Dalhart Welcomes Record XIT Reunion Crowd
Dalhart hosts the Seventh Annual XIT Reunion drawing massive crowds from the Dalhart Army Air Base war workers and families. The parade features Company E Texas State Guard and 40 Will Rogers range riders with rodeo at 7:30 pm and 2:30 pm tomorrow. Congressman Worley attends as guest. rodeo director Pinch reports 73 contestants and growing top pros.
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Dalhart
Dalhart Army Air Base
Dalhart Air Base
Company E
Texas State Guard
DDT
Eastman
Eugene Worley
Shamrock
Ann
Stratford
Here
Dumas
Allyn Pinch
Allied Push in Sicily and Naples Air Raids Rack Italy
Allied forces pressed a general Sicily offensive as San Stefano fell to American troops and 10,000 more prisoners were taken at Mistretta. British and Canadian units advanced, while Naples faced a deadly air raid after Eisenhower warned Italians of renewed bombardment.
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Associated Press
Sicily
Italy
San Stefano
Tyrrhenian Sea
Eighth Army
Catania
Mistretta
Crotone
Vibo Valentia Marina
Oliva River
Patton
Naples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pietro
Badoglio
Montsgomery
Mussolini
Battl
Assoro
Nisseria
Agira
Allied air and ground action over Sicily and Italy
Allied air force bombed Capodichino and Polesti targets with heavy losses for Axis. Liberators and fighters clashed over Sicily and Italy, with substantial destruction of aircraft and oil stocks. Ground fighting saw German counterattacks into fortified positions as Allied infantry pressed through rugged terrain toward the Po line.
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Capodichino
Sicily
Naples
Polesti
Germany
Berlin
U. S
Merville
Sst. Omer
France
Hamburg
War News From Europe Turbulent as Invasion Looms
Neutral reports say Italy grows quiet as Madrid hints a peace march on Rome. Rome presses Mussolini era hopes as German forces move to the Po. Allied talks stress bases for Europe and pursuit of fascist leaders while Montgomery praises Allied gains in Sicily and Canadian forces push forward despite heavy resistance.
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Italy
River Po
Madrid
Brenner Pass
Badoglio
Algiers
Mussolini
Pietro Badoglio
Rome
Augusto Rosso
Washington
Elmer Davis
OWT
Europe
England
Davis
Britain
America
Europa
Sicily
River
Milan
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Bulgaria
Anthony Eden
London
Germany
Japan
Zurich
New York
NBC
Turin
Badoglo
Bern
Berlin
Orel
Reuters
Supply routes under pressure as Allies threaten key towns
Allied forces hold the San Stefano Nicosia corridor and threaten Cerami Capital and Ina, creating bottlenecks for German Italian supply lines along coastal and inland routes. Goums French Moroccan troops push in mountain terrain using guerrilla style infiltration tactics in a key sector.
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San Stefano-Nicosia
Cerami
Ina
Amer
Nicosia
Goums
Ou Ay
Allies Break Through at Salamaua and Munda Front
Allied ground forces advance 500 to 1,200 yards along Munda New Georgia as artillery targets Salamaua New Guinea. Reports from Admiral Halsey indicate air base gains, bombardment of Kahili Bougainville, and heavy bomber strikes on Lae and Gasmata.
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Southwest Pacific
Munda
New Georgia
Salamaua
New Guinea
South Pacific
William P. Halsey
Francisco River
Bougainville Island
Kahili
Solomons
U. S
Rencova Island
Gasmata
Cape Dampier
Escape Artist Loose Again in Gravenhurst Camp
Lieut. Peter Krug a German airman who has escaped prison camps in the past was reported missing tonight from an officers camp in Gravenhurst district. He testified against Max Stephan in Detroit treason trial last year and was swimming with other prisoners when roll call was missed, raising belief he escaped in swimming shorts.
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Gravenhurst
Peter Krug
Krug
Max Stephan
Detroit
Amarillo Field Changes Command To Denver District
Amarillo Army Air Field comes under the Fourth District Army Air Forces Training Command Denver Colorado replacing the previous Third District based in Tulsa Oklahoma. Major General John P. Curry leads the expanded district covering sixteen western and southwestern states from Texas to the Pacific.
