Reds Wont Quit Battle Over Gasoline Rationing Impact
The piece argues stringent Texas gasoline rationing would strain state finances by reducing the gasoline tax revenue of about 55 million dollars and cut motor vehicle registration receipts, with further hits to school funds and county road maintenance. It notes prior bond retirements were funded by the tax and warns counties would face higher taxes if the old road debts return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Potter County
Potter
Highway Department
Use Fingers or Teeth To Kill Enemies
CAMP BULLIS Sept 14 Major George D Spencer told 250 Texas Defense Aid officers that if no knife gun or club is available to use fingers or teeth to tear out an enemy’s jugular vein He warned guerrilla warfare and dirty fighting would be demonstrated later in the week as the service command state guard school resumes He said they must win even by ruthless means and fight fire with fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Bullis
George D. Spener
Texas Defense Aid
8Th Service Command
Tate Guard School
Spencer
Maj. Spencer
British crewman awarded for sea rescue and wooden leg tale
The British press association celebrated a crewman aboard the Honeysuckle for rescuing an American merchant captain found clinging to a raft at midnight near Breemana. The captain, 65, had a wooden leg that overheard a seaman’s quip about a lucky leg, while the rescuer dried the leg and warned of a $500 reward.
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London
British Press Association
Breemana
Amer
Hungarian General Wounded Returns from Russian Front
Budapest dispatch reports Col. Gen. Gustav Jany commander of Hungarian troops in Russia wounded by arm injuries while near front-line positions. Complications delayed his return but he is relayed back to headquarters in Budapest.
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Berlin
Gustav Jany
Russia
Budapest
Moslem independence demanded by Jinnah
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president of the All-India Moslem League, rejects joining the Mahasabha backed interim government unless guaranteed a separate Moslem state after the war. He says such a guarantee must come from all parties including the British, warning against participation without it. The Mahasabha aims to form a national government with wartime unity but postwar plebiscite on Muslim state.
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New Delhi
India
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
All-India Moslem League
Hindu Mahasabha
Jinnah
Allied Bombers Sink Jap Merchant Vessel
Allied bombers attacked three Japanese merchantmen off Tenimber in the Kai Islands, leaving one sinking. Flying Fortress planes hit a Japanese cruiser off New Britain with no confirmed results. In New Guinea, Japanese overland advance toward Port Moresby continues unchanged. At Lae two Japanese bombers were destroyed on the ground during a heavy Allied bombing raid.
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MacArthur
Australia
Tenimber
Kai Islands
Darwin
New Guinea
New Britain
Port Moresby
Lae
WAAC Officer Commissioned From Des Moines Training
Miss Jean Billau daughter of Mrs W P Billau 510 West Sixteenth Avenue received her commission as a lieutenant in the Womens Army Corps She was in the first WAAC officer candidate class at Fort Des Moines Iowa Before enlistment she worked in Chicago A brother Phillip Billau is a student at Amarillo High School and another brother Alfred Billau attends Central Junior High School
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Jean Billau
W. P. Billau
West
Sixteenth Avenue
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
Billau
WAAC
Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago
Phillip Billau
Amarillo High School
Alfred Billau
Central Junior
Rubber Czar To Be Named
War Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson said after a meeting with President Roosevelt he would announce the appointment of a rubber administrator late today or tomorrow morning. The WPB chief will announce the selection, following Baruch committee recommendations. The administrator will oversee policy on American motoring and synthetic rubber development.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
Nelson
WPB
Baruch Rubber Committee
U S Soldiers Develop Taste For Crocodile
A small American engineering detachment in New Guinea reports crocodile meat as delicious and tender. They cooked strips with lime juice from a crocodile they caught while building a secret air field, living in tents among bananas and limited fresh meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hewlett
BASF
New Guinea
U.P
Woodrow Lahr
Lincoln
Neb
Ottumwa
Iowa
Lahr
Tech
Mike Shop
Kansas City
Corp
Raymond Chance
Shamrock
Tex
Gerald Paullin
Montieth
Ted Flaherty
St. Louis
Pvt
Curtis Stahl
Harrison, Ark
Stahl
Milwaukee Journal
The
Little Rock Arkansas Gazette
Skipper Cheats German Jail
The Panamanian ships master Captain Axel Broner avoided prisoner status by refusing to identify himself when the U boat surfaced. He warned lifeboat survivors to stay silent as the crew of 46 was rescued. The navy notes 11 captains taken prisoner since June amid submarine warfare in the Western Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
South America
Navy
Axel Broner
United Nation
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Frisco Opens Underground Parking for 1700 Cars
In San Francisco a four floor underground parking structure opened downtown to store 1700 vehicles. Motorists receive a numbered ticket on entry and can go about their business. The complex may serve as a bomb shelter. Civilian defense officials reported the army is testing tire substitutes using a wheel within a wheel linked by springs.
