Tri State Fair Attendance Up After Rain Lifts
Opening day rain gives way to improved crowds as over 3 000 people pass the gates by noon. Delegations from Phillips Stinnett and Canadian join the lively scene while plans for a JCs blimp flyover honor Captain C E Rosendahl of the U S Navy unfold.
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Tri-State Fair
Exposition Grounds
Ted Taylor
Phillips
Stinnett
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Hering Hotel
C. E. Rosendall
United States Navy
Reed Promoted as Brownsville Theater Manager
Albert Reed, after 13 months as State Theater manager in Amarillo, is promoted to Brownsville city manager. Dave Yates becomes Capitol manager in Amarillo, Edward Gilbert moves to the Capitol, and Reed departs for Brownsville with a three year old daughter and wife. The changes mark the longest cluster of transfers in Interstate Theater history.
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Amarillo
William O'Donnell
Albert Reed
Brownsville
Valley
Jack King
Harlingen
King
Reed
Daveates
Interstate
Capitol
Yates
Edward
Mike) Gilbert
Gilbert
Wichita Falls
Majestic Theater
Mr. O'Donnell
Junior Chamber of Commerce
The
Lions Club
Stevenson Seeks Grounding as Bomber Base Talk Opens
Texas Governor Coke Stevenson arrived in Washington to push for greater state participation in defense programs and to urge consideration of an Amarillo area bomber base. He planned meetings with President Roosevelt and Speaker Rayburn, and he hoped to see the White House later in the day.
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Washington
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Ecawhar
Enteresa
W. Lee O'Daniel
United States
Union Station
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
Rayburn
Stevenson
Amarillo
Capitol
O’daniel
Capitol Lawn
House
S. E. Bartley
Bonham
Joe Montague
Fort Worth
Texas Cattle Raisers Association
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas region
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. Little temperature change expected. In New Mexico expect generally fair weather with cloudiness and some showers along the southern border. Temperature extremes show a 24 hour window from 56 to 59 degrees, with noon reading at 66. A playful note adds a sandwich tip with a can of Prager.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Jane Arden heads to Amarillo in airmail adventure
Globe readers will catch up on Jane Arden’s ad ventures by the weekend as the strip moves toward Amarillo via airmail. The fragmented note suggests the week’s installment was misplaced between papers.
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Register
Tribune
Iowa
Globe
Jane Arden
Jane
Amarillo
Actor Gary Cooper Bitten by Hornets While Filming
Hollywood reports Gary Cooper endured 16 hornet bites as he left medical orders to work in the field. He wore a top hat and formal dress while going after doves on location, stepping on a hornet nest and being stung at his ankles and side.
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Boston
Robert Bartley
Senator O'Daniel
D. R. Potter
Rayburn
Texas
Hollywood
U.P
Gary Cooper
Cooper
New Taxes Take Effect Tonight Amid Broad Increases
The Rev enue Act of 1941 imposes taxes on groceries clothing and many services starting at midnight. Floor stock taxes apply to tires liquor furs jewelry and toilet preparations. Admissions telephones clubs and sporting goods face new rates. Merchants warn against tax profiteering as buyers rush to stock up before Oct 1.
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Paul Timmons
Hess on Hunger Strike and Return to Germany
The Star reports Hess, confined near London, insists as an envoy he should be allowed to go home to Germany at once. Britain presents a brighter eastern front picture, while German sources dispute Allied shipping losses as Churchill warns of future sacrifices and a riskier, more costly war in the east.
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Hitler
Britain
North Africa
Suez Canal
Churchill
Luftwaffe
Radio
Moscow
Adriatic
Europe
Leningrad
London
Russia
Berlin
Ukraine
The
Star
Hess
Germany
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Great Britain Today
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Ress
Red Army
United States
East
Rome
RAF destroys or damages 64 Italian aircraft in Palermo raid
The Royal Air Force reported that 64 Italian aircraft were destroyed or damaged in a large daylight attack on Palermo Sicily. The raid aimed to cripple air power in Sicily as Allied forces press operations in Italy.
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Mediterranean
Cairo
Royal Air Force
Palermo
Sicily
Floods Raze Towns Across New Mexico and Arizona
Muddy waters from the Hondo and Gila rivers flood southern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Roswell and Pecos endure four to five feet of water and widespread inundation as crests from recent rainclouds move through the region. Two deaths are reported in Arizona as the Gila floods reach communities in its path.
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Aubuquerque
N. M
Hondo
Gila
New Mexico
Arizona
Pecos
Roswell
Duncan
Virden
West Texas
Highway Department
Texas and Pacific
Barstow
Here
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Rosendahl
TWA
Chambers of Commerce
Fair Reception Committee
U. S. Helum
C. W. Seibel
Siebel
George Blandson
Herum
Sam Page
Bruce Autry
George Hammock
Ji Ferguson
Illinois
Cleburne
U. S. Naval Academy
Beckman & Gerety
Uncle Sam
Fairgrounds
Fair
White Deer
Groom
Grover
Higgins
Spearman
Memphis
Claude
Dumas
Dalhart
Panhandle
Floydada
Lockney
West Texas College
Canyon
Charles E. Rosendahl
Old Settlers’ Association
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
al Reed
Cleveland
National Bronze and Aluminum Company
Dan
George Brent
Brent
Ann Sheri
National Venetians
Dwight Newby
Internal Revenue
L. P. Herndon
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Revenue Code
Russell Stationery Company
Admiralty
Nelson
Little Hondo
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