Lend-Lease Aid Trebled Since Pearl Harbor Attack
Washington reports lend-lease aid to the Allies has trebled since Pearl Harbor. Edward R. Stettinius Jr. testifies before the Senate appropriations committee that aid averaged 141 million monthly in early months, rising to 338 million in December and 462 million in January. He notes air ferrying routes to the Middle East and Africa, base usage in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and a total aid of over 2 billion by January, with a further $5.3 billion requested plus $95 million for the defense supplemental.
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Washington
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Senate Appropriations Committee
Atlantic
Middle East
Pacific
Africa
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Stettinius
House
Australia
New Zealand
Dutch East Indies
China
India
Burma
America
Lendlease
Campaign to stress workers' role in war production
War production officials plan a four to five month campaign to elevate worker importance in arms output. Promoting merit over speed ups, recognizing plants with notable production, and sending foremen to army maneuvers aim to boost efficiency and quality for the 1943 production surge. Leadership approval from Roosevelt is anticipated.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
Navy
Kee Situation Scrambled Over Egg Price Floor Folly
Chicago February 24 egg traders faced a tangled market as a government price floor for eggs sagged after Washington's Birthday. Officials announced February minimums for fresh graded first eggs at Chicago while the Federal surplus body moved to intervene in futures amid market confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
Washington
Department of Agriculture
New York
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Disguised German U Boat Shells Cape Cod in WWI
A German submarine disguised as a freight er shelled the Cape Cod shore on July 2 1918 during World War I. The U 156 attacked a tug Perth Amboy and a string of barges off Orleans Mass causing one casualty and a brief coastal bombardment before fleeing as navy planes bombed the submarine.
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Cape Cod
Boston
Orleans
Mass
Cape Resort
Cape
Kapitanleutnant von Oldenburg
Navy
Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis Advertises Creomulsion
An advertisement urges quick treatment for bronchitis and for coughs noting chronic bronchitis may follow untreated respiratory infections. It promotes Creomulsion blended with beechwood creosote and other medicines, claims it is non narcotic and offers a money back guarantee if it does not ease the cough.
Generation of Wing Is Seen
The article reports educators warning at the American Association of School Administrators that a future with wings is coming. Dr. Alexander J Stoddard says schools must adapt to parachute literacy aeronautics and new methods. Education should boost morale democracy and war aims.
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San Francisco
American Association of School Administrators
America
Alexander J Stoddard
Philadelphia
Government egg purchases undercut market floor concerns
The Commerce Department lowered bid to 17 percent cents a dozen, buying 4 350 dozens. January lend lease exports boosted dried frozen and shell egg purchases to 308 million dozen eggs in shell at over £92 million. Despite heavy shipments to Great Britain, prices have declined since mid January as output rises and peak production nears. Shell egg futures drop to season lows.
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Agricultural Department
Great Britain
Aircraft Sheet Metal Class Formed at Amarillo College
The Amarillo College Defense School forms an Aircraft Sheet Metal class to train for factory work. Carter A. Bassett is shop superintendent and Clark Wagner is foreman. Bert M. Wiesser oversees grading and assignments. Rules address FBI protection, tool handling, rivet usage, and safety. The course runs about ten weeks.
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Amarillo College Defense School
Carter A. Bassett
Clark Wagner
Bert M. Wiesser
United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New Residents Listed From Across the Region
Last Sunday's paper adds newcomers to the list. Jimmie Borders and wife arrive from Tulsa living at 1009 Monroe Street. Borders works for Southwestern Office Supply. Multiple families arrive from Wellington Fort Worth Wichita Falls Dallas Lubbock and Wingate settling in Amarillo with jobs at the Smelter Phillips Petroleum Company and Braniff Airways among others.
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Jimmie Borders
Monroe Street
Tulsa
Borders
Southwestern Office Supply Company
Noel Berry
Barbara
Douglas
Wellington
Florida Street
Berry
Fort Worth
Robert E. Carstarphen
Robert III
West Twelfth Avenue
Carstarphen
Amarillo Credit Association
J. F. Dougherty
van Buren Street
Dougherty
Phillips Petroleum Company
Wichita Falls
M. A. Hampton
East Twenty-Fourth Avenue
Hampton
Sproles
Amarillo
George T. Lewis Jr
Houston
Lewis
American Finance Company
Floyd F. Luck
Harrison
Dallas
Luck
Braniff Airways
Local Residents Move to Amarillo Apartments
New arrivals list includes Spector connected with City Pipe and Junk Co and Schock family from Midland at 1018 West Tenth Avenue Phoebe Ann eight years old and Charles Schock at Stanolind Oil. Horace Simpson family from Finona with four children at 3508 Taylor Street. Scroggin family from Oklahoma City at 506 West Tenth Avenue. Wilkinson family to 3500 Jackson Street from Amarillo Printing. Wakefield family from Olympia Washington at 606 West Tenth Avenue with B A E at Oliver Eakle Building.
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Merly
Kansas City
Amarillo
Spector
City Pipe and Junk Co
Charles P. Schock
Phoebe Ann
Midland
West Tenth Avenue
Schock
Stanolind Oil Company
Finona
Horace Simpson
Winona
Charles
Ernestine
Helen
Taylor Street
Simpson
Oklahoma City
Jess G. Scroggin
Scrogein
Wichita Falls
W. W. Wilkinson
Betty Sue
Jackson Street
Wilkinson
Ame=arillo Printing Company
R. R. Wakefield
Olympia
Washington
Mr. Wakefield
Oliver-Eakle
Sub Chaser To Be Launched Friday
The PC-565 steel submarine chaser will be launched Friday in Houston with Governor Coke Stevenson speaking. The vessel will be sponsored by Miss Jacqueline Bates Perry, daughter of Commander and Mrs. E B Perry of Orange.
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Houston
Navy
Gov
Coke Stevenson
Jacqueline Bates Perry
E. B. Perry
Orange
Peggy trains pilots for Army and Navy with Camel loyalty
Men praised Peggy for teaching flight to numerous Army and Navy cadets. She remains loyal to both branches and credits Camel cigarettes as her preferred brand, claiming they are milder in every way.
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Lennox
Peggy Lennox
CAA
Randolph
Pensacola
Peggy
Army
Navy
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Nelson
William Batt
Interallied Supply Council
Gorden
Blackburn Shaw
Pierce A
King's Men
Poria
FREI
M. D
Motor Vectoe
Fary
GMAC
Spikes Traitt Pontiac CO
Vuy-Il Pylek
Tolzien
oSee
Wurlitzer
Knabe le
FBI
W. M. Mullin
Carolina Street
Mullin
Burlington
W. E. Robertson
George Everett
East Thirteenth Avenue
Lubbock
Robertson
Kinney Shoe Store
J. B. Rayburn Jr
John Bradley
Bellaire Street
Rayburn
Rico Stix Dry Goods Company
C. A. Reagan
Maryland Street
Wingate
Mr. Reagan
Mrs
Gene Spector
Missouri
Cream of Kentucky
Lmmoy WU
Kentucky
Bou
Cove Spring
Schenley Distillers Corp
N.Y.C
Uncle Sam
B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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