RFC Loans at HOLC Office in Amarillo Seeks Business Loans
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins accepting business loan applications at the Amarillo Home Owners Loan Corporation office. Jesse Jones states loans target plant modernization and expansion to aid rapid capacity growth amid Europe's situation. Banks may boost cooperation, with 36 offices nationwide designated to take RFC applications including FHA and HOLC locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Amarillo
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Jesse Jones
Federal
Federal Loan
Jones
RFC
Amarillo Holc
FHA
HOLC
Mrs Mabel Terry Dies in Amarillo Hospital
Mrs. Mabel Terry 39 wife of J E Terry died at 3 40 this morning after four weeks illness. A Amarillo resident three years the family home is 101 North Monroe Street Survived by seven children Lawrence Doris Alveen Gloria Fay Terry Mrs Robert Davis Dallas Mrs Robert Whitfield Kerrens Tex Edward Ewing Mena Ark The body is in state at N B Griggs and Sons Funeral Chapel pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Terry
J. E. Terry
Amarillo
North
Monroe Street
Lawrence
Doris
Alveen
Gloria Fay Terry
Robert Davis
Dallas
Robert Whitfield
Kerrens
Tex
Edward Ewing
Burned in Car Fire Harold Wagner Doing Well
Harold Wagner of Groom was critically burned when his automobile caught fire near the Y on the Panhandle highway about 1 a.m. He was rushed by Blackburn-Shaw Ambulance to St. Anthony's Hospital and is reported doing all right today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Wagner
Groom
Panhandle
St. Anthony's Hospital
Mr. Wagner
Blackburn-Shaw
Panhandle A. and M. Club Sets Capitol Meeting Tonight
The Panhandle Texas A. M. Club will meet at the Capitol Hotel tonight. Meeting time moved from Friday to Monday and will stay in effect after football season, announced by president Alex Bateman of Hereford.
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Texas A. & M
Capitol Hotel
Alex Bateman
Hereford
Kiwanis Farmers Day guests include Wellington and other clubs
Amarillo Kiwanis hosted 35 farmers, Wellington Kiwanis members, and North Amarillo and San Jacinto clubs for the annual Farmers Day during Tri-State Fair Week. Ray E. Dickson spoke on grass and livestock breeding. acts by Chas. Chase and Patsy Marr entertained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington Kiwanis Club
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Texas
Ernest Duke
Kiwanis Agriculture Committee
Logan Cummings
Wellington
Railroads to Spend Up to 200 Million for Emergencies
Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones announced railroads could and are spending as much as 200 million dollars over six months on new equipment and repairs to meet emergency transport needs. He noted 125 million in orders in the last 60 days, with about 25 million to be financed by RFC and most funds raised in the money market.
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Washington
U.P
Jesse Jones
Jones
RFC
War drift reshapes Balkans as Soviet move shifts fronts
The piece notes Romania fears a Russian invasion and fear of Bessarabia's return, Hungary and the Balkans drawn toward German control, and Soviet troops redeployed to the western front. A French communique says the front night was calm.
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Dardanelles
Rumania
Bessarabia
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Balkan Peninsula
Constipated Gas Crowds Heart Relief Advised
An early 20th century advertisement claims constipation causes gas and heart pressure. It touts Adlerika with three laxatives and five carminatives for rapid, double action relief, promising bowel movement within two hours and no griping, with Fox Drug Company as the distributor.
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Adlerika
Mabel Schott
Fox Drug Company
Adv
ORC Troop School Opens October First Reserve Officers
The first reserve officers troop school for 1939 40 opens Monday Oct 2 at 7 30 PM in Room 14 Amarillo post office building Capt Howard C Griggs announces all reserve officers from all branches may attend Each attendee earns two hours active duty credit and must complete 25 hours inactive duty for the year Credit is given to those transferring between districts regardless of residence or branch Major Clifton H Robinette directs the program with the subject to be announced later.
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Amarillo
Howard C. Griggs
Griggs
Clifton H. Robinette
September Pension Checks May Be Last for Some Needy
The Texas public welfare board will mail 121136 September pension checks to needy elderly, with possible future cuts of $6 per pensioner as loans totaling $2.3 million to a Dallas bank are repaid. Officials have not decided whether to cut small-sum recipients entirely or apply a pro rata reduction. The mailing follows $800,000 in federal pension matching funds.
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Austin
State Public Welfare Board
Dallas
Adam R. Johnson
Federal
Social Security Board
Chinese Report Resistance To Japanese Artillery Attacks
Reports from Chinese army headquarters in Kiangsi Province say Chinese forces resisted artillery prepared Japanese attacks 25 miles southwest of Hanchang. It is unclear if the lull’s end signals a renewed major Japanese offensive.
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Hongkong
Kiangsi
Hanchang
Old Flame Manager Triggers Strike at Manila Match Factory
A large suburban Manila match factory shut down as 600 women walked out. They accused a foreman of persistent sexual advances toward nearly every girl in the plant, prompting the stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Match Factory
Manila
Polish Submarine Orzel Escapes Estonian Internment
The Polish submarine Orzel evaded Estonian gunfire and escaped Tallinn harbor where it had been interned during the Polish German war. Estonian shore batteries and warships fired but failed to halt the vessel. Tallinn lies on the gulf of Finland.
