Amarillo Prepares Sugar Ration Day Registration
Amarillo authorities announce sugar rationing registration for Monday across Amarillo and Potter County. Residents must register at their nearest elementary or junior high, with an alphabetical schedule to minimize crowds. Only one adult per family should register, and applicants must provide detailed personal data for each member. An additional registration window is available Tuesday through Thursday afternoons.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Randall County
Kansas City Livestock Markets Report May 1 1942
Hogs tops at 13.90 with 180 lb animals near peak. cattle receipts light with bids 25 cents below Wednesday. calves mainly slaughter stock. sheep and lambs steady with light Arizona spring lamb lots at 14.00 and best clipped lambs around 12.00. Financial quotes show liquidating price 11109 and offering 122.
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Kansas City
Arizona
Victory Caravan At Boston Tonight
Hollywood's victory caravan of 28 stars left for Boston after raising 25000 for army and navy relief. The tour covers 11 cities with 3400 attendees paying up to 20 dollars for vaudeville shows featuring Bob Hope Joan Blondell Joan Bennett Olivia de Havilland Cary Grant and Pat O'Brien. Mrs Roosevelt and top officials attended opening night. Rajagopalachari resigns from All-India Congress Party working committee over Muslim state proposal in India.
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Washington
U.P
Hollywood
Victory
Army and Navy
Boston
Bob Hope
Joan Blondell
Joan Bennett
Olivia DeHaviland
Cary Grant
Pat O'Brien
Allahabad
India
C. R. Rajagopalachari
All-India Congress Party
War plants tighten access around Amarillo area
The article notes growing security at local war plants and rail yards. Civilians face trouble for photographing near airports, ships, roundhouses, and yards as special guards and plain clothes officers increase patrols. Casual sightseeing is halted for the duration of the war effort.
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Pearl Harbor
Amarillo
Former Amarilloan Marooned by Flood
Mrs Gene Dixon formerly Frances Rowland tells her mother in Amarillo via long distance that she and her baby are marooned in their Great Bend Kansas home as flood waters rise. Her husband Gene is away fighting floods and cannot reach them. Recent rains flood Great Bend and Dodge City. The Dixons previously lived in Amarillo where Mr Dixon worked in grocery stores and now is employed by an oil company.
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Amarillo
Gene Dixon
Frances Rowland
Lee Edmondson
East Fifth Avenue
Great Bend
Kan
Gene
Unidentified Target Halts LA Radio in 38 Minute Silence
An Army alert reports a briefly silenced Southern California radio network after an unidentified target prompted the restriction. The alert did not reach San Diego, though Los Angeles experienced a citywide radio pause with police noting restricted operations. The Army did not define the term target.
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Los Angeles
California
San Diego
Wheat loan rate set at $1.14 a bushel for 1942
The Agriculture Department set the basic loan rate for 1942 grown wheat at $1.14 per bushel at the farm with 1941 at 98 cents. The program depends on grower approval of wheat marketing quotas in a referendum tomorrow. Rates reflect grade and storage location with highest terms at terminal markets and lowest at distant points.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Deceitful Prof Found Guilty in Fraud Case
Federal Judge James V. Allred found Charles Peter West alias Wisotcky guilty of crafting deceit and illegal narcotics use after he posed as Dr. David Walton Fell on the Texas School of Medicine Galveston faculty. Sentencing set for May 9 following further investigation.
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Houston
U.P
James V. Allred
Charles Peter West
West
Charles Peter Wisotcky
New York
Texas School of Medicine
Galveston
David Walton Fell
Allred
Registration of Women Dropped in War Mobilization
President Roosevelt announced that voluntary registration of women for wartime activities has been dropped. Paul V. McNutt, who oversees mobilization of manpower, consulted women on the Social Security Board and found demand for jobs exceeds openings nationwide.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
Social Security Board
Federal Advisory Council
Contract Adjustment Saves 50 Million in War Contracts
The War and Navy departments reported preliminary discussions with Continental Motors Corporation and Jack and Heintz Inc to save about 50 million dollars on government contracts. Official boards will examine contractor books for excess profits high salaries or large bonuses and seek price adjustments or refunds to allow re negotiation by war and navy buying agencies.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Continental Motors Corporation
Jack & Heintz, Inc
Baltic fleet claims sink of German battleship
Moscow radio reported that a German battleship was sunk by Russia’s Baltic fleet along with a cruiser, 16 destroyers, 18 submarines and 18 torpedo boats. It also claimed 114 transports were sunk and 721 enemy planes downed in the Baltic theatre.
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Moscow
Russia
Baltic
18 Norwegians Executed in Reprisal by German Authorities
Stockholm May 1 reports that German occupation forces in Norway executed 18 Norwegians in reprisal for the alleged assassination of two German security policemen. The killings followed an attack on an island off Norway’s west coast. The agency notes the incident as part of occupation measures.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Last Effort For Victory
Robert Ley urged a last supreme effort for victory in a May Day broadcast addressing German workers. He warned of hardships from winter and praised soldiers and allies, calling for lightening war burdens and securing the best weapons and munitions. Official Oslo notice says executions at 10 am yesterday for those captured while trying to reach England aboard a fishing vessel.
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Perlin
Robert Ley
Adolf Hitler
Workers of
Germany
Oslo
England
Power Use Rules Ordered by WPB
The War Production Board ordered a ban on all non essential electrical lighting including signs show windows and night athletic contests as areas are expected to become power shortage zones by late summer in the southeast northwest and southwestern states and parts of the St Louis and Buffalo districts. Utilities must operate for maximum war production and essential civilian services and integrate systems to transfer power where needed.
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Washington
War Production Board
Federal Power Commission
St. Louis
Buffalo
WPB
Two Nazi Planes Downed at Malta
Malta report says two German planes were destroyed and four damaged over Malta in today’s air action. An afternoon attack by eight Italian bombers on a North Malta military camp caused slight damage and one casualty.
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Valletta
Malta
Kiwanians Set District Meet In Amarillo Monday
Kiwanians from 11 clubs will gather Monday night May 25 in Amarillo for an inter club district meeting and dinner. Bill Beechler lieutenant governor led talks with Bruce Autry Kenneth Kohler and Sam Morris of local clubs to arrange the event with the chamber of commerce. District clubs include Amarillo Lubbock Pampa Plainview Vega Sanford Wellington Tulla Stinnett.
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Amarillo
Bill Beechler
Bruce Autry
Kenneth Kohler
San Jacinto
Sam Morris
North Amarillo
Nat
Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock
Pampa
Plainview
Vega
Sanford
Wellington
Tulla
Stinnett
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