War Industries Convert to Armaments Amid Pearl Harbor Aftermath
Washington reports peacetime industries with 5 billion dollar sales and 750000 workers shift to war production. WPB orders broad conversion to arms and munitions while civilian goods like typewriters, refrigerators, radios, and juke boxes are halted or retooled. Aircraft and shipyards expand as Allied aviation in Burma and Australia strikes back against Japanese forces, with MacArthur guiding intensified air offensives from Darwin to Rabaul.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
War Production Board
WPB
Bus'ness
Panhandle Crude Oil Price Plea Denied
Washington reports that the Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association and J. P. Coleman asked the OPA to equalize Panhandle crude with Oklahoma and Kansas prices. Acting Administrator John E. Hamm rejected the plea, citing geographic disadvantage and higher refining costs due to Panhandle crude qualities.
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Washington
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Kansas
Office of Price Administration
Panhandle
Reds Prepare Aerial Push On Front In Spring Offensive
Moscow dispatches report American built Airacobra fighters rushed to the front for a spring air offensive while Soviet ground forces push on the Bryansk and Staraya Russa fronts. German counterattacks are repulsed as heavy losses are tallied and air power is expanded.
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Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Bryansk Front
Africa
Staraya Russa
Army
Berlin
Crimea
Donets
Hitler
Kerch
Caucasian
Black Sea
Lake Simen
Done
Russia
Employers Help Pick Draftees
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey urged Wichita and Kansas employers to assess payrolls and decide who can be spared while keeping essential war production and civilian activities going. He called for initiative and flexibility, urging prioritization of essential workers and rapid reassignment of nonessential 3-A men, and questioned how women would be drafted.
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Wichita
Kan
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
State Convention of
Junior Chambers of Commerce
Draft Board
Assassination Rumor Haunts Egypt Premier Nahas Pasha
Cairo March 22 Axis reports of an assassination attempt on Premier Nahas Pasha stirred tension on the eve of elections. An AP reporter saw him calm at his office delivering a final speech, while Rome bullet reports claimed shots pierced his clothes and three students died in protests.
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Cairo
Egypt
Axis
Nahas Pasha
Associated Press
Nahas
Rome
Tax Memos on Old Wallpaper in Vermont
State Tax Commissioner Ervin M. Harvey aids the paper-saving drive by writing notes to fellow officials on the reverse sides of old wallpaper. The field notes discuss tax matters and reflect wartime conservation efforts within Vermont government.
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Montpelier, Vt
U.P
Ervin M. Harvey
World War II Fronts report March 22 1942 highlights
A swift U S Allied assault pounds Japan’s forces as Australia invasion fears rise. Bataan holds, Burma raids cripple Allied air power with 80 aircraft shot down. Russia pushes Germans with Airacobra aid. British columns reach 85 miles from Tobruk striking Martuba and Tmimi. German subs sink three U S freighters, Uruguay protests Montevideo sinking.
Three More U S Ships Sunk Off Atlantic Coast
Navy reports three medium merchant ships torpedoed off the Atlantic coast last week with eleven crewmen killed and two missing. A fourth vessel sunk earlier left 32 of 34 crew survivors rescued. Captains Zalnick and Schultz described depth charge impacts and rapid crew dispersion.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
Navy
United States
Raymond Zalnick
Houston
Was
F. D. Peters
Brooklyn
N. Y
George Kreuger
New Braunfels
Tex
Zalnick
James J. Galvani
Sigmund Schultz
Staten Island
John L. Culp
Coryell
Earl L. Dorman
Madisonville
Morehead City
N. C
Weather Circulation Amarillo Sunday News-Globe March 22 1942
The Amarillo Sunday News Globe reports circulation figures for March 22 1942. The data detail daily distribution and readership across local areas, reflecting circulation trends during wartime era reporting.
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Amarillo
Want Ad sells water softener via Globe News listing
A Globe News Want Ad promoted quick cash by selling items. Mrs. Wood placed a seven day ad for a large family water softener and cancelled on day two after a buyer bought the unit at 106 North East Fourth Street.
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Globe News
Superior
North East Fourth
Childress Attorney Enters Court Race
Childress attorney and former district attorney J. Ross Bell announced his candidacy for chief justice of the Seventh District Court of Civil Appeals at Amarillo in the Democratic primaries. The seat being vacated is by Judge J. R. Jackson at term end. the district spans 46 counties in the Panhandle and Northwest Texas. Bell is a long time practitioner well known in the area.
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Childress
J. Ross Bell
Seventh District Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
J. R. Jackson
Panhandle
Texas
Bell
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George Brett
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Martuba
Tmimi
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
War Department
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