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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
2
Barney Oale, campaign coordinator, reports heavy telephone calls asking for ways to help win the war. He urges written suggestions to 101 Rule Building and notes Scout leader W J Hiatt needs men for training and wartime salvage work as part of the Home Front effort.
An old drug advert extols Doan's Pills as a cure for kidney backache and urinary symptoms. It claims rapid relief from pain, puffiness, and restless nights, urging readers to consult a druggist for a decades proven remedy.
The Easter pageant The Risen Christ will be presented Sunday morning at 7 oclock by the church choir in five scenes. Soloists include Mrs EF C Nelson Miss Shar lene Barker Mrs Howard Scott Miss Katherine Brooks Mrs Walter Hill and Mrs Eugene Wilson. Organ music begins at 6 45 A M. oclock. Nearly 500 motor buses are now operating in Puerto Rico.
In a crowded water filled lifeboat after a German submarine torpedoed a medium sized vessel, a Yugoslav consular official's wife gave birth to a son who died soon after. Surviving mother Desanka Mohorovich comforted by a seaman described the ordeal as the crew saved 86 others. The infant's delivery occurred about six hours after the lifeboat journey began while Dr. L H Conley aided the laboring mother amid flooding waters and rough seas.
VISITOR to Amarillo in the near future will be Col. E. C. Black, relieved recently as commanding officer at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, and who, it is rumored, may be commandant of Amarillo's air force school upon its completion. Col. Black, known to intimates as Red, is a typical military man, popular with both commissioned and enlisted personnel.
Robert "Big Bob" Johnson becomes the first Amarillo Police Department member inducted by Selective Service after seeking the draft due to age. A patrolman and expert in fingerprints and ballistics, he joined the force in 1985 after previous work as a locomotive engineer and a railroad leave. Thatchers in Eire are in demand use of bomb damage to roofs.
The U S Civil Service Commission announced openings for experienced construction superintendents to direct large projects in government service. Requirements include seven to twelve years in construction with engineering course substitutions possible. Duties cover coordinating foremen, organizing crews and materials, supervising installations, inspecting work. War duration appointments. Salaries from 3200 to 6500 dollars yearly. Applications available from H M Timmons secretary of the board.
Dr Conley praised by the mother for a daring rescue after their torpedoed vessel. Survivors waited 40 hours before pick up as lifeboat weariness grew. Mrs Mohorovich climbed unaided from the lifeboat, reached the ship, and even took a shower before rest.
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