Destruction Hits Bizerte Tripoli Driving Rationing Clamp
Federal and state officials face sharp cuts as a Potter County rationing board denies preferred mileage for government agencies. The entire panel overruled earlier approvals, reversing migrant worker transport allowances and leaving many agencies with 470 miles per month. Gasoline lines form as private holders buy up fuel while audits weigh compliance and public notices move through Austin and Washington.
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Compiners Departich
Spe i 23
Raecus
Sci
Farm Security Administration
Geputr Cullough
Office of Price Administration
Pot‘tex County Board of War Price
U. S
U.S
Cite Police
Austin
Potter County
U. 5
Apber
Mark McGee
OPA
S. Processen
Texas
Pal
Washington
Fire Prevention Inspector Gave Night Club Approval
Boston investigators probe the Cocoanut Grove fire that killed an official death toll near 484, with inquest testimony on exits and extinguishers and witnesses describing panic and escape attempts. Fire prevention officer Lieut Linney reported inspections on November 20 found exits adequate and flames contained. A 16 year old bartender testified he lit a match to screw in a light bulb and flames from a palm tree enveloped drapes forcing people to the street.
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Boston
Corenanut Grove
Charles
Buck) Jones
Washington
Fire Department
FBI
Navy
Liev
Frank J. Linney
Fire Prevention Bureau
Cocoanut Grove
Arthur Reil
Linner
Klur
Stanley Fomaszewski
Santa to Meet Amarillo Children At Courthouse Event
Santa Claus will visit Amarillo next Saturday afternoon and evening to meet children and conduct personal interviews. A combined pageantry show will unfold on the courthouse lawn with lights, organ, choir, and tableaux as traffic is halted nearby. The event, sponsored by The Amarillo News-Globe and local merchants, aligns with a War Bond contest running through two more Sundays. Meanwhile, a mine explosion in Providence, Kentucky trapped eighteen workers at West Kentucky Coal Company No 1 mine, two escaped, eighteen trapped.
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Santa Claus
Amarillo
Sana Claus
Icourthouse
Panhandle
West Side
Boca
Amarillo Mews
Providence
West Kentucky Coal Company
Wheatcell
Clay
Weather diary from a distant warfront report mix
Readable fragments describe Allied and Japanese actions at Gona and Tunis Bizerte areas with air bombardment coastal fighting and naval activity. Mention Russian advances near Stalingrad and Allied pushes in Africa including Tunis. Reporting references U S Army Air Forces and British forces engaging Axis units, with casualties and tactical moves.
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Tonis
Bizerte
Tripoli
All Africa
Dwight Eisenhower
United States
Djedeida
Tunis
First Army
Freach
Berlin
Tunisia
Seventh Cross Escape Plot Near Dancing Ground
Lieutenant Bunsen observes Fahsenhberg's rant then plots an escape route around Camp Westhofen. The plan maps three concentric circles to barrier roads and blocks approach via the Rhine sight bank. A recaptured fugitive named Butler is dragged toward the gate as guards pursue. (Continued tomorrow)
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Bunsen
Fahsenhberg
Fisher
Brauntvell
Camp Westhofen
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Fahrenberg
Zillich
Butler
Beutler
Sas
Ling
Ne Mai
King Features Spygieath
Fisk Ube
Ovempar Fischer
de Etearap
George Heisler
See-Mouth Slup, Inc
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Gona
Jepsnese
Tomatere Borishi
Gosstal
Arabery Bettesiss
Grount Oops
Vitlex Straits
New Hatain
Associated Press
Red Army
Moscow
Stalingrad
Rekev' yazma-Velikie Lukie
Pcr AL
Jand
Komi
Don
Volga
Pravda
Africa
Mediterranean
Erte
Sfax
Gabes
Turin
Norii Ttak
Tunis-Bizerte
Libya
Bernard L. Montgomery
St Alamein
Amun
Ees
Armec
Saidimuck
Beontis Itiaee
Tropoli
Reid
Ligiers
Gena
Seigei
Consanine
Algiers
Toulon
Ar Giers
Inez
Casablanca
Marsouini
Solomons
Patzels
Grandaiional
Reunion
Inman
Hes
Pichring
National Committee
Panhendle
South Plains
Enon
Willich
Rhine
Liebacher Aut
Pennenberg
Une
Little, Brown & Co
Anna Seghers
Willam Starp
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