Penny to the Rescue short cooks up a storm at Paramount
MGM technicolor short Penny to the Rescue features Prudence Penny and Pete Smith demonstrating a pressure cooker to transform raw vegetables into a hot dinner in minutes. Shown with Chad Hanna starring Henry Fonda at the Paramount theater this weekend. A cooking contest offers a $50 prize for nonprofessionals entering the Goin Places event.
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20Th Century-Fox
Walter D. Edmonds
Saturday Evening Post
Dorothy Lamour
Henry Fonda
Linda Darnell
Guy Kibbee
Jane Darnell
Paramount Theater
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Pete Smith
Prudence Penny
Prudence
Sally Payne
Billy Newell
Will Jason
Paramount
Panhandle
William Dukes Receives Five Year Sentence
William Dukes of Canyon pleaded guilty to robbery by assault and received a five year prison term. He admitted the South Amarillo service station holdup with Robert Odom, who also drew five years, after a December 7 evening of stickups that included four high school students forced to ride with an armed man.
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E. C. Nelson
47Th District
Dukes
South
Amarillo
Robert Odom
Odom
Fire damages L. O. Biggers barber shop in Pleasant Valley
Early this morning a fire at 3 o clock damaged the L. O. Biggers barber shop in Pleasant Valley. Amarillo firemen responded to the alarm and the blaze, reportedly started by a hot water burner, destroyed the roof and the back end of the shop.
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L. O. Biggers
Pleasant Valley
Amarillo
Tallulah Bankhead Shines In The Little Foxes At Paramount
Critics hail Tallulah Bankhead as outstanding in The Little Foxes at Paramount Theater. The South setting at turn of the century lets her display period gowns and a self styled pompadour. Bankhead uses her own hair, aided by no wigmaker, and keeps a faded photo of her mother for inspiration.
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Tallulah Bankhead
Paramount Theater
Miss Bankhead
Lillian Hellman
South
Hitler U Boats and U.S. Aid Tangle Britain War Plan
Berlin and Washington issued parallel claims about submarine strength and supply bottlenecks. Adolf Hitler’s paper warned German U boats will threaten aid to Britain, while Secretary Stimson urged caution in any law blocking transfer of U.S. ships to Britain. Observers note Britain faces a dual German offensive of submarines and aerial attacks aimed at invasion.
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Berlin
Washington
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Stimson
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hitler
Fuehrer
Germany
Britain
Beaselead
England
Daughter Born to Robert N Williams in Houston
Mr and Mrs Robert N Williams of Houston welcomed a daughter born yesterday. The baby Roberta weighed nine pounds and is the couple’s first child. The column then shifts to wartime commentary about Britain's need for destroyers and light warships to protect convoys and counter U boat threats, suggesting a possible plea for more naval aid from the United States and hinting at Secretary Stimson’s possible role.
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Robert N. Williams
Houston
Williams
J. Ray
Amarillo
Roberta
Britain
Hitler
England
English Channel
Stimson
Big Job for Tax Deputies
Tax deputies announce limits on helping with 1940 returns due to lower personal exemptions. They will advise but not prepare corporation, estate, gift, or complex individual returns, requiring complete information and no extra schedules. Ralph Kenniston guides district procedures. The piece also oddly notes geography origins and U S petroleum output.
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Second District of
Texas
Ralph Kenniston
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