Editors Report Highlights Paper Crisis And Postwar Plans
Panhandle Press Association members heard Dallas paper executive R R Moser warn of ongoing shortages in newsprint and wrapping paper for the next three months, urging readers to support local resource use. AP and APM officials discussed war-time journalism, advertising, and training, with plans for postwar expansion and a 1945 Amarillo Globe-News convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Moser
Dallas
Carpenter Paper Company
Panhandle Press Association
Globe News
Jimmie Gillentine
Hereferd
Douglas Meador
Matador
Clyde Warwick
Canyon
Moser
Mr. Moser
Frank King
Texas
Associated Press
Charles B. Emde
American Press Association
Paul Allingham
Amarillo Globe News
John Price
County Wide News
Littlefield
Richard Hindley
Clovis News-Journal
Col
Ernest O. Thompson
Railroad Commission
Amarillo Garage & Storage
Wes Izzard
Joe Phillipe
Borger Her
Weather forecast for Amarillo region and West Texas
The report covers Saturday through Sunday in Amarillo and vicinity with partly cloudy skies, cold temperatures, and fresh winds. West Texas and New Mexico show similar patterns with scattered heat showers in mountains, cooler northeast areas, and strong surface winds, followed by an extended forecast predicting above normal temperatures and light to moderate rainfall from midweek storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Im Wi
Gulf Plains
Bombing Blitz on Truk and Imphal Frontlines Shift War News
Liberator raids hit Truk lagoon major islands with light antiaircraft fire as Nippon defenses weaken. Imphal siege tightens with Japanese advancing toward Bishempore Silchar trail while Allies push in Mogaung Valley and Burma rail hubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Truk
Central Pacific
Philippines
China
Reward for Missing Pointer Pup Tuck Found Safe
A missing pointer named Tuck, a Y month old male with white coat orange ears and spots, is sought by owner Robert Coleman of 1708 Harrison Street. A reward of 85 will be paid for information leading to his return. contact telephone number 9342. He has been missing since Wednesday and is not trained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuck
Robert Coleman
Harrison Street
Doughboys Trade Jobs With Airmen
In Italy on April 14 the Fifth Army reports a personnel exchange between infantry and air forces. Ground soldiers bomb missions while pilots live in foxholes and join patrols to gain mutual understanding. Medium and dive bombers received praise for close support, while early wide bombing caused casualties and infantry criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Army
Italy
England
Austra lian forces advance toward Madang base in New Guinea
Thursday report says Bagadjim defense outpost at southern end of a coastal highway to the Madang base, with Australian troops and American forces pushing up the coast from Saidor. Allied aircraft pound the New Guinea coast smashing Wewak with 250 tons of bombs and destroying 60 buildings and two ammunition dumps. Solomons planes attack Rabul New Britain hitting 13 gun positions and other installations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bagadjim
Madang
Saidor
New Guinea
Wewak
Rabul
New Britain
Navy funding clears House in unanimous vote
The House approved a $32,647,336 naval appropriation bill in a 257 to 0 vote and prepared a $50,000,000,000 Army supply measure. The finance outlook lifts total wartime obligations since July 1, 1940 to about $362,000,000,000, with the Navy tab estimated at $116,000,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Navy
Snow flurry at Pantex plant as women workers pause at pay window
Mrs I H Pfeiffer of 108 Skyline Drive Pleasant Valley reported that about 75 women employees at the Pantex Ordnance Plant stood in line at the paymaster's window around 8:15 am yesterday when a snow flurry began. The workers enjoyed catching the falling flakes while the sun shone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Pantex Ordnance Plant
I. H. Pfeiffer
Skyline Drive
Pleasant Valley
Sooner Aerial Front On Coyote Opens Hunt In Oklahoma
Coyote menace in western Oklahoma triggers a four day mass hunt led by flying farmers and Civil Air Patrol with pilots from across the state. Officials from game and fish, highway patrol, extension service, and Gov Kerr aid coordination as shells are donated and ranchers push efforts to curb livestock losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sooner
Glisson Winkler Woodward
Olc
Civil Air Patrol
Oklahoma
Texas
Frederick
Ferdie Deerman
Farmer and Stockman
Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce
Game and Fish Commission
Highway Patrol
Extension Service
Robert S. Kerr
