Federal Judge Sentences Six In U S District Court
Six federal defendants faced sentences this morning in U S District Court. August Frost of Amarillo received two years in Leavenworth for transporting stolen cattle. Joseph Barnett of Amarillo had two years for violating the Selective Service Act, suspended for two years. Annie Johnson of Wheeler received three years for forgery and passing a government check. Thomas Murphy of Amarillo faced theft and embezzlement with eight months suspended. William Odell received 18 months in the El Reno reform school for forgery and passing a government check. One registrant in a separate Selective Service Act case was ordered to report to his draft board.
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U. S. District Court
August Frost
Amarillo
Leavenworth
Joseph Anderson Barnett
Annie Ruth Johnson
Wheeler
Stanley R. Crowe Promoted in Navy
Stanley R. Crowe has been promoted from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant while on sea duty in the Caribbean with a base at Miami Florida. He is on active duty for two years since being commissioned an ensign at the University of Colorado. His wife and three month old son Stanley Jr are with her parents in Kewanee Illinois and will move to Miami Florida.
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Stanley R. Crowe
T. Crowe
Sunset Street
Crowe
Stanley, Jr
Churchill Talks With Leaders In Mediterranean on Way Home
Prime Minister Churchill spent a night in Italy en route home from Moscow conferences with Marshal Stalin. He conferred with Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Sir Alan Brooke, then spent 24 hours in Cairo with army and navy commanders. Britain’s Pacific war role was likely discussed. He returned to London and will report to Commons this week.
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London
Churchill
Italy
Moscow
Marshal Stalin
Alan Brooke
Henry Maitland Wilson
Mediterranean
Cairo
Britain
Commons
Poles Doubtful of Early Agreement With Russia
London reports grave pessimism in Poland over prospects for an early accord with Russia and the Soviet sponsored Polish National Liberation Committee. Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, back from Moscow, postponed his cabinet report to tomorrow, heightening belief no acceptable basis for an agreement was achieved with Stalin Churchill or Lublin officials.
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London
Russia
Polish National Liberation Committee
Poland
Moscow
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Lublin Committee
Son of General Patch Killed in France
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch reports his son Captain Alexander M Patch III 24 killed in action in France while assaulting enemy positions. He was a West Point graduate and had led a rifle company with the 79th Division overseas this year. His wife and child live in Evanston Illinois.
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Staunton
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
France
Alexander M Patch
War Department
Mac
Patch
West Point
79Th Division
Evanston, Il
Hollywood gossip and film notes from Jimmie Fidler column
Hollywood chatter covers Fred Astaire Bette Davis Tallulah Bankhead and Greta Garbo daily Sak's visits. News on Ann Blythe Pat Phelan Militza Korjuz Yvonne de Carlo Errol Flynn Selznick's I'll Be Seeing You and Gable Garson pairing previews The Woman In the Window The Princess and the Pirate Laura Bluebeard To Have and Not To Have and Robinson in The Woman in the Window.
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Hollywood
Fred Astaire
Bette Davis
Tallulah Bankhead
Greta Garbo
Sak
Fifth Avenue
Ann Blythe
Pat Phelan
Paramount
New Discovery
Militza Korjuz
United Artists
Angel
Lee Tracy
June Havoc
William O'Brien
Edmund O'Brien
Yvonne de Carlo
Universal
Auto Court
20Th Century Fox
Kathleen Winsor
Amber
Hays Office
Errol Flynn
Ritz Brothers
Peter Lorre
Karen Verne
Connecticut
Mario
RKO
Isabelita
Selanick
Clark Gable
Greer Garson
Edward G. Robinson
Joan Bennett
Greenland
Bob Hope
Virginia Mayo
20Th Century-Fox
Laura
Gene Tierney
Dana Andrews
PRC
John Carradine
Jean Parker
Warner Brother
Humphrey Bogart
Walter Brennan
Lauren Bacall
Bogart
Little Caesar
Music Quieted Japanese Fire at Myitkyina Battle
In Chungking a public address system broadcast music and news to Japanese troops during the Myitkyina battle. Most fire ceased while the broadcasts played, except when a hostile report triggered heavy artillery. A captain then requested musical records and the silence returned.
