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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1942

Page

7

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.

Navy 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.

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.

Lam 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.

Pacific 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.

Tulagi New Guinea Timor Solomons Bombay Delhi India Russia Stalingrad Volga Caucasus Maikop Novorossisk Tuapse Black Sea Moscow Kretskaya Kotelnikov United States 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.

Amarillo West Texas New Mexico

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