Luzon battle deaths top ninety thousand as MacArthur reports
General MacArthur announces six Nipponese divisions including their main supply depots on Luzon have been wiped out and the Japanese position in Burma is threatened. Across the theater, Leyte and Iwo Jima fights continue with heavy casualties and advancing Allied forces constricting remaining Japanese units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luzon
Philippines
MacArthur
Burma
Mandalay
Rangoon
Two Jima
Manila
Leyte Island
Iwo
Nimitz
Tokyo Radio
Amoy
Pukien Province
China
Reeves and Nance Win at High School Stock Show
The article notes Reeves and Nance winning entries at the stock show. Ernie Bill Terry of White Deer exhibited a calf named Bert, a half brother of last year's Amarillo grand champion, after the committee accepted it despite prior sifting of two calves. Jack Roach, Joe Gamble and Paul Lawson served on the classification committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Bill Terry
White Deer
Bert
Amarillo
Ernie
Jack Roach
Joe Gamble
Paul Lawson
Amarillo Fat Stock Show Highlights Club Calf Judging
The Hereford division showcased top ribbons for H H Reeves Shamrock and George Nance Canyon with grand championships in the herd sire and bull classes. Burns judged Herefords as crowds watched club calves lambs and quarter horse events amid chilly weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Reeves
Shamrock
George Nance
Mr. Reeves
L. L. Kinder
Frederick
Okla
W. L. Williams
Wheeler
Combs
Amarillo Army Air Field
D. Burns
Pitchfork Ranch
Guthrie
Burn
Burns
George Nane
Amarillo
Miles Bivins
FFA Club
Troy N. Kinder
Canyon
Hereford
Carlot
Worley
Pampa
Kinder Hereford Farms
Allies Press German Rhine Pocket as Cologne Falls
Allied forces, including the U S Third and Seventh Armies, push into Cologne from multiple fronts as German defenses collapse. Bridges at Dusseldorf area destroyed and Rhine crossings strained, with about 1 000 enemy troops reported in retreat and German factories and port facilities under heavy fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Rhine
Norty
Coroene
Doteberg
cross-Rhine
Homberg
Wese
Xanten
Rheinberg
the Rhine
The
Rehr
Geremans
U.S Third Army
Coblenz
Prom
Coblens
U. S. Seventh Army
Sear Basin
Saarbruncken
Portech
New Information Service Offered by The Globe News
The Amarillo Globe News announces a free Daily Information Bureau operated by The Haskin Service in Washington DC. It will answer readers questions of fact, with focus on armed forces issues, in cooperation with War Navy departments and veterans groups. Questions may be mailed with a 3 cent stamp for return postage. answers appear in the daily paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe News
Daily News
Haskin Service
Washington
D. C
War and Navy Departments
Veterans’ Administration
Information Bureau
Amarillo Globe News Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington, D. C
Washington Bureau
Nazi Decree Orders Slaughter Programs for Grain
A London dispatch reports that German authorities issued drastic slaughtering programs aimed at conserving grain for human consumption. The measure targets domestic fowl to free up reserves, reflecting wartime food policy priorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Texas Senate Resolutions Against Duel in the Sun Film
The Texas Senate unanimously passed a resolution led by Sen. Grady Hazlewood protesting the filming of Duel in the Sun in Arizona. It warns that if producer David O Selznick proceeds outside Texas, the Legislature may ban the picture from all Texas movie houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas Senate Today
Amarillo
Texas Panhandle
Arizona
Hollywood
Grady Hazlewood
David O. Selznick
Texas
Old Tack
Ing
Hazlewood
Texas Senate
Panhandle
Harve Avery Sees a Living Dream Expand at Amarillo Fat Stock Show
A 1915 Amarillo radio talk recounts Harve Avery inspiring cattlemen to form a permanent organization. He argues for home conventions to cut travel costs, an executive board limited to Potter and Randall counties, and Amarillo as the annual meeting site, with open membership and voting rights for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauray
Hamner
Amarillo
Harve
Harve Avery
Potter
Randall
Government probes 265 page fertility volume waste of paper
A House subcommittee investigates the Census Bureau volume Fertility of Women. Rep Brown of Ohio calls it asinine and outrageous to waste paper during wartime. Rep Boren of Oklahoma seeks explanations from the Census and Budget Bureaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
House
Rep. Brown
Ohio
Rep. Boren
Oklahoma
Interstate Commerce
Budget Bureau
Twenty two German U boat experts die in Norwegian fjord
A BBC Stockholm report states twenty two senior German submarine warfare experts died when their experimental U boat sank during maneuvers in a fjord near Bergen Norway two weeks earlier. The party included the chief of the 11th Flotilla and other leading strategists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bergen
