Letter From Home to Boys in Service
A Panhandle community note salutes local air and naval service members. It lists 18 men earning Army Air Corps wings from Kelly, Ellington, Moore, Foster, and Brooks Fields, notes others in training, and reports rescinded life events, housing plans, school scrap drives, and local football scores, plus upcoming weddings and stage plans as war continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Army Air Corps
Southwest
Air Corps
Naval Air Service
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Charles O. Cathcart
Line Avenue
Kelly Field
John F. Dwight, Jr
Buchanan Street
Ellington Field
Jimmy M. Hamill
Mann's Bakery
Moore Field
Carl F. Hendrix, Jr
Eleventh Avenue
Roy P. Hill, Jr
Taylor Street
Foster Field
John M. Wiley
Laurin R. Hardage
Fifth Avenue
Anadian
Lake Charles
Carl L. Zimlich
Peters Street
Dalhart
Brooks Field
Walton B. Henderson
Merlin L. Conklin
Jackson Avenue
Hereford
Fred V. Clark
Kirkland
Roland E. Wiley
Lakeview
Dick Groves
Matador
Kelton D. Miller
East Garden Street
Pampa
Robert D. Coker
Turkey
John P. Wells
White Deer
Benjamin J. Melton, Jr
Giddings
Clovis
Butler L. Johnston
Portales
Pat Noel
Royal Canadian Air Force
Thomas E. Noel
First National Bank
Memhis, Tex
Jimmy Daley
Amarillo
England
Amarillo Air Force Technical School
North
South America
Weldon Bryant
New York
Baird
Tex
Stonkowski
Irving Ilmer
Indianapolis
Hobart Weeks
Oxford
The
New Yorker
Eugene Jordans
Dennis Chavez, Jr
New Mexico
Washington
Ordnance Plant and Technical School
Dumas
Amarillo High School
Sandies
Austin High
el Paso
Norman Tigers
Butler Field
West Texas State
Gus Miller
Windy Nicklaus
Albuquerque Air Base
Leroy Reeves
Childress
Ed Castleberry
Vernon
Buffaloes
Texas School of Mines
Boone Baker
Oklahoma Unver. Ty
Stanley Mauldin
Texas University
Texas
Tulsa
Wellington
Plainview
Ranger
Breckenridge
Lubbork
Friona
Bowie
Lefors
McLean
Phillips
Shamrock
Borger
Memphis
Wichita Falls
Mary Lucille Dowie
Earl Christian, Jr
Beverly Ball
Bill Elliott
Mary Kathryn Utterback
G. C. Beale
Dorothea Porterfield
Ruth Campbell
Fred L. Yelton, Jr
Washington, D. C
Scrap drive in Amarillo angers salvage chief
Roy Greenhill, salvage chief for city and county, says Amarillo scrap collection is far from cleaned up and needed for final victory. Texas Ranger youths push for cash prize. officials plan another Sunday search with more volunteers and trucks routed by Chamber reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Roy Greenhill
Texas Rangers
Amarillo Globevews
Potter County
Greenhill
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Hales
Chamber of Commerce
Lewis C. Huff
Texas Salvage Committee
City County
Donald Ashton
Chicago
Assistnt
Burllington Lines
Gasoline Truck Overturns Near Pullman On Tracks
Early today a gasoline truck overturned near Pullman, its cab landing on the Denver tracks before a passing train knocked it off. Driver Rollie D. Rector of 618 East Second Avenue escaped injury after swerving to avoid a dead end near English Field.
