Parking meters spark mixed tips from locals
PULSE FEELER asks readers what to do when a meter fails. Quotes from Gary Garner Jimmie Sellars Mrs Tom Eubanks Lawrence Allen Ewing Thompson and Mrs F O Pointer reveal varied reactions from shouting for a cop to kicking the post and moving to another meter zone.
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Pulse Feeler
Rosy King
Gary Garner
Mississippi Street
Jimmie Sellars
Tom Eubanks
Lawrence Allen
Help in Fight for Rehearing Opens Texas Duty
Attorney General Grover Sellers of Texas seeks support from southern states to rehear the Supreme Court decision affecting Democratic primary eligibility. He dispatched a motion yesterday and asked to argue in person before the Court. The court on April 3 held Lonnie E. Smith, Harris County, a Negro, was barred from a primary participation due to color, infringing constitutional rights.
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Austin
Grover Sellers
Texas
U. S. Supreme Court
Democratic Priory
Wharo Participat
Sellers
Supreme Court
Lonnie E. Smith
Harris
Italian Unity forms new Italian government
Premier Pietro Badoglio announced a new government with six opposition parties on board including the Action Party which had earlier refused to cooperate. The report notes OPA plans a butter ration cut from 16 to 12 cents and a 50 percent lamb ration reduction due to drought threatening spring flocks.
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Naples
U.P
Pietro Badoglio
Action Party
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allied beer arrives for Fifth Army on Anzio beachhead
Twenty thousand gallons of Naples brewed beer issued to Fifth Army troops under First Lt. Allan J. Barney. Supplies planned for Italy as backlog clears. Weather report notes cooler conditions and winds across Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico with scatted showers and highs around 63.
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Allied
Les
Naples
Anzio
Fifth Army
Italy
Allan J. Barney
St. Louis
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
North Portion
Nazis Face Hard Fight as Soviet Forces Hold Narva Line
Moscow reports heavy German assaults on the Narva front and in old Poland, with Soviet forces repelling tanks and infantry. Russia claims higher German losses, while Soviet planes target fuel depots and rail centers near Rezekne, Gulbene, and a key refinery west of Narva.
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Narva
Estonia
Baltic States
Stanislawow
Carpathians
Sevastopol
Crimea
Moscow
U.P
Old Poland
Red Army
Rezekne
Gulbene
Kiviyli
Berlin prepares as invasion threat looms amid Nordic sabotage
Berlin reports say over 300 000 men stand ready to repel a possible Allied invasion while behind defenses problems emerge. A Bergen Norway explosion kills at least 43 and damages Haa kon Hall, amid saboteur activity. Danish patriots rounded up by Gestapo. Denmark hosts German simulated maneuvers as alarms sounded.
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Berlin
Hitler
Oslo
Bergen
Norway
Copenhagen
Gestapo
Denmark
Allied Air Forces Bomb Europe in Major Invasion Preps
British and American air fleets hammered targets across Europe in the largest bombing push of the war. RAF night raids on Cologne Paris outskirts Lens and Ottignies joined daylight strikes by Marauder and Havoc aircraft supported by Spitfires. Over 9,000 Allied planes operated, dropping about 16 800 tons of bombs in four days.
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London
U.P
United States
Europe
Serbia
Romania
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Cologne
Paris
Berlin
RAF
Rhineland
la Chappelle
Ottignies
Brussels
Lens
France
Drunk Man Challenges Officers Outside Party
A drunken man at a party in Amarillo refused to leave and challenged police to remove him. His friends urged him home as he staggered toward the door and defiantly invited officers to take him outside.
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Amarillo
Famine threat grows as Japanese push in Henan
Chinese officials warn of a possible man made famine affecting up to 20 million civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers as Japanese forces of 50 000 to 60 000 spearhead a cross country offensive from Manchuria. The attacks aim to sever the Peiping Hankow railway and control rich Henan wheat amid prior famine and plagues.
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Chungking
China
Pieping-Hankow
Henan
Manchuria
Japan
Peiping- Hankow
Changteh
Changsha
Yangtze
Allied forces drive Japanese from siege area near Imphal
Allied armored units counter attacked near Imphal driving a Japanese column into hills 30 miles northeast of the city. Reinforcements to Kohima were reported as monsoon season nears while British Indian troops pushed 35 miles toward Kohima from Imphal and Jap losses were tallied at about 400.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Kohima
India
Dimapur
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Mogaung River
Kamaing
Myitkyina
Kachin
Luce says Roosevelt could not govern if re elected
Connecticut Republican Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce told reporters in Columbus on April 21 that it would be impossible for President Roosevelt to govern the country even if re elected. She predicted a Republican next Congress and said many Roosevelt voters would switch to the GOP to avoid a stalemate with a Democratic president and Republican Congress.
