Allied planners map Pacific blow against Japan at Casablanca talks
Washington dispatch details an army navy conference with 15 officers reviewing Casablanca decisions and coordinating future operations in Burma China Hawaii and the South and Southwest Pacific. Attendees include Kenney Sutherland Emmons Spruance Harmon Twining and Halsey staff.
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Washington
Army-Navy Command
Ganes
Weeaw Wekarreewe
War Department
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pacific
Casablanca
George C. Kenney
Bismarck Sea
Richard K. Sutherland
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Kenney and Sutherland
MacArthur
Burma
China
Hawaii
South Pacific
India
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Sir John Mill
Combined Chiefs of Staff
Roosevelt
Churchill
Jap Dill
Arnold
Chiang Kai-shek
New Delhi
Archibald Wavell
Japan
Wavel
Europe
United Nations
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Delos C. Emmons
R. A. Spruance
L. R. Boyd
Naval
Forrest P. Sherman
Wasp
E. G. Small
MacArthur—Kenney, Sutherland
8. J. Chamberlin
H. J. Ray
William F. Halsey, Jr
South Pacific Area
Millard PF. Harmon
N. F. Twining
Harmon
DeWitt Peck
Marine Corps
Halsey
Miles R. Browning
T. D. Roberts
W. H. Ashford, Jr
Mareth Line Falls as Allied Forces Crush Rommel in Tunisia
Allied forces breach the Mareth Line in southern Tunisia with a flanking advance by the British Eighth Army and heavy air support. Rommel retreating toward Gabes faces encirclement as American divisions under Patton threaten his northern flank, with over 6,000 German prisoners taken since March 20.
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North Africa
Marshall Rommel
Mareth
Gabes
Eighth Army
George S. Patton, Jr
el Guetar
Rommel
Jurgen von Arnim
Tunis
Bizerte
Mezzouna
Kairouan
Tunisia
Diebel Abiod
Tarbaca-Mateur Road
Wiliam B. King
Associated Press
Morocco
Quiseltia
Grand Dorsal
Mareth Line
el Hamma
Toujane
Matinata
Bernard L. Montgom
el Yamma
Algiers
Patton
Maknassy
Fondouk
Western Desert
Sfax
el Maou
Churchill
Dunkerque
Andrew B. Cunningham
Brazzaville
Gabes Gap
Mont
Nazis Focus on Balkan Guerrillas in Serbia and Greece
Reports from Ankara say Yugoslav patriots clash with German forces in Serbia as fresh troops arrive in Belgrade. Guerrillas destroyed a railway bridge near Kracongevatch and battles rage along a 35 mile Nish to Pirot line. German nervousness hints at a spring campaign with Mannstein ordered interior tranquillity. Bulgarian road work accelerates near the front. Gestapo arrivals to the Greek isles prompt Greek mainland deportations. Salonika fortifications reinforced amid Balkan tensions.
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Ankara
Belgrade
Balkan
Serbia
Kracongevatch
Nish
Pirot
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Mediterranean
Hungary
Balkans
Salonika
High Plains Symphony Goes on Own Tonight
The 65 member High Plains Symphony Orchestra in Amarillo performs Schumann First Symphony in B flat minor, Mozart Don Juan overture, Hansel and Gretel excerpts, and Bizet L Arlesienne Suite No 1. Conductor Robert Louis Barron reports strong rehearsals and growing local support.
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Schumann
Mozart
Humperdincks
Hansel and Gretel
Bizet
National Music
Buffalo
Amarillo Philharmonic
Uso-Municipal Auditorium
Robert Louis Barron
Amarillo
Barron
Grace Hamilton
Philharmonic
Philharmonic Orchestral Association
Philharmonic Music Club
Potter County Victory Fund Committee Description
The Potter County Victory Fund Committee is a group of local civic leaders who are volunteer investment salesmen for the United States Treasury selling chiefly to larger investors. They aim to broaden the distribution of the Treasury's regular bond issues such as Series F and G.
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Potter County Victory Fund Committee
United States Treasury
Treasury
Frontline Momentum Shrugs Mareth Line as Rommel Retreats
Battlefronts report British forces breach the Mareth line driving Rommel toward Gabes while American troops ready to strike on the flanks. Russians seize towns on the Smolensk road halting Nazi advances near Donets. Allied air forces bomb the French coast as U boat base smokes in new offensive. Allied planners map Pacific strategy in Washington. Nazis focus on Balkan guerrilla eradication.
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Mareth Line
Rommel
Gabes
Yank Fury
Allied Air Army
French Coast
Farm Chiefs to Meet FDR on Price Problems
Washington March 29 leaders of major farm groups were to meet President Roosevelt tomorrow to press for broader authority for Food Administrator Chester C. Davis over farm prices. The White House conference would also address labor and machinery shortages and possible recruitment of a land army of youth and women to aid agriculture.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
White House
Davis
Edward A O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
James G. Patton
National Farmers’ Union
Albert 8. Goss
National Grange
Ezra T. Benson
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
O'Neal
Goss
Benson
Secretary of Agriculture
Office of Price Administration
James F Byrnes
Economic Stabilization Board
Land Army Davis
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
Wayne H. Darrow
The
Agricultural Labor Administration
Weather outlook Amarillo region winds and scattered showers
The Amarillo area stays warm Tuesday with fresh to strong winds while West Texas sees little temperature change and New Mexico faces cooler readings in the west and north. Scattered showers are possible in higher elevations northwest Tuesday afternoon or evening with a high around 85 and a low near 42.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Victory Garden Drive Seeks Amarillo Plots for War Aid
Sisters of Saint Francis mother M Afra reports last year a hand cultivated garden fed many, with surplus. This year the effort expands to a bigger garden. The Globe-News invites Amarilloans to share land or take plots to ease the national food shortage and mail the coupon to join the city of gardens.
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M. Afra
Sisters of Saint Francis
Victory Garden
America
Chinese forces recapture town near Yangtze and trap Japanese
Chinese high command reports Hupeh forces recaptured an inland town on the Yangtze south bank and encircled Japanese troops at multiple points. The bulletin notes hundreds of Japanese casualties near Kwajung and Hunan as Chinese attacks widen. Fighting also reported near the Province-Burma border in southwest China.
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Chungking
Hupeh
Yangtze River
Ichang
Kwajung
Hunan
Lanchor
China
Province-Burma
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Erwin Rommel
High Plains Symphony
Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony of the
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Warsaw
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Hitler
Maurice L. Perlzweig
World Jewish Congress
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Amarillo Daily News
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Yangtze
Shaw-Walker
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