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Tallinn
Estonia
Ritzaus
Orzel
Gulf of Finland
Vatican denounces Soviet invasion as uncourageous gesture
The Vatican newspaper L Osserva denounces Soviet Russia s invasion of Poland as an uncourageous gesture on an un true pretext.
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Vatican City
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano Today
Russia
Poland
Burning Cars Keep Firemen Busy In Amarillo
Fire crews battled four car fires in Amarillo late last night and early today. Alarms sounded at Eleventh Avenue and Buchanan Street at 9 17 p m, then Eighth Avenue and North Buchanan Street at 11 45 p m, 4235 North East Eighth Avenue at 12 30 a m, and 108 Johnson Street at 7 12 a m.
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M & Met
Am Woolen
Am Zinc L&s
Anaconda Re Hee
Bly Bi \Atl Refining
She Aviation Corp
Barnsdall Oil
Bendix Avia
Chrysler Corp
Aig
Col & South
Uy Sly
Column & Elec
Coml Solvents
Comwith & South
la Consol Oil
Pitleka E'S
Oil del Veeee
Goodrich (Bf
Goodyear T & R
Gt Nor Ir Ore Ct
Gt North Rypwd
Hood-Hershey B
Houston Oil
Pathe
Ti Howe Sound
Hudson Motor
Fly Hupp Motor
la Lia
Int Harvester
Hydro-Elec A
Tel & Tel Vetee
Johns-Manville
Kennecott Corp
Loews Inc
Lorillard (P
Marshall Field
Mid Contret
Texas
la Montgom Ward Ae
Nash-Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow & Lt
N Y Central
North Amer Co
North Pacific
Ohio Oil
Eeeees
Aly
Pac Gas & Elec
Packard Motor
Pan-Amer Airways
Panhandle P & R
Penney
J C
Penn RR Acceees
Petrol Corp Tee Ebrgly
Repab Steel Eevee
Seaboard Oil East
Sears Roebuck
Server Inc TN
Trues
Shell Union Oil
Simmons Co
Socony-Vacuum
South Pac Seeeve
Southern Ry
Cal
Stand Oil Ind
Stewart-Warn Stone & Webster
Bla
Il Studebaker Corp
Texas & Pac Ry
Texas Corps
Tex Gulf Prod
United Corp
United Gas Impat
U S Rubberies of
U S Steel Seatace
Warner Bros Pict
West UN Tel
West el & Migni
Amarillo
Eleventh Avenue
Buchanan Street
Eighth Avenue
Johnson Street
Polish Refugees and Diplomatic Maneuvers Amid Polish German Tensions
Polish officials prepared to leave for Paris as Marshal Smigly-Rydz delayed arrival. U S ambassador Drexel Biddle traveled to Bucharest while American reporters in Lviv were last heard from. Moscicki protested German bombings of open towns to President Roosevelt as Romania massed troops on the border. Refugees crossed into neutral Romania as the Zaleszczyzki bridge was destroyed and a misdirected bomb struck a Romanian village, killing and wounding civilians.
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Thorities
Paris
Edward Smigly-Rydz
United States
Poland
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Bucharest
William Morton
Consular Service
Richard Mowrer
Chicago Daily News
Zaleszeyski
Moscicki
Beck
Romania
Franklin Mott ‘Gunther
U. S
Roosevelt
Zaleszczyzki
Dniester
Wignitz
Amarillo Army Recruiting Quota Expanded
The Amarillo Army recruiting station reports a new air corps enlistment quota for March Field. Eligible applicants need a high school education and should contact Sergeant R. A. Jackson at the local recruiting office. Recent enlistments include four in the medical department at Fort Bliss and one in the ordnance department in Hawaii. Enos L. Thompson of Borger is enlisting for Hawaii, while Carl Hester of Lamesa and Edmund R Gable Jr., Delton W. Smith, and Willie W. Jones of Claude join the First Medical Squadron at Fort Bliss.
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Amarillo
United States Army
Air Corps
March Field
California
R. A. Jackson
Army
Medical
Fort Bliss
Tex
Ordnance Department
Hawaii
Enos L. Thompson
Borger
Carl Hester
Lamesa
Edmund R Gable, Jr
Delton W. Smith
Willie W. Jones
Claude
U S Military Attache Escapes Soviet Capture
Budapest report says Maj William H Colbern U S military attache in Poland was overtaken by Soviet troops at Kolomyja near the Romanian frontier. His Polish chauffeur posed as a German and reached the frontier. Colbern had been in Poland as a military observer.
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Budapest
Hungarian Telegraph Agency
William H. Colbern
U. S
Poland
Kolomyja
Colbern
Rescue of Kafiristan crew under sea air clash mystery
Capt H A Pederson reported on American Farmer radio that the British steamer Kafiristan, torpedoed 5913 tons, sank 400 miles off the Irish coast. The U boat fired rockets and blinkers to guide lifeboats while a British plane bombed the submarine and then departed leaving white smoke. Six men are missing, and survivors praised the U boat commander for humane treatment and offer to tow toward Ireland.
