Fourth of July recalls silent celebrations and rescues
The Panhands section notes a quiet safe Fourth with regional celebrations at Clarendon McClellan Lake and Lake Marvin near Canadian. Rescue efforts saved a mother and two daughters from Lake McClellan, while a local teen Sea Scout and others assisted. Also highlighted are a war hero visit Captain Hewitt T Wireless, student glider trainees in Amarillo, political moves for the U.S. Senate absentee ballots, local youths activities, and the folding of the West Texas-New Mexico baseball league amid wartime costs.
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Panhands
Clarendon
McClellan Lake Forth
Pampa
Lake Marvin
Canadian
Lake McClellan
Albert Shanks
Shanks
Gayle Sue Leland
Lie L. H. Ridout, Jr
Dallas
Joh Leland
Don Stanley
Amarillo
Buffalo Lake
Lela Stanley
Hewitt T. Wireless
Roosevelt
Mindanao
Philippines
Warner Bros Movie
San Antonio
Jimmy Allred
Dan Moody
U. S. Senate
O’daniel
Patt Powell
Jimmy Blasdel
Stanford University
Elaine Johnson
Oklahoma
Nolan Sparks
Pitts Drudgington
Otis Williams
J. N. Freeman
Otis
Bonham
Tex
Mary Stack
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Bonnie Waddill
Mary Barr
Barbara Scott
White and Kirk
Jack Anderson
Victorville
Calif
Air Corp
Midshipman
P. A. Quarles, Jr
Newton
Kan
Robert Bennett
West Texas-New Mexico
Gold Sox
Pampa Oilers
Women Commandos Dominate War Bond Drive Say Sales Soar
Report claims women leaders in the Retailers For Victory campaign outpace men with no male sales reported to headquarters. Toland Sept mient notes risk of forfeiting a $100 prize if men do not report. At Woolworth Nelda Sizemore and sister Zelda, both known as Sizemore No. 2, top the counter with Nelda at $70 in ten cent stamps and the store totaling $382.95, including a $50 War Bond.
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Retailers For Victory Campaign
Toland
Vernon Morrison
Woolworth
Nelda
Zelda Sizemore
Senior Golf tournament kicks off at Amarillo Country Club
With 67 players signed by 1 PM and more expected, the Tri-State Senior Golf Tournament opened at Amarillo Country Club. After 13 qualifiers, Gus Leftwich led with 45 44 87 while other scores included Tom May 49 49 98 and E T Daniel 45 45 90, among entrants from Shamrock, Mangum, Lubbock, Quanah and Ranger.
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Amarillo Country Club
Gus Leftwich
Amarillo
Tom May
Brownfield
E. T. Daniel
War Bond contest totals announced by Amarillo group
Lieut. Gen. Gordon Morrison released figures from the Amarillo Credit Association showing sales toward the $100 War Bonds award. Names include Commando Mrs. W. W. Wet sel and others with amounts ranging from 6,550 to 400. The contest ends Friday at 5 30 p m and Blake leads among male clerks with potential to win unless surpassed.
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W. W. Wetsel
White & Kirk's
Elizabeth Thompson
White
Mika Sarris Cess
Elizabeth Blackburn
Blackburn Brothers
Jet Downing
Lucy Bell Dinwiddie
Millie Anderson
Marino Miaye
Louise
Victor
J. C. Penney’s
J. K. Blake
Furr Food
Oes
Mary Jane Hudgins
Baracat Oriental
Opal Pippin
Fifth Avenue
Mrs
Ed Caskey
Panhandle Ins. Co
Warm weather to persist with little change tonight
The forecast from H C Winburn of the Weather Bureau says warm conditions continue this afternoon with minimal tonight. Yesterday's high reached 94 degrees and the low this morning was 64. A few hail pellets fell during yesterday's rain in the city's south, but no damage occurred.
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H. C. Winburn
U. S. Weather Bureau
PM editor Ralph Ingersoll cites draft board prejudice
Ralph Ingersoll editor and publisher of PM charged the draft board with prejudice in ordering him into the army. He printed an open letter in PM urging an impartial board to review his case and hormone his appeal.
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New York
U.P
Ralph Ingersoll
News Tip Prize Winners Named in City Contest
Mrs. Clark Hancock of 1003 North Polk Street wins $5 first prize for tips about a fishing accident at City Lake that killed an Amarillo man and nearly injured another. Second prize goes to Mrs. C. C. Holt of 123 East Fifth Avenue for news about the tractor incident and car crash. Third prize to Charles Nichols of Box 298 Pleasant Valley for the watermelons truck crash on the North Highway. Other tipsters listed include Theo Zweig, Frank Velebil, O. R. Terry, Violet Taylor, and Mrs. Hallie Berry.
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Clark Hancock
North Polk Street
Charles Nichols
Pleasant Valley
North Highway
Theo Zweig
16Th Avenue
Monroe Street
Frank Velebil
East
Eleventh Avenue
O. R. Terry
West
First Avenue
Violet Taylor
J. C. Penney and Company
Hallie Berry
East 12Th Avenue
Norwegian and Swedish Ships Torpedoed in Mozambique Channel
Two ships, one Norwegian and one Swedish, were torpedoed in the Mozambique Channel on July 7. Two other vessels, believed British, were attacked with unknown results as the scene shifted to East Africa near Lourenco Marques.
