Texas Senate May Ban Selznick Film Over Arizona Shoot
The Texas Senate threatened to ban Duel in the Sun from Texas theaters if producer David O Selznick films it in Arizona rather than Texas. Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo urged a ban citing the Texas Panhandle scene and invited Selznick to visit the area to verify its suitability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas Senate
Texas
Arizona
Texas Panhandle
David O. Selznick
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Selznick
Big Black Stallion Killed After Wild Escape
Howard Watson of Claude brought a wild stallion to Amarillo from the canyons. Ed Eubanks, the zookeeper, planned to use it for lion meat but later sought taming. The stallion fought being penned and trampled pens, leading Eubanks to shoot and kill it for safety.
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Howard Watson
Claude
Canyons
Amarillo
Doty Packing Company
Ed Eubanks
Fifth Army captures dominating hill post Monte Della Croce
Allied forces report Fifth Army troops have seized Monte Della Croce and expanded their hold west of the Bologna Pistoria highway. Eighth Army units freed forests south of the Po and Primaro rivers, taking about 200 prisoners. The advance neared Monte Belvedere, taken ten days earlier by the U S 10th Mountain Division.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Monte Della Croce
Bologna-Pistoria
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Primaro
Bologna
Monte Belvidere
10Th Mountain Division
Lost glasses at McKinley School prompt reward
A reader reports losing a pair of gold rimmed glasses near McKinley School around January. A reward is offered for return and contact is via Pantex Village Apt 309, James Slaton.
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Tack
McKinley School
Pantex Village
Apt
James Slaton
Lost items and a childcare ad in a transcribed notice
A reader seeks a missing tan billfold with Social Security card and cash at the Capitol Theater. An 11 year old boy seeks glasses reward. Cadet nurse shoes lost at Kress Store February 19. Call numbers provided for returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Theater
Tack
Kress’ Store
Phyllis Burkett
Northwest Texas Hospital
Purse Found Near Rail Crossing After Olson Accident
A purse was found at the Rock Island Railroad crossing on Highway 66 near English Field following the Olson incident Sunday night. Call Mrs. Fox at 26323 with any information.
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Olson
Rock Island
English Field
Four Jurors Accepted To Hear Graves Murder Trial
Four of the first 15 veniremen were accepted as jurors in the murder trial of Frank Graves. The slaying occurred May 28, 1944, of Mrs. Dorothy Snelson. Jurors named include J C Johnson, J M Webb, E O Chaddock, and N T Murr. Aid from family members and courtroom witnesses noted at the hearing. Graves was arrested in California three months after the killing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Graves
Dorothy Snelson
M Z Wilson
J. C. Johnson
J. M. Webb
E. O. Chaddock
N. T. Murr
Veniremen
R. D. Snelson
Navy
Snelson
California
Joy Heathington
Sid Harper
Bill Adams
Vandenberg Confirms Free Action On World Peace Plan
Senator Vandenberg said he will support a practical system of collective security as a basis for peace after cordial letters with the President. The conference inviting 44 nations to discuss the Dumbarton Oaks proposals will include all UN members except Poland. France declined sponsorship but will participate. United States Russia China and Britain sponsor. A proposed voting rule allows small nations to bring charges against great powers, but each of the five permanent members retains a veto on actions against a great power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandenberg
United Nations
Poland
France
United States
Russia
China
Britain
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Yalta
World Security Council
Assault With Intent To Kill Charged In Drive-In Stabbing
Charlie Perry Reed, 55, charged with assault with intent to kill after a stabbing at a local drive in. Bond set at $2000 by Justice of the Peace C W Carder. Reed jailed in county custody. Bert Elmer Parker, a cook, treated for cuts and a stab wound, hospital release noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Perry Reed
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
Reed
Bert Elmer Parker
Parker
Death sentence upheld in society woman kidnapping case
The Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence for Thomas H. Robinson Jr. in the 1934 kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stall, a Louisville society matron. Justice Black wrote the majority 7-2 opinion, with Justice Rutledge dissenting and Justice Murphy concurring. The sentence was imposed under the Lindbergh kidnapping act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Alice Speed Stall
Louisville Society
Justice Black
Justice Rutledge
Murphy
Robinson
Six Auto Passengers Die in Wreck With Hospital Train
Union Pacific reports a hospital train struck an automobile at a crossing 13 miles east of Denver. Six people in the auto were killed. The train was en route to Kansas City from Denver. No derailment occurred and victims’ names were not yet released.
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Denver
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Rep Clare Boothe Luce Flies to London for Speech
Rep Clare Boothe Luce Republican of Connecticut has flown to London at the British embassy invitation to report on the role of British women in the war She calls the topic important for fuller understanding between the women of the two nations and plans to return with data
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Washington
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
London
Bombing wipes out Dresden says Transocean agency
German war correspondent Rudolf Sparing of the Transocean agency reports Dresden was wiped out by Allied air raids on February 14 and 15. He claims tens of thousands of residents were buried in the ruins and calls Dresden a catastrophe without precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dresden
Saxony
Rudolf Sparing
Transocean Propaganda Agency
Actress Anita Colby Recovers From Pneumonia On Duel in the Sun Set
Actress Anita Colby is resting very comfortably near Tucson while filming the motion picture Duel in the Sun. She had been hospitalized at Tucson Medical Center Friday with a mild pneumonia but has practically recovered by Monday night.
