Allied Forces Sink Five Axis U Boats in South Atlantic
War updates report Allied ships sinking five Axis U boats in the South Atlantic. A separate War Department release notes a crash of a large Army transport off the Dutch Guiana coast killing 35, the worst U S aviation disaster. Victims include novelist Eric Knight and G man P E Foxworth. other victims include crew and civilians. Flight crew member C E Quisenberry is named among the dead with ties to Amarillo and Fort Worth.
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U.S
Washington
Africa
Dutch Guiana
South America
War Department
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P. E. Foxworth
William Hodson
New York City
North Africa
Alen Shoard
States Army
Guiana
C. E. Quisenberry
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Transcontinental Western Air
English Field
East Nelson Street
Alexandria
Submarine War in South Atlantic Rises as Allied Vessels Sink Five
Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram announced ten Axis submarines destroyed in the South Atlantic with five sunk in the past month. He credited U S and Brazilian air forces and noted German surface raider scuttled. survivors held in Brazilian prisons. He outlined offensive strategy and bases from Bahia to Africa with U S and Brazilian cooperation.
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Rio DE Janeiro
South Atlantic
Jonas H. Ingram
Annapolis
United Nations
Joaquin Salgado
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Ingram
Chile
United States
Brazil
Bahia
Africa
Near East
Germany
Japan
Air Force
United States Navy
Bathurst
Gambia
Dakar
Freetown
Marines Rest After 250 Days in Guadalcanal
Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson announced that Army ground troops under Major General Alexander Patch have replaced Marines in the Solomons. Patch's forces, under Major General Millard Harmon, operate with Admiral Halsey in command. Marines began the Guadalcanal campaign on August 7 and had been in action over 250 days, securing Henderson Field before moving to rest.
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Robert Patterson
Solomons
Alexander Patch
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Patch
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Millard F. Harmon
South Pacific
William F. Halsey
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Navy
T & Army
Red Army Pushes Deep Into Caucasus Front Lines
Moscow reports rapid Soviet advances in Ukraine and the Caucasus. Rostov and Armavir remain focal points as Red forces drive toward the Sea of Azov and Baku oil fields, with substantial enemy losses and rail disruptions noted in the latest communique.
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London
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Nevinnomysskaya
North Caucasus
Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk
Manych
Salsk
Rostov-Baku
Kuban
Armavir
Maikop
Triplets Born To Rodriguez Family Here
Juan Rodriguez a Santa Fe section worker becomes father of nine after three daughters born at the family home. The babies weigh 4 7, 4 5, and 4 10 pounds and are taken to Northwest Texas Hospital with mother and daughters reported well. Rev. A L Ortiz accompanies, Canido Rodriguez serves in the U S Army in Louisiana, another son awaiting his call, family residents Amarillo for 23 years.
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Juan Rodriguez
Santa Fe
A. L. Ortiz
Mexican Baptist Mission
Candido Rodriguez
United States Army
Louisiana
Rodrigues
Amarillo
Wildcat Coal Strike Ends in Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania January 21 194? UP A wildcat work stoppage in Pennsylvania hard coal fields crippled wartime production prompting President Roosevelt to intervene. The 48 hour Z ero period expired and miners returned to jobs by the thousands with about 2400 still out in three collieries.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Nown
Center Classes Register Today at Amarillo Center
Amarillo Center of West Texas State College invites all interested adults to attend an orientation tonight at 8:30 at 2101 Harrison Street. Teachers and students will finalize courses and schedules for the spring semester with offerings in art, business, languages, mathematics, drafting, public speaking, home economics, physical education, and more. Students may propose additional courses and tailor classes by attending this evening.
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Amarillo Center
West Texas State College
Harrison Street
Great Plains
Sinking of Avenger Claims 407 British Seamen Lost
The admiralty reports 407 British sailors including 68 officers missing after the torpedo sinking of the aircraft carrier Avenger during French North African landings. The total aboard was not released, with Avenger among 16 Allied ships listed as lost from about 850 transports and warships in the operation.
