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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1942
Page
8
In the British front lines south of El Alamein the New Zealanders hunted with bayonets after night bombardment and tank actions. They stormed a ridge eight miles inland, captured 16 Italian and 10 German tanks, and took many Axis prisoners as air and artillery pressure continued.
Col Frederick Palmer argues the Libya and Sevastopol setbacks do not seal a decisive outcome. He notes Rommel would press on to threaten Tobruk Cairo Suez and the Nile gateway, leveraging rapid armored advances with fuel and equipment to seize Egypt and the Mediterranean route.
American air force expansion in Europe is seen as rapid with the July Fourth air front opening. Experts say ground work completed enables swift operations, as U S planes fight on all fronts except Russia and pilots multiply in London.
Pattern 1008 presents a transfer design of a 15 by 1914 inch hanging with stitch illustrations and a color chart. Materials required are listed and the pattern is mailed from The Amarillo Globe Needle craft Dept. in New York for ten cents plus one cent mailing. Include PATTERN NUMBER NAME and ADDRESS.
Amarillo Social Security Office warns students and others not to apply for cards unless they will work in Social Security covered jobs. Dewey Reed notes many cards are misplaced, creating duplicates and delaying wartime production. Workers should guard originals and only request duplicates if lost. Mothers and wives can help by keeping cards with valuable papers and avoiding casual carrying.
Donald Nelson and Donald M. Caldwell, Amarillo residents, left for Lubbock for final examination and enlistment. Local recruiting officer Sgt. T. K. Morris reports Nelson is not an expert in war production.
Harold L. Nichols announces YMCA plans to secure musical instruments books and athletic equipment for prisoners of war. W E Mumsey of Portales New Mexico requests opportunity to collect donations in his community. Contact YMCA at 6614 to contribute funds or goods for the program.
Viscount Halifax the British ambassador to the United States arrived in England by airplane and planned to confer with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden on Monday as part of ongoing wartime diplomacy.
Five naval recruits left Amarillo today for Dallas for examination and enlistment. The men shipped were Ray Phillip Reeves Henry Layton Lane Gauvin Gilbert George Welch Dixon and Raymond Cocheran.
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