Hottest Fighter Pilot Over Europe Bays 30 German Planes
London reports Capt. Henry W. Brown of Arlington Virginia has destroyed 30 German planes, 16 in the air and 14 on the ground, to become the most successful fighter pilot in the European theater. His latest credit came today when strafing an airfield in southern Germany after duties as bomber escort. The Shandakan tunnel is 18.1 miles long in New York City's water supply system.
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London
Henry W. Brown
Arlington
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Brown
Germany
New York City
Service Men In the News From Our Defenders
Pfc. James A. Probst of 1620 Harrison Street gains technician fifth grade with the Army Signal Corps at Camp Polk becoming a corporal in June 1943. Lt. Thurston, son of 613 Monroe Street, graduates from Army Air Forces Navigation School at Hondo Texas earning navigator wings and now trains with a B 24 Liberator group at Lemoore Field California. Fred F. Hayden, motor machinist mate first class, home on leave from the European Theater, visited by Mrs. Cora Green and Mrs. Albert Bivins after serving in Africa Sicily Italy and France and earning a Presidential Unit Citation mention. Hayden will report to the East Coast for rehabilitation. Muscle Shoals Alabama gives its name to a 37 mile Tennessee River cascade of glistening rock formations.
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James A. Probst
Fred Probst
Harrison Street
Army Signal Corps
Camp
Truman H. Thurston
James G. Thurston
Monroe Street
Army Air Forces Navigation School
Hondo
Tex
Amarillo High School
Thurman
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Thurston
Lamoore Field
Calif
Fred F. Hayden
Cora Green
Albert Bivins
Fillmore Street
Hayden
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Normandy
Canadian River Gas Company
Home life as seed of tolerance and prejudice
A columnist notes a $100,000 pledge to start a bureau against intolerance, arguing that tolerance begins at home. He cites a family where conflicts over smoking hats music and quarrels foster distrust, suggesting that harmonious family life could curb broader prejudice and neighborly or national intolerance.
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Sis
Local Servicemen Updates From Amarillo to Norfolk
Henry R. Welsh stationed at Burbank California after aviation mechanic training at Amarillo Army Air Field. He has served since July 5 1943 and previously worked in Pampa. Sgt Horace L Giles injured in second campaign against Japan recovering in Pacific hospital. Ensign Rex Lovelady winged at Corpus Christi and now at Norfolk Virginia awaiting overseas assignment. Lovelady son of C R Lovelady of 1806 Lincoln Street and Amarillo native a West Texas State College graduate.
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Henry R. Welsh
Dorothy Welsh
North
Florida Street
Amarillo Army Air Field
Burbank
Calif
Welsh
C. A. Welsh
Houston Street
Pampa
Horace L. Giles
Pacific
Second Marine Division
C. R. Giles
North East
Tenth Avenue
Giles
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Rex Lovelady
Navy
C. R. Lovelady
Lincoln Street
Lovelady
Corpus Christi
Miami Beach
Fila
Norfolk
Bovina High School
Ensign
West Texas State College
Canyon
Senate committee plans hearings on postwar industrialization
A Senate committee schedules San Francisco hearings on November 16 to 18 to push for postwar industrialization of the West and South and a no reconversion policy for government plants in 11 states. The plan would freeze facilities worth about 7 billion dollars in New York to Illinois to stabilize industrial population and spur western growth.
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Washington
Senate
San Francisco
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland
Delaware
Rhode Island
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Victoria Reign 63 Years With Stomach Ulcer Pains
A boastful sales notice frames Queen Victoria as healthy after 63 years on the throne while promoting Uden Udga tablets for ulcer and stomach pains. The ad promises a double money back offer if the first dose fails to convince.
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Victoria
England
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Alabama
Tennessee River
C. N. Stokes
Mary Adell Miner
A Polk
Joe Marsh
Brewing Industry Foundation
Carlos
Polk
Post Office Drug Store
Ust
St. Joseph
Irthington Jacksboro, Texas
Crosby
Lady Crosby
Amarillo Community and War Chest
National War Fund
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