Pepper pushes civilian wartime relief measure in Senate
Senator Pepper seeks Senate action on a broad wartime relief bill to provide monthly government payments to civilian victims of warfare in the United States and possessions. The plan would establish a system for emergency relief to widows and injured civilians, with payments tied to dependents and disability levels.
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Washington
Pepper
Florida
Senate
United States
Republic
Army Major Jay Taylor Assigned to O ordnance department
Jay Taylor, an Amarillo oil and cattle industry figure, has been made a major in the ordnance department for service in Washington. He was notified in Chicago and will report Monday for duty. He has held executive roles at Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co and a cattle company, and has served in civic and military organizations.
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Jay Taylor
Ordnance Department
Washington
Major Taylor
Chicago
Amarillo
Federal Reserve Bank
Cattlemen’s Associations
USO
This Disct
Report Big US Bombers Arrives at Sevastopol
London dispatch claims four motor bombers arrived at Sevastopol to reinforce the Russian air force from Middle East bases. The Liberator B 24s were said to enter action against German troop concentrations near Sevastopol during a fierce Crimea battle.
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Sevastopol
London
Daily Express
Stockholm
United States
Daily Express Dispatch
Crimea
Mediterranean
United States Army Air Corps
Middle East
United States Air Corps
First Panhandle Wheat Loads Reach Amarillo Elevators
Panhandle wheat moved into Amarillo elevators with Harold Ladehoff delivering the first load to Barnett Grain Company on East Third Avenue. The sample tested 56 with 12 percent moisture and a premium of 10 dollars was paid for government loan.
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Amarillo
Harold Ladehoff
Here
Barnett Grain Company
East Third Avenue
Joe Coffey
Ladehoff
Farmers’ Grain Company
Haney
Canyon
B. E. McCor
Shipyard Inspector Jobs Open Across Several States
U S Maritime Commission seeks shipyard inspectors for Houston Galveston Beaumont Brownsville Tex New Orleans Westwego and Slidell Louisiana Pascagoula Mississippi Mobile Birmingham and Chickasaw Alabama and Panama City Florida with yearly salaries from 2600 to 3200. Openings in electrical machinery hull welding joiner fields prefer ship construction or seagoing experience but two years as journeyman electrician machinist welder joiner or cabinet maker may qualify. Some college training may substitute. Apply via Rudolph Batte Tenth U S Civil Service District Room 811 Oliver-Eakle Building.
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U. S. Maritime Commission
Houston
Galveston
Beaumont
Brownsville
Tex
New Orleans
West Vego
Slidell
Louisiana
Pascagoula
Mississippi
Mobile
Birmingham
Chickasaw
Alabama
Panama City
Florida
Rudolph Batte
U. S. Civil Srvice District
Oliver-Eakle
Amarillo Man In Ireland And Likes It
Mr and Mrs E R Melvin of 715 North Garfield Street learned their son Orvis A Melvin is in Ireland and likes it A letter dated May 21 arrived this morning noting he left Amarillo January 8 for military training and the parents had no idea where he was after Anvil
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E. R. Melvin
North
Garfield Street
Orvis A. Melvin
Ireland
Melvins
Amarillo
Old girdles sought to make jeep tires in Amarillo drive
Amarillo residents are urged to turn in 3400 old girdles for rubber to build jeep tires. A city wide collection campaign runs with Boy Scouts collecting scrap rubber Sunday afternoon and air raid wardens visiting homes to urge participation. Local volunteers and Panhandle oil men coordinate the push as taxi drivers cope with rationed gasoline.
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Amarillo
Zweig
Dad
Janey
Phillips Stations
Boy
H. O. Starks
Panhandle
Lubbock
South Plains
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Alaska
Aleutian Island
Mick
Claude
Happy
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Pete” Nelson
Producers Grain Corporation
Wells Committee
Nelson
Texas
J. E. Wells, Jr
Secretary of Agriculture
Amarillo Grain Exchange
California
Bemberg
Paatsitiwe
Amarillo, Texas
Lone Star State
A. L. Biggs
West Thirty-First Avenue
Brooks Field
Amarillo High School
Sons of American Legion
Marion C. Coffman
M. C. Coffman
van Buren Street
Red Cross
Alpha Sigma Fraternity
Earl D. McClish
Concho Street
Fort Warren
Wyo
Quartermaster Corps
Daddy
Orvis Melvin
Earl Millen
New York
Harbin
Manchuria
SM Drug Company
Fillmore
Government Employees Benefit Association
Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association
Untied Benefit Life Insurance Company
Oliver Eakle
Hoyt's Compound
Chamberlain
Cardus
U. S
Tate
Lax
Haarlem
Woodbury
Barbara Gould
Colgate
Woodbury Face
Magnesia
Carter
Cascara
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