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London
Admiralty
NLRB Pantex Hearing Opens
Hearings began yesterday in a union representation case at the Pantex Ordnance Plant before Trial Examiner Elmer P. Davis. The Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers seek to represent 35 railroad workers, with similar requests from the Federal Labor Union and the Teamsters Union for plant classifications. Certainteed Products Corporation has declined to sign any agreement with the unions.
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Elmer P. Davis
National Labor Relations Board
Federal District Court Room
Order of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Federal Labor Union
Teamsters Union
Certainteed Products Corporation
Battlefronts and Crashes Upend World War II News
Reports indicate an army transport crash in Dutch Guiana kills 35 aboard including Maj. Eric Knight. Russians threaten Voroshilovgrad and push toward Rostov to sever German lines in the Caucasus. U.S. Marines at Guadalcanal are replaced by Army troops after a fierce fight with Japanese forces. Axis retreats in Tunisia as Allied fleets sink five Axis subs and force another raider to scuttle in the South Atlantic.
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Dutch Guiana
South Atlantic
Eric Knight
Harold L. George
Air Transport Command
Army
United States
George
Ernest Lundeen
Minnesota
Lovettsville
Maxim Gorky
Open Door OPA Chief Brown Faces Congressional Test
Congress opens inquiry into the new price administrator Prentiss M. Brown as he seeks a defic ity appropriation of about 20 million dollars to finish the fiscal year. Legislators express hope his open policy will ease past tensions with Congress and improve price and rationing administration.
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OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
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Test
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Henderson
Roosevelt
Aiken
Hill
Alabama
Vermont
Wolf Creek Plan Vetoed and Flood Costs Summarized
The agriculture department sent unfavorable reports on flood control for the Wolf Creek watershed in Texas and Oklahoma and the Pajaro River watershed in California to Congress. It found Wolf Creek flood and sediment damage insufficient for immediate work but supported a land use and management program. Estimated annual flood damage is about 9,200 dollars with sediment damage at 4,200 dollars, totaling 13,400 dollars, while minimal federal costs for a land use program are about 26,250 dollars.
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Washington
Wolf Creek
Texas
Oklahoma
Pajaro River
California
Congress
Agriculture Department
Grover B. Hill
Department
Texas Panhandle
Canadian River
Supply
Woodward County
Oklo
Army engineers report Camp Carson fire causes over 1 million damage
Omaha dispatch reports that engineers at Camp Carson Colorado Springs warn high velocity winds intensified a fire causing damage estimated to exceed 1,000,000. The Seventh Service Command outlined the extent of the loss in a today announcement.
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Neb
Army
Seventh Service Command
Camp Carson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Farm Bloc Opens New Parity Drive
The House farm bloc will push an upward revision of the farm parity price formula to include farm labor costs. Chairman Fulmer and Rep Pace seek bills to change parity calculations, hoping Roosevelt will see the measure, which could add 10 to 12 percent to parity. Leon Henderson objects, warning it could complicate wartime price ceilings.
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Washington
House Farm Bloc
Fulmer
South Carolina
House Agriculture Committee
Rep
Pace
Georgia
Roosevelt
Palmer
Leon Henderson
Jury Chief To Defend Ed Flynn
The Bronx grand jury foreman, investigating city materials and labor used for Edward J. Flynn's country estate courtyard, telegraphed the Senate foreign relations committee that he would appear tomorrow to refute innuendos and accusations about the inquiry.
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Washington
Bronx
New York City
Edward J. Flynn
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Amarillo Daily News Globe Combined January 43
The fragment references Amarillo Daily News and Amarillo Globe Combined Daily dated January 43. No readable events or names provided.
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Amarillo Daily News
The
Amarillo Globe
Nazis Advance To Guard Route For Rommel
Allied Tunisian headquarters report new Axis advances in Tunisia aimed at blocking the Allied line to Rommel. British Libyan Army presses toward Tripoli with Tarbuna and Homs captured as Rommel retreats along the coast. Axis air and sea losses mount.
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Tuenisia
Rommel
Libya
Rommelte
Tripoli
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Cairo
Tarbuna
Homs
Nefusa Ridge
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