Baker Saulsbury Enters Race For Railroad Commissioner
Amarillo candidate Baker Saulsbury announces bid for the Texas State Railroad Commission. He advocates state laws and regulatory bodies alongside federal wartime rules to regulate motor transportation and petroleum, calling for practical experience, honesty, and opposition to selfish pressure during the war.
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Baker Saulsbury
State Railroad Commission
Amarillo
Office of
Petroleum Coordinator
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America
Texas Railroad
Texas
Texas railroad commissioner bid announced by former candidate
A Texas candidate declares another run for railroad commissioner two years after a prior bid. He emphasizes running on merit, familiarity with duties, and pledges to govern without fear or favor if elected, noting broad support from across the state.
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Texas
Count Takes Poison Leaves Note for FBI at Gravesite
Count Odin Deschräch, 50, an Austrian native, killed himself by poison at the Durant cemetery grave of his wife. A note directed law enforcement officers to turn over his personal effects to the FBI. His body was found by Memorial Day visitors. an empty bottle and papers were in his pockets. His wife had committed suicide in Longview, Texas, last February.
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Davenport
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Odin Deschrach
Austria
Durant
J. E. Christiansen
Christiansen
FBI
Longview
Tex
Press Banned From Transcribing Debates in Argentina
Police in Buenos Aires order the press not to transcribe or comment on congressional debates or the December decree establishing the nationwide state of siege. Newspapers may print only summaries of debates and outcomes. Opposition in Congress vows to oppose the siege and challenge foreign policies of Acting President Ramon S. Castillo. Retail cooperative sales in Britain reached about $1.2 million in 1940.
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Buenos Aires
Congress
Ramon 8. Castillo
Garden tips on preventive spraying and spring planting
Garden guidance urges early preventive spraying to avoid insect and fungus damage, naming pests like Colorado beetle, leaf hoppers, striped beetle, aphids, and phicx fungus. It recommends contact insecticides, soil poisons, and sulfur fungicide, plus a note on arsenic powder and gypsum ratios for cucumber and squash vines. Texas climate allows three planting seasons with specific varieties and timing as advised by P. B. Monosmith of Texas A&M.
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Colorado
College Station
Texas
P. B. Monosmith
Texas A. & M. Collage
Beavers Wins Pantex Post in Seventh Heaven of Ambition
Virgil Beavers, longtime Amarillo police identifications chief, has become head of identification and records for Certain-Teed Company at Pantex. He previously built West Texas’ most complete police records system and designed a compact high speed camera setup for facial photographs with adjustable height and dual lighting.
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Virgil Beavers
Pantex Certain Teed Company
Seventh Heaven
Beavers
Amarillo
America
Police Department
West Texas
Farmers beg for market for 2,000,000 pounds onions
Fayette County farmers plea for a market under the Food for Victory drive as onions reach two million pounds unsold. Editor Charlie Boss of the Schulenburg Sticker says farmers dump two thirds of their crop and seek storage away from neighbors due to odor. Sugar factories in Russia will produce rubber between sugar seasons.
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Schulenburg
Tex
Fayette County
Charlie Boss
Russia
Army and Navy Register Sees Early Strike Predicted
The Army and Navy Register says it is logical to strike Germans and Japanese and predicts a bold near term action. It notes American missions in London imply immediate action and a second front sought by the Russians. The piece adds German and Japanese fronts strain and civil populations in occupied nations growing hostile.
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Washington
U.P
Army and Navy Register
London
Harbors Congress Split Over St. Lawrence Project
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress divided on the St. Lawrence seaway and power project. It adjourned without a record vote after a heated dispute over whether the body could take an official position. the resolutions committee had expressly disapproved the plan in its report.
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Chicago
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
St. Lawrence Seaway
Resolutions Committee
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