American Bomber Pilot Delivers High Officer After Narrow Atlantic Run
Captain Clifton Pyle of Marshall Texas piloted a Flying Fortress carrying an unnamed high U S officer from Casablanca to Britain. Struck by fog and fuel shortage off Spain and Ireland, the crew guided the bomber to Northern Ireland with 45 minutes of fuel left. The officer continued by train to Casablanca. Pyle later flew to Wilhelmshaven and participated in daylight raids. Intelligence officer Lieut Harold Fox confirmed Pyle's selection for the mission.
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England
United States
Great Britain
Casablanca
Britain
Atlantic
Northern
Ireland
Clifton Pyle
Marshall
Tex
Eire
Pyle
Northern Ireland
France
Europe
North Africa
Lille
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Harold A. Fox
Aston
New Discovery In Mystery Of Cancer
A new cancer causing substance, invisible and water clear, was reported by Alfred Taylor and colleagues at the University of Texas. Found in egg yolk sacs near cancers, it behaves like a virus and transmits cancer quickly in mice, suggesting a common mammalian cancer mechanism.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Science
The
Journal of American Scientists
University of Texas
Alfred Taylor
Bichemical Institute
Clayton Foundation For Research
Juanita Thacker
Dorothy Pennington
Marguerite McAfee
Roger J. Williams
Hollywood Epidemic of Weddings and Breakups Grips Los Angeles
Jimmie Fidler notes a Hollywood wave of big star marriages and engagements fueling a citywide trend. He cites Rosaline Russell Joan Crawford Norma Shearer Greer Garson Ginger Rogers and others, plus parody and gossip items about figures like Lana Turner and Humphy Bogart. The column lampoons follow the leader culture, fashion, and the canteen dances with service members.
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Hollywood
Rosalind Russell
Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer
Greer Garson
Richard Ney
Ginger Rogers
Maria Ouspenskaya
Freddie Bartholomew
Yuma
Mexico
Children Exchange Copper for Caps at Paramount Matinee
Children collect copper and swap for red white and blue overseas caps at the Paramount. Exchange must be completed tonight to gain free admission to a 10 o clock musical matinee tomorrow morning titled Sing For Your Supper. Paramount sponsors the copper drive per the war activities committee of the motion picture industry.
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Paramount
The
War Activities Committee of
Motion Picture Industry
Jack King
Interstate Theaters
Navy Shifts Amarillo Recruiting Under Dallas HQ
Amarillo Navy recruiting district returns to Dallas command from Oklahoma City effective February 1. Local staff changes include Lieut. Comdr. L. H. Ridout Jr. and Yeoman John K. Carraway staying. Seaman Dick Cazzell to Lubbock station. Yeoman Harold Hamilton to Lubbock induction center. No draft inductee procedures announced yet.
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Amarillo
Dallas
Oklahoma City
L. H. Ridout, Jr
Harry Longabach
Longabach
John K. Carraway
Ridout
Dick Cazzell
Lubbock
Harold
Frank Adams
Comd
Nobles Tells of Gasoline Formula
H A Nobles of Amarillo recalls a Pittsburgh episode from twenty years ago about a gasoline manufacturing formula costing about two cents per gallon. He wrote to Senator Connally and congressmen, noting Bennum and Trees Oil Co had a small plant and that the formula was sold to another firm. He urges government acquisition for war needs.
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H A. Nobles
Amarillean
Pittsburgh
Senator Connally
Amarilloan
Mr. Nobles
Bennum and Trees Oil Company
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J. C. Hickman
Comanche
Okla
Coffeyville
Kan
U.P
USO
Globe News
Arnold Wayne Moore
Clyde Moore
W. T. Garrett
San Jon, N. M
Jimmie Fidler
Joan Blondell
Los Angeles
Barbara Lamarr
Lon Chaney, Jr
Joan Leslie
Fred Astaire
Hollywood Canteen
Lana Turner
Charlie McCarthy
Ned Spark
Humphrey Bogart
Andy Devine
Alan Gordon
Evelyn Ankers
Miss Ankers
Linda Darnell
San Diego Marine Base
Michigan
Bette Davis
Gene Kelly
Fredric Marsh
Bing Crosby
Tack
Globe-News
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo Field
Cleveland
Navy
WAACS
WAVES
Helen Traubel
Miss Traubel
Nobles
Iiniew Lack
Boston
Jerry
Belcher
Lady Betty
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