Lidice Film At Flower Show In Mu nicipal Auditorium
The Lidice film detailing the Nazi destruction of Lidice will be shown as a talking slide program at the fall flower show in the Federated Club Rooms of Municipal Auditorium tomorrow afternoon and Saturday. The Coca Cola Company produced the film under the U S Treasury Department. American women bought 43,000,000 dozen pairs of silk or nylon hosiery in 1940. An airplane may be seen from 10,000 to 15,000 feet under favorable conditions.
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Lidice
Czechslovakia
Municipal Auditorium
Coca Cola Company
U. S. Treasury Department
400 Homeless In Texas Flood
More than a hundred residents of flood swept lowlands along the Rio Grande sought safety aboard rescue craft brought from Port Isabel Corpus Christi and Houston. The Coast Guard led evacuations as water rose across the southern Brownsville area with levees 18 inches higher than the flood, and a new crest forecast for tomorrow.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande
Port Isabel
Corpus Christi
Houston
Coast Guard
Here
Weather Bureau
Browns
Marine Pfc Obie L. Sims Jr Wounded in Action
Navy Department reports Marine Corps Pfc Obie L. Sims Jr wounded in action for period Aug 31 to Sept 6. Son of Mr and Mrs Obie L Sims of 1926 Lipscomb Street. Sims enlisted March 1941 through Amarillo Recruiting Station after Amarillo High School work with Santa Fe Railroad.
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Pfc
Obie L. Sims, Jr
U. 8
Marine Corps
Navy Department
Obie L. Sims
Lipscomb Street
Amarillo
Sims
Amarillo High School
The
Santa Fe Railroad
Goebbels Can't Answer People
In a Berlin broadcast summarized from Das Reich, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels argues Germany can secure peace while noting uncertainty about war duration. He warns that peace may be delayed and compares outcomes to 1918, suggesting enemies expect winter setbacks in Russia.
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New York
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Goebbels
Germany
Russia
Ever Since Eve Crippled Children's Show at Municipal Auditorium
The Crippled Children's Show Ever Since Eve will be staged September 28 to 30 at the Municipal Auditorium to raise funds for Amarillo's crippled children clinics. The cast features John Reynolds as Johnny Clover with Patsy Dinan as Susan Blake and Bette Burgess as Miss Willard, among others in a high school newspaper office setting with humor and sentiment.
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Municipal Auditorium
Amarillo
Penguin
Johnny Clover
Johnny
Miss Willard
John Reynolds
Patsy Dinan
Susan
Bette Burgess
Denny Plumley
Spud
Betsy
Margaret Dowse
Ginger Owens
Lucybelle Lee
Leo Wilmoth, Jr
Huge Meal Shipment Moves From Chicago
Heavy meat shipments left Chicago over two days with 19 743 000 pounds of cured meat and 28 440 000 pounds of fresh meat reported yesterday. Today's totals were 12 398 000 pounds cured and 15 940 000 pounds fresh. No reason for the surge was given and regional shipment data were not compiled.
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Chicago
Statistics Department
Chicago Board of Trade
County Flags Relief Setup
Camp County commissioners vote to sever ties with state and federal relief agencies ending the surplus commodity room which distributed 23000 worth of food this five month period and terminating county relief workers and the school lunch program. Farmers complained they cannot hire harvest labor as many seek alms at multiple treasuries.
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Pittsburg
Camp County
County Commissioners Court
Labor and Farm Demands Vary in Price Stabilization Talk
Washington hearing on price and wage controls saw labor unions endorsing the administration plan to stabilize living costs while farm leaders urged parity plus labor costs for farm prices. Edward A. O’Neal warned parity alone could leave crops unharvested if not tied to wages.
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Washington
Organized Labor
van A. Bittner
CIC
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate Banking Committee
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Green
Brown
Michigan
Bittner
Social Security Numbers Available in Amarillo Office
Dewey Reed, manager of the Amarillo field office, urged workers especially on farms and in domestic service to obtain social security numbers. He said summer workers should be covered and that the office at 323 in the post office will issue numbers to anyone needing them.
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Dewey Reed
Amarillo
Social Security Board
Army Branch of Fireworks Deadly to Milne Bay Japs
U S engineers and anti aircraft gunners defending an air field at Milne Bay unleashed heavy grenade and machinegun fire in the battle, described as the first American ground action against Japanese forces in the area. Casualties were reported as low, with a coast artillery anti aircraft unit from Fort Bliss sent to the New Guinea fringe before the landing.
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MacArthur
Australia
U. S
Milne Bay
United States
Coast Artillery
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Tex
New Guinea
Maid’s Extortion Attempt Ends in Failure in Pelham
P E Foxworth said an amateurish kidnap plot by 23 year old nursemaid Kathryn Batchelder to extort $30,000 from the Joyce family in Pelham failed when she lost courage after holding Nancy Joyce for 12 hours. She was taken into custody Tuesday. The grandmother, Mrs Emily Flippen of Dallas, Texas, was visiting the home.
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New York
P. E. Foxworth
FBI
Pelham
N. Y
Foxworth
Kathryn Batchelder
Albert G. Joyce, Jr
Yorktown Remembered in Pacific War History
Pearl Harbor June 7 reports the aircraft carrier Yorktown has fallen after Midway. The ship’s last battle helped crush Japanese carrier power and begin the aero amphibious era, with Yorktown survivors sharing stories while the enemy perished.
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Walter B. Clausen
Pearl Harbor
Yorktown
Pacific
Midway
Hawaii
Dalhart Man Anton Wagner Buried In Requiem Mass
Requiem mass for Anton Wagner 73 Dalhart resident for 25 years was held at St. Anthony's Church with Fr J L Daly in charge. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery. Wagner a former Rock Island shopman and hotel manager died Monday from pneumonia and complications after weeks of illness. He was survived by three sons Joe of Sioux City Paul of Dalhart and Wm B in the U S Navy at Algiers.
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Dalhart
Anton Wagner
St. Anthony's Catholic Church
J. L. Daly
Elmwood Cemetery
Mr. Wagner
Rock Island
Joe
Sioux City
Iowa
Paul
Wm. B
U. S. Navy
Algiers
la Globe-News
Yorktown saga honors Pearl Harbor avenger in Pacific battles
The Yorktown fought to avenge Pearl Harbor with action across the Gilbert and Marshall raids, New Guinea operations, Tulagi in the Solomons, and Coral Sea battles. Notable pilots Lieut McCuskey and George Gay gained fame for fighter and torpedo work, while the ship earned a storied naval legacy.
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Yorktown
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Gilbert and Marshall
South Pacific
New Guinea
Salamauia
Lae
Tulagi
Solomons
Coral Sea
Scott McCuskey
Stuttgart
Ark
George Henry Gay
Houston
Tex
Willkie Arrives in Kremlin as Roosevelt Messenger
Wendell Willkie lands in Kuibysheyv and tours as Roosevelt’s volunteer messenger promoting American home unity. He arrived from Teheran after an air tour through the Middle East and plans to proceed to China.
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Kuibysheyv
Russia
Wendell Willkie
Teheran
Iran
Roosevelt
Middle East
China
Must Buy Lollipops For the Children
In Camden New Jersey Bernard Skain aged 35 was sentenced on a non support charge to buy ice cream lollipops for his seven children daily for six months. He must spend every night in jail and collect the candies on his way to the prison from his shipyard job.
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Camden
N. J
Bernard Skain
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