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Tucson
Ariz
Anita Colby
Tucson Medical Center
Chicago and Kansas City Livestock Markets Report
Chicago hog, cattle and sheep runs total near 9 000 hogs 18 500 cattle 8 000 sheep with steady to firm prices. Kansas City receipts 14 700 cattle 1 000 calves with slow trade and mixed prices. hogs 1 000 and sheep 9 000 with lambs steady to weak.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
WFA
Kansas City
Enes
Colorado
Mary-Gould Addition Plat Presented to County for City Standards
Developers of the Mary-Gould Addition presented a plat to county commissioners in Amarillo to allow county supervision of street layouts and utilities so the addition can meet city specifications if annexed. The former county farm property lies across the highway from the Veterans Administration. No action was taken as drainage and land features are to be checked first.
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Amarillo
Mary-Gould
Veterans Administration
County Farm
Nephew of Mrs. Earl Wyatt Among Released War Prisoners
James Millward Jr. is identified as one of the civilian prisoners freed after Allied forces captured Los Baños camp near Manila. Before capture he was a meteorologist with Pan American Airways in the Philippines. His mother resides in Colorado Springs, and his father had died since the January 1942 capture.
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Earl Wyatt
Jefferson
James Millward, Jr
Los Banos
Manila
Millward
Pan- American Airways
Philippines
Bonna Howe Millward
Colorado Springs
Colo
Rhine battles surge toward Cologne as Allied forces advance
American units push from Neuss toward Cologne and the Ruhr, with the 104th Timberwolf and Eighth Armored divisions driving through Frechen and surrounding towns. American Ninth Army tanks mass on the Rhine west bank while German defenses recoil and a bridge into Düsseldorf is reportedly crossed and destroyed.
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104Th “Timberwolf
Widdersdorf
Cologne
104Th
Eighth Armored
Frechen
Eighth
Stolzheim
Geuel
Rhine
Neuss
Homberg
Ninth Army
Ruhr
Dusseldorf
Endorsed Check for $159 Reported Lost in Amarillo
Loss of a check endorsed for $159 reported to police by Mrs. W. E. Ford at 1624 LaSalle. The check issued by the Borden Company, endorsed recently, and believed lost between Gray Photo Shop at 405 Polk and the Amarillo National Bank on Polk Street at Fourth Avenue. Mr. Ford works for The Borden Company.
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W. E. Ford
LaSalle
Borden Company
County Commissioners Approve Sale of Fox Eagle and Owl
In regular session the county commissioners authorized zoo keeper Ed Eubanks to sell a swift fox an eagle and an owl to Dodson Shows of Jacksonville Pennsylvania for fifteen dollars. The sale was requested by a special delivery letter and two weeks earlier a telegram asked for birds or animals. Eubanks said the swift fox being shipped tomorrow will soon sire offspring.
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Ed Eubanks
Dodson
Jacksonville
Pla
Eubanks
Mr. Eubanks
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Loo Keeper
Black
J. D. Bates
Penny
Ring Lost
Tan Billfold
E. J. Larson
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
San Francisco
Propaganda Agency
John D. McBride
Zale’s
Blackburn Bldg
Seventh Street
TIH & Polk
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Armour & Co
Braniff
Briges
Weer
Budd
Burroughs Add
Chrysler Teen
Sinclair Oil
Cont Motors Eesee Sneer
Curtis Wright
Gulf Otls
Montgomery Ward Annes
Nash
Kelvinator
Mikll
Ohio
Packard
Pan Amer Airways
Paramount Eeee
Penn RR
Phillips Ee
Perey
Wena
Radio Corp
Western Union
Ates
Woolworth Toe
Financial Industrial Fund
New City
Third Armored Division
Folger's
Whiteway Food Stores
Troy Branch
Tyler
Georgia
Certa
Stee
Blackburn
Shaun- Neral
Pierce
Amarillo Retail Druggists Association
Beery's Prescription & Vitamin Shop
Polk Street
Brooks’ Drug Store
Cretney
Oliver Eakle
Dickson Drug Store
FOX Drug Store
4Th and Pierce Streets
Herbert Drug Store
Herring
Herring Hotel
Hollingsworth Pharmacy
6Th St
Kendall Drug Store
East 10Th
Kirk Drug Store
Lincoln Drug Store
Mark Galloway
Polk
Maxor Drug Store
Nelson Drug Store
West 10Th
Jack Phillips Drug Store
West
Santa Fe Ridg
Post Office Drug Store
Taylor Street
Prescription Laboratory
Ratliff Drug Store
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