Panhandle Livestock Show Opens With Large Entry Totals
Morning crowds observe the 18th annual livestock show as 119 club calves remain after classification and 52 not allowed to compete. About 250 pigs enter judging at 10 am, with many ready for sale by 11 am. Quarter Horse entries fill the barns while sale cattle and carrot bulls prepare for auctions. County agents praise the classification committees for thoroughness.
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Jack Roach
Joe Gamble
Paul Lawson
Roy Snyder
College Station
Western
Jack Coulter
Jay Taylor
Eddie Johnson
Joe Hatton
Spearman
Alex Bateman
Hereford
Hatton
Panhandle
Raymond Hollingsworth
Panhandle Quarter Horse Exhibitors Association
D. Burns
Mason King
Allies Close on Rhine as Ninth Army Crossings Reported
Paris dispatch says U S First Army nears Cologne within two miles while Allied forces push along a 75 mile Rhine front. German claims of crossings near Duesseldorf and Krefeld are unconfirmed. Uerdingen bridge was blown after a crossing attempt. 3,000 Allied POWs freed at Krefeld.
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Paris
U. S. First Army
Cologne
Rhine
U. S& Ninth Army
Duesseldorf
Krefeld
Supreme Headquarters
Eisenhower
Great River
Uerdingen
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
First
Loevenich
Hitler
Peoples’ Army
Stalingrad
U. S
First Army
Ninth Army
Duisberg
tross-Rhine
Homberg
Ruhr
Homeberg
Raile Road
84Th
Fat Stock Show Schedule Highlights Mar 5 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.
The program lists events for the Fat Stock Show from Monday, March 5, including entries, judging, and meat cutting demonstrations at the Sales Arena and Livestock Arena. It notes commercial calls at Western Stock Yards, the quarter horse breeders banquet at Amarillo Hotel, and various club sales and judging throughout the day and into Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Amarillo Field Central Meat Plant
Western Stock Yards
New Sale Pavillion
Eddie Johnson
Jay Taylor
Jock Coulter
Amarillo Hotel
Panhandle Hereford Breeders
Amarillo
Panhandle Hereford Breeders’ Sale
Range Riders Saddle House
Pig Club
Sales Arena
Lamb Club
Sales
Calf Club
Merchants Offer Dollar Day Bargains at Amarillo Show
The Amarillo Fat Stock Show opens today promising bargains for ranchers and 4 H members. Dollar Day attracts shoppers, but livestock raisers with unplaced animals and late arrivals may miss the deals.
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Amarillo
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding regions
The Amarillo weather section notes colder conditions Monday with snow and freezing drizzle, winds 25 to 35 mph, and temperatures around 16 degrees. Stockmen advised to take precautions. West Texas shows partly cloudy skies with light snow in Panhandle and South Plains, colder Monday night into Tuesday. New Mexico expected light rain or snow, winds 20 to 30 mph, much colder, with varying temperatures through the day.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Timdy
Pansandie
South Plains
Panhandle
New Mexico
German Planes Hit Britain in Early Morning and Night Raids
German planes attacked Britain in two waves, early today and tonight, in the first major raids since June. Coastal defenses fired on raiders from the North Sea, six planes were shot down, one reached London, and casualties occurred across scattered towns with damaged streets and buildings.
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London
Britain
North Sea
East Anglia
England
Princess Elizabeth Joins British ATS WAC
Princess Elizabeth has joined the British Army’s ATS the equivalent of the WAC Buckingham Palace announced tonight The report also mentions Olver Wisins Lumber Co at 1200 W 6th in connection with lumber sales.
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London
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Olver & Wis
Ins Lbr. Co
Superforts Attack Tokyo In Second Sunday Raid
American B-29s conduct a large force raid on Tokyo from Guam spanning 1500 miles. Tokyo reports about 150 planes hit the capital area with fires started. no enemy fighters opposed and no big losses. Nagoya Toyohashi and Hamamatsu are also targeted in expanded operations.
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21St Bomber Command
Guam
Marianas-to-Tokyo
Tokyo
20Th Air Force
Emperor's Palace
Nagoya
Toyohashi
Hamamatsu
Osaka
Kobe
Kyushu
Allied bombers strike Ruhr and Axis rail hubs across Europe
American and British heavy bombers with fighter escort attack Ruhr transportation targets in southwest Germany for the 20th straight day. 15th Air Force bombers hit Austrian and Hungarian rail lines serving German troops. Eighth Air Force strikes Ulm and Munich area facilities with limited fighter opposition.
