President Urges National Unity and Service Act
President Roosevelt asks Congress to pass a National Service Act and other wartime measures to mobilize manpower and resources. He outlines five major laws including tax on war profits, renegotiation of war contracts, price stabilization, food price floor, and universal service for the duration of the war. The plan aims to deter strikes, secure victory, and lay postwar economic rights.
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May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Reynolds
Senate Military Committee
Grippe
Congress
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Teheran
Cairo
Treasury
George C. Marshall
White House
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Curity
Stalin
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shen
National Service &Ct
Austin
Vermont
Rep
Wadsworth
York
Tokyo Only Goal For Fighting Pacific Admiral
Adm William F. Halsey Jr declares Tokyo must fall for peace and victory in the Pacific. He notes air sea and land superiority, says Japan’s navy crippled but capable of a major fleet, and mocks Japanese propaganda while optimistic about future engagements.
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Washington
Tokyo
Adm
William F. Halsey
Halsey
Japan
Pacific
Cake and Meal Reaches Panhandle in Carloads
Cake and meal shipments move into the Panhandle with 15 counties reporting 5 to 10 carloads received recently. H C Stewart of the AAA state committee praises fast delivery as 4 more carloads were allotted by B F Vance to the Panhandle.
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Panhandle
H. C. Stewart
AAA
Stewart
B. F. Vance
Massive Bomber Raid Fails to Trim Allied Air Power
U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators faced fierce German defense in a deep raid on Northwest to Central Germany. Claims of 123 bombers down by Hitler’s HQ and 80 by German outlets are unconfirmed. U S bulletins note strong fighter opposition with no loss totals.
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London
U. S
Hitler
German International Information Bureau
U. S. Army
Germany
Schweinfurt
Walter E. Gibson
Lynden
Iff
William H. Stoyer
Reading
Ministry of Information
RAF
Algiers
Haly
Sofia
Bulgaria
Rome
Cassino
Mark W. Clark
Mt. di Piperia
Cervaro
Via Casilina
San Vittore
Mt. Rocchia
Gestapo Trials in U S Prison Hinted at War Camp Death
Concordia Kansas January 11 Col Lester Voeke ordered a full investigation into the death by wrist cuts of German Private Franz Kettner 49 in the Concordia War Prisoner Camp A German staff officer and American officer will lead separate probes The incident fuels whispers of a German faction within the camp with trials and sentences reported by the Blade Empire on prior German deaths
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U. S
Concordia
Kan
Lester Vocke
Franz Kettner
Voeke
Kettner
Shal
Vocke
Blade Empire
Kiel
Amarillo Plans to Deed 1500-Acre Air Field to War Dept
Mayor Joe A. Jenkins said Amarillo will deed the 1500 acre Amarillo Army Air Field to the War Department to secure a permanent postwar installation. The city owns the land, purchased via bond issue, and now leases it for $1 a year.
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Amarillo Field
U. S
Amarillo
Joe A. Jenkins
Amarillo Army Air Field
War Department
Jenkins
Aviation Committee
The
Chamber of
Russians Push 35 Miles Into Poland and Fight Near Sarny
Soviet forces breached the Sluch River line pushing 35 miles inside the prewar Polish frontier and captured towns north and south of Sarny. Moscow listed heavy losses for German troops, and reported advancing on multiple fronts toward Lviv and the Romanian border with widespread rail disruption.
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London
Sluch
Sarny
Moscow
Kirovograd
Staryelsk
Nenovichy
Moscow Broadcast
Monitor
Berlin
Baranowize
Rovno
Brest- Litovsk
Nikolai Vatutin
Novograd Volynski
Berdichev
Krasnopol
Dniester
Rumania
Bug River
Warsaw
Odessa
Zhmerinka
Ukraine
Nagi
Russia
Crimea
Kerech
Banks Hold Elections Reelected Directors at Two Amarillo Banks
At annual meetings Amarillo National Bank and American National Bank reelected all directors. Amarillo National Bank officers include C T Ware as president and R C Ware as executive VP, with A H Ware and others in VP roles. American National Bank directors include H C Pipkin and Grady Oldham among nine leaders, with Bynum as chairman and Paul as president. The First National Bank stockholders meet next week.
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Amarillo National Bank
American National Bank
First National Bank
C. T. Ware
R. C. Ware
A. H Ware
S. D. Vaughan
H. J. Farwell
Chester Albritton
John W. Morris
C. R Brock
Light Snow Flurries Forecast for Amarillo
Light snow flurries and below freezing temperatures are in the offing for Amarillo and vicinity today. A small amount of snow was expected to be on the ground before daybreak. Temperatures will stay below freezing and winds will be light. The mercury may drop to around 12 degrees in the early morning. Midnight reading was 18 degrees.
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Amarillo
U. S. Weather Bureau
Allies Pound Rabaul Area as Pacific War Intensifies
Allied air forces destroyed Japanese warships off New Ireland and bombed Madang in New Guinea as Gen Douglas MacArthur advances near Saidor. Seventeen Japanese planes were shot down at Rabaul, four American planes lost, while Rom naval targets and bridges along the Bogadjim road were hit. Mountbatten’s forces pushed toward Akyab as British and American troops press along the Burmese coast.
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Associated Press
New Ireland
Rabaul
Madang
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Kavieng
Bogadjim
United States Sixth Army
Saidor
Huon Peninsula
New Britain
Hill 660
Silimati Point
Bergen Bay
Tokyo
Ryozo Nakamura
United States
Japan
Northern Pacific
South Pacific
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Maungdaw
Akyab
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Region
The Amarillo Weather Service reports cloudy and colder conditions with scattered snow flurries across the North Plains and South Plains Wednesday and Thursday. Expect light to fresh winds, colder nights, and variable cloud cover with periods of sun by afternoon.
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Amarillo
Texas
South Plains
de Rio-Bagie
Powereliy Fair
Moai
Yanks Use Logs or Foxholes on Gilbert Island
A Seventh Air Force base on Gilbert Island reports logging has become a major business to dig foxholes. Workers build miniature log shelters coconuts banked with sand and palm matting on the floor to create dense foxholes for defense.
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AIR Force
Gilbert Islands
Jan, Il
Nazi Ciano and Four Others Executed in Treason Trial
German DNB report from Verona states Count Galeazzo Ciano, former foreign minister and one of Italy’s wealthiest men, was shot after treason conviction for voting to oust Benito Mussolini. Four co-defendants Marshal Emilio de Bono, Giovanni Marinelli, Carlo Pareschi, and Luciano Gottardi were also executed. Nineteen former Fascist grand council members were convicted. thirteen were at large, and one received a three year sentence in absentia.
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London
Galeazzo Ciano
Germany
DNB
Benito Mussolini
Ciano
Emilio de Bono
Giovanni Marinelli
Carlo Pareschi
Luciano Gottardi
Grand Council
Tullio Ciannetti
Germét
Verona
Italy
Count Costanzo Ciano
Edda Mus“olini
Rosety
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Amarillo- Daily News
Johnson
Colorado
Evelyn Boyd
Hartley
Dumas
Reds
Poland
Russell Stationery Company
Amarillo Data
Amarillo Globe
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