I Wanted Wings at the Paramount Ranch Show
A vivid town note recalls a screening of I Wanted Wings at the Paramount, staged with Kohler power by Fred Patterson and Solon May at a ranch in Texas, plus a two hour plus improvised outdoor show. Weather and war notes punctuate the column with jokes, quotes, and brief facts from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Army
Randolph and
Kelly
Texas
Fred Patterson
Solon May
R. JD. Short
E. W Glenn
Kohler
Navy Recruiter Plans Amarillo Visit This Week
A. N. Dearing, naval recruiter, says rain should help recruitment as he will be at the Amarillo Marine recruiting office Tuesday and Wednesday to seek men for navy service with good job opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. N. Dearing
Naval
Amarillo
Marine
Navy
Burglar Uses Baseball Bat To Break Into House
An Indianapolis burglary reports a thief taking a baseball bat from a back porch, breaking a dining room window, entering the home, and stealing Mrs. Andrew White’s purse and $7.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Andrew White
Hoyt's Relieved My Kidney Misery Amarillo Resident Says
Oscar Ragland of Amarillo Texas reports a ten year struggle with stomach upset constipation and kidney distress. Four days after using Hoyt's Compound he felt immediate improvement including better sleep appetite elimination and energy. Hoyt's is sold by Cretney Drug Store and local Criggists.
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Hoyt
Amarillo
Oscar Ragland
Hotel Angelus
Texas
Seeking Employment and Companionship in Amarillo Reader Notices
Several classified notices from Amarillo items. A widow seeks a motherless home or ranch cook job. A man seeks a refined companion over 40 for long term partnership. A reader offers reward for lost diamond ring on Claude Highway and asks glove return near Amarillo National Bank. A widowed woman seeks any work, preferring motherless home. Contact details provided.
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Tack
Adventist Church
Colorado Street
Portales
N. Mex
Allen M. Graham
Amarillo
Claude Highway
West 18Th Avenue
Amarillo National Bank
Homes for an Invalid Lady Seeks Caring Couple
A request seeks a couple to provide full care for an invalid lady. References available. Call 2 2239 days or 5426 evenings or write P O Box 1433 Amarillo.
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P. O. Box
Amarillo
Woman seeks housework or hotel work in Fillmore St area
Middle aged woman offers to do housework or hotel and boarding house duties. Contact at 509 Fillmore St for arrangements.
85 Percent of Parity Bill Signed by FDR
President Roosevelt signed a bill to provide loans on major crops at 85 percent of parity with a pledge that prices would not exceed parity. The measure covers cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco, with penalties for abnormal production. Loan rates and potential returns for this year were cited, including wheat at about 115 dollars per bushel and cotton around 16 cents per pound in estimates.
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Fdr
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Gestapo Card Files Exposed in Congress Testimony
Richard Krebs testified before the House committee on un American activities that the Gestapo maintained card files on foreign citizens to gauge national strength and influence, with Hamburg's foreign division handling espionage. He described rooms of labeled enemies and allies, and noted a propaganda front, Transocean News, used to push German aims. He revealed his own past as a Gestapo agent after leaving the Comintern.
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Winchell
Hess
Berkeley
Washington
Richard Krebs
Jan Valtin
House Committee On unAmerican Activities
Gestapo
Germany
Krebs
Moscow
The
Communist Internationale
Hamburg
United States
They
Transocean News
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
North
South America
O'Daniel names Van Watts and Lacy to state boards amid debate
Governor O'Daniel appoints Mrs. Claude D. Van Watts as liquor control chair and Edwin C. Lacy to the game fish and oyster commission. Lacy previously failed Senate confirmation for public safety. Senator Hill offers to debate the governor over aid to Britain and Republican appointments as unemployment in Eire falls.
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O'Daniel
Claude D. van Watts
Austin
State Liquor Control Board
Edwin C. Lacy
Longview
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Red Cross
Hill
Great Britain
Texas
House
O’daniel
United States Senate
Northern operators agree to $1 daily wage rise in strikewatch
Strikeno work stoppage halted as Northern operators accept a $1 a day wage increase to ST a day. The CIO United Automobile Workers threaten a Wednesday walkout unless the minimum pay rises from 50 to 75 cents per hour and a 10 cent per hour blanket raise is granted to all 11,000 employees. J L Kindelberger of North American Aviation flew to Washington to discuss the strike threat with the board.
