Demobilization Plan Aims for Fair Army Reduction After Germany
The War Department outlined a priority based demobilization plan to reduce the Army after Germany is defeated. Aims favor those with longer service and combat credit while maintaining Japan war needs. Millions of troops and tons of materiel will shift to the Pacific before surplus men are discharged.
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Washington
War Department
GI Joe
Germany
United States
Europe
Japan
Pacific
Surlus
Nonessen Sa
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
House Military Affairs Committee
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
Mrs. Pauline Walker Dies in Sunray Hospital
Mrs. Pauline Walker wife of W. E. Walker died in a local hospital at seven this morning. She was 30 and had one daughter Donna June age five. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, her mother Mrs. Hugh Childers of Carnegie Oklahoma, four Amarillo sisters, five brothers including Navy and Army service members, and other relatives. Funeral arrangements are pending at N. B. Griggs and Sons.
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Pauline Walker
W. E. Walker
Donna June
Hugh Childers
Carnegie
Okla
Albert Bruce
O. F. Cates
T. A. Jones
Amarillo
Fay Childers
Y. O. Waldrop
Yeoman
J. R. Waldrop
Navy
Pvt
Rex Childers
Army
E. A. Waldrop
Hobbs
Mrs. Clara Fort Taken by Death
Mrs. Clara Rebecca Fort, 99, died at 4 in the morning at her home 2621 Brooks Street after six months in Amarillo. Survived by daughter Mrs. A. B. McAdams and three sons Seymour Saunders Leakey Clevalnd Saunders Cranfills Gap and H W Saunders Abilene. sisters Mrs. Alice Carpenter Woodson Mrs. Emma Bass Ardmore Mrs. Hattie Parks Bay City. brother Burton Seymour Ardmore. Body to Valley Mills tonight via Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
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Clara Rebecca Fort
Brooks Street
Amarillo
A. 8. McAdams
Seymour Saunders
Leakey
Cleveland Saunders
Cranfills Gap
H. W. Saunders
Abilene
Alice Carpenter
Woodson
Emma Bass
Ardmore
Hattig Parks
Bay City
Ex-city employee John Benko visits hometown
John Benko, once Amarillo city employee and post engineer at an Army installation in Fort Sumner New Mexico, tours his former engineering department while noting he came to get teeth filled and tires recapped. The item cites a nearby fact about cows yielding 4700 pounds of milk annually for a four-man daily dairy allotment.
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John Benko
Amarillo City
Fort Sumner
N. M
Kansas City Livestock Market Report Summary
Livestock markets in Kansas City and Chicago on September 6 show cattle with a broad mix of prices and activity. Cattle sales steady to strong for top lots, with good and choice heavy calves quoted near 17.50 and 14.50 to 15.50 for selected loads. hogs mostly steady near ceiling prices with 180-240 lb at 14.50. sheep slow with spring lambs at around 14.50 and Montana lambs at 14.00.
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Kansas City
WFA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Montana
Death claims West Maggard in Amarillo hospital
West Milton Maggard 85 retired rancher and long-time Amarillo resident died at 5 this morning in Northwest Texas Hospital after a period of ill health. Funeral services set for Thursday at Boxwell Brothers chapel with pallbearers listed. He was born in Meridian Mississippi and spent much of his life in Texas as a rancher in Jack County. Survived by widow Nancy Jane and three daughters and four sons living in Amarillo San Antonio Venice and Shiprock.
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West M. Maggard
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Hospital
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Llano Cemetery
Cc. F. Anderson
Joe Buckley
Joe Graham
Roy Hunter
L. N. Shirley
John Fullingim
West Milton Maggard
Nancy Jane Maggard
Maggards
Kittie Camden
Joe Vincent
G. T. Cherryhomes
Venice
Calif
George Maggard
San Antonio
Henry Maggard
Shiprock
N. M
Jim Maggard
John Maggard
Rationed Foods Suffer Largest Postwar Cut Across 17 Items
The White House announced a sweeping reduction in rationed processed foods effective Sept. 17. Seventeen items including canned vegetables baby foods soups baked beans and fruit spreads will be removed from point systems while ketchup canned tomatoes and certain juices remain requires blue stamps. Meats butter cheese and other red-point items stay unchanged. Meanwhile Radio France in Algiers reports Lt Gen Joseph Koenig orders military tribunals in Paris to try traitors and enemy agents.
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Washington
U.P
White House
James F. Byrnes
London
Radio France
Algiers
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Paris
the Interior
Bombers Hit Brest Oradea Railyards In Allied Assaults
Wave upon wave of American bombers battered Brest for an hour while Liberators struck Or leskovac 150 miles southeast of Belgrade. Fortresses targeted the Oradea railyards 125 miles southeast of Budapest as German air forces were reported absent. Apple and pear trees are treated with hormone sprays to prevent early fruit drop.
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Brest
Germany
Leskovac
Belgrade
Oradea
Budapest
Tin Salvage Headquarters Set Up at Amarillo Chamber
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce hosts a tin can salvage drive with Edward F. Rand as salvage director and B F Ellis named chairman by County Salvage Chairman Lowell Munday. Plans for collection are to be announced soon as tin remains a critical war material.
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Amarillo
Lavoptik Eye Aid Promises Quick Soothing Relief
Lavoptik offers relief for sore inflamed burning eyes with 30 years of success and a money back guarantee. The package includes an eye cup and targets granulated eyelids, with thousands of positive reviews from users. At all druggists.
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Polk
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