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Chungking
Myitkyina
Pleasant Valley Halloween Carnival at Grade School
Pleasant Valley community hosts a Halloween carnival and amateur contest at the Pleasant Valley Grade School at 8 o clock Friday evening.
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Pleasant Valley
District Court DAs Named for Amarillo Term
In Amarillo for the current term of U S District Court are Davidt Binion of Fort Worth and Joe Jones of Dallas, both U S assistant district attorneys. Most earthquakes are caused by slipping of the earth's crust, although some are of volcanic origin.
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Amarillo
U. S. District Court
Davidt Binion
Fort Worth
Joe Jones
Dallas
U. S
United States and Allies Recognize De Gaulle Government
Washington and Britain recognized the De Gaulle administration as the provisional government of the French republic. Moscow Ottawa and Canberra issued similar statements. Stettinius said Paris and most of France are an interior zone under French authority while elections are planned by French leaders after the people express will.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
de Gaullee
Moscow
Russia
Ottawa
Canberra
Stettinius
France
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
French Republic
Birth of Rare Baby Trumpeter Swans at Jackson Hole
A pair of trumpeter swans at Jackson Hole National Monument Wyoming hatched two cygnets. Biologists view this as nationally significant as fewer than 50 of the species remained in 1931. The birds have begun nesting with protection, and experts note long-term survival remains uncertain.
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Chicago
U.S
Jackson Hole National Monument
Wyoming
Newton B. Drury
National Park Service
United States
Fort Yukon
Alaska
Canada
Montana
Nebraska
Iowa
Red Rock Lakes
Jackson Hole
Fish and Wildlife Service
Chinese decree bans bride price in Sinkiang tribes
In CHUNGKING dispatch Central News Agency reports a new provincial decree in Sinkiang whose 14 tribes ban the custom of the groom paying the bride's family. The move pleased both young men and women who welcomed the end of the traditional payment.
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Chungking
U.P
Sinkiang Province
Central News Agency
Evvola Cleared as Allies Free Aegean Islands
Allied headquarters announced Evvola the large Aegean island near the Greek coast is fully cleared of Germans. Khalkis surrendered to British and Greek patriots, with a few evacuees captured. Lemnos and the Cyclades were reported occupied as German forces retreat northward. RAF strafers hit Volos rail lines, destroying a locomotive and damaging rail cars.
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Rome
Aegean
Evvola
Athens
Khalkis
Lemnos
Cyclades
Greece
Mudros
Dardenelles
Volos
Grandpappy the Only Male Bomber in U.S. Army
In Greeley Colorado Captain Carman P. Felice commands Grandpappy the lone masculine name airplane in the Army. Built by Boeing in 1935 it is a heavy bomber capable of carrying up to 50 passengers and occasional troops. It serves USO shows and delivers aid to South America while remaining the sole active aircraft of its design.
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Greeley
Colo
U.P
Grandpappy
Carman P. Felice
USO
Boeing
Felice
Gas meter used to test B 29 pressure cabins at Hudson
Hudson Motor Car Co disclosed that Army Air Force engineers studied faster production methods for B 29 fuselage sections. An engineer adapted a precision gas meter to test pressure cabins, replacing an expensive specialized machine and saving time and money in production.
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Detroit
U P
Hudson Motor Car Co
Hudson
Army Air Force
Army
Court policy holds parents liable curbing juvenile crime
Baltimore youth crime fell 23 percent in the first six months, aided by Chicago Public Administration Clearing House findings. The new court policy, which fines and sentences parents, contributed to the drop versus last year, the report states.
