Letter From Home Highlights Panhandle War Efforts
Amarillo area sees new faces on Polk Street as Pantex Ordnance and Amarillo Army Technical School rise. Hedley schoolchildren suffer food poisoning but recover. 101 Navy volunteers leave for Dallas, boosting Texas recruits. USO drive grows, Sandie Band honors members in service, and graduation week looms.
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Amarillo
Polk Street
Pantex Ordnance
Amarillo Army Technical School
Panhandle
War Department
Hedley
Clarendon
Memphis
Hall
Donley
Navy
Dallas
Sandie
C. M. Norman
Texas
USO
John E. Hill
Texas State Teachers’ Colleges Board of Regents
Austin
Hill
Armed Services
News-Globe
Earl G. Hamlett
Polk Street Methodist Church
West Texas
Jeep
Butler Field
Amarillo Gold Sox
Albuquerque
Dukes
Clovis
Navy trains air commandos in new physical warfare
Lt Commander Tom Hamilton designs a rigorous naval aviation training regime to produce elite pilots capable of close combat and survival under extreme conditions. Recruits will master hand to hand fighting, water survival, endurance, and teamwork, becoming hard bitten yet disciplined air commandos with high odds of survival.
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Gayle Talbot Washington
United States Navy
Tom Hamilton
Naval Aviation
Hamilton
Condi
West Texas State summer session boosts war effort offerings
West Texas State College opens a 15 week summer session May 27 with broadened courses in industrial arts aviation safety first aid home nursing chemistry physics mathematics and more. The program aims to aid the war effort by allowing beginners to study full scale curricula students and graduates to accelerate graduation and former teachers to refresh credentials with graduate work available. Copies of the program are at registrar Dr D A Shirley’s office.
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Texas State
D. A. Shirley
Troops Reinforce Ulster As United States Army Lands
Tens of thousands of fresh American soldiers arrived in Ulster soon after dawn, with tanks and artillery, making a massive convoy that dwarfed 1918 arrivals. British officials praised the readiness and cohesion as ships and weapons were unloaded under anti aircraft cover and ready for rapid redeployment.
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Rice Vahner
AEF
Northern Ireland
United States
Ulster
Britain
Germany
Europe
Middle Western
North Central States
Pacific
U. S. Navy
Provi
H. the Watters
Pittsburgh
Tex
Ceiling Promised On Pork Prices
Washington officials say a permanent wholesale pork price ceiling will be set within 48 hours. The new schedule will replace the temporary 60 day maximum in effect since mid March and align closely with universal price regulations that pegged retail pork at the peak March levels.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Chicago
To Be Patriotic Or a Naualty Boyt
In Santa Fe New Mexico on May 19 a man living 15 years with his common law wife and seven children faced the draft board. New Mexico law does not recognize their union and the chairman suggested marriage. The registrant mused that he might wed, adding he did not want others to think he was dodging the draft.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
News Tip Prize Is Won By E. E. Goff
E E Goff of 806 Louisiana Street wins the $5 first prize in the News Tip contest for exposing a forged endorsement on a check. Second prize goes to Mrs. S. B. Perry of 109 Buchanan Street for tipping on an Old Age Security racketeer. Third prize honors Helen Armstrong of Route 3 Box 57 for tipping the Siamese twin egg case. Other tipsters named include Katie Parsley, M R Larsen, Frances Beard, S G Weaver, J H Jennings of Yellow Cab, Bobby Merrick, Wayne Rankin, Leslie Balmain, Mrs O W Merrick, and Luther Lee Thomas. Sponsors listed as Sheaffer, Parker, Eversarp Pens, Russell Stationery.
