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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1939
Page
2
Weather signals rain for the Tri State Fair opening and the event, led by Ray Pinkney and Milton Cox, expects a strong lineup with 28 bands. The piece also weighs Poland's military woes, German advance, and American reluctance to enter war, urging careful debate and warning of crisis.
A Pampa Texas letter to the editor laments a Webster error in a banner reading Analysts Pour Over Records and discusses the correct word pore. It also notes Labor Day delays and includes various miscellany on politics radio and local civic efforts and jokes.
Dear Tack seeks a daytime job to allow night school attendance. Offers to furnish references. Also asks readers to help locate a lost dog, with contact via A READER Dial 4096. Contination note indicates continuation on page 8.
The city tested a distribution pump at the municipal grass greens course in Thompson Park. City manager H. R. Smith said it works perfectly. Club house occupancy expected soon after October 1 according to today’s estimate. Housewives fret as Danish harvests strain sugar supplies due to import restrictions.
Berlin dispatch says Adolf Hitler invited foreign military attaches in Berlin to visit the Mlawa area near Warsaw this week to inspect the battlefield. In London Joseph P Kennedy Jr leaves for the United States to resume studies at Harvard Law School this fall.
Sept 14 1914 reports racing in England canceled for the rest of the year as World War I developments continue. General Joffre begins new maneuvers on the Aisne to try to encircle the German right flank.
Emily Mounsey a 29 year old London school teacher won 7500 pounds after a motor accident left her with a permanent nerve injury causing an involuntary wink she said affected her dignity and social life. Also notes a Richmond Virginia Forest Lawn coffin burial and Nevada mineral wealth from the Comstock lode.
Many suffer nagging backache not from muscles but possible kidney trouble. Doan’s Pills, claimed to help by flushing out waste, have been used successfully for over 40 years to relieve kidney related symptoms and restore energy.
A British citizen details daily wartime controls as food and gas prices rise. An average Londoner endures early bedtimes for blackout, walks to work with gas masks, faces restricted transit, and shops with higher wholesale costs while preparing for possible call to colors.
German officials in Prague announced a series of arrests in Bohemia and Moravia on grounds of public security. Reports that 400 Czechs were seized as hostages were denied by officials.
Report from Shanghai says reinforced British troops at Tientsin resisted a Japanese demand to surrender two alleged Chinese anti-Japanese terrorists. The suspects reportedly fled into the British concession after being challenged by Japanese sentries aboard a British tug carrying war supplies.
WMCA New York filed with the FCC a categorical denial that it illegally intercepted and broadcast secret naval and military orders of the German and British governments. The Hague reports a German envoy said Germany would pay indemnity for a Netherlands naval plane shot down off the North Sea coast. the plane was in Dutch territorial waters and the crew were rescued by a German warplane.
Washington reports farmers face surplus supplies across most food products, with an agriculture department inventory showing higher stock levels than 1936-37 and the 1925-29 average. Secretary Wallace says a 20 percent rise in farm prices could be acceptable if driven by sound consumer demand, not speculation.
Washington officials disclosed that for over a year FBI agents have undergone intensive secret training in espionage, sabotage, and subversive activity detection. The agency has intensified counter espionage efforts during recent European war developments. Training was organized in units of 30 and led by J Edgar Hoover, a veteran of World War II era defense work.
Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine announced a ceremonial November 17 under Dr. L. V. Cradit with a watermelon feast ending the meeting. The event will honor railroad men as nobles and include N. H. Mohler in the ceremonies in Galveston.
A German navy associate reported that the liner Bremen, Germanys costly passenger vessel valued at $20,000,000, sailed to Murmansk after leaving New York without passengers. The ship supposedly took the northerly Arctic route from the Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean then into Kola Bay near Murmansk.
Four teen navy patrol bombers arrived over Pearl Harbor today after departing San Diego late yesterday. They were transferred to Honolulu to replace an equal number of warplanes sent to Manila for neutrality patrol duty.
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