Amarillo Honors Pearl Harbor With War Bond Drive
On the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor Amarillo stages a city wide observance to Remember Pearl Harbor by buying war bonds and stamps. Booths on Polk Street aim for 62 000 sales led by Kiwanis clubs with bands playing and a 11 25 am tribute reading.
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Pearl Harbor Day Observance in Amarillo
An Amarillo event marks Pearl Harbor Day with a 11:35 morning program at 3rd and Polk featuring a WAAC platoon of 30 women, an autographed bond auction for the Memento prize, performances by Army Air Forces Texas School Band and local bands, speeches by Dr. Laos and Mayor Jenkins, free airplane rides for bond buyers, and a KGNC broadcast urging community attendance.
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Polk Street
Joe Jenkins
Bruce Jane Wihers
KGNC
Ibfpa
Pearl Harbor
Queen Wilhelmina Outlines Four-Part Dutch Commonwealth
In a December broadcast from London, Queen Wilhelmina spoke on the eve of the war’s first anniversary outlining a four-part postwar Dutch Commonwealth. She proposed Holland, the Netherlands East Indies, Curacao and Surinam join to form a cooperative kingdom while preserving internal autonomy. A conference would plan reconstruction with full participation by occupied and liberated populations, asserting non-discrimination and joint responsibility.
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Commonwealth
First Panhandle WAAC Platoon To Be Inducted
The first exclusive WAAC recruitment platoon for America arrives in Amarillo to receive membership cards. A public swearing-in is set for Third and Polk Street at 11:25 this morning, part of Pearl Harbor anniversary observances. A $25 War Bond auction supports the ceremony, with proceeds going to top bidders. WAACs will attend Kiwanis luncheon and a Paramount Theatre showing, then furloughs until after January 1.
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Panhandle
Woman’s Arms Auxiliary
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Pearl Harbor
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Globe-News
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Texas
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Amarilo Hotel
Jack Hing
Paramount Theatre
Fhantis
Bomber Crash Fatal to 12 at Maxton North Carolina
Twelve army airmen died in a transport plane crash near Maxton air base. The aircraft burned with all on board lost, as officials announced the routine flight from Maxton to Maxwell Field Alabama. Names of the dead were released.
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Maxwell Fis
Maxwell
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Ala
Weather Summary From Amarillo and West Texas
Continued cold in Amarillo and western Texas with intermittent rain and light snow eastern portions. Mild to cold overall, east areas remain chilly with snow showers in higher elevations. Sunrise 8:42, sunset 6:35. Yesterday’s temperatures show a low and a high, precipitation minimal. Circulation note: Amarillo Sunday News-Globe 34,824.
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Snow General Over Plains Blankets Panhandle and South Plains
A broad snowstorm blanketed the Panhandle and South Plains with depths from three to nine inches. Hale Center reported seven inches and roads from Clovis to Warner Dam and into the Oklahoma Panhandle saw varying accumulations. Abilene logged 31 degrees with drizzle as traffic slowed and theaters borrowed films due to delayed shipments from Dallas.
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Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Glycerine Price Reduced by Major Manufacturers
Washington on December 6 six principal glycerine makers agreed to cut the price by one cent per pound about five percent for all sales to the government.
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Iment
McGee to Meet With Gas Rationing Board Today
State OPA director Mark McGee travels to Amarillo to discuss preferred gas rations with Potter County Rationing Board at 10 am and a public meeting at 2:45 pm after a Kiwanis event. Officials from Farm Security, HOLC, and other agencies shaped the week’s rationing controversy.
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Amarillo
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Amar Chamber of Commerce
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Jongst
New Mexico
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Pecos
Texas
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Mational Storr
Commencati Chamber of Commercce
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Independent Bankers Association of America
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Lubbock Re
Wickard Named Czar of Food Front by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt installed Wickard as head of the home food front controlling production distribution and marketing of essential foods. A new executive order shifts supervision from other bodies to Wickard, granting full determination of civilian food needs and allocation.
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Nelson
Agriculture Department
Food Pregurgen Administration
Food Distribution Administration
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Secere
White House
Allied Push Penetrates Beach East of Buna New Guinea
Allied forces under General MacArthur drive toward the Buna beachhead on New Guinea. Beach operations isolate a Japanese pocket as heavy air attacks disrupt enemy lines from Buna to Timor and New Ireland.
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Buna
Struggle for French Support Grows Across Forces
The page traces the intensifying struggle for French support among Admiral Darlan in North Africa, General De Gaulle in London, and the Vichy faction in Paris. It cites British reactions, Eden’s statements, and BBC broadcasts as tensions rise ahead of 1943.
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Alaskan earthquake recorded near Weston College station
Seismologists reported tremors northwest of Sas in Alaska registering at Weston College station. Rev Daniel Linehan chief seismologist announced the tremors today and said records indicated a light earthquake began at 9 37 26 A M Central War Time yesterday.
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Daniel Linehan
Blood Bank Donations Reach 1,126,000 Pints Since Last Year
Five Americans have donated 1,126,000 pints of blood to the Red Cross since last December, aiding hundreds of men. Surgeons general of the Army and Navy reported tonight in Washington.
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Red Cross
Renaral
Army
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Coastal Road In Tunisia Cut By Allied Bombing
Allied daylight raids on Western Europe and a broad assault across Axis coastlines mark a major offensive. US and British bombers plus 400 fighters struck Nazi targets while American and French units advanced along the Tunisian coast. Red Army presses in snowbound Stalingrad and central fronts as RAF and US Navy air power push across seas. German bases and a major radio tube plant near Eindhoven faced heavy strikes, with production lines crippled and significant damage reported.
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Europe
England
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Red Army
Stalingrad
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Abbeyville
United Nations
Germany
Africa
Mediterranean
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Zealand
France
Gerim End
Danish Sientiene
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Dar Shere
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Air mi
Air Ministry
Seid
Battlefronts Signify Widening War Across Fronts
Clouds of Allied planes rained destruction on Western Europe causing vast damage to industries and airdromes. American and French forces pressed their advances against Axis supply lines while Russian troops repelled several Axis counterattacks west of Rahey near Stalingrad. American airmen struck Japanese positions in New Guinea as S RAF bombers attacked key targets in Burma.
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Chittagong
Bengal
Burma
Europe
Rahey
Stalingrad
Bunn
Gona
New Guinea
Fleet Finishes Three Big Jobs
A wartime bulletin notes three major Allied tasks completed: securing sea lanes for growing troop movements, repulsing major enemy thrusts in the Coral Sea Midway and Solomons, and returning damaged ships to the fleet as Britain strengthens its coastal citadel. Mustangs and RAF fighters strike targets in Holland Brittany and France as Allied air forces suffer losses and press follow up. Allied reinforcements rush to fronts while airmen keep up strikes on Axis forces around the Mediterranean and in North Africa.
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