Henry Bomhoff
CAA
Bomhoff
Bombers Climax Week of Raids Across Axis Fronts
Allied air forces last week hammered Axis targets with Mosquitos and Thunderbolts. Berlin suffered two ton blockbusters while a French airfield raid destroyed many planes. Over 15,000 tons of bombs fell and 700 German aircraft were damaged or shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Bombs Hit Kuriles Fourth Day in Pacific Offensive
Allied air forces extended the Kurile campaign to a fourth straight day with strikes on Paramushiro Shasukotan and Matsuwa. The operations included Aleutians based Liberators over Paramushiro and anti air fire over the base, plus raids on Ulul Pakin Kusaie Ponape and Ponape's airfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leif Erickson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Kurile
Tokyo
Paramushiro
Shasukotan
Matsuwa
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
11Th Army Air Force Liberators
Navy
Ulul
Truk
Carolines
Pakin
Ponape
Central Pacific
Kusaie
Seventh
AAF
Marine Corsairs
Marine
Marine Navy
Marshalls
Child Victim Of Dog Found In 24 Hour Search
A three year old boy named Berry Glass in Baltimore received his first anti rabies vaccine after state police traced him and his parents from Lubbock Texas to Catonsville Maryland in a 24 hour search. The dog that bit Berry ten days earlier was found not rabid until yesterday. Johns Hopkins Hospital arranged further treatment. Local and regional police from Maryland Virginia and West Virginia aided in locating the family and the dog’s status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Berry Glass
Harrisville
W. Va
Raymond Glass
Lubbock
Tex
Catonsville
Berry
W. Earle Wingood
Dr. Wingood
Glass
Bombers Sweep Mediterranean in Wide Allied Air Offensive
Allied Mediterranean airmen shot down 36 German planes in extensive operations aimed at targets in Hungary near Budapest. Attacks hit Gyor Duna Vecses Tokol plants and airfields while railway yards at Brod Corfu docks and Dalmatian coast lines were targeted. 1,800 sorties were flown with losses of 16 heavy bombers and three other aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Naples
Hungary
Anzio
Gyor
Duna
Vecses
Tokol
Budapest
Brod
Yugoslavia
Corfu
Dalmatian
Turks Willing To Aid Allies Within Limits
Ankara April 14 Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu said Turkey will aid the Allies within her material limits. He spoke after receiving a note built on Secretary Hull’s appeal for neutral countries to stop trading with Germany. Turkey faces a delicate wartime decision as it weighs the plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ankara
Numan Menemencioglu
Newsmen
Turkey
Hull
Germany
Texas Wheat Crop Rebounds to Above Average Promise
AUSTIN April 14 AP The USDA reports Texas wheat prospects improved from last year's worst start to above average. The 1944 Texas wheat crop is forecast at 39,338,000 bushels, about 40 percent above the 10-year average and eight percent above 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
High Plains
Merrill’s Marauders Relieved by American Forces in Burma
Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill’s Marauders, encircled for eight days in the Mohaugaung area, were relieved by American and Chinese forces under Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell. Lt. Col. George McGee led Merrill’s men, while Lt. Gen. Charles Beach’s X-ray force pressed up hogbacks to clear the belt, with 210 enemy dead as they withdrew toward Mogaung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Japan
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung Valley
Associated Press
William Boni
Pieping
Pacific
Bogadjim
Madang
New Guinea
William Bonn
Frank Merrill
George McGee
Denver
Colo
Gal
Charles Beach
Cincinnati
Ohio
Beach
McGee
Mogaungs
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Horace Mc
Pampa
Victory
Ed Schneider
Herbert 8S Hilburn
Plainview Evening Herald
Truk Nippon
Imphal
Aled
Lagoon
Marshall Islands
Solomons
South Pacific
Ponape Island
Army
Bishempore- Silcar
Berlin
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Dawn
Red Army
Crimea
Sevastopol
Bakhchisarai
Moscow
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Nikolai Vatutin
First
Kiev
Vatutin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Ian
Tolbukhin
Fourth Ukraine
Simferopol
Bakhchisaral
Aiushta
Yalta
Yevpatoriya
Akmechet
Yeremenko
Kerch
Karasubazar
Sudak
Black Sea
Yeremneko
Alushta
Cairo
Athens
Kansas City
U.P
de Witt C. Ramsey
Bureau of Aeronautics
Pratt & Whitney
Ramsey
Edwins. Perrin
Army Air Forces
Ditto
Russell Stationery Co
Kuriles
Mediterranean
Merrill
Nabonga
Rialto
Giabonga
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