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San Francisco
Light Voters Stir in Maine as Primary Pressures Begin
Maine started its fall election season with a light vote for a senator, governor, and three House members. The outcome was seen as not predictive of nationwide trends, while primaries loom in several states and a Connecticut Democratic convention plus Mississippi runoffs shape the national map. In Maine's First District, former Governor Louis J. Brann faces Robert Hale as the district drew notable attention amid a campaign linked to Roosevelt era foreign policy. A Connecticut Republican convention featured Clare Booth Luce and Vivien Kellems seeking a nomination, with Luce delivering the keynote.
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Associated Press
Maine
House
Senate
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Michigan
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Wall Doxey
Eastland
Doxey
Rhode Island
Louisiana
Louis J. Brawn
Robert Hale
Portland
Roosevelt
Brawn
Townsend
Clare Booth Luce
Vivien Kellems
Rehearsal Called for Stars Over America Cast
Final cast selection for Stars Over America to be made at 8:15 PM rehearsal tomorrow at Municipal Auditorium. Dixie Dice production manager urges panhandle talent to attend singing dancing or novelty acts for proper timing and cast placement. Queen candidates asked to attend to time their parts.
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Dice
Boy Bites Dog Sparks Odd Turn of Events
In San Francisco on September 14 five year old Bobby Castillon bit his pet dog and was then bitten back by the dog. Bobby received treatment at an emergency hospital for minor injuries.
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San Francisco
Bobby Castillon
Bobby
Meteorology Study for Civil Air Patrol Meeting
H. C. Winburn head of the U S weather bureau will discuss meteorology in a Civil Air Patrol meeting led by Capt. Fred C. Smith. Lt. Gordon Gill will conduct a meteorology drill session at the gathering tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Winburn
U. S. Weather Bureau
Civil Air Patrol
Fred C. Smith
Gordon Gill
Chest Campaign Cards Distributed
Amarillo Boy Scouts distributed about 2000 window cards for the War Chest Campaign. In their official capacity as dispatch bearers for the government during the emergency the effort was organized by roughly 25 Scouts from troops 9 11 18 and 19.
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Amarillo Boy Scouts
War Chest
Salvage Campaign Pushed by Scouts
Amarillo Boy Scouts continue their salvage collection campaign. Council Executive Will J Hiatt urges households with scrap metal or rubber to call the Boy Scout headquarters at 2-1501. Scrap will be picked up each Saturday.
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Amarillo
J Hiatt
Boy Scout
Flames Rage on Merchantman Baronesa in Buenos Aires Harbor
A fire broke out today in the coal holds of the British merchant ship Baronesa, 8,663 tons, in Buenos Aires harbor. Firefighters fought for seven hours to bring the blaze under control.
