Amarillo Junior League Gains National Status
The Amarillo Junior League has been provisionally accepted into the National Junior League for two years with representation to follow. Mrs. Norwood West announced the news, highlighting the league’s funds and civic work. The piece also notes local football chatter, polio facts, a dog search reward, and assorted community notes.
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Junior Welfare League
Amarillo
Norwood West
New York
West
J. R. Carroll
Stanton
Oklahoma humor and wartime notes on life and work
A collage of light columns touches on Oklahoma wit and home life, war-time duties, and social habits. It notes a minister’s garden compliment, Patt Powell’s World Series trip, Robert Taylor’s possible Amarillo visit, and a Chicago wedding kiss anecdote, with broader remarks on advice to war wives and daily life during wartime.
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Jim
Darling
Chicago
Kate Bagshaw
Birmingham
England
Lost American Patrol Finds Its Way Back
Lt. John W. Teasley of Chappells South Carolina led a lost American patrol from behind German lines back to Allied positions after six and a half days. Italians aided the escape as Germans cut Italian communications to prevent information leaks. Pvt. Mariano Mora Jr of San Antonio Texas helped translate Italian.
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Fifth Army
Italy
John W. Teasely
Chappells
S. C
Teasley
Mariano Mora, Jr
Big Foot Street
San Antonio
Tex
Youngstown
Ohio
Germany shuffles fighting strength across Europe in war report
Berlin dispatch says Germany reallocates about 200 land divisions from Russia to the Balkans and Italy. Only 39 divisions remain in Western Europe, with 21 in Italy and 21 in the Balkans. overall, Germany maintains roughly 300 regular divisions plus 10 ersatz divisions.
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Russia
Balkans
Italy
Europe
Belgium
Holland
France
Naples
Jugo-Slaviz
Greece
Bul
Soldier’s wife seeks housework trade for pay
A subscriber asks for a young person to swap six hours of housework for two dollars a day, six days a week. She notes a small house in the south part of the city and invites calls after 5 P M at 2 6849.
Archduke Otto Predicts German Collapse by Christmas
Archduke Otto of Austria forecasts Germany will fall to internal revolution between now and Christmas. He arrived in Amarillo to speak to the Knife and Fork Club, travels the United States, and values democratic reforms while remaining a royal pretender.
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Otto
Charles
Austria
Zita
Archduke
Amarillo
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United States
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Funchal
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Seven Killed as Bomber Crashes Near Dalhart
A Dalhart Army Air Base training flight crashed about six miles northwest of Dalhart early today killing all seven crew members. Names are withheld pending relatives notification.
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Dalhart
Dalhart Army Air Base
Here
Liberators Rescue Comrade in Kai Islands Battle
Two Liberator pilots credited with saving a third damaged bomber during an hour long fight over the Kai Islands after attacking Langsoer. Capt Jack R Banks and 1st Lt Dexter K Baker led rescue as six enemy planes were shot down and Allied forces reported losses of one bomber.
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U.P
Kai Islands
Langsoer
Jack R. Banks
Los Angeles
Cal
Allied Southwest Pacific
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Baker
Dexter K. Baker
Salt Lake City
Utah
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I Love You Message from Fiancé Cut by Censor
In Oklahoma City a censor altered a note from Yeoman David F. Arnot to Rebecca Richards, Aragon? to read I love you with a postscript So do I, as two holes cut through the page reveal the edits. The item captures a sentimental wartime moment with censorship in action.
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Oklahoma City
Rebecca Richards
Yeoman
David F. Rn
Argonia
Kan
Allied offensive expected in southern Italy says German agency
London reports the German Transocean News Agency stating a new Allied offensive is imminent in southern Italy, likely in addition to yesterday's Fifth Army push on the Salerno front. The British Eighth Army is operating in South Italy.
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Transocean
Italy
Fifth Army
Salerno
Eighth Army
County Officials Wind Up Conference in Midland
County Judge Ernest Northcutt and Commissioners Swann Daniel and Killian with County Auditor John Crudgington attended the West Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association conference in Midland. Former County Commissioner John Winters, now executive director of the State Department of Public Welfare, joined the group and will return to Amarillo. Winters plans a short stay there. The cantaloupe gets its name from the Castle of Cantalo up in Italy where it was first grown.
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Midland
West
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