Alaska motion pictures premiering in Amarillo this week
Jack Lamb’s color Alaska films, shot in fall, debut in Amarillo next Monday and Tuesday then head to New York. Free PREF tickets available via local merchants. showtimes Monday 10 AM 2:30 PM 6 PM and Tuesday 10 AM 2:30 PM with potential Wednesday holdover.
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Alaska
Jack Lamb
Amerilla
New York
Mr. Lamb
Port Worth
Amarillo
Lamb
Pittsburgh
Colored girl seeks half day housecleaning work
Dear Tack, a colored girl asks for a half day housecleaning job at 2220 Ong Street and provides phone 24434. Other notices include Tama waitress seeking work and a lost brown billfold with social security card and a local finder offering contact at 320 East 4th Ave.
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Ong Street
East 4Th Ave
Campaign Warns Amarillo Drivers On Defective Headlights
Amarillo police announce a city wide campaign starting Monday to curb defective headlights and tail lights. Captain Tommy Thomas says many commercial vehicles have damaged air lights and motorists should dim headlights when meeting others on Third and Sixth Avenues to reduce accidents.
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Amarillo
Tommy Thomas
Thomas
San Jacinto
House Committee Drops 100 Percent Parity Plan
In Washington and Van Nuys reports from November 1914 two distinct items appear. The House agriculture committee, bowing to Secretary Wickard, abandons 100 percent parity loans and shifts to an 85 percent base with 15 percent cash subsidies. The plan would run five years from December 31 and extend the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's payments and loan program through 1944.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Wickard
Fulmer
South Caroline
House
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Governor Bags Deer and Gobbler for Thanksgiving
Gov Coke Stevenson shows a nine point deer and large wild turkey gobbler from a weekend hunt in Texas. He killed the deer with a single shot on a neighbor’s ranch near his Junction ranch. Other hunters in the party also found game.
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Austin
Coke Stevenson
Stevenson
YOUR IDEAS EDITOR PAYS FOR BEST IDEAS DAILY
A newspaper ad from Globe News announces YOUR IDEAS EDITOR pays one dollar each day for the best idea submitted. Readers are invited to send their ideas to the editor for possible payment and publication consideration.
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Globe News
Smoke Rings Could Be Used as Antiaircraft Weapons
Dr. Phillips Thomas of Pittsburgh, speaking at a Kansas City scientific meeting, proposed using huge vortex smoke rings as antiaircraft weapons. He demonstrated small rings to ring bells and blow out candles from a distance, arguing large rings at high velocity could tear airplane wings.
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Kansas City
U.P
Phillips Thomas
Pittsburgh
Stork Impartial With Mothers
In JLYNN Massachusetts two mothers, Mrs. Wilfred Roy and Mrs. John Laitinen, shared equal timing at Union Hospital. Each welcomed baby girls in December 1939 and today both had baby boys at the same hospital, illustrating the stork's impartiality.
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Jlynn
Mass
Stork
Wilfred Roy
John Laitinen
Union Hospital
Wind disrupts driver tester signs at courthouse
Foster Nelson, senior driver license examiner for the Panhandle district, placed wooden standards on his parking space near the courthouse to mark parking for tests. A gust knocked them over repeatedly, and Nelson noted the wind normal to the coast may be at fault.
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Foster Nelson
Panhandle
Fillmore
Nelson
Americans in RAF Bravest of Brave praised by British leaders
London dispatch reports Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair and Air Marshal William Douglas praising the American Eagle Squadrons as among the top RAF units. U.S. Ambassador John Winant called the fliers “the bravest of the brave” at a luncheon honoring the Americans.
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London
Sir Archibald Sinclair
William Sholto Douglas
RAF
U.S
John Winant
Shipments to Britain Set New Record
The commerce department said lend lease shipments raised exports to the United Kingdom to a record monthly total of 143,229,000 dollars in September. This was about 14,000,000 more than August and 30 percent above the first eight months' average. Shipments to Russia also set a new high of 10,951,000 dollars in September, nearly 2,000,000 more than August.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United Kingdom
Russia
Captain Testifies Wife Untrue in Texas Murder Trial
Capt Harlan H Blackmon, on trial for killing his wife Helen at a dinner party, testifies she had gone out with other men but expresses love and despair after the act. Defense witnesses claim insanity, citing a lunacy conviction in the family and a history of mental illness.
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Helen
Blackmon
Robertson County
G. C Blackmon
Jail break alert from Claude investigation in Amarillo
Police were notified of a jail break at Claude connected to an Armstrong County pick up order. The escapee is a 36 year old man held on a burglary charge with details not released in the call.
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Amarillo
Claude
Armstrong County
Taxes Force New York Shoe Shine Price Up
Boston telegraph reports the Central Square Shine Boys Association will raise shoe shine prices from 5 to 10 cents this Saturday due to a cascade of taxes including defense and old age taxes. The note lists several tax types and states the change is effective in New York.
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New York
Boston
Central Square Shine Boys Association
Itching First Application Promises Quick Relief
Advertisement touts Blue Star Ointment for eczema rash ringworm pimples and toe itch. Claims quick healing with repeated use and money back satisfaction guarantee.
Evans Infant Taken by Death in Gruver
Timothy Bruce Evans infant son of Mr and Mrs A W Evans of Gruver died in an Amarillo hospital. Funeral arrangements by Blackburn Shaw to Gruver for services and interment probably tomorrow. Survived by parents a brother Walter Ted Evans eight and grandparents Mr and Mrs Walter Edwards and Mrs W B Hart all of Gruver.
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Timothy Bruce Evans
A. W. Evans
Gruver
Amarillo
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Walter Ted Evans
Walter Edwards
W. B. Hart
Grover
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Watpress
Tama
Monroe Street
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Tack
Dixie
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Maxine Broaddus
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Boyd Bonner
Bakersfield
Southern Pacific
Bonner
Virgil Ripper
Rippey
John Dunne
S. E. Snodgrass
Los Angeles
G. E. Baker
Baker
San Fernando Valley
Ewlitee
Jayne
Eer
Shaw-Graves
S. & H. Green
Yellowstone
Badger-Herring Sales & Drug Co, Inc
Whiteface
Odessa
Texas
Tommy Bird
West Ninth
Adkisson Baker Tire
J. Edward Johnson
Evans
Lucky Tiger
Good Housekeeping Bureau
Globe-News
Pampa
Zenith
Gee
Free
J. Frank Wright
Southwestern Public Service Company
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