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John. F. Curry
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Amarillo Army Air Field
John K. Gowen, Jr
United States
Army Air Forces Training Command
Denver
Colo
Tulsa
Oklo
Amarillo Field
John PF. Curry
America
New York
Curry
West Point
Signal Corps
Mexico
General Pershing
France
Regular Air Service
Regular Army
Technical Training Command
Barton K. Yount
Texas
Oklahoma
Fourth District
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
Miss Hammer Saluted by New Yorkers
Hal Borland reviews Laura V Hamner s Short Grass and Longhorns in the New York Times Book Review praising her Panhandle history from first hand memories. University of Oklahoma Press published the work with widespread favorable notices from J Frank Dobie and Stanley Walker among others.
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Laura V Hammer
New York Times Book Review
Hal Borland
Laura V. Hamner
Miss Hamner
J. Frank Dobie
University of Texas
Stanley Walker
New York
Russians clash near Italy as Wehrmacht holds Po River line
Battlefronts surge as Italian warnings flag invasion risks and German forces secure the Po River line in northern Italy. German statements confirm Red Army activity near Orel with supply issues for encircled troops using wooden barges. Draft of fathers set for Oct 1.
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Italy
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook and Winds Tue
The Weather Bureau reports not much warm change Tuesday with fresh to strong winds in Amarillo and vicinity. Little temperature change elsewhere in the Panhandle, with scattered light thunder showers over mountains in New Mexico Tuesday afternoon and cooler conditions in the northeast region by Tuesday evening.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Draft Boards Authorized to Call Fathers After October 1
Washington reports local draft boards may induct pre Pearl Harbor fathers starting October 1 to meet monthly quotas but only as absolutely required. Estimates show about 300000 fathers with children born before Sept 15 and not in non-deferable work would be in line this year, with others to be sent to induction stations to reach 200000 qualified men.
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Washington
Selective Service
Pearl Harbor
Local Boards Get Directives on Induction Order
Washington August 2 1943 Selective Service issues instructions for local boards to fill inductions first with volunteers and then by groups 1 A and 1 A O including men with no dependents collateral dependents married men with bona fide families and men with children prior to December 8 1941 The memo also notes prior inducement of agricultural or non deferrable workers before those reclassified from 3 A into 1 A or 1 A O.
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Senate
House
Congress
Washington
Selective Service
Americans Seize San Stefano Ahead of Messina
American forces push through central and northern Sicily to seize San Stefano, gaining a key road system and driving the Axis to retreat along exposed coastal routes. Canadian units join the drive, facing furious opposition through mountain heights as they overwhelm a string of enemy positions.
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San Stefano
Sicily
Messina
Italy
Italians flee cities as Sicily faces final days of battle
Italians streamed from cities while Sicily shelved as the Eighth Army pressed the attack. The report frames a bleak turn of events with Italy nearing a decisive moment in the campaign.
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Italy
Sicily
Eighth Army
It Was Hot Yesterday Across West Texas Regions
Temperatures climbed to 105 in Amarillo tying the August record and marking the 52 year trend of highs above 100 in August. Abilene reached 109.2 with 110 noted as the historic cap for the city. Other listed highs include 107 in Wichita Falls and 109 in Angelo as summer heat persisted.
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Amarillo
Abilene
Big Spring
Lubbock
Mercury
Wichita Falls
Angelo
Goodrich Chief James J. Newman to Speak at Friday Dinner
James J. Newman vice president of B F Goodrich will address 75 business civic leaders and officials at a Friday dinner at the Herring Hotel. Newman will discuss the national rubber situation and Goodrich synthetic rubber plant role in Borger, including butadiene from Lips Petroleum and other raw materials.
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James J. Newman
B. F. Goodrich Company
Herring Hotel
J. W. Frasche
Newman
Haes
Gove
Frasche
Borger
B. F. Goodrich
Lips Petroleum
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XIT Association
Old Trail Drivers of
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Texas, New
Stevens
Vincent
Court House
Mediterranean
Badoghio
A &A5
Moscow
Red Army
Escape Artist Loose Again
General Curry
Air Service Engineerisg
Air Corps “Tactical School
Staff and Command School
Army War College
Bb Department General Staff
Miss Hammer
S Weather Bureau
Ocal Boards
IMS
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe Sakhahah
Goodrich
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