Veterans Will See Bombing Of Tiny Tokyo
Midland July 1 two veterans of aerial bombardments Isiah Davies and John A Bockhurst will attend a July 4 reenactment of Gen Jimmy Donlittle s raid The event features a miniature Tokyo built from waste cardboard for a scale bombing demonstration by cadet bombardiers Lt Col Richard H Smith Lt Richard A Strauch and Lt James F McCure lead construction with Maj Gen H R Harmon and staff among dignitaries to witness the Tokyo replica laid in ashes.
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Midland
Tokyo
Plains
West Texas
Isiah Davies
Bombardier College
John A. Bockhurs
Bockhurst
U.S. Air Corps
Ostfiedland
Billy” Mitchell
Generh. Davies
Jimmy Donlittle
Richard H. Smith
Richard A. Strauch
Singing School At Glenwood Baptist Draws 83 Students
Eighty three persons enrolled the first night of the singing school at Glenwood Baptist Church. Rev. E F Cook directs the free tuition course covering sight singing theory history directing and song interpretation. Attendees come from as far as Fort Smith Arkansas and the school is open to the public.
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Glenwood Baptist Church
E. F. Cook
California sawmills set all time lumber record in 1941
California production reached about 2.25 billion feet of lumber in 1941, with sawmills delivering 2,241,640,000 feet, up 15 percent from 1940. Seventy five percent came from the California pine region and the rest from the redwood area.
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Sacramento
Cal
U.P
California
California Forest and Range Experiment Station
Bureau of Census
Redwood
Inventor Dusts Off Old Razor Blade Sharpener
Akron Ohio inventor Frank Carroll of Cuyahoga Falls revisits coin operated blade sharpeners designed during wartime shortages. The machines resemble slot machines and were created with an English collaborator to reuse worn razor blades.
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Akron, O
Frank Carroll
Cuyahoga Falls
Carroll
Britain
Z Vv Bravil
United States
Mrs. Clara Ellen Bainer Dies After Long Illness
Amarillo resident Mrs. Clara Ellen Bainer 65 wife of H. M. Bainer agricultural agent of the Santa Fe Railroad died at 4 a.m. at 1612 Taylor Street after a long illness. She was active in Polk Street Methodist Church Women’s Missionary Society and is survived by her husband two sons Roy Bainer of Davis California and R F Bainer of Jetmore Kansas a daughter Mrs. R. J. Johnson of Schenectady New York seven brothers and two sisters. Burial plans were not announced.
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Clara Ellen Bainer
H. M. Bainer
Santa Fe Railroad
Taylor Street
Women's Missionary Society
Roy Baainer
Davis, Cal
R. F., Batier
Jetmore
Kan
R. J. Johnson
Schenectady
N. Y
N. & Griggs and Sons
Youth Shoots Father After Bathroom Spat
In Dallas H B Moran Jr 23 was free on a 2500 bond after shooting his father 52 through a bathroom door during an argument. The father remained in critical condition. police awaited fate of charges depending on his survival. Moran waited to shave, then bought rifle shells, loaded a .22, and fired. No charges filed yet. The mother said tensions existed for years over the adoption issue.
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Dallas
U.P
H. B. Moran, Jr
Will Fritz
Moran
H. B. Jr
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