Plains area in desperate need of 1200 railroad workers
The Railroad Retirement Board and the United States Employment Service plan recruiting teams across the Panhandle Texas New Mexico and Louisiana to fill 1200 railroad jobs with 5000 more needed in the region. Officials say demand peaks in December as Uncle Sam retools for the war against Nippon. Fort Worth Denver and Rock Island officials report multiple vacancies in brakemen switchmen telegraphers clerks shop and maintenance roles.
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United States Employment Service
Panhandle
RRB
USES
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Army
War Manpower Commission
West Seventh
Rock Island
Amarillo
Dalhart
James C. Geary
Lear
Jobe
R. E. L. Phillips
Monaghan
Fred A. Wells
J. E. Dyer
Santa Fe
M. G. Monaghan
Amarillo Fort Worth & Denver
Richard Seaman
C. F E. Cabiness
Eighth Service Command
Donald W. Hawkins
George FP. Welsh
B. A. Myers
Freda A. Wells
Victory Bond Flight Winners Named in Potter County
Potter County surpassed its Series E War Bond quota in the Victory Bond Flight contest with winners announced in order: Mrs. C. D. Hoover, Miss Tynette Wilson, Miss Dorothy Lehman, Mrs. Kathryn Clark. Hoover and Wilson favored trips to New York City and Hollywood, Lehman to Mexico City, Clark to Mexico City.
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Potter County
C.D. Hoover
Tynette Wilson
Dorothy Lehman
Kathryn Clark
Charles Ware
18Th Congressional District
Amarillo
Guy Sanders
Hoover
Hollywood
News-Globe
Wilson
New York City
Lenman
Clark
Mexico City
B 29 raid lights sky over five Japanese cities
Pre dawn raids by 600 plus B 29 Superfortresses hit five Japanese industrial targets including Shimuzu Kofu Chiba Akashi and the Maruzen oil refinery near Shimotsu. Fires burned as up to 4000 tons of bombs fell. All planes returned safely with light opposition.
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Associated Press
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Nippon
Mt. Muji
Tokyo
Shimuzu
Kofu
Chiba
Akashi
Maruzen
Shimotzu
Osaka
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Borneo
Panadjam Point
Balikpapan
Seventh Division
Sambodja
Samarinda
Kyushu
MacArthur
Fifth Air Force
Okinawa
Philippines
Sasebo
Omura
Koshik Island
Formosa
Amoy
China
Guam
Honshu
Yellow Sea
Ryukyus
Food for Cafe Tables Due With New Points
Amarillo cafes will receive a new two month points allotment from the Potter County Ration Board on Monday morning. The food panel will be closed to other business until 1 PM Monday. Bakers still have sugar and shortening points but no supplies to buy. OPA meetings are set with apparel and used durable goods merchants for Monday night. attendance and purpose are unclear.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Ration Board
OPA
Eclipse of Sun Visible Here
The annual solar eclipse will be visible in Amarillo tomorrow for about two hours after sunrise if skies are clear. An annular eclipse will be seen with a ring of sunlight around the moon. Spectators are urged to wear dark glasses or view through smoked glass. totality will occur in Idaho and Montana briefly, with partial totals elsewhere. The total path spans Canada to Turkestan, and Moscow students have bought smoked glasses while universities plan photo expeditions.
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Amarillo
HK. C. Winburn
Idaho
Montana
New Orleans
Chicago
Canada
Greenland
Scandinavia
Russia
Turkestan
Moscow
Soldier on 30 day furlough visits mother in San Antonio
Charles H. James, a radio man gunner, is on a 30 day furlough from an Army hospital in San Antonio to visit his mother Mrs. M. James of 2311 Cleveland Street. He will report back for further treatment of his wounds. Photographs Live Forever Autry Studio 116 EF 4th Phone 2-1922.
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Charles H. James
San Antonio
G Men Tighten Security For Truman Kin In Independence
In Independence Missouri July residents feel pity for the President's wife and daughter as Secret Service guards tighten access to homes. A Truman relative attempting a back yard entry was briefly intercepted, then allowed in after a family member vouched for her.
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Independence
Secret Service
Truman
Vietta
Sugar Shortage Hits Texas Householders Amid Bumper Crop
Washington reports OPA Deputy Administrator Max McCullough, a Texas native, blames sugar hoarding by canning users while noting 600 000 tons are allocated for home canning nationwide. He cites a 37.5 percent drop from last year and urges strict use for canning. Rep. Russell of Texas seeks immediate relief for church groups.
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Washington
Texas
OPA
Max McCullough
Agriculture Department
Bulle
McCullough
United Nations
Rep
Russell
Russian factor in Pacific war to top Big Three talks
London reports say Chinese Premier Soong's Moscow mission fuels bets Russia will enter the war against Japan. Sources note Russia's military build up on the eastern border and push for a voice in Far Eastern settlements. A general accord on Russia’s Far East role is seen as essential to broader European and global discussions.
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London
T. V. Soong
Moscow
Russia
Far East
Japan
Tangier
Red Squeeze on Turkey Opens
Istanbul reports large headlines on unverifiable claims that Russia will seize Kars and Artvin by force if Turkey does not surrender. Paris radio cites 24 Russian divisions near the Turkish Bulgarian frontier and notes Bulgarian generals in Moscow discussions.
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Istanbul
Russia
Turkey
Kars
Artvin
Paris
Moscow
Clash Report Negro Marine Attacks on Pacific Island Camps
NAACP secretary Walter White said Marines on a Pacific Island attacked Negro Navy men with bricks hand grenades and smoke bombs in a series of incidents. He testified before a Navy board after returning from the Pacific theater describing Christmas Eve shootings and rioting as colored sailors defended themselves.
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Cincinnati
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Pacific
White
Navy Board of In‘cruary
Weather Summary for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
The region: fair to Sunday night in Amarillo area with some cloudiness and higher temps. West Texas partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with scattered thundershowers in Pecos Valley and Big Bend. New Mexico partly cloudy Sunday with widely scattered showers in afternoon and little temp change. highs 70s to 80s in mountains and up to 100 elsewhere.
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Amarillo
Texas
Pecos Valley
Big Bend
New Mexico
Italians Repatriated After Pullman Car Detour
A detachment of Italian prisoners of war arriving in Omaha was moved from tourist pullman cars to coaches for the remainder of their trip, a Seventh Service Command announcement said. Pittsburgh Paints at Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co. 1200 W. 6th.
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Omaha
Seventh Services Command
Pittsburgh Paints
Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co
More Butter at Lower Points Promised Nation in August
Civilian butter will be available at about 20 points a pound starting July 29 under a joint Agriculture Department and Office of Price Administration plan. August supply set at 96 million pounds, about 10 million more than recent months, with war allotments cut to 30 percent of production.
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Agriculture Department
Office of Price Administration
Socialite Imogene Stevens Confident of Vindication in Slaying
Major G Baisey Stevens III asserts his wife Imogene, charged with manslaughter in the shooting of sailor Albert Kovacs, will be vindicated. He states her account of self defense and says rumors should not judge her, awaiting full facts to reach court.
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Imogene
Bridgeport
Gram
Major Stevens
New Canaan
New Hampshire University
Albert
Kovacs
Pacific
James
Charles Milton
Milton
Stevens Holds Firm Support Amid Shooting Bond Talks
Goldstein and Major Stevens plan to discuss raising bonds for Mrs Stevens release after she is held on a $50,000 bond in county jail. Stevens, who embraced his wife during a jail-side interview, says he will stand by her and urges the public to wait for the full story before judging.
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James Kovacs
James
Faith Coombs
Miltons
Major Stevens
David Goldstein
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