Weather and local quirks from Amarillo column
Weather notes forecast showers gradually easing with lingering moisture over the plains and weekend drizzles. Local items include West Texas State winter bus to Canyon for Amarillo students, student driver Quy Ivey, Durkee finds an alligator, and Potter County Library plans Friday night programs.
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West Texas State
Canyon
Amarillo
Sixth Avenue
Carolina Street
Sixth
Polk G Street
Lecture by Robert Penn Warren Sparks Local Interest
An article notes a lecture in the community featuring Robert Penn Warren editor of the Southern Review. The event supports journalism students and erudite readers, with a small admission to cover expenses. Warren’s prominence as a prolific writer is highlighted.
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Robert Penn Warren
The
Southern Review
University of Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Warren
America
Random Observations and Trivia Across Time
An assortment of curious facts, figures, and trivia ranging from population estimates for towns like Lubbock to Tibet temperatures, a beefsteak cooked by radio, the botfly speed, and notes on Gershwin, vitamin D, railroad land grants, air conditioned homes, and Edison’s talking machine.
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Tibet
London
George Gershwin
Mischa
Sascha
Tascha
Yascha
U. S
Sam
India
Carville
Thomas A. Edison
James M. Barrie
Band Parents Club To Meet Monday At Amarillo High
The Band Parents Club will hold its first regular meeting Monday night at 8 in the new band room on the third floor of Amarillo Senior High School. President Paul Potter announced the club includes parents of Amarillo High School Band members, about 80 members last year, with Mrs. C. C. Whited serving as secretary.
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Amarillo Senior High School
Paul Potter
Amarillo High School
C. C Whited
Truce Halts I O Union Strike at Koppers Building
A temporary truce ended a labor strike by I. O. union members threatening elevator service disruption in the seven story Koppers building in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
I. O
Koppers
Untitled Housing Pitch in Letter Across Personal Space
A personal letter proposes a living arrangement for a working woman aged 30 to 45. It requests a woman living alone to consider moving in with the author, outlining a specific proposition. The fragment shows a private housing offer framed as a conditional arrangement.
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Hous
Tack
Helium Production to Start by Jan One
Washington reports commercial helium production authorized after the Hindenburg disaster is expected to begin by January 1. The government holds a near monopoly, plans to buy Girdler Corp helium properties, and expects new demand from hospitals and aeronautical users as prices drop from about 150 to 10–15 dollars per thousand cubic feet.
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Washington
Congress
Girdler Corporation
Louisville
Roscoe A. Cattell
Petroleum and Natural Gas Division
Mines Bureau
Technologic
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
Thatcher
Colo
Dexter
Kan
Cattell
Amarillo
Germany
Neighbors Plow 28 Acres for Ill Farmer Fry
Nineteen neighbors of Paul Fry, a tenant farmer ill in hospital, met at his Fremont farm to plow and harrow 28 acres of the 1938 winter wheat crop. Using 16 tractors, they completed the work in a few hours.
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Fremont, O
U.P
Paul Fry
Farmer Fry
Middletown Man Swims In Overalls Instead Of Bathing Suit
George Davis aged 65 from Middletown, New York, says he wears overalls a shirt and shoes when swimming because air gets in the overalls and helps him stay afloat.
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Middletown
N. Y
George Davis
Davis
Bishop of Metz Dies in France
Metz France Sept 9 Mon Seigneur Jean Baptiste Pelt bishop of Metz died today at age 174 his death leaves the see vacant and prompts clerical condolences from regional authorities
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Metz
France
Tropical Disturbance Located Far Off Coast of the U. S.
A tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean east-northeast of the Leeward Islands was located by the San Juan Puerto Rico station of the hurricane warning system. Its intensity was unknown and it likely moves west-northwestward. The system posed no immediate threat to the U S mainland.
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Miami
Fla
U.2
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Federal Hurricane Warning System
Atlantic Ocean
Leeward Islands
United Staes
Finish Fight Against Communism Declared By Goebbels
Nazi propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels told the NSDAP congress that a new Europe is being formed to fight communism to the last breath. He warned democracies and Americans that Spain is a crossroads and that a communist power in Europe cannot be tolerated.
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Nurnberg
Nazi Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
National Socialism
Europe
Dr. Goebbels
Germany
Mediterranean
Soviet
Russia
Italy
Spain
Ean
Complications in Obtaining Beer Licenses Under New Law
Miss Jewell Davidson notes the new state beer and wine law requires full reapplication for permits. Dealers must schedule a hearing date with the county judge, obtain a judge's certificate, pay fees at the tax office, and receive a non sale receipt. The tax office forwards a duplicate to the liquor control board in Austin, which has five days to act. The entire process spans 10 to 12 days.
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Jewell Davidson
Potter County
Liquor Control Board
Austin
Federal Marihuana Control Set for October Start
Washington reports that from October 1 the use of marihuana will fall under federal control via regulations issued by the Treasury. The law, now under the Federal Narcotic Bureau, imposes nominal taxes on manufacturers importers compounders dealers and doctors and follows wartime measures.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Congress
Federal
Paralysis Outbreak Shows Signs of Leveling Off
Chicago health officials report a preliminary leveling off in infantile paralysis across most counties. The Chicago board of health adds 11 new cases, totaling 198 since August 1, as Dr. Herman Bundesen warns the peak may not yet be reached. Ontario notes a drop in cases with cooler weather. A mass zinc sulphate nasal spray trial is planned, alongside treatment for those already afflicted.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago Board of Health
Herman Bundesen
Ontario Health Department
Bundesen
Board of Health
Cholera Toll Seen Across Hong Kong and Shanghai
Reports from Hongkong show 126 deaths and 203 cholera cases for the week ending yesterday. Shanghai recorded nine deaths from 29 cases amid regional health updates.
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Singapore
Straits Settlements
Hongkong
Shanghai
Noted Criminal Link to Cannabis Effects Assertion
Agents traced alleged criminal inspiration to effects of the weed with forms found for eating drinking and smoking, suggesting varied usage paths. The report frames cannabis as a potential influence across multiple activities including consumption methods and social settings.
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Cotics
Madrid Reports British Naval Build Aimed at Breaker Blockade
Madrid dispatch says Britain has nearly tripled its naval force in the Western Mediterranean. The Madrid Press views the buildup as a hopeful sign that the insurgent blockade of Loyalist Spain may be broken and relief possible.
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Madrid
Britain
Mediterranean
Spain
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