Strange Alibi Opens At Palace With Crime Drama
At The Palace the crime drama Strange Alibi opens Friday and Saturday May 9 and 10. Arthur Kennedy and Joan Perry head the cast in a tale of a detective’s sacrifice to break up a gambling syndicate. The Pinto Kid, with Louise Currie and Charles Starrett, follows as the second feature with cattle driving, Civil War era bigots, a murder frame, and a bank robbery alongside musical relief by the Sons of the Pioneers.
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Arthur Kennedy
Joan Perry
Arthur Baumann
Louise Currie
Charles Starrett
Texas
Ranges
Sons of the .Pioneers
Elgin Dittmar
Road Show and Footsteps in the Dark At Local Theaters
A Sunday and Monday showing features Hal Roach produced Road Show with Adolphe Menjou Carole Landis John Hannard Patsy Kelly and Charles Butterworth plus the Charlotteers radio team. Also Lupe Velez stars in Six Lessons From Madame LaZonga on May 13 and Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark on May 14 15. The article reviews the roving comedy lineup and previews early 20th century Texas history on the Fredonian War with Hayden Edwards and Stephen F. Austin.
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Hal Roach
Adolphe Menjou
Carole Landis
John Hannard
Patsy Kelly
Charles Butterworth
The
Charioteers
Roach
Drogo Gaines
Colonel Carraway
Drogo
John Hiubbard
Errol Flynn
Warner Bros
Flynn
Brenda Marshall
Errol
Hubert Maurer
Texas Petroleum Pays Large Share of State Taxes
The Texas petroleum industry now pays 44 12 percent of all state business and property taxes, not including sales taxes such as the gasoline tax. Including sales taxes, petroleum and its products bear 54 percent of the state's tax income.
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Texas Petroleum Industry Naw
Texas State Government Costs Rise Relative to Population
A garbled report notes state government costs increasing fivefold over twenty years while Texas population grows about eighty eight percent more, suggesting widening expenditure while population expands.
Texas Expenditure Hit Near Nine Hundred Sixty Million
A newspaper report notes that nearly 960 million dollars were spent in Texas last year for diverse costs across 6 775 items and services. The tally highlights broad outlays affecting state programs and local costs.
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Wee
Texas
Military Group To Be X-Rayed For Tuberculosis
San Antonio May 8. The Army plans mass chest X rays for 6,060,000 military age recruits during 1941 45 to uncover untreated tuberculosis. Col William C Pollock said the effort is the nation s largest to find hidden cases. Navy officials endorsed screening with 36 mm fluorography and standard 14x17 inch X ray film for diagnosis. The Trudeau Medal was awarded to Dr John Alexander for advances in tuberculosis surgery.
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San Antonio
National Association
Texas
U. S. Army
Col. Pollock
U. S. Navy
Robert E. Duncan
Naval Medical Center
Washington, D. C
Duncan
Navy
K. E. Miller
U. S. Public Health Service
8Th Corps Area
Fort Sam Houston
Miller
Dr. Miller
Trudeau
John Alexander
Thoracic Surgery
University of Michigan
Alexander
National Conference of Tuberculosis Secretaries
National Tuberculosis Association
Pansy Nichols Austin
Texas Tuberculosis Association
Miss Nichols
Vicott F. Cullen
Cullen
R. C. Ortega
Austin
The
Texas Association
Association For Health Education
American Trudeau Society
Texas Sentinel
Skilled Men To Be Deferred In National Defense Drive
General J. Watt Page ordered a state wide screening to ensure every man skilled in operating a defense production machine is engaged in that role. The telegram cites President Wil May 2 and directs rechecking Class 1-A and physically awaiting men to conform to national priorities, stressing no deferment excuses.
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J. Watt Page
Selective Service
National
General Page
Lewis B. Hershey
National Director of
Texas Playboys Dance Night at Tivydale Hall
A notice notes the Texas Playboys will perform at Tivydale Hall for a dance on Saturday night May 10. The item urges readers to attend and enjoy the musical event in the local community.
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Texas Playboys
Tivydale Hall
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Harper Herald
Harold Vietel
Vince
Copeat
Harper
Mire. A. C. Wendel
Pr. Leon F. Zwiener Optometrist
Fredericksburg
Lupe
Havana
Madame LaZonga
Leon Errol
Oklahoma Mountains
Charles Land
Helen Parrish
Tropics
Madame la Zonga
W. A. Kaiser
Charles O. Hucker
University of Texas Library
Benjamin
Edwards
Fredonia
Nacogdoches
United States
M. de Saligny
M. Saligny
Mies
the Herald
Walter S Mack, Jr
James A Farley
Donny Brook Fieldma
Paul Southard Jr
Nat
Wing Lee Laundry
Fruehauf
Kahoku Sypho
Tientsin
North Ind
Price Control Group
Office of Price Administration
Civilian Supply
Nght
Harnet Elliott
Dave Ginsburg
Ie Hamm
Leon H Anderson
Theodore Earle
California
M. Lee Marshall
Continental Baking
North
Fifth Avenue
Fredericksburg, Texas
Lyndon Johnson
House
Naval Affairs Committee
U. S. Senate
Washington
Roosevelt
Texas Quality Network
WBAP
WFAA
KPRC
WOAI
H. Welge
Lewis
Alex Mittendorf
John Deere
Aermotor Mills
Fairbanks Morse
Krauskopf Bros
Robert Blum
A. Jenschee
Gillespie County
Lochie Storage & Commission Co
Cooper
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