Amarillo Weather Woes and Youth Delinquency Calls
Forecast warns of frost tonight and strong winds with more severe storms ahead this month. Feature reports farmer A A Elwood in Happy complains eggs at 23 cents a dozen barely cover feed costs. Two teen boys urge Amarillo to tackle juvenile delinquency with a city wide program. Letters note fishing and requests to curb dirty sidewalk language.
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A. A. Elwood
Happy
Mr. Elwood
Gene Worley
Notable Ford prediction and war talk mix with social musings
The column blends Henry Ford’s war end prediction with reflections on the Ford Peace Ship and Roosevelt’s political chances. It also reports on Amarillo editorials, local moves by the Nordyke family, leap year birthday humor, divorce notes, housewife wages, and an elderly Oakland entrepreneur.
Myrna Loy and Hollywood Scandals In April Headlines
Hollywood gossip from April reveals Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow divorcing discussions, von Stroheim hospitalized for kidney ailment, Betty Hutton’s Army Camp tour tied to romances, and Loretta Young retirement rumors after Doc Stork visit. Other items note DeWalt Reynolds, Davies family tales, and ongoing industry whispers.
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Hollywood
Erich von Stroheim
Betty Hutton
Gabriel
Dell
Maritime Service
Blue Pencil
Loretta Young
Doc Stork
Tommye Adams
Mickey Rooney
Rooney
Navy Seabees
Excursion Point
Alaska
Herta Robbins
Lou Nova
Ann
Beaumont
Robert Walker
Jennifer Jones
Franchot Tone
Dionne Quints
20Th Century-Fox
Paula Stone
Betty Grable
Harry James
Maria Montez
Pierre
Aumont
London
Roy Rogers
Hoot Gibson
Kitty Carlisle
Arthur
Agent Lyons
Tack Lost Dear Tack
In a note dated Saturday March 25 a resident reports losing a billfold in front of the Fisk Building. The item contained a social security card stamps an employment card about $60 and an identification card from the Cactus Ordnance Works.
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Fisk Building
Cactus Ordnance Works
Missing items and personal notices in Amarillo ads
A string of small ads from Amarillo Texas seek finder contact and lost items a purse a bracelet a shoe and a cat. Several help wanted and correspondence requests appear including housework care for children and elder employment offers. City Commission meeting postponed for routine matters.
Planes So Thick Commander Has To Serve as Traffic Cop
American carrier air group patrols space above a Japanese base as planes crowd the skies forcing pilots to queue. Commander Andrew M Jackson reports the carrier crew kept planes aloft to bomb and strafe targets including parked aircraft and airfield structures. The report comes with other dispatches from London and El Salvador about raids, executions, and gas warfare in the region.
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Woleai Atoll
Caroline Islands
Andrew McBurney Jackson
Baton Rouge
Eisenhower pledges long war effort from dawn to dusk
General Eisenhower told American fighter pilots they would soon fly long days in a vast land sea and air offensive in western Europe. He said he would demand everything from them and push sleepless weeks, but insisted they would defeat the Nazis.
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U. S
England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Western
Europe
Mrs. R. L. Mobley Dies at 75 in Amarillo
Mrs. R. L. Mobley a longtime Amarillo resident died in a local hospital at age 75. Survived by two daughters Mrs FE Ames of Amarillo and Mrs L C Walter of Vancouver B C, four sons W W of Amarillo R E of Canyon R N of San Antonio and W L of Vancouver Wash, five sisters and one brother. The family home was 1719 North Roberts Street. Body in state at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements.
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R. L. Mobley
Amarillo
Stassen Supporters Launch National Delegate Drive
Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen backers announce a national drive for delegates as Nebraska voters test favoritism in a preferential primary. Senator Ball, a Stassen appointee, says Eastern headquarters will open soon and he will broadcast a nationwide appeal for Stassen on April 21.
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Associated Press
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
Illinois
Douglas MacArthur
Chicago
Stassen
Senator Ball
Senate
Minnesota
Ball
Unwrapped Packages to Reach Shops Amid Paper Shortage
Washington April 11 The War Production Board predicted stores may lack bags and wrapping paper for extended periods. Howard Coonley WPB conservation division says one new bag or sheet must substitute for three or four.
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Washington
War Production Board
Howard Coonley
WPB
Conservation Division
Knox Sees British Victory Likely at Imphal
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said the Imphal operation in India is not terribly serious and involves few troops. He expects the British to beat it and "no doubt will." The remarks came at a Washington press conference on April 11.
