Soldier from New Ireland Wins Battle Awards on Photo
Sgt. Lester H. Williams of New Ireland Texas credits a photo of his 2-year-old son for steadying him during combat in Italy. He holds the Silver Star the Bronze Star and the Combat Badge after earning the Silver Star on a reconnaissance patrol and ten days in an observation post under heavy shelling.
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Washington
Italy
Lester H. Williams
New Ireland
Tex
War Department
Williams
Army
Chinese Hold Near Hengyang in Bitter Hunan Battle
Chinese forces maintain positions around Hengyang as American P-40s attack nearby in Hunan Province. The fall of Hengshan and Yuhsien is confirmed, threatening the Canto Hankow railway and a potential push toward Kwantung Canton.
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Chungking
Hengyang
Hunan
China
Hengshan
Kwangtung
Canton
Yuhsien
14Th Air Force
Changsha
Guatemala City Battles Leave Seventy Injured
A traveler in Guatemala City reports 70 injured last night after armed civilians clashed with police. Gunfire rang out, buses and taxis halted, then resumed today as authorities guarded government buildings and Pan American Airways suspended the overnight stop.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Guatemala City
Pan-American Airways
Garvey and Simpson Acquire AAA Cab Firm
J. W. Broad dus sold the AAA Cab Company to Red Simpson and John Garvey after 25 years under Broad dus. Garvey becomes manager while continuing to run his Hotel Garage at 508 Pierce Street. Red Simpson, a local native, heads Cosden.
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AAA Cab Company
J. W. Broaddus
Red Simpson
John Garvey
Garvey
Pierce Street
J. M
Red” Simpson
Cosden
Texas State Bar Sets Wednesday Meeting
Austin reports a Texas State Bar gathering where members discuss a planned report. A participant described the issue as extremely important and urged preparation ahead of the session.
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Texas State Bar
Austin
Texas Law Pri
Deert
Local Sailor Leo Southern Prepares for Radar Training
Leo Southern son of Mr and Mrs J Leo Southern 2115 Van Buren Street has been in boot camp at Great Lakes Ill and now moves to radar operation training. At 18 he will finish boat training at the U S Naval Center Great Lakes. Also present is Joe from Amarillo who worked with the Southwestern Bell and is at the same center.
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Leo Southern
van Buren Street
Great Lakes
Ill
Leo
U. S
Joe
Amarillo
Amarillo Madia News Want Ads Get Results
Amarillo Media News reports results from its want ads showing buyers and sellers using classified listings. Local merchants and residents connect for jobs housing and items for sale through the newspaper reach.
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Miede
Globe-News
Motor Cycle with Runaway Car Triggers Foot Pursuit
Ted Hodges stopped in the 100 block on East Tenth Avenue to issue a ticket. His three wheel motorcycle surged away its throttle, chasing a driverless car as it rammed a parked vehicle. Hodges will direct traffic on foot due to a damaged motorcycle. Captain Tommie Thomas notes two such bikes have been wrecked.
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Ehiess
Ted Hodges
North
Taylor Street
East Tenth Avenue
Hodges
Tommie Thomas
WPB
Jimmie C Byrd Killed in Action Over Germany
War Department reports Staff Sgt. Jimmie C. Byrd 21, rear gunner on a B 24, previously missing over Germany on March 18, has been confirmed killed in action. Overseas since October 1943 with the Eighth Air Force, he earned the Air Medal in January. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs F M Byrd, a sister, and relatives in Florida and Texas. Memorial services planned in Florida.
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F. M. Byrd
Fillmore Street
War Department
Jimmie C. Byrd
Germany
Byrd
Eighth Army Air Force
Pernandina
Fla
el Paso
Florida
Amarillo
First Baptist Church
Earl T. Cleveland
Silver City
V-12 Trainees Depart for Navy Officer Training
Amarillo youths entering V-12 training prepare for four years in the Navy. Five 17 and 18 year olds from Amarillo High were approved after exams in Lubbock and will report to Texas University on July 1. They join others already at V-12 with more tests possible in November if the program remains open.
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Amarillo
U. S. Navy
Seve
Amarillo High School
Texas University
Universit
Lubbock
Navy
Billy Kieth Irwin
Reynolds
V-5
Naval Air Corps
Mary Louise Begley Receives UT Austin Chemistry Bachelor Honor
Mary Louise Begley of Amarillo is named honor graduate as she earns a chemistry bachelor’s degree with honors at University of Texas at Austin. Commencement notes cite 62 honors graduates among 448 total grads.
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Mary Louise Begley
Amarillo
University of Texas
Revival preacher to urge Stop Look Listen tonight at First Assembly
Rev Willard T Cantelon of the Fox Party leads a tent revival at First Assembly of God Church Ninth Avenue and North Pierce Street with a sermon titled Stop Look Listen Tonight. Local pastor EF Foster will paint The Rock of Ages to honor the visitor count winner in the service. The widow of late cowboy humorist Will Rogers dies in Santa Monica California after a long illness and will be entombed near her husband in Claremore Will Rogers memorial.
