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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1942
Page
2
In Excelsior Springs Missouri on September 167 Uncle John Watkins long unused 1915 Dodge is rolling back into service as scraps for Sweden's linseed oil rationing. Relatives recall his bargain hunting and patience as the car finally leaves the barn and is prepared for scrapping in support of wartime needs.
Staff Sgt. Edgell I. Smith son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Earl Smith of Binger Oklahoma and Technical Sgt. Alex W. Uhl son of Mr and Mrs Earl W. Uhl of San Antonio were killed when a light trainer plane crashed 12 miles east of Lubbock. They were stationed at the Lubbock Army Flying School awaiting assignment.
The annual tour of cotton pickers starts in Texas with thousands of pickers, mostly Mexicans, moving north from the lower Rio Grande to the Gulf coast and into Central and North Texas. Damage from Gulf storms accelerates the movement. picking and ginning slow.
At Amarillo High School an actual count shows nearly 400 parents employed in war industries and 335 students with fathers or brothers in the armed forces. Of 290 new students, 75 never attended Texas schools. 265 work for wages and about 190 study part time. About 150 absent at assembly may understate totals.
At Fort Huachuca Arizona an army captain built a new obstacle course. On the first trial run he failed to clear a deep ditch and tumbled into Fort Bliss Station Hospital with a fractured leg.
Montgomery Ward & Company advised the War Labor Board it accepted under protest the board ruling granting a five cent per hour raise for 6,800 Chicago employees. Industrial accidents nationwide have cost two eyes to 8,000 people and one eye to 80,000 others in the United States.
In Jalapa on Sept 16 Senator Adolfo E Ortega said Salvador Gonzalez a federal deputy was shot and killed by three men while distributing flood relief funds to victims. A second man was wounded and expected to die. The motive remains unknown.
Advert shows Nurito as a dependable non opiate pain reliever for rheumatism neuritis neuralgia and lumbago. It guarantees relief within minutes or money back and urges readers to ask a druggist for Nurito today.
Texas oil operators will convene in Austin for a state proration hearing to canvass October's petroleum outlook and to consider fixing allowables on a lease or production unit basis. They face possible shifts in quotas as war demand and rationing weigh on production and market outlook.
NORFOLK Virginia September 16 Dave Robertson former baseball player and state game warden reports a theft at his Princess Anne Road pound building office. A pair of gold rim spectacles valued at ten dollars were stolen from his office.
Ankara reported that Vice Admiral Naokuni Nomura and Rear Admiral Katsuo Abe, leaders of Japanese coordinating committees in Berlin and Rome, would arrive in Turkey on Thursday to make certain contacts. UN naval quarters offered no immediate explanation, noting it touches the oil industry in the Southwest.
London reports indicate Russian bombers active over Europe while air defense nerves tighten. Coastal Command attacked Cherbourg docks with no losses reported. German raids damaged a south coast town and one fatality occurred. US air units join RAF efforts as Eagles arrive. 73 enemy aircraft credited.
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