Chinese Youth Joins Army After Citizenship Verify
Yong You Jung also known as Jon Wong faced a citizenship hurdle at Fort Bliss after being accepted on medical grounds. He proved citizenship by tracing his father’s status and secured official documents before returning to the draft board and heading to El Paso to rejoin the Army.
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Yong You Jung
Amarillo
United States
Jon Wong
Houston
Canton Cafe
Fort Bliss
Joe
Army
China
el Paso
Youth teen asks Omaha police to jail him for company
A 17 year old from Los Angeles told Omaha police they were snobbish and inhospitable after they refused to open city jail doors to him. He said the rented room he found by hitchhiking was so quiet he could not sleep and asked to be jailed so he could have some people around.
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Omaha
Los Angeles
Preventorium Tinfoil Campaign Is Over Top
Mrs Olive Childers chairman said the tinfoil drive has ended with a pile now weighing more than pounds. A prize was given for the largest contribution. Headquarters will stay open for donations, though no further campaign will be conducted.
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Olive Childers
Texas to Idle Oil Fields in August Under Commission Plan
Texas oil fields outside the Panhandle will idle 10 days in August and five Panhandle shutdown days, the Texas Railroad Commission announced. For July, Panhandle and other state idles totaled 15 days. The August order repeats a 6000 barrel daily reduction from the U.S. Bureau of Mines demand estimate of 1,361,000 barrels. A hearing in early August will consider Panhandle allocation among wells, currently capped at 20 barrels daily.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
Panhandle
Texas Railroad Commission
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Federal Bureau
Commission
Jerry Sadler
Olin Culberson
Britain
Harold L. Ickes
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas region
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. High around 88 and low near 62. Southwest to northwest winds gentler to moderate. West Texas sees scattered thundershowers this afternoon, tonight, and Tuesday in southwest areas. New Mexico reports partly cloudy skies with isolated storms over mountains and Rio Grande Valley. Temperature extremes over 24 hours: min 64, max 90. Noon reading 84.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Big Spaces Hurt Nazis In Eastern Front Battle
German spokesman warned of a large destructive battle east of the Stalin line near Smolensk as Mogilev reports claimed Soviet division annihilation. British air power predicted major strikes against Germany while Moscow reported fierce fighting and stalled drives toward Moscow Leningrad and Kiev. Soviet counters claimed success including encirclement of Nazi units and destruction of enemy trucks ahead of expected German advances.
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Associated Press
Stalin Line
Smolensk
Moscow
Mogilev
Dnieper
Minsk
Red Army
Germany
RAF
the Reich
Coventry
Focke-Wulf
Bremen
DNB
Vitebsk
Kremlin
Joseph Stalin
Leningrad
Kiev
Hitler
Soviet Ukraine
Polotsk- Nevel
Novgrad Volynski
Berlin
Odessa
Dniester
Bessarabia
Karelian
Estonia
Commissariat of Defense
England
Scotland
Brutal murder case links 16 year old to two rapes in MA
Boston reports a 16 year old, Raymond Woodward, pleaded innocent to killing 15 year old Constance Shipp and maiming her with a butcher knife. Police linked him to another brutal killing, 19 year old Frances Cochran, found battered near Lynn. Investigators pursue a second suspect as questions probe a wider Kelllis.
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Boston
U.S
Massachusetts
Raymond Woodward
Fly W Aed
Constance A. Shipp
Reading
Frances M. Cochran
Lynn
Miss Cochran
Harold
General Electric Company
Shipp
Baptist Parsonage
Woodward
John Bates
Salem
North Shore
Cochran
North Andover
Success At Last
Pvt. J. C. Siddon of Chanute Field Illinois finally reached home after four attempts amid misfortune. His money was stolen on the first plan and a captain vetoed leave before rescinding it two days later. A seven week hospital stay followed an automobile accident, but Siddon persisted and completed the trip after the crew delayed the train long enough for a ticket.
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Dallas
J. C. Siddon
Chanute Field
Ill
Siddon
Don
Secret 'V' Army Mobilized Across Occupied Europe
Britain broadcasts urge a vast secret "V" army in occupied countries to stay undercover and wait to strike at the Germans. Col. V Britton reports mobilization a complete success as saboteurs and chalked "V" marks spread from Europe to Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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United Press
Great Britain
Col
V Britton
Britton
Congress Is Urged To Keep Draftees In Service
President Roosevelt urged Congress to declare a full or limited national emergency to retain selectees and National Guardsmen in active service for the emergency duration. He warned the army could disintegrate within two months without action, urged removal of annual induction caps, and requested open jobs for reservists, with possible early civilian return as conditions permit. The appeal was broadcast nationwide and translated for six languages.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
America
United States
Tly
House
Senate
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting System
Army
Regular Army
Selective Service Act
Good Samaritan Drops From Sky in Wichita Rescue
In Wichita Kansas a flight instructor Harry Reiter spotted a car crash, landed in a pasture and freed a woman from the wreck. His student Jerry Cochran helped transport the woman and her nephew to a hospital while Reiter alerted state police and arranged hospital care from the airport.
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Wichita
Kas
Harry Reiter
Jerry Cochran
Reiter
Some Clouds And Showers Are in Sight
Weather summary notes a normal heat with highs near 90 and a 77 mean. David Bruce predicts clouds and possible showers southwest, with temps rising to about 88 and a low near 62. A trough from eastern North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle drives a cold front, bringing showers to the northern plains and gulf states showery conditions.
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David Bruce
Texas
Alpine
Big Bend
Palestine
Des Moines
N. M
Springfield
Col
North Dakota
Texas Panhandle
Great Plains
Rockies
Yuma
Ariz
Hollywood
Plains
Atlantic
Gulf States
Muscle Shoals
Galveston
Fort Worth
First Texas strike happened on a ranch
A Texas ranch saw the first strike in the state as cowpunchers joined a walkout. Dr. Ruth Allen of the University of Texas notes the cowboy union history alongside capitol granite-cutters and longshoremen, describing 80 hour weeks and $50 monthly wages for horse-wranglers in the 1880s.
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Austin
Texas
Ruth Allen
University of Texas Economist
Water Use Surges in Amarillo Amid Peak Demand
Amarillo recorded its highest water use of the year on Saturday with 8,300,000 gallons, yet this did not surpass the all‑time record. Wells at the Word Ranch, the city’s oldest source of supply, are producing more water after turbine pumps were installed, according to city manager H. R. Smith.
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Amarillo
Water Department
Word Ranch
H. R. Smith
Panhandle Traffic Toll Rises This Year
The Panhandle traffic toll has reached 47 deaths today, up from 30 on the same date last year. The 47th fatality occurred on Sept 29 last year, marking a sharper toll this year.
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Panhandle
Park Concerts Begin Tonight in Amarillo
The Amarillo Municipal Band, directed by Robert Louis Barron, opens a series of outdoor park concerts at 8 pm in Ellwood Park. The program features The Star Spangled Banner, Porter's Catalina Band, Poet and Peasant, Ballet Egyptian Suite, Military Maestro, Our Director March, A Night in June, Old Timers Waltz, Concert Favorites, and Stars and Stripes Forever. The band is voluntary. intermission includes remarks by Col. E A Simpson, Rex Baxter, and Mayor Joe Jenkins, with KGNC broadcasting the first half.
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Ellwood Park
Amarillo
Porter
McCaughey
van Suppe
Luigini
Becker
Bigelow
King
Lake
Victor Herbert
Sousa
Chamber of Commerce Band Committee
Col. E. A. Simpson
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Rex Baxter
Joe Jenkins
KGNC
Bob Watson
Barron
FE. A. Baracat
Aluminum Drive
Chamber of Commerce
John McCarty
S. B. Whittenburg
John K. Boyce
Ted Taylor
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