Defense Pool Forms Contacts for Amarillo Area Machine Jobs
A defense pool in the Amarillo area lists job openings at machine and fabrication plants. Lowell Stapf of Star Machine & Foundry coordinates with firms meeting at Amarillo Hotel to receive detailed war department plans for gun mounts and shell machining including 57 millimeter, six inch, and 151 millimeter shells.
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Amarillo
A-10
Defense
Lowell Stapf
Star Machine & Foundry
War Department
Texas Shell
Stapf
Star Machine and Foundry Company
Superior Manufacturing Company
Paramount Supply Company
Willborn Bros. Company
Germans Withheld Aid as Vichy Forces Fared in Syria
Beirut July 17 A.P. Delayed dispatch notes a strange war in Syria and Lebanon where Germans initially aided Vichy troops but later limited involvement. It describes Dentz's leadership turmoil, Free French activity, and German Italian presence, plus false hopes of French battleships and a disrupted reinforcement effort.
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Harold Peters
Beirut
Lebanon
Great Britain
Syria
Henri Dentz
Vichy
Dentz
Aleppo
Damascus
Age Checks Hit New High In Texas Pensions
The Texas old age assistance program issued 144 354 pension checks totaling 2 676 965 dollars in cash for July. Each recipient averaged 18.54 dollars. Director J B Murchison announced the funds were deposited in an Austin bank after federal matching money arrived. The hike follows easing of eligibility rules and an emergency 1 750 000 dollar monthly appropriation.
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Austin
J. 8. Murchison
Public Welfare Administration
Federal Social Security Board
Murchison
Washington
Federal Board
Texas
Eee
How To Determine Draft Status Here’s How To Determine Draft Status
Washington explains how draft registrants from last night’s lottery affect classification and induction. Four numbers matter the last order number drawn the local board registrations for both drawings and the last inducted order determine a registrant’s new status with proportional integration and second-letter designation.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Washington
UPI
Army
Japanese plans and German hopes in distant theaters
The report outlines British and German views on Japan possibly striking Vladivostok rather than Indo China. It notes Churchill’s concern for the Far East, and a proposal to appoint Alfred Duff Cooper to coordinate between Singapore, the British command, and diplomacy. It also mentions intensified Nazi effort to defeat Soviet forces.
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Russia
Winston Churchill
Far Eastern
Alfred Duff Cooper
Singapore
Far East
Germany
Private Fools The Ants With Sugar
Private Howard Stone of the 124th cavalry at Fort Bliss in bivouac on Hitt's ranch solved an ant problem by constructing a dummy bed mate from a saddle for the torso a canteen for the head and boots for the feet he sprinkled it with sugar and slept for about six hours.
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Fort Bliss
Howard Stone
124Th Cavalry
Hitt
Stone
Rehmeyers Return From Western Trip
Clyde Rehmeyer district manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and Mrs Rehmeyer returned from an extended vacation to California the Pacific Northwest Grand Canyon Yellowstone and other Western points of interest They reported business booming on the coast and in the West and Northwest They met former Amarilloans including Ray Wisemen at Eugene Max Begius at Colorado Springs and Bud Metz now at Casper.
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Clyde Rehmeyer
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Rehmeyyer
California
Pacific Northwest
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone National Park
Rehmeyer
Bud Metz
Metz
Casper
Wyo
Tack Job at Tourist Camp
A notice offers rent in exchange for a married couple's services at a tourist court. The man must be employed elsewhere and the couple must have no children. The position involves light work. Continuous details appear on page 6.
Soviet War Bulletin Claims Tremendous Eastern Front Advances
The bulletin boasted of tremendous operations advancing in the east with capture claims on a Russian airplane depot housing 150 planes near Leningrad. It reported Nazi forces taking 4,000 horses and 1,000 trucks with about 3,000 prisoners, including a battalion of women, amid heavy Red Army losses.
