Chileans Raid German Shops Riot in Santiago over Tolten sinking
In Santiago youths smashed windows of Axis linked shops and a German department store, protesting the Tolten sinking near New York harbor. Police dispersed the demonstrations after authorities restricted gatherings and strengthened guards around the German consulate and related businesses.
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Santiago
Chile
New York Harbor
Juan Batista Rosetti
University of Chile
Fl Chieno
Glass Ersatz Cord Found New War Material
New York March 18 Owens Corning Fiber glass Corp announced a war material glass boards made of glass fibers finer than a human hair. The boards replace cork for cold refrigerator insulation and roof insulation, aiding food preservation and war plant construction.
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New York
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation
Spain
Portugal
Tax Collections Double 1941 Total
Treasury reports income tax receipts from the start of March reach 1.753 billion dollars, more than double the 790 million deposited by the similar period last year. Officials caution that final March totals are not yet known, with unofficial estimates near 2.75 billion and full figures due in about ten days.
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Washington
Treasury
Norman P. Cann
Internal Revenue
Markets Dow Jones Stocks Features and Livestock Prices
Market report from Kansas City March 18 shows Dow Jones figures at 1 P M with declines in Industrials Utilities and Railroads, alongside a livestock market summary. Hogs mostly 5 to 10 cents lower, cattle and calves mixed, fed steers opening slow but steady, sheep slow with bids weaker. Financial Industrial Fund liquidating at 1.1902 with offer 1.31.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Rae Eee
Kansas City
WUP
AMA
Nebraska
Kansas
Car Hits Engine Injures Man On Santa Fe Crossing
Lloyd Smith of 205 Georgia Street was injured when his car struck a Santa Fe switch engine at the Grand Avenue crossing. He was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital with non serious injuries as his wrecked car was removed. Boxwell Brothers ambulance answered the call at 6 o'clock this morning.
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Grand Avenue Crossing
Lloyd Smith
Georgia Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
Boxwell Brothers Ambulance
Harold L Rounds to Visit Y M C A in Amarillo
Harold L Rounds world service secretary of the Y M C A will visit Amarillo tomorrow to address the Rotary Club and Y M C A board of directors. He has vast Central Europe China and India experience and will discuss war time YMCA activities and constructive planning for a world order. He oversees YMCA work in the western United States and will speak at the meetings.
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Harold J. Rounds
World Service
Amarillo
Harold L. Nichols
Amarillo Y
International Young Men's Christian Association
United States
Housing Near Plants Blues Amarillo War Demand
Defense housing near Amarillo plants casts a deep indigo outlook for the housing market as tire shortages loom. The Amarillo Chamber housing committee led by W. W. Gibson will meet to explore building under FHA Title Six in a defense area. Other committees plan the annual banquet, budget, and fundraising with Jack Cunningham chairing the budget panel. Fred DeCoster oversees ticket sales for the Herring Hotel banquet where Fort Worth’s Mark McGee will speak.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Cunningham
Board of Directors
Herring Hotel
Fred DeCoster
Mark McGee
Fort Worth
Eighteen Survivors Reach Safely From Sinkings Near Pearl Harbor
In Suva Fiji Islands on March 18, eighteen survivors from two ships torpedoed December 9, two days after Pearl Harbor, reached safety with harrowing tales of death and loss. Seven crew and passengers survived aboard the Donerail after a 38 day open lifeboat ordeal. only eleven survived from the tanker Prusa's 34 aboard.
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Suva
Fiji Islands
Pearl Harbor
Land
Donerail
Prusa
M. Chambers
Sydney
Lloyd’s Register
Hawaii
Man Taps Off Down the Walk After Mistaken Blindness
Denver on March 18 reports Colorado revenue collector Far rington R. Carpentier, waiting by a traffic light, misreads his sight loss. An elderly man gathers him, guiding him across the street and noting Carpentier’s gentle blush as he admits his mistake.
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Denver
Farrington R. Carpentier
Colorado
Carpenter
San Jacinto Church To Honor Soldiers
San Jacinto Methodist Church hosts a monthly program honoring former members now in the armed forces tonight at 8 in Fellowship Hall. Rev. Hubert Thomson speaks, with special music after. Invitations were mailed to parents of currently enlisted men. the public is invited. Earl Shleton and Bruce Autry lead the evening.
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San Jacinto Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Hubert Thomson
Earl Shleton
Bruce Autry
Nutrition emphasis in Central Junior High class session
War time nutrition is a focus in Central Junior High School Home Economics with Mrs. Georgia Short leading plans to improve student diets. Classes assess diets and correct poor eating habits while distributing diet essentials to homes and boosting family nutrition through home projects. St Joseph Aspirin ads appear among the readable text.
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Central Junior High School
Georgia Short
Triplets Hired Quickly in Sidney Defense Plant Work
Segar triplets Carl Henry and Frederick, 18 years old, applied at the Sidney employment office for jobs in a defense plant and were hired immediately as plater helpers.
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Sidney
Ohio
U.P
Segar
Carl
Henry
Frederick
Plater
Strong Jap Army Attacks in Burma
Strong Japanese forces drive northward along the Rangoon Mandalay railroad toward Toungoo, clashing with British and Chinese detachments south of Kanyutkivin. The communique notes Japanese uses boats on the Irrawaddy and gains along the Sittang Valley, with Prome railhead as a defensive key, while mentioning forces supported by boats and local traitors. The report also includes a stray prewar statistic about Latin American exports to the United States and Europe.
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India
Rangoon-Mandalay
Toungoo
Kanyutkivin
Rangoon
Imperial
Burma-India Command
Sittang River
Mandalay
Taik-kyi
Prome
China
Burma
Irrawaddy River
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