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E. E. Goff
Louisiana Street
Golff
S. B. Perry
Buchanan Street
Ond
Helen Armstrong
Katie Alice Parsley
M. R. Larsen
Taylor Street
Frances Beard
Burk Street
S. G. Weaver
Lincoln Street
J. H. Jennings
Yellow Cab Company
Bobby Merrick
Wayne Rankin
Cleveland Street
Leslie Balmain
Bonham Street
O. W., Merrick
Luther Lee Thomas
Attack Axis in the West
A battlefield update highlights Axis forces in the western theater as Allied forces push strategic positions. Reports detail maneuvers, supply lines, and advancing units amid shifting front lines and ongoing engagements.
China alarmed as Japs mass for new invasion
China warned of a grave danger as Japan massed for a major offensive amid reports of 500 Japanese planes in Burma and a plan to engulf China, India, Iran and Siberia. Allied air strikes hit Burma and Australia while Britain’s Alexander withdraws into India.
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China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Japan
Australia
Burma
Chungking
Tokyo
Greater
East Asia
India
Iran
Persia
Russian Siberia
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Ural Mountains
Chekiang
Shanghai
Yunnan
Harold Alexander
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Calcutta
Doolittle Led War Raid Honored By Roosevelt
Brigadier General James H. Doolittle received the congressional medal of honor from President Roosevelt at the White House for leading the air raid on Japan. Doolittle described the mission, noting a direct hit on a new cruiser yard and incendiary bombs near Nagoya. He said bombs reached their targets from 1500 feet, though observers could not watch long.
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Washington
James H. Doolittle
Japan
Roosevelt
White House
Doolittle
Navy Yard
Tokyo
Nagoya
George C. Marshall
Army
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Service
Marshall
Arnold
Los Angeles
James H. Doo
Saber-Wielding Soviet Cossacks Chase Nazis
Soviet Cossack cavalry recaptures a large locality on the Kharkov front as Red Star reports bold charges across a pontoon bridge built under shellfire. Russian riders, modernized with machine guns and anti aircraft weapons, press the pursuit east of a strategic highway while German resistance intensifies.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Red Star
New York Holds 19 Minute Bine Test Air Alarm
A 19 minute Bine Test air alarm was held in the New York area today, announced by Maj. Lynn Farnel, press relations officer of the first interceptor command.
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New York
Lynn Farnel
First Interceptor Command
American factories outproducing Axis forecasts in war plants
Washington reports a War Production Board spokesman stated that for several months U.S. aircraft factories have built more planes than the highest estimates of German and Italian output by newspaper reporters returning from Axis countries.
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Washington
U.P
War Production Board
Luxury Liner Sunk by Japs
The 16,909 ton Canadian liner Empress of Asia, carrying 2500 imperial troops, was sunk Feb 5 near Sumatra by Japanese dive bombers. About 100 seamen escaped. 44 believed lost. Australian sloop Yarra rescued survivors while fighting the flames and bombs.
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Montreal
Canada
Singapore
D. Smith
Sultan Shoal
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Yarra
Russians Are Eating Us Victory Bond Stamp Picture
A Potter County caption notes Russians are eating us are shown on a victory bond and stamp picture, contrasting American perseverance with wartime food shortages.
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Potter County
Frantic Weekend by Edmund Fancott Chapter 1
Myra Mack waits at a Montreal lake shore railway station as a hot humid week looms. Beside her a strikingly stylish woman of the crowd, in a flowered dress and straw hat, draws glances, while Myra battles modesty and Irish humor in a public mood of fatigue and expectation.
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Myra Mack
Montreal
Mona
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The forecast calls for widely scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight with a higher daytime temperature. West Texas will be warmer, with possible afternoon or evening showers and thunderstorms from Pecos Valley eastward to Del Rio and Eagle Pass. New Mexico warms into the night with scattered mild thunderstorms east of the central mountains. Temperatures range from a 44 degree minimum to a 67 degree maximum with noon at 66.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
del Rio-Fagle Pass
New Mexico
Central Mountains
John Maynard Lbr, Co
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Port Moresby
New Guinea
MacArthur
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Brussels
U.S
Atlantic
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Edmund Fancott
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