02 Sep 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1942
Page
1
A collection of Amarillo items includes weather worries in Lubbock cotton fields, a grand mausoleum project near Dumas, and a rush of soldiers and young women in Amarillo. Columns touch on local figures Don Harrington and Miss Nell Cross, humor puzzles, gin rummy chatter, and town boasts about growth and water plans.
A reader seeks a small or medium piano for storage and offers to pay moving expenses. A man 68 seeks correspondence with a business or farmingwoman needing help. Another reader seeks a partner to take over a house to run on halves. contact details included.
City corporation court reports a high turnover of fines with 3582 collected in the latest month 1045 in the busiest week and 319 in the peak day nearly a fifth of which were gambling related Raids in the Flats reveal new betting devices and police seize a metal forearm cage housing dice used in craps legend notes seven or eleven outcomes
The Western Cowpunchers Association plans to invest 1943 dues in war bonds after their reunion on the T Anchor range. President FE C Britain and Secretary H M Timmons announced $125 was placed in bonds and additional advance dues will follow. The group has about 300 members. dues are $2 per immediate family, with eligibility for families pioneering west before 1901.
Coast guard and navy recruits killed time waiting for a Denver train delayed by a washout near Trinidad. Recruits listed include Iva J. Howard Borger Onnie L. Atkenson Amarillo N J Jones Lockney Jack B Heil Follett and others. Marines opened with a wider age range 17 to 36 and unlimited quota. Army recruiting gath ers a large group for shipment later as mechanics respond to the call.
Delayed reports say militant French patriots bombed five Collaborationist buildings in Marseilles and one in Lyons last Friday, marking strikes against Nazi collaborators.
The Glider School swept the six week W P A dancing class contest held in the W O W Hall. About 100 soldiers from both Glider School and Army Air Forces Technical School attended and prizes were awarded to top couples in schottische Wagon Wheel Square Spanish Varsoviana and Little Brass Wagon. Winners include Betty Elliott and L S Maldonado, Dorothy Foster and Hank Chavez, Frances Abbott and Jerry Rider, Delores Bishop and Paul Sutton.
The weather bureau predicts improving skies with a few lingering showers followed by clearing. Cooler throughout the day and tonight with a high around 77 and a 66 low. Dampness persists. English Fields recorded .33 inches while the fall was heavier in town.
The Portuguese sloop Pendronunes rescued 44 survivors from two lifeboats of the British freighter Clan McClyster, torpedoed and sunk by an Axis submarine about 40 miles north of Ponta Pargo, Azores. Rescue crews searched for a third lifeboat carrying 16 missing sailors. The ship's captain and radio operator were killed.
A large convoy at a British port brings strong reinforcements to the Canadian forces in England including armored formations air corps and medical personnel amid ongoing Allied operations.
The event featuring Mr and Mrs Grady Wilson and Mr and Mrs John Winters was set to broadcast on KFDA but broadcasting gear was damaged earlier, forcing cancellation of the radio program.
Washington announced a wartime limit on bicycle production, reducing the monthly output to 10 000 and consolidating plants to free others for war weapons. A Croatian court martial executed 22 people, mostly men and women, for aiding insurgents and anti Axis activity. Snakes are observed to either give birth to live young or lay eggs.
A free booklet compiling doctors opinions on epilepsy is offered to readers who write to the Educational Division 535 Fifth Ave New York NY. Dept G-1487. The material promises insights into the causes of epilepsy from prominent medical authorities.
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