Historic Amarillo Pageant Mix of News and Burlesque
A collage of 1940s era items captures headlines on U S convoy views and British moves against Axis in Africa. Intertwined are social notes on weddings and Red Cross uniforms, cinema listings with Bing Crosby and Mary Ann Weymouth, and wartime culture through dances and fraternal events in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
General Motors
AXIS
Africa
Geraldine Logan Beame
L. F. Lopez
Rainbow Girls
Amarillo
Mary Ann Weymouth
Kathryn Roach
Mary Kruser
Jane Norman
Maxine Campbell
Perry Irvin
Red Cross Motor Corps
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Zanzibar
Paramount
NAT
Lera Bell
DeFries
Stanley Thorpe
Robert Lofgren
Madge Lahey
Bette Davis
George Brent
Janie B. Rogers
George Grege
What Would You Do About War Time Manners
A reader questions etiquette with a soldier in service. Answers say: congratulate promotions and write camp visitors if allowed. share letters outside only with consent. continue contact after visits. parental objections depend on agreement. dating others depends on couple understanding. Better advice favors not gloom and uncertainty.
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CLUES
Puzzle lists numerous crossword clues with numbers for horizontal and vertical entries. Clues include repeated references to classic word meanings and common crossword answers, such as estate, tellurium symbol, and constellations of abbreviations, with expected cross-checking to fill a puzzle grid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Air Power and the Future of War
Walter Lippmann discusses the clash between dynamic and static minds in Washington over Major Alexander de Seversky's air power theories. He argues air power marks a third, decisive dimension in global strategy and that victory depends on a strategic, not merely tactical, air force led by airmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Lippmann
Washington
Congressional Investigating Committee
Oxford
Alexander P. de Seversky
Major de Seversky
Admiral Mahan
General de Gaulle
Mitchell
History Made At Pearl Harbor Departing Amarillo
Mrs. W F Wallace wife of a U S Navy officer said goodbye at San Francisco as her husband who had been in the convoy escorting her ship back to the States appeared near the gangway. She is the former Reha Harmon of Amarillo and visited with her parents Mr and Mrs R L Harmon before returning to the West Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
W. FE. Wallace
U.S. Navy
San Francisco
States
Wallace
Reha Harmon
Amarillo
R. L. Harmon
Lincoln Street
West Coast
James Butler
Charlene
Lufkin
Fred Lyon
Bonham Street
Butler
J. H. Butler
Neill Singleton
Singleton
van Buren Street
Lyon
J. D. Holt
Decatur
Jim Berry
Artesia
N. M
Lyons
Bivins Addition
Charles Craddock
Coast Guard
Jacksonville
Fla
H. S. Milholland
North Johnson Street
Arthur Gray
Mary Holt
J. D. Henley
Lubbock
C. H. Howell
Pierce Street
Georgia Brooks
San Antonio
Harrol Brooks
Tyler Street
R. D Connally
J. N. Merchant
West Eighth Avenue
E. E. Reeves
Mississippi Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
N. E. Steph
Edward Steph
Carolyn Pelton
Fort Worth
Are We Smug Editor's Note on War Effort
Henry McLemore laments American complacency in wartime as April 28 observations cite politics business and labor as hindrances to unified victory. He warns that survival depends on national resolve, not self interest, urging restraint and collective effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry McLemore
New York
Republican National Committee
Farm
Washington
Chambers of Commerce
Answers to War Quiz on Editorial Page One
The editorial presents three quiz items: insignia worn by U S Marines on collars, King Peter ruling Yugoslavia, and dogs assigned to guard army property against theft or sabotage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Peter
Yugoslavia
World War II updates from April 28 events
A year ago on April 28 Lindbergh resigns from the Air Corps reserve. Britain reports capture of Desse, Ethiopia while Vichy notes Free French attempts to seize French Somaliland. Italy proclaims occupation of the Greek island Corfu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindbergh
Air Corps
Dessye
Ethiopia
Vichy
Corfu
Remember Pearl Harbor and Bataan and prepare for war
A wartime admonition warns that the nation lagged in armament while worldwide foes armed to the teeth. It urges vigilance against peace talkers who claim to favor pacifism but fail to back it with action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Dont Give Up Carnegie
