit October 26 William 8 Knudsen member of the national defense advisory commission in charge of production announced that about $500 million in airplane parts contracts would go to the automobile industry next spring. He said the productive skill of the motor car industry would be available for the national defense program and that airplane parts would be built without interfering with auto and truck production.
Markets show hogs and cattle opening fairly active with modest drops by close. Hogs near $6.15 top, cattle steady to mixed, calves and stockers little changed, sheep prices varying with native lambs lower on the tray. Financial Security Fund notes liquidating price at $1.57 to offer $1.72.
Waiters bartenders and cooks of Local No. 441 sponsor a Halloween dance at the Mayfair nightclub on Wednesday October 30. Dixie Rose Revelers will provide music. Tickets are 45 cents, obtainable from any union member per the business agent.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she does not mind campaign buttons claiming that "we don't want Eleanor either" but she believes she is not an issue in the election campaign.
Col. Charles Sweeny head of the Royal Air Force American Eagle squadron promised in a broadcast that millions of Americans will come after France as they did in 1918. He urged French resolve and pledged support from the United States in the war effort.
Lord Linlithgow the viceroy of India opened at New Delhi a conference of British Empire units from the middle and Far East. The goal is to boost supplies of war materials to the Mediterranean African theater and to Britain during the war.
Lincoln T. Judd, Harvard graduate and American businessman, fled Nazi occupied Europe in stages. He left Vienna after the Austrian invasion, moved through Silesia and Poland, ran an Amsterdam coal office, and escaped to England before boarding the last refugee boat to the United States.
Somerfield Pennsylvania once known as Great Crossings and Smythfield will become a ghost town as the Youghiogheny Lake reservoir fills nearly 29 feet deep. The town’s school church and landmarks dating to 1818 will be razed while the federal government compensates owners of more than 50 homes and structures.
Sheffield Alabama authorities warn anglers to stop digging ditch banks for bait. Chief Carl Ikard says such activity damages city property and violators will be prosecuted if found outside police jurisdiction.
Townsend Club No. 5 will hold a special business meeting Sunday at 3 PM in the district court room to discuss establishing a furniture plant. Judd expresses confidence that the matter is settled for good.
A real estate voice touts sold signs as markers of contentment and future financial independence for Amarillo families. The message notes smaller monthly payments and sharply reduced interest rates over two years, encouraging readers to check the Globe-News Want Ads for best buys in homes and real estate.
Dr E William Doty dean of fine arts at the University of Texas told the Texas Music Teachers Association convention that large feet and loosely constructed hands aid organ performance. He said organ playing requires independent motion and that his build suits the instrument.
The Rev. Robert Grant Colvin Graham of Old Bolingbroke Lincolnshire was imprisoned for a month after ringing his church bell, an act considered signaling a German invasion or parachute drops under defense regulations. He claimed ignorance of the order but insisted he was loyal to Britain.
Three members of the Tennyson family arrive in Texas as war refugees bringing letters and 2100 pages of Alfred Lord Tennyson manuscripts. Patricia Tennyson attends Baylor University while her mother and David stay with Dr. Christine Fall at Baylor. Major Charles Arthur Tennyson serves in the Marines and another son John is in the Royal Air Force. Phyllis remains in England as an ambulance driver.
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