Japan Tastes First Defeat
DeWitt MacKenzie reports Allied naval and air strikes in the Pacific show Japanese forces suffering heavy losses near the Strait of Makassar and on the Malay Peninsula. MacArthur’s counterattack delays Japanese plans as Russian setbacks and a potential Nazi collapse loom in Europe.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Strait of Macassar
America
United States
Out- East Indies
Malay Peninsula
Sweden
Hitler
Smolensk
June Mad to Be Given Next Monday at Little Theater
The Little Theater will stage June Mad a three act comedy next Monday and Tuesday with all door proceeds going to the Service Men's Civic Center. No reserved seats Monday. Tuesday patron seats reserved. The cast features Pat Mc Clarney Penny Wood and Leo J Wilmeth Jr John Reynolds Mrs J W Lee Leo J Wilmeth Sr and others.
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Little Theater
Service Men's Civic Center
Thelma Allen Martin
Penny Wood
Pat McClarney
India
Leo J. Wilmeth
John Reynolds
Penny
Szacky
America Aids Tiny Tim Birthday Ball Drive
A history of Tiny Tim from Dickens is used to promote charitable fundraising in Amarillo for infantile paralysis. Citizens are invited to four birthday balls at the Nat Mayfair Rainbow Gardens and Aviatrix Club with a single $1 admission covering all four dances.
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America
Charles Dickens
Tiny Tim
Mr. Dickens
Scrooge
Bob Crachit
Bob
Crachits
Tim
Amarillons
Amarillo
Nat
Mayfair Nite Club
Rainbow Gardens
Aviatrix Club
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt ends Fort Worth visit
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt concludes a two day stay in Fort Worth after addressing a joint Fort Worth and Dallas Civilian Defense Councils meeting. She spoke with Sweetwater club women on mobilizing Texas women for the war effort and broadcast her Pan American program. She visited Capt Elliott Roosevelt’s family as part of the trip. The note of the era cites the radio broadcasting investment exceeding 1.75 billion dollars.
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Fort Worth
Franklin D. Pervevelt
Dallas
Sweetwater
Texas
Elliott Roosevelt
Radio Schedule Highlights NBC and Local Programs
A dense listing of daytime and evening radio programming across NBC and local stations. The schedule includes Fred Waring, The Telephone Hour, Voice of Firestone, Amarillo College arts, market reports, The Lone Ranger, The War 25 Years Ago, and regional broadcasts with multiple daily time blocks and station identifications.
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Fred Waring
NBC
United Press
Voice of Firestone
National Radio Forum
Brewster Family
Amarillo College
Fine Arts
Almsted
Sky
the Trading Post
Jesse Crawford
Amarillo
Mary Lee Taylor
Sam
David Harum
Texas School of the Air
TQN
Bob Hamilton
Ma Perkins
Pepper Young's
Vic and Sade
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Life
Kgnc Bureau of Information
Escorts
Betty
The
Texas Rangers
Sports Review
Local notes and travel and rail work updates
Social visits from Wellington to Amarillo Friona and Plainview plus a chicken and crowder pea casserole recipe. Rail and OS&D staff changes include Santa Fe engineers and rock island crews assigned to Amarillo and surrounding routes. Birthdays and minor injuries noted with brief health update.
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Santa Fe
B. S. Smith
R. M. Francis
Os&d
Rock Island
Amarillo
N. M. Huddleston
Fort Worth
Denver
S. T. Harmon
W. K. Fry
H. W. Anthony
B. T. Mosley
B. J. Cogdill
L. J. Watson
Sayre
Tucumcart
D. A. Cunningham
Lubrock
Childress
E. R. Heath
New Tax Form Under Study
Washington January 26 A Senate Finance Committee leader says experts favor a new tax approach to raise about nine billion dollars. He notes sales or payroll taxes as options and warns many firms will be hurt by war production demands. He opposes cutting personal exemptions but expects higher individual and corporate rates.
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Washington
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
House Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Senate Committee
Thre Rationing Returns Days Of Hard Riding and Old West
Bend Oregon reports rationing forces cattlemen back to saddles as trucks are curbed. Ranchers plan fall drives across rim rock and sagebrush to railheads, reviving Old West cattle movements amid changing transportation. Range cowhands endure long drives between seasons, preserving horsemanship and hard work.
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Bend
Ore
Detroit
Oregon
Waddy
West
Cattle Drives Shift To Gentler March For Mountain Pasts
Rough country to mountain pastures prompts Oregon ranchers to revive long treks. Five years after a major drive, 4000 head moved 150 miles from Harney Lake region to Kla math marsh. With cattle rustling low, the new worry is keeping herds from becoming lean and stringy on lengthy trails. Ranchers plan a slow pace and long baled hay to sustain cattle along old routes now lush with grass.
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Oregon
Harney Lake
Big Klamath Marsh
Santa Fe Worker Moves to Protect Job
A Santa Fe worker moves to protect their job as operations shift. The action signals concern over employment stability amid changes affecting local staffing.
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The
Santa Fe
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Orch
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Dixie Revelers
Tom Mix
Wayne van Dyne
Scattergood Baines
Cbs Captain Midnight
Mbs-East
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Edwin C. Hill
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Mbs
Cbs-East
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Brad Reynolds
Frank Ives
Jack Armstrong
Mbs-West
Three Suns
Lowell Thomas
News — Blue
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Blue
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Bert Wheeler
Hank Ladd
Amos and
Andy
Lanny Ross
Morgan
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Russia
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E. B. Berryman
M C. Lowry
Wellington
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E. H Small
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Jess Williams
Friona
W. T. Strickland
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Cheyenne Terrace
Rip Underwood
Hughes Street
Oklahoma City
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Bonham
J. N. Freeman
Taylor Street
E. L. Smith
Polk Street
Silver City
N. M
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Bill Britt
Sue
Ann
Mae Ludeke
Plainview
M. F. Fisher
Johnson Street
Sarah Conwell
Pierce Street
Claude Walser
Tommy Lex Ray
Bully Snorgrass
Amarillo Tire Exchange
2Nd & S. Fillmore
Cretney Drug
Country Club Cleaners
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Wichita Falls
Houston
Tulsa
St. Louis
Rule Building
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National Defense
Globe-News
MC Apitollo
Alice Faye
John Payne
Carmen Miranda
Cesar Romero
Cobina Wright, Jr
Sheldon Leonard
Chris-Pin Martin
HIS
Playboys
George Barbier
Leonid Kinskey
Billy Gilbert Ary
Wills
Ba Alles Tayrd As
Mog A
GO West
Aare Ae Nee
Cerise
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
Amarillo Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Lincoln St
Tolzien
Music Store
Wee
Wurlitzer
WM. Knare
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