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Jean Arthur
Cary Grant
Chaplin
Vera Hruba
Orson Welles
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
New York
Berlin
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Istanbul
Ankara
von Papen
London
High Command
Rhodes
Wishington
Frank Knox
Imphal
India
Smile Restores Hope for Tubercular Boy at Preventorium
Seven year old Jimmy, long listless at the preventorium, smiles for the first time after nurturing care and cheerful meals. A March of recovery follows his timid start as nurses note marked improvement in mood, bed making, and engagement. Funds from the Iva Kitchell dance concert at Amarillo High School will aid the preventorium’s TB care and children’s programs.
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Jimmy
Iva Kitchell
Amarillo High School
Amarillo Kiwanis Club
Daniel P. Healey Dies in San Francisco Auto Crash
Daniel P. Healey storekeeper second class in the Navy was killed in an automobile accident in San Francisco this morning. He was 48, formerly a procurement clerk at the Veterans Hospital, survived by wife, one son David, three sisters and two brothers. Funeral arrangements are by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home and pending.
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Daniel P. Healey
Navy
San Francisco
Healey
Veterans’ Hospital
David Healey
Tom Gavin
Amarillo
Healey Black
Tom Bolan
Houston
Charles Healey
Cleveland
Frank Healey
Wheeling
W. Va
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Hiett Opens Amarillo Nursery On Tenth Avenue
W. N. Hiett announces a new Amarillo nursery at Tenth Avenue and Monroe Street with a large stock on display. He has two years in Amarillo in general nursery work and seven years with the U. S. Forestry Service nursery division at Plainview.
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Amarillo
W. N. Hiett
Tenth Avenue
Monroe Street
Hiett
United States Forestry Service Nursery Division
Plainview
Mrs J P Devore Taken by Death in Amarillo
Mrs Fanny L Devore age 62 died in a local hospital after a brief illness. She lived in Amarillo 19 years at 413 North Harrison Street. Survived by husband J P Devore and two sons Charles Mowdy and Brunis Lovett. Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home to announce funeral. revival services at Bethel Tabernacle 2308 West Fourth Avenue led by Rev E Kiff with services at 8 30 pm. Elmer L Cutsinger is pastor.
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Fanny L. Devore
Bethel Tabernacle
West
Fourth Avenue
E. Kiff
Elmer L. Cutsinger
Bowen Motor Coaches bus line hearing to Tucumcari
A hearing on Bowen Motor Coaches proposed bus line to Tucumcari is held today at the Herring Hotel. An Interstate Commerce Commission representative conducts the session as Globe News seeks results.
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Bowen Motor Coaches
Tucumcari
Herring Hotel
Interstate Commerce Commission
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New Guinea
Texas
Matheo
Tack
Lake Fryer
Wolf Creek
Levi Reid
Wheeler
M. C. Burgess
J. M. Burgess
L. A. Parker
Walt Green
John Coburn
Perryton
Henry Ford
Mr. Ford
Ford
United States
France
Germany
Roosevelt
Lewis Nordyke
Nordyke
R. R. Beeman
Kentucky Street
Nordykes
Philadelphia
Globe News
High Plains
Darling
Zorina
Broadway
Armed Services
Italy
Oakland
Jimmie Fidler
Mariner
Albert Dekker
California State Assembly
Veronica Lake
Maine Tack
Kathryn EF
Siders
Cactus Ordnance Works Dumas, Texas
Faye Allen
MecMasters
Sixth Avenue
Cox
Lila
Panhandle
J. H. Wigham
Vega
MR. Ray
Ntlemen
Hereford
A. H. Simmons
Claude
321 North East Third Avenue
Mrs. Finley
van Buren Street
Georgia Street
Globe-News
Lemuel Carroll Jones
Lem Jones
North West Third Avenue
W. C. Jones
Shamrock
Emmer Heartherly
G. L. Heatherly
Clarendon
San Salvador
el Salvador
Pres
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
Odessa
Moscow Radio
Hawaii
Knox
WFA
Childress
Texas Panhandle
War Food Administration
Eugene Wortley
John D. McBride, D. D
Optometrist
Zale
Ue m
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Askew & Brown
T. B. Bruner
J. C. Burkhalter
Rolla V. Cartwright
Finch & Gavin K
8. Loving & CO
James Oakes Agency
Ordway-Saunders CO. D. Wowen Panhandle Ins. Agency
Thomson-King Company
EA. Regal CO
Harold 8
Richey Upshaw Insurance Agency
Williams-Boyce Agency
Howard Williams Agency
L ER. Lyles Holt-Ferguson Agency
Neely-Greenhill Agency
Hugo H Loewenstern
J. P. Devore
Ade
RINSO
Abe
Cretney Drug and
Wailgreen
Seiberling
America
Tiree
Shamrock Gas Motor Oils
Seiberling Tires
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