Letter From Home Highlights Panhandle War Service News
In Amarillo weekly feature, readers learn of servicemen earning honors, relatives in the armed forces, and weddings as clean-up week unfolds. Notables include Lieut Billy Hise earning the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Solomons, Lieut Sherill Edwards new artillery bars, and Lt Pau Wischkaemper in a tank destroyer unit. The column also notes families with multiple sons in Air Corps and Marines, a caranic mix of milestones, and a rare in-hotel accident. Weather shows showers and wind across the Panhandle. The piece closes with village society and a lighthearted camel-rope tale from North Africa.
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Federal
Amarillo
Billy Hise
Shamrock
Solomons
Sherill Edwards
Sid Edwards
West Tenth
Fort Sill
Tieut Pau Wischkaemper
Samnerwood
John L. Nelson
Miami
West Point
J. B. Linn
KGNC
Brooks Field
Walters
Panhandle
Bagwell
Claude
Foui
L. A. Walters
Air Corps
Marines
Robert A
William K
James H
Thomas L
Thomas
Claude Bagwell
Cpl
Houston Bagwell
Raymond
Fort Meyer
Fla
Buford
Atlantic
Buddy Meyer
Hutchinson
Washington
Jay Taylor
Army
Air Forces
Red Cros
Jimmie Baker
Bill Baker
Amarillo National Bank Bakers
Davidson
Seventh and
Tyler Street
Cullum Motor Company
Northwest ‘Texas Hospital
Ross
Ted Houck
Borger
Jimmie Moore
University of Texas
H. L. Reynolds
Annapolis
John
United States Naval Academy
I. D. Nelson
al Warner
Johnny Price
Clarice Hull
Herbert W. Powers
Haverhill
Mass
Spokane
Wash
Plainview
Clarice
Margaret Dickinson
C. V. Wood
Betty Hilliard
Littlefield
Eulu Chappell Toone
Dallas
Cyrus Pecaytote
Perryton
Lubbock
Sioux City
Nancy Wpe Sparks
Panhandie
Maurice P. Garner
Gafney
S. C
Pampa Army Air Base
Ernestine Ballard
Ensign George 2. Goller
Jeanette Donaldson
Ensign Palmer Allen Quarles
Newton
Kan
Ruth Harris
Don Mills
Tulsa
Ester Johnson
Tulka
Paul Turner
Canyon
Mary Stone
Percy Starkie
Carolina
Mildred Kerle
Philadelphia
Paul Henry Coy
Imogene Broaddus
Charles Ray Blanchard
Louisiana
Betty Joyce Britton
Samuel L. West
Clovis
New Orleans
Christine Olson
Hereford
Harold Pettyjohn
Snowflake
Ariz
Dothan
Ala
Nancy Marie
George W. Duncan
St. Jo and
Kearney
Neb
Dune Easterwood
Clayton
N. M
John J. Shaw
Denver
LaVerne King
George Gatewood
Fl Paso
Inetta Maxwell
Tommy Hyatt
Heeler
Valda Cypher
Borger Herald
Wichita
Boeing Airplane Company
Cone
Erybody
Chariti Hase Eat League
North Africa
Cowhand Junction
Tex
Pvt
Warre
Arn Ceey
Grady
U. Ok Vorce
Tead
Tex Grady
Per
Anette Amee
Kingman Wins Five Dollar Prize in News Tip Contest
L. E. Kingman of 1323 Taylor Street won the $5 first prize for a tip about Freddie Bartholomew becoming a naturalized U S citizen. Geneva Zeigler received $3 for a tip about a 61 year old man with four new jaw teeth. Curtis Baines won $2 for praising three boys who improvised a tourniquet to stop a hand injury. Additional contributors listed.
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L. E. Kingman
Taylor Street
Kingman
Freddie Bartholomew
United States
Geneva Zeigler
Pierce Street
Curtis Baines
Tyler Street
John Warlick
E. P. Shackelford
Wichita Avenue
W. E. Grunke
North McMasters
Howard Gann
North
Cleveland
A. N. Nks
Harrison
Gerald Bry
Box 17
B. E. Humphers
North West Fifth
V Mail Allows Baby Pictures From Frontline Parents
The War Department announces new V mail rules permitting sending a baby's photograph to fathers overseas. Photos must show a child under one year born after the father went overseas and occupy no more than one third of the V mail space. The image should be pasted in the upper left to avoid creasing during molding.
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Washington
War Department
Allied efforts intensify as frontier closes and air raids attack Europe
British notified Turkey of frontier closure amid fears of German intelligence gains from Arabs entering via Syria and Palestine. Allied air forces launched rounds against Ruhr and Sicily with Oberhausen and Messina targets hit. many fires reported though weather limited detail. British bombers attacked Oberhausen while Wellington planes struck Messina and other Sicilian targets, and Spitfires defended northern France. On the Eastern front, Soviet and German reports signaled a potential major operation, with the Red Army claiming village gains near Sumy and Kharkov counterattacks repelled.
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A. GC
Arnlold
Riza Artunkal
Turkey
Syria
Palestine
Europe
Germany
Ruhr
Italy
Sicily
Oberhausen
Wellington
Messina
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Africa
Sicilian
Berlin
Moscow
Ukraine
Red Army
Sumy
Kharkov
Orel
Beiev
Ore
Donets
Mediterranean
Jay Taylor Takes Second War Assignment This Year
Lt Col Jay Taylor of Amarillo Texas oil man and rancher is assigned his second major war duty this year. He serves as a military officer and will undertake new wartime responsibilities announced from Washington on June 15.
