48 Hour Work Week Goes Into Effect
Washington dispatch reports the 48 hour work week starting today across war production areas. Area directors note good compliance, few exemption requests, and limited releases to other jobs as plants already run 48 hours. Detroit and Baltimore offices cite broad cooperation and small exemption counts.
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Band Parents To Hold Rummage Sale At East Fourth
Amarillo Senior High School Band Parents will hold a rummage sale Friday and Saturday at East Fourth Avenue 623. Mrs Glenn Nutt is chairman of the sale.
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Amarillo Senior High School
East Fourth Avenue
Glenn Nutt
Margit Bokor Sings Tonight in Amarillo
Hungarian soprano Margit Bokor performs at 8:15 p.m. in the Amarillo High School Auditorium for Civic Music. Admission via membership cards with door tickets for newcomers. Bokor has sung in major European capitals and with prominent opera companies including Metropolitan and Chicago.
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St. Louis
Canada Initiates Meat Ration This Month in Canada
Ottawa reports meat rationing will start in early May at two pounds per person weekly. Finance Minister James Tilsley announced the measure in the House of Commons. The article notes Maine has more than 2200 lakes and 5100 rivers.
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Welfare Officials Got Salary Hikes
A Texas House committee investigates welfare department raises after testimony shows several key officials received increases last year. Auditor G L Arriett cited raises for J B Murchison from 416 to 500 monthly, Garth Daniel from 333 to 350 and 365, and Mrs Berta Malone from 300 to 330 and 350, with pension grants noted as less than authorized.
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Garth Daniel
Berta Malone
Amarillo College Honors Roll Tops With Six A's
Jimmie Miller leads the spring nine week honor roll at Amarillo College with six A grades. Four students earned five A's: James Andrews, Nancy Everline, Mary Stone, and O. D. Thompson. Carolyn Vick had four A's among a larger list of honorees including Timmye Berg and Nancy Caldwell.
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Amarillo College
James Andrews
Nancy Everline
Mary Stone
O. D. Thompson
Carolyn Vick
Timmye Berg
Nancy Caldwell
Billie Cohen
Melvin Duncan
Anita Ellis
Winona Kelley
Beth Miesse
Mary Frances Odell
Efma Rue Oldfather
Kendrick Radey
John Reynolds
Nippon Easing Rule in China
Japanese policy toward occupied China described as softer by Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong in Washington. The move appears aimed at quieting China while Japan prepares new thrusts against British and American forces.
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China
T. V. Soong
Omaha Paramount Capital Books presents The Omaha Trail film
Cap off fanfare as The Omaha Trail debuts Friday at the Capitol Theatre Omaha. Epic journey follows the railroad’s arrival driving settlement in Kansas and Nebraska with Handsome James Craig as Pak Candel an Irishman attempting to move a locomotive by ox train from Habersford to Omaha Dean Jagger stars as Pipestone Ross a wagon train boss and rival to Candel.
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Pipestone Ross
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Jagger
Pamela Blake Shines in Debut Leading Role
Starlet Pamela Blake makes an auspicious debut as Julie Ransome, fiancée of Pipe stone Ross, in a swiftly paced tale. Edward Ellis returns to the screen with Chill Wills, Donald Meek, Howard da Silva and Henry Morgan in a cast of familiar favorites. Candel freights a locomotive across sunbaked plains in dramatic action.
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Pamela Blake
Miss Blake
Julie Ransome
Pipestone Ross
Edward Ellis
Chill Wills
Donald Meek
Howard da Svlva
Henry Morgan
Candel
Movie Show Timings and Features At Local Theatres
Local cinemas list today and Friday attractions including Stand By For Action with Robert Taylor and others at Paramount, The Meanest Man in the World with Jack Benny, At the Front in North Africa War film in Technicolor, Superman cartoon Destruction Inc, Since Pearl Harbor and Movietone News. Capitol shows Tish with Marjorie Main ZaSu Pitts Virginia Grey and Trotting Horses. Rialto features The Light of Western Stars with Victor Jory Alan Ladd and Tom Tyler plus Carry Harry and Unusual Occupations. Showtimes span early afternoon to late evening across theatres.
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Priscilla Lane
State Theater
Paramount
Robert Taylor
Charles Laughton
Brian Donlevy
Walter Brennan
Paramount World News
North Africa
War Department
Destruction Inc
Pearl Harbor
Movietone
Capitol
Rialto
Zane Gray
Victor Jory
Russell Hayden
Alan Ladd
Tom Tyler
Harry Langdon
Harry
Paramount News
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