Letter From Home To Boys in Service
An extensive Panhandle update from Amarillo covers post war plans to attract industry and air transport, aviation casualties, and prisoners of war cards from Philippines. It reports local service members missing or wounded in Europe and the Pacific, honors new heroes, and notes deaths and engagements. It also previews social news, school reopening debates, and upcoming Look Magazine coverage on Sandie football, plus local snake sightings and a personal sign-off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Old Tack
Amarillo
Globe News
Amarillo Field
Borger
Elmer H. Bender
Phillies
George Finger
Finger
Kansas City
Bender
Philippines
Hms
Willard W. Morris
McLean
Leland Sims
Dumas
Alfred Sanchez
Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon Park
Truitt H. Williams
Charles O Cathcart
Southwest Pacific
Verlet Hinch
Josh W. Tipps
Fred C. Williams
Hereford
Frank H. Duby
Stratford
J. D. Collingsworth
Navy
Ralph 8 S. Riggs
Newt Riggs
North Pacific
South Pacific
Turner M. Caldwell
Gene Worley
Barbara Scott
Ensign James Douglas Bates
Fort Worth
New Orleans
G. G. Ordway
Jean Florey
Stanley L. Cowan, Jr
Dallas
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
Martha Williams
Alfred E. Rohler
York
Fort Sill
Okla
Mozelle Daniel
Shamrock
Bill Conway
Sumnerwood
Marguerite Ficke
Midland
W. James Philpott
Miami
Tommye Alline Fuller
Dalhart
C. H. Butler
Little Rock
Ark
Miss Montie Jo Lassiter
White Deer
J. Willard McKenzie, Jr
Joplin
Lucile Weast
South Plains
Robert L. Smith
Lockney
Tampa
Fla
Look Magazine
Gene Klein
Lipscomb Street
Cecil Schlegel
Klein
Weather notes and repair ad for Amarillo region
The bulletin reports little temperature change with moderate winds in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas shows scattered showers, El Paso area afternoon and evening. New Mexico unsettled with scattered showers and storms. 24 hour period high 86 low 64 noon 89. Repair and repaint services offered by John Maynard Lumber Co at 800 W. 5th.
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Amarillo
West Texas
el Paso
New Mexico
Attorneys Prepare Arguments In Pantex Land Cases
Lawyers draft written arguments for Pantex land cases as Judge James C. Wilson aims to decide by September 1. Delays in compiling testimony slow the process. Landowners and tenants displaced for the Ordnance Plant seek more compensation than government appraisers allowed. No jury. City, Ranch Loans Southern States.
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Pantex Land
James C. Wilson
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Wilson
Local aviation fatal near Amarillo injures engineer Clark
Lester W. Clark a long time Canadian River Gas Company engineer was killed when his Culver Cadet crashed nose down six miles south of Highway 287 Armstrong County The crash occurred after a 9 20 am takeoff from English Field Clark a CAP communications officer and Ohio native born 1893 was 47 The body remained at Griggs Chapel as investigators from the CAA studied a board of inquiry into cause of the crash.
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English Field
Amarillo
Lester W. Clark
Canadian River Gas Company
Culver
Amarillo Flying Club
Armstrong County
CAA
Clark
Texas
A. W. Hammock
Jack Miller
CAP
Amarillo Group No. 13
Ohio
Huron
Erie County
Ridgemere Addition
North East
Ninth Avenue
New Rolls Royce Engine Powers P-51 Mustang Fighter
Detroit August 24 Packard Motor Car Company announces a new Rolls Royce aircraft engine with a two-speed two-stage supercharger in volume production for months. George T Christopher Packard president says the engine powers the North American P 51 Mustang and raises air warfare range with horsepower over 1500, improving high altitude and low ceiling performance.
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Detroit
Rolls-Royce
Packard Motor Car Company
George T. Christopher
Packard
Rolls- Royce
Christopher
No Optimists At the Fronts
Former U.P. columnist Hugh Baillie reports from allied fronts on optimism at home versus reality on the ground. He notes commanders expect no swift European victory this year, urging steady production and cautious planning to avoid delaying victory. The Sicily campaign shows meticulous, mathematical strategy guiding large forces and careful preparation ahead of invasions.
