Norfolk Women Train in Gas Mask Drills at Navy Base
Ensign V Taliaferro Boatwright Jr leads a course at the Norfolk naval base teaching gas mask fitting and tear gas drills to about 90 percent of participating women. The program mirrors recruit training with lectures gas chamber tests and first aid guidance using new civilian gas masks. Residents may not wear masks, but 1000 women stand ready to instruct if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Messrs. Taylor
Gable, Boyer and
Plynn
Ensign V. Taliaferro Boatwright, Jr
Ensign Boatwright
Norfolk Naval Operating Base
Navy
Classified Help Wanted and Personal Ads From Amarillo
A mix of personal requests for room and board work and employment along with requests for mail and companionship. Notices include searches for a middle aged woman to do house work, a reader wanting a piano, a colored girl seeking half day work, a soldier seeking pen pals, and various lost items. Local names include Tack, Buster Barker, Paul Rasco, James Summitt, Mrs Rabin, Mrs Mantooth, Mrs Kurtz, and Blanche Dickson in Amarillo Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford
Tex
Tack
L. C. Kurtz
Lockney
Texas
Hastie
Crockett St
Boy Near Death After Effort To Rescue Dog
Ten year old Johnny Sandstrom was near death after trying to rescue his dog Shorty from a fight with a larger dog. He ran into the street and was struck by a car suffering a fractured leg several fractured ribs and injuries to his head and spine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Johnny Sandstrom
Shorty
Courthouse Records and Transfers Across Amarillo Area
A long list of warranty deeds shows transfers to City of Amarillo and other parties, with amounts from $10 to $4,200, including properties in SJHts and various blocks. Marriage licenses issued to four couples and District Court divorces noted. Also mentions a U.P. report on cleaners law in Columbus and Salvadoran tires seizure.
Lost paperhanger's metal bound straight-edge near Amarillo Laundry
A paperhanger reports losing a metal bound straight-edge between Amarillo Laundry and Fannin and Third Avenue. Reward offered for its return. Contact 2804 South Taylor Street or call 7883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Laundry
Fannin
Third Avenue
South
Taylor Street
Jones Disclaims Rubber Charges Over Supply Roles
Secretary Jesse Jones told the House committee he did not bear sole responsibility for the rubber shortage and that the nation holds about 650000 tons of raw rubber in storage. He projected a maximum 500000 tons of synthetic rubber by year end 1943, with most production in new plants under current contracts. He criticized critics who blame his office for wartime supply limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jesse Jones
Pacific
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Tran
Keeling Brother Dies Prompting Move to Bolivar Mo
J R Keeling of 724 North Williams Street is summoned to Bolivar Missouri after the death of his brother A O Keeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Keeling
North
Williams Street
Bolivar, Mo
A. O. Keeling
Also Mentioned on This Page
Treasury
Buster Barker
Arthur St
Jackson
Uncle Sam
Amarillo
Congress
Paul Rascott
Sam Houston, Texas
Harrison
Bellaire
James Summitt
Ross Hotel
First Baptist
Lincoln
F. W. Mantooth
N. Arthur St. Call
Martin
Albert G. Burn
Blanche Dickson
Ellth St
Whiskey
Badger-Herring Sales & Drug CO
Whiteface
Odessa
Boy
Cee
Atti
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Buccaneer
Beach
Atl
Courthouse Records
Earl Yates
D. H. Hudgins
Ab&m
A. L. Moore
C. I. Hood
Ray C. Johnson
City of
R. E. Work
C. T. Davis
G. T. Oliver
Maymie L. Oliver
Anthony
Plemons
M. H. Loewenstern
Margaret I. McBride
Ridge
H. T. Neely
Florence Hardin
J. L. Nunn
R. A. Wolford
Belmont Park
Margaret G. Prescott
A. W Brown
River Road
Gard
P. C. Cayton
Virgel Spencer
W. D. Knight
J. P Weatherford
Wolflin
F. H. Melson
Horace Godfrey
Seale’s
Holland
Miles Realty Co
C. L. Munday
Bivins Estates
Birge
Joe Palacio
Mirror
J. H. Brazell
W. E. Thompson
Lydia E. Harris
C. Clifford
CC Park
Ruby Burdett Darnell
J. E. Crabtree
J. Hts
Anna Maxwell
Guardian
Jess Rogers
P&r
Sabina F. Burke
Et al
Roy G. Victor
Louise Victor
Wash. Center
Quincy Ford
Et Ux
W. A. Crull, Jr
Park
Ford
Ernest Denney
J. C. Morgan
Glenwood
W. R. Morgan and
Floris Gard
Ner
Buck Holladay
Virginia Nell Lamon
Henry R. Boham
Dorothy Elizabeth Jaster
District Court G
D. Ayer
Frankie Ayer
Alice S. Hatch
Stewart A. Hatch
OMLO
Columbus
U.P
Saladoran
Blossom Mart
Amarillo Greenhouse
Floyd Lacery
Jones
Brazil
His. V
Carter
Globe-News
BAYER
San Jacinto
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