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Washington
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Texas
Taylor
Food Administration
Chester D. Davis
Texas United
Davis
Army
Halliburton Oil Well
Crete Ready Taylor Among Army Oil Division Chiefs
Gen Manoli Mandakas vows an all out attack on Axis garrisons in Crete as guerrilla forces wait for Allied invasion orders. Taylor, recalled to head the new army fuels and lubricants division, will organize staff to manage oil and fuel supplies under Col Covell.
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Taylor
Army
W. E. R. Covell
War Department
John A. Parris
London
Manoli Mandakas
Creta
Crete
Greece
Egypt
Mandakas
Cairo
Food Administration
Patterson
Brehon Somervell
Army Services
Somervell
P-38s Hold Their Own In Pacific Skirmish With Zeros
United States P-38 Lightnings engaged Japanese Zeros near Madang in New Guinea. Ten to 15 Zeros attacked a formation of 58 P-38s with surprise and altitude, leaving at least two or possibly three enemy aircraft downed while American planes returned safely to base without crew losses. Some aircraft were damaged.
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New Guinea
Madang
Scouts distribute Clean-up Week sheets in Amarillo
Boy Scouts in Amarillo distribute Clean-up Week report sheets as city officials announce special trash collection schedules in support of the annual campaign led by Rod Showalter publicity director.
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Boy Scouts
Amarillo
Weather forecast calls hot windy and wet patchy storms
Prediction for hot windy conditions with scattered thundershowers late afternoon or early evening then cooler tonight. Yesterday reached 92 and a 67 morning low. Panhandle reports .13 inch moisture, Shamrock lighter showers, Lubbock up to .86 inch in the moisture show.
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Panhandle
Lubbock
Partisan Raids Resumed Along Hungarian Frontier
Yugoslav partisan raids along the old Hungarian frontier have been resumed in considerable force in the past three weeks causing disruption of Budapest Belgrade railway service reports from Zagreb Croatia.
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Budapest
Belgrade
Zagreb
Croa- A
Bus Terminal Reports Easing Crowding in Amarillo
Officials at the Union Bus Terminal say crowding has eased though hundreds still linger longer than planned in Amarillo. Depot agents note many arrive as many depart and last week several score people were stranded for hours amid travel disruption.
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Amarillo
Union Bus Terminal
Oil price rise approved for Panhandle crude oil
The Office of Price Administration approved an order boosting crude oil price by seven cents per barrel for Texas Panhandle producers. Representative Eugene Worley said the change should take effect within a week or ten days after red tape is cleared, removing seven cents of the prior ten cent differential between Panhandle and Midcontinent prices. The move affects all Panhandle crude producing counties. producers had sought the full ten cents.
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Office of Price Administration
Texas Panhandle
Eugene Worley
The
Globe News
Washington, D
Minsaudaw
Will Hanama
Worley
Panhandle
Midcontinent
Hazardous Baker Hotel site explored by reporter
A reporter inspected the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and Tyler Street known as the Baker Hotel site. The abandoned structure from a 20 story hotel project houses dangerous open shafts, ragged stairs, and unprotected drops across the upper and lower basements. Police note ongoing vandalism and trespass risk. The Palo Duro Development Company owns the site with 42 nearby shareholders.
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Seventh Avenue
Tyler Street
Terial
Palo Duro Development Company
Navy Lifts Ban on Los Angeles Riot Restrictions
The Navy ends its leave ban in Los Angeles after riots between sailors and zoot-suit hoodlums. Effective at noon, sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen may spend leaves anywhere in the LA area. Rear Admiral D W Bagley notes mayor Bowron assured police readiness to handle the situation.
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Los Angeles
Navy
Coast
D. W. Bagley
11Th Naval District
Fletcher Bowron
Sightseeing Trip Ends in Amarillo Jail
Four youths from Albuquerque New Mexico were jailed in Amarillo after a cross state sightseeing trip. Police say three cars carried them from Albuquerque to Santa Rosa then to Tucumcari where they boarded a bus to Amarillo. Authorities were en route to Amarillo to question the group.
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Amarillo
Albuquerque
N. M
Santa Rosa
Tucumcari
Congress May Provide Food Administrator
Members of the House Agriculture Committee said after conferring with President Roosevelt that Congress likely must enact legislation to establish an all powerful food administrator.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas area
The forecast notes not quite as warm conditions tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers across Amarillo and the Panhandle. West Texas shows little temperature change with scattered showers today and tonight, while New Mexico expects widely scattered storms in the Sangre de Christo Mountains and Pecos Valley later this evening. Temperatures over the past 24 hours reached a high of 87 and a low of 68 with noon reading around 83.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhande
South Plains
New Mexico
Sangre de Christo
Pecos Valley
Navy promises more bad news on Japanese ships sunk
Washington reports that 12 additional Japanese vessels were sunk or damaged by U S submarines bringing total losses to 256. Secretary Knox notes eight American submarines lost have been replaced many times and credits steady fleet growth and improved crew skill as reasons for rising destructions.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
United States
Pacific
Busx
Stamp No 17 ends shoe rationing as buyers flood Amarillo
Hundreds jam shoe counters in Amarillo as ration stamp No 17 nears expiry at midnight. Merchants report depleted stocks but will replenish to meet demand for stamp No 18 valid through Oct 31, lasting four and a half months. Some shoppers mistook No 18 for immediate use.
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Amarillo
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