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Leningrad
Red Army
Bessarabian
Hotin
Soroca
Orhei
Dniester
Russia
Bessarabia
Romania
DNB
Bucharest
Europe
Fort Worth Hosts Second Show Premiere for Blossoms in the Dust
Fort Worth hosts the southwest premiere of Blossoms In the Dust starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. The film, inspired by Sam and Edna Gladney, portrays her fight to remove illegitimate from birth certificates. Mrs. Gladney will attend a dinner before the screening as 1,000 roses are dropped from buildings.
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Fort Worth
Dewey
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
Sam
Edna Gladney
Texas Children's Home & Aid Society
Texas
Catfish Tries To Hog Baits Ends Up On Hook
In Llano on July 18, Vernon Gavitt aged 11 and Jim Merkel aged 12 fished the Llano River when a six pound yellow catfish troubled by two hooks on separate lines was caught on one line after the other line broke. The fish was hooked by both boys’ baits before being landed.
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Llano
Vernon Gavitt
Jim Merkel
Llano River
Navy Seeks Unmarried Men for Naval Reserve Enlistment
The Navy announces a drive to recruit junior officers from 20 to 28 with university degrees. Recruits enlist as seamen in Glass V-7, train at Northwestern University or the Prairie State, become midshipmen after a month, then ensigns after three months, with pay of 125 dollars monthly plus allowances.
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The
Navy
Naval Reserve
Northwestern University
Chicago
Prairie State
Hudson River
United States’ Naval Academy
Annapolis
Naval Science
United States Naval Reserve
United States Naval Academy
Secretary of the Navy
Naval
Eighth Naval District
New Orleans
Former City Girl Lands Dance Part in New Film
Irene Skipwith of Amarillo secures a dancing role in The Bride Came C.O.D. at the Paramount Theater starting tomorrow. She trained locally, later danced in New York at the Roxie Theater, with a note that the collect on delivery bride character addressed to Amarillo never reached its destination. United States equipment will modernize Panama's National Printing Office.
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Irene Skipwith
Amarillo
Bride
C.O.D
Paramount Theater
Skipwith
O. O. Skipwith
Oscar D. Randal
Hollywood
New York City
Roxie Theater
United States
Panama
Opal Young Elected President of Amarillo Local Union
Opal Young was installed as president of the Amarillo Local Cul inary Workers and Bartenders Union at the annual installation, with Lola Norris as vice president and other officers named. The local, AF of Labor affiliate, serves cooks, waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.
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Opal Young
Amarillo
Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union
Lola Norris
Harry Graham
Florence Gamble
Bessie Cox
Billie Crable
Ernest Crowley
Ruth Sampley
L. E. Davidson
American Federation of Labor
Jack Farwell Recovering After Major Operation
H. J. Jack Farwell underwent a major operation at Northwest Texas Hospital and is improving. He can sit up daily and is expected to leave the hospital this weekend. Sweden plans to spend over 6 million dollars to promote farm house construction.
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H. J
Jack” Farwell
Northwest Texas Hospital
Sweden
Jack Buckles Dies In Hospital Here
Jack C. Buckles long illness driller died this morning at a local hospital. Survived by his wife a daughter Mrs Betty Jean Robertson of East Camp New Mexico a stepson James A Taylor of Galveston a stepdaughter Bertha Christine Taylor of Borger a sister Mrs James Reeves of Udall Kansas and a brother Robert Buckles of Udall. Body remains at the Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home pending arrival of relatives.
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Jack C. Buckles
Burger
Betty Jean Robertson
East Camp
N. M
James A. Taylor
Galveston
Bertha Christine Taylor
Borger
James Reeves
Udall
Kan
Robert Buckles
Blackburn-Shaw
Barbara Dillon Joins Atlanta Drafted Men Dating Club
Barbara Dillon is linked with Atlanta based dating group I Want to Be Drafted that arranges dates with servicemen. The club centers on providing companionship for draftees amid wartime service.
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Barbara Dillon
Atlanta
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