Germans Search For SS Men In Austrian War’s Odd Peace
In Bad Gastein Austria the 78th Division under Lt Randolph Summerall polices the area after Germany’s surrender. German prisoners ride with American troops while locals recall a quiet war. Veterans report German hospital bands and former soldiers joining Americans by the pool in a strange postwar scene.
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Bad Gastein
Austria
Tavern Mountain
Randolph Summerall
Isola
Berlin
Workers Needed to Build a Liberty Ship
The shipyard seeks more than 40 skilled trades to complete a Liberty ship project. It calls for electricians welders machinists shipfitters and painters to meet production goals and accelerate the war program.
Death notice for Pvt. Claude Jones on Okinawa
Mrs. Bessie Mae Jones of 1500 Crockett received word that her husband Pvt. Claude Jones was killed in action on Okinawa. A Sixth Marine Division machine gunner, he trained at San Diego and Oceanside before foreign duty five months ago. Survived by his wife and mother, a son Jimmy Wayne, four brothers and two sisters, with several named relatives listed.
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Bessie Mae Jones
Crockett
Claude Jones
Okinawa
Sixth Marine Division
Jones
Julia Jeffries
West Ninth
Marine Corps
San Diego
Oceanside
Cal
Memphis
Amarillo Bakery
Jimmy Wayne
Clyde Jones
Third Army
Europe
Joe Jones
Amarillo
Roy Jones
Robert Duncan
Leo Zarecky
Herman
Ted Williams
Monroe
Classified Ad Sells House In 30 Minutes
A Amarillo Daily News ad led to a rapid sale of a five room house at 315 Tennessee within half an hour. Buyer L L Renner of Phoenix Arizona, formerly with the police department, learned of the listing from the same paper. Furniture from another Reisdorph ad also found a buyer.
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Amarillo Daily News
F. S. Reisdorph
Tennessee
L. L. Renner
Phoenix
Ariz
Reisdorph
Renner
Police
Protest Denied Reports Of Mexican Student Strike
In Huntsville on June 14, a Puebla center official said Mexican students at the University of Puebla are not on strike over Texan enrollment. Clinton R. Hackney, Sam Houston summer school director, telegraphed that reports in U.S. papers should be ignored as they claim a strike.
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Huntsville
U.P
University of Puebla
Mexico
Lowman
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Puebla
Clinton R. Hackney
Sam Houston
United States
Flags Presented to Negro Legion Post in Color Veterans Event
Hanson Post 54 of the American Legion presented an American and a post flag to the W. C. Warren Post of colored veterans. The ceremony at the Ben Davis USO on Third and Monroe began at 8:30 p.m. Col. E. A Simpson presented the flags, accepted by Stick Williams, commander of W. C. Warren Post.
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Eighth Army
Sgt
Charlie Singleterry
Singleterry
Globe News
Albert Lard Electric Company
Farmdale
Prince George
Old Erie
Dayton Club
van Buren
Negro Legion Post
White's
White
G&g
All White's
Polk
Per Gallen
Sargent Paints
WU Antfie
Enginaire Tire Pumps
Ko Stores
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