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Willard T. Cantelon
Fox Party
Assembly of God
Ninth Avenue
North Pierce Street
FE. R. Foster
Santa Mona Dea
Cal
De Gaulle Delays Liberty Talks For Washington Trip
Gen. de Gaulle postpones the French provisional assembly debate on liberation to pursue a forthcoming trip to Washington. The move appears aimed at securing new negotiation momentum amid ongoing discussions with allied authorities about decolonial policy and strategy.
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de Gaulle
Algiers
French Provisional Assembly
Washington
Lonnie Pierce Rites Set Today
Funeral services for Lonnie Doc Pierce were held at 10 A M in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr E B Fincher and pallbearers listed. Burial followed at Liano Cemetery. Pierce resided at 801 Houston Street and is survived by his parents Jeff Pierce and F J Pierce Amarillo and siblings including H C Russell and Mrs Russell.
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Lonnie
Doc) Pierce
Blackburn- Shaw Memorial Chapel
E. B. Fincher
Ellwood
Houston Street
F. J. Pierce
Amarillo
Jeff Pierce
H. C. Russell
William V. Clark Rites Set Today
Funeral services for William V. Clark, killed in a highway crash near Borger, will be held at 2 p.m. in the Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev. J. D. Horton officiating. Interment will follow in Littlefield. He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, a brother in the U. S. Army, three sisters, and his father.
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William V. Clark
Borger
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
J. D. Horton
Pierce Street Baptist Church
Littlefield
Clark
William Travis Clark
Doyle Lee Clark
Eula Mae Goff
Fort Smith
Ark
J. P. Clark
U. S. Army
Verda Sears
Whitt
Texas
Tennie McNulty
Knox City
Tynie Cooper
Rochester
W. R. Clark
Panhandle Field Gas Allowable Is Fixed
The railroad commission set the Dabney sand Augua Dulce field sweet gas allowable at 25 million cubic feet daily. The decision announced in Austin on June 26 fixed the Dabney sand gas quota for the period.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Augua Dulce
Peace plan needs years not a conference says Admiral Bennett
Dallas dispatch reports Rear Admiral A C Bennett argues peace requires long term planning by world brains, not a simple postwar conference. He says UN will join chiefs of staff after victory and outlines fleet applications for third quarter coupons at Potter County Court house. Texas buys 4.6 million in war bonds, Travis County credited with 600 thousand.
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Dallas
A. C. Bennett
Bennett
Eighth Naval District
United Nations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Potter County
Office of Defense Transportation
Texas U
Austin
University of Texas
U. S. Treasury
C. D. Simmons
Travis County
Simmons
New Far Eastern Air Force Formed in Pacific
Allied Headquarters in Australia announces a new air arm named the Far Eastern Air Force with HQ in Australia. It merges the Fifth Army Air Force led by Maj. Gen. Ennis Whitehead and the Thirteenth Army Air Force led by Maj. Gen. St. Clair Street, under Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney.
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Allied
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Far Eastern Air Force
Fifth Army Air Force
New Guinea
Thirteenth Army Air Force
Solomons
Rabaul
Kavieng
George C. Kenney
Fifth Air Force
Ennis C. Whitehead
St. Louis
Fifth
St. Clair Street
Washington, D. C
Second Air Force
United States
Royal Australian Air Force
Southwest Pacific
Allied Air Force
Soldiers Thank Cigarettes Giver in War Times
Louis Weksler and his wife, owners of Ponca Wholesale, sent about 20 000 cigarette packages overseas at their own expense to soldiers in Europe and the Pacific. A letter from H F Fansier in New Guinea thanks the couple for donations and notes the Amarillo Globe-News Armed Forces edition and local weather reports being shared. Cigarettes move from producers through the government to Red Cross for distribution to Army Navy and Marine quartermasters.
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Louis Websler
Hayden Street
Europe
Pacific
New Guinea
H. F. Fansier
Armed Forces
Wekslers
Ponca Wholesale Company
Red Cross
Army
Navy
Marine
WASP Training to be Discontinued by Army Air Forces
Gen H H Arnold announced the discontinuance of all WASP training once current students complete their courses. WASP now has 721 women pilots on active duty and will rise to 1019 by December. No new candidates will be admitted after the House rejected the Costello bill granting commissioned officer status.
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Washington
WASP
Army Air Forces
H. H. Arnold
Womens Air Service
Arnold
House
Price Ceilings Set On Bottled Beer
Dallas reports a new Office of Price Administration rule sets basic bottle beer ceilings of 13 and 18 cents for Region Five. Dispensers fall into three groups, with two higher brackets possible for qualified sellers, though most will not qualify and prices remain constrained.
