Amateur Follies heads into home stretch at Municipal Auditorium
Final rehearsals begin as 100 member Junior League Follies cast works day and night under director Larry Doyle. He vows to turn up the heat for a polished show to debut next Saturday. Tickets priced 1 1 50 and 2 available downtown at Cresney Drug or from cast members. Cabaret in Crystall Ballroom at Herring Hotel after the show with cast attendance. Reservations via Mrs Norwood West, phone 60 6427.
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Municipal Auditorium
Junior League Follies
Larry Doyle
Doyle
Cresney Drug
Crystall
Herring Hotel
Norwood West
VINS GIFT TO PLAINS Two Murals by Ben Mead Get Highest Praise
The Panhandle welcomed two murals by Amarillo artist Ben Carleton Mead in the Southwestern Public Service Company lobby. The Lee Bivins mural shows the rancher on horseback near Bonita Creek, while the LX Corral mural depicts a 1940 ranch operation with real workers. The gift, presented by the Bivins family, draws praise for simplicity and naturalness.
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Amarillo
Lee Bivins
Bonita Creek
LX Ranch
Roy Cullum
Bivins
Cap Crawford
Pete Byrd
Buck Knipe
Fred van Eaton
Roy Moore
Bob Shelton
Virgil Harris
Jack Hooten
Cowboy
Carl Makeig
Southwestern Public Service Company
Miles Bivins
Ben Mead
Poison Gas Used as Germans Open Second Battle of Ypres
April 22, 1915, marks the second Battle of Ypres with a German offensive that introduces poison gas for the first time. The gas attack signals a grim escalation, reshaping battlefield tactics and international perceptions.
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Ypres
Willie Woog Ad Chiseled in Year 2000 Ad
Willie Woog’s 2000 advertisement is highlighted. National Want Ad Week promotes quick easy and economical ad placement before a large readership. Bargain rates listed for 15 words in News and Globe for seven days and three days.
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Willie Woog
News and Globe
Globe-News
Armies March on Trondheim and Narvik warned
Allied expeditionary troops moved toward Trondheim in Norway while a British commander warned of an imminent land sea and air assault on Narvik. Reports spoke of US air attache Captain Losexy’s death, intensified fighting near Narvik and Verdalsora, and Swedish protests over German air violations.
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Narvik
United Press
Arctic
Robert M. Losey
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Oesvatta
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Roccros
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Verdalsora
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Oslo
Stockholm
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Lillehammer
Fanmar
Germany
Sweden
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Britain
Stavanger
Kristiansand
Skaggerak
Aalborg
Denmark
Goteland
Baltic
Nardmont
Luxembourg
Belgium
London
Berlin
France
North Sea
Shetland Islands
Paris
Skagerrak
Americans In Hungary Advised To Go Home
The United States legation in Budapest urged about 400 Americans in Hungary to consider leaving while travel options remain. It warned to assess how a potential European-wide war extension could affect travel, noting no immediate expectation of war reaching southern Europe. The notice asks citizens to inform the legation of their plans and to provide reasons if staying.
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Budapest
United States
Legation
Hungary
Europe
Coin Machines Spark Rush on the Mint
SAN FRANCISCO April 22 Slot machines pinball machines and juke boxes have created heavy demand for small change. Three mints run 16 to 24 hours daily. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the U S Mint, said coin orders last fiscal year were the largest in U S history. Denver and Philadelphia mints operate 24 hours. San Francisco mint to resume double shift operations shortly.
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San Francisco
U.pr
Nellie Tayloe Ross
U. S. Mint
Denver
Philadelphia
Census Committee Promises Thorough Count in Amarillo
The Amarillo chamber of commerce census committee stated that every resident will be enumerated in the ongoing population census. After a conference with Earl C. Cayton, the committee assured that those not yet counted need not worry, as the count is progressing rapidly and no one will be missed.
