Letter From Home to Your Boy in Service
The column narrates daily life on the Panhandle home front with weather, politics, housing rents, and war plant activity. It notes Maj. Burgard’s transfer and Capt. Irvine’s promotion at Pan-Tex Ordnance, local sports at Malin Field, and community updates on service members, housing debates, and Red Cross events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Henries
High Plains
Jimmy Allred
U. S. Senate
Municipal Auditorium
Washington
OPA
Malin Field
Red Cross
Texas Defense Guard Aviation Branch
United States
Coke Stevenson
Civil Air Patrol
TDG
CAP
Texas
Harry Riggs
Ft. Meade
Maryland
Wayman Bush
Nell Harris
Texas University
Corpus Christi
Connie Fuqua
Blackshear Jameson
Don Wood
Dumas
Sandie Grover Taylor
Joe Bob Mobley
Amarillo High School
Cornell University
Saldon Simpson
Max Neal
University of Utah
Amarillo
Sox
Clovis Pioneers
Clovis
Champs
Frank Mathews
Pampa
Lame
Pan-Tex Ordnance Plant
Capt. P. &. Irvine
Burgard
Amarillo Urged to Open Venereal Disease Clinic and Health Unit
Doctors in Amarillo push for a full time health unit including a venereal disease clinic to combat wartime health needs. State funding of twenty thousand dollars annually would support housing at the old courthouse library site with possible moves for Selective Service operations. Police reform and a vice squad target camp followers as part of a broader public health push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Selective Service
Old Weather Bureau
Carson County
State Department of Health
City Laboratory
Panhandle
A. S
Sid" Harper
Texas
Health Department
Heavy rains pound Panhandle and war zone dispatches mix
Rainfall in the Panhandle reached six inches at Canadian and fourteen inches near Lake Marvin with the lake spillway three feet deep. A separate report from New Delhi notes AP correspondent Preston Grover survived over 100 war zone bombings then suffered two broken ribs from a soap accident. In London the RAP said a British plane dropped two French flags on Paris and attacked the former ministry of marine. In Osage Kansas a high-diving cow was hauled from a river after falling from a 50 foot bluff and recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Lake Marvin
Associated Press
Preston Grover
Mediterranean
London
The
RAP
Paris
Ministry of Marine
War Savagery Reaches Peak in Global Conflict
World war news reports major battles across the Pacific and North Africa. U S bombers strike Japanese targets as Allied ships tally heavy enemy losses near Midway and the Aleutians while Rommel drives toward Tobruk and Libyan lines crumble. Russian fronts see brutal fighting around Kharkov and Sevastopol as Britain reports naval air actions in the Mediterranean.
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Midway
Coral Sea
Russia
Libya
Mediterranean
China
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Berlin
Moscow
el Gazala
Tobruk
Axis
Gibraltar
Erwin Rommel
Cairo
Neil M. Ritchie
Acroma
Rommel
Bir Hacheim
Rome
Ritchie
Leningrad
Black Sea
Chiang Kai-Chek
Chekiang- Kiangsi
Douglas MacArthur
Port Darwin
Water Line Contract To Be Awarded In Fort Worth
Federal Works Agency will award Saturday in Fort Worth the contract for a large water line from the city to the Amarillo Army Technical School. Austin P. Hancock says the city will own and operate the line for six months, with a lease to FWA during the war. Hazlewood in Fort Worth is coordinating Amarillo’s assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Army Technical School
Fort Worth
Federal Works Agency
Austin P. Hancock
FWA
Hancock
English Field
Water Department
Wallace Hazlewood
Amarillo
Invasion of Siberia Talked
Reuters reports from Chungking that the Chinese cabinet met to discuss a report of an imminent Japanese invasion of Siberia with troops reported pouring into Manchuria.