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Dallas
Office of Price Administration
Max McCullough
OPA
Nazis Claim Two Cruisers Sunk
German bulletin reports two cruisers sunk and a German motor torpedo boat sinking an allied destroyer north of the Cherbourg peninsula.
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London
Cherbourg
Scientists Find Preservative For Eggs At State College
Scientists at Michigan State College experiment station report two methods to keep eggs fresh for months. One coats eggs with oil plus preservative, the other freezes eggs for home use to preserve indefinitely.
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East Lansing
Mich
Michigan State College Experiment Station
Bomb kills author’s sister in England blast
Mrs Gwladys Moorewood sister of Richard Llewellyn author of How Green Was My Valley was killed when a German rocket bomb struck her home in southern England. The New York office of British information services released the dispatch noting the blast also killed her stepmother and nieces.
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New York
Gwladys Moorewood
Richard Llewellyn
Green Was
My Valley
England
British Information Services
Tobell
Mra
Wood
Willkie Attacks GOP Foreign Policy on World Unity
Wendell Willkie urges against the Chicago drafted foreign relations plank, arguing it would block any world organization and leave no effective force to curb aggression. He calls for a United Nations council as a first step and says the decision should involve more than a few great powers.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicago
United States
World Organization
United Nations
Willkie
Republican Platform Promises Voice for Soldiers in Peace
Chicago June 26 A draft Republican platform extends a voice for soldiers and sailors in foreign policy and seeks Senate ratification of any peace treaty. Key changes urge international cooperation and insist on plain language, while affording armed forces a say in security policy. reads to push for clear principles and timely Senate consent.
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Chicago
Senate
Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Walter Edge
New Jersey
Baldwin
World Organization
Mackinac Island
Sen. C. Wayland Brooks
Illinois
United States
Association of Nations
Senate of the
Resolutions Committee
Painter’s jailbreak ad sparks flood of calls
In Kingsport Tennessee a jailed house painter advertised a $15 paint job for $10 to gain freedom. By 6 PM he was released and the police desk sergeant logged about 200 calls for the prisoner with threats against the reporter who published the stunt.
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Kingsport
Tenn
New Orleans Sanks Under Prolonged Heat Wave
A two week long heat wave in New Orleans brings 95 degree highs and 80 degree nights. Ice and beer shortages strain residents as labor gaps slow production. Window fans sell out with delivery pushed to 1945. Gardens wilt and beets set back while beaches stay crowded and water is hauled to nearby parishes. Store managers report playsuits and shorts selling briskly as heat tightens daily life.
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New Orleans
Victory
Pioneer Night at First Christian Church
The First Christian Church hosts a Pioneer Evening on Wednesday at 7 pm with a covered dish supper. Charter and longtime members are invited, along with newer members. The event is organized by Circle No. 2 of the Women’s Council and the church fellowship department led by D. T. Leachman. Mrs. Currie Madden and Weisel give talks on the church’s early history.
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First Christian Church
Circle No. 2
The
Women's Council
D. T. Leachman
Thomas Currie
S. H. Madden
W. W. Weisel
Mrs Robin Barnes Ill in Denver Hospital
Mrs Robin Barnes formerly Miss Robin Pace a graduate registered horse of St. Anthony's Hospital is seriously ill in a Denver hospital. Mrs Barnes will be brought home today by an N. S. Griggs ambulance which left yesterday morning to make the trip to Denver.
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Robin Barnes
Robin Pace
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Denver
Barnes
N. S. Griggs
Mrs. Albert Smith Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral services for 71 year old Mrs. Albert Smith will be held Wednesday at 10 a m at the Methodist Church in White Deer. Rev Don Davidson will officiate. Burial will follow in White Deer cemetery near her late husband. She moved from Mobeetie to White Deer and is survived by two sisters two brothers a sister in law and a nephew. Pallbearers are named local men.
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Albert Smith
Pampa
Methodist
White Deer
Don Davidson
Juan Prather
Babell
T. M. Shelton
Greenville
Texas
George A. Shelton
Cabell
Emma Smith
Harrodsburg
Arthur Rankin
R. A. Holmes
J. J. Cretchfield
W. J. Stubblefield
H. T. Stickens
J. W. Everly
J. C. Freeman
Achievement Day for Amarillo High SchoolGirls
Achievement Day for 244 Amarillo High School girls who completed summer Homemaking projects will be tomorrow at 8 P M. A reception and exhibition of the completed projects will be in the Senior High cafeteria with musical numbers by the homemaking students and moving pictures of the girls in the AHS Clothing Glass HV. Dynamometers measure motor power and show operating requirements for machines.
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Amarillo High School
AHS
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New Air Branch
Alf Landon
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Hunsley's House OF Color
E. 6Th
Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber CO
Amarillo, Texas
Mrs. Robin Barnes Very III
Mrs. Albert Smith
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Fifi
Mark Galloway Drug Store
Walgreen Drug Store
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