Weather talk and war time concerns in Amarillo tavern column
A reflective column covers warm days and uncertain frost, local melon issues with jackrabbits at the Cactus Plant, and remarks on George Maggard's visit. It also critiques Washington war messaging, notes heavy Allied losses, and reports on Secretary Ickes creating a Geographic Names Board with Dr. Burrill detailing pronunciation efforts in the interior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United States
Ickes
Washington
Meredith F. Burrill
Burrill
Dr. Burrill
Daily News
Bizerte
Amchitka
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Messabi
Amarillo readers weigh duties of press and civic life
A long readers’ letter column questions the press role amid wartime measures and local civic events. It urges constructive debate about names, education, and government programs, and notes Soldier Wife Day activities and a public breakfast for service wives in the Panhandle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Paramount
Globe News
Herring Hotel
Panhandle
Darling
United States
Harvard
Blenheim
Count Fleet
Askmenon
America
Japan
Far East
Masanao Honihara
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Bostonian
JIMMY FIDLER REPORTS HOLLYWOOD WHIRL
Hollywood gossip notes include Charles Boyer headed for a Broadway act in a Toulon fleet tale, John Loder and Hedy Lamarr touring Mexico City after films, Roy Rogers on a republic publicity high, Major David Niven eyed for a Goldwyn film, and various star romances and projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Charles Boyer
Toulon
John Loder
Hedy Lamarr
Mexico City
Republic
Life Magazine
Roy Rogers
Samuel Goldwyn
David Niven
Faye
Warner Brothers
Emerson
Phillippe de Garnier
Barbara Bennett
Morton Downey
Ann Sothern
Bob Sterling
Texas
Helmut Dan‘tine
Hollywood Ymca
Motion Picture Relief Fund
Veronica Lake
John Detlie
Emily Kimbrough
Bob Hope
First Stop
Sicily
Lucille Ball
MGM
Robert Taylor
Milam Street resident seeks call about Mississippi Street house
A Milam Street woman with two young daughters asks for a return call regarding a house at 402 Mississippi Street and requests contacting her at 404 Mississippi Street.
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Milam Street
Mississippi St
Brankmiller Family Defends Shipyard Title in Portland
Mr and Mrs John H Brankmiller headline a shipyard clan of fifteen at Kaiser Swan Island in Portland Oregon They work the graveyard shift with eight sons one daughter a son in law and four daughters in law all men shipfitters while the women weld and welders helpers The family payroll averages 996 dollars weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
U.P
John H. Brankmiller
America
Kaiser Co
Swan Island
General Chung Praises Eighth Army After Tunisia Wins
Cairo dispatch quotes General Hoo Schen Chung saying the Eighth Army can beat anything the Axis sends. He notes the Young Fascists fought better than Germans in Tunisia and recalls Chinese armored units helping save 7,000 British and Indian troops cut off near Mandalay in Burma.
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Cairo
U,.p
Hoo Schen Chung
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Mandalay
Burma
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B. A. Turner
Cactus Plant
Mr Turner
George Maggard
Army
Navy
Tehir
Otho Thompson
Hoffman
Hitler
Italy
U. S
al Jolson
Lewis Madison Terman
Charter Heslop
Radio Division
Federal Bureau of Censorship
President Roosevelt
Admiral King
General Marshall
WPB
Virginia
Beauty
Frances Elaine Smith
L. F. Spiser
Happy
Marvin Smith
Channing
J. J. Bauer
Dudley Smith
Jimmie Fidler
Fred Astaire
Jerry Colonna
Jean Gabin
Anne Shirley
Patlette Goddard
RKO
Pred Astaire
Joan Leslie
Universal
Deanna Durbin
Joseph Cotten
Monogram
Billy Gilbert
Frank Fay
Bonnie Baker
Phyllis Potter
Bing Crosby
Katharine Hepburn
Clark Gable
George O' Brien
Marguerite Churchill
Eleanor Holm
Art Jarrett
Lew Ayres
Adolf Hitler
Pola Negri
Rita Hayworth
Miss Dietrich
Miriam Hopkins
Boyer
Charlie
Herbert Marshall
Mae West
Eddie Cantor
Shirley Temple
Jane Withers
Jean Brooks
Mussolini
New’ Tack
Tack
San Jacinto
Harrison St
N. Hayes St
Georgia
Mary Bell
Windastorm Surety
F. H. A. Loans
Glass and Allied Lines
G.G. Simonds
Globe-News
Tom Sawyer
Leisure Coats
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