Panhandle Weather and World News Reflections
A narrator riffs on Panhandle April weather and tough climate shaping hardy residents. He notes rain and wind, fruit frost risk, and the influx of newcomers. The piece shifts to military forewarned rationing after June one, tropical diseases among Marines, and global leaders Roosevelt Churchill with San Jacinto anniversary and New York Texan diaspora.
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Panhandle
High Plains
United States
Samoan
South Seas
Samoa
Random Society Snippets and Weathered Observations
A column quips about wind events in Dallas and Waco, mentions Major A. J. Lawler and a dress blown on Polk Street, then pivots to political talk on Willkie Wisconsin results. It shares amusing notes on fashion, flowers, dating, and a Navy flyer seeking bull terriers for plane mascots.
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Polk Street
Ackard Street
Dallas
A. J. Lawler
Arthur Hopkins Presents brings Broadway to KGNC tonight
NBC's Arthur Hopkins Presents launches with Our Town at 10:30 PM from KGNC. Producer Hopkins will host each Tuesday with top Broadway names like Katharine Hepburn, Pauline Lord, Barbara Stanwyck and Raymond Massey. Other plays include Ah Wilderness Redemption The Farmer Takes a Wife Kind Lady and The Play's the Thing.
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Panhandle
KGNC
NBC
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Arthur Hopkins
Hopkins
Broadway
Katharine Hepburn
Pauline Lord
Anna Christie
Phillip Merrivale
Frank Craven
Barbara Stanwycsk
Dorothy Gish
Raymond Massey
National Broadcasting Company
Lost keys and gloves prompt calls for recovery and reward
Lost three keys on a downtown errand and a pair of black kid gloves were asked to be returned with a reward. A 1944 Texas license EV-422 was found and can be claimed at 615 Spring Street. A reader seeks a green stone man pin found near the post office or Bordwell's Store.
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Darling
Dr. Bisch
Fanny Fern
Charles W. Eliot
United States
Armed Services
New York
Monroe Street
Texas
Spring Street
Bordwell’s
Call
Charles Crane Talmage
U. S. Office of Education
Congress
Unidentified headless bodies found at Lake of the Ozarks
Two women aged about 50 and 25 were found dead with severed heads near the Grand Plaza bridge. A seed-sack apron on the younger victim prompted investigators to trace its origin. Blood evidence was being tested but officers expect little help.
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Camdenton
U.P
Lake of the Ozarks
State Highway Patrol
U. 8. 54
Jefferson City
H. A. Hansen
Grand Plaize Bridge
Ozarks
Mihailovic Reports Yugoslav Traitors Worry His Army
A Mihailovic communique says two days of battle against German forces in northeast Serbia. Our units were attacked in the rear by traitor units. Fierce fighting continues as the effort to clear the region proceeds.
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Mihailovic
Cairo
Draja Mihailovic
Peter
Serbia
Arrange Services For J. B. Wheatley
Jerome B. Wheatley former Panhandle peace officer and Texas Ranger died in Austin at 77. Funeral services were set for 4 this afternoon in Austin. He served as Amarillo police chief 1917 to 1919 and joined the Texas Ranger service in 1921. Survived by his widow a daughter Miss Roma Wheatley of Austin and several nieces and nephews.
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Jerome B. Wheatley
Panhandle
Texas Ranger
Austin
Wheatley
Amarillo
Potter and
Moore Countil
Texas Ranger Service
Roma Wheatley
Frank Boyd Named to Railway Union Board
Frank C. Boyd of Amarillo was named to the executive board of District No. 19 of the International Association of Machinists, affiliated with the A F L. The Santa Fe system machinists organization was formed yesterday at Albuquerque with B O Bristow elected president.
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Frank C. Boyd
Amarillo
International Association of Machinists
A. F. of L
Albuquerque
B. O. Bristow
Chicago
Hancock Set To Return From Texas City Managers Meet
City manager A. P. Hancock returns tomorrow from Dallas where he led a two day state convention of Texas city managers. Fines totaling 109 dollars were reported by the corporation court at city hall, with ten motorists contributing 20 dollars. Brazil's manufactured goods production rose tenfold between 1911 and 1938. The Library of Congress was established in 1800 by Act of Congress as a legislative library.
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Dallas
Joe Jenkins
League of Texas Municipalities
A. P. Hancock
Texas
Corporation Court
Brazil
Library of Congress
Act of Congress
Legislative Library
Yyv
First Application Aids Itching With Blue Star Ointment
Promises relief from eczema rash ringworm pimples and scabies with an initial application of Blue Star Ointment. Repeats as needed as nature helps heal. Money back if first attempt fails to satisfy. Try it today.
Negro Held In Slaying Killed Houston Woman
Houston detectives hold a 38 year old Black man in city jail for questioning in the fatal attack on Mrs. Dollie Garrett Richardson. A Galveston suspect was released after an alibi check. Investigators expanded searches of a 25 acre wooded area near the Richardson home while lab tests continue.
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Houston
Dollie Garrett Richardson
Galveston
Percy F. Heard
Richardson
Mrs. Richardson
State Department of Public Safety
State Laboratory
Herard
Austin
Economic Expert Attends Amarillo Chamber Convention
J. W. McGoodwin of Houston regional manager for the Committee on Economic Development made reservations to attend the Amarillo convention of chambers of commerce managers. Friday banquet at the Herring Hotel features Cal Farley on Tourist Trade as a Post War Activity and J. C. Richards of Goodrich Rubber Plant at Borger as another principal speaker.
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J. W. McGoodwin
Houston
Committee On Economic Development
Chambers of Commerce
Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Cal Farley
Rex Baxter
Chamber A Commerce
J. C. Richards
Goodrich
Borger
Richards
Kansas State University
Akron
Louisville
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Winchell
H. C. Vincent
California
Florida
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Roosevelt
Churchill
England
San Jacinto
New York City
Oklahoma City
South Africa
Irvin
George Maggard
H. L. Mauldin
Waco
Stanley Mauldin
West Texas
Blackland Field
Willkie
Wisconsin
Stork Club
Dewey
Hershey
R. B. Norman
Central
L. D. Heyser
Bliazard
Tack
White Flats
Matador
Harry Brown
Ace Flyer
Abilene
Florence Brown
Norway
Jimmie Fidler
Hollywood
Spencer Tracy
Betty Grable
Jean Arthur
Bette Davis
Tyrone Power
Walter Pidgeon
Greer Garson
Paul Lukas
Rosalind Russell
Claudette Colbert
Ida Lupino
Fox
Universal
Chaplin
Errol Flynn
L. A
Sinatra
Mr. Menjou
Mickey Rooney
Constance Bennett
Gilbert Roland
Edward G. Robinson
Shirley Temple
Jane Withers
Country Club District
Sanra Waverley and
Fountain Streets
Globe News
Cross Roads
Globe-News
Abe
the Panhandle
Genuine
Palm Beach
Ardine Ake
Knox
Brand Tropi
Cal Worsteds
J. B. Wheatley
Frank Boyd
Board of Railway Union
Britain
Kansas City, Mo
Frank J. Dean
Zale’s
Man
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