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Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Mozambique Channel
Oy Eelone
Burglars Read Notes. Garment Store Receipts Gone
A Denver grocer learns burglars could read after a clerk left a note reading beans to mark receipts. The next morning the $303 pile was missing, with the thieves likely having read the clue.
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Denver
George Green
Nazis claim Arctic convoy sunk including U S cruiser
German broadcasts claimed July 7 that a convoy between Spitsbergen and the North Cape lost 28 ships and an American heavy cruiser in Arctic waters. The hit list included 19 merchantmen and a 122000 ton cruiser with battleships and escorts implicated. German reports said nine more ships were sunk totaling 70400 tons.
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Berlin
Arctic
Spitsbergen
Norwegian
North Cape
Hitler
Archangel
Red Cross
United States Moves To Lead War Offensive Across The World
The nation signals a broad U S assault as tanks operate in Egypt and submarines sink Japanese destroyers off the Aleutians. U S bombers struck in Holland and China, with planes produced at high rates at home. Thousands more ready for battle. production and supply lines expand globally as American forces advance. Geo A Tomlinson seeks your vote in a paid political ad.
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Washington
U.S
United States
U. S
Egypt
Aleutian Islands
Army Air Corps
China
Holland
Netherlands
Europe
Asia
Africa
North America
Australia
Globe
United Nations
Roosevelt
British Isles
Geo. A. Tomlinson
July War Bond sales edge up to total of 87 thousand
July War Bond sales have edged up to $87 545.50 since Monday morning. Sales slowed after a fast start on July's quota race last week. Monday total reached $11 737.50. Amarillo still trails with $475 554.50 to reach its July quota of $563 100.
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Amarillo
German Submarine Foils Barrages Reaches Port
The German submarine that torpedoed the American freighter San Pablo at Puerto Limon Costa Rica last Saturday night entered the port despite harbor and air barrages and left unmolested according to DNB broadcasts from Berlin.
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Berlin
DNB
Puerto Limon
Costa Rica
Two Enemy Spies Executed in Wandsworth Prison
In London on July 7 two enemy spies were executed at Wandsworth prison. The Briton, Jose Estella Key, and Belgian national Alphonse Timmerman were convicted under the Treachery Act. Appeals were dismissed and proceedings were conducted in secret.
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London
Wandsworth
Jose Estella Key
Alphonse Timmerman
Home Office
P-39 Fighter Planes Praised by Army Air Forces Leader
A message from Gen. H H Arnold lauds the P-39 fighter and its workers at Bell Aircraft. It cites Lieut. Paul G. Brown who single-handedly engaged eight Japanese Zeroes, driving one plane to crash after a wing strike.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
Bell Aircraft Corporation
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Douglas MacArthur
Arnold
Paul G. Brown
Americans Pile Up Big Rubber Pile
A national rubber drive telegram shows Americans have collected five pounds of scrap rubber per person, totaling 334,293 tons nationwide. William R. Boyd Jr. leads the effort, sending the update to H. Q. Starks, Panhandle district chairman.
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America
National Rubber Drive
William R. Boyd, Jr
H. Q. Starks
Panhandle
Feeds His Wife's Sugar to the Hogs
In Iberia Missouri on July 7 Henry Shackelford spread salt for cattle to eat but the cattle ignored it while his hogs devoured the salt. He had mistakenly used the family's entire supply of canning sugar instead of salt.
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Iberia
Henry Shackelford
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for continued warm conditions in Amarillo and surrounding areas with little temperature change tonight. West Texas may see scattered afternoon or evening showers, with Del Rio-Falcon Pass and the Rio Grande area experiencing thunderstorms in New Mexico later today. Temperature extremes over the past 24 hours ranged from a low of 84 to a high of 96, with noon around 88.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
del Rio-Fagle Pass
New Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Allies Press Axis as El Alamein Holds and Air Attacks Continue
British and American bombers raid Bengali in Libya and strike behind Axis lines as ground fighting slows near El Alamein. The Axis withdraws on the southern flank, Rommel wary as communications come under danger.
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Cairo
Egypt
el Alamein
Bengali
Libya
London
Rommel
Great Battle Raging in Voronezh Front Amid Russian Counterattacks
Moscow dispatches describe a fierce clash in the Voronezh sector along the Don River with massed Axis tanks planes and infantry engaged. Soviet forces report heavy German losses while Red Army tanks push a northern flank and Russian air and artillery disrupt German crossings and supply lines.
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Moscow
Voronezh
Don River Front
Izvestia
Kursk
Red Star
Don
Russia
Pig, Cow, Man and Eggs Tangle on Muddy Farm
Kenneth Block near Kress faced a muddy mishap after collecting eggs and feeding hogs. A pig knocked him down, a cow slipped, the pig died, and a hired man attempted disposal with gasoline causing severe facial injuries.
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Kenneth Block
Kress
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Russell Stationery Company
Draft Board
W. Lee O’daniel
James V. Allred
Mike
Texas Rose
Sixth Avenue
Buchanan Street
Senator O'Daniel
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Sevastopol
Samsun
Kerch
Srostov
Batum
Turkey
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Stalingrad
Caucasus
Black Sea
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Leypt
Nile Delta
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