Amarillo Prepares Largest Southwest Military Parade
A grand parade in Amarillo is described as the largest in the Southwest since the 36th Division’s Fort Worth march, with units totaling over two miles and about 3 500 soldiers in one group. Also notes a Paramount screening for service mothers, plus varied war diary items and letters from Dallas to Denver about wartime rumors and home front life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Southwest
Texas
Fort Worth
Parade Float and Military Units in Amarillo Event
Parade sequence lists Lt Col S E Jordan leading the Color Guard and 30th Army Air Force Band and includes Governor Stevenson, General Donovan, Army and Navy staff, Amarillo Field units, WACS Lt Condon, Pampa bands and cadets, Pantex float col Barker, 8th Service Command, internement camps Risden and McLean, Dalhart Band Captain McDonald, induction HQ Durrette, Waves and Sailors units, Dallas and Oklahoma naval commands, Texas State Guard led by Capt Sam Davis, West Texas State College activities, Amarillo High School Band, ROTC units, and a War Chest Float.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Jordan
Legion Guard
30Th Army Air Force Band
C. W. O. Palmer
Governor Stevenson
Donovan
Army and Navy
Amarillo Field
Lietenant Condon
Fryer
1St
Army Air Force
C. W. O. Stone
Technical School
Elznic
Engineers
Chambers
Pampa
Harold Smith
Barker
Barkley
8Th Service Command
McMillan
Hereford
Risden
McLean
Dalhart
McDonald
West Texas
Col. Durrette
Finn
Oklahoma City Naval District
Nicholson
Dallas
L. H. Ridout, Jr
Texas State Guard
Sam Davis
West Texas State College
West Texas State College Cadet Training School
Amarillo High School
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Amarillo
Texas
Rumors and Reflections in The News-Globe Letter Page
A reader letter questions a report that Old Tack is dead while the piece threads through quotes on love and marriage from Thackeray and Socrates. It notes eye color as a character clue and cites Smithsonian astrophysical forecasts for 1945, plus a Defense related bureau acronym and wartime shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Globe
Grady Camp
Tack
San Francisco
Fred Smith
Katina Paxinou improves but must rest three months
Hollywood gossip notes Katina Paxinou is out of danger and ordered to absolute rest for three months. Desi Arnaz legalizes his screen name, George Reeves’ marriage nears divorce, and other showbiz tidbits touch on contracts, publicity stunts, and wardrobe weights.
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Hollywood
Katina Paxinou
Desi Arnag
Monicker
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz Y de Acha
George Reeves
Missus
Joan Fontaine
Miss Sexless
New York
Columbia
Susann Shaw
Dusty” Anderson
Wileon McClory
B. J. Graham
Republic
Roy Rogers Pictures
Pauline Betz
Lowell Gilmore
Tom Conways
Maureen O'Hara
Paramount
Paulette Goddard
A. Semonensky
Boston
Constance
George Brent
Worth
David Hartley
Tex
Barbara Coleman
Kay Kyser
Warner Brothers
Hollywood Victory Committee
Frank Sinatra
Barbara Hale
Esquire
Bob Hope
Fan
Marlene Dietrich
Irene Dunne
Warner
Laird Cregar
Britain to aid Portugal with Azores facilities and supplies
Britain will grant Portugal access to facilities in the Azores and provide essential materials for the Portuguese armed forces and economy. The move aims to ease wartime shortages that have sparked public protests in Lisbon and other cities and prompted rationing reforms. Coal convoys have begun unloading at Lisbon, signaling implementation of the promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Azores
Portugal
Lisbon
Tagus
Parade Honors Army Air Field Cadre At City Tribute
Reports say Panhandle residents travel to Amarillo for a day to honor service mothers as officers and men of Amarillo Army Air Field prepare a special screening of This Is The Army at Paramount Theater. An 8 o clock premiere and Army Emergency Relief sponsor event will broadcast as a prelude to the feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Amarillo
Amarillo Army Air Field
Army
Paramount Theater
Army Emergency Relief Fun
Panhandle
Soldier's dog tag found and turned in
A dog-tag bearing the name John A. Guthrie 38465392 T43 was found and turned in at the Globe-News for claim. A 1943 license tag EL5-351 was also found and may be claimed at 1028 Bowie Street. A reader reports glasses found near Julian Boulevard for the owner to claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Guthrie
Globe-News
Bowie Street
Tack
Julian Boulevard
I. J. Tolleson Struck by Car in Front of Boxwell Brothers
I J Tolleson about 70 suffered a left leg fracture after being struck by a car driven by Joe Smaistria 56 as he stepped from the curb at Ninth Avenue and Taylor Street. Smaistria a Pantex worker stopped and ambulance was summoned for X ray exams at Northwest Texas Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. J. Tolleson
Madison Street
Roy Cullum
Tolleson
Northwest Texas Hospital
Ninth Avenue
Taylor Street
Joe Smaistria
Fillmore Street
Smaistri
Court increases offers in Pantex land seizures
In the Pantex Ordnance Plant takings, Judge Wilson raised government offers by 300 000 across 25 of 37 condemned tracts. The order boosts crops and land values, adds community per acre value, and may grant severance pay for partially taken land. Attorneys with Lawrence Griffith review individual totals as the judge assists owners and tenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Wilson
Emory L. Richardson Dies at 72 in Amarillo
Emory L. Richardson longtime bailiff of the court of civil appeals and Amarillo resident since 1903 died at 8 30 this morning at his home 510 East Fifteenth Avenue after months of illness He came here from Freestone County and is survived by widow Nettie Richardson a son Emory Richardson and a daughter Mrs D M Tinkle all of Amarillo He was a member of Polk Street Methodist church Funeral arrangements are pending with N S Griggs & Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emory L. Richardson
Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
East Fifteenth Avenue
Richardson
Freestone County
Nettie Richardson
Emory Richardson
D. M. Tinkle
Polk Street Methodist Church
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Pvt Buddy the bomber pilot’s bulldog returns home
Pvt Buddy the bomber pilot’s bulldog arrives in a crate from California to 826 Florida Street and keeps watchful proximity to the house. The nt owner Lt Scott Edwards plans him to join a heavy bomber crew while noting Stalino’s 1941 German occupation history.
