Rehearsal For Invasion With Allied Forces In England
Canadian forces staged a large scale sea borne and air supported invasion rehearsal in England with U S observers and British leaders present. The exercise involved a vast armada multiple rehearsals and a field engineers team repairing defense works as the mock landing tested invasion night. Weather was hot with a 97 degree high and 70 degree low as winds toned the mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Munro
England
France
Norway
Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Markets Report
Kansas City hogs 5 600 head sold slow and weak 10 to 20 cents lower top 14 20 for 180 pound animals and 14 00 14 20 for 140 170 pounds cattle receipts about 9 9 00 calves 1 5 00 early fed steers steady grass stockers and feeders mixed results vealers 15 50 sheep 6 0 00 native spring lambs about 14 00 at opening. Chicago hogs 23 00 slow 15 25 cents lower top 14 70 180 240 pounds 14 40 65 240 70 pounds 14 25 55 sows 25 cents lower 400 550 pounds 13 25 60 cattle 10 000 calves 800 fed steers strong 12 25 14 00 bulls 15 40 top 14 60 heifers higher stock cattle slow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U. S. Dept
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Alleghany
Allis Chalmers
AT &Sf
Armour and Co
Aviation Corps
Baldwin Locomotivster
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
Budd Mfg
Consol Copper
del Tee
Curtis Wright
Douglas Aircraft Deere and Company
Gent Foods
Gent Motors
Greyhound
Houston Oil
Int
Southern Pacific
California
Indiana
New Jersey
Studebaker Bees
Texas Corporation
Sly Tide Water
Texac Coal& Oil Fly Union Carbides
Bee United Aircraft Theese
Wilson & Co
Bartsa Bay
Small Norwegian Vessel Torpedoed
The navy announced that a small Norwegian merchant vessel was torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico and survivors were landed at a Gulf Coast port. A Polish government in exile spokesman said 21 Polish soldiers were executed by Germans at Bydgoszcz in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast
London
Bydgoszcz
Poland
Health unit budget outlined for Amarillo consolidation
The city plans a consolidated Amarillo health unit under a separate roof with a 75 065 annual budget. State funding would cover 22 400, with Austin city manager Hancock releasing operating costs after talks with the state health department. The staff includes two doctors, nurses, sanitarians, lab personnel, clerks, and part time doctors. Also: exchange of about 1800 British civilians in Japan for Japanese civilians reportedly nearing completion.
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Amarillo
Austin P. Hancock
State Department of Health
Austin
Worry of FALSE TEETH
Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping or wobbling while you eat talk or laugh. Sprinkle FASTEETH on plates for added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. Alkaline non acidic with no gummy taste. Get FASTEETH at any drug store.
Housing Help Urged In Amarillo By Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber of Commerce urges citizens to help solve Amarillo housing shortages. A housing committee study calls for remodeling to create more units with FHA financial aid. Residents are asked to list spare bedrooms in newspapers and with the Home Registration Bureau, telephone 5238.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
FHA
Home Registration Bureau
Analyst Here On Priorities
An analyst will answer priorities questions tomorrow in the chamber of commerce conference room at 311 Polk Street. Rex Baxter, chamber manager, says the service is for the Panhandle. The priority analyst travels from Dallas, War Production Board district headquarters, to handle only priorities questions.
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WPA
Chamber of Commerce
Polk Street
Panhandle
Rex Baxter
Dallas
Bureau of Field Operations
War Production Board
R. C. Watson
Local Resident Leaves Northwest Texas Hospital
C. W. Furr, who had been seriously ill at Northwest Texas Hospital for several weeks, has recovered enough to go home. He was taken home yesterday.
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C. W. Furr
Northwest Texas Hospital
Tax Equalization Board To Meet For Hearings
The Tax Equalization Board will meet as part of the County Commissioners Court on August 5 6 and 7. Public hearings or protests are scheduled on those dates as the board commences its work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Equalization Board
County Commissioners Court
Soldiers Collecting Records for Armed Forces Fund
The American Legion chaired drive at Ama rillo on Polk Street near Sixth Avenue to sell scrap records titled Rocky Mountain Goat and Put Your Little Foot. Proceeds fund new phonograph players and records for troops. Mrs. George Ordway donated first. Boy Scouts to begin house to house collection next Sunday.
