Rain and hail damage wheat across Texas Panhandle
A storm system dumped up to three inches of rain and heavy hail in parts of the Texas Panhandle, flattening unharvested wheat in a ten mile area between Dumas and Bautista. Amarillo saw mixed showers with no major damage, while other towns reported rainfall amounts and railroad disruptions.
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Panhandle
Dumas
Bautista
Santa Fe
Amarillo
U. S. Weather Bureau
Waynoka
Clovis
Gage
Okla
Arnett
Fort Worth
Civic Leaders Shape Comic Roles For Gigantic War Bond Auction
Civic leaders join a wartime bond auction and sideshow at 8 pm on 1k Street between Sixth and Fourth Avenues. Prizes include nylon hose and sugar, with entertainment from Jenks Mode, wrestling bouts with Man Mountain Dean, and fashion displays by Colonel Simpson and Rex Baxter.
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Gulf Oil Corporation Consignee
Cal Farley
Jenks Mode
Man Mountain Dean
Bull Lynch
Ordnance Plant Exhibit and War Bond Auction Event
A public auction and sideshow planned at Fifth Avenue and Polk Street features a platform for a 50 man chorus and military band from Amarillo Army Air Field. It includes 14 performers and 14 Chin-Up candidates and a truck display from Pantex with explosives types. War bond sales will be pledged with gavel by Cal Farley. Dallas drives Fifth War Loan. city surpasses Texas quota.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Jack Woods
Frank Little
Cal Farley
E. W. Cain
Dr. Cain
Sixth Avenue
Polk Street
Pantex
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Dallas
Texas
Nathan Adams
War Finance Committee of Texas
U. S. Treasury Department
Adams
Fatherland Line Wiped Out in Minsk Drive
Soviet forces carve through the Fatherland Line around Minsk by capturing Mogilev Lepel and Osipovichi and encircling Bobruisk. The push advances toward Minsk with Gen. Rokossovsky and Gen. Bagramian leading deep operations. over 1 000 towns fell in a 250 mile front as the offensive widens.
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Fatherland
Minsk
London
Mogilev
Lepel
Osipovichi
Bobruisk
Moscow
Matvei Zakharov
Stalin
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Shklov
Bykhov
Moscov
Caen Falls to Allied Armored Push Near Caen
Allied forces broke into Caen area in a major armored drive described as potentially the greatest Western Europe battle. British tanks and infantry with Canadian gunners pressed from the southwest and north, knocking out German armor and driving toward Caen amid heavy fire.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Throwinner
Lanad Bhane Moo
AL Stadl
Werman
Europe
Epron
Heronville
Orne
Tourville
Odon
Rauray
Fontenay
New Ration Order Hikes Beef Point Values
The Office of Price Administration raises point values for beef as shortages loom in July. Choice cuts up one to two points per pound. lamb and some cheeses return to rationing. butter remains 12 points and cheddar 10. Canned milk upticks to 2-3 points. overall meat supply for civilians dips about four tenths of one percent.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Price
Chester Bowles
OPA
Weather forecast for Amarillo and region
The forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions across Amarillo and West Texas Thursday and Friday with widely scattered thundershowers in late afternoon and early evening. New Mexico expects a few scattered storms with warm temperatures activity.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Bay
Bila -Aveniure Be
Wheat harvest boosts Amarillo grain receipts to new high
Wheat receipts at Amarillo elevators rose sharply with 123 carloads reported, up from 77 on Tuesday and 87 for Sunday and Monday. The surge signals the High Plains harvest is nearing peak within a week or ten days, while officials warn labor and equipment shortages loom mid harvest.
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Amarillo
High Plains
D. A. Adam
Plainview
San Angelo
Brownwood
Brady
Oklahoma
Adam
Marvin Jones On Way Home
War Foods Administrator Marvin Jones said food distribution under rationing or lend lease will not be affected by politics. En route from Washington to Amarillo he predicted a brief postwar rationing period and pledged rapid abandonment of rationing. He praised the federal price support program as a key war foods pillar and voiced optimism for higher food production if weather stays favorable.
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Dallas
War Foods
Marvin Jones
Jones
Washington
Amarillo
Tex
United States
U S Finland Break Nears Amid Finland War Announcement
Washington reports indicate the United States leans toward a diplomatic break with Finland over Helsinki's pledge to wage active war with Nazis against Russia. President Roosevelt faces a crucial decision as Finland’s stance strains post Pearl Harbor relations and ties with Argentina’s hemispheric stance are also in question. A separate Allied communiqué notes a new special telephone cable under the English Channel now in use since the invasion.
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Washington
June
Finland
Russia
Argentina
Roosevelt
United States
Hjalmar Procope
Pearl Harbor
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
Farley Garner Plot Charged in Roosevelt Reelection Drive
In Richmond Virginia Rixey Smith alleged a Farley and Garner led plot to revolt against Roosevelt. He spoke at Hotel John Marshall to form a Richmond committee of 100 for Roosevelt's reelection. Garner had no comment on Smiths remarks.
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Richmond
Rixey Smith
Carter Glass
Shearers
Soan
James A. Farley
National Committee
John Nance Garner
Roosevelt
Smith
John Marshall
Texas
Europe
Bryan
Farley
Garner
South Carolina
Mississippi
Committee For
Uvalde
John N. Garner
Houston
Tex
George Butler
Texas State Democratic Executive Committee
Dewey Wins GOP Nomination Seeks Youthful Leadership
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago promising to end one man rule, crush Axis will, and restore freedom at home. He attacked the Roosevelt administration as old, tired, and unable to solve wartime and peacetime problems, and urged a fresh, progressive Washington with Bricker.
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Chicago Stadium
Thomas E. Dewey
America
Germany
Japan
Roosevelt
Dewey
Mrs. Dewey
Martin
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
United States
John W. Bricker
Ohio
White House
Bricker
John Bricker
New York
Washington
Two Weeks Invasion Casualties Put at Forty Thousand Five Hundred Forty Nine
Allied HQ reports 40 549 invasion casualties in two weeks from June 6 to 20, including 24 262 Americans killed wounded or missing, with 70 000 German losses in three weeks. The tally excludes Cherbourg losses and Caen offensive.
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Maupertus
London
Supreme Headquarters
Caen
India
Japan
Joseph W
Stalwell
Burma
France
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