Sales Tax Has Little Chance
Washington reports the sales tax faces slim odds as the House Ways and Means Committee nears final tax bill edits. The plan aims for about 6.65 billion dollars in new revenue, with votes pending on a sales tax, a postwar corporate credit, and withholding of individual taxes at source. Administrative opposition grows as committee members push higher selective excise taxes, including a tentative 5 percent levy on freight and express transport.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Booklet on Air Raids Published in Amarillo
The Amarillo Gas Company releases a detailed air raid preparedness booklet for residents. wardens distribute copies with Civilian Office access and Community Chest offices handling extras. The material, originally in the Washington Evening Star, was prepared with Office of Civilian Defense experts and civilians with raid experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Office of Civilian Defense
Kiwanis Banquet Tonight Sets All Kiwanis Night
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club hosts its annual All Kiwanis Night banquet at 7 30 PM in the San Jacinto Methodist Church with Jim Gulick as speaker. Miss Olivia Eastus will sing, Forrest Ansley will read a message from the International president, and members vow renewed Kiwanis ideals. Ladies are special guests.
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Jim Gulick
San Jacinto
Forrest Ansley
San Jacinto Club
Kenneth Kohler
Public conference on wartime business rules in Amarillo
Amarillo manufacturers suppliers and retailers will attend a one day clinic led by Robert R. Harper of the War Production Board to navigate priorities orders and regulations. Sessions at 10 2 and 4 pm will cover Producers Requirements Plan and Suppliers Inventory Limitations Plan.
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Amarillo
Robert R
Bob" Harper
Bureau of Field Operations
War Production Board
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Cooley
Harper
Polk Street
WPB
Cooley
State Department of Education
British Soldiers Bluff and Bully Through Libyan Desert
British troops of the 50th Division narrate a daring 150 mile trek across the Libyan desert to Tobruk. They avoided Axis traps near Gazala, evaded German panzer units, and captured Italian soldiers while recounting close escapes and clever ruses.
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Libya
U.P
Liverpool
Yorkshire
Durham
Afrika Korps
Tees and
Tyne
Gazala
Tobruk
Britain
BC Headache Powders for Neuralgia Relief
Quick acting BC ease neuralgia and headaches. BC also relieves muscular aches and periodic pains. Use only as directed and consult a physician if pain persists.
Rise and Fall of Nazi Officer Disclosed in Letters
Personal letters smuggled from Germany reveal the Nazi officer Lieut Friedrich Toll’s sequence of actions in Warsaw including mass roundups and executions. Toll describes subduing Poles, reprisals, and attacks, ending with his fatal wounding outside a cafe in Marszalkowska Street.
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Poland
Germany
Polish Information Center
New York
Friedrich Toll
Warsaw
Helmuth Toll
Marszalkowska
Warsaws
Deserter Italians Found After Fire Attack
A colonel recounts discovering Italian troops in flames and asleep in pajamas. He notes soldiers threw up their hands in fear and that booted personnel were removed, leaving them in the park after the destruction.
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Anl
Markets Show Mixed Pressures as Dow Dips and Stocks Slide
Trading across the New York Stock Exchange opens with Merrill Lynch quotes showing declines in industrials railroads and utilities. Major names listed include Bethlehem Steel General Electric General Motors Pan American Airways and United Aircraft as investors track mixed signals while Kansas City livestock prices rise for hogs and cattle with modest gains and steady to higher bids.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Merrill Lynch
Fenner & Abat
Alleghany Sue Steel
Allis Chalmers
Am Roll Mill O
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Zinc & Lead Anaconda Armour & Co
At& S&f
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
Calumet
Chrysler Ve
Consol
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft Electric Boat
General Electric
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Greyhound Jaahir
Houston
Eess
Kennecott Copper
Marshall Field Martin
Glenn L. Mid
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
National Biscuit
National Dairy Products
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio
Aanay Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures
J C
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf
Big Union Carbide
United Aircraft
US Rubber
U S Steel
U Tel
Witsor Motor Wilson & Co
Woolworth Pierce
Kansas City
U.P
AMA
Texas
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
The Irish Love A Good Scuffle
Belfast officials were told American MPs faced civilian interference as they tried to arrest two disorderly soldiers. About 300 locals scuffled with officers. the two soldiers escaped.
