Mayors Hear London War Accounts and Airport Bill Details
Mayor Ross Rogers returned from the United States Conference of Mayors in New York where the London bombing, British morale, and American sympathy were discussed. Robert H. Hinckley outlined a pending civil airport development bill seeking 80 million dollars for land and facilities with federal funding for construction guiding the program. The bill would designate Washington as the sole planner and deny federal aid to privately owned airports.
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London
William G. Coxen
Ross Rogers
United States Conference of Mayors
New York
Rogers
Great Britain
Nazi Germany
British Isles
LaGuardia
Alantic
Robert H. Hinckley
United States
Hinckley
Washington
Backache and leg pains warn of kidney trouble
Warns that backache, leg pains, and other symptoms may signal kidney or bladder problems. Advises Doan’s Pills for relief after flushing wastes from the blood, noting long use and widespread familiarity.
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Nature
Dean
Doan
Frost Announces Buick Service School
William Frost announced a Buick Service School to be held Thursday and Friday at the Amarillo Hotel. Buick dealers and service managers from the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles will attend with instruction by O Hamilton and O K Daniels from the Oklahoma City zone and guest instructors C W Jacobs of Flint Michigan and Mr Lachner from Buick Corporation. The school targets instruction for servicing the 1941 Buick model.
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Buick
Amarillo Hotel
William Frost
Amarillo
Buick Smrts
Texas and
Oklahoma Panhandies
Or. Hamilton
Oklahoma City
O. K. Daniels
C. W. Jacobs
Flint, Mich
Buick Motor Division
Lachner
Buick Corporation
Mattson Boy Sees Accused Kidnapper Muhlenbroich
Federal agents in San Francisco confronted Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich with William Mattson of Tacoma Washington who four years ago saw his younger brother carried away to be killed by a kidnapper. Mattson, 20, was brought from Seattle to view the suspect at the FBI office and declined comment on identification pending FBI approval.
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San Francisco
U.P
Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich
Marc de Tristan, Jr
William Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Mattson
Seattle
Muhlenbroich
FBI
Fifteen Individuals Naturalized in Federal Court
Fifteen persons, including several Germans who lived in Russia before emigrating, became US citizens in a federal court session at 2 pm. El Paso naturalization examiner H B Read noted a surge in applications, with reports across offices signaling a major naturalization spree. Two of the new citizens previously held Swiss citizenship.
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Russia
United States
H. B. Read
el Paso
Switzerland
Maurice Adkins Brought Back Home in Amarillo
Maurice Adkins, Amarillo attorney, who was taken ill about two weeks ago at Corpus Christi, has returned home. His condition is reported much better and he withstood the trip well, returning to the city last night.
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Maurice Adkins
Amarillo
Corpus Christi
Rug Accident Harms Jive Dancer in Seattle
In Seattle on September 24 Howard Jensen aged 24 slipped on a rug during a dance with his wife and fell through a window, injuring his shoulder and sending him to a hospital.
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Seattle
Howard Jensen
Remember cut off the lights in the post office building
A government sign urges conserve energy while in a federal courtroom only half the lights work. A Texas State Employment Service representative saw a store window ad reading Farm hand wants a job, learned no agency job service existed in the Panhandle, and placed the man's name on the employment rolls as eligible.
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Federal Court Room
Texas State Employment Service
Panhandle
Spanish Night Class Offered at Amarillo College
Dr J F Mead president of Amarillo College announces night Spanish classes taught by Miss Wyssleta Nuss for Farm Security Administration employees and others. Courses available for credit or non credit at regular tuition with potential French and Public Speaking night courses if demand justifies. Interested students should contact the Registrar promptly.
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Amarillo College
J. F. Mead
Wyssleta Nuss
Farm Security Administration Emsploves
Mead
Realtors Discuss Their Problems
A round table of Amarillo Real Estate Board members explored problems facing realtors at today’s noon luncheon. They discussed standard forms for real estate transactions and formed committees to create universally acceptable printed templates. The group urged a standard Rental Agreement to clarify rights for tenants and owners to curb disputes. Hugo H. Loewenstern, the president, was authorized to send a letter to the district’s new U S representative opposing the Housing Authority slum clearance program as currently operated.
