Weathered notes and political barbs from a traveling columnist
The writer reports an Indian summer with plans to stay through next February and lists travel through Kansas City Chicago Washington Austin Dallas Fort Worth Tulsa and Oklahoma City. He discusses meals on trains and the sale of the News-Globe building for 43000, claiming strategic reasons and profits, and criticizes Washington taxation and postwar finance. He references Senator O Daniel Coke Stevenson Tom Connally and a Saturday Evening Post piece on Stevenson with speculation about 1946 and 1948 political contests.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Washington
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Lewis Nordyke
Saturday Evening Post
Coke Stevenson
Coke
Stevenson
Texas
Tom Connally
Noted political divides and a fetch of odd notices
The text recounts political divisions with forecasts about a 1948 election, describes a reward notice for a missing liver and white painter, and includes a wartime critique of Japanese ships. It also shares a rural anecdote about a hitchhiker switching parties and stealing watermelons.
Amarillo Plans Navy Day Tribute and Events
Amarillo will honor the Navy tomorrow with a citywide observance led by Navy Mothers Club head Mrs. J B Raymond and Mayor Joe Jenkins. A tag sale by the club committee, led by Mrs. M E Jordan, funds maritime welfare for Corpus Christi naval hospital and local sailors with free admission to the Paramount Theater for Navy personnel.
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Amarillo
United States Navy
J. B. Raymond
Navy Mothers Club of
Joe Jenkins
Navy Mothers Club
M. E. Jordan
Naval Hospital
Corpus Christi
Navy
Paramount Theater
Jack King
Interstate Theaters
City Hall to Announce Thanksgiving Date for This Year
City manager A P Hancock said no fixed Thanksgiving date is set in the city and that observance follows the governor. Gov. Coke Stevenson designated the fourth Thursday in November as the state date, which falls on November 23 this year. Also noted is the 1846 condemnation of the USS Allegheny by the Navy.
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A. P. Hancock
Coke Stevenson
Truman calls Klan allegations a lie out of the cloth
Senator Harry S. Truman denounces claims he was or is a Ku Klux Klan member. He recalls beating Harry Hoffman in 1922 for county office and says friends fought the Klan to a standstill, dismissing the rumor as a red herring.
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Peoria
Til
Harry S. Truman
Chicago Herald-American
Truman
Jackson
Hearst and
McCormick
Harry Hoffman
Herald-American
Grand Klengel
Old Amarillo Daily News 1926 Oil Boom Issue Found
Orla Allen found an Amarillo Daily News issue dated October 23 1926 from the oil boom era. The lead oil page reported the Prairie Johnson B-4 well flowing 400 barrels per hour at 2860 feet and running wild on the south bank of the Canadian.
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Orla Allen
Amarillo Daily News
Skelly
Skellytown
Allen
Amarillo
Nuts enhance flavor when roasted and salted before use
In ice cream or candy, almonds or English walnuts gain best flavor after first roasting and salting.
Soldier’s wife seeks liberal reward for lost billfold
Mrs Gloria Stevens reports her billfold lost Thursday near North East Third Avenue after a Wash-a-teer visit. It held about $20, her driver’s license, social security card, commissary card, a photo of her mother and nephew, two letters and other papers. Reward offered. Call 4646 at 2906 Ridgemere Street.
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North East Third Avenue
Ridgemere Street
Gloria Stevens
ODT Declares Differences Between Men and Women
The Office of Defense Transportation issue titled Practical hints to employers of women with special reference to transportation outlines 15 differences between the sexes affecting employment. It notes physical traits such as elbow and knee structure and cautions that not all statements from women are to be taken seriously while suggesting women may excel in precise tasks from sewing to delicate handling.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Globe-News Want Ads Prove Lucrative Says Bailey
W E Bailey of the B and B Agency 608 Taylor Street says Globe-News want ads have paid for seven years and driven sales or trades. He and his son ran Bailey and Son used car lot using ads with strong results and recently sold seven cars from home via small ads. The agency now handles insurance and real estate.
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Globe-News
W. E. Bailey
B. and B
Taylor Street
Globe News
Bailey and Son
Amarillo Men Inspect Boys Ranch Building
Herb Budke and Jim Hudson visited the Boys Ranch at Tascosa with Cal Farley this morning. Farley checked on construction as a dwelling for teachers in the ranch school is being built.
