Neutrality Act Modification Urged by Hull
City budget hearing features two groups pushing for changes. Potter County Taxpayers Association seeks over $51,000 in reductions including library cuts. Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs requests at least $1,650 more for library. Budget total $808,870.15 with general and debt service funds. Austin Hancock, new budget officer, attends from Kerrville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwood Blasdel
Potter County Taxpayers’ Association
Chad Elliott
Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs
Bob Epperson
Taxpayers’ Group
League
Joe Jenkins
Washington
Oscar Hargett
Austin P. Hancock
Kerrville
Hancock
Charles Holt
Oscar Randal
S. B. Whittenburg
W. R. Stubbs
Commissioner Epperson
Mr. Stubbs
F. M. Lefforge
Epperson
Wade Brymer
Stubbs
Hargett
J. M. Barker
Perry Burks
Nine-Cent School Tax Increase Planned Tonight
The school board will meet at 7 PM in the superintendent’s office to set the 1941-1942 tax rate. A nine-cent rise would bring the public schools levy to 96 cents, with tentative assessing figures near 61.75 million dollars compared with 59 million last year. The budget for public schools and the college was approved August 20 and the rate calculation simply allocates current tax funds to the planned expenditures.
Tax rate changes for Amarillo schools and state bills rise
The text details tax rate shifts for maintenance and sinking funds affecting Amarillo College and public schools, noting totals for maintenance and sinking funds, expected collections, and a 1942 43 impact. It also covers broader political actions on neutrality acts, and grim wartime notes including a Nebraska prison death and a report on fast rifleing tools and Italian naval raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo College
Rail Costs Sliced in Texas Freight Rate Decision
The Texas Railroad Commission announced that railroads agreed to a commission order cancelling intrastate differential freight rates in Texas and that injunctions against the order would be dismissed. Shippers could save about 1 million dollars yearly, with $900,000 held in a special fund under dispute.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas
Olin Culberson
Jerry Sadler
Attorney General's Department
Travis County
Sadler
Culberson
Explosion Injures Many at English Factory
The British Press Association reports many people injured in an explosion at a factory in northwestern England this afternoon.
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London
British Press Association
England
Paris Morale Shaken After Nazi Hostages and Officer Killings
In occupied Paris Captain Scheben was buried at Madeleine Church after a cowardly attack that killed him last Tuesday. The deaths of a non commissioned officer and twelve hostages followed as reprisals mounted, with German envoys and military leaders present at the funeral. Marshal Petain urged quiet as fears of further Nazi reprisals rose and restraint from sabotage clashes was urged to prevent wider turmoil.
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Ficer
Scheben
Madeleine Church
Paris
Otto Abetz
Fernand de Brinon
France
Marshal Petain
Germany
Axis moves in Bulgaria tied to Turkey pressure and Ukraine war
Reports note martial law in Bulgaria during the weekend amid war preparations and rumors of a German plan to leverage Bulgaria against Turkey. Russian and Allied sources describe heavy German losses in Ukraine and counterattacks by Soviet forces along the central and Baltic fronts, with strikes in the Black Sea and Gulf of Finland and claims of large Russian captures east of Kiev.
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Bulgaria
Turkey
Ukraine
Ankara
Germany
Sofia
United Press
Red
Black Sea
Odessa
Kiev
Leningrad
Istanbul
Gulf of Finland
Arensburg
Osel
Kronstadt
Kirov
Luftwaffe
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Cloudy with showers this afternoon and tonight in Amarillo area. Tuesday brings more showers and cooler temperatures. West Texas saw heavy rain in central and southwestern areas with showers in Panhandle this afternoon and tonight. Cooler conditions in north portions tonight and Tuesday. New Mexico also cloudy with rain tonight and Tuesday. Continuous heavy rain favored on east slopes of central mountains today and this evening. Temperature ranged 61 to 72. Precipitation 0.01 inch in 24 hours ending noon today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
Texas
New Mexico
Dentist Lets Patients Decide
Dr Earl A Woods of Indianapolis proposes a patient controlled electric drill switch to reduce pain during dental work. He says letting patients stop the drill at will lowers fear and anxiety, citing the psychological effect.
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Indianapolis
Earl A. Woods
Man foils break-in at tavern with help from accomplice
Harley Underwood, 35, heard an attempted break in at his Indianapolis tavern and home. He struck the intruder with a hammer, then pulled him inside before realizing an outside partner held the prowler's legs in a tug of war. The pair fled as the fight ended.
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Indianapolis
Harley Underwood
Underwood
Submarines Sink Two Italian Liners in Sept Raid
The admiralty reported that British submarines sank two large Italian liners in a raid on September 18. A third liner in the Mediterranean convoy was damaged. All three were believed to be Vulcania class vessels of 24,469 tons. Myron C. Taylor left Rome for the United States as Roosevelt’s envoy to the Vatican.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
British Isles
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Hull
Roosevelt
United States
London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
U. S
Vatican City
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
Rome
Weather turns cool after rain in West Texas area
Rain and showers sweep Central and Southwestern West Texas today and tomorrow with a warm high around 72 and a low near 48 tonight. Tomorrow brings cooler conditions and additional showers across the region. King George II of Greece arrives at a northern British port in an official announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Winburn
West Texas
London
George II of
Greece
Roswell Flood Threat From Heavy Rains Intensifies
Torrential rains across Eastern New Mexico flood Roswell threatening the city and wash out bridges from Carlsbad to Artesia. Dozens missing after 22 foot and 33 foot flood events with high water on the Pecos and Hondo rivers. Authorities fear many may be lost as rail lines and highways collapse under rising waters.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Roswell
Carlsbad
Alamogordo Dam
Pecos
Hondo
Alamogordo
Honda
Weather Bureau
Texas
Artesia
el Paso
Amarillo
Stratford
Santa Fe
Boise City
J. B. Bris Xe
Cimarron
Castenada
Mesilla Park
Southern Pacific
Sierra Blanca
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Nebr
Y.p
Harold Malmberg
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Russell Goodwin
Genoa
Des Moines
Iowa
Neil Olson
Malmberg
Goodwin
Olson
Hudson
Mass
la Pointe Machine Tool Co
Army Ordnance Department
Crete
Malta
Italy
Exchange
Goteborg
Sweden
Britain
Bergen
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Reds
Bern
Switzerland
Russia
Cially
Kharkov
Crimea
Sea of Azov
Red Army
Boston
Camp Edwards
NV Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Accomplice
Newby’s
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