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Belfast
U.P
W. J. McCoy
Old Headlines Unearthed From 1905 Paper by Curious Readers
Mrs. J L Parmelee found a yellowed St Louis Republic issue from March 26 1905 inside an old suitcase. Headlines mention Roosevelt duties of doctors and Barrymore death while Mrs Nix Harp reports a fried egg showing fragments like Amarillo Globe words.
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J. L. Parmelee
Harrison Street
Barrymore
The
Fox
Mr. Harp
Mrs. Harp
Amarillo Delegates To Fire Convention
Amarillo will send three delegates to the Texas Firemen's Association convention in Fort Worth. One, Sherrill Burks, is resigning as assistant chief but will head the Amarillo Army Technical School fire department. The delegation will include Roy P. Hill and Harry Brasher and depart tomorrow morning.
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Amarillo
Texas Firemen’s Association
Fort Worth
Sherrill Burks
Amarillo Army Technical School
Burks
Roy P. Hill
Harry Brasher
Can't Keep Grandma in Her Chair
An old time health note promotes Doan's Pills for tired kidneys and backache. It describes kidney function, daily urine output, and symptoms like nagging backache, swelling, and fatigue, urging readers to ask their druggist for Doan's Pills.
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Nature
Dean
Doan
Bushland Boy Converts Rubber to Shoes and Clothes
Eleven year old Dean Reay of Bushland gathered 850 pounds of scrap rubber from the area and sold tires to an Amarillo store for four cents a tire. His father could not transport the tires, but the boy waited until Uncle Sam’s salvage program offered a penny a pound. He cashed in $8.50 to buy himself new shoes and clothes.
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Dean Reay
Dean
Amarillo
Dea
Cletus Reay
Uncle Sam
Crash Victim Resting Well in Canyon Highway Crash
T. E. Harlan, injured in a Canyon highway crash Tuesday night, is listed in fairly good condition at Northwest Texas Hospital. He is among five injured. his five year old son Billy Lee has minor injuries. Three Canyon men Olin Mahle Carl Mahle and Glenn Allen are hospitalized in Canyon.
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T. E. Harlan
Canyon Highway
Northwest Texas
Harlan
Billy Lee
Canyon
Olin Mahle
Carl Mahle
Glenn Allen
Champion Sandwich Maker Among Us at Glider School
An enlisted man at the advanced glider school here says he is one of the fastest and most efficient sandwich makers in South Carolina. The report notes Vu Drought has reduced Brazil's coffee crop to the smallest in 19 years.
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Dunkirk
Marszalkowski Street
Toll
Heil Hitler
Mhe
Helmuth
Friedrich Toll
Marszalowska
Champion Sandwich Maker
South Carolina
Brazil
Anne Adams Pattern 4118 For Women Sizes 34 To 46
Pattern 4118 by Anne Adams offered in women sizes 34 through 46 with fabric requirements of 378 yards 39 inch for size 36. Price ten cents plus one cent for mail cost. includes order form and address details for The Amarillo Globe Pattern Department. Summer Pattern Book features 32 pages of easy to sew fabric conserving styles for work sports afternoon and evening.
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Anne Adams
Amarillo Globe, Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
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NAVY
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R. D. Lyon
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
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Maxor Drug CO. 16Th
Jackson
Fisk
Messerschmitt
Elmer McKesson
Richmond
LaGuardia
U. S
England
By Richard D. McMillan
Atlanta
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Pacific Fleet
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Navy Hospital
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Peoria
Elt
J. T. Bishop
Jack Summers
Balboa
Calif
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Pepsi-Cola Company
Lone Island City
N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
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Lona
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Martin Kosleck
Sidney
Toler
Charlie Chan
Aileen Whelan
Richard Derr
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