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...Daniel used to plug sales of "Light Crust Flour" with a "hillbilly band" over a Texas network. A persuasive announcer and able musician, Salesman O'Daniel popularized not only his company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed...
...sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into the warehouse, it flamed in world headlines as "The Chinese Alamo...
...Shed your last drop of blood, fulfilling your sacred duty for the glory of the Chinese race, the Chinese Republic and the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" ordered General Sun in a message to the defenders of the Chinese Alamo. "I and your comrades salute you! Although, in accordance with orders, I have led my other men to new defense lines my spirit and my heart are with you in Chapei...
...might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported...
...Colorado, (Tex.) Weekly Record appeared the, following advertisement: "FOR RENT-Notwithstanding we have not tolerated drunks, gambling, nor lewd women since July, 1935, and it is easy to verify that statement, there are people who tell newcomers that the Alamo Hotel is not a suitable place to occupy with their families on that account. That is part of our punishment for tolerating such for the few years we did so. See our apartments and get rates...