Prisoners Altman and Underwood Reported Healthy
A letter received by Miss Dorothy Adams in Amarillo states that Capt. Jack C. Altman and Capt. Charles Underwood, both Amarillo natives and former Globe-News staff, are in good health in a Japanese prison camp after being previously listed as missing in action. The note, dated April 28, 1943, from Lt. L. B. Chevallier in Ventsuji, Japan, also mentions prison transfers and censorship marks, with food as a chief prison camp concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Dorothy Adams
West Eighteenth Avenue
L. B. Chevallier
Marshall
Ventsuji War
Underwood
Chevallier
Charles Underwood
Jack C. Altman
Philippines
No. 1
Wentsuji
Japan
Miss Adams
Gripsholm
Altman
Ace Estes Named Acting City Auditor in Amarillo
Ace Estes appointed acting city auditor of Amarillo by city manager A. P. Hancock. Estes succeeds J. C. Lilly who left Sunday to join the Seabees as a storekeeper second class. The report comes as Amarillo local government adjusts staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ace” Estes
Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
Estes
J. C. Lilly
The
Seabees
Courthouse Records and District Court Dockets Summary
Courthouse records list varied warranty deeds dated 1943 for properties in Wink area including Original Town Glenwood Wolflin Plemons Fairview and Mirror additions with transfers among many individuals and firms. District Court shows multiple divorces marital settlements and a large batch of marriage licenses in addition to ongoing public notice of record events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Ward
Oscar Gooch
Co. T. Ware
C. M. Humphrys
Glenwood
Co. M. Humphrys
L. M. Ferrell
M. W. West
Joe E. Herring
Bivins
Veda Reeder
Clyde Russell
T. E. Snow
J. M. Settle
Fairview
R. L. Moore
W. D. Diffee
T. Roy M. Britain
J. Sam Orr
Wolflin Place
Marie Fleming
J. E. Mulherin
A. H. Truitt Etux
Raymon R. Swindell
G&s
L. W. Thornton
W. T. Iles
Ford
Cecil Wise
D. H. Ponder
Roberts
H. T. Neely
Herman N. Sless
Wolflin
John L. Matthews
W. L. Pickering
Cc. T. Ware
Ben Emerson
W. B. Burkhalter
P. J. Chambers
Cc. W. Baynham
C. V
Lee
San Jacinto Heights
Venia Hathcox
C. M. Landers
Belmont P
Frank J. Anderson
W. Earl Ballew
Holland Adda
Henry M. Beverley
Holland
G. F. Branson
Merle E. Birney
John F. Moyer
W. T. Goodson
L. E. Byrd
West Side River Road Gardens
Tom Cooper
Robert M.killman, Jr
Robert M. Killman, Jr
B. R.hughes
Mirror
Mary C. Thorne
R. S. Pavillard
Joe R. Phillips
W. E.stoddard
W. E. Smith
Frank Wardle
Nick Sothr
John Cage
South
Plemons
Floe Blue Greer
Jesse A. Roach
John N. Merriman
M. F. Wirtz
Country Club Terrace
R. J. Beeler
F. S. Johnson
Miller Heights
H. L. Reynolds
Berenice Kathryn Hammock
District Court
Ophelia Harvey
Leonard Harvey
R. T. Mason
Viola Mason
Audrey Henricks
Richard C. Barclay
Ima Faye Sanders
Wv. L. Pond
Viescia Powell
William J. Schneider
Ethel M Wheeler
James E. Hulings
Eleanor D Johnson
C.L. Thomas
Minnie Belle Carter
Graham Marshall
Madeline Graham
E. C. Garthwait
Blanche Hodges
Granville Murphy
Edna May Green
S. A. Lewis, Jr
Dorothy Howard
Mack G. Speer
Mildred Bittick
A. J. Snider
Mary Joan Edwards
Harvey E. Hewett
Marianne Phyllis Menard
Hal Ford Higginbotham
Pau
Teamwork for Democracy Discussed at Amarillo PTA Meeting
Supt Charles M Rogers spoke to Amarillo Council of Parents and Teachers on Home School Teamwork for Democracy and American Education Week plans at Central Junior High. The event featured student songs, business by Mrs Glen L Bowen, and reports on the summer round-up and membership drive. City P T A enrollment hit 4000 paying members as River Road Unit joined to reach 20 units. Central Junior High had the largest parent turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Rogers
Amarillo
Plan To Wind Up Chest Drive Approaches Final Meeting
Leaders of Community and War Chest Workers plan to meet at the Amarillo Hotel tomorrow at noon to wind up the drive for 172000 dollars for war relief and work at home. Majors 17 and 73 captains were asked to attend and pledges totaling 69874.05 were reported this morning. The campaign officially ends Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Hotel
