Allied Raiders Sink Convoy in Major Pacific Victory
Allied air forces shattered a Japanese convoy bound for New Guinea at Lae. All 22 ships, including 12 transports and 10 warships, were sunk or sinking with about 15 000 troops aboard almost all killed. Only one bomber and three fighters were lost.
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Vern Haugland
Australia
New Guinea
Lae
MacArthur
Finschhafen
Juan Gulf
Papuan
General MacArthur
Knox Predicts 10 Percent Casualty Rate in Navy
Secretary Knox told the House subcommittee that the navy could reach 2,250,000 personnel by July 1944 and warned that one in ten sailors may be killed or wounded. The estimate supported a new 4 billion dollar supplemental naval appropriation, with the committee trimming direct appropriations and questioning manpower needs.
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Washington
Navy
Frank Knox
War Patterson
House Naval Committee
Knox
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
War
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service Boards
Patterson
Naval Establishment
Vinson
Georgia
Rep. Maas
Minnesota
House Subcommittee On Naval Appropriations
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Randall Jacobs
Bureau of Personnel
John Paul Jones
Jacobs
Pampa Bidders Boost Prices on 4-H Calves
The Gray County Junior Livestock Show and Sale in Pampa raised funds for the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts. Calves averaged 22.10 per hundred while pigs averaged 20.86 per hundred with top buys including Vernon Batterman’s grand champion calf at 30 per hundred and Eugene Smart’s reserve champion at 21. Multiple local buyers donated stock for resale to support charitable funds. Roy W. Snyder judged the event and Tom Cox chaired the show auction.
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Pampa
American Red Cross
Girl Scouts of America
Gray County
Girl Scouts
Jet Brumley
Brumley's
Vernon Batterman
Ideal Food Stores
Eugene Smart
Panhandle Packing Company
Bill Reeves
Suttle Grocery
Johnie Gayterman
Girl Scout
Pampa Kiwanis Club
Tex Fvans
Buick Company
Homer Taylor
F. J. Dunigan
Mel Davis
Mack Graham
Frank Carter
Johnny Baggerman
H. H. Cooper
Roy W. Snyder
College Station
Texas Extension Service
Tom Cox
Agriculture Committee
Pampa Chamber of Commerce
Boss Lawrance
Phantom Panzers Refuse Battle for Cactus Plain
Allied dispatches report Rommel’s forces yielding Sheita and the Feriana Valley to avoid a southward blow by the Eighth Army. British and French units drive the Axis retreat toward Sidi Bouzid and Sbeitla while air activity increases and German attacks lessen in the north.
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Phantom Panzers
Cactus Plain
Harold W. Boyle
North Africa
Erwin Romnel
Sheitla
Feriana
Kassexine Pass
Tunisia
Sidi Bouzid
Sbeitla
Paid Pass
Axis
World War Fronts Shift as Allies Press and Axis Retaliate
The report notes German forces ousted at Rahev base in Russia while Allied pressure builds in Tunisia as U S forces push on the central front. A German raid on London is reported as reprisal for Berlin blasts amid strategic air battles in the Pacific. MacArthur’s air action sinks 10 Japanese warships and 12 transports in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea with heavy losses to Japan and about 15 000 troops drowned.
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U.S
Tunisia
Kasar Mezous
Kagar Mezous
Beja
Medjez-El-Bab
MacArthur
Bismarck Sea
Amarillo In Host Fat Stock Show Dates March 8 1
Loose leaf price books memo books from Russell Stationery Company tied to Amarillo event dates March 8 through 10.
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Amarillo
Russell Stationery Company
Frisbie Murder Trial Launched
Two murder cases opened in 47th district court yesterday as juror pools ran short. Dorothy Frisbie 18 faced arraignment for poisoning 16 month old Johnnie Scott with rat poison and pleaded not guilty while jurors for John Kincheloe failed to materialize.
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47Th District Court
John Kincheloe
Talismen
Kincheloe
Dorothy Frisbie
Johnnie Scott
Henry Bishop
C. B. Reeder
Mighty German Bastion Taken
London report says Soviet forces captured Rahev after a fierce battle. About 2000 Germans killed and large enemy booty seized. Moscow says Red Army advanced to within 45 miles of Kiev railway and threatened Finland and Hitler’s northern line. German high command admits loss of Ashav as a major reverse.
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London
Rehev
Moscow
Red Army
Kiev
Rahev
Finland
Hitler
Poland
Baltic States
Berlin
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Dobo
Aru Islands
Kai Islands
Finschafen
Southwest Pacific
Allied
Rabaul
New Britain
Vitiag Straits
Huon Gulf
Lae-Salamaua
Africa
Mediterranean
French Camel Corps
Medjer-El- Bab
Camel Corps
Nefta
RAF
Arnima
First Army
Sedjenane
Jurgin von Arnim
von Arnim
Tunis
Bizerte
West Texas
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Strategic Triangle
Russia
Nagzis
Gandhi
Frisbie
Miss Frisbie
Jim Lumpkin
Hugh Umphries
Knecheloe
Clark
Dallam County
Ruhev
Adrawal
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