Post-War Plan Adopted by Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo chamber of commerce directors at the Herring Hotel adopted a flexible post war plan prepared by a special committee. Topics include two divisions of projects, funding, and the role of Rex Baxter, with a $10,000 fund and possible raised funds for long term work.
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Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Herring Hotel
Jack Cunningham
Jeff Neeley
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Cunningham
Gene Howe
Mr. Baxter
Washington
Baxter
Amarillo
Hardin
Joe Jenkins
Ivor Davies
B. Whittenberg
George Autry
H. O. Starks
Committee For Economic Development
Bob Stone
W. H. Brymer
I. H. Davies
FE. Kancher
Herb Budke
Canadian River
Pantex
Veterans’ Hospital
Union Station
Palo Duro Park
Nimrods Get First Hand Shell Shortage Report
L. W. Lipscomb of the War Production Board told the chamber of commerce at the Herring Hotel that civilian shotgun shell output this fall will be about 12 to 14 percent of prewar levels and centerfire ammunition around 20 percent. Dr. Ira Gabrielson's investigation enabled limited civilian supplies, with optimism that future years may see higher civilian production. Lipscomb described WPB as quartermaster for police and federal agencies and urged continued efforts to increase civilian ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
L. W. Lipscomb
Public Protection
War Production Board
Herring Hotel
Mgr. Lipscomb
Ira Gabrielson
Department of Interior
Fish and Wildlife Department
Gabrielson
Lipscomb
WPB Department
Fire
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Civil Service
Ducks
Arate No
Sevsk Captured as Allies Push to Draw Germans East
Soviet forces seized Sevsk between Bryansk and Kharkov signaling a breakthrough. Bracken, fresh from Quebec, declared Allies will lift the burden from Soviet Russia at any cost while British aircraft attacked Poix and German shipping in the Channel. American bombing fleets targeted Foggia and Capua as the war widens across Europe and Asia, with Mountbatten and Stillwell discussed for Southeast Asia command.
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Sevsk
Bryansk
Kharkov
Brendan Bracken
Bracken
Quebec
Churchill
Roosevelt
New York
Soviet Russia
England
Europe
Poix
France
English Channel
Italy
Foggia
Capua
Grazzanise
Naples
Big Gem Theft Probe Pushes Ahead at Amarillo Airport
Investigation into the $150,000 jewelry theft continues as police seek more stolen pieces from an air express heist at Amarillo airport last November. Suspects Kenneth McClune of Amarillo and Lewis Caudill, moved from Jacksonville, are detained in the case. The gems belonged to Princess Doris Farid de Sultana of Orristown New Jersey and were en route from Hollywood to New.
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Air Express
Amarillo
Kenneth McClune
Lewis Caudill
Jacksonville
Doris Farid de Sultana
Orristown
N. J
Hollywood
New
City Inspects Mud Hole Near Northwest Texas Hospital
City sanitation officials inspect a large mud hole on West Seventh Avenue after a complaint about children playing there. They cite improper drainage as the cause and note the site attracts mosquitoes. Residents report safety concerns near a hospital and the site where a child died from infantile paralysis.
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West Seventh Avenue
Northwest Texas Hospital
Jack Wyatt
City Health Department
Walter McCubbin
Ted Franklin
Miss Hancock
O. E. Glover
John Gilvin
Reds Promote Stalingrad Hero
Moscow radio announced Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, a seven times wounded Stalingrad hero, had been raised to full general. The broadcast was recorded by the Soviet monitor here.
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London
Moscow
Andrei Ivanvich Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Vicinity Saturday
Little temperature change expected with moderate winds across West Texas. Showers possible Saturday afternoon and evening with thin clouds. temperatures ranged from the mid 60s to the upper 80s earlier in the day.
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Amarillo
Texas
Allied bombing drive targets Italian airfields near Naples
Allied forces reported heavy bomber and fighter activity over Capua Grazzanise and Naples area in a fierce campaign to destroy remaining German and Italian air power. The battle expanded to rail targets and coast defenses while the Italian fleet remained split between Spezia and Taranto.