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London
Germany
Ruhr
15Th Air Force
Italy
Austria
Hungary
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Ulm
Munich
England
Wanne-Eickel
Cold Wave Forecast Over Plains Delivers Snow and Freeze
The weather bureau warned stockmen as a cold air mass moved from Denver toward the plains. Freezing drizzle and snow were forecast with subfreezing temperatures and strong winds, easing by Wednesday as temperatures rise and thaw begins.
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Weather Bureau
Denver
Bureau
Red Army Drives to Baltic Coast in 62 Mile Breakthrough
The Red Army reached the Baltic coast at Kolberg in a 62 mile advance that split eastern Pomerania, trapped thousands of German troops, and outflanked Stettin. Zhukov and Rokossovsky closed on Kolberg with 20 divisions possibly 200,000 Germans cut off, as railways and highways were seized and tie-ins to Danzig and Swinemuende disrupted.
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Baltic
London
Red Army
Kolberg
Pomerania
Berlin
Stettin
Marshal Zhukov
Swinemuende
Marshal Rokossovsky
Koeslin
Stalin
Danzig
Germany
Connecticut
Rokossovsky
Zhukov
Reetz
Oder River
Stettin-Danzig
Stolp
Gdynia
Moscow
Vienna
Dresden
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Latvia
Tempelburg
Neu- Stettin
Dramburg
Labes
Regenwalde
Freienwalde
Wangerin
End to Chrysler strike voted to resume war production
Detroit march 4 strike by Chrysler Corp union workers ended after a vote to return to work. The eight day stoppage idled 24,000 Chrysler employees and halted war output across six plants. The vote came after wartime board orders and pleas from CIO leaders.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
National War Labor Board
Chrysler
Briggs Manufacturing Co
United Automobile Workers
Patterson
Washington
Great Arsenal
Italian Troops Drive Nazis From Coast South of Po Di Primaro
Italian troops with the British Eighth Army rout the enemy from the coastal area south of the Po Di Primaro River and capture nearly 200 prisoners, Allied Headquarters reports.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Po di Primaro
Grave toll on Ledo Road revealed by War Department
The War Department disclosed that for every mile of the 1,044 mile Ledo Road from India to China a U S soldier lies buried. Negro troops made up 65 percent of the 15 000 plus construction forces. Only 42 miles crossed friendly territory and two years were required to complete the route with malaria and disease taking lives and the Japanese posing greater menace ahead.
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Washington
India
China
War Department
Filipinos Break Japanese Rear in Luzon Campaign
In northern Luzon Filipino guerrillas strike the Japanese rear clearing Locos Norte Province. General MacArthur reports American divisions seize Ticao and Burias Islands in the Sibuyan Sea. Manila’s 37th Division overruns downtown, capturing the Finance building and ending major Nipponese resistance.
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Luzon
Llocos Norte
MacArthur
Philippines
Ticao
Burias
Sibuyan Sea
Bicol
Luzon Island
Legaspi
Manila
Chinese forces advance toward Suichwen after recapturing Yungsin
Chinese units recaptured Yungsin and moved toward Suichwen in Kiangsi Province as announced by the Chinese high command. The advance comes about 45 miles south of Yungsin, signaling progress in securing air base city objectives.
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Chungking
Yungsin
Suichwen
Kiangsi
Allies Close In On Millionth German Prisoner
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE PARIS MARCH 4 The 1,000,000th German prisoner on the Western Front may be captured within hours. Official count from Normandy to Feb 8 was 954,377. Since then daily captures have ranged 7,000 to 10,000 as the enemy pockets collapse west of the Rhine. no ceremony planned when the milestone prisoner is seized.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Western Front
Normandy
Rhine
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Rei
New York
Grmany
NBC
BBC
Reichsminister
Goebbel
Reich
Plains
Schivelbein
Koerlin
Falkenburg
Volkssturm
Stettiner Haff
Dievenow
Gross-Tychow
Indies
W. J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Iwo Jima
Nimitz
Clifton B. Cates
Fourth Marines
Keller EF. Rockey
Fifth Marines
Yank
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