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Amarillo
Caisson
Polk Street
Sixth Avenue
A. K. Baracat
American Legion
George Ordway
Boy Scouts
Mr. Barabat
Car Backfires Startled Woman and Damaged Home
In San Antonio a car backfire excited its occupants causing three people to jump out and suffer cuts and bruises. The vehicle knocked down a utility pole and burned mesquite brush for 300 feet before crashing into a house. Driver Mary Shelton, 39, was noted as excited by the backfire and the incident drew firemen to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Mary Shelton
Globe News Hosts Evening Of Music And Dance In Amarillo
General Alexander notes commandos meet customers as Globe News presents a party featuring Red Wine and His Band. The Certain-teed Trio Edyth Strickland Olivia Eastus DeLaine Williams perform vocal numbers and Williams adds accordion tricks. Dixie Dice and Her Command Capers promise hot dance numbers to close the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
The
Globe News
Redwine
Edyth Strickland
Olivia Eastus
DeLaine Williams
Miss Williams
Dixie Dice
Dixie
Amarillo
Clerks to Attend Gala War Bond Drive Event
Amarillo clerks and their invited escorts are set for a gala evening as a salute to War Bond and Stamp efforts. Braniff Airways manager Barney Ogle will MC a floor show with entertainment for all, while top sellers receive $100 War Bonds donated by Southwest Public Service and Amarillo Gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney Ogle
Braniff Airways
Amarillo
White & Kirk's
Edd Oberbeck
Southwest Public Service Company
Amarillo Gas Company
Panhandle recruiting drive forms maintenance unit for ordnance
A mechanic shop recruits a full Panhandle company as fighting maintenance men for the ordnance department. Qualified men may be commissioned or enlisted as privates. Similar units will form in San Antonio Fort Worth and Oklahoma City. A committee of D H Coffee Lubbock Dos Coffee Pampa Jesse Rogers Amarillo C R Woods Paducah and George Finger Borger will screen applicants and forward names to two officers for commissions.
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Panhandle
Ordnance Department
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Lubbock
D. H
Pampa
Jesse Rogers
Amarillo
C. R. Woods
Paducah
George Finger
Borger
Camp Perry
Goodlin
Panhandle company formed by mechanics urged at Amarillo meeting
The Texas Automobile Dealers Association cooperates with the ordnance department to form a Panhandle company of capable mechanics and metal workers. Mr Irvin called the Amarillo meeting at the request of Capt W A Williamson urging attendees to inform others about joining and applying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Automobile Dealers Association
Ordnance Department
Irvin
Amarillo
Capt. W. A. Williamson
Panhandle Company
Egypt Front Armament Build Up Signals Delayed Offense
Mac Millan wrote at noon that prisoners were still streaming back through the front after Australian and South African infantrymen flushed them from the sand dunes. The total had passed 2,000 since Friday's British attack, as both sides piled up armaments along the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacMillan
Red Army Claims Midnight Communique Details
The Red Army Command admitted in its midnight communique that it faced attempts to seize key rail junctions at Rostov and surrounding lines. Vichy reports claimed Bielovodsk and two other towns near Lishchansk fell to German forces, though the source attribution was not provided.
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Rostov
Moscow-Rostov
Stalinograd-Rostov
Vichy
Bielovodsk
Lishchansk
Red Army
Russians withdraw to Boguchar area as German advance presses
Report says Russian forces pulled back about 50 miles from Kantemirovka toward Boguchar while fighting to hold the line. It notes a parallel retreat under defense in depth near Lishchansk as Germans press, with Voronezh still in Russian hands despite costly assaults.
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Kantemirovka
Boguchar
Lishchansk
Voronezh
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Ery Visler Lee
Britain
United States Expeditionary Force
Island
Dominion
English
Lord Louis
Bureau
Irkid
ARKID
SealAmerican Institute of Laundering
Arrid
Ummer
Sanitone
Service
Handle “Coundry Dry Cleaning CO
Laundry Shirt Service
Financial Industrial Fund
San Francisco
Japan
Melbourne
Hospital
P.x.’S
R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston Balem
Northe
Boston
New England
Office of Price Administration
Egypt
Russia
Cretney Drug
Fth & Polk
Maxor Fountain
Maxor
Maxor Drug CO
16Th and
Jackson
Fisk
Montgomery & Montgomery Doctors of Optometry
Oliver Eakle
W. E. Houghton
T. M. Montgomery
J. Mike Montgomery
Camiel Raravall
Cénie
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