War Games at Buffalo Lake Hide Tunisian Terrain in West Texas
The Panhandle hosts a grand wartime open with about 20 000 spectators as U S Army and Army Air Forces stage large scale drills. Civil Air Patrol Amarillo and Pampa Field planes bombed and fought a mock enemy, while civilian crowds witnessed boat races and ambulance relief as tanks and ships simulated attack maneuvers near Buffalo Lake New York raids Brooklyn also report a stray air shot.
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Tunisia
West Texas
Buffalo Lake
Panhandle
U.S. Army
Army Air Forces
Civil Air Patrol
Pampa Army Air Field
Amarillo Army Air Field
Texhornton
Amarillo Explosive Authority
Arthur
Curtis
Clarence Thompson
Canyon
Amarillo
Red Cross
Esa
Bill To Outlaw Walkouts Urged
Washington May 2 A wave of support grows in the Senate to amend the Connally plant seizure bill to make strikes or interference with essential wartime industries a crime. Debate centers on strengthening federal authority to seize mines and plants and on wage board powers while considering a draft deferment measure for fathers married before Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
House
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Rep. Carlson
Kansas
Treasury
Rayburn
Texas
Republians
Robertson
Virginia
Forand
Rhode Island
Senate
Roosevelt
Hill
Alabama
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Connally
War Labor Board
Wheeler
Montana
Pearl Harbor
Minister Regrets Sunday Celebration At Buffalo Lake
Dr Earl G Hamlett pastor of Polk Street Methodist Church expresses regret that authorities staged a Sunday celebration at Buffalo Lake He says such celebrations undermine the Sabbath and threaten American civilization and asks that they not be repeated in the future.
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Earl G. Hamlett
Polk Street Methodist Church
Hose
Buffalo Lake
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
Weather forecast notes cooler conditions for Monday with moderate to fresh winds across Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas sees little temperature change though Panhandle and South Plains remain cooler, while extreme northeast New Mexico may warm. Widely scattered thunder is expected with some activity in northern mountains.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Atorma
Northern Mountains
M. Poe i
Amarillo Air Field to Host Open House May 16
Amarillo Army Air Field will hold an Open House on Sunday May 16 in observance of I Am an American Day Brig Gen H S Burwell announced The event will allow the public to tour barracks mess halls chapels and other buildings see planes including B 17 Flying Fortresses on display and view hangars and post structures built since the last open house with a closing retreat at 4 45 PM and a band concert.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Amarillo
Panhandle
H. S. Burwell
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
America
Fire rates home of Joan Bennett
Actress Joan Bennett and her family escaped in night clothes as a fire swept their Holmby Hills residence. The blaze started in the basement of the large French provincial house, with Bennett nine months pregnant, her husband Walter Wanger, two daughters Diana and Melinda, and three servants on the premises.
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Hollywood
Joan Bennett
Holmby Hills
Miss Bennett
Walter Wanger
Diana
Melinda
Bass Joins Bird Gang at City Lake Catch
Four Amarillo witnesses observed a 16 inch bass leap from City Lake and land in George Wilkerson's boat. Wilkerson reeled in the remarkable catch, adding it to his limit. The Weatherlys and W G Smith accompanied him in separate boats nearby.
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George Wilkerson
Amarillo
City Lake
W. P. Weatherly
W. G. Smith
Mr. Wilkerson
Reds Take Upper Hand In Western Caucasus War Front
The Moscow dispatch reports a Russian offensive erasing a German bridgehead in the western Caucasus with a Soviet battalion wiping out Nazis, plus northward gains near Orel. Front-wide action includes Kalinin and Leningrad sectors with heavy fighting, air battles, and tank use amid muddy terrain.
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Western
Caucasus
Moscow
Red Army
Orel
Kalinin
Kuban
Dollar Day Is Bargain Day in Amarillo
Dollar Day is a monthly savings event as Amarillo shoppers chase bargains on spring merchandise. Stores crowd with discounts to help the Second War Loan Drive progress past six million dollars, urging early morning shopping and to review yesterday's Sunday News Globe for advertised deals.
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Amarillo
Sunday News Globe
Japs Win Battle With Spitfires Over Darwin Skirmish
Allied dispatch from Australia reports Japanese bombers bombed the Darwin area in Northern Australia. Australian and British Spitfires intercepted 51 invading planes, sustaining heavy losses. Of 61 aircraft, three fighters destroyed, one bomber and nine fighters damaged. several pilots were rescued after being shot down.
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Australia
Darwin
Submarines Destroy 204 Axis Ships on Mediterranean Run
British submarines have destroyed or damaged 204 Axis ships on the Mediterranean death run since the Allied landings in French North Africa on November 8. Of these, 110 were definitely sunk and many damaged vessels likely could not reach port. The 204 include many large tankers ammunition carriers and supply ships.
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London
French North Africa
Allied forces advance in Tunisia and Caucasus battles
Giraud predicts final Allied victory in Tunisia by May while Hitler’s defeat looms in 1944. Americans and French troops gain ground in North Tunisia as Allied naval craft bag two Italian mine sweepers. Russians crush Nasi troops in the bloody Caucasus fight. American bombers raid Kiska twice.
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Giraud
Hitler
U. S
Africa
Mediterranean
North Africa
Mateur
Bizerte
Henri Giraud
Tunisia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunis
United Nations
Navy
Nasi Bat
Caucasus
Kiska Blasted In Storm After Air Attacks
American fliers hit the Japanese base on Kiska in the Aleutians despite bad weather. Lightning fighters conducted two assaults aiming bombs on runways and installations. Fogs prevented observation of results, ending a lull since March 31 with a renewed air strike in the North Pacific.
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Washington
Kiska
Aleutians
Rocky Island
North Pacific
Navy
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Shorty) Phillips
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