Service Uniform Is Ticket For Many Services Of YMCA
The YMCA promotes Service Uniform as a ticket for enlisted servicemen to access reduced fees and free services. Army and Navy YMCAs report heavy demand since Pearl Harbor with SAN Diego serving over 8,000 enlisted daily in 1941. Amarillo YMCA plans to meet thousands of incoming service members at Air Mechanics School. The Y offers mail and luggage handling, meeting spaces, rest areas, and cleanup facilities for troops on leave.
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YMCA
Pearl Harbor
Army and Navy
Army and Navy Y. M. C. A
San Diego
Cal
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Service
Army
Navy
M. C
Amarillo
Tornado Toll Rises Across Oklahoma Towns
April 28 reports list victims in Pryor Claremore Vinita Wagoner and Nowata areas after a deadly tornado. Names include County Judge J E Nicklin Pryor and Howard Wood Claremore with numerous unidentified victims among the dead. Emergency crews direct ground response while survivors seek shelter and medical aid.
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Salina
Pryor
J. E. Nicklin
C. D. Burdick
Rollie Hall
Louisville
Oklahoma Ordnance Works
Lloyd Ball
Dan Trisler
Elinor Ann Trisler
Kansas City Market Report Hogs and Cattle Mixed Trade
Markets from Kansas City show hogs selling 2,200 head with fair to active demand and prices about 25 cents higher than Monday. Top hogs at 14.05, most 14.00, 150-180 pounders 13.00 to 13.90. Cattle total 5,800 with calves 400. Fed steers and yearlings steady to higher. light yearlings and stockers higher. cows scarce. bulls vealers and calves steady amid broad market activity.
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Kansas City
Baxter Pleased With Attitude In Washington
Rex Baxter Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager returns from Washington saying shifts in outlook over 60 to 90 days led to new War Production Board representation in Amarillo. Bob Harper will visit weekly from Dallas, his office to be in chamber HQ. No other publication details given. Also included are cattle market figures with prices for steers heifers and lambs.
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Washington, D. C
Rex Baxter
Amarilla
Mrr
Baxter
Washington
Bombed hospital wrecks haunt dawn rescue efforts
Rescue workers comb the debris of a bomb-smashed hospital at daylight seeking trapped victims. Seven Nazi Messerschmitts bombed and machine-gunned an English Southeast Coast town this morning. A Red Army bulletin says Russians repulsed German armored forces in central and northern sectors as Hitler seeks to reset the Finnish campaign.
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Messerschmitts
Hitler
Arctic
Black Sea
Moscow
Red Army
World War II Central Front Battles and North Africa Reports
The report says two days of attempts to split Soviet lines on the Central front killed over 1,000 Nazis. In North Africa British HQ notes considerable patrol activity and Axis columns withdrawing after clashes with Allied forces. An Italian communique claims Axis artillery repelled attacks by British armored cars.
Rationing and Sugar Registration Details for May 4
The article explains the May 4 consumer registration day for wartime sugar rationing, noting it will cover every man, woman, and child and resemble a nationwide census. It warns about lost ration books, outlines half pound weekly sugar allowances, and highlights the roles of local boards and officials in Potter County.
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Brig
Potter County
Sam
Philadelphia
Rolla Cartwright
Tom Seay
Grady Wilson
Storm devastates Pryor area with twisted cars on Highway 20
Reported by Claremore residents the storm struck eastward along Highway 20 about 12 miles west of Pryor. Autos were thrown, including a gasoline transport truck twisted severely. Roads were littered with wreckage as the storm followed the highway into Pryor.
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Claremore
Highway 20
Here
Pryor
Allied air gains press Japanese bases in Pacific
Gen Douglas MacArthur reports seven Japanese planes downed in an attack on Darwin. The tally for two days reaches 18 planes downed. An Allied strike sank a Japanese transport at Kavieng in the Bismarck islands and another raid hit Gaisi in the Solomons north of the America Australia route.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Pierce Fenner & Brsne
Prey Close
Alleghany
Allis Chalmers
Smelt & Reetener
Armour & Co
At& SF
Aviation Corp
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel O
Chrysler
Curtiss Wright
E Deere & Company
Ana
Lis
General Electric
Gen Foods
General
Houston
Harvester
Kennecott
Marshall
Field Ce
Remington Rand
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union Oil
Socony Vacuum
Tia Southern Pacific
Standard Brands
Standard
California
Standard Oil
Indiana
Stand Oil
Studebaker
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf Sulphur
Tex Pac Coal & Oil
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
U_ S Rubber
Steel Ree
White Motor
Woolworth ,Wilson & Co
Chicago Grain Table
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Darwin
Kavieng
Bismarck Islands
Gaisi
Solomons
America
Australia
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Texas
George Wolfe
Tulsa
Veryone
Tiawah
Talala
Elizabeth Rogers
Red Cross
First Christian Church
H. J. Nicklin
Mayes County
Baptist
Red Jenkins
Waco
Tex
Chris Chapland
Daisy Abbott
Harry March
M. L. Pryor
Howard Woods
Nowata Funeral Homes
Harold Hewitt
Lloyd Boyd
Howard Willey
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Engelbrecht
Finland
Lapland Front
Karelia
Leningrad
Texas Quality Network
Globe-News
Capitol
Ickey Rooney
Garland
For Bainter
Virginia Weidler
Joy McDonald
Richora Quine
DonaLd Meek
AlexanDer Woollcott
Mickey Mouse Cartoon
Bill Dee
Dee
Plains Office
Mre
John
Furbach
Polk
KFDA
KGNC
Amarillo Central Labor Union
Burma
Norwich
Blue-Jay
BLUE
Jay Bauer
Black Corn
Askew & Brown
T. M. Bruner Hall-Bryner
Burkhalter Rolla V. Cartwright Finch
Gavin Lemons
K. 8. Loving & CO
James Oakes
Ordway-Saunders CO
D. W. Owen Bates
Panhandle Ins
Reagan Insurance CO
Thomson-King Company
E. A. Regal CO
Harold 8S
Richey Upshaw Insurance Agency
H. N. Wheeler
Hyden
the Panhandle
Optometrists
West 7Th Ave
U.S
Marine Corps
U. S
Hadlicht
Tern Bell Telephone Company
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