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Pullman
Denver
Rollie D. Rector
East Second Avenue
Third Avenue
English Field
Weather outlook for Amarillo brings chilly winds and scattered showers
Forecast warns of colder conditions with wind and scattered showers and thunderstorms. Frost not expected tonight in the Amarillo area, though temperatures remain low and unsettled weather could affect residents and travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarfilo
Does Russia Distrust Us? War Reports from the Solomons
The Navy reported heavy fighting in the Solomons with Japanese ships sunk or damaged. U S cruisers Quincy Vincennes and Astoria were lost protecting reinforcements near Guadalcanal. Marines widened positions on Guadalcanal as Japanese planes increasingly faced losses and reduced aerial strength. Admiral McCain voiced confidence in holding and expanding the Solomons despite Japanese reinforcements at Guadalcanal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Corps
United Nations
Solomons
Solomon Island
Washington
U. S
Quincy
Vincennes
Astoria
Tulagi-Guadalcanal
Navy
Guadalcanal
New Georgia Island
John S. McCain
Southwest Pacific
Knox
Admiral McCain
Guadal Island
Espiritu Santo
McCain
Tropics
Germans Renew Fierce Struggle for Stalingrad
Nazi attacks surge from ruined Stalingrad as Soviet defenses hold firm and claim the city’s Stalin tank plant remains under Red Army control. Reports detail weather, winter uniforms, and German losses amid a broader wrap of Malta air battles and Western Allied air raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalingrad
Don
Pravda
Red Army
Stalin Tank Plant
Central Caucasus
Grozny
Don Volga
Semeon Timoshenko
Opera
Bribe Scandal Breaks In Explosive Plant
The navy seized Triumph Explosives Inc plant in Elkton Maryland and two subsidiaries Milford Delaware and Sussex Ordance after a White House report of bribery charges against Josef Ben Decker Reginald Gregory and others. An audit by the Navy procurement office revealed numerous bribery instances and more arrests were expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Triumph Explosives, Inc
Elkton
Milford
Del
White House
FBI
Army and Navy
Josef Ben Decker
Triumph Plant
Reginald Gregory
Triumph
Milford Ordnance Company
Sussex Ordnance Company
A. B. McCrary
Army
Decker
McCambridge
Gregory
Navy Procurement Office
Triumph Company
Striking workers vow patriotism as walkout continues
EAST ALTON Illinois October 13 UP striking Western Cartridge Company workers say they act for wartime defense but refuse to work under deplorable conditions. AFL official Pat McCartney says AFL President William Green ordered immediate return, while workers cite coercion and intimidation and list four grievances including union recognition, dues deductions, 40 percent higher casting shop output, and harassment by a speedup system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Alton
Western Cartridge Company
War Labor Board
Pat McCartney
AFL International
Chemical Workers Union
AFL
William Green
Green
McCartney
National Relations Board
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Widely scattered thunder storms and showers expected this afternoon and tonight. Cooler tonight with fresh to strong winds. Colder in Panhandle and South Plains with windy conditions. New Mexico also sees scattered storms decreasing this evening with frost risk in San Juan and upper Rio Grande valleys. Temperature extremes ranged from 58 to 76 with trace precipitation and noon reading at 63.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
San Juan
Rio Grande
Gas Ration Sign-Up To Start Nov 9
Registration for gasoline rationing begins November 9 nationwide except the East where re-registration is not required. The plan adds tire related checks including renewal inspections, a cap of five tires per vehicle, and possible revocation for speeding above 35 mph. Applicants must list serial numbers of disposed tires to receive an A coupon book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilice US Fcrice Aeministration
OPA
Action This Week on Boy Draft Promised
W. S. Jones an inmate at the county jail escaped briefly en route to a doctor's office but was soon recaptured after a black flag chase. In Washington Speaker Rayburn announced the House would pass legislation this week to lower the draft age to 18 with a military affairs committee meeting tomorrow and a target to send the bill to the Senate by Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Rayburn
House
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Edtlor
Armed Services
H. L. Pattie
Burlington
Mavericks
Ralph Dykeman
Maverick Club
Russia
Imrenva
Warpath
Guadalcanal Island
John H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Towers
Pacific
Fleet Air Force
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Kokoda
Owen Stanley
Mainbooy
Volga
Berlin
Malta
Britain
Mediterranean
RAF
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Germany
Churchill
Switzerland
London
U.P
Hitler
Hermann Goering
United States
John Maynard
Outlaw Strike
Th J Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Liberty
W. S. Jones
County
Jones
Sheriff's Office
Russell Stationery Company
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