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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1943
Page
12
Fragmentary OCR text references a door and tires with a partial contact number 2-5856. No identifiable event dates, names, or locations are readable.
Dallas surgeons at Parkland Hospital removed a three inch knife blade from a 56 year old man's brain after an old head injury. X rays showed the blade reaching into the skull. He had suffered epileptic fits for 33 years since the knife incident and has now fully recovered.
The Red Army captured Kharkov in a stormy assault, a major shift on Hitler's eastern front. Reds push near Dnieper with heavy fighting as Germans retreat and rains loom, while the Kiska garrison in the Aleutians is driven out by Allied air and naval bombardment. Lt. Gen. DeWitt calls Kiska reoccupation a direct path to Japan.
Penny admits engagement to boss Powell Ward very while Cleve mocks her. The photo camera disappears and Bill’s fate shadows the plot as a royal Mounted Police telegram arrives with missing film and dubious hope.
Washington Aug 24 U P Major General Lewis B Hershey said 6 559 000 fathers are in the non deferable pool and must be drafted to meet end of year quotas while aircraft industry worries about production impacts and possible duration deferments. 1 566 000 registrants awaiting classification plus 644 000 new 18 year olds raise six month pool to 1 873 000, leaving a 446 000 shortfall.
The War Department announced a triple shift of senior generals. Hugh A. Drum relinquishes command of the First Army and Eastern Defense Command to chair the Inter-American Defense Board. Stanley D. Embick moves to a key assignment. George Grunert is assigned to New York as deputy commander of the Eastern Defense Command and First Army, covering security for 55 million Americans along the eastern seaboard.
Company A Texas State Guards will meet tonight at 8 o clock instead of tomorrow. Capt Jack Rogers commanding officer said the public is invited to watch an 8:30 p m chemical warfare demonstration on a vacant block south of Amarillo College with Company A and C officers and men. Capt Sam Davis of Company C will lead his men from the high school armory at 8 to march to the war zone. Amarillo Army Air Field officers will supervise the poison gases riot gases and incendiary bombs display.
A series of new warranty deeds records show transfers from P R Beach to W O DewEEse and others for parcels in Original Town and nearby additions, with prices from 10 to 4700 dollars and various receipts. The district court lists six divorce filings including McGregor, Browder, Gooch, Edmondson, Hill cases.
Robert Gee, known as Chee Wah Hing to Amarillo friends, writes from a boot camp in San Diego about Navy life. He says training is tough with daily marching and constant commands yet he enjoys the Navy and hopes to be sent to a special school after eight weeks.
The USO will lead the National War Fund, part of the fall Community and War Chest drives. The fund targets 125 million dollars with 61.227 million for USO, followed by Russian War Relief at 10.155 million and United China Relief at 9.873 million. Texas and local Chest groups cooperate with the Texas United War Chest of Texas slogan Sure, I ll Take a Texan s Share.
A brief entertainment notice invites readers to attend today’s film showings. The item emphasizes show time and a call to enjoy cinema.
Screen thrills headline a Texas A and M story starring Noah Beery and Anne Gwynne with multiple showings today. Also Flying Fortress with Richard Greene, Happy Go Lucky with Mary Martin, a color cartoon, Movietone news and more at Rialto and other theaters.
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