Classified Ads and Trade References Before the War
A collage of ads notes imports, electrical appliances for sale or repair, boat motors and trailers, a Wagon Wheel Cafe refrigerator, two bedroom suites, an Electrolux vacuum, goats for sale, and a furnished T room house offering $3.50 shower access. Local numbers and addresses appear with each item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Oklahoma City
Meee
Johnson Motor
Mullins
Wagon Wheel Cafe
Electrolux
S. E. Third
North West Ath
Amusement Listings Across Theaters With Star Casts
The calendar lists Paramount with And the Angels Sing starring Jothy Lamour Betty Hutton and Fred MacMurray. Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid. Four Jills in a Jeep. Jive Junction. Mr Smith Goes to Washington. The Fighting Seabees. Desert Song filmed in Technicolor. The Human Comedy. So's Your Uncle. The Magnificent Ambersons. Son of Dracula. Thundering Frontier. Commandos Strike at Dawn. OLD TASCOSA nightly shows with Dick Morton and his orchestra. Rainbow Gardens Plains men Moon. Mexican Inn seven nights. Mayfair nightly. NAT nightly except Sunday with Fritz Cowan. Aviatrix nightly. Avalon Club nightly Roy Garcia orchestra.
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Paramount
Jothy Lamour
Betty Hutton
Fred MacMurray
France
State
Henry Aldrich
Cupid
Jimmy Lydon
Diana Lynn
Teak
Aldrich
Capitol
Four Jills
Carole Landis
Kay Francis
Martha Raye
Mitzi Mayfair
Hollywood
Jimmy Dorsey
Irene Manning
Sigmund We Music
Victory
Mickey Rooney
Frank Morgan
James Craig
Texas
Donald Wood
Elyse Knox
Billie Burke
Worley Outlines Irrigation Plan
Rep. Gene Worley, named to the public works subcommittee of the postwar planning committee, spoke of a nationwide irrigation program and planned dam and reservoir sites in the Panhandle. He will visit locations during recess and seek swift selective service deferments for Panhandle harvest workers.
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Washington
Gene Worley
Public Works
Special House
Worley
Panhandle
Public
Selective Service
Texas Selective Service
Congress Clears Price Control For Wartime Measures
Congress approved extensions of wartime price and wage controls to June 30, 1945. The Senate and House backed a compromise to peg textile ceilings to parity with cotton, removing guarantees of costs plus a profit to mills. The bill now goes to President Roosevelt for signature.
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Washington
Congress
White House
House
Senate
Conference Committee
Office of Price Administration
E House
Roosevelt
Senate House Conference Committee
Senator Bankhead
Alabama
Bankhead
Japan Loses 287 Warships
Japanese ship losses figures are listed with totals for warships 287 and non combatant ships 704. Allied communiques note 1527 total Japanese ships sunk, plus U S Navy losses across theaters. Also reports Senate action boosting infantry pay and confirmation of Ralph Bard as under secretary of the Navy.
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Washington
Navy
Army
U. S. Navy
Coast Guard
Neighbors Help Farm Involves 300 Acres After Upchurch Injury
J P Upchurch suffered a severe burn and neck fractures from a 13 200 volt line on the Canyon highway farm near Amarillo. Neighbors from Zita and Lakeside areas, including the Western Avenue Home Demonstration Club, worked about 300 acres, summer fallowing and planting, while providing meals for the crews. Upchurch remains in critical condition with some improvement reported from Amarillo General Hospital.
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Zita
Lakeside
J. P. Upchurch
Canyon Highway
Amarillo
Western Avenue Home Demonstration Club
Upchurch
Amarillo General Hospital
H. R. Fulton
Harley Burris
Wilson Campbell
Bailey McCormick
Ralph Ruthart
M. H. Rockwell
Albert Byers
Elmo Morton
Frank Gruener
Forrest Gruener
Dick Elliott
Harman Vaughn
Dennis Burrus
Ray Slagle
Russell Penrod
George Ross
Ray Minner
Sid Carter
J.C. Arden
Marion Bruce
Soviets Claim 7.8 Million Germans Killed or Captured
The Soviet Information Bureau on its third anniversary of the German invasion reports that over 7.8 million Germans have been killed or captured in three years of fighting. Soviet losses total about 5.3 million, with substantial tank and aircraft losses on both sides. Allies aided with resources and strategic bombing. The report notes Soviet advances, liberation of occupied areas, and predicts German defeat, while praising Allied unity and the Northern France invasion and Italian push.