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Chicago
Baltimore
Public Administration Clearing House of Chicago
Bomber Plant Strikers Back at North American Plant
UAW-CIO picket action at North American Aviation in Kansas City halted the night shift. The War Labor Board opened an inquiry into the discharge of 123 workers at the NAA Modification Center. About 7,000 workers were affected. A mass meeting supported resuming production pending board action. CIO regional director John Livingston sought an investigation into the Saturday servicemen’s trip to the plant.
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Kansas City
Kan
U.P
Big North American Aviation, Inc
Uaw-Cio
Regional War Labor Board
NAA
Paul F. Nachtman
CIO
John Livingston
Dallas
David Lardner Killed as Jeep Strikes Mine Near Aachen
David Lardner son of Ring Lardner and New Yorker correspondent was fatally injured when his jeep struck a mine near Aachen. Russell Hill of the New York Herald Tribune was hurt with a broken rib while the jeep driver died. Lardner had joined the First Army press corps days earlier on his first wartime assignment.
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U. S. First Army
Aachen
David Lardner
Ring Lardner
New Yorker Magazine
Russell Hill
New York Herald Tribune
Lardner
First Army Press Corps
Hill
Hunting Dog Injured by Wounded Pheasant Attack
In Duanesburg New York Spencer Christman's hunting dog was treated by a veterinarian after being attacked by a wounded pheasant while flushing a bird. The dog was in the brush when the pheasant struck with beak and claws.
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Duanesburg
N. Y
Spencer Christman
Christman
Senator Bridges Ailing in Boston Hospital
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire is hospitalized for overwork and exhaustion with a physician noting a possible three to four week stay. A separate item mentions the spawning ground for the common eel located south of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bridges
Boston
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Bermuda
Atlantic Ocean
Allied advance in Italy expands bridgeheads around Cervia
Eighth Army troops push up the Adriatic coast occupying Cervia four miles north of Cesena and 12 miles below Ravenna. Allied HQ notes the Savio River bridgehead has grown as British forces widen their positions and Canadian troops establish a new bridgehead two miles deep and one mile wide amid heavy German counterattacks near Frassineto.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Cervia
Cesenatico
Ravenna
Fifth Army
Rimini
Italy
Savio River
Cesena
British Advance Toward Kazu in North Burma
Southeast Asia Command reports the British 36th Division after capturing Mohnyin has pushed six miles east toward Kazu in North Burma. The move aims to link with Allied forces south of Kazu while Western Burma gains push from Tiddim toward Fort White as Japanese retreat on Kennedy Peak.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
36Th Division
Mohnyin
Burma
Myitkyina
Mandalay
Kazu
Southeast Asia
Tiddim
Chin Hills
Fort White
Kennedy Peak
Red Cross Sends Multi vitamins to Far East Prisoners
Mrs C A Robertson announces Red Cross shipments of multi vitamin tablets to American prisoners of war in the Far East. Basil O Connor says about 80009 tablets weekly are sent in four pound packages by air via Teheran to Russia and on to Japan.
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C. A. Robertson
Red Cross
Far East
Basil O'Connor
American Red Cross
Teheran
Ruggsia
Japan
O'Connor
International Red Cross Committee
Tokyo
Shanghai
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Canyon
Seligman, Ariz
R. A. Haley
Jimmie Fidler
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Floyd
V. Studer
National
E Halse Muse
Teeny the
Frassineto
Castel San Pietro
Bologna-Rimini Highway
John D. McBride
D. D. Ol
Zale
Polk
Manhattan
National Distillers Products Corp
N.Y
Ol' Vernon Sez
Buchanan
Assa
Science
Amarillo Retail Druggists Assn
Brooks’ Drug Store
Polk Street
Cretney
Oliver Eakle
Dickson Drug Store
FOX Drug Store
Éth and
Pierce Streets
Herbert Drug Store
Herring
Herring Hotel
Hollingsworth Pharmacy
6Th St
Kendall Drug Store
Kirk Drug Store
Lincoln Drug Store
East 10Th
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Maxor Drug Store
Jack Phillips Drug Store
West
Ores
Post Office Drug Store
Taylor Street
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Wilson Drug Store
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