Powerful Kansas Publisher Oscar Stauffer Visits Southwest Tour
In Amarillo, Kansas newspaper baron Oscar Stauffer tours the Southwest studying wartime newspaper methods. He leads a stable of papers including Topeka State Journal Arkansas City Traveler and Shawnee radio, advocates national unity in war, and hints at Alaska plans while praising Texas war effort and wheat crop concerns.
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Oliuilee Nm Avperna
Topeka State Journal
Stauffer
Amarillo
Southwest
Kansas
Texas
United Front
Alf Landon
Cleveland
Mr. Landon
National Resources Board
Kansas City
Kansas Industrial Commission
Board of Regents
Kansas State College and University System
University of Kansas
Arkansas City Traveler
Pittsburg
Kan
Shawnee
Okla
Grand Island
Neb
Independent
Maryville
Mr. Stauffer
Boston Gazette
Topeka
Northern
Ireland
World War II Fronts Report Bold Moves and Bombardments
A montage of wartime updates from Java Burma and the Pacific notes a Japanese air and ground push, British command shakeups, MacArthur’s air raid on Subic Bay, a massive Paris bombing effort, and Soviet advances near Leningrad with 51 transports destroyed aiding the encircled 16th Army.
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Leningrad
Staraya Russa
SMA program expansion seen in Panhandle counties
Officials from 14 Panhandle counties met SMA representatives in Amarillo to discuss joining the blue stamp food program. The survey noted eight counties already added, with mail service via the Amarillo Stamp Issuing Office and same-day stamp orders. Contract signing anticipated by Monday or Tuesday.
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Panhandle
SMA
Amarillo
West Texas
Amar
Amarillo Kafir Used for Powder Production
Amarillo kafir corn is being turned into alcohol for the United States Army at a plant in Atchison Kansas. Three carloads of Panhandle kafir arrived last week with more expected as marketing connects grow. The facility, previously testing a gasoline substitute, now produces 190 proof alcohol for smokeless powder. Daily capacity discussed reaches 6 000 bushels for about 15 000 gallons, while current output runs 7 000 gallons from 3 000 kafir bushels. T. E. Snowden and son Bob are visiting the area.
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Snowden
Bob
Hog prices climb to 16 year high on Chicago markets
The Chicago live stock market posted a 13.20 per hundred pounds average for live hogs, the highest since 1926, as wartime demand and government buyplans push prices up. Analysts note a lag before consumer pork prices rise and discuss potential OPA actions amid calls from farmers to withhold hogs.
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Chicago
America
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Washington
England
Packing House
Wickard
Second U.S. troop contingent arrives in Northern Ireland
The second contingent of U.S. forces lands in Northern Ireland, numbering in the thousands with full equipment. Led by Master Sergeant Dorrance Mann of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the unit includes 16 nurses and Red Cross staff, arriving amid routine yet ceremonial welcomes from Allied commanders.
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Rice Yahner
U.S
Northern Ireland
U. S
Ulster
London
Washington
Middlewest
United States
MacArthur
Bataan
Middle West
Dorrance Mann
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Rainbow Division
Red Cross
Boston
Kentucky
Florence . Thompson
North Sydney
Nova Scotia
Russell P. Hartie
Walter K. Venning
H. F. Franklyn
Mann
168Th Infantry
Town National Guard
Eleanor
Camp Claiborne
Abraham Lincoln High School
Aaron Ward Destroyer Commissioned in Brooklyn Navy Yard
The camouflaged 1,630 ton destroyer Aaron Ward, reputedly one of the fastest ships afloat, was commissioned today in the Brooklyn navy yard and joined the fleet.
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New York
Aaron Ward
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Ships of the Line
Fragmented Weather Page Data
Fragmented OCR weather snippet shows times and temperatures with unclear labels. It notes sunrise and sunset times and a sequence of max and min temperatures for the previous day and current day, but the data is garbled and not fully readable. The fragment references AM PM markers and a 32 degree value, offering limited, uncertain weather details.
Fat stock show to shed mud as paving nears completion
Amarillo marks Fat Stock Show week with paving work around loading ramps to keep trucks moving. Potter County officials ordered caliche surfaces after Tri-State Fair president Ray Pinkney highlighted the need. Open Monday, the 1942 exposition is expected to be one of the biggest on record with heavy calf and sheep entries across multiple counties.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Potter County Commissioners Court
Ray Pinkney
R. FP. McSwain
Brady
McCullough
Mr. McSwain
Wheeler County Club
Jake Tarter
L. E
Sumnerwood
Bobby Howard
Defense Bond Drive and Concert by Amarillo Symphony
The week of March 15 is Defense Bomber Week with a Liberty Loan Drive led by the Potter County bond committee and American Legion speakers. Amarillo Symphony presents guest cellist Cornelis Van Vliet at 8:15 pm in the Municipal Auditorium with a varied program including Saint-Saens concerto and Bach choral prelude.
