18 Prominent Nazis Executed in Kristiansand Norway
The Norwegian information bureau reported 18 leading Germans were executed after a court martial for cooperating with the enemy. Other underground notices claim German morale is low, with mutinies, concentration camps, and desertions rising across Norway.
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Norway
London
U.P
Norwegian Information Bureau
Kristiansand
Adolf Hitler
Hiter
Nordreisa
Finland
Bergen
Powarps Plot Postwar America Amid Plans and Hopes
Washington reports more "Powarps" than armchair strategists as postwar planners from over a score of government agencies map futures. The National Resources Planning Board foresees avoiding a postwar slump while VP Wallace envisions a broad middle class, with agendas on 40 hour weeks, federal works, manpower demobilization, social security, health, and education reforms.
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America
National Resources Planning Board
Wallace
Resources Planning Board
Budget Bureau
Labor Department
Selective Service
Federal Security Agency
Federal Works Agency
New WAAC Officers In Amarillo Area Explain Recruitment Drive
Lieut Jessie Gardner arrives in Lubbock to recruit for the WAAC in West Texas. She teams with Lieut Rose Smothers to secure enlistments for the women's Army Auxiliary Corps as Lieut Virginia Williams transfers to the Dallas district. Amarillo tour aims to meet the 584-woman Texas quota by March 31. Sgt T K Morris says an information booth in Amarillo will engage women 21 to 45 wanting to aid the country.
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Jessie Gardner
WAAC
Lubbock
West Texas
Gardner
Rose Smothers
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Rome
Georgia
Virginia F. Williams
Dallas
Amarillo
Marvin B. Durrette
T. K. Morris
Army
Sgt. Morris
Simplicity Is Big Idea for Wartime Life
Washington Jan. 25 UP The government plans to simplify civilian goods for wartime life reducing eye appeal while preserving durability Production Chief Donald M Nelson indicates plans to cut variety but keep quality The program spans foods clothing footwear textiles rubber products paper products containers drugs and farm machinery with standardization limited to rare cases and no push for a uniform American appearance
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Joseph Lastin
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
OPA
WPH
Hereford Potatoes Feature Sought by Douthitt Corp
R A Howard of the Douthitt Corporation requests an industrial report on Hereford farm activities with emphasis on Hereford potatoes. He asked Globe News for pictures used in the Sunday News Globe feature of October 11 1942 including captions Digging Potatoes of the Oscar Hunt and Sons Crop Sorting Line of the Gault Cramer Potato Company Typical Potato Digging Scene on Member Farm of the Hereford Potatoes Growers Association and Two Planters Filled with Certified Seed.
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Douthitt Corporation
Chicago
Globe News Today
R. A. Howard
Globe- News
Sunday News- Globe
Howard
Oscar Hunt & Sons
Gault Cramer Potato Company
Hereford
Assa
Amarillo Writer Receives NEA Check for Boys Ranch Article
Mrs. Mabel Lovett of 1119 Tyler Street Amarillo received a payment from the NEA service for an article on Boys Ranch prepared over two months ago. The agency invited further feature stories from her in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel ‘Lovett
Tyler Street
Amarillo
NEA
Boys Ranch
Pop and film notes plus Amarillo ball event
The item highlights films A Yank at Eton and Road to Morocco now showing at local theaters. It mentions the Amarillo High School Popularity Ball on February 13. It also notes music charts, debuts, radio programs, and local club activity with various performers and veterans of the scene.
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Mickey Rooney
Eton
Paramount
Freddie Bartholomew
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Bing Crosby
Morocco
Capitol
Amarillo
Brazil
Helen O'Connell
Jimmy Dorsey
Chamber Music Society of
Lower Basin Street
Aviatrix Club
Iweta Scales
Seabees Take Ten Weekly From Local Quota
The U S Navy recruiting station here assigns a weekly quota of ten Seabees. Volunteers are taken in application order to fill the Monday shipment, with the staff processing the rest for future groups. This week ten join the Oklahoma City quota. next Monday they proceed to physicals and ratings under Chief Harry Longabach.
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U. S. Navy
Oklahoma City
Navy
Harry Longabach
Simplification plans eyed to boost postwar production
Nelson brings to Washington Arch Show the so called father of simplification as war production expands. Plans aim to create a reservoir of 5.5 million civilian workers and free 550,000 for war industry, with a blueprint for low cost production to keep U S industry competitive after the war, a War Board spokesman said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Washington Arch Show
Shaw
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
Chimes Ring as War News Sparks Penny Drive on Campus
On the University of Washington campus students hear chimes toll at noon signaling a new war loss for Japan. Chimesmaster George Bailey marks each bell to indicate another Japanese plane or ship fallen, while students drop pennies into chimes boxes for funding an army jeep.
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Seattle
Washington
Japan
George Bailey
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Jughead
Credit Managers Association OF
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Optometrist
Ray Eberle
Glenn Miller
Jan Garber
Herbie Holmes
Nat
Hollywood
Ada Leonard
Sandie
Lubbock Westerners
Anne Claire Brannen
Amarillo College
Bruner Pharmacy
Qoche & Qo Ter « Cleaners
Ady
Wen
Bendix
Bendix-Westinghouse
Ham Hamilton
Electric Motor Service & Supply CO
West Sixth Ave
Amarillo Brake CO
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