U S Cutter Sinks Sixth U-Boat In North Atlantic Fight
The Campbell coast guard cutter rammed and sank a large German submarine after a 12 hour chase in the North Atlantic. Commander James A. Hirshfield led six submarine encounters with the seventh sub sunk, and the cutter sustained damage while rescuing crew members.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Campbell
North Atlantic
Navy
Theubmarine
James A. Hirshfield
San Antonio
Tex
Burza
Dunkirk
Hirshfield
Pointblank Range
Burra
Nazis Lose 19 Tanks as Red Army Pushes on Donets Line
Russian forces regain ground along the Donets River near Kharkov and claim several dozen villages captured amid German counterattacks. The report notes 19 German tanks destroyed, 90 trucks and four guns knocked out, and 1,600 men wiped out in the latest Soviet communique.
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Kharkov
Donets
Kharkovy
Voroshilovarod
Donets Basin
Chuguyev
Red Army
Smolensk
Dnieper
Timoshenko
16Th Army
Staraya Russa
Lake Ilmen
Sevsk
Red Plank
Kiev-Bbryansk
Ukraine
Kursk
Moscow
Tryum
Dets
Belgorod
Senate Acts to Defer Farm Workers from Draft
The Senate approved 50 to 24 a bill to defer all full time farm workers from military service replacing the eight war units test with substantially full time production standards. The measure, opposed by Secretary of War Stimson, aims to prevent farm labor drain while funding a $26.1 million farm labor recruiting program to be run by extension services.
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Tydings
Stimson
Clark
Missouri
Kilgore
West Virginia
Senate
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Johnson
Colorado
House
Agriculture Department
Farm Security Administration
Prunes and Raisins Urged to Move From Shelves
Washington reports the OPA calls for quick purchase of prunes and raisins after price and point cuts. The agency urges stores to feature these perishables in promotions as warmer weather approaches to accelerate movement.
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Washington
OPA
Pantex Labor Vote Called
The National Labor Relations Board orders an election by April 15 at the Pantex Ordnance Plant Amarillo Texas operated by Certain-feed Products Corporation. Switchmen may choose the Order of Railway Conductors or Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen or neither. Enginemen vote for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Automotive and Tractor Drivers vote on the Teamsters AFL affiliate as their representative.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Amarillo
Texas
Certain-feed Products Corporation
Order
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Automotive
Teamsters Union
AFL
Amarillo Weather Forecast For Thursday
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and vicinity shows mild temperatures on Thursday turning cooler by late afternoon with fresh to strong winds. West Texas and New Mexico expect cooler conditions, scattered light snow in mountains, and varied gusts of wind in Panhandle areas. Sunrise 7 53 AM Sunset 7 57 PM. Circulation figures listed for March 11, 1948.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Panhandle Teachers Plan War Problems Conference
Wartime education issues will be discussed at the Northwest Texas Conference for Education meeting tomorrow at Amarillo High School. Public schools in Amarillo and the Panhandle will dismiss to allow teachers to attend. Registration starts at 9 AM with sessions beginning at 10 AM in the high school auditorium. Leaders include A M Meyer and Louis A Pechstein with talks on youth, emotional climate, and how schools aid military effort.
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A. B. Lewis
Dwight Morrow School
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Conference For Education
Louis A. Pechstein
College of Education
University of Cincinnati
Northwest Texas
Amarillo High School
Panhandle
Ptetnilt
A. M. Meyer
West Texas State College
Uh. Association
A. D. Foreman, Jr
Joe Cooley
Chamber of Commerce
F. L. Moffett
Texas State Teachers Association
Bernice M. Moore
University of Texas
Pechstein
N. Cc. Voshel
Amarillo Army Air Field
Maucie Southall
Office of Defense Health and Welfare Service
House of Delegates
Ivan Bokyo and wife join front with self-built tank
Radio Moscow reports Ivan Bokyo and his wife, workers at an armament factory, saved to buy a tank after helping build one. They received Premier Stalin's permission to take the tank to the front and fight.
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Bokyo
Radio Moscow
Stalin
Battlefronts March 17 1943 reports Mareth attack and raids
German report says British Eighth Army attack on Mareth Line is under way as heavy raids hit Kiska by U S fliers. Yank pilots renew strikes in the Solomons. Iiraud and de Gaulle to confer on unity. Russians close on Smolensk as Nazis press the Donets. Norwegian manned British ships seize two Axis supply vessels.
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London
Eighth Army
Rommel
Mareth Line
Tunisia
Africa
Berlin
New Zealand
German International Information Bureau
Intensi
Europe
Lord Beaverbrook
Bernard L. Montgomery
Mareth
Algiers
North Africa
el Alamein
Montgomery
Egypt
Marshal Rommel
Alexandria
Ludwig Sertorius
Sertorius
First Army
House of Lords
Beaverbrook
Tunis
Bizerte
Russia
Germany
Norway
France
Lord Wedgwood
Smolensk
Donets
Rabaul Linked To Allied Bombing Campaigns In Pacific
Allied air raids on Rabaul New Britain dropped 392 bombs targeting runways and dispersal areas. The communique reported extensive destruction of aircraft on the ground and unobserved results against three coastal vessels near Dutch New Guinea, with additional strikes near Kai Island. Ground troops near the Mambare River uncovered an elaborate enemy defense network and a hospital complex intended for a large force, linked to the annihilated 22-ship convoy in the Bismarck.
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Washington
United States Air Command
North Pacific
Kiska
Navy
Aleutian
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
High Command
Dutch New Guinea
Kai Island
Mambare River
New Guinea
Mambare
Buna
Bismarck
Colonel Raley Assumes Command at Amarillo Field
Col. Edward W. Raley becomes the new commanding officer at Amarillo Field arriving from Lowry Field Denver. He succeeds Col. Ed gar T. Selzer who has led as acting commander after Brig. Gen. Julian B. Hadden’s departure. Raley brings extensive service including World War I flying training and overseas posts. He takes active command today.
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Amarillo Feild
Edward W. Raley
Raley
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Amarillo Field
Edgar T. Selzer
Julian B. Hadden
Hadden
Colonel Raley
United States
Five Crewmen Die As Bomber Crashes Near Clovis
Five members of the bomber crew stationed at Clovis Air Base were killed when the aircraft crashed in a farm field five miles west of Clovis during a training flight. The plane burst into flames and was reported by the public affairs office.
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Clovis, N. M
Clovis
F Laong
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