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Herb Budke
Jim Hudson
Tascosa
Cal Farley
Mr. Farley
Lawson attends Southwestern Aviation Conference in Amarillo
William J. Lawson former secretary of state and now special representative for Braniff Airways is in Amarillo attending the Southwestern Aviation Conference.
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William J. Lawson
Braniff Airways
Amarillo
Three Boys Arrested In Amarillo Burglaries
Police rounded up three youths aged 16 17 and 18 in connection with burglaries at five Amarillo businesses. Entries included Phillips Service Station Nunleys Service Station McKechnie Service Station Spencer Filling Station and Benton Motor Company used car lot. Loot varied from cash rifles and cigars to radios and gasoline stamps. Police recovered rifles cash and a radio and possess a pried lock box.
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Amarillo
Phillips
West Sixth Avenue
Numley’s
East Tenth Avenue
McKechnie
Spencer
Arthur Street
Benton Motor Company
Polk
Nunley’s
McKechnie’s
Spencer's
Lieutenant Caldwell Served Year on Carrier Princeton
Lieutenant T. M. Caldwell Jr., son of T. M. Caldwell of 718 Van Buren Street, served a year aboard the aircraft carrier Princeton and is reported lost in the Pacific. He flew an Avenger torpedo plane and had been reassigned before the carrier’s loss, and he holds three bronze stars for the Solomons, Gilberts, and Marshall Islands campaigns. he remains in the Pacific theater.
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T. M. Caldwell, Jr
T. M. Caldwell
van Buren Street
Princeton
Pacific
Caldwell
Solomons
Gilberts
Marshall Islands
Marvin Jones Visits His Mother in Amarillo
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones visits his mother Mrs. H. K. Jones at 1401 Van Buren Street in Amarillo. He toured parts of the Panhandle today and will return tonight. He plans to depart for Washington Sunday or Monday.
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Marvin Jones
H. K. Jones
van Buren Street
Jones
Panhandle
Amarillo
Washington
Elmo Payne Named Appeals Court Clerk
Elmo Payne of Lubbock appointed clerk of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals succeeding the late Jim Oakes. Payne, 37, was deputy clerk of Lubbock County district courts for six years and is a Texas Tech alumnus with a wife and a 15 year old daughter.
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Elmo Payne
Lubbock
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Jim Oakes
Amarillo
Mr. Payne
Lubbock County
Lubbock High School
Abilene Christian
Texas Technological Colleges
Sea Battle Advances as Allied Forces Land on Samar
Allied troops establish commands on both shores of the San Juanico Strait near Samar for the first time since Cmdr. John Bulkley’s passage. MacArthur reports Japanese forces in the northern sector disintegrating while Southern Leyte troops press toward Dagami through muddy inland valleys. All B-29s except one return to base after bombing Omura with reported good results. Japan claims five shot down and 19 damaged. Allied aircraft also strike coastal China, southern China, Burma, and Thailand.
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Samar
San Juanico Strait
John Bulkley
MacArthur
Leyte
Ith
Buri
Dagami
West China Superfort
Omura
Kyushu
Japan
China
Burma
Thailand
Ideal Weather to Continue. Seasonal End Appears Bright
Autumn expects pleasant days with a forecast of high near 75 and low around 45 tonight. The U S Weather Bureau notes continued favorable conditions through the next few days.
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U. S
Sky Fleet Bombs Ruhr Targets In Major Allied Raid
More than 1,200 U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators with 650 Mustang and Thunderbolt escorts attacked industrial targets at Bielefeld Munster and Hannover blasting new gaps in the Ruhr area. The raid followed a direct route from the northern end of the Western Front to Berlin and was carried out through an overcast, according to Eighth U S Air Force headquarters.
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London
U.P
U. S
Bielefeld
Munster
Hannover
Ruhr
Berlin
Eighth
U. S. Air Force
German terror wave sweeps Denmark, Danish underground hit
A report from Stockholm dated October 26 states a German wave of terror aimed at destroying the Danish underground is sweeping through Denmark. The dispatch notes German actions pose a direct threat to resistance networks operating in Danish territory.
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Stockholm
Denmark
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S. A. Tinsley
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Okla
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Ruby Crow
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City Hall
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Tage
Francis H. Kelly
Bailey
Childs
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Kline
W. T. Robbins
Mgr
Gee
Clockoasy 2
Shaw Funeral
Way Cone
Sky
Thesshoe Quicksilver-Smith Co
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