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London
Reuters
Chungking
Siberia
Manchuria
Court hears case over grounds for divorce
William Conover, 58, seeks divorce from Eleanor Conover, 35, saying her morning greetings since his paralytic stroke are hostile. He alleges the wife frequently asks, Aren't you dead yet? The court set June 29 for counter testimony by the wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
William Conover
Eleanor
Conover
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Continued warm conditions with fresh to strong winds this afternoon and cooler tonight. West Texas warms this afternoon and remains mild tonight with scattered thundershowers in the extreme northeast. Temperatures ranged from 63 to 84 degrees in the last 24 hours, with noon at 80 degrees. A leather billfold for "Dad" from Russell Stationery Company is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Russell Stationery Company
Man finds 21 pounds of scrap rubber on highway
Flint resident George W. Austin, riding with his wife along a measured mile, gathered 21 pounds of scrap rubber from the roadside. He also noted there was other scrap in the same stretch of highway.
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Flint
Midh
George W. Austin
Austin
War Workers Housing Funds Urged for Production Goals
Washington June 16 Joseph P Tufts housing consultant for the war manpower commission testified the 600 million dollars requested by President Roosevelt for war workers housing will be needed and probably more to reach production goals He said insufficient housing is costly when workers are recruited trained and sent to plants only to find housing lacking The other report notes in Bern that German annexed Danzig West Prussia prohibits Polish language in the district and demands German language proficiency within two and a half years
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Washington
Joseph P. Tufts
War Manpower Commission
Roosevelt
House Committee On Buildings and Grounds
Bern
Switzerland
Danzig
Germany
Danzig-West Prussia
Perryman Wins News Tip Prize in Local Contest
Emma Belle Perryman secretary at the county home demonstration office wins $5 first prize in the week’s News Tip Contest for a tip about a yellow dog that died by jumping from a courthouse third floor window. Jo Allen Bailey takes $3 for a hijacker tip south of Bivins Booster Station. Mrs. A. C. Shaw earns $2 for reporting a found lost child during police search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Belle Perryman
County Home Demonstration Office
Jo Allen Bailey
Bivins
A. C. Shaw
Fillmore Street
Scrap Rubber Piles Grow in Amarillo Rubber Roundup
H O Starks in charge of Panhandle scrap rubber drive reports rapid growth of piles in Amarillo driven by a US Army Navy Red Cross relief effort. Oil firms pay a cent per pound to stations, with donated rubber aiding government profit sharing. Phillips Co and Shamrock dealer Ted Lokey report thousands of pounds collected as local media and five radio stations back the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. O. Army Relief
Navy Relief
Red Cross
Starks
Amarillo
Phillips Company
Ted Lokey
Shamrock
Magnolia Company
Pantandie
Bombers Return Safely After Romania Mission
U S bombers who set out on a mission over Romania's oil fields return to base in Cairo with four damaged aircraft reported in Turkey. German radio claimed ten planes in the squadron and two shot down, though U S lines say all reached secret bases.
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Cairo
Turkey
Romania
Another Merchant Vessel is Sunk
The navy announced a medium sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico and survivors were landed at a Gulf coast port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
United States
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast Port
Income Limitation Proposals Shelved by House Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee shelved the administration's plans to cap annual income at 25000 for singles and 50000 for married couples. The report cites committee action taken in Washington on June 16.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
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New Dehli
India
Osego
Kan
Hubert Odes
U. S
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Australia
Aleutians
Henry H. Arnold
Air Corps
Glenn L. Martin
Baltimore
Army
Sicily
Inda Lucknow
Albert W. Philpott
Detroit
Philpott
Florida
Sidi Rezegh
E. B. Perryman
Charle Lee Pinkley
Lincoln Street
Martha Heket
Polk Street
Sammie Earl Dye
North Taylor Street
G. W. Smith
E. Corns
Florida Street
Joel Adams
Buchanan Street
G. Hatfield
West Tenth Avenue
N. M. Carter
Taylor Street
Mattie A Shamblin
T. H Mace
West
Nineteeth Avenue
Bill McClanahan
Harrison Street
Jim Ballew
Monroe Street
Reese Lawson
A. F. Heket
Bowe Street
Esther Wheeler
Clyde Presley
Madison Street
T. C. Anderson
C. L. Garwood
Finley Hollingsworth
McMasters Street
H. O. Starks
Dallas
New Mexico
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
U.S
A. Gee
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