In 1919 Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian-born student and future RCA pioneer, arrives in New York unable to land work. He endures humiliation, takes a bookkeeping job, studies at night, and after ten months wins a position at Westinghouse before rising to RCA to help develop the electron microscope. His story urges persistence through humble tasks toward a major breakthrough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Carnegie
Vladimir K. Zworykin
New York
Russia
Petroegrad Institute of Technology
Leningrad
College of France
Paris
Radao Corps
America
Sre
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Radio Corporation of America
van Leeuwwenhoek
Only One Storm explores a New England town via Canby Kittredge
Granville Hicks narrates life in a small town as Canby Kittredge abandons advertising for a family business. The couple, liberal and reflective, grapple with Communist temptation and Fascism, while the novel leans on small town chatter and local philosophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granville Hicks
New England
MacMillan
Canby Kittredge
Canby
Communist Party
Christina
Figures on Eastern Gas Stocks Questioned and Rail Lines Altered
In a Washington column, Paul Mallon argues that American Petroleum Institute data show gasoline stocks in the eastern seaboard remain near last year’s levels and even rise, challenging OPA rationing talk. He notes limited progress on reversing Pennsylvania pipelines to push fuel oil east, with three lines still largely westbound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mallon
Amarillo Globe
Paul Mallon
Washington
Seaboard
American Petroleum Institute
Messrs. Henderson
Ickes
Henderson
Institute
OPA
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Altoona
Tuscarora
Bayonne
Midland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Hitler
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Amapola
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Mary Stack
Amarillo High School
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Jane Eslick
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Mary Klingensmith
Mary Lucille Dowie
Virginia McCartt
Betty Taylor
Bill Thompson
Jack Childers
Bill Browder
Raymond Reed
Raymond Thornton
K. K. Bigelow
Roy Vineyard
Eddie Storseth
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Joan Blondell
Heaven
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Virginia Lee
Lloyd Snyder
Mickey Rooney
Chavez
Alma Poole
Grover Taylor
Elza Reynolds
Pampa
Debettes
Simone Simon
James Stewart
Wayne DeGrassi
J. L. Carter
Billy Ballard
Mountain Justice
Mission
Sigma Iota Chi
Amarillo Country Club
Bill Stack
W. E. Smith
Chuck Johnson
Ted Jensen
Little Sir Echo
Little Skipper
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Eve
Celebes
Earth
Joan Ifontaine
Lippmann
A. E. Wolflin
Paul Ellis
Camp Crowder
E. M. Vernon
Sis
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Waco
W. W. Rix
Guy Victory
Sybil Taylor
Vernon
Ray Taylor
Jane Manning
Farm Security Administration
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Miss Manning
Will Manning
H. B. DeGrassi
West Thirteenth Avenue
C. C. Walker
Travis Street
Joe Allen
James A. Noland
Taylor Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Eula Jane Rowley
Eula Jane
E. A. Rowley
Dumbos
Dumbo
Junior Welfare League
Rose Bowl Tea Room
Personality Beauty Shop
East Ninth Avenue
C. W. Hill
W. D. DeGrassi
E. J. McCartt
Otho Hall
North van Buren Street
R. H. Dana
Harrison Street
Levera Dodson
North Grant Street
S. R. Lanning
Panhandle
W. M. Murphy
Oscar Griffin
West Eighteenth Avenue
W. F. Henderson
Polk Street
C. L. Prater
Joe Entreken
Spearman
Leola Powell
A. J. Powell
East Tenth Avenue
Louis Richardson
San Diego
J. B. Slade
Edwin Wagner
Price Memorial College
Ruby Hanes
Keys
Okla
Molly Lou Morris
Dumas
W. W. Chilton
West Sixth Avenue
West 10Th Ave
Wellington
Kan
O. F. Henville
Jim Biddington
W. P. Blessington
Paramount Theater
William Hurst Miles
Lloyd Farnsworth
West Twelfth Avenue
T. W. Farnsworth
Wayne Miles
Tucumcart
Denver
Pete Knight
Ong Street
J. P. Gillen
AATT
Corpus Christi
W. M Carleton
Monroe Street
Carleton
Defense Project
S. J. Isham
Weslyn Apartments
Austin
Isham
Freese
O. M. Pulley
Rhs
McLemore
Cuba
Danbury
Conn
WAR Quiz
Carnegie
Roosevelt
Washington Post
Mellett
FDR
Congress
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