From Our Defenders Service Men In the News
Pfc. William C. Evans of the U S Marine Corps has been wounded in action, the Navy Department announced yesterday. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Evans, 1512 Taylor Street, with a December 1 letter arriving after the telegram. Evans joined the Marine Corps in January 1942 and served in the Battle of Midway. Embey Orville Rury and Jewell L. Rury, sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rury, 319 North Bryan Street, are in the armed forces one in the Navy and one in the Air Corps. Embey O. Rury enlisted 22 months ago and has 17 months overseas, now somewhere in the South Pacific. He graduated Amarillo High School in 1941 and was a noted bowler in his teens. Sgt. Jewell L. Bury is an armored gunner in a heavy bombardment crew in training at Casper Army Air Base, Wyoming. His wife is Mrs. Clara A. Rury. Another brother Everett Rury was discharged due to a knee injury.
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William C. Evans
U. S. Marine Corps
Navy Department
M. Evans
Taylor Street
Evans
Marine Corps
Midway
Embey Orville Rury
Jewell L. Rury
Rury
North Bryan Street
Navy
Air Corps
Embey O. Rury
South Pacific
Amarillo
Jewell L. Bury
Army Air Base
Casper
Wyo
Clara A. Rury
Everett Rury
Local Hero Pvt Ward Returns After Furlough
Pvt Clarence A Ward Jr son of Mr and Mrs C A Ward 1404 Pierce St is stationed at Miramar Air Base San Diego California He has served a year in the Marines and trained at Balboa Park Naval Base San Diego He worked for Amarillo Wholesale Grocery before enlisting and just returned to California after an emergency furlough spent here due to his fathers illness
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Clarence A. Ward, Jr
C. A. Ward
Pierce Street
Miramar Air Base
San Diego
Cal
Ward
Naval
Balboa Park
Amarillo
California
Navy V-12 students and officers named in Virginia and Georgia
Daniel Henry Morris of 811 West Thirteenth Avenue serves in the Navy V-12 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and is a former Oklahoma City University junior class president. Clifford Brian Dillon of 1607 Ong Street starred for the Pre-Flight School basketball team at Athens, Georgia, after playing at the University of Texas before joining the Navy. John Oscar Hill in the Ordnance Department has been promoted from second to first lieutenant, per War Department announcements.
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Daniel Henry Morris
T. G. Morris
West Thirteenth Avenue
Navy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Morris
Oklahoma City University
Naval Aviation
Clifford Brian Dillon
Ong Street
U. S. Navy
Athens
Robins Field Army Fliers
Macon
Dillon
University of Texas
John Oscar Hill
Ordnance Department
Leutenant
War Department
Yeserday
Allied Air Assault Opens Long awaited Second Front
Allied bombers and fighters launched a massive cross channel attack on the Paris area and western Germany as part of a widening assault. U S and RAF crews targeted Ludwigshafen and other industrial sites while large formations crossed the Dover Straits. The operation involved hundreds of heavy bombers and fighters with reports of significant losses on both sides.
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London
U.P
Germany
France
USAAF
Paris
Dover Straits
French Channel
Europe
U. S
Atlantic
English
England
Britain
Ludwigshafen
Westerwestern Germany
Edwin Fischer
Portland
Ore
Sweden
I. G. Farben
London Daily Sketch
Farben
Fiendish Flame Cultivator Aims to Cut Weeds in Cotton
In Greenwood Mississippi Lt Col Price C McLemore unveils a flame cultivator tractor plow that blasts four cotton rows with a 2200 degree flame to suffocate grasses and weeds. Two men operate the unit and it can cover about five acres daily, promising a wartime weed control method for farmers.
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Greenwood
Miss
U.P
Price C. McLemore
Cleveland workers pick pin up girls for servicemen
At a Cleveland war plant current servicemen vote on home grown pin up girls from the plant’s employees magazine. Winners’ photos will be mailed to over 2,000 ex-workers in uniform. Only single women and bachelors in the armed forces may vote.
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Cleveland
U.P
Hedy LaMarr
Rita Hayworth
Dorothy Lamour
Mamie Shapiro
Bebe Jerelli
Hilda Swenson
Local Survey Details Entrepreneurs Plans
A General Foods survey quoted by Clarence Francis outlines plans of individuals to start new ventures such as a drug store restaurant or grocery. The notes reflect career shifts and business ambitions reported in the news brief.
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General Foods Corp
Clarence Francis
Presi
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Rury Brothers
Clarence A, Ward, JR
Marines
V-12
Thck
Mediterranean
Air Ministry
Pas de Calais
Glice News
McCartt
Hams
Halp
Orang& ES
Tex
Waluies
Prell
Coffee Maxwell House
Spaghett
Crisco
Wheaties
Morton's
Libby's
Mother's
New Mexico
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