Flenniken Named to Farm Labor Post For Jay Taylor
Bill Flenniken will become first assistant to Lieut. Col. Jay Taylor as Amarillo gains a new farm labor administrator appointed by Food Administrator Chester Davis. Flenniken comes from Halliburton in Houston where he rose from truck driver to assistant district manager and will seek leave of absence to take the new role.
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Bill Plenniken
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Chester Davis
Col. Taylor
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company
Halliburton
Houston
Old Mexico
Bill Flenniken
W. W. Flenniken
Jon Street
TWA
Brenton T
New York City
John W
West Texas State College
Yanks Join Forces With Montgomery
Allied headquarters report no specifics on the First Army advance but say troops pushed north and east beyond Sedjenane. British and French forces from Sedjenane toward Mateur have reduced losses, with Rommel contesting ground as Patton forces approach the Tunisian front.
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Sedjenane
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Allied
Mateur
French Morocco
Anderson
Bizerte
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Sardinia
Sicily
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Algiers
U. S
Gafsa
Eighth Army
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Rommel
Mareth Line
George S. Patton, Jr
Gulf of Gabes
Africa Corps
Italy
Germany
London
Hitler
Stalingrad
Navy Reports Air and Sea Actions in Pacific and Domestic Vote
Allied bombers attacked a Japanese unit of five destroyers southwest of Kolombangara while 30 to 40 Zeros clashed with U S fighters, 16 enemy planes downed. Six U S planes lost. two pilots rescued. Also two more attacks on Kiska reported. In Washington, the Senate passed an anti loan shark bill 14 to 4 to curb excess interest.
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Washington
Kolombangara
Navy
Solomon Island
United States
Guadalcanal
Kiska
Aleutians
Navy Department
Mitchell
Austin
Senate
House
Weaver Moore
Houston
Amarillo Faces Water Shortage as Demand Soars
Amarillo officials report water consumption up 33 percent over last year due to population growth and dry conditions. The city races to complete a 30 inch main and three new wells to boost supply, with August 1 target for full capacity and possible May to June rains aiding relief.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Army Air Field
Municipal Water Works
Nazi forces move immense reserves to Ukrainian front
Moscow reports German Army shifting immense reserves of troops and equipment toward the Ukraine as the 