Engagement of Ernestine Ballard and George Gollar
Privilege today to announce the engagement of Ernestine Ballard and George Gollar of St. Louis. George has been in Amarillo for the past week. Engagement decided yesterday with wishes for happiness. Also notes readers’ letters to Bill about No More Mondays and supper club scenes at the Nat with numerous local names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernestine Ballard
George Gollar
St. Louis
George
Amarillo
Bill
Joyce
Nat Fay Davis
Celephone Nixon
Vern Dysart
Bobby Imard
Bill Montgomery
LaVerne Lowell
Mary Klingensmith
Raymond Sanders
Doll Smith
Kathryn Farwell
Raymond Thornton
Air Corps
Harriet Emery Jane Maharon
Charles Jennings
Fern Kruger
Brummett
Dorothy
Slugger) McClendon
Jean Florey
Frances Farwell
Rex Blankenship
Red” Sievers
Martha Teas
Wayford Holman
Jeanette Donaldson
Scott Bledsoe
Bettie Jean Mead
M. T. Johnson
Illinois
George Bates
Bob Rowntree
Cotillion
Betty Younger
Mildred Rutherford
Eldon Seibel
Bette Ward
Japan’s War Prospects and Oil Link to Burma and Malaya
Military economists estimate Japan could pivot to Burma and upper Malaya to sustain a war beyond China. They cite oil, tin, and rubber needs, limited Allied response capabilities, and Japan’s synthetic oil plans as key, with Burma potentially meeting about half of annual oil demand.
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Washington
Japan
China
Dutch East Indies
Siberia
Burma
Malay Peninsula
Thailand
Great Britain
Malaya
United States
Germany
Manchuria
Sakhalin
Taiwan
Britton
Rise of nonpartisan upsets signals political restlessness
Washington notes a wave of municipal election upsets across the country since January. Both parties claim gains in some cities while nonpartisan races dominate. Analysts see broad political restlessness, not a clear national issue, with incumbents toppled from small towns to major cities.
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Washington
St. Lois
Minneapolis
Duluth
Peoria
Jacksonville
Miami
Chillicothe
Minnotis
Near East
Britain
the Sur
Libya
Army
Navy
OPM
Donald Nelson
Nelson
London
Agriculture Department
Agriculture In the
Pungeer Horizontal and Vertical Puzzle Clues
A list of crossword like clues labeled horizontal and vertical with numbers, offering word definitions such as one who ensnares, winglike, comedian, and other terms, plus references to previous puzzle answers and various abbreviations. The items span verbs, nouns, and adjectives across common puzzle entries.
Plymouth speech recalls Pilgrims and a future city above the sea
On the record from Plymouth England a speaker cites Mayflower steps and Plymouth Rock as symbols of liberty and unity. He urges building a new Plymouth above the sea with churches factories and homes, linking past endurance to present wartime resolve. He compares global places and notes distances and densities of territories and peoples.
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Plymouth
England
Jose
St Andrews
Mayflower Steps
Plymouth Rock
Europe
Drake
St. Andrews
Ten McGinn children run household and circus empire
Albert and Kathlee McGinn of Glen Ave Iowa raise ten children who share housework and earnings. The boys work outside, pay the girls, run The Glen Gossip paper, carry for The Nonpareil, and stage an annual circus drawing hundreds. They manage finances, clothing, and chores with a penny system, attend church, and boast autographs from locals.
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Ernif
Mary Margaret
Glen
McGinns
Glen Ave
McGinn
Circus
Walter Raleigh
Pope Benedict
Council Bluffs
Ellen Drew Returns as Clerk in The Remarkable Andrew
Hollywood star Ellen Drew, famed glamour girl, plays a small town store clerk in Paramount’s The Remarkable Andrew. The fantasy romance, adapted from Dalton Trumbo’s novel, also stars Brian Donlevy and William Holden with ghosts of historic figures aiding a young couple amid a modern romance.
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Charles R. Moore
Hollywood
Ellen Drew
Miss Drew
Paramount
Andrew
Brian Donlevy
William Holden
Democracy values minority opinion in Senate debate
A public remark argues that democracy requires minority voices like Senator Wheeler be heard. The speaker challenges attempts to quell opposition and cites Borough President Isaacs at New York University as context for strong disagreement.
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Wheeler
Alch Mign
Isaacs
New York University
Change people by showing them their own advantage
Dale Carnegie recounts how Frank W. Wilkisson persuaded Fulton Fish Market merchants to cooperate by demonstrating personal benefit. A hanging fish display and shifting price signs sparked interest, leading to a meeting, funds, and the formation of a Fishery Council with Wilkisson as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Wilkisson
Fulton Fish Market
New York
al Smith
Frank
Fulton
Fishery Council
Easter Lily Shortage Prompts U S Farm Experiment
World war shortages cut 97 percent of Japan imports, leaving 27 million lily bulbs unavailable. The Agriculture Department seeks new bulbs resistant to disease and adaptable to the South, using Farm Security Administration plots Scuppernong Farms North Carolina and Terrebonne Farms in Louisiana to grow 500 000 lilies next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Stinnett
United States
Japan
Holland
Pacific Northwest
New York
Department of Agriculture
South
Department
Bureau of Plant Industry
Beltsville
Bureau
Old Farm Resettlement Administration
Farm Security Administration
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
Mississippi Delta
FSA
Terrebonne
Lord Broadway and My Father Is a Quiet Man book notes
A backstage tour of three decades of Broadway through Dayton Stoddart’s Lord Broadway and a required reading pick My Father Is a Quiet Man by Tommy Waderton. The blurbs reference figures like Sime and Jolson and discuss a controversial, violent mother figure in a parental reading context.
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Broadway
Dayton Stoddart
Line Silverman
Variety
al Jolson
Paul Whiteman
Fanty Brice
Sime’s
Colonel Wacellon
Tommy Waderton
Tommy
Goward
McCann
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Miss Certain
France
Russia
Paul Mation
AIR Force
Aluminum
TIN
Mia, So
Steel
Pungeer
Yale
Nevada City
Sail
General Fleetrie
Winston
By Dorothy Thompson
New World
God
Texas
Indo- China
Bor Nexas
Dale Carnegie
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