Back to Jail For 256 Years
Glenway Joyce left Amarillo this morning to return to the State penitentiary after a three month escape. He left a trail of robberies and kidnappings from Houston to Borger and Amarillo. Joyce, with a total 256 years sentence, was sent to the penitentiary for life on robbery by assault and was to serve concurrently with prior terms.
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Glenway Joyce
Amarillo
State Penitentiary
Boise City
Okla
Joyce
Houston
Waco
Childress
Borger
Stinnett
Anglin
Bill Adams
W. R. Crain
State Penitentiary Transfer Force
Crail
Lee A. Brown
Fred Hicks
Frank Graves
Dorothy Snelson
Brother of Solnick Home After WWII Service
Lt. Harry Solnick, brother of Ben Solnick of the Hollywood Dress Shoppe, returned to the United States after four years in the Army. He served as a bombardier on a B-17 with the Eighth Air Force, flying 29 missions including raids on Berlin and Merseberg, and survived a narrow flak hit on his 13th mission. He trained at Santa Ana and Victorville, was commissioned in March 1944, and after a 21 day leave reports to Miami for reassignment. he is authorized to wear the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the European Ribbon with two Battle stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Harry Solnick
Ben Solnick
Hollywood Dress Shoppe
Solnick
Hawaiian Islands
Army Air Forces
Santa Ana
Cal
Victorville
Sioux City
University of Alabama
Miami
Pla
Soinick
Berlin
Merseberg
Military honors noted for flawless Pearl Harbor era flight crew
Stars the Pacific Operations Ribbon and Before Pearl Harbor Ribbon are cited along with the American Defense Ribbon. The accompanying report states the aircraft completed all missions without any member of its crew sustaining an injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Navy Enthusiasm Surges as 18-20 Year Olds Rush Recruiting
Amarillo youths flocked to the Navy recruiting office hoping to enlist in the U S Naval Reserve amid a Selective Service ruling that 18 to 20 year olds drafted in the next three months would be sent to the Army. Local recruiters said no change yet for 17 year olds and would act on orders.
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Amarillo
U. S. Naval Reserve
Army
Navy
250 Americans Freed From German Prisons Arrive Home
Washington reports that about 250 American soldiers freed from German prison camps have arrived in the United States. The War Department noted that several hundred more are en route via the Middle East as efforts continue to repatriate prisoners of war.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Middle East
Lubbock Pilot Escapes After Messerschmitt Attack
Lt. Ernest L. Reid of Lubbock Texas escaped death after eight Messerschmitt 109s attacked his unarmed Cub over the Rhine. The plane was shot down and Reid burned but freed himself from the wreckage.
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Germany
Rhine
Ernest L. Reid
Lubbock
Tex
First WAC to Return to U S Stationed at Amarillo Field
Technical Sgt. Everil H Kaludt, the first WAC to return to the United States on duty after service overseas, is stationed at Amarillo Field. She wore a battle star on her Asiatic Theater Ribbon for overseas duty in Dutch New Guinea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAC
United States
Amarillo Field
Everil H. Kaludt
Dutch New Guinea
Grand Jury Fails to Indict in Savage Killing Probe
Potter County grand jury reconvened at 10 am and, by noon, returned no indictments. They reportedly investigate the fatal shooting of City Detective Lem Savage last week. Two men Eddie Thompson and Elbert Day are charged with murder and held without bond. Also notes Navy fireman Buddy Brooks traveling through Amarillo.
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Potter County
Grand
Lem Savage
Eddie Thompson
Elbert Day
Prisoner of The Germans Pvt Jim Snider Jr Located in Germany
Pvt. Jim Snider Jr son of Mr and Mrs Jim W Snider Sr of 411 East Thirteenth Amarillo Texas has been found alive as a prisoner of war in Germany after three months missing in action. He joined the Army May 15 1944 after a year in the Maritime Service and served overseas since November. He was in Northern France and was reported MIA December 4. He is Amarillo High School graduate 1943 and former Golden Gloves contender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Snider, Jr
Jim W. Snider
East Thirteenth
A. J. Snider
Globe News
Germany
Snider
Red Cross
U. S. Maritime Service
France
Amarillo
Golden Gloves
Amarillo High School
Feed additive protects fowls from disease and parasites
The product enters feed to destroy intestinal germs and worms that affect health and egg production. It keeps birds free of bloodsucking insects, improves appetite and production, and costs little. Money back if not satisfactory.
Seaman Ed Gill Visits Family in San Diego
Seaman Ed Gill of San Diego arrived yesterday to visit his mother Mrs. L. S. Gill at 1811 South Fillmore and his sisters Mrs. Lawrence Thompson at 1811 South Fillmore and Mrs. L. E. Smith at 1709 Fillmore. Flight Officer and Mrs. Larry Goodman have been transferred from Monroe Louisiana to Amarillo Field and are residing with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Groner at 909 Bowie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Gill
San Diego
L. S. Gill
South Fillmore
Lawrence Thompson
South Pillmore
L. E. Smith
Fillmore
Larry Goodman
Monroe, la
Amarillo Field
Ben Groner
Bowie
Mrs. Roush Improves, Visitors Welcome After Illness
Mrs J W Roush wife of a Burlington engineer يج has been critically ill with pneumonia at St Anthony s Hospital and is now greatly improved and can receive visitors as announced by her husband
Texas Arizona Feud Reaches to Iceland
A war over the film Duel in the Sun expands abroad as an Army base paper in Iceland reports Texans outraged by David O Selznicks plan to shoot in Arizona. Amarillo Globe News publisher Gene Howe lashes out and Amarillo state senator Grady Hazlewood vows a resolution demanding Texas as the filming site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Texas
David O. Selznick
Iceland
Ice Front
Earl Gruver
E. E. Gruver
East Thirteenth
Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Gene Howe
Amarillo
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Kinsey
MR. Webster
Aminsey
Kinsey Castelling Corp
Linfield, Pa
Messerschmitts
Cub
New Guinea
Buddy Brooks
Amphibious Forces of the Navy
California
Buddy
London
Legation
Stockholm
Robert E. Oesterling
Butler
Agamenticus, Me
Benson & Benson
Doctors OF Optometry
Olive Hakle
6Th & Polk
Cretney Drug
Standard OF Texas
Plains Lubricating CO
Amarillo, Texas
Thourands
York Tire Co
N. E
Eagle Nes
Ralph Kenniston
Vernon Clement
The
Griggs Burial Association
Panhandle
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Esteen
W.s.griggs & Sons
Philip Morris
Pal Ckhorr
Cs E& Co. É
Morrie
Hip Mukkue
Cnte
Crime Doctor
CBS
Ginny Simms
NBC
Teme
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South Texas
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