J. A. Hazlewood
Mr. Hazlewood
Hazlewood
Globe News Want Ads Get Results
Line H. Pendergraph. Carl Robinett and Beverly King. Joseph A. Sinal and Mildred Gura, Wm. E. Moberly and Vesta M. Dixon. Virgin L. Blessen and Betty Su Smith. Frank L. Cutler and Freda C. Perkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Pendergraph
Carl Robinett
Beverly King
Joseph A. Sinal
Mildred Gura
Wm. E. Moberly
Vesta M. Dixon
Virgin L. Blessen
Betty Su Smith
Frank L. Cutler
Freda C. Perkins
Visage Writes From Japan War Prisoner Card Reaches Kin
Mrs. W. H. Harrell of Lipscomb Street received a mail card from her nephew Bill Visage a private in the 131st Field Artillery who was listed missing in June 1942. The note dated from Camp Fukuoka No 2 Japan says I am now a Japanese internee and that health is good and he hopes to see his family soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Harrell
Lipscomb Street
Java
Young Visage
Fukuoka No. 2
Japan
131St Field Artillery
Postal-Packing Puppy Delivers Mail Daily On Route
Buttons the small white dog with a black nose accompanies postal carrier Pete Easley on a daily mail run. The dog waits at the bus stop and trots between mailboxes from morning pickup to afternoon delivery at 2110 Lincoln Street, home of Mr and Mrs Floyd Roberts. Their son Seaman W C Roberts serves in the Seabees for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttons
Pete Easley
Lincoln Street
Floyd Roberts
Seaman W. C. Roberts
The
Seabees
Amarillo graduate earns diploma and turns 20 at home
A Amarillo High School and Amarillo College graduate, now in national patrol training at Jackson ville, celebrated his 20th birthday at home. Induction prep for high school students remains voluntary. Dallas group Lee Women sew clothes for children from scraps of airplane wings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ational
Jacksonville
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Lee
Dallas
Tex
Foy W. Duke Visits Amarillo Amid Navy Training
Foy W. Duke, Aviation Radio Man, is on a 10 day leave from Navy duties to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Duke of 1015 Jackson Street in Amarillo. He recently completed shipboard radio training at Northwestern University Evanston and aviation radio training in Memphis and is en route to San Diego after gunnery schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foy W.duke
Navy
Amarillo
Duke
W. W. Duke
Jackson Street
Jacksonville
Fla
San Diego
Oper
Baxter to Attend Aeronautic Parley
Rex Baxter Chamber of Commerce manager will travel from Abilene to Oklahoma City for the National Aeronautic Association conference where he serves as a Texas director. The event, featuring Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia and aviators Capt. Roscoe Turner and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, runs Thursday through Saturday next week. Baxter departs Abilene tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma City
National Aeronautic Association
Texas
Fiorella LaGuardia
New York
Roscoe Turner
Eddie Rickenbacker
Baxter
Amarillo to Represent at West Texas Chamber Referendum
The speaker will represent Amarillo at a West Texas Chamber of Commerce referendum replacing the usual peace-time convention. On the following day Thursday he will attend an Abilene meeting of chamber of commerce managers in West Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
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Bill Visage
Foy W. Duke Is
Cretney Drug & Walgreen's
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N. Tyler St
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Askew & Brown
T. B. Bruner
J. C Burkhalter Rolla
Cartwright Finch & Gavin Lemons
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Ordway-Saunders CO
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Panhandle Ins Agency
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H N. Wheeler
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