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North Africa
Capua
Grazzanise
Naples
Sardinia
Loch
Messina
Sicily
Spezia
Taranto
Tunisia
Italy
Gaspini
Cagliari
Carloforte
Locri
Reggio Calabria
Bagno
East Grants Gas for Boating and Furloughs
The Office of Price Administration announced a loosening of the eastern ban on pleasure boating and furlough gasoline for armed services members effective September 1. Non-occupational boating fuel will be available, while servicemen on leave may receive five gallons, matching prior limits.
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Washington
Armed Services
East
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Sevsk Falls to Red Drive on Fourth Front Front
Soviet forces captured Sevsk and 20 nearby localities in a southern Russia push bringing them within 20 miles of the Bryansk Konotop Kiev railway. The bulletin said Russian units advanced up to five miles west of Kharkov and recaptured Kotelva as they pressed from Kharkov toward the Dnieper.
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London
Russia
Sevsk
Bryansk-Konotop- Kiev
Moscow
Monitor
Kharkov
Poltava
Dnieper
Kotelva
Zenkov
Ivan Konev
Ukraine
Red Army
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Bryansk
Red
Bryansk-Konotop
Kiev
Lebedin
Akhtyrka
Zemkov
Chinese Hail Mountbatten Appointed Allied Commander
Chinese army spokesman praised Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as Allied supreme commander in Southeast Asia and said planned measures to destroy Japan are being implemented. He linked Japanese thrust toward Tengyueh in Yunnan to Allied Burma recovery plans and lauded the U.S. 14th Air Force for recent Hankow strikes breaking damage records.
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Chungking
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Japan
Tengyueh
Yunnan
Burma
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Hankow
Stalin Plans For Conference
London dispatch says Stalin will visit the Caucasus to meet British and American officials. The broadcast claims he will review his army of the Kuhаn and the Black Sea fleet.
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London
Rome Radio Tonight
Joseph Stalin
Caucasus
Greatest Air Armadas Hit Axis Europe in Bold Raid
Allied air forces launched a massive night raid across the English Channel with hundreds of heavy bombers and fighters engaging German targets in occupied Europe including France. B-24 and B-26 groups destroyed multiple U boats with crew reports of 18 enemy planes shot down and several submarines sunk or damaged.
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London
Europe
RAF
U. S
France
Berlin
Poix
British
Air Ministry
Brittany
Dunkerque
Gonaway
Mix Focke-Wulfs
Calais
Allouis
New York
U. SS. Army
Atlantic
Army Air Force
Walter S. McDonnell
Duluth
Minn
Vital Salamaua Battle Nears Climax in New Guinea
Allied ground forces push to the edge of Salamaua air base on the New Guinea coast as heavy bombing targets supply depots. MacArthur says Australian and American troops intensify pressure while raids sink ships, destroy barges, and hit Japanese ground installations near Hansa Bay and Vila, Koombarangra.
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Southwest Pacific
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Hansa Bay
Wewal
Solomon Islands
Bairoko
New Georgia
Munda
Vila
Kolombangara
Kula Gulf
Baireko
South Pacific
Kavieng
New Trelang
Vitu Islands
New and
Attacn
Britain
New Asia Chief Ends Interviews
Washington reports Mountbatten plans to appoint Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell as deputy commander in chief with a British chief of staff. American generals like Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark are speculated for deputy chief of staff but face rank and command limitations.
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
Japan
Washington
Joseph W. Stillwell
Southeast Asia
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Salamaua
New Guinea
Louis Mountbatten
Mountbatten
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Stillwell
Vinegar Joe
Burma
China
Mark W. Clark
U. S. 5Th Army
North Africa
Clark
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Heart of
Germany
C.C
Evelyn Boyd
Nimrods
World Globes and Atlases
Russell Stationery Company
The
Associated Press
U. S. Army Air Force
Claire L. Chenault
Kowloon Docks
Hongkong
Aleutians
John L. Dewitt
Attt Islands
Reds
Algust
Amarillo Greve
Acta Aecebes
Fae
Stalin
Guyman
James H. Darden
Guymon
Oklo
Thomas K. Gerhart
Mansfield
Ohio
Thomas E. Kuenning
New Bremen
New Asia
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