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Buenos Aires
Tugwell Seeks Puerto Rican Aid
Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell flew to Washington to press the U S administration for aid to Puerto Rico as it faces gasoline shortages and rising unemployment. Separately in New Delhi a Hindu Mahasabha committee urged Britain to mobilize Indians for a wartime mood against the Axis. The R A F Coastal Command logged over 50 000 miles defending Allied shipping in the war’s first two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Washington
New Delhi
Hindu Mahasabha
India
Pilots Describe Heavy Raids On Buna Jap Base
In New Guinea area Buna raids American and Australian airmen destroyed 17 grounded Japanese planes and bombed and strafed dispersal areas. Lieut. George Carter and others praised the mission, noting heavy antiaircraft fire and effective burns on enemy aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Schedler
New Guinea
George Carter
Macon
Buna
Carter
Donald Hall
Corpus Chiristi
Tex
Hall
Market snapshot shows mixed gains in Dow and livestock futures
Markets and livestock reports from New York Chicago and Kansas City detail mixed activities at Sept 14 trading. Industrial averages hover with small gains while livestock prices show declines for hogs and sheep but steady or mixed trends in cattle and calves.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Kansas City
Missouri
Two teenage hitch hikers stunned by killer's tale of murder
In Santa Maria California District Attorney Weldon disclosed that 21 year old Robert Bailey confessed to killing two women near Mississippi before abducting two teen hitch hikers Pauline Conley 17 and Alberta Coon 16. Bailey described the killings without regret and claimed he intended to kill his brother in Kenosha Wisconsin. Authorities report multiple prior crimes and army desertions as he traveled westward.
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Santa Maria
Cal
U.P
Robert T. Bailey
Neil Pietrangeli
Dorothy Baun
Kenosha
Wis
Wisconsin
Thomas J. Weldon
Weldon
Bailey
Mississippi Reform School
Hattiesburg
Biloxi
Miss
Pascagoula
Fort Bragg
N. C
California
W. R. Bailey
Reform School
Miss Pietrangeli
Miss Baun
Sparta
Chippewa Falls
le Sueur
Minn
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sioux City
Miss Conley
Alberta Coon
Anthon, In
Miss Coon
Si Simeon
Simeon
FBI
Hegleson
One Dies in Trainer Plane Crash Near Big Spring
An army trainer plane crashed in a pasture about 20 miles southeast of Big Spring Texas killing one person. The aircraft’s home field was not yet established. A separate Allied war report said 10 500 Russians were taken prisoner from August 21 to September 11 in the Novorossisk fighting.
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Big Spring
Tex
Berlin
Novorossisk
Want Ads and Personal Notices in Tack Section
Readers seek missing person Binnie Claunch call Castle Inn contact 26831. Mrs Wilson seeks cat to catch mice. Viva Ferguson seeks babysitting work at 2311 South Cleveland Street. Two colored women seek morning housework jobs at 507 West Third Street. Francis Wright lost Bulova watch piece between Polk Street area. reward offered. Elmer Harrell pillfold found. call Globe News office. Nurse or housework job offered by Mary Jett 415 South Wall Street Shamrock Texas.
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Viva Ferguson
South
Cleveland Street
Tack
West Third Street
Sixth
Ninth Avenues
Polk Street
Francis Wright
11Th Avenue
Elmer E. Harrell
Globe News
Mary Jett
South Wall Street
Shamrock
Texas
Allied forces hold Japanese invader near Port Moresby
Allied forces held the Japanese at bay 40 miles north of Port Moresby for the fourth day. Medium bombers dropped 17 tons on Lee and Flying Fortress aircraft attacked three enemy ships near New Guinea coasts. Fortresses struck a Japanese cruiser and destroyer southeast of New Britain. two heavy bombers were destroyed at Lae and fires started at Salamaua.
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M'Arthur
Australia
Port Moresby
Lee
New Guinea
Seloe Island
Tanimbar Island
Salamaua
Hoosier Moms Plan Cheer Letters To Servicemen
In Indianapolis a volunteer group called the Hoosier Moms will send morale boosting letters cartoons and human interest stories to servicemen stationed abroad. Local servicemen from the Indianapolis area will receive the mail from this effort aimed at lifting spirits overseas.
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Indianapolis
Seven Blasts Delay Zephyr on Burlington Route
The Denver Zephyr suffered seven explosions early today near Nodaway Iowa causing a four hour delay while air brake lines were repaired. Dispatchers reported discharges under the train but no passengers were injured and no cars derailed.