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Hugh Baillie
United Press
New York
U.P
Europe
Africa
Sicily
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Mediterranean
Algiers
Amarillo Man Killed in Action in North Africa
Mr and Mrs J W Reville of Amarillo were notified by the war department that their son O C Reville technician fourth grade with the Coast Guard was killed in action in the North African theater. He was 35, born July 3 1908 in Limestone County and formerly worked as a truck driver for Eddie Cunningham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Reville
East
Fourth Avenue
War Department
O. C. Reville
Coast Guard
Amarillo
Hobart
Ohlo
Eddie Cunningham
Armed Services
Reville
Limestone County
Mt. Antioch
James M. Reville
Army
J. E. Reville
Army Air Forces
Charles W. Reville
Albert Rodney Reville
Eddie Biggers
Oklo
One Way To Find A House Quickly
A Dallas man seeking housing asked 20 acquaintances to host his family if no home was found by September first. The friends mobilized and secured him suitable living space, ending his housing search.
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Dallas
Chinese Air Force to Run California A-20 Subassembly Plant
Dayton officials announced a Chinese operated plant to assemble sub units for the A-20 Havoc bomber. The facility will be named China Aircraft Inc and will be located somewhere in California. The plan follows talks between Chinese Air Force officers and material command representatives at Wright Field.
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Dayton
California
Wright Field
China Aircraft, Inc
Warm Day and Cool Night Forecast by Bureau
The bureau notes warm today with a fairly cool tonight, aided by a breeze to ease the heat. Yesterday reached 96 degrees, this morning’s low was 64, and no substantial weather change is expected. Russell Stationery Company lists games and bridge supplies.
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Bureau
Russell Stationery Company
Espionage arrests target Detroit trio in Nazi info raids
Justice Department announces the detention of Grace Buchanan-Dineen Theresa Behrens and Dr Fred William Thomas in Detroit on wartime espionage charges. They allegedly gathered data on Pullman Ford and Western Electric plants and war material production capacities. The case marks the first wartime espionage arrests under new statutes carrying a death penalty.
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Washington
Justice Department
Detroit
Grace Buchanan- Dineen
Theresa Behrens
Fred William Thomas
W U
Grace Buchanan-Dineen
Ford Motor Company
United States
Hoover
Grace Buchanan Dineen
Canada
Himmler Takes Interior Post in Nazi Reshuffle
London Aug 24 The German interior functions move under the Gestapo with Adolf Hitler appointing Heinrich Himmler head of the Secret Service and German police to also serve as Minister of the Interior and Chief of the Reich Administration. Wilhelm Frick is moved to Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Hans Pfundtner and Konstantin von Neurath retire from key posts.
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London
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Secret Service
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Himmler
Quebec Meeting Ends With Plans for Tri-Partite Talks
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill closed the Quebec war conference stating decisions to forward action of fleets armies and air forces of Britain and the United States. They promised full reports on Europe to the Russian government and emphasized Japan's war as a key item on the agenda. Kremlin invite unclear as Russia was not invited for the Japan issue.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Russia
Britain
United States
Europe
Japan
Allied bombers cross Dover Straits toward insurance firms
A large force of Allied bombers passed the Dover Straits this afternoon heading toward Cane Neely Grfeenhill Lowndes Insurance, flying at high altitude to avoid identification.
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London
Dover Straits
Canes
Neely-Grfeenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Saturation Berlin raid shatters records as bombers vanish
RAF mounted a record saturation raid on Berlin with 2 000 long tons of explosives amid heavy losses and fierce German defense. Smoke rose kilometers high as civilians evacuated and Berlin endured widespread damage. Rome sought open-city status while Soviet forces pierced German lines on the Donets front.
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Roger Greene
Associated Press
Berlin
London
Germany
RAF
British
Air Ministry
Goebbels
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
Mannheim
Rome
Stefani
Italy
United States
Soviet Information Bureau notes populated points key to eastern front
Moscow reports that capturing more populated points signals another break in enemy lines and inching toward larger Soviet towns behind them. The dispatch describes populated points as small villages or towns, often unnamed, yet collectively of high military importance toward liberation.
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Moscow
German Guns in France Fire Across Channel
German big guns in France began firing across the channel shortly before today and continued at irregular intervals an hour or so later. Shells landed in the Dover area as the engagement began.
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France
London
Gerr
Channel
Dover
Soldier Navy and Marine Wife Day Proclaimed in Amarillo
The 1943 proclamation honors wives of servicemen from Amarillo with a moving matinee at the Paramount Theater and a breakfast at the Hering Hotel on August 26. It lauds wives for supporting troops abroad and at home, and recalls pioneer women who helped settle the Great Plains. Mayor Joe A. Jenkins signs the proclamation on August 24, 1943.
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Amerila
Paramount Theater
Hering Hotel
Hom
Great Plains
A. D
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The
Globe and News
Yours
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
GLOBE
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Uninese
J. Edgard Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Alien Enemy Hearing Board
Great Holies
Donets
North Africa
South Italy
Australi
Salamaua
Joe A. Jenkins
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