Tire cost and risk of high speed amid tire shortages
A Panhandle high speed trend during tire rationing triggers patrol pursuits at 90 to 100 mph. The piece cites Travelers Insurance data on fuel, oil, and tire costs at various speeds, noting higher speeds waste gas and wear parts, with a hospital case for Max Merry of Morrow Thomas Hardware.
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Panhandle
Neeley- Greenhill Agency
Travelers Life Insurance Company
Max Merry
Morrow- Thomas Hardware Company
Mr. Merry
van Buren Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Coast Guard Cutter Acacia Sunk in Caribbean Shelling
The Navy reported the Coast Guard cutter Acacia was shelled and sunk in the Caribbean, likely by an enemy submarine. All crew members were rescued.
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Coast Guard
Washington
Navy
Acacia
Caribbean
Europe War Toll and Balkans Manpower Tactics
The report cites 1,800 American or allied deaths in two days and notes Hitler’s bid for Balkans manpower. British observers say the move could boomerang, while experts doubt he will secure 750,000 recruits and warn it may simply prompt more German garrisons in the Balkans to sustain the status quo.
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Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
London
Hitler
Pacific Campaign Notes Highlight Shipping Strain
Free Europe reports Allied forces have crippled about 1,000,000 tons of Japanese shipping from an estimated 4,000,000 tons set for troop movements. It warns Japan faces a shipping gap of around 130,000 tons needed to move a modern division, as operations near Prome and Burmese fields complicate transport.
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Prome
United Nations
Japan
Free Europe
Allied Review of International Affairs
London
Markets and sports notes from March 26 trading day
Dow Jones averages drifted as markets mixed with gains in some sectors while others fell. Grain futures showed modest moves with wheat and corn up slightly. Kansas City livestock traded unevenly with hogs higher and cattle steady to higher. Yankees beat Kansas City farm club 4-3 in 11 innings on a balk by Ray Volpi.
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Kansas
Kansas City
UPAMA
ST. Petersburg
Fla
New York Yankees
Ray Volpi
Weymouth Named City County Ration Chief in New Appointments
Weymouth was appointed rationing coordinator in a morning conference with Mayor Joe Jenkins and County Judge Ernest Northcutt. He will assign sugar tires cars and other banned commodities between two boards based on workload. He previously chaired the first board joining Rolla Cartwright and Bill Boyce.
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Chansler Weymouth
Joe Jenkins
Ernest Northcutt
Weymouth
Rolla Cartwright
Bill Boyce
Cartwright
Grady Wilson
Tom Seay
Boyce
C. R. Garner
Bot Wilson
Potent Flip Boosted Minute Men Morale
Lexington dispatch notes an 18th century zombie helping Minute Men repulse British regulars at Lexington and Concord in 1776. Soldiers fortified at Buckman Tavern with Nip, a warm bitter beer drink mixed with cream sugar and rum or gin, to lift spirits before dawn April 19.
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Lexington
Mass
U.P
Lexington and
Concord
Buckman Tavern
Early residents plan museum addition and educational use
Judge James D. Hamlin of Farwell will donate his art and antique collection once the Panhandle Plains museum addition is finished. The Early home features multiple rooms adaptable for classrooms, a third floor auditorium, and extensive kitchen and utility facilities suitable for educational activities. possession is set for late summer.
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James D. Hamlin
Farwell
Panhandle Plains Museum
Funeral Rites Held For Mrs Porter in La Junta
Funeral services were held Tuesday in La Junta Colorado for Mrs Clarissa E Porter 84 mother of Mrs Will F Baird of Canyon and grandmother of Mrs John L McCarty and Bill Baird of Amarillo She was born February 21 1858 and died last Sunday after a two week illness She lived in La Junta 35 years and was buried beside her late husband J R Porter Grandsons Riley Jeff Orville Thomas Faye Maddison Bud Tinker and Bill Baird served as pallbearers with thirteen granddaughters as flower girls. She is survived by her children and grandchildren.
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la Junta
Colo
Clarissa E. Porter
Will F. Baird
Canyon
Johnl. McCarty
Bill Baird
Amarillo
Porter
Latunta
Ladunta
J. R. Porter
Green Mortuary Chapel
Arthur Rogers
Blast at Pennsylvania quarry kills dozens of workers
A powder magazine explosion at a Lehigh Portland Cement quarry in Easton, Pennsylvania, killed 30 to 40 workers and leveled nearby homes. Police and investigators described limbs and bodies scattered over the scene as a truck unloaded explosives that morning. Company officials later reported 28 missing, including several powder experts.
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Easton
U.P
Arthur Harry
Harry
Bell's Hospital
Leshigh Portland Cement Company
Baird Family Reunion Ties Canyon and Amarillo Kin
Three daughters, three sons, thirty six grandchildren and thirty one great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. W F Baird of Canyon, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Baird and Mrs. John L McCarty of Amarillo returned Wednesday from La Junta.
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W. F. Baird
Canyon
Bill Baird
John L. McCarty
Amarillo
la Junta
Java Battle Veterans Tell of Narrow Escape and Lost Warship
A veteran commander recounts days aboard a last American ship leaving Soerabaja on February 28. He describes a deadly Indonesian corridor and a near demolition mission, miraculously surviving 60 hours of combat and drifting through the Bali Strait. He notes the Japanese fleet’s potential greater strength and questions official counts of ships in the Java battle.
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Soerabaja
Java
Bali Strait
Sunda Strait
Perth
Tulatjap
Australia
Notre Dame
Victory haircut becoming if you are Lana Turner
Hollywood reports Lana Turner showing a new victory haircut. She notes no hairpins are necessary except to set it and it needs resetting only every two or three weeks. A quick combing and brushing keeps it in shape for the day. It is becoming.
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Hollywood
Lana Turner
Fragmented historic battle account hints at allied defeat
OCR fragment notes a combined American British and Dutch force facing a decisive defeat. The text references the scale of the loss and the perception of glory in defeat, but lacks specific names, dates, or locations to identify the engagement.
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Arthur ‘Rear
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Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Aisdote
Chicago
Financial Industrial Fund
YANKS
New York
Pierce Fenner & Beane
Alleghany
Chalmers
Allis
Armour & Ct
At&aspf
Aviation Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Baye Mig Am Calumet Hecla Mines
AM 5
Deere & CO
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National Dairy
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union
Southern Pacific
California
Indiana
New Jersey
Tee Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Texas Gulf
Seeeee O's
Tex Pac Coal
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Lord Halifax
Litvinov
India
Alan Fleming Hartley
Britain
Burma
Mrs. Porter
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Polk
Mexico
Denver
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
L. Metcalfe Walling
Labor Department
Philip B. Fleming
Victory
Globe News
Eee Ry
Willie Hoppe
Youse
Falstaff
Falstafe
Toro” Veast
Emilly Farstafr Ec N Eee
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St. Louis
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