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Tle
H. A. Pederson
U.S
Farmer
Pederson
Autry, 71, Dies in Snyder, Mrs. Duke’s Father
G. L. Autry died at his Snyder home after a long farming life. Funeral services were held in Ira, Curry County, where he and his wife settled 49 years ago. Survived by widow Mrs. L. Y. Duke Amarillo, two sons, three daughters, and three brothers.
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G. L. Autry
Night Temperature Ties Season Low Amid Warm Today
Night temperature fell to 55 degrees marking the season low, matching the previous night. Today reached 88 as the forecast calls for fair and warmer weather. a 59 degree low is expected tonight. Showers touched Colorado Kansas Oklahoma and New Mexico over the weekend. Mr Collman remains in Colorado on vacation and will visit Denver and the weather bureau this week.
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Newell
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Collman
Denver
Weather Bureau
Calf That Won’t Win Prize Found in Pasture Near Canyon
A Jersey calf deemed not prize worthy was found in a pasture about five miles south of Canyon. Sgt. R H Kelley of the highway patrol located the crippled calf in the road yesterday after a suspected fall from a trailer or contact with a vehicle. He moved the calf over a fence on the south side of the highway.
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Canyon
R. H. Kelley
Highway Patrol
Ant Invasion Drives Mrs Mauldin From Amarillo Home
A swarm of small brown ants and black flying ants besieged Mrs. E. B. Mauldin at 1519 East Eighth Avenue Amarillo this morning. She flooded the doorway with a garden hose to keep them from entering the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Mauldin
East
Eighth Avenue
Freighter Held Up in Beaumont Over Crew Demands
The Yugoslav freighter Boka remained in port at Beaumont as crew members demanded a bonus and war risk insurance. The ship was carrying scrap iron believed bound for England.
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Beaumont
Boka
England
Battey Boy Resting Well After Well Rescue
Eight year old Battey Battey son of Mr and Mrs Galen Battey remained at St Anthony's Hospital after suffering a fractured skull and severe scalp wounds from a fall into an abandoned well on the J J Currie Ranch about 20 miles southeast of Amarillo yesterday. He fell eighty feet before finally gripping a knotted tarpaulin on the third try and was pulled from the water filled bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradford Battey
Galen Battey
St. Anthony's Hospital
J. J. Currie
Amarillo
Germany Seeks Withdrawal of $73 Million Bond Issue
The German government asked today for withdrawal of a registration statement for 73 million dollars in funding bonds. The SEC opened a hearing to decide if Germany may issue the bonds after securities officials questioned the offering. A telegram from Hans Borchers cited the state of war in Europe as the reason for withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Securities Commission
SEC
Germany
Hans Borchers
New York
Europe
Japanese goodwill fliers depart for Miami
Seven Japanese goodwill fliers representing Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi took off for Miami today. The mission aims to foster international understanding and cultural exchange through aviation diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Osaka Mainichi
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Miami
Fla
Capper vows to oppose neutrality act changes
Kansas Senator Arthur Capper pledged on a state radio broadcast to vote against any changes to the neutrality laws when Congress meets in special session. He said both France and Britain want the United States in the war and he will oppose amending the act or repealing the embargo to keep the nation out of the conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
U.P
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Washington
Hedrick Jr Pleads Guilty Seeks Suspended Term
H. B. Hedrick Jr faced a 47th district court trial on car theft charges. He pleaded guilty before a jury and asked for a suspended sentence. Police detained him in Oklahoma hours after a car theft from H. B. Burnett of Pampa. The vehicle was stolen in Amarillo and recovered when the 18 year old suspect was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Hedrick, Jr
47Th District Court
Hedrick
Oklahoma
H. B. Burnett
Pampa
Amarillo
Russell Clark Hurt in Car and Cycle Wreck Doing Well
Russell Clark suffered a broken leg in a motorcycle automobile collision at Sixth Avenue and Fillmore Street late last night and is reported doing all right today at St. Anthony's Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Clark
Sixth Avenue
Fillmore Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
Polish Warplanes Interned After Landing in Latvia
More than 60 Polish warplanes, many damaged, were confiscated at Daugavpils airport as crews were interned. Polish citizens and officials began crossing the border last night, with a small number of soldiers also moving across.
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Riga
Latvia
Daugavplis
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Acousticon Institute
Wm. A. Cheshire
Chicago
White Motor
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Woolworth
Kansas City
U.A
Colorado Fed
Naijlng
Ane
Maytag Furniture Store
Taylor Street
Amarillo, Texas
MacKenzie
ORC
Ase
Au Lea
Battey Boy
Perg
Act
del Monte
Maxwell House
Schilling
Pei
Atc
Peppers, Pei Lk
Globe
Asia
H. B. Hedrick, Jr
Penne
Warsaw
Josef Starzynski
London
Unniogh Boers
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