Is Your Train Often Late
Washington April 26 Troop train movement details from the Office of War Information outline large scale military rail logistics. The study notes 1 300 cars per division including Pullman and baggage cars and 895 flat or gondola cars to haul weapons and vehicles. Monthly moves total 1 750 000 troops excluding furloughs, with most moves in small groups to regular passenger trains.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Quartermaster Corps
Artillery
Cavalry
Knife and Fork Tickets Ready for Wednesday Dinner
Members of the Amarillo Knife and Fork Club may reserve tickets for Wednesday night's dinner lecture at the Country Club starting today. Tickets cost a small fee and are sold at Maxor Drug Store, the Pisk Building, and Ama o Hotel news stand. The speaker, Maj. Thom A. B. Ditton, American military observer and former British Army officer, will discuss forces in Europe and the Mediterranean theatre. he has recently returned and also spoke on the Caribbean area two years ago.
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Amarillo Knife and Fork Club
Country Club
Maxor Drug Store
Pisk
Amao Hotel
Maj
Thom A. B. Ditton
Mediterranean
Dieppe
Major Ditton
Caribbean
Largest Poppy Sale Slated This Year
The American Legion Auxiliary with 518000 members plans the largest poppy sale in its history for Memorial Day. The funds support rehabilitation and welfare for veterans and their families, including current war casualties and World War I veterans and dependents.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Christian Science Lecture Tonight in Amarillo Auditorium
At 8 o'clock tonight in the High School Auditorium a free lecture will discuss Christian Science by William D Kilpatrick C S B member of The Mother Church Board of Lectures The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston Mass The title is Christian Science The Truth About God and Man Local auspices are First Church of Christ Scientist Amarillo The public is invited.
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William D. Kilpatrick
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mass
Amarillo
WAAC Officer Promoted in West Texas Recruiting District
Lieut Rose Smothers promoted to Second Officer aligning her rank with a first lieutenant. She helped recruit WAAC volunteers at Lubbock since October and previously received her commission at Fort Des Moines in September. Now senior WAAC officer for the West Texas Recruiting and Induction District WV. Moscow subway passengers reach the platform via photo electri cally controlled escalators.
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Rose Smothers
Amarillo
Army
Smothers
Fort Des Moines
WAAC
Lubbock
West Texas
Blackout Babies Born in California
Inglewood residents Mrs. Norbert Janssen welcomed twins as blackout babies born just before the air raid siren went quiet. The infants, boys, arrived during the blackout and are reported healthy at Monte Sano Hospital as the Janssens observe their sixth wedding anniversary.
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Los Angeles
Norbert Janssen
Inglewood
Mrs. Janssen
Food Figures For Holiday At Buffalo Lake
Grady Wilson rationing chairman led planning for Buffalo Lake Recreation Building food for the Army Opening Day weekend. Mrs. Jim Golding underestimated needs for about 5 000 attendees, but Wilson recalled past years and with help from Jimmy Caserta refined points and quantities ensuring meals at the recreational building and boat docks.
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Grady Wilson
Buffalo Lake
Jim Golding
Wilson
Jimmy Caserta
Government Lake
Vessel Sunk in Gulf of Mexico
New York April 26 The sinking early this month of a small Norwegian freighter in the Gulf of Mexico marks the first announced destruction in those waters for more than seven months. The report also lists three other vessels sunk, including U S merchantmen, bringing total Allied and neutral cargo losses since Pearl Harbor to 649 with 258 U S ships.
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New York
Gulf of Mexico
Western Atlantic
Gulf
Amatlan
Mexico
Italy
Atlantic
Norway
U. S
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
WAAC Shacks To Be Installed In Amarillo
The WAAC Shack will be installed at Sixth and Polk Street this afternoon as a recruiting hub. Built by the U S Army Corps of Engineers, the hut will recruit WAACs and Army Engineers, the Amarillo District reports. Members of WAAC staff and an Engineering Corps rep will be on duty to answer questions and accept enlistment applications. The hut is near Sixth Avenue off Polk Street by Woolworth and Company. Public invited to visit.
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WAAC
Sixth
Polk Street
Bruce Curry
U. S. Corps of Army Engineers
Amarillo
Army Engineers
Army
Engineering Corps
Sixth Avenue
Woolworth and Company
Lieut
Curry
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