Franco Receives Satisfactory Reply on North Africa Invasion
President Roosevelt announced a very satisfactory reply from General Francisco Franco about the American expedition to North Africa. He said the invasion was not aimed at Spain and noted no information on the Bey of Tunis’s reply to a troop crossing request. European sources report Spain shifts toward strict neutrality amid recent war developments.
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Fast-Talking Colonel Seizes Breda Air Field in Algeria
A British lieutenant colonel with four American Rangers and a Algiers-based correspondent seized Breda air field near Algiers from several hundred French defenders without firing a shot. The group used talk and flags to persuade French officers to yield, aided by eight trucks and American fighter support.
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Algiers
Breda
Tom Trevor
Spain Shifts Toward Neutrality Amid Axis Pressure
New York dispatch reports Spain under General Franco has moved from pro Axis nonbelligerence to strict neutrality due to recent Allied gains in the Mediterranean. Vichy France and North Africa are losing their buffering role, leaving Spain facing potential clashes if Hitler violates neutrality.
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Terrain Will Aid Yanks In Tunisia
Editor notes an Associated Press dispatch from New Delhi by William C. McGaffin on Tunisia. He explains flat terrain and coastal farms favor American and British maneuvering as Axis dismantling and the Mareth Line weaken French North Africa defenses.
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Associated Press
William C. McGaffin
New Delhi
India
North Africa
Mediterranean
Axis Armistice Commission
Hitler
Mareth Line
Libya
Abandoned search for Mexican plane ends in loss
A Mexican Civilian Air Lines plane with five passengers and two crew is declared lost after a weeklong, fruitless search for its disappearance en route from Quintana Roo to the Yucatan Channel. All aboard are presumed dead.
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Mexico City
Quintana Roo
Yucatan Channel
Boy Scouts Hold District Round Up at Moore County Courthouse
The Moore County District of Boy Scouts will hold its Pall Round-Up tonight at 8 at the Moore County courthouse in Dumas. Henry A. Tuck, district chairman, will preside. Maurice Teague recently appointed Field Executive of the Llano Es-
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Boy Scouts
Dumas
Henry A. Tuck
Maurice Teague
Llano Es
Philharmonic Tickets Urgent Sale at Public Service Co booth
Urgent notice for Philharmonic Orchestra Association members to pick up reserved seat tickets at the Public Service Company display room at Fifth Avenue and Polk Street. Booth hours extend to tonight 5 o clock and tomorrow noon, then open all day Monday for the first concert featuring a 70 piece edition with guest stars Fray and Bragiotti. Membership seats for seven concerts sell for 2 and 4 dollars by section. single admissions available only if space permits when box office opens Monday night.
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Polk Street
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Bragiotti
Public Service Company
Knife and Fork Club Dinner Lecture Tickets On Sale
Knife and Fork Club members may reserve tomorrow night's dinner lecture. Tickets are at Maxor Drug Store Fisk Building and Amarillo Hotel newsstand. Deadline is noon tomorrow. Speaker Fulton Oursler, former Liberty Magazine editor, will discuss world interviews and famous personages. He arrives tomorrow afternoon. Beaumont Stinnett presides in O Dale Smith's absence. Dinner at the Country Club starts 8 15 p.m.
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Fisk
Amarillo
Fulton Oursler
Liberty Magazine
Oursler
Beaumont Stinnett
O. Dale Smith
Country Club
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