Marine veteran sergeant returns from Pacific service
Sergeant Flanagan, a Central Junior High School graduate, is among Marine Corps veterans who returned to San Diego after over two years guarding supply routes and bases in the Central and South Pacific. He enlisted in 1942 and served in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, with units supporting infantry assaults and defending Midway and Wake Island positions.
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Amarillo
Flanagan
Marine Corps
Pacific
Central
South Pacific
San Diego
Cal
Midway
Wake Islands
Guadalcanal
Central Junior High School
Marshall
Gilbert Islands
Flanagans
Flanagan Family Details Armed Forces Service
The Flanagan family of 405 North Fillmore Street and 106 River Drive Pleasant Valley report their son Sgt. Charles Flanagan in the Marines. A Amarillo High School graduate, he is in a rest camp in the Hawaiian Islands after three major engagements and has been recommended for the Bronze Star.
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Tag
Fillmore Street
River Drive
Pleasant Valley
Francis
Flanagan
Armed Forces
Marines
Sgt
Charles Flanagan
Amarillo High School
Hawaiian Islands
Ginger Owens Elected Amarillo High Queen in Run-off
Ginger Owens daughter of Dr and Mrs Guy Owens wins Amarillo High School queen title for 1944 45 in a run off election Tuesday. She will be crowned in a ceremony Tuesday at the high school as part of the 1944 45 activities.
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Ginger Owens
Guy Owens
Sunset Terrace
Allied advances stall as heavy mud slows front lines
On the Western Front Allied forces face bogged down advances with mud delaying efforts to clear German positions along the Maas and Schelde corridors. Canadian forces push into Breskens while Greek and Yugoslav actions shift across southern Europe as Dubrovnik falls to partisans and a potential Antwerp operation looms.
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Maas River
Holland
Amerika
Rhineland
Breskens
Schelde
Walcheren
Antwerp
Rotterdam
Third Army
Vosges
Thebes
Athens
Greece
Yugoslavia
Dalmatian
Dubrovnik
Haight Trial Testimony Echoes Fatal Shooting Details
Howard Boxwell funeral director testified there were no powder burns on Mrs. Waroff's clothing when she was slain. Haight claimed his step-daughter was shot during a struggle as he attempted to take his life. Jailor E. Fuqua said Haight slashed his throat in jail and spent 16 days in hospital.
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Howard Boxwell
Jim Lumpkin
Fuqua
Haight
Market Word Salad From New York and Anaconda Exchange
A dense list of stock figures and percentages appears for many companies including Armour Bethlehem Steel General Electric General Motors Lockheed Boeing and others. The column also shows Kansas City and Chicago livestock prices with cattle hogs and sheep trading, plus a brief note on the Financial Industrial Fund liquidating bids.
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New York
Ner & Anaconda Jock Exchange
Deerrill Lynch, Pierce, Beane
Close Bridaws
Armour & S
Aeeeveceeres
Ae SR Aviation Corp
Baldwin Loco
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Branifft
Briggs
Budd Jenks II
Burroughs
Chrysler
Sinclair Oil
Cceveeesers
General Electric
General Motors
Nash Kelvinator
VRS Dire
Icos Asus
Ok Nat
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Ry
North Am Aviation Canoes
Ohio Oil
Packard
Pan Amer Airways
Pruiline Phil
Plymouth
Otis
Pure Oil
Cobgeseevess
Sereeess
Studebaker
Swift & Co
Texas Op Ace
Tex Gulf Sylph
Tidewater Oe
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
US Steel
Wilson && Co
Vssersererss
Warner Bros
Kansas City
Two Fires at McKinley School This Week
McKinley School at 700 Adams Street saw a pair of locker fires in one week. Locker 127 caught fire at nine this morning but pupils doused the blaze by stamping out a scarf, with little damage. A similar incident last Monday involved a coat.
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McKinley School
Adams Street
McKinley
Plan Collection Of Cans Nov 1
A war era drive in Amarillo led by Byron Ellis outlines a Nov 1 can collection. Residents must rinse and flatten tins, place on the front car the morning of pickup, and Potter County trucks will collect from streets for shipment to tin mills.
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Amarillo
Byron Ellis
Potter County
Ellis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sgt. Flanagan
Francis Flanagan
C. Canagan
Vicks
Bes (Han
Oth
Ang Buchanan
Ol' Vernon Sez
Pantex
Army-Navy
J.B. Coe Lumber CO
Western Front
Slavia
Belgrade
Braniff Airways
Braniff Ticket Office
George
Joe
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Int
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Financial Industrial Fund
Helen Patterson
W. Irving Park Blvd
Geo. G. Ingham
Ron Sabina
Goddard
Don Listo
Capitol Liquor Store
POLK
A Polk
District Court
James C. Wilson
U. S. District Court
Polk Street
Texas
NEW Deal
Hillman-Browder-Perkins-Pendegrast
Washington
Texas Regulars
Texas Regulars Party
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