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Amarillo Real Estate Board
Hugo H. Loewenstern
Washington
U. S. Housing Authority
Billie Enrolled With Boy Roommate for HER
Goldsboro North Carolina September 24 A Goldsboro girl named Billie applied by mail for entry to a state co-educational school. The registrar said they enrolled her and assigned a room in the YMCA building with a young man as roommate. Billie then called to say she preferred a room in the girls dormitory.
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Goldsboro
N. C
U.P
Billie
Burglars Ransack Phillips Station On Polk Street
Burglars tore through the Phillips station at Eighteenth Avenue and Polk Street last night by breaking a window but nothing was stolen. Police reported the station was found in disarray this morning with no thefts recorded.
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Phillips
Eighteenth Avenue
Polk Street
Corcoran resigns to back independent voters for FDR
Thomas G. Corcoran of the New Deal inner circle resigns from government posts to campaign for a third Roosevelt term via the National Committee of independent voters. Alfred P. Sloan Jr of General Motors says Willkie’s election would renew economic confidence. Paderewski leaves Switzerland with sister and secretary for a prolonged U.S. residency at age 80.
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Washington
Thomas G. Corcoran
National Committee of Independent Voters
Roosevelt
Favors Willkie
Pittsburgh
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Wendell L. Willkie
Micro Aluminumware Guides Smart Kitchen Utensil Picks
A feature on choosing cooking utensils highlights Micro Aluminumware as a standard of utility. It praises smooth inside surfaces free of rivet heads, riveted rims that prevent drips, and a built in strainer in Mirra’s covered pan with a hinged lid. The piece emphasizes details Mirra refined through experience to aid capable cooking.
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Mirra
Texas Wages Rise Slightly in August
Texas labor markets held steady in August as wages rose about one percent from July. Payrolls increased 4.3 percent year over year, and the number of employed workers grew 2.2 percent, per the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research report.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Illinois National Guard Unit Passes Through Amarillo
The 202nd Coast Artillery of the Illinois National Guard with 1,497 men and officers travels in 80 to 90 trucks and will not stop longer than a few moments in Amarillo before continuing to Fort Bliss near El Paso.
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202Nd Coast Artillery
Illinois National Guard
Amarillo
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Twenty Marines Enlisted in Amarillo
The marine corps recruiting office reports enlisting 20 men this month. Recruits from Amarillo include Kenneth Be Wright and John B. Garrison, with George S. Barnes of Hale Center and Dorsett B. Trotter of Lubbock among others.
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Marine Corps Recruiting Office
Kenneth BE
Wright
John B. Garrison
Amarillo
George S. Barnes
Hale Center
Dorsett B. Trotter
Lubbock
Roosevelt forms national defense communications board
President Roosevelt announced the creation of a national defense communications board to coordinate planning for radio wire and cable use in national emergencies. Henry A. Wallace spoke of moving toward individualism and reducing group selfishness to serve the general welfare.
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Washington
U.pi
Roosevelt
National Defense Communications Board
ST. Louis
Henry A. Wallace
Norton Receives Suspended Sentence for Drunken Driving
A jury in 47th district court convicted W. L. Norton of Amarillo of drunken driving and imposed a one year suspended prison sentence.
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W. L. Norton
Amarillo
Letters Seeking Companionship Jobs and Missing Coat Notice
A set of personal requests and notices appears from a newspaper page. Entries include a 50 to 60 year old woman seeking a friendly companion, a plea for a pink topper coat lost near Horace Mann School with a reward, a middle aged woman seeking work in a rooming or boarding house, a widow seeking nearby paid work to support her child, a nurse offering services and references, and a colored girl seeking morning housework. Each item provides contact details or dial numbers.
