Early Christmas Shopping Surges in Amarillo Markets
Amarillo merchants report an earlier start to Christmas shopping with toys and ready to wear items leading purchases. Shoppers crowd stores all week, many popular items sold out with uncertain restocks. Demand extends to costume jewelry lingerie toiletries glassware and children's needs as merchants note improved merchandise quality despite similar total sales to last year. Shortage of staff slows some stores as the rush begins earlier than expected.
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Amarillo
Premier of turbulent Belgium seeks Eisenhower aid
Unofficial reports say Premier Pierlot may ask General Eisenhower to help form a temporary protective government for Belgium after a tumultuous demonstration by about 15 000 marchers demanding Pierlot's resignation. Police patrolled Brussels as resistance sympathizers protested surrender of firearms amid the unrest. About half the marchers were women.
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Pierlot
Eisenhower
Belgium
Merchandisers Report Higher Line Availability
Lines are estimated to be about ten percent larger than a year ago with wholesalers noting a similar rise in sales. Distributors largely stick to strict merchandise allotments to retailers.
Oliver Flies Thunderbolt Over Europe
Lt. Leon Oliver of the Eighth Air Force flies P-47 Thunderbolt missions over Nazi-held Europe. He bombs gun emplacements bridges and rail centers in low level sweeps and carries out ground strafing against enemy troops and vehicles with eight .50 caliber guns. He also provides escort for heavy bombers during daylight precision strikes deep in enemy territory. Oliver enlisted in 1942 after leaving the Texas Company and was commissioned at Luke Field in December 1943.
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H. W. Oliver
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Ninth Avenue
Eighth Air Force
Oliver
Europe
Army Air Forces
Texas Company
Luke Field
Ariz
Red Cross Office To Be Open Tomorrow On Thanksgiving Day
Potter County Chapter of the American Red Cross on the fifth floor of the courthouse will be open all day Thursday with enough staff to handle requests. Remaining workers will be on call as needed. Baby harp seals weigh only 15 pounds at birth but reach about 80 pounds in two weeks.
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Potter County
The
American Red Cross
Churchill Urges Roosevelt Stay Out of the Rain
Albany dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill told Bishop G Ashton Oldham Roosevelt should avoid going out in the rain. Churchill reportedly saw photos of Roosevelt motoring in the rain and sent the warning through the bishop during a overseas mission return.
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Roosevelt
Albany
N. Y
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
G. Ashton Oldham
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Occupational Disease Hits Washington Foot in the Line
Washington humorist Frederick C. Othman riffs on a fictional illness called Washington Foot caused by endless lines. He parades through federal offices and public spaces where people line up for pay, meals, tokens, rides, and services, joking that the line culture grips the capital and even shapes moods and crime.
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Commerce Department
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Navy Department
The
Madrillion
Joyful Cough Relief Home Mixture
A simple home cough remedy mixes Pinex with corn syrup or honey to create a pint of quick acting medicine. It is advertised as long lasting, pleasant for children, and claimed to loosen phlegm and ease irritated air passages with a money back guarantee.
Technique for waiting lines with footwear and leaning
The speaker describes using loose shoes thick socks and leaning on walls or others in line to cope. A cane is suggested though the speaker prefers not to carry one and plans to buy crutches instead. He mentions hard toed shoes and the OPA as a place where toes are often injured.
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OPA
Organ Playing Conductor Gives Daily Portland Broadcast
Frank Huff of Portland, after finishing his Boston and Maine Railroad conductor run, performs a daily organ concert broadcast from the railroad station. The weekly program airs on a local station.
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Portland
U.P
Boston & Maine
Frank Huff
Roosevelt names two to Surplus Property Disposal Board
President Roosevelt nominates former Connecticut governor Robert A. Hurley and Lt. Col. Edward Helier of California to the Surplus Property Disposal Board. The announcement was made in Washington on November 2.
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Roosevelt
Robert A. Hurley
Connecticut
Edward Helier
California
Surplus Property Disposal Board
Double tragedy hits Wichita family in war losses
Mrs. J. W. Schrader learned her son Pfc. Robert Schrader was killed in action. Two weeks later she was informed another son Sgt. Warren P Schrader died in France from accidental gunshot wounds.
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Kan. U.P
J. W. Schrader
Pfc
Robert Schrader
Warren P Schrader
France
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