Britain Reports Record Aircraft Reserves for Battle of Britain
London reports vast stored planes in England including Liberators with 3000 mile range ready to air. Lord Beaverbrook says reserves of bombers and fighters are at historical highs, with 3200 planes a month produced and a peak not yet reached. King George VI leads empire day of prayer for Atlantic battle.
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Sunday Chronicle
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United States
Royal Air Force
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Calif
Pratt and Whitney
Italy
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Egypt
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Spring Style Show Tonight in Amarillo Misplaced Item Contest
Amarillo merchants join with the News-Globe for a Misplaced Item Contest with over 30 shops displaying spring goods. Cash prizes totaling 35 dollars go to the 12 readers submitting the best 50 to 75 word statements describing which window item is mis located and why it is the most attractive. Entries due at the News-Globe by 5 p.m. Thursday March 27. Winners announced March 30.
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Amarillo
News-Globe
News- Globe
Sunday News-Globe
Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Willkie To Attend Press Dinner
The Women's National Press Club annual April first dinner will assemble leading women including Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Willkie. Club president Helen Essary says top women officials and best selling women authors will attend. It marks the ninth time Mrs Roosevelt has faced satire of her and her husband’s administration by the newspaper women.
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Washington
U.P
National Press Club
Helen Essary
Too Little To Play Baseball Story Ends Tragic
Ronald Krause aged 10 was allowed to retrieve foul balls by older boys but was killed by a mail train near railroad tracks after chasing a foul ball. Dolores Krause, 8, watched the tragedy unfold in New York on March 23.
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New York
Ronald Krause
Dolores
Defense Roads Plan Is Drawn for Nation
Congressional leaders expect President Roosevelt to submit a 287 million defense highway program. Oklahoma Congressman Cartwright says most funds will build access roads to army training grounds powder plants and other defense sites and repair state highways damaged in maneuvers. He notes the plan is separate from regular federal aid and rejects building super highways with bonds and tolls. Regional links may be included if tied to defense needs.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Cartwright
Oklahoma
House Roads Committee
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Pennsylvania
Perryton Woman To Meet Wickard
Mrs. Curtis Roach vice president of the Texas Home Demonstration Clubs from Ochiltree County will join a Texas delegation to meet with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard in Washington on April 1. The discussion will cover a program for women's contribution to national defense.
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Curtis Roach
Texas Home Demonstration Clubs
Ochiltree County
Texas
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
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British Repulsed In Bloody Fight In Cheren Action
British forces storming Cheren in Eritrea were repulsed in heavy fighting as Axis air forces claimed 18 enemy planes shot down. Wavell’s Nile Army reportedly depleted to support Greece, while Greek front activity centered on Paramythia air attacks and air battles over Crete and Malta.
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Archibald P. Wavell
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Africa
Paramythia
Ioannina
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Malta
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Candia
Crete
Asmara
Diredawa
Ethiopia
Nazi Air Attacks Hit Malta and British Shipping
Berlin reports three raids in two days on Malta with Valletta harbor hit and British cruiser and passenger liner crippled. German bulletins claim seven Hurricanes shot down and about 19 000 tons of British ships sunk or damaged. Also says 6 000 ton freighter near Shetland damaged and a 3 000 ton freighter sunk east of Orford Ness.
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Malta
Britain
mid-Mediterranean
North Atlantic
Mediterranean
Valletta
High Command
Shetland Islands
St. George Channel
Orford Ness
Strikers and Management Return to Conference Table
The Harvill Die Casting Corp in Los Angeles and the Edgewater plant of Aluminum Company of America in New Jersey return to talks after the OPM mediated. CIO unions seek wage gains and overtime provisions while defense needs drive cooperation. Bethlehem Steel faces possible walkouts over representation plans as Chicago police prepare for McCormick works reopen.
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OPM
Harvill Die Casting Corp
Los Angeles
New Jersey
CIO
Harvill Company
Roosevelt
H. L. Harvill
Harvill
Edgewater
N. J
Aluminum Company of America
National Defense
Howard Curtiss
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem, Pa
Bethlehem Steel Company
Curtiss
Labor Board
Bethlehem
Chicago
McCormick Works
International Harvester Company
Yugoslav Cabinet Struggles Over Axis Pact Signing
In Belgrade the government failed to issue a communique as cabinet talks stretch into night and mass protests grow against any alliance with Germany. Prince Paul and top ministers delay decision while a special train to Vienna for signings remains in doubt amid throngs marching in opposition.