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Chamber of Commerce Census Committee
Amarillo
Earl C. Cayton
District Census Office
Stop Dewey GOP Men Favor Wendell Wilkie
New York April 22 The stop Dewey movement reported broad support for Wendell L Willkie as the number one dark horse for the Republican nomination If Dewey leads or Taft and Vandenburg falter the movement would shift to Wilkie The item notes GOP leaders and a buried reference to a deep drilling bit at Old Tack No 1 with lime encountered early morning.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arthur H. Vandenburg
Michigan
Willkie
Gordon Perry to Speak at Amarillo YMCA Banquet
E Gordon Perry president of the Dallas YMCA will be principal speaker at a 6:30 PM banquet honoring Harold Nichols newly appointed secretary of the Great Plains District Association The event draws 200 reservations with leaders from Amarillo Canyon Dalhart Hereford Memphis Pampa Perryton Phillips Tucumcari and others. Reservations to Amarillo Hotel 4341.
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Dallas Ymca
Harold Nichols
Great Plains District Association
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Canyon
Dalhart
Hereford
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Pampa
Perryton
Phillips
Tucumcari
Ross D. Rogers
Nichols
J. J. McConnell, Jr
Southwest Area Council
The
YWCA
Grover C. Good
Great Plains
Perry
YMCA
el Paso
Tennessee
Navy official warns of inevitable U S Japan war
Rear Admiral Joseph K Taussig told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee in Washington that war between Japan and the United States is inevitable. He cited a 1927 Tanaka memorial detailing plans to conquer the Far East and said Japan seeks to crush the United States before its world subjugation. Taussig called Japan a war like nation whose pledges are worth less and urged use of all means to preserve China.
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Joseph K. Taussig
Naval Operations
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Japan
United States
Taussig
Fifth Naval District
Norfolk
Philippines
French Indo China
Netherlands Indies
Far East
Tanaka
China
Tides Damage Eastern Coastal Communities
Immense tides and a northeast gale battered eastern New England coast causing substantial home and shoreline road damage across several states. Despite fears of flooding, weather officials projected no imminent flood danger as cold weather and snow flurries persisted. The storm moved the five masted schooner Nancy ashore at Nantasket Beach, a similar event to its 1937 grounding. Shipping halted amid 88 mph winds at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, with ongoing cold conditions expected.
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New England
Maine
Weather Bureau
Nancy
Nantasket Beach
Mt. Washington
N. H
Wind Eases Before Bedtime Amid Spring Cold Snap
Report notes wind fading to calm by bedtime while a late spring cold spell approaches, driving temperatures to near freezing in the country and about 35 in town. Prairie winds reach 35 to 40 mph as highs today reach around 60 after yesterday’s 80 and night lows near 46 country and 52 town. Weather outlook: fair and slightly warmer tomorrow.
Photographer’s camera back falls out during Coffeyville shot
Coffeyville Kansas on April 22 photographer Bill Steele posed as a youth smiled for the camera. As the shutter clicked the back of the camera slipped free revealing the mishap.
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Coffeyville, Kan
Bill Steele
Coffeyville
Steele
Meet Mr Lochinvar Beginnings A New Serial Story
A seaside scene on Cape sands introduces Cecily painting a dinghy to surprise Doug. She reads a telegram announcing a bus to arrive Saturday at Granniss and reassures herself that the newspaper story is fine as the heat and sea breeze mingle with her preparations.
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Ma Madsen
Highway 66
MR. Lochinvar
Marie Blizard
Cecily
Doug
Grannis
Not the Type What keeps Cecily hopeful on Cape Cod
Cecily waits for twin brother Doug to arrive at their Cape Cod cottage while pondering his cryptic message. The six year bond of shared loss and independence shapes her quiet life in New York art school days, with memories of Lathrop Duncan and Libby the nurse shaping their trust-filled world.
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Doug
Douglas Stuart
Cecily
Cape Cod
Yale
New York
Cape
Lathrop Duncan
Libby
Miss Maidstone’s
Olivia
Gloria
Greenwich Village
Amarillo Area Weather Report Summary
The Amarillo region and West Texas are mostly fair with cooler nights and warmer days. Showers are possible this evening over mountains in Big Bend country and in cooler southeast portions. cloudiness and partly cloudy conditions prevail tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures ranged from 46 to 80 degrees with a noon reading of 63. John Maynard br. CO.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Big Bend
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