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Horace Mann School
Tack
Markets Dow Jones Stocks and Livestock Report
Markets report from Kansas City notes preliminary Dow Jones averages and sector moves with railroads and utilities showing minor shifts. USDA livestock figures indicate hogs with salable and total around 4,000 head in the Kansas City market region.
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Kansas City
USDA
Amarillo Chamber Manager Seeks Federal Airport Funds
Carl Hinton Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager left for Washington to push national defense program support for hard surfaced runways at English Field. He urged placing Amarillo at the top of the list for federal funds after meeting with Major McMullen of the CAA.
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Amarillo
Carl Hinton
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Hinton
English Field
Major McMullen
CAA
American Legion Parades Through Historic Boston
The American Legion marched through Boston before hundreds of thousands as bands played and banners waved on a two and a quarter mile route past landmarks of U.S. history. artillery boomed to start the parade as Legionnaires from across the nation, led by police escorts and armed services detail, reviewed before Governor Leverett Saltonstall under the gold dome of the state capitol.
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Boston
American Legion
Boston Common
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
State Capitol
Religion in Army Becomes Mechanized
The War Department announced that division chaplains will receive a 1% ton delivery truck and a mobile public address system mounted on a trailer. The system will serve outdoor gatherings for about 2,000 people and mobile chapels will include desks typewriter filing cabinets field safe portable altar pulpit mass kits communion elements prayer books Bibles rosaries and medals plus chaplain's flag and tentage.
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Washington
War Department
One Sixth of German Merchant Shipping Sunk Says Minister
London reports shipping minister Ronald Cross stating that about one sixth and more probably one fifth of German merchant ships have been sunk or captured since the war began. A further sixth are sheltering in neutral ports while remaining German vessels at sea are filtering into hiding or coastal sorties.
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London
Ronald Cross
Market Report Cattle and Sheep Prices and Demand
Active uneven trading with top cattle figures 6.30 and 5.75 in places. Calves salable 6,500 total. beef steers and yearlings slow but steady. Sheep market steady with Colorado and Texas lots noted. spring lambs scarce. Financial Security Fund shows liquidation price 1,5547 and offering price 1.71.
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Texas
Financial Security Fund
Fierce air battles over a southeast England town
Weathered observers say fifty German planes attacked in waves over the town this afternoon as British Hurricane fighters engaged. London reports British bombers hit two enemy mine sweepers in the Channel and damaged another. Berlin acknowledges British air raids damaged a gas works interrupted an interurban line and struck factories in the early hours.
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England
London
English Channel
Air Ministry
Berlin
Roosevelt Wins Independent Backing For Third Term
President Roosevelt accepted support from a national committee of independent voters led by Senator George Norris and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. He said democracy's principles are at stake as he pursues a third term during a White House meeting after an organizing session in Norris's office.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Committee of Independent Voters
George Norris
Ind
F. H. LaGuardia
New York
White House
Norris
Seven More Recruits Enlist in Amarillo
The Amarillo army recruiting station reports seven men enlisting, with units including Signal Corps at Fort Bliss Elvin V. Vestal of Altus Oklahoma and Jack Fowler of Fritch. Infantry at Fort Sam Houston Eldon W. Garrison of Perryton and Albright E. Ferrell of Pampa. Field Artillery at Fort Sill Durwood A. Nix and Theodore V. Lummus with Archie R. Brown, all of Shamrock.
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Army
Amarillo
Signal Corps
Fort Bliss
Elvin V. Vestal
Altus
Oklo
Jack Fowler
Fritch
Infantry
Fort Sam Houston-Eldon
City Issues Two Building Permits for Homes and Quarters
Building permits issued at city hall authorize a $1000 servants' quarters and garage at St. Mary's Academy and a $4250 six room house at 917 Fannin Street. The residential permit goes to Fred M. Seale.
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City Hall
St. Mary's Academy
Fannin Street
Fred M. Seale
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