Goin' Places Nat Reopens With Big Band Glitz
Nat reopens under Dr. W A Maddox with Wit Thoma on nightly entertainment. Friday is fraternity night. Across the ballots from Down Beat awards Benny Goodman wins Swing Band, Glenn Miller leads Sweet Band, Tommy Dorsey runner up.
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Roy Feldridge
Gene Krupa
Johnny Hodges
Duke Ellington
Toots Mondello
NBC
More McLemore: Southern women join defense era chores
Henry McLemore notes Mobile and the South face a shift as defense work draws maids and debs away. Homemakers now cook, wash, and manage households, while husbands toil in shipyards. Southern life adapts as traditions bend under wartime labor and rising incomes.
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Uncle Sam
Mercy
Mandy
Martha
Regior Landry
Church
Wartime voices rally support across leaders and nations
A collection of speeches and messages from Roosevelt Sutphin MacArthur Odlum Nelson and others expressing resolve against Germany Italy and enemies abroad. The notes urge perseverance in defense of civilization and private enterprise while praising Allied efforts and the need for improvement.
Navy secrecy on submarine successes puzzles Axis
The Capital notes that U S Navy gains in Pacific and Atlantic submarine warfare are kept quiet to mislead Axis forces. Rumors about Stalin and Washington are dismissed as Nazi fabrication. Domestic politics praise Roosevelt allies and critique Ickes amid wartime planning and daylight savings debate. Henri Bernstein seeks American citizenship.
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Stockholm
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Wheeler
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Puzzler Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical Clues
A crossword style list of numbered across and down clues with hints for words such as head of U S Selective Service 13 Represent a tive 14 Scholarly 16 Germanium symbol 17 Long 19 Accomplish 21 Duties 24 Measures of area 25 Rigid 27 Print measur 28 Perch 30 Variety of lettuce 31 Father 32 Moist 34 Loudly 37 Pro 38 Make a slight bow 39 Chemical suffix 40 Calcium 41 Also 42 Poem 43 Sickness 44 Finish 46 Us 47 Call for help at sea 48 Redacts 50 United States of America abbr 53 Toward 54 Appropriately 56 Pertaining to punishment 58 Dried 59 Fish 60 Feathered scarf vertical clues many items appear too
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United States of America
Public favors drafting single women 21 to 35 for wartime jobs
A George Gallup survey for the American Institute of Public Opinion shows overwhelming public support for drafting single women aged 21 to 35 to train for wartime work. Women in the 21-35 group also favor the idea more than men, with 73 percent in favor.
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Local readers offer Red Cross and defense ideas for war effort
A collection of letters to the Globe-News editor presents ideas from Amarillo residents on supporting Red Cross work and civilian defense. Submissions propose keeping children for workers, daily defense participation, defending with stamps, air raid shelter use, and donating magazines for troops and camps.
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Leo Hoskins
West 19Th Avenue
Potter County
Ed Putman
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Seventh and
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Betty Moore
Sunset Terrace
R. B. Allen
Washington Street
Cracker Editorial Notes Weather Terms and Climate
The page explains the sun at its northernmost point marking summer in the north and winter in the south. It defines hurricane typhoon and tornado with brief region notes and cites Mark Twain on weather. It to references storms and a historical Armada event and a freezing point fact.
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Mark Twain
Rambling with Ernie Pyle Tells of a Toy Shepherd Dog
In Albuquerque Ernie Pyle recounts acquiring a toy shepherd from Falls Church Virginia. The journey by air and rail tests the dog and the narrator as they travel across the country and adjust to life with a new companion. The tale mixes humor with the chaos of a first week of ownership.
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Washington
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A Year Ago Light News From Fronts
United Press reports German planes sunk a Danish freighter and a British trawler while damaging another British merchantman and tanker. Dutch freighter hit mines and Finns report a breather on all fronts.
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Mind holds up with age says Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie assures readers that the mind does not age, it slows in speed but gains accuracy. He cites experiments and Hollywood examples, noting older workers like May Robson and Harry Davenport stay active, differing from youth mainly in pace.
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Ickes
Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
Joe Eastman
Nelson Priority Division
SPAB
Henderson Auto
Gimble
New York
Hollywood
May Robson
Homer Cray
Harry Davenport
Homer
Hobart Bosworth
C. Aubrey Smith
New York Junk Peddler Miriam Lynn Makes Her Mark
Mrs. Miriam Lynn, a young gold haired junk dealer, drives a store to store wagon buying old rags bones bottles and paper. Widowed two years ago she built a thriving business by visiting apartments and weighing junk with two helpers. Her success defies initial doubts from a skeptical public.
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United Press
New York
Miriam Lynn
Lynn
Pied Piper and At the Moon's Inn Anvil War and Exploration
A wartime study of Nevil Shute’s Pied Piper follows an Englishman guiding a mixed group of children through bombed France to safety in England. Andrew Lytle’s At the Moon’s Inn recounts De Soto’s ill fated expedition with romance and siege scenes in a vivid historical tale. Evelyn Duncan, 21, Birmingham, sets a shell component record with 6,130 units in six days, surpassing Mary Dullen’s 5,000.
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