Air liner hero rescues passengers from blazing crash
Miles City report details Young Sergeant Carl Dintus who crawled from a window and opened a jammed cabin door to free Stewardess Lois Hallam and nine passengers while two army men aided others. Three pilots died as the Northwest Airlines transport crashed near Miles City after overshooting the airport. In Altadena, Walter Tompkins, 32, says he has published 5,000,000 words of fiction under nine pen names.
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Miles City
Mont
Carl Dintus
Lois Hallam
Northwest Airlines
Altadena
Cal
U.P
Walter Tompkins
Plans and financing offered for estimate
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Round and round filet crochet doilies pattern
Start at the center and work round and round for these filet crochet doilies. Pattern 324 contains directions and charts for making doilies with illustrations of stitches and materials required. Send ten cents plus one cent to cover mailing cost to The Amarillo Globe Needle craft Dept. 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY. Include pattern number name and address.
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Amarillo Globe
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Dwelling Vacancies To Be Surveyed In Amarillo
Amarillo will host a survey of dwelling unit vacancies conducted by the Research and Statistics Division. John W. Brainbrook of New Orleans arrived to arrange the survey set to begin next Monday. Six workers from Woodward Oklahoma will operate under John Bell. The Chamber of Commerce will house the survey team and relocate to new offices above the Capitol Theater.
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Amarillo
John W. Brainbrook
New Orleans
Woodward
Okla
John Bell
Oklahoma
Warspite Sunk Report Strobed by Tokyo Radio
Tokyo radio cites United Press saying the British battleship Warspite was sunk after damage in the Coral Sea. The first imperial HQ communique said Warspite was damaged. the British admiralty denied any sinking.
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United Press
Tokyo Radio
Coral Sea
Imperial Headquarters
New Formula for Getting Rich
Wells Logan of Poplar Bluff Missouri hid money under a hotel rug during a recent stay. He called the hotel to request it be sent if found. The next day he received three five dollar bills by mail, though he had only hidden two.
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Kenetz
Wells Logan
Poplar Bluff, Mo
Logan
Toni
Tonie
Retrial Ordered in Dowlen Case for Attacking Girl
The Court of Criminal Appeals remanded Charles Dowlen for retrial after ruling the trial court erred by not limiting impeaching evidence. Dowlen was convicted in Canyon's 47th District Court for attacking an eight year old girl and sentenced to 25 years.
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Court of Criminal Appeals
Charles Dowlen
47Th District Court
Canyon
Dowlen
Markets and livestock prices at Kansas City fair
Market briefs show Dow Jones industrials at 97.25 down 1.31 and railroads steady. Kansas City livestock reports hogs weak to lower, cattle steady to higher with fed steers active, vealers unchanged, stockers scarce. Sheep bids softer early with spring lambs above 14.75, clipped lambs above 13.25. financial funds list liquidation at 1.28.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Soldiers Pay Bill Passes Increase in base pay for privates and sailors
The House approved a bill to raise base pay of privates and apprentice seamen to 50 dollars monthly. It also boosted pay for other enlisted grades and the lowest ranking commissioned officer. The Senate appropriations committee then approved a 680,383,959 dollar farm appropriation bill for 1943, coming in under the administration’s budget estimates.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Condemned Communists Sentenced in Skoplje
A military court in Skoplje condemned to death 18 persons accused of being Communists and waging guerrilla warfare. Eighteen others received long prison terms.
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Bern
Switzerland
Skoplje
Fort Pitt walls found intact preserved since colonial era
National Park Service archaeologists report that the walls of Fort Pitt, built in 1759, are frozen and preserved beneath Pittsburgh’s Point area. WPA digs uncovered sections suggesting most of the fort can be excavated, fueling calls for a future Point park after the war.
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Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt
National Park Service
A. R. Kelly
Archeological Division
T. Borressen
NPS
Yorktown
Fort Niagara
Dr. Kelly
Kelly
Allegheny
U. S. Short on Typewriters in Wartime
Washington reports shortages of typewriters across federal agencies as two stenographers share one machine while one handles calls and the other types. The note hints at Uncle Sam eyeing a wholesale typewriter repair operation as a solution amid ration pressures and wartime constraints. Costa Rica faces near full employment with no labor troubles.
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Uncle Sam
British Imperials Battle- and Win- Their Way Out of Burma
British forces push through mosquito swamps and jungle to reach the Indian frontier from the Chindwin Valley. The drive toward Assam aims to rejoin Allied outposts as Japanese pressure increases, with Stilwell’s Chinese units engaging further south near Lashio and Taunggyi.
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Burma
Calcutta
India
U.P
Great Britain
Chindwin
Assam
Kalewa
Myitkyina
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Lashio
Taunggyi
Taungayi
Lashi
Methids
Mandalay
Taunkay
Four Killed in Nebraska Storms Near Ewing and Osmond
Four persons died when ferocious wind storms hit farming areas in northeast Nebraska near Ewing Figin Osmond and Foster. The Leany family perished at a home seven miles southwest of Ewing including two daughters Elaine 10 and Barbara 6. Their injured child Shirley Anne 8 survived.
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Norfolk
Neb
Nebraska
Ewing
Figin
Osmond
Foster
John Leany
Elaine
Barbara
Shirley Anne
Amarillo Student Chosen For Salt Lake City Radio Broadcast
David M. Mims son of Otho M. Mims and grandson of Emmett Mims of Amarillo was selected from over 300 applicants as one of six students to join a Salt Lake City National Broadcasting Company program. The show, a feature of National and Inter-American Music Week, aired Sunday. He previously attended Wilson School in Amarillo.
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David M. Mims
Otho M. Mims
Amarillo
Emmett Mims
Fillmore Street
Red Net
Salt Lake
National Broadcasting City
Utah
Salt Lake City
Wilson School
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Warspite
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Storm Troopers
Globe News
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People's Market Place
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Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
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NEW York Stock Exchange
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Alleghany Lid Steel
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Amit Mill
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At& SF
Ale Aviation Corp Dees
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Bendix Aviation
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Chrysler
Cansol
Setee
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Int Power & Pap
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Marshall Field
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
Als
National Biscuit Site
National Dairy Products Il
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio
Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures
Chicago
Trie
Yugoslavia
Floyd V. Studer
American United Life Insurance CO
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Fort Bragg
N. C
Sir John Dill
George C. Marshall
Old Fort Pitt
U. S
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Taylor
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