Traveling with a magazine editor to Canada for waterfowl study
The writer accompanies Eltinge Warner of Field & Stream on a funded trip to Canada to inspect waterfowl breeding grounds. They will visit Brooks District with the Canadian game commission, report on Hungarian partrider numbers, and later introduce the bird to the Panhandle. The voyage includes photographers and business purposes, with letters planned to The News-Globe.
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Canada
Field & Stream
Eltinge Warner
New York
Brooks
Canadian Game Commission
Panhandle
Warner
News-Globe
Drafting Men for Women’s Work Question Raised in Letter
A reader questions why men are not drafted for women’s work besides teaching and urges schools to be headed by men or adapt wives as teachers. The letter urges men to join wartime duties, critiques pacifism, and appeals to West Texas State precedent. It calls for men to do a man’s duty and for authorities to consider shifting roles.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Open letter critiques News Globe over hanger drive for Army Air Forces
Mrs. Jack Ellis accuses the News Globe of not reading its own paper while praising Amarillo civic efforts. The Civic Center and Girl Scouts collected over ten thousand coat hangers with eight thousand given to the Army Air Forces School, and many more sold to soldiers. a new appeal asks for twenty to thirty thousand more.
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Globe News
Army Air Forces Technical School
Air Corps
Amarillo
Service Men‘s Civic Center
Civic Center
Girl Scouts of
Girl Scouts
Air Force School
Jack Ellis
Hollywood Gossip Roundup From Jimmie Fidler Column
Intimates claim Greer Garson and Richard Ney wed before her east bond tour. Reed Howes joins the Coast Guard. MGM plans a big screen push for Ava Gardner despite Mickey Rooney. Betty Grable may tour with Glen Miller pending Fox approval. Various notes from Hollywood, including designer shifts, naval base anecdotes, and industry quips.
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Greer Garson
Richard Ney
Reed Howes
Coast Guard
Mickey Rooney
MGM
Ava Gardner
Betty Grable
Glen Miller
20Th Century Fox
Mitchell Leisen
Rene de Marco
Raymond Massey
Eugene Frenke
Leningrad
Anna Stem
Pet Pony Strayed Near Northwest 15th Ave
A dappled gray mare about 4 years old and 4 to 5 hands high strayed last Monday evening from 2926 Northwest 15th Ave. The pony is gentle and weighs 800 to 900 pounds. Reward and return appreciated by Junior Bowen.
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Tack
Hollywood Notes on War Time Causes and Daring Promos
A fragmentary column critiques wartime censorship and celebrity behavior. Ann Corio faces a theater lobby ban on selling War Bonds amid political friction. The piece lampoons industry figures from Orson Welles to ZaSu Pitts while praising civilians like Richard Smart Ellen Drew Claudette Colbert for Red Cross work and canteen duties.
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Hollywood
Richard Smart
Mocambo
Red Cross
Ellen Drew
Claudette Colbert
AWVS
Fort MacArthur
Potter County Tax Values Rise in 1942 Roll
Miss Jewell Davidson, tax assessor collector, reports Potter County's 1942 tax roll increases total 1,169.34 with overall valuation 38,305,150. State taxes rise 533,870 to 30,026,350 and homestead exemptions climb 635,470 to 8,278,800. Ad valorem dues total 475,862.83 for the year.
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Potter County
Amarillo Independent
Air Raids Kill Over Forty-Seven Thousand Britons
London reports that air raids in the first three years of the war killed 47,305 British civilians and left 55,658 with injuries requiring hospital treatment. Security Minister Herbert Morrison disclosed the figures to the House of Commons.
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London
Herbert Morrison
House of Commons
Letter from Santa Fe engineer urges public to support war effort
SAM T. HARMON A. T. & S. FP Locomotive Engineer from Santa Fe writes to urge citizens to buy defense bonds and increase attention to wartime tasks. He cites personal sacrifice, charity involvement, scrap drives, and pride in his company as examples of civic duty and collective effort.
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Santa Fe
Tack
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Crippled Children’s Hospital
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China Relief
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Maverick Club
Robert S. Harmon
Marines
Willard T. Harmon
Fair City
Sam T. Harmon
Garner
Washington
Pleasan
Cactus Jack
More Beautiful Trees for Amarillo
Mr and Mrs W C Newman of 4251 West Twelfth Avenue describe their mountain ash and Tulip Poplar trees. They note three years of growth, spring flowering with berries mostly blown away, and a remarkable summer growth with large light green leaves. They invite a visit to see the trees.
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Alaska
Amarillo
Mrs. W. C. Newman
West Twelfth Avenue
British Attack Alamein Line Reported by Axis Powers
Italian and German sources claim a strong British Imperial attack on the southern Alamein line in Egypt was repulsed with about 200 prisoners taken. Italy also cites a Libyan Tobruk raid and six NCOs as POWs from a crew, while Berlin mentions Maltan air actions and Axis bombers. British reports note patrols and aerial activity around Tobruk, Bardia, and Sollum with Stuka involvement.
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Tobruk
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Sollum
Roosevelt and Garner Meet Amid War Trip in Texas
President Roosevelt and former vice president John N. Garner shared a brief six minute greeting in UVALDE as Roosevelt's war inspection train visited San Antonio. Garner, Garner’s home town, drove to the station in a 1929 Chevrolet to greet the president.
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John N. Garner
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San Antonio
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