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London
Soviet Information Bureau
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Monitor
Information Bureau
Great Teuth
Romania
Red Army
United States of America
Great Britain
Germany
Stalingrad
France
Italy
Britain
Morgenthau warns Germany may offer surrender before invasion
Secretary Morgenthau predicts Germany will attempt a pre invasion surrender bluff with a Hitler overthrow on the horizon. He warns the United Nations must demand unconditional surrender to avoid betrayal of wartime sacrifices. Dewey lauds Fifth Avenue dedication as Allies unite against aggression. King Peter of Yugoslavia visits Italy for talks with Allied command. Coast Guard records show an average of 15 lives saved daily in peacetime.
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New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Germany
Morgenthau
Fifth Avenue
Hitler
Morgenthu
Europe
United Nations
Thomas BE. Dewey
General McNarney forecasts five million overseas in forty five
Lt Gen Joseph T McNarney deputy chief of staff told the Senate appropriations panel that the United States will have five million troops overseas by year end with a high rate of mobilization through 1945 He said the army today is the greatest U S force ever mobilized well trained equipped and deployed worldwide and is on the offensive on all fronts He noted 3 698 000 soldiers are deployed outside the United States and are within 350 000 of matching the entire World War I force and the service is trying to delay infantry overseas service until age 19
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Washington
Joseph T. McNarney
McNarney
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
War Department
Europe
Pacific
United States
No immunity from war Forrestal warns on world danger
Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal told Princeton graduates that the United States must stay armed after the war and build world cooperation. He warned aggression abroad becomes aggression at home and urged a strong economy with private enterprise to sustain peace.
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Princeton
N. J
U.P
James V. Forrestal
United States
China
Poland
France
Forrestal
Princeton University
Navy
World Organization
Crop Prospects Improved Across Texas as Harvests Advance
The U S Department of Agriculture reports generally improving crop prospects for the week ending June 19 in Texas. Dry weather aided planting and cultivation in the east while harvesting of small grains hay peaches tomatoes watermelons and vegetables progressed under favorable conditions. Wheat and corn progress varied by region with sorghum yields promising as ranges and pastures remained good to excellent.
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Austin
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Plains
East
Texas
South
West Texas
Do Fish Fly or Birds Swim? Angler Finds Bird in Catfish
Holbrook Arizona angler Ralph Durner opened the stomach of a four pound catfish and found a five inch fish and a small bird intact except for a few ruffled feathers.
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Holbrook
Ariz
Ralph Durner
Slain Canadian Prisoners Reported by London Mirror
London Daily Mirror war dispatch cites 13 Canadian prisoners shot by Germans in Audrieu France. George McCarthy reports the men died clasping photos of loved ones, their bodies found in the grounds of a chateau after the village changed hands.
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London
London Daily Mirror
France
George McCarthy
Audrieu
Bayeux-Caen
Chatea
Rommel Report Relapse Sways Speculation On Front Command
A European-connected informant claimed Marshal Erwin Rommel has relapsed in health and may relinquish his invasion front command temporarily. No independent confirmation exists, with notes on his declining condition since leaving Africa last year. A separate item reports Lt. Charles Gilpin survived a shell fragment strike in a flak suit during a mission over Berlin.
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London
Erwin Rommel
France
Rommel
Africa
Charles Gilpin
Norris City
Berlin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Canada
Dick Morton
Rainbow Gardens
Plainsmen
Josh O'Neil
Rhythm Boys
Mayfair
Texas Bluebirds
NAT
Fritz Cowan
Aviatrix
Carlton Scales
Avalon Club
Roy Garcia
Japan
Bard Washington
Ralph A. Bard
Illinois
Frank Knox
Lloyd Otten
Uoking Farm
W. 12Th
Peter
Yugoslavia
Rome
Allied Supreme Command
General McNarney
Cretney
Boxwell Brot Sens
Amarillo—Dumas
Perryton—Spearman
Lyri
Tax Inc
Joesph Cotten
Dolores Costello
The
Magnificent Ambersons
Lon Chaney, Evelyn Ankers “Son OF Dracula
WED
THURS
HC Ey
Bute Burke Donia Wooobs
Byse Knox
Ta LU Er
Taartha Raye
Mitz Mayfair
Liberty
Charles Starrett
Paul Muni
India
Sainsi
America
Jeeper
James Stewart
Jean Arthur
Mr. Smith
U. S
John Wayne
Susan Howard
Dennis O'Keefe
Fighting Seabees
Dennis Morgan
Iam
Globe-News
Dixie Crea
Sen
Madsen
John D. McBride
Laa
Rainbow Cab Hamp Senton
Neals Oe
N. BE
S.S
Roy Garcia and His Orchestra
N. E. 8Th Ave
Saturda
Dorothy Lamour
Fred Mamurray
Army Signal Corps
Para
Cis
Lydon
Lyn
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