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Columbus
Clare Booth Luce
Connecticut
Roosevelt
Extradition Hearing Delayed for Rufus Fondren in Ada Case
Rufus Fondren, sought in Potter County on a charge of attempted assault against a young girl near Ada by the Canadian River, had his extradition hearing in Oklahoma City postponed for a sanity evaluation. Sheriff Bill Adams returned with no prisoner. Fondren opposed extradition and was arrested by Oklahoma officers at Adams' request. Fondren worked as a farm hand in the area.
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Rufus Fondren
Potter County
Oklahoma City
Bill Adams
Oklahoma
Adams
Fondren
Ada
Canadian River
Nazis Claim Sinking of Destroyers Freighters and Tanker
German communication reports sinking two Allied destroyers four freighters totaling 29 000 tons and a large tanker in a convoy off Algiers. It also claims 13 other merchants 103 000 tons two troop transports and three destroyers badly damaged and says attacks on Italian Adriatic bases near Lanciano occurred in daylight.
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Londin
U.P
Algiers
Lanciano
Italy
Adriatic
Cooler With Less Wind Foretells Warmer Evening Turn
A forecast notes a cooler day ahead with lower winds. Highs may stay in the upper 60s after today’s 73 degree noon reading. Winds ease from earlier forecasts yet rise this afternoon. Uncertain Soviet troop arrival report in southern Italy via Vichy radio. Allied confirmation pending.
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Italy
London
Vichy Radio
Police Dance Panic Causes Night Shift Stoppage
Kankakee Illinois April 21 Acting Chief Elmer Nelson bars Police Sgt Bert Luckey from attending an annual police dance preferring he remain on regular duty Luckey protesting recalls an incident at the 1943 party when his artificial wooden leg with ball bearings rolled across the ballroom floor causing several dancers to fall Nelson notes Luckey almost caused a panic at the dance last year and refuses to let him attend.
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Kankakee
Ill
Bert Luckey
Elmer Nelson
Luckey
Nelson
Sailor saves a presidential hopeful in sea rescue claim
A Wisconsin sailor wrote parents that a rescue at sea saved Lt Cmdr Harold E. Stassen, a former Minnesota governor and possible Republican presidential candidate. Navy had no confirmation. Stassen’s wife and other letters hint at the incident.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Navy Department
South St. Paul
Minn
William Bermett
University of Wisconsin
O'Daniel predicts Texas delegation will be bought for Roosevelt
Senator O'Daniel, returning to Texas, says most Texas delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be bought and paid for by the New Deal dynasty to back a fourth term for President Roosevelt. He says Texans are fed up with rationing and Washington policies.
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Washington
O’daniel
Texas
Roosevelt
Chicago
New Deal
O’daniels
Shoppers May Receive Purchases Unwrapped
Shoppers in Amarillo may soon carry market baskets as shortages of the large "big barrel" paper bags and wrapping paper ease. Grocers previously reported no stock of the bags for large orders and only limited supplies remain.
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Amarillo
Patton Arrives in London for European Theater Duty
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr arrives in London to take duties in the European theater, after command of the Seventh Army in Sicily. The official announcement confirms his assignment in the current operations.
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London
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
Sicily
House committee rejects new labor draft legislation
The House military committee dismissed calls for a joint Army Navy Maritime Commission draft law. It upheld existing powers to compel labor and oppose compulsory drafts, arguing manpower is sufficient while urging that essential industries supply replacements for wartime workers.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Army- Navy-Maritime Commission
Army-Navy-Maritime
Cal Farley’s Burglary Yields Cash Jackpot at 320 Fillmore
Yeggs struck Cal Farley’s at 320 Fillmore Street, taking 2890.31 in cash from one safe. A second safe remained locked after attempted tampering. Entry was through a second story window with a ladder left in place. Police found paint remover and wiped fronts, plus sanded doors to erase fingerprints. Brushes and a punch were taken, and a patrolman’s car was stolen and abandoned near the Denver station.
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Yeggs
Cal Farley’s
Fillmore Street
George Hayden
Hayden
Denver
Potter County Democrats name eight precinct chairs including first woman
The Potter County Democratic Executive Committee named eight new precinct chairs at its meeting led by county chairman Robert A. Stone. Three women joined the committee Pearl Tarwater Elizabeth Fly and Mrs Ivan Hudgins marking the first female member in Potter County. precinct conventions set for May 6 and the county convention for May 9 with further details and materials to be provided May 5.
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New
Potter County
Democratic
Democratic Executive Committee
Robert A. Stone
Democratic Committee
Pearl Tarwater
Elizabeth M. Fly
Ivan Hudgins
FE. B. Graham
Guy Walden
W. FE. Konkle
L. H. Griffith
John Haley
T. M. Johnson
Ter County
Commissioners Court
Stone
Oliver Eakle
H. M. Britt
N. A. Wimberly
E. F. Finch
Ed Pittman, Jr
Royce P. Gant
Ernest R. Archambeau
George
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W. 5Th
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Balks
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Wilson School
H. Hammock
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