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Amarillo
Potter County
American Legion
Bill Gilstrap
John Boyce
Municipal Auditorium
Cornelius van Vliet
Robert Louis Barron
Barron
Hoffman
van Vliet
Saint- Saens
Romberg
Queen of Sheba
Herman DeVries
Chicago American
Cornelis van Vlie
Texas Willing to Take Aliens
Texas Governor Coke R. Stevenson said the state would take its share of Japanese enemy aliens moved inland from the West Coast. He described building a strong barbed wire corral and insisted the aliens should be interned and kept in their place. The remarks came during a Greater Texas Club banquet with Mexican consul Luis Perez Abrau also speaking on allied concerns. Stevenson cited historical ties and noted three Mexicans signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.
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Dallas
Coke R. Stevenson
Texas
West Coast
Pacific Coast
Junction
Tex
Greater Texas Club
Luis Perez- Abreau
Mexico
Stevenson
Pampans Missed Mail as Snow Blocks Routes
Dozens of Pampans received no mail recently because they failed to clear snow from sidewalks. Under postal regulations carriers are not required to deliver mail where they must break a path through snow to reach a door.
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Rampa
Marth
Pampans
Starlings Return to Amarillo After Prolonged Tour
Thousands of starlings swarmed the trees of West Amarillo yesterday marking a return after months of sparse presence. The birds vanished last spring but are now back in the parks and yards after a lengthy migratory period.
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Amarillo
West Amarillo
Six Seamen Missing After Gypsum Prince Sinks Off Lewes
The 3915 ton British freighter Gypsum Prince collided with the oil tanker Voco off Lewes, Delaware, sank with six deaths including Capt Own Jones. Pilot Percy Johnson and 19 crew survived. six other crewmen are listed as missing.
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Lewes
Del
Voco
Own Jones
Percy Johnson
Cape May
N. J
Coast Guard
Johnson
Walker Morgan
John Parsons
Harry Wood
Matthew Olson
Jake Kileup
Army reports bomber raid over Honolulu during WWII
The Army disclosed a possible enemy plane dropped three bombs on Oahu near Honolulu early today. No casualties or major damage besides broken windows. craters about 40 feet wide, 600 yards apart, and trees stripped nearby. The suspected aircraft traveled south toward Diamond Head.
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Honolulu
Oahu Island
Diamond Head
Navy
Harrison R. Cooke
Hawaii
Japan
Army
Roosevelt High School
Big Bombers Could Fly From Wake To Hawaii
Washington reports that Japan could deploy land based bombing planes from Wake or the Marshall Islands to Hawaii. Such raids would be routine long range flights, with aircraft capable of 2000 mile trips, and the recent three bombs dropped on Hawaii may have been a precautionary nuisance raid rather than a profitable strike.
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Washington
Japan
Hawaii
Island of
Wake
United States
Europe
Marshall Islands
Dutch Hold On Java Front Amid Incoming Japanese Assault
Allied forces in Java stubbornly resist as Japanese units press toward Soebang Bandoeng and Bantam areas. British home guards report recapturing half Boebang village while Dutch and Allied air and ground defences strike at enemy bases. Dutch command restructures Indies leadership as 85,000 Japanese face 50,000 Allied troops.
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Home Guard
Boebang
Indramajoe
Bandoeng
Java
High Command
Soebang
Bantam
Batavia
Blora
Soerabaja
Netherlands
London
Indies
A. W. LG
Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stadion- Wer
Archibald P. Wavell
United Nations
India
Java Sea
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Oscar Stauffer
Hutchinson
Atchison
Dodge City
Lawrence
Old Tack
Alaska
Associated Press
Archibald Wavell
Burma
Mandalay
Sittang River
Douglas MacArthur
Subic Bay
Olongapo
Grande Island
Paris
Coventry
Surplus Marketing Administration
Claude Hodges
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Russell Stationery Company
AEF
New Mexico
Aeue
Amarillo Symphony
USA
William HL. McDougall
United Press
B. 8. Tharp
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