Thirteen Year Old Roams Then Trapped in Fright Car
Warren Lee Green a 13 year old from Alameda California ran away last August traveling through Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas He became stuck in a locked refrigerator car in Tyler Texas for days with little food or sleep until a switchman found him Salvation Army aid and a plan to return home.
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Tyler
Warren Lee Green
Alameda
Calif
Warren Lee
America
Cotton Belt Railroad
Salvation Army
Guthrie
Okla
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Chivalry Prompted Chase by U S Marshal in Dallas
Deputy U S Marshal E R Goss gave chase through Dallas streets after Norine Abey, a probation violator, escaped his taxi door. He joked he faced docked pay but noted he would use handcuffs on a woman after the incident.
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Dallas
U. S
E. R. Goss
Goss
Norine Abey
13 Year Old Navy Recruit Becomes Youngest WWII Veteran
Herbert Owen Ficklin of Indianapolis was discharged from the navy at age 13 after enlisting to fight in the Pacific. He quickly graduated from public school, started high school, joined the American Legion, and was admitted to a local post, with a note of a birth certificate discrepancy cited.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Herbert Owen Ficklin
United States
American Legion
Ficklin
Navy
Legion
Pacific
Loomington
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Anne Adams Summer Outfit Pattern 4372 for Women
Women can wear a cool cotton Anne Adams outfit for summer with a jacket, belt inset, front-paneled skirt, and a dickey. Pattern 4372 comes in misses and women sizes 14 to 42, with yardage for size 16. order by sending sixteen cents and name address and style number to The Amarillo Globe Pattern Department. Deluxe book offer available for ten more cents, delivery may take longer due to mail delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Dickey
Amarillo Globe
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Delvery
Man Killed by Twister in Texas Gray Cameron Counties
Tornadoes struck Gray and Cameron counties killing Oscar Turner 65 and injuring seven others. Turner's home on the Thurston Montgomery farm was destroyed. A second storm damaged a farm house near Cameron injuring Homer Conley and family and others.
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Associated Press
Grayson
Cameron
Oscar Turner
Grayson County
Thurston Montgomery
Homer Conley
J. C. Conley
Texas
Postman Rates Lewes Homes With Street Numbers
In Lewes Delaware postman David Montcalm began numbering homes for war workers and a larger Fort Miles garrison. He painted numbers on white pine boards and delivered them to residents urging them to inform correspondents of their street addresses.
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Montcalm
Lewes
Flags Wear Out Quicker in Wartime
Boston report shows the average life of flags over 16 public buildings is three weeks in winter and six in summer. Assistant City Messenger Dennis H. Shillue told the city council flags wear out faster in wartime because they are flown day and night, unlike peacetime when shown only on holidays.
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Boston
U.P
Dennis H. Shillue
Victory Gardening Leaflet Details for Home Growers
A World War II era guide titled Victory Gardening offers planting, cultivating, and harvesting instructions. It includes a growth chart with depth spacing and family-sized quantities, plus three garden plans and mail-in ordering for eleven cents to The Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept. New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Organist Works War Bond Song At Philadelphia Plant
John P. Powell, a church organist and defense worker at SKF Industries in Philadelphia, turned a drill press hum into the war bond song Ten Per Cent. Writing as Tom Powell, Powell serenades noonday rallies and becomes the plant’s second composer inspired by wartime labor. Father of a four year old, he shares his tune with crew members of the USS Boise era.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Treasury Department
SKF Industries
USS
Boise
John P. Powell
Powell
Tom Powell
Honora Divine
Phillips 66 Urges Rubber Conservation and Synthetic Next
An wartime appeal notes rubber drops from 22 cents to fractions due to East Indies loss and Japanese seizure. It praises U S blockades on shipping, urges reduced driving to conserve rubber, and highlights Phillips laboratories advancing synthetic rubber and 100 octane aviation fuel with a forecast of improvement by midsummer 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Indies
Far East
Nippon
United Nations
Singapore
U.S
Phillips Research Laboratories
Phillips
William H. Jeffers
Shipyard workers raise funds for Cocoanut Grove victim family
In one day workers at the Bethlehem Hingham shipyard collected 8000 dollars for the family of a fallen coworker. The funds go to a trust for Mrs. John Griffin of Milton and her five children.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Hingham
Mass
U.P
Bethelehem- Hingham
John Griffin
Milton
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Green
Christian Science Services
Churches of Christ
Scientist
The
H. V. Robertson & CO
Oliver Eakle Bidg
Jackson St
Army
Twister
Geerr
War Plant
Ansley Cleaners
Colonial Beauty Shop
Mary Adele Minet
A Polk
la Pads
Real Estate Loans Insurance Tax Service
R. A. Brown & CO
Taylor
Kentucky
Sunny Brook
N. E” LE Sage CO
Amarillo, Texas
Bond
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