Rainey Gets Help In Texas U Fight
Texas U president Homer Rainey gains support from UH Ten student religious groups and Austin Church councils amid a campus dispute with the Board of Regents. The groups urge free speech and pledge to seek facts through a council inquiry while Rainey prepares a 25 page faculty report on the issues.
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Rainey
Texas
U. Fight
Austin
Texan
Austin Council of Churches
Today
Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
Board of Regents
Charles A. Sumners
St. David's Episcopal Church
Council of Churches
Coke R. Stevenson
Daily Texan
Christ Church
New York
D. F. Strickland
Mission
J. Alton Burdine
The
Baptist Student Association
Canterbury Club
Christian Youth Fellowship
the Hillel Foundation
Newman Club
Presbyterian Student League
University Y. M. C. A
University Y. W. C. A
Wesley Foundation
Pilgrim Foundation
Sergeant invents tester aids aircraft motor repairs
Nashville Army sergeant E R Fulcher Jr a former engineering student invented an auxiliary generator and power regulator tester for repairing airplane motors. Made from spare parts it can test without disassembly and has saved many man hours since adoption by the Air Service Command.
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Nashville, Tenn
U.P
E. R. Fulcher, Jr
Nashville
Air Service Command
Fulcher
Cleaner erases Webster daguerreotype in Boston shop
Robert W. Upton of Concord found a Daniel Webster daguerreotype in a Boston antique shop and took it home for cleaning. An over-zealous cleaner wiped the plate blank, erasing the long preserved likeness after more than a century.
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Concord
N. H
A.P
Boston
Robert W. Upton
Daniel Webster
Scientific method for cleaning false teeth and bridgework
A quick-acting Kleenite solution cleans dentures in water, removing stains rapidly. The ad promotes buying Kleenite at Pool Drug Co, Cretney Drug Store, Bush Drug Store, or other druggists for easy economical use.
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Pool Drug Co
Cretney Drug Store
Bush Drug Store
Navy Seaman Joins Warship From San Diego Base
Joe D. Welch gunners mate third class, stationed at the Naval Repair Base San Diego, is now at sea aboard a navy warship. He is 19, the son of Mrs. Gladys Barnett of 512% North Fillmore Street Amarillo. He attended Amarillo High School before enlisting. a brother, John Verlin Welch Jr., serves in the Marine Corps.
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Joe D. Welch
Naval Repair Base
San Diego
Cal
Gladys Barnett
North Fillmore Street
Welch
Amarillo High School
John Verlin Welch
Marine Corps
Beville Awarded Bronze Star for Valor in France
Captain Perry A. Beville of Waco and formerly Amarillo receives the Bronze Star for bravery in Northern France. The citation notes he kept duties after a mortar hit on July 3, showing cool judgment and devotion to duty despite casualties. He is an Amarillo High School and Texas A&M graduate, married to Bernice Beville of 919 Crockett Street.
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Perry A. Beville
Harwood Beville
Amarillo
Waco
France
Beville
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Texas A. & M
North American Aviation
Dallas
Bernice Beville
Crockett Street
Technician Bonham serves with Y Force in China
Farres Bonham a 25 year old technician fifth grade is with a Y Force Operations staff unit in southwestern China. He came from near Amarillo, joined the service in March 1941 and went overseas in November 1943. After India he joined the Y Force to aid the Chinese expeditionary force in Yunnan Province as the Japan drive continues before Burma is reopened. Mrs Bonham lives in Woodbury Tennessee.
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Farres Bonham
Y Force
China
Bonham
Amarillo
India
Y-Force
Yunnan
Salween River
Burma
Woodbury
Tenn
Release of Lieutenant Gene A. Collins at Moses Lake AAF
Lieutenant Gene A. Collins is commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned as test pilot at Moses Lake Army Air Field Washington. He is son of Mrs Collie Collins of 2400 Brooks Street and has 16 months service in England and North Africa with 750 flight hours including 250 combat hours. He wears the Purple Heart and European African Middle Eastern theater ribbon with three stars along with the American Defense ribbon and three overseas service bars. In service since February 1941 he was a pre medical student at West Texas State College and became a flight officer in December 1942.
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Gene A. Collins
Moses Lake Army Air Field
Wash
Collie Collins
Brooks Street
Collins
England
North Africa
West Texas State College
Potter to Complete Combat Flying Course Before Overseas Batle
Lieutenant Fred R. Potter, 26, will finish an intensive B-17 combat flying course and soon proceed to a combat area overseas. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Evans, Amarillo area, and his wife Mary Drusilla resides in Oklahoma City. Potter was commissioned May 23 at Pecos after graduating Amarillo High School in 1934 and attending Southwestern State University. James to receive Silver Star for gallantry in Southwest Pacific. Lieutenant Clyde W. James, son of Mrs. Phillip James, earned the award for directing artillery fire on two enemy barges under heavy sniper fire. he joined service in 1942 and serves with the First Cavalry Division overseas. He is a Field Artillery Officers Candidate School graduate and was commissioned in February 1943. Two brothers also in service, Phil.
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Fred R. Potter
Potter
Amarillo High School
Southwestern’ State University
Oklahoma
Pecos
W. A. Evans
North Marrs Street
Mary Drusilla
East Twenty-Second Avenue
Clyde. W. James
Phillip James
West
Ninth Avenue
Southwest Pacific
James
Field Artillery Officers’ Candidate
First Cavalry Division
Phil
Military Personnel Notes From Fort Worth To France
Lip M James Jr is a first lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps at Fort Worth and Gordon James a pharmacist’s mate third class at Mare Island. Frank L Lockwood Jr serves with the Naval Reserve in France after training at Great Lakes, with letters from Scotland and shore patrol. Bell and Adkins receive valor awards for combat missions and aviation service. the R-34 dirigible’s 1919 Atlantic crossing is noted.
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Lip M. James, Jr
Fort Worth
Gordon James
Mare Island
Texas Tech
Lieutenant James
U. S. Engineers
Frank L. Lockwood, Jr
Belleview Street
Naval Reserve
France
Robert W Bell Completes 25 Missions as Gunner
Robert W Bell, age 22 and a 1941 Amarillo High School graduate, has recently completed 25 combat missions as a gunner. He is among the decorated airmen cited for courage and service.
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Robert W. Bell
Amarillo High School
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