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Ottumwa
UPI
Denver Zephyr
Burlington
Nodaway
Omaha
Neb
Swap of stolen patrol cars shocks Dumas and Amarillo
Police exchanged two stolen patrol cars after a hectic night of vehicle investigations. A Potter County car was left with keys in the switch near the courthouse, and later a Dumas car was found. both cars were recovered unharmed and the swap occurred Sunday morning.
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Dumas
Amarillo
Potter County
North Highway
New Folk Dancing Class For Servicemen Opens In Amarillo
A new folk dancing class for servicemen starts at 8 p m Tuesday in the Blue and Gold Room of the Amarillo Hotel. Miss Lourie Roberts WPA supervisor directs with support from the Heel and Toe Club which will present a square dance exhibition during the session. The class runs 8 to 11 p m and opens the season for WPA project dances with music by the WPA orchestra.
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Amarillo
WPA
Lourie Roberts
Honey salvaged in scrap drive in Boone yard
In Boone Iowa scrap workers dismantling an old gasoline engine found honey stored by bees in a cylinder where a piston was missing. The salvage was reported as part of a local scrap drive. W Averell Harriman returned to London from the United States after reporting to President Roosevelt on the Moscow Churchill Stalin conferences.
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Moscow
Ploesti
Moscow Radio
Boone
Harriman
London
W. Averell
United States
Roosevelt
Courthouse Records and Marriage Licenses Featured In Notices
Courthouse records list warranty deeds for multiple property transfers including Windsor to Scott and Lynn to Green with prices from 1,000 to 10, the Glenwood and Washington Center areas, plus a batch of deeds and a large marriage licenses section naming dozens of couples such as Joseph Marchant and Helen Lillienskiold and Pete Litsch with Juanita Crow among others. The notices reflect land transactions and unions in the local area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Windsor
E. T. Scott
Pittman & Rogers
J. Paul Lynn
S. E. Green
O. T
Texas Plains B&l Assn
J. D. Speer
Glenwood
Everett Rodney
Fred Sharp
Mirror
Texie Corone Nail
James P. Alexander
Humphrey Heights
W. E. Stone
Feral Wisdom Litle
Washington Center
Treva G. Blair
Dean J. Corley
Prem. Parr Constr. Co
Willis R. Osburn
Nora Elnora Canfield
William Morton Glenn
Emily Wiese
James Owen Johnson
Gladys Pennington
James Martin Drennen
Maribelle Louise Hickman
Edward E. Durham
Edith Shandy
Robert Earl Macomber
Alma Joy Ogg
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Great Britain
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Paris
Ooden
WAACS
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Army
Merchantman
Tugwell
Britain
Christian Peters
Cleveland
Ohio
Clark
Seattle Wash
Lloyd Miller
Brownwood
John Conn
Louisville
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Pierce, Fenner & Benne
Financial Industrial Fund
Soviet Union
M. Close
Alleghany Lad Strel
Allis Chalmers Am Roll Mill
Am Smelt & Ret
Armour & Co
Aviation Corp Sae
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Avviation
Bethlehem Steel
Sitty Borden
Chrysler
Curtiss Wright
Wee Deere & Co
General Electric
Gen Motors
Greyhound
Houston Oi
Harveate Vette
Mite
Int
Power & Pap
Kennecott Copper
Marshall Field
Aeee Hare
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
National Dairy Products
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio Oil Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures
JC Penney Bees
Penn RR
Eens
Pet Data
Phillips Sala
Southern Pacific
Standard Brands
Ae Brand
Indiana
Studebaker
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf Sulphur Tees
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
U & Rubber Nee
Steel Wees
WU Teleevee
White Motoree
Wilson & Co
Eteree
Woolworth Sahnicheatrees
Pauline Conley
Binnie Claunch
Mrs. Wilson
Billfold
W. A. Taylor
Zephyr
Swap
Courthouse Records
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