Norway
BBC Stockholm
Hart Club Boy's Pig Show Grand Champion Named
Floyd Acker of Nazareth claimed the grand champion in the Hart Club Boy's Pig Show at the Amarillo Fat Stock Show. Judges included Fred Hale and Joe Hatton with Alex Bateman assisting. Powell of Hart earned the celebratory pennant from the Panhandle Plains Poland China Breeders Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Powell
Poland
China
Buddy Barker
Amarillo
Hart
Barker
Clarendon
Amarillo Army Air Field Central
Powell
Panhandle-Plains
China Breeders Association
Fred Hale
Texas Extension Service Experiment Station
Wellforth
Raymond Powell, Jr
Danny Huseman
Nazareth
C. M. Hudson, Jr
Goodnight
J. B. Hance
Delhi
Okla
J. B. Blackshure
Kress
B. G. Speir
M. L. Snyder
Mayfield
Don Thornberry
Robert Hambright
Flovdada
Benny Woods
Canyon
Hampshire
Jack Ballew
Mike Smith
Bruce Gibson
Turkey
Steve Durham
Sayre
Oxkla
Jack Fowlkes
Bill Stewart
Erick
Eldon Armbruster
Ray Johnston
Ralph Ayres
Kenneth Acker
Bob Brown
Gene Kuykendall
Chester Whites
Billy Joe Marshall
Rex Bradford
J. C. Lewis
Alphonse Kleman
Dimmitt
Carl Dean Kleman
Floyd Acker
Anthony Acker
David Acker
Seth Johnston
B. J. Jordan
Sinatra Cleared to 4-F by Draft Board Vote
In Jersey City on March 5 Frank Sinatra remains classified 4-F after the unanimous vote of his draft board. The regular meeting concluded with the decision reflecting his status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old City Hall
Board of City Development
John S. McKnight
Porter Whaley
Chamber of Commerce
John
Harve
Jersey City
Frank Sinatra
Hale Named Army Air Forces Commander in Pacific Ocean Areas
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale is appointed to succeed the missing Lieut. Gen. Millard F. Harmon as commander of Army Air Forces Pacific Ocean Areas at advance headquarters in Guam. The change was announced today by a headquarters spokesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Force
Advance
Guam
Navy Radio
Willis H. Hale
Millard F. Harmon
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean Areas
Stettin Defense Is Crumbling as Soviet Forces Advance
Russian troops push toward Stettin from the Baltic coast and seize Stargard and Nungard outer bastions. In northeast pockets, about 200000 Germans are reported trapped with heavy German losses in Stargard. Kolberg also attacked as Navgard falls, shaping a 45 mile line toward Berlin.
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London
Baltic
Stettin
Stargard
Nungard
Altdamm
Oder
Pomeranian
Berlin
Wiesenthal
Schiawe
Danzig
Gross-Tychow
Koeslin
Moscow
Kolberg
Navgard
Baltic Sea
Red Army
Fifth Slunging Ahead in Italy
U S Fifth Army troops advance in the Mt Belvedere area southwest of Bologna pushing Germans off several hills and occupying villages as enemy reinforcements move in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Rome
Fifth Army
Mt. Belvedere
Bologna
Fat Stock Show Schedule: March 6 to 8 Events Listed
The program details multiple events at the Fat Stock Show across Amarillo venues. Highlights include Army Air Forces meat cutting demonstrations at the Sales Arena, calf and lamb judging in the Livestock and 4-H arenas, quarter horse judging, Panhandle Hereford breeders banquet at the Amarillo Hotel, and 4-H FFA exhibitions. Activities run March 6 to 8 with signficant time blocks each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Amarillo Field Central
Amarillo Field Central Meat Plant
Panhandle Hereford Breeders
Amarillo
Range Riders Saddle House
Light Snow and Cold Wave Forecast for Amarillo Area
Light snow is forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas with lower temperatures. The city may reach 70 the high and 15 degrees at night with last night’s low around 26 degrees. Conditions remain cloudy and colder with a cold wave spreading from the Panhandle into western Oklahoma bringing single digits in places like Pampa and frigid north winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarille
NoeRn
Panhandle
Pampa
Oklahoma
Amarillo
Texas
Panhandie
Pecos Valley
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Paul Boxwell
Boxwell Brothers
Corrine Loved
Graves
Bruce Hill
Lem Savage
Sid Harper
California
Hegro
Los Angeles
George Lacey
Department of Public Safety
Harper
Las
Snel 5On
Roy Heathington
Snelson
Sixth
Buchanan
Amsvijle
Rule
Liberty Theater
Associated Press
Olver & Wiggins Co
W. 6Th
Russell Stationery Co
Reeves, Nance
Ruhr
Paris
Reich
Hohner Vollern
Third Armored
104Th
Senate
Hart Club Boy’s Pig
Carroll Johnston
Floydada
Jerry O'Neal
Clay Long
Grimes
James Gabel
Duvoc Jersey
Clarence Oswalt
Lubbock
Bill Smotherman
Claude
George Green
Thurman Lancers
Elhi
J. B. Knight
Dwyane Thornberry
Jim Lovell
Lynn Leathers
Hayden Thompson, Jr
Bill Reid
Hale
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