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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
United States Army
Elbert Hubbard
Garcia
W. M. Turner
Attlanta Constitution
Turner
Joe Stalin
Air Force
Finland
England
Gertrude Lawrence
Comedienne
New York
Washington
Artie Shaw
J. L. Kindelberger
North American Aviation, Inc
Inglewood
Calif
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Courthouse Records and Marriages Highlight Local Deeds and Licenses
A listing of warranty deeds transferring parcels and lots including Lawson Hayden to G C Laughry and others, with amounts from $2,250 to $10, plus Barfield to Lan, and Barfield to Parker. Also notes license births and marriages for Henry Houser and Dorothy Cook among others, with several joint pairs listed.
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Lawson B. Hayden
G. C., Laughry
Plemons
Dr. T. Rasco
Margaret E. Pattie
Joslin
O. R. E. Barfield
W. E. Landrum
Eakle
Comer D. Thompson
A. H. Brown
A. W. Gibson
A. W. McKee
G&s
Walter G. Russell
Texon Royalty Co. Pt
Texon Royalty Co
Wells
George Menke
Fritz George Menke
Bs&f
Cc. L. Munday
Mary Jo Hamilton
Cecil E. Sadler
Nannie M. Ellison
George W. Parker
George Elo
Dave C. Davenport
Southside
John Farrell
Reeves W's
Roberts
R. S. Reeves Et
David C. Dodge, Jr
Fuqua Dey. Co
Hugo H. Loewenstern
Wash
Con
Quincy Ford
F. B. Davidson
Rev. Plens
Co. L. Munday
Jack H. Baker
Studebaker
Sara Ann Parker
Plymouth
Joe G. West
Chevrolet
T. M. Crawford
Frances Parker
Hamrick
Henry Justin Houser
Dorothy Jane Cook
George R. Stout
Goldie Myrte
Hamilton
Otis R. Beard
Billie June Wingrove
Oliver Eagleston
Rose Pascoe
Joseph Raymon Osborn
Gladys Sweet
Connie F. Till
Lucy L. Clover
Baren L. Higdon
Pauline Pyeatt
Thomas Lewis
Dorena Mae Armstrong
Fred Stephen Hayden
Mary Frances Knight
Homer J. Foster
Lucille Curtis
Booster Trip to Dumas Sparks Amarillo Day Rodeo
Sam Elkins, the city's goodwill ambassador, began promoting a booster trip to Dumas for Friday's Amarillo Day at the rodeo and old settlers' reunion.
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Sam Elkins
Dumas
Amarillo
Old Settlers
Commissioners Readvertise Bids for Road Maintainer
Commissioners court votes to readvertise for bids on a road maintenance machine after unsatisfactory prior responses. The court also grants property tax exemption to the Musical Arts Conservatory of West Texas in Amarillo, citing school taxation laws.
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Commissioners Court
Musical Arts Conservatory of
West Texas
Amarillo
Marines Send Eight More From Amarillo
The Marines shipped eight more men from Amarillo including Jack W. W. Phelps Glen McWhirter BE O Wright Oscar E Hunt O D Bankston Harold W Morris Clifford E Slade and Adrian J Mills from Spur Estelline Post Lamesa Sylvester Spur.
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Amarillo
Jack W. W. Phelps
Glen McWhirter
Inadale
BE. O. Wright
Estelline
Oscar E. Hunt
O D. Bankston
Post
Harold W Morris
Lamesa
Clifford E. Slade
Sylvester
Adrian J. Mills
Spur
Life Insurance Helped This Small Businessman
A reader recalls a memoir of using life insurance to raise capital for a business expansion. A confectioner unable to secure a loan due to lack of collateral sought help from a life insurance agent who suggested insuring his life for $4,000 and assigning the policy to a lender, securing funds for a bigger store.
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Aviation Corps
Panhandle
Egypt
China
Kerry Shaw
Buck Harris
United States Infantry
Alan Guttmacher
Diamond Ring
Bonham St
Rear
Fillmore St
Eire
Courthouse Records
Sunnyside
Raymond Ford
Rev. Pleas. Val
Fuqua Dev. Co
E. H. Klein
Wash. Con
Alice Vermillion
Aubrey Perry
Ab&m
Buthker
West
Ninth Avenue
SUNN
Ial
Arif
Zain
Hine
Thrift
Cash & Carry
Case and O'night
Oayl
Interiors
Polk
Life Insurance
Register
D. J
New Haven
Institute of Life Insurance
East 42Nd Street
N. Y
Gunn “Arif
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