Goin Places Announces New Theater in Amarillo
The Globe reports a theater opening November 1 at 511 Polk Street in Amarillo with a name contest offering a year pass as first prize and six month passes for second and third. Entries must reach the office by Sunday 6 pm. early submissions urged. Also notes Sternie Sternberg’s orchestra at the Nat tomorrow for four weeks and Jack Teagarden’s Blues Club broadcasts starting tonight on WJZ NBC Blue.
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Senaq
Polk
Herschel Caplan
Joseph B. Scott
Amarillo
E. L. Mayne
Little Theater
William W. Griggs
Austin
Bette Howell
Texas
State
Capitol
Steve Scott
Martha Giles McGuire
J. W. Caplan
THE
Plains
Gerald E. Weirick
GEM
Wayne Weirick
Palace
J. J. Weir
Bill Wilson
Globe-News
Jack Teagarden
WJZ
NBC Blue
WSYR
Syracuse
N. Y
Mister T
Jack
Sherman
Chicago
King of the Blues
Red Nichols
Ben Pollack
Glenn Miller
Paul Whiteman
America
Paramount
Bing Crosby
Mary Martin
Universal
Casa Manana
Culver City
Jantzen's Beach
Portland
Plantation Club
Dallas
Hotel Peabody
Memphis
Lake Worth Casino
Ft. Worth
Meadowbrook Country Club
St. Louis
Eastwood Gardens
Detroit
Eugene Lyons
Utopia
Russia
Lyons
United States
Ciermany
Kremlin
Earl Browder
Sandy Cowlick
Hollywood
Fsm
Airpower and the need for experienced aviation mechanics
Major A S Williams argues timely training and practical cockpit familiarity are essential for reliable airpower. He warns against releasing seasoned mechanics for overseas duties and outlines cockpit instrument grouping to enable subconscious operation during flight.
Hidden taxes hit every purchase in new defense levy
Washington editors warn that postwar taxes will be hidden in prices on everyday goods from phonographs and records to liquor, theater tickets, clothing, jewelry, and club dues. The piece illustrates how a night out and daily purchases will carry added charges to fund a growing two ocean navy and armed forces.
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Washington
Defense
Uncle Sam
Joe's Place
Joe’s
Sam
Quotations on Refugees and Immigration Ties
A compilation of quotes from Mrs. Caroline R. Hill Alden Whitman and George Bernard Shaw. The remarks address relief efforts during wartime France and American attitudes toward immigrants and native-born citizens.
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Hitler
Caroline R. Hill
Quacker
America
Alden Whitman
Committee For the Protection of
Xavier Cugat's Pet Gag Ends In Cozy Sanatorium Banter
Two swing musicians recuperating in a sanitarium trade a pun about what they hold in their hands. One asks with cupped hands what’s inside. the other guesses a string quartet then a bass fiddle, finally concluding with a philharmonic orchestra. The jokester’s smile fades as the exchange ends unresolved.
Today’s Puzzler Horizontal and Vertical Quiz
A word puzzle listing across and down clues with various definitions. Readers fill in answers for categories from heavy cards to exclamations and locations, spanning languages and common terms.
Calls for protest against Nazi hostage killings
Dorothy Thompson argues that mass executions of hostages by German occupiers violate wartime law and civilized standards. She urges Congress and international bodies to condemn these acts to preserve humanity, law, and the record of civilization amid totalitarian aggression.
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Germany
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Schlageter
Duisburg
United States Congress
Britain
Nelson Emerges as Key Buyer in National Defense SPAR Reform
Washington observers see Don Nelson, head of Sears Roebuck, as the likely driver of SPAR reorganizations. A trusted adviser to FDR, Nelson is praised for buying smarts, slashing red tape, and coordinating small contractors with Army needs.
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Bernard Baruch
Roosevelt
Nelson
Washington
Donald Marr Neilson
Chicago
Big
National Defense
NYA
Treasy
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Army
Navy
Pirates in History and Fiction Across Centuries
Editorial page questions traverse piracy from Captain Kidd’s 1701 hanging to Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. It notes Stevenson’s Treasure Island catchphrase, Roosevelt’s remarks on Adams and Jefferson, and Decatur’s clashes with Algerian, Tunisian, and Tripolitan pirates after the War of 1812. It recalls U.S. anti piracy actions in the Mediterranean in 1795 and in the Caribbean in the 1820s and Sumatra in 1832.
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William Kidd
Britain
Gilbert and Sullivan
U.S
Mediterranean
Caribbean
Sumatra
Snake trainer tames Hollywood snakes for Swamp Water
Wesley Dickinson woos skeptics by handling a venomous water moccasin named Mickey for the 20th Century Fox film Swamp Water. He notes snakes respond to care like children and can be trained quickly, with pay scales from $25 to $250 a day for different species.
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Hollywood
U.P
Wesley Dickinson
Dickinson
20Th Century-Fox
Varren Bell
Mickey
Seven Principles for a Happy Marriage by a UNC Expert
A university sociology professor outlines seven principles for lasting marriage. He emphasizes loving genuinely, preparing realistically for marriage and parenthood, mutual respect, resilience against hardships, equal partnership, readiness for children, and frank emotional communication. He also rejects trial marriages as harmful to commitment.
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University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Boston University
Boston
Massachusetts
Duke University
Groves
Eldon Basney: Conductor Turned Machine Gun Soldier
Eldon Eugene Basney 28, a symphony conductor and composer, trains as a machine gunner at Hamilton Field California. Born in Port Huron Michigan in 1913 he studied at the Peabody Institute and under noted teachers and conducted in Baltimore. He aims to fuse military discipline with musical craft and insists there is no conflict between soldiering and composing.
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Eldon Eugene Basney
Basney
Hamilton Field
Cal
Port Huron
Mich
Arthur E. Basney
Peabody Institute of Music
Frank Gittelson
Alexander Sklarevski
Stanislaw Schapiro
Gustav Strube
van Hulsteyn
Baltimore
Pardon My Harvard Accent and Other Works
Review covers William G Morse memoir Pardon My Harvard Accent detailing his career from car salesman to Harvard purchasing agent and navy service. Mixed with notes on Eugene Lyons Red Decade and anti communism, praising Morse's engaging auto biographical style and historical anecdotes.
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William G. Morse
Farrar & Rinehart
Mr. Morse
Morse
Schuylkill
Navy
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