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Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Axis
Vienna
Prince Paul
Dragisa Cvetkovic
Alesander Cincar-Markovic
Paul
Germany
Italy
O'Daniel Urges Voter Aid To Restore Social Security Bill
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel urged Texas voters to push representatives to revive a 26.82 million dollar annual social security bill after the House defeated it. He named supporters and warned those who opposed it must answer to constituents while criticizing deficit financing and salaries of government workers.
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W. Lee O'Daniel
House
Roll of State Representatives
Soldier deaths after surf rescue ends in tragedy
Six soldiers and a naval officer die or are injured in Hawaii when Lieut. Julian H. Leggett of the West Virginia drowns after calling for help while swimming off Oahu. A rescue boat capsizes during the attempt to save him, leaving six soldiers hurt. The incident unfolds as wartime Hawaii reports a fatal drowning.
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Honolulu
Julian H. Leggett
West Virginia
Oahu
Army Air Corps
Leggett
Measles Epidemic Sweeps Parts of the Nation
The U S public health service reports a mild national measles epidemic in parts of the United States with potential to worsen. Cases appear in new army camps, though doctors doubt serious effects will follow this wave after the World War epidemic.
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Washington
U.S
United States
United States Public Health Service
Power Shortage Threat Heard
The Federal Power Commission told Congress that careful planning is needed to avoid a repeat of 1918 lightless nights as defense demand grows. It urged a vast tie up of high capacity transmission lines in the industrial east and called for stricter control of interstate pipelines. The commission also prepared safeguards for plants against sabotage and noted 1918 shortages.
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Congress
Commission
Commerce Department
Lowell J. Chawner
Texas
New York City
Man Escapes Death In Hydraulic Lift
Eldon Willard was hospitalized after being trapped under a hydraulic lift at the Jeffus DeLoach Grain Co elevator in Plainview. W M Jeffus rescued him, but Willard narrowly avoided death. he went under the lift to retrieve a wrench. Doctors say his condition is not serious.
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Plainview
Eldon Willard
Jeffus
Permit Is Requested For 3,277 Mile Gas Pipeline Plan
The Federal Power Commission reported to Congress on proposed interstate natural gas pipelines totaling 3277 miles with an investment of about 128.25 million dollars. Projects include Kansas Pipe Line and Gas from Texas Panhandle to Minnesota, Independent Natural Gas from Texas Panhandle to Milwaukee, and Reserve Gas Pipe Line from South Texas to New York City. The report warns of energy conservation concerns and urges Congressional action to broaden FPC authority, with recommendations to regulate interstate pipelines and publish industry statistics.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Congress
RFC
Texas
New Mar
Kets
Gislans
Kansas Pipe Line and Gas Company
Texas Panhandle
Hugoton Field
Kansas
Mesaba Iron Range
Minnesota
Independent Natural Gas Company
Milwaukee
Wis
Reserve Gas Pipe Line Company
South Texas
New York City
FPC
Commission
RAF Rides Down Wind To Attack Quiberon
RAF forces attacked the port of Quiberon near Lorient after a from Calais raid. The communique reported destruction of a German barrack block and hits on an escort vessel near Brest. Two enemy bombers were claimed destroyed over Britain and a raider crashed near Arundel. Debris clearing continued in Plymouth after recent raids.
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London
RAF
Calais
Brittany
Quiberon
Lorient
Brest
Britain
Scotland
England
Arundel
Strait of
Dover
Plymouth
Amarillo woman fails to identify murder victim in Spearman case
An Amarillo hotel operator failed to identify a dead woman slain on a Texas highway last Thursday. She had briefly known the victim from a hotel stay and accompanied officers to Spearman, but the body’s identity remained unverified amid a string of lead clues. The victim, killed by an electrician's claw hammer while seated beside the road, was last seen with a man in a cafe in Perryton.
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Amarillo
Spearman
Gib Landis
Leo Yselding
Cook
Dalhart
Texas
Perryton
Missing jewels worth fifty thousand in Salt Lake City
Police and FBI investigate a jewel robbery in Salt Lake City where two suitcases containing gems valued at about $50,000 disappeared from a store after salesman Joseph P. Weissfeld left them on an errand. Weissfeld reports the stock included many precious gems and notes the value. Officers have two definite leads amid many visitors in the two hour window.
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Salt Lake City
U.P
FBI
New York
Joseph P. Weissfeld
Weisssfeld
Russians Set Balloon Record Across 1800 Miles in 69 Hours
MOSCOW reports two Soviet balloonists claim a world record for duration and distance, soaring 69 hours and 30 minutes and covering 1800 miles. The former record was also held by a Russian balloonist.
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Moscow
U.P
Germans Free 34000 French War Prisoners
German authorities announce the release of 34000 French war prisoners. Among them 15000 are fathers of four or more children, with others selected as miners to boost coal output and farm hands for spring planting.
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