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Buddy
Florida Street
California
Scott Edwards
Stetson Hat Left at War Dads Meeting in Herring Hotel
A gray Stetson hat size 71 8 with the name Harry Holland as seller was found at the War Dads meeting in the Herring Hotel. The owner may call 8041 J. A. Avery.
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Herring Hotel
Harry Holland
J. A. Avery
Widow of air force hero to wed Navy lieutenant in Pennsylvania
Mrs. Colin Kelly Jr., widow of Capt Colin Kelly the air force hero who sank the Japanese battleship Haruna, will marry Dr. J Watson Pedlow a Philadelphia chemical engineer and Navy Lieutenant (J G) on Friday in Pennsylvania. Tad Wick confirmed plans and Mrs Pedlow said the couple had kept their engagement secret. The ceremony location remains undisclosed with reports of a Philadelphia wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Colin Kelly, Jr
Air Force
J. Watson Pedrow
Philadelphia
Navy
J.G
Tad Wick
Pennsylvania
Mary Pedlow
Center Enrollment Surpasses 1942 Mark at Amarillo Center
Amarillo Center of West Texas State College reports 163 enrollments, surpassing last semester’s total of 159. Most classes remain open to non credit students. credit seekers must be qualified. The center operates from the Allen Early home at 2101 Harrison, donated by Mr and Mrs Early. Dr J A Hill, president, praised the rapid progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Center
Southwest
R. G. Boger
Amarillo
West Texas State College At
Canyon
Allen Early
Harrison
Early
J. A. Hill
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Denver
John McCarty
Lawrence Martin
Denver Post
McCarty
Howe
Mr. Martin
Dick Martin
Globe News
Patt Powell
Powell
Cardinals
Winchell
Lexington Avenue
Lana Turner
CBS Playhouse
Rivoli Theater
Hemingway
Liberty
Greenwich Village
Barnie Mangum
Southwest Pacific
Union
Sam
Duke
Washington
Robert Lee Niehans
Carthal Niethans
Washington, D. C
Jefferson Memorial Steps
Lee Howard
North Lincoln Street
Robert Niehans
Plainview
Darling
Thackeray
Mr. Thackeray
Edward Young
Socrates
Honore de Balzac
Manhattan
Charles Abbot
Smithsonian Institute
Astrophysical Observatory
Alpabetical
Eidebowabew
Economics Intelligence
Office of Economic Warfare Analysis
Board of Economic Warfare
Wilson Drug Store
Jimmie Fidler
20Th Century- Fox
George Sanders
Brenda Marshall
Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
Blondie
Little Theatre
Holland Gin Distillers
Argentina
United States
Uncle Sam
D. R
Biddle
Francis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Kiska
Pennsylvania Railroad
Africa
Monogram
Johnny Downs
Gale Storm
John Carradine
20Th Century-Fox
Jane Withers
Alec B. Francis
James Cruze
Betty Compson
Renee Adoree
George Murphy
Dennis Michael
Dennis
George
Stalino
Hunsley
House OF Color
Sonnie Boy
Major Wilkins
Alt
Peter McCue
Dumas Highway
West Cherry Avenue
Joe Hancock
John Wil
Double Grand
John Wilkins
Ron L. Burnett McCue
Wilkins
Van
Mathis
L. E. Yocham Auctioneers
W. McCrerey and
I. S. Jameson
Colin Kelly
West Texas State
Plains Country
Denison
Southwestern War Industries
Marion Kelly
Corky
DR. J. J. Freid
Pete Tl
Akeri Eagine
910 Polk
F. C. Goyne
First National Bank
FHA
The
First National Bank of
U. S. Deposit Insurance Corporation
Oldest Bank
the Panhandle
Freeman
Polk
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