Fewer Cattle On Feed Predicted For Spring Meat Supplies
The Agriculture Department reports 16 percent fewer cattle on feed for market than a year ago with lighter weights ahead. Pork supplies remain large, hog marketing up to date, but cattle reductions point to a sharp drop in slaughterings in April through June. Major factors include tighter feed and tighter margins between livestock and feed costs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
War Food Administration
Corn Belt
Mississippi River
Texas
Oklahoma
Soldier Ballot Still Jumbled
The House elections committee approved a soldier vote bill placing absentee ballot control with the states. Secretaries of war and navy would send cards to armed forces and overseas service members to request absentee ballots, with state officials forwarding ballots to local election boards. The bill retains Senate guidance on presidential ballot disposition machinery.
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Washington
U.P
House Elections Committee
Secretaries of War and Navy
Armed Forces
Red Cross
Senate
Mrs Aleene Meier Taken by Death
Mrs Aleene Henderson Meier 26 died at 11 this morning in Northwest Texas hospital a week after her newborn daughter died. She was a graduate nurse of Northwest Texas hospital’s training school in 1934 wife of Lee Meier stationed at Amarillo Army Air Field and daughter of Mrs Laura Henderson of Memphis. Survived by husband mother five brothers and three sisters including Mrs G W Coulter Portland Ore Mrs Lela Foster Chicago and Mabel Henderson Gentry Ark. The body is at Boxwell Brothers.
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Aleene Henderson Meier
Northwest Texas Hospital
Meier
Lee Meier
Amarillo Army Air Field
Laura Henderson
Memphis
G. W. Coulter
Portland
Ore
Lela
Mexican War Film At Leon Theater Shown With The Bank Dick
The Leon Theater screens a one reel government film Mexico in the War on its Saturday program. The Spanish language short subject explains Mexico's wartime efforts to aid the Allies, paired with the feature The Bank Dick starring W C Fields.
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Leon
Mexico
Pic
United Nations
W. C. Jields
Hollywood lampoon urges films on labor and capital clash
Jimmie Fidler proposes screen dramas tackling the labor versus capital struggle to curb emotional bias and spotlight racketeers in unions and greed in business, arguing movies can advance understanding amid ongoing tensions in modern industry.
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Hollywood
Army Field Band Concert Postponed One Week
The First Army Air Force band concert at the Auditorium USO is postponed due to refinishing work. There will be no Sunday afternoon tea dance. a dance will be held that night at the Downtown USO. Concerts resume one week from Sunday.
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Army Field Band
First Army Air Force
Auditorium Uso
Uso
iSunda i
Secretary Jones Hurt In Christmas Eve Car Crash
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones III was injured when a car struck him on Christmas Eve outside his Houston hotel. He suffered a broken leg and sprained ankle and remained in his hotel room, with doctors expecting his return to Washington soon. Jones, turning 70 in April, was in Houston to review Gulf Coast war plants and visit friends. Arthur Bullock of the OPA in Lubbock said he would visit boards across the district to clarify rationing office roles for counties.
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Houston
Jesse Jones
Jones
Washington
Arthur Bullock
OPA
Lubbock
Amarillo
Bullock
Soldier Learns Baby Care At USO Nursery Preview
Pvt Eugene Rickey in Detroit helps tend nine week old child as Mrs Glen Beck of Madison leaves briefly. Pvt Jim Thorp of Flushing assists. Thorp has a two year old son at home. USO North Den nursery scene yields a pleasant, relaxed gathering.
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Eugene Rickey
Detroit
Mich
Rickey
Glen Beck
Madison
Wis
Auditorium
USO
British Flagship Visits Red Port in Russia
In an unidentif ied Russian harbor a British Home Fleet flagship the Duke of York sailed in to ceremony with Vice Admiral Golovko aboard Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser hosted toasts to Stalin and King George Fraser inspected Russian destroyers and anti submarine boats and visited a Red Army airfield The same date the Ankara radio reported allied bombers killed two Bulgarian ministers in Sofia
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London
U.P
Sudan
Golovko
Duke of York
Britain
Bruce Fraser
Stalin
George
Fraser
Red Army
Ensign Haynes Transfers After Blimp Escort
Ensign Robert M. Haynes of Amarillo, promoted to communications officer, woke at 3:30 AM to a coded order transferring him to another ship. He had boarded a blimp for a brief escort and landed in the Mediterranean. A 1942 enlistment and a 1943 commission followed his Amarillo High School, Amarillo College, and Hardin-Simmons education.
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Robert M. Haynes
Amarillo
Ensign Haynes
J. F. Haynes
Lincoln Street
Mediterranean
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Hardin-Simmons
Market Averages and Sales at 1 P M
Dow Jones figures show industrials rails utilities and stocks at 1 P M with Merrill Lynch data. Sales at 1 P M total 616000 reflecting trading activity in major sectors.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
English Field Can Stretch Runways and Land Transfers
English Field could extend runways to 10 000 feet without moving rail lines but would require shifting Highway 66. Col E A Simpson reports to Chamber of Commerce directors with Jack Cunningham urging land transfer of Amarillo Army Air Field area and expansion of English Field. Cunningham says the 1 500 acre transfer aims to anchor a permanent army field and excludes English Field. Directors also authorize Avery Rush to reactivate labor recruiting to meet Pantex worker demands.
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English Field
Col. E. A. Simpson
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Cunningham
Amarillo Army Air Field
Cunningham
Amarillo
Avery Rush
Pantex
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Astanbul
Bulgaria
Sofia
Ickes
Interior Department
Bome
Charlotte Ann Morrow
Cpl. Clifford Morrow
A. P. Morrow
Hayes Street
H. J. Edwards
Tulia
Jimmie Fidler
W. C. Fields
Miss Russell
Rube
Wallace Beery
Veronica Lake
Joan Crawford
Vic
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Errol Flynn
Vivien Marshall
Mocambo
Jesse Jones III
U. S
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Pearl Harbor
United States Seventh Airforce
Marshall Islands
Maleolap Lagoon
Chester W. Nimitz
Maleolap
Mille Atoll
Tarawa
Gilberts
Soldier
Red Port
Ankara
Turkey
NEW York Stock Exchange
Tel & Tel
Armour & Co. A
At& SF Tenes
Aviation Corp
Feneetae
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
General Foods
General Motors
Greyhound
Pines
Ren
Ansley Cleaners
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Financial Industrial Fund
Iint Harvester Tees
Kennecott
Ory
Long-Bell Lumber
Oeainee Gulf Olls Eee
Glenn L. Martin
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator Tee
National Biscuit Sone
National Can Veereteseeen 8% New York Shipbuilding Wy. New York Central
North Ameree BS
Ohio
Packard Hedese Vo Wee
Pan Amer Airways
Paramount
Penn RR Trae Saeewee
Phillipa Wt Geee Teens
Plymouth Oil
St. Joseph Lead
Scars
Eres
Shell Union Oil
Socony
Southern Pacific
Calif
Studebaker
Swift & Co
Texas C
Charles E. Fuller
Amarillo Printing CO
Amarillo Hotel
Charlie Pryor
Mgr
Zale
Her
Clavel
TSANG
AEG
Ona
LeMay
Ree Diamonds
ReautNger
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Polk
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