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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
2
Washington betting lines favor Roosevelt with close race odds while Willkie gains in public opinion. Navy memoirs recount fleet actions, traditions, and training. local notices seek pigeons, a lost dog, and a purse found. community anecdotes mix humor and everyday life.
Wayne Clifton stars as one of five bachelors in the four act comedy Daddies opening Monday and Tuesday to raise funds for the Crippled Children's Council. Oma Link Rowley directs a cast of 25 in a New York set piece about bachelors adopting refugee children. Admission is 50 cents with proceeds by Lions Rotarians Kiwanians and the American Business Club.
The Amarillo Lions Club hosted a busy day with bear meat, short skits from the Crippled Children's annual play Daddies, and talks on Halloween, the YMC A and the U S Navy. Cast members Clifton Patton Devore and Shirley Neely urged a Nov 4 and 5 charity showing for the Crippled Children's Clinic. Sheriff Adams urged parent cooperation to curb vandalism while Sen W N McMillan spoke on the Navy and Harold Nichols on the Y M C A building needs. Bear meat came from Lion Bob Dow after a New Mexico bear hunt.
Frank Stalnaker, an Amarillo native and Vanderbilt University student, suffered a fractured skull after falling about 40 feet down a stairwell during a dormitory scuffle. He is hospitalized at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. His parents live in Amarillo's St. Francis neighborhood.
W. Frank Litle and C. A. James, Amarillo builders, awarded a $36,837 contract by the War Department to construct temporary housing facilities at Fort Sill Lawton Oklahoma for draftees training there.
Shanghai reports travelers from Kobe say the German Scharnhorst, once in refuge, is being fitted as an armed raider to prey on Pacific shipping.
Harold Nichols announces a membership drive for the Great Plains District YMCA to be completed tonight. The plan includes organizing physical training classes and over a dozen special interest groups next week with gym instruction led by a new instructor. Bob Clements of Superior Manufacturing leads the Business Men's Health Club setup.
Soil Conservation Service officials report water level at Buffalo Lake is dangerously low but fish remain alive. Local observers claimed rising die offs, yet lake officials say death rates stay near normal with occasional carcasses along shores.
Two Democratic senators Wheeler of Montana and Johnson of Colorado urged President Roosevelt to press for an Armistice in Europe. They argued a peace settlement would keep the United States out of the war and cited the need to end hostilities through presidential influence.
London reports steady German raids but large RAF squadrons shoot down 11 Nazi planes while repelling four raids on London and thwarting an attack on Portsmouth. British bombers strike German targets as Petain faces France’s fleet dilemma and Axis moves toward broad peace talks with Italy and France.
An advertisement urges relief from coughs chest colds and acute bronchitis with Creomulsion. It claims the product reaches the bronchial membranes loosens phlegm and soothes inflammation without narcotics and offers money back if it fails to help quickly.
The Roosevelt Wallace club of Potter County postpones its meeting from Wednesday 7:30 p m to Thursday 7:30 p m in the Potter County Courtroom. Members wish to hear President Roosevelt's speech at 7:15 p m Wednesday, prompting the delay, per secretary A P Gibson.
James H Harris aged 67, a retired building contractor, died this morning at 9 15 at the home of his daughter Mrs W G Tarkington on 134 Wayside Drive. He lived in Amarillo about 10 years after moving from Frisco Texas. He built in Floydada and Silverton early in his career. He was a Baptist and a Woodman of the World. Survived by wife Virginia I Harris two sons James Masten Harris Mobile Arkansas and Harold Harris McKinney Texas another daughter Mrs R J Wilson Dallas two brothers J E Harris and B F Harris Nevada Texas and a sister Mrs Fannie L Pool Nevada. Body is at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements.
President Roosevelt after a meeting with Secretary of State Hull and Under Secretary Welles will delay freezing Creek credits until the State Department receives official confirmation that Greece and Italy are at war.
The article details Amarillo men Carl Cecil Smith and others drawn in the draft, noting ages and occupations. Arlie Chester Hudson, his wife and child, plus Marshall William Scott of Fort Worth share reactions to the selection process and deferment considerations for married men with dependents.
The article explains the draft process with 6740+ registrants in the city and county and notes order numbers from 1 to 20. It covers questionnaires, classifications I to IV, sub divisions I A to I E, and lists numerous local orders with names and addresses linked to serial numbers.
Kellogg’s All-Bran offers relief by supplying bulk in the diet. Regular consumption with milk and proper hydration may prevent digestive discomfort. The cereal is made by Kellogg’s in Battle Creek. chronic cases should consult a physician.
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