Letter From Home To Boys In Service
Amarillo social notes and military updates include Ray Pinkney's sudden death, Army USO shows drawing crowds, Lake Marvin opening with Navy recruits, Texas Highway Patrol enlisting in the Coast Guard, and battle news about the 131st Field Artillery. Local weather, glider schools, a fire at Hunsley Paint, theater reopenings, and sports results from Amarillo golf and West Texas-New Mexico league standings wrap this Panhandle weekly digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyea
Amarillo
Ray Pinkney
Pinkney
Pinkney Packing Company
Tri-State Fair Association
Bill Dee
Peggy Pinkney
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Hollywood
Dixie Dice
USO
E. Brown
Dalhart
Panhandle
Lake Marvin
Navy
Avengers of
Pearl Harbor
John McCarty
Texas Highway Patrol
Coast Guard
J. D. Warner
S. Allen
D. G. Halyard
C. H. Cheshire
C. L. McNeil
J. T. Cope
John Nunn
War Department
131St Field Artillery
Jave
Plainview
Lubbock
Blucher Tharp
Dumas
Hilton Hotel
Hunsley Paint Company
West Seventh
Jack Curtice
West Texas State Grid
Texas School of Mines
Bob Butler
Jack Richards
Mae
Mary Kruser
Pitts Crudgington
Betty Taylor
Jim Rogers
Betty Dawson
Marv Klingensmith
Terry Roberts
Lee Ravey
Capitol
Rialto Theatres
George
Interstate
Gene West
Camp Blanding
Gene
Little Theater
Ann Lee
Jeanette Donaldson
P. A. Quarles
United States Naval Academy
Janice Westmoreland
Betty Knight
Mary Ann Hall
Betty Lou Tolleson
Alice Mayne
Barbara Boyce
Elaine Johnson
New Mexico Military Institute
J. R. Brown
Bill Keith
Jimmie Moore
Flash
Pampa
USO Show Wins Hearts at Municipal Auditorium
Dixie Dice and her Darlings wowed soldiers with a fast moving USO stage at the Municipal Auditorium last night. The Dimpled Cuties changed costumes for each act and the crowd donated 358.08 to the service men and Victory Command as hundreds were turned away, prompting a second show tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Dice
Municipal Auditorium
USO
Victory Command
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo area sees higher afternoon temperatures with little change tonight. West Texas and Panhandle expect similar temperatures to the prior 24 hours with scattered showers and storms this afternoon and evening. Noon reading today was 79 degrees with 0.10 inches precipitation. Repair Now. John Maynard Lumber Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Missing cattleman Milt Reinhold sought in Panhandle Texas
Milton Reinhold, 50, a prominent Dalhart cattleman, has been missing since last Tuesday. He was last seen at Lubbock bus station en route to Fort Worth while ill with flu and a heart ailment. He wore a gray and black suit, a tan Stetson, light blue striped shirt, and brown oxfords. 5 ft 11 1/2 in, about 185 pounds, dark hair greying. Anyone with information is asked to notify Mrs Reinhold or Dalhart police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Central Texas
Milton
Milt) Reinhold
Dalhart
Reinhold
Lubbock
Fort Worth
Hold
Chinese Kill 4 000 Japs Rv UNITED PF
A terse wartime telegram notes a clash where Chinese forces reportedly killed four thousand Japanese soldiers, with scarce details on location or context. The report reflects propaganda era phrasing and lacks corroborating specifics.
Global War Fronts Report Intensified Fighting and Coast Hostages
Reports from Leningrad to Sevastopol indicate heavy fighting as German forces press on in the Crimea and along the Caucasus while Chinese troops inflict major casualties on Japanese forces in Chuhsien and Kiangsi regions. British and German aerial actions pattern a tense coast defense along occupied France, Holland, and Belgium, with RAF bombing raids and German warnings to civilians. Meanwhile Heydrich’s Berlin funeral highlights Nazi repression and Czech sabotage, as U S Pacific forces assess offensive moves after Midway to shift the war’s balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leningrad
Crimea
Russia
Moscow
Kalinin
Sevastopol
Caucasus
Chuhsien
Chekiang
Japan
Kiangsi
Tungjiang
Nanchang
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Holland
Belgium
France
London
Adolf Hitler
RAF
Bryansk
Kharkov
Crimean
Hitler
Kerch Straits
Kerch
St. Nazaire
Berlin
Heinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Czechoslovakia
Heinrich Himmler
Heydrich
Navy Blimps Crash Off New Jersey Coast Killing and Missing
Only one survivor known after airships G1 and L-2 collided and sank four miles off Manasquan near Lakehurst. Nine of 13 occupants still missing. three bodies recovered from L-2 gondola at Point Pleasant Beach, including Lt Cmdr Clinton S. Rounds of Toms River. Coast Guard scours for additional survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
Manasquan
Lewis Menninger
Ocean County
Point Pleasant Beach
Cmdr
Clinton S. Rounds
Toms River
Coast Guard
Inter-City buses under rigid wartime regulation
The Office of Defense Transportation orders wartime control of all inter-city bus operations effective July 1. Routes frozen, competitive service pooled, and express services discontinued. Buses may not serve venues chiefly for amusement. Schedules failing to meet a 40 percent average load face discontinuation. operators must record passenger and seat miles and report seating violations. Additionally, C. W. Purr’s condition at North-West Texas Hospital is reported as fairly good after a serious illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
C. W. Purr
North- West, Texas Hospital
Mr. Purr
Bid for Plant Amarillo Bids for grain alcohol plant project
Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce plans to fly to Washington to present a brief to the War Production Board and Jesse Jones. He outlines talks on housing priority, VA facility expansion, and repurposing the old post office for USO while seeking to raise Amarillo’s coffee quota. Baxter notes the housing program by Thomas W. Poore is in Washington and will be expedited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
War Production Board
Jesse Jones
Amarillo
Veterans’ Administration
Weather Bureau
USO
Mr. Baxter
Thomas W. Poore
National Housing Agency
WPB
Panhandle
Orient
Amarillo War Plant Rush Lacked Vital Support
A plea to designate Amarillo and the Panhandle as a war zone to speed up a major local war plant. The piece urges Colonel E A Simpson and The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce to lead a Washington lobbying effort to cut red tape, house workers, and accelerate construction to prevent waste of money and lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Amarillo
Panhandle
E. A. Simpson
Simpson
News-Globe
Texas
Duke Baker Wins News Tip Prize in Friona Contest
Duke Baker of Box 75 Friona won $5 for the top tip about a chicken hoarding rubber and chewing 18 rubber bands. Second place went to Zelma Richey of 1014 Fillmore for a tip about a pear tree blooming and bearing. third went to Mrs. Tom Holman of 1408 Jackson for a tip about a bill 20 years past due. Other tipsters listed. office machine repairs by Russell Stationery Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Baker
Friona
Zelma Richey
Fillmore Street
Tom Holman
Jackson Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Armed Services
Milt Reinhold
Rv United PF
Red Army
Europe
Skoda
Pilsen
U. S S. Pacific
U. S
Midway
Pacific
C. W. Farr
Lee
Oechsner
News Tip
Jack Pittman
West
20Th Avenue
H. F. Moore
North
Doris Jane Keaton
Buchanan Street
E. J. Watson
Tavelor Street
Joe Warson
Sunset Boulevard
J. C. Molesworth
Lincoln Street
Pat Aldrich
Madison Street
Torrance
Cleveland Street
Joe Honest
Mississippi Street
Russell Stationery Company
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