Service Men In the News From Our Defenders
Amarillo in focus as several local men serving in the armed forces are profiled. Staff Sgt. Walter G. Moss, a long serving air corps mechanic, is linked to a world record for keeping his repair motor airborne. Others include Pvt. Alva C. Palmer in England and Pvt. Jack Neal Palmer at Camp Chaffee. Also listed are 2nd Lt. Elmer G. Green at Fort Benning, Thomas G. Steinhagen promoted to corporal in San Francisco, Cadet John E. Sissom in Navy preflight training, Cadet Stanley D. Foreman at Lubbock AAF, and Clayton Barnette Sniver at Brown University with the Navy V-12 unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter G. Moss
Amarillo
Sergeant Moss
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Walter Moss
Bellview
N. M
West Second Avenue
Veterans' Administration
Jack Neal
Alva C. Palmer
E. A. Palmer
Cleveland
England
Engineers Corps
Fort Leonard Wood
Cleveland Street
Jack Neal Palmer
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Fort Knox
Jy Amarillo High School
Thomas G. Steinhagen
At Air Force
San Francisco
Steinhagen
Rose Jella
Lipscomb Street
Metro Electric Company
Stanley D. Foreman
Lubbock Army Air Field
Foreman
A. D. Foreman
East
Thirteenth Avenue
Amarillo College
Ree
Texas A. & M. Colege
Pfc
Clayton Barnette Sniver
Brown University
Providence
R. I
Navy
Lillian Lee Ridgeway
East Eighth Avenue
Camp Peary
Marine Corps
Gruver Airplane Mechanic Graduates From Amarillo Course
Glenn L Gruver son of Mr and Mrs R L Gruver 804 Polk Street graduates from the aviation mechanics course at Amarillo Army Air Field in a training program completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn
Air battles over Rabaul area net 242 Japanese planes shot down
Allied air crews from the Solomons destroyed 242 enemy aircraft in battles above Rabaul Kavieng and New Britain from Dec 3 to Jan 11 while losses reached 56 American and New Zealand fliers. The report notes peach production in Georgia and California and mentions a Royal Canadian Navy development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guadalcanal
Rabaul-Kavieng
New Zealand
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Japan Dilly-Dallies In Prison Exchange
The United States accuses Japan of delaying repatriation of 10,000 American prisoners in violation of its Geneva pledge. Tokyo also stalls relief shipments and demands prior inspection of camps in the United States. Priority groups for exchange include those under arrest, interned women and children, the seriously ill, and separated married men. The third nationals exchange is blocked by Japan’s demand for inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
United States
Japan
U. S
State Department
Philippines
Tokyo
Manchuria
Hong Kong
Pearl Harbor
Department
Song
Soviet Union
Your Social Security Card Important Protection
A public notice urges workers to safeguard their Social Security Account Card. It notes two million cards lost or worn out last year at a cost of about half a million dollars to replace. Readers are advised to request Free Circular No 44 from the Social Security Board in Amarillo for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Security Board
New Post Office Building
Amarillo
Amusement Calendar Highlights for Local Theaters
The page lists showings across theaters Paramount Capitol Rialto Rex Star Leon Texas Victory with titles like Northern Pursuit Two Senoritas from Chicago The Falcon and the Co eds A Stranger in Town Reap the Wild Wind Suspicion Forever and a Day Journey for Margaret featuring stars such as Errol Flynn Cary Grant Ray Milland Paulette Goddard Ida Lupino and Jo an Fontaine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Errol Flynn
Julia Bishop
Henry Aldrich
Jimmy Lyndon
Charlie Smith
Capitol
Chicago
Jinx Falkenburg
Joan Davis
Rialto
Tom Conway
Jean Brooks
REX
Frank Rgan
Jean Rogers
Richard Arlson
Amarillo Chamber Committee Plans Postwar Survey and Panhandle Unity
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee will meet at noon Friday in the Amarillo Hotel. Chairman H. O. Starks says two main topics are on the agenda a prospective survey to gauge postwar purchases and a push to unite the Panhandle into a single region with a coordinated postwar activity plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Economic Development
Amarillo
Snow Covers Bleak Hills Around Ghostly Tascosa
Snow and ice sweep the bleak hills near the old pioneer town of Tascosa as winds chill Amarillo area. The Boys' Ranch group traveled to Amarillo amid the season's flu wave and cold conditions. Alton Weeks notes a maple tree reaches peak productivity at eighty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boys
Amarillo
Tascosa
Alton Weeks
Friday Radio Schedule Highlights Local Bands and NBC Dramas
A detailed Friday lineup lists Parker Willson and the Coffee Grinders at 5:00 and a full morning to noon slate including NBC programs like Reveille Round Up Mirth and Madness and Story Drama by Olmsted. Afternoon features Texas School of the Air and The Rhythm Five with blue network shows and musical variety across stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sky Pilot
Trading Post
NBC
Lora Lawton
Olmsted
Air Eee Aind Theater of the
Africa
Road To Life
Jack Teagarden
David Harum
Texas School of the Air
TQN
The
Rhythm Five
Winstop Duzzit
Guiding Light
Light of the World
News Extra
Woman of America
Ma Perkins
Pepper Young
Right To Happiness
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Faces Life
Just Plain
Bill
Farrell
KFC
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mbs
Johnson Family
Harry James
Raymond Gram
TSN
Wings To Victory
Blue
Buddy Franklin
Ene
Lombardo
Biltmore Hotel
Sherman Hotel
Ted Malone
Cedric Foster
Morton Downey
Little Jack Little
Fred Waring
Dick Tracy
Terry and the Pirates
Mr. A Harrigan
Armstrong
Sammy Kaye
Panhandle ranch faces feed shortage as flu sweeps school
Seventeen boys and teacher Mrs. Jack Harden are bedbound with the flu. The ranch reports a severe feed shortage after snow covers grain, prompting Mr Weeks and Cal Farley to seek any available cattle feed while 60 head of cattle suffer from the scarcity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Harden
Panhandle
Mr. Weeks
Cal Far
Ley
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Green
Elmer G. Green
Infantry School
Fort Benning, Ga
E. G. Green
Mississippi Street
Sissom
John E. Sissom
A. C. West
van Buren Street
Athens
Amarillo High School
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Amarillo Army Air Field
Austin
Kerrville
Lubbock
Msniver
Gruver
Aoe We
Georgia
California
Royal Canadian Navy
Lloyd Otten
W. 12Th
Texas
John A. Reichmann
Philippine Islands
Globe-News
Lawrence B. Krogh
Detroit
Bombardier
Wright Field
Ohio
USAAF
Howard McDonald
Maryland
Liberty
Tim McCoy
Ghost Patrol
Lloyd Nolan
Priscilla Lane
Rrone
City. Cab . V. Lowrance
Jugoslavia
Norway
Saratoga Cafe
the Panhandle
4Th
Polk Streets
N. E
Aves
Henry
Musical @ News
Tyrone Power
Maureen O'Hara “the Black Swan
JINX
Falkenburg
Howard Hill
King of Archers Sport Short
Werner Bros
News of the World
News By Air
H. V. Kaltenborn
Aldrich Family
Kraft Music Hall
Bob Burns
Abbott & Costello
Wes Izzard
Richard Harkness
Parker Willson
Coffee Grinders
Dave Rose
K Ranchers
Shep Fields
Daily War Journal
Central Baptist Church
Sweet River
Sardi’s
Gil Martyn
Boake Carter
Mitina
Warne
Virginia
Freak Morgan Richard Carlson
Jean Roglas
Dick Morton and His Orchestra
Herring
Southwestern Public Service Company
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