Crack Down on Draft Regulation Violators
Seven complaints were filed yesterday in Amarillo as the FBI and selective service step up enforcement. R G Danner said all noncompliant registrants will be picked up, with penalties including jail for willful violations and possible carelessness cases needing board cooperation. Arrests apply to those lacking registration and classification cards, and free legal assistance is available through the Amarillo Bar Association for registrants and men in service.
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Dallas
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Texas House Acts on Healing Bills
The Texas House moved toward rival healing bills with favorable committee reports. One bill would create a separate board of chiropractic examiners to license chiropractors. another would require basic science exams for all healer licensure seekers, excluding Christian Science practitioners. Dr. Holman Taylor and other physicians opposed the chiropractic proposal.
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Public Health
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Fort Worth
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Ration Book Problem Being Worked Out
The local board announced that registering people who do not hold Ration Book No 1 is being worked out and instructions will come within days. All affected persons including children will have a chance to register for the old book, making them eligible for the new. In emergencies, those without sugar book coupons for shoes may obtain emergency sugar and use it to buy shoes.
Eagle Pass Field To Be Dedicated
Eagle Pass Army Air Field, a new single engine advanced flying school, will be dedicated next Tuesday. An 80 plane aerial review will highlight the event and include wings being presented to the field’s second class of graduates with several Mexican Army officers from Piedras Negras expected to attend.
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Eagle Pass
U.P
Eagle Pass Army Air Field
Army Air Forces
Piedras Negras
A Soldier's Mother Poem of Love and Duty
A poem by Woodrow Baldwin honors a mother's steadfast love for a soldier. It contrasts maternal care with youthful temptations and recalls a promise to return home to a loving mother. The verse ends with faith in God and a mother's enduring influence.
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Woodrow Baldwin
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood
Hollywood gossip column notes star moves and plans with Jolson Negri Raft and Garbo. Pola Negri signs for radio drama. Lupe Velez duets with George Shelley. Eddie Bracken writes a new Pirates of Penzance. approvals and bells for young Hazel Brooks earnings invest War Bonds.
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al Jolson
Pola Negai
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Betty Grable
Van
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Lupe Velez
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San Francisco
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Harry Sherman
Palm Springs
Plywood Airplane To Have Its Place
Col. John H. H. Jouett of Higgins Aircraft Inc. told the Texas section of the society of automotive engineers that the plywood plane will have a place after the war even if metal is plentiful. He said wooden planes are easier to repair and maintain and will be valuable in primitive areas lacking modern facilities where people can work on wood to repair planes.
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John H. H. Jouett
Higgins Aircraft Inc
New Orleans
Texas
Society of Automotive Engineers
Brick Plant Rumored for Troup After Land Purchase
Troup Texas February 11 Rumors say a 250000 brick plant will be built here after an attorney authorized the purchase of 30 acres for the General Refractories of Philadelphia. The company formerly operated a brick plant at Malakoff that burned.
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Tex
U.P
Philadelphia
Malakoff
Amarillo Drives Tin Can Salvage For Copper War Supply
The city launches a tin can drive to trap copper for the war effort. Cans must go in separate containers beside the trash barrel and will be hauled to dumps for processing. The program, led by Lowell Munday, aims to supply 60 to 70 tons monthly, with the slogan Tie Amarillo cans to the tails of Axis hounds.
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Nevada
War Production Board
Amarillo
Lowell Munday
Dallas
Welles slams German blacklist in Vichy detentions
Undersecretary Sumner Welles called Germany’s detention of American diplomatic and consular officials in Vichy France a cheap form of blackmail. He noted Germany insisted on releasing the armistice commission captured in French Africa in exchange for the Americans, despite the prisoners of war status of the armistice members. He cited U S protests through Swiss mediation.
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Sumner Welles
Germany
Vichy
France
Welles
French Africa
Armistice Commission
United States
Vichy France
Mrs Norris Receives Final Gates Estate Installment
Debora A. Norris of St. Charles Illinois niece of John W Gates received the last $2 741 000 installment of her share in the Gates estate on her 40th birthday. Earlier installments were paid on ages 30 and 35. Gates, nicknamed The Father of Port Arthur, funded a library and a hospital.
Crippled Boy Gets Secret Navy Job
Teaneck New Jersey reports Eero Koskinen, 16, crippled since infancy, left school at navy request to work on model airplane building. His assignment in the navy will be experimental and secret due to his special skill.
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N. J
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Eero Koskinen
Navy
If you wish to receive me shake your wings
In Lake Field Arizona in a training flight a signal tower and a pilot exchanged a brief radio cue with the pilot asking the tower to shake wings to acknowledge reception and the tower replying in turn. The light exchange shows radio coordination during flight training.
Markets and Livestock Reports and Local Accident
Stock averages and trading data from Merrill Lynch report the Dow Jones steady as livestock markets in Chicago Kansas City and Houston show hogs cattle and sheep price ranges. Houston records a car collision injuring Galveston County Commissioner W G Ellis with others unharmed.
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Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Orbourvoises
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Dies to Re-examine 1200 Federal Employees for Subversive Ties
Chairman Martin Dies of the House American Affairs committee said the panel will recheck 1,200 federal employees previously accused of subversive connections. The House voted 302 to 94 to continue the Dies Committee.
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Washington
Martin Dies
Texas
House
Jerry Voorhis
California
Dies Committee
Justice Department
Dies
Appropriations
39 Corporations Face Trust Case
The Federal Trade Commission charged 39 corporations and eight individuals with conspiring to fix prices and curb competition in refractory products. The complaint states the group, including Thermo Fire Brick Co of Sulphur Springs Texas, controls over 75 percent of the nation's refractory market and has raised war industry costs.
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U.P
Federal Trade Commission Today
American Refractories Institute
Pittsburgh
Thermo Fire Brick Co
Sulphur Springs, Tex. v
Campbell waits for judge on theft case
McKinley Campbell remains in county jail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to theft from an automobile. Judge Ernest North took the case under advisement and promised credit for time served. Campbell has prior prison time.
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McKinley Campbell
Ernest Northcutt
Campbell
Airline Girls Pick Oranges In Burbank
A group of United Airlines stewardesses in Burbank California helped ease a labor shortage by climbing ladders to pick oranges. They gathered 540 boxes of fruit as part of the effort.
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Calif
United Airlines
Footwear thieves hit delivery truck in Chicago scene
In Chicago on February 11 thieves specialized in scarce footwear items. They stole three cases of shoes from a delivery truck while driver Raymond Kankowski was making a stop. Grant Brammon reported the theft near Damen Avenue.
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Raymond Kankowski
Grant Brammon
Damen Ave
Police report: theft from Orwell residence
Police say six pairs of nylon pants were stolen from a home linked to a man named Orwell. No suspects named at this time.
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