Mandalay Under Jap Bombardment Leaves City in Ruin
Allied dispatch from Burma describes Mandalay bombed by Japanese planes with little warning. Fires rage through China town, Buddhist monasteries, and shelters as refugees flee and engineers try to limit destruction. Wounded and dead line streets as hospitals and asylums burn and villagers seek safety amid chaos. Aircraft control and scarce shelters blamed for high casualties among Indians, Burmans, Chinese, and lepers.
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Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Burma
Mandalay
de Luce
Princess of Wales Hospital
Chinatown
80Th Street
81St Road
American Baptist Mission
Little Memorial Hospital
D. O. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Gordon S. Jury
Hamilton
Burma Civil Defense Ambulance
Brothers Build 25 Mile Plane Detector for Air Wardens
Barrington Fr I UP reports Arthur and Nicholas Marcello, two brothers, built a sound detecting system with six times the human ear power to detect aircraft up to 25 miles away. The setup includes a microphone atop the observation post, a receiving unit, and a 24 hour duty crew of spotters inside a shelter.
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Barrington
FR. I
Arthur
Nicholas Marcello
Warren
Marcellos
Family Keeps Patriotism Brother Follows Brother
In 1917 Pvt John Borel of Denver collapsed and died at a Texas camp from a rare inherited disease. Twenty four years later his younger brother Chester volunteered to join the Army as an aviation cadet, saying he felt it his duty to serve. Switzerland took a census of special sizes of rubber tires.
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Denver
John Borel
Texas
Borelli
Chester
John
Non-Interest 50 000 Loan Offered to Treasury
North American Mutual Insurance Company of Delaware offers a 50000 interest free loan to the U S government. The proposal sent to Secretary Morgenthau by John W Kane suggests the loan would run for the duration and a reasonable period after. Kane hopes other groups join in to mobilize idle dollars to aid debt relief and reduce taxpayer burden.
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Wilmington, del
L.P
United States
North American Mutual Insurance Company
Del
John W. Kane
Birds Forgot Air Defenses And Perished
Chicago scientists compare extinct giants to modern defense gaps noting flightless New Zealand moas and South American phorphacoids like ostriches emus and rheas thrived in isolation until humans and mammals arrived. Patterson stresses loss of flight doomed these species after isolation ended. Scarcity of foreign goods sparks a Peruvian industrial boom.
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Chicago
Bryan Patterson
Field Museum
Patterson
Ice and derailment hit New Mexico area markets
Ice caused tree damage and line breaks but limited communications impact. Eighteen cars of a Santa Fe freight derailed east of Fort Sumner causing rerouting. service expected to resume soon. Weather improves with rising temperatures. moisture spared heavy freezing. Livestock markets report mixed movement with calves and steers steady to higher on select lots through Kansas City and New York exchanges.
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Santa Fe
Fort Sumner
N. M
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Soldiers Advance on Cookie Front in Amarillo
Soldiers gathering in Amarillo for spring action receive home baked cookies from local volunteers at the Service Men's Civic Center. The center seeks postage free letters and relies on contributions from the Little Theater Group and housewives to sustain cookie supplies for visiting service members.
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Amarillo
Little Theater Group
B. M. Puckett
Optical unit to repair glasses in field army needs
Fort Adame announces a new optical unit for the army that will grind lenses in camp or battle. One unit built, five more ordered, each truck carrying semi finished lenses and employing five men with a capacity of 120 single lenses daily.
Extra Safe Gunpowder Is Result of New Formula
Seattle report on Universal Powder Company near Olympia announcing a nitroglycerin free powder. C. F. Ramsey says the secret mixing formula yields a safer powder that can be fired from a machine gun without exploding. the new powder is claimed to be more powerful and requires a detonator to explode.
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Seattle
U.S
Universal Powder Company
Olympia
C. F. Ramsey
Ramsey
Trailer Unit Designed for Defense Needs
Flint Michigan shifts to armaments and housing aid with a new expandable residence built from a regulation trailer. Designed by William B. Stout of Dearborn, it stays compact on highways and converts to a four‑person home in 30 minutes. It includes three sleep compartments two wardrobes a folding dinette stove refrigerator electric lights and oil heat.
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Flint
Mich
William B. Stout
Dearborn
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Best
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Kansas City
U.P
Alleghany Tid Steel
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Roil Miliary
Vine & Lead
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Chivaler
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Gen Motors
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Pan American Airway
Paramount Pictures
Penney
Phillips Pet
Remington Rand
RCA
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Shell Union
Southern Pacific
California
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Studebaker
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Trie
U & Rubber
Tee
U & Steel Beer
WU Tel Eee
White Motor Nee Sees
Wilson & Co Enone
Financial Industrial Fund
Woolworth Ress Teveres
H. V. Robertson & CO
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Oliver Eakle Bidg
Boxwell Brothers Ambulance Service Funeral Directors
Amarillo—Dumas
Blue Tower
Spode
Taffres
Century Settings
Amarillo Hardware CO
Polk
India
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Size Caldwell
Apex Electric
Pal
KRANK
Mennen
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Phillips
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