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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
13
Tomorrow night room 307 in the courthouse hosts two meetings. Used vehicle dealers convene at 8 00 with registration terms available at the district OPA office. Automotive repair dealers meet at 9 00 to learn about a new price charge plan for repairs on cars and trucks.
Police broadcast a national alert as Geneva Kearns age 33 and her three sons Jimmy Don eight Tommy Dean seven and Hoyt Eugene five disappeared after June 18. Husband C L Kearns offered a liberal reward for information to contact his wife. Neighbor Lois Nance also missing with her five month old baby. An urgent WAC enlistment appeal followed from Lillian Bastin urging Amarillo women 20 to 38 to enlist before the Saturday deadline.
Warren M. Sparks and William L. Darrah were appointed by Judge Henry S. Bishop to defend M. E. Thompson and Elbert Day on murder charges in the death of City Detective Lem Sav age. They will be brought from federal penitentiaries at city expense for trial. Thompson has a 99 year federal kidnapping sentence, Day a five year sentence for transporting a car across a state line. The victims included Miss Betty Jim Shelton and two Negro ranch hands. the pair were later captured in New Mexico. Trial likely late August or September with a venue change probable.
WAC recruiters remain in Amarillo through Saturday noon interviewing applicants for service. Ann Reynolds and Sgt. coordinate the outreach and screening efforts to boost enlistments.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce launches a program training cab drivers policemen waiters hotel clerks and others who greet travelers to boost a favorable view of postwar visitors. Wright Field researchers using huge wind tunnels create a high speed wind of 600 miles per hour to simulate stratospheric conditions for safer warplanes over Tokyo.
A West Virginia farmer reported finding pig bristles in the stomachs of two foxes. He did not claim foxes catch pigs but seeks to learn how the bristles appeared in the animals.
Sgt. Durwood Floyd Offord of the 306th Bombardment Group is discharged after nearly five years of service. He tallied 132 points for two European tours and flew 50 missions. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal with six clusters and the Presidential Unit Citation for a Haberstadt raid where his division continued to bomb while others retreated. He is a 1940 Amarillo High School graduate and son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Offord of Frederick Oklahoma.
American Business Club members will be guests of Glen Frazier, a member, at the Frazier Dinner.
A social invitation sets tomorrow noon at a residence at Seventh and Madison. The change from the regular meeting place stems from a food shortage. Lindsey Smith leads the program with special entertainment announced by the committee. In Newton North Carolina a freight train halted when two boys fought on the track. they fled before police arrived.
President Harry S. Truman becomes the first U.S. leader to have a birthday observed in May marking a historic note in the executive calendar.
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