Letter From Home To Boys in Service in Amarillo Week
A column from Amarillo highlights Newcomers Week with Navy and Glider School events, local entertainment, and civic shifts. It notes downtown changes, USO usage of Municipal Auditorium, rent administrator updates, and social life including weddings and engagements while reporting local tragedies, elections, and weather. The piece blends community life with wartime concerns and mobility trends.
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Dallas
Amarillo
Malin Field
Army
Barfields
Paramount
Fillmore
Tyler Street
Municipal Auditorium
USO
YMCA
Service Men's Civic Center
Amarillo Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Capitol Theater
Jack Lamb
Borger
Plainview
Riley Strickland
Mrs F W Nolan Wins Globe News Tip Prize
Mrs F W Nolan of 409 Madison Street wins the $5 first prize in the weekly Globe News tip contest. She reported a sunlit goldfish bowl fire. Second prize goes to Mrs Tom Torrance of 1719 Lincoln Street for tipping about a child falling from a automobile. Third prize to Mrs N A Lane of 1401 Lincoln Street for tipping about a fatally injured Ama- Vato railroad worker near Clovis. Other tipsters and names listed in the column.
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F. W. Nolan
Madison Street
Clovis
Amarillo Center Receives State Education Approval
State Education approves Amarillo Center to open next month in the Early Building at 2101 Harrison. West Texas State College submitted the plan. Roy C. Boger is named director. New nursery school plans led by Alma May Clark, nursery school director from Louisiana Tech. Rog ers resigns SMU post to join Amarillo project.
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State Department of Education
Amarillo
E. C. Dodd
Department
Harrison
West Texas State College
Roy C. Boger
Dallas
J. A. Hill
Amarillo Center
Rogers
Southern Methodist University
Alma May Clark
Louisiana Tech
Iowa State College
W. T
Three sides of Sino-Japan American trouble on page 2
Globe reporters present Haiphong raid thrills and danger. AP details boost from American air aid to China. AP sketch of Japanese shipping difficulties completes the panorama.
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Globe
Robert P. Martin
United Press
Haiphong
Morris J. Harris
J. D. White
Associated Press
Max Hill
Allied Troops Gain Foothold in Tulagi and Fight Across Pacific
United States and Australian forces push along the Solomon Islands and New Guinea front. Mosrkow reports Axis thrusts toward Stalingrad with volunteer legions aiding the offensive. In India, riots kill and wound dozens as British police struggle to maintain order. American air power bombs Japanese bases across China and Indochina while naval forces bombard Tulagi and Timor.
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Timor
Solomons
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India
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Caucasus
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Novorossisk
Tuapse
Black Sea
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Kotelnikov
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China
Southwest
Pacific
Burma
Hankow
Yangtze
Haiphong
Indo-China
Col
Caleb Vv. Haynes
MacArthur
Bismarcks
Nimitz and Ghormley
Tulagi Harbor
Florida Island
Philippines
Tokyo
Kokoda
Australia
Timore
Douglas MacArthur
Solomon Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S S. Army
Hengyang
U.P
Southwest Pacific
Canton
Pearl River
Caleb V. Hynes
United States Naval
Hawaii
Washington
Midway
Coral
Timor Island
South Seas
Rabaul
Bismarck Islands
United States Army Air Force
Robert L. Scott
Warm afternoon with scattered thundershowers in Amarillo area
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas mentions warm conditions with widely scattered thundershowers late this afternoon and evening, slight temperature change tonight. New Mexico to stay warm with thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. Extremes: 92 high, 61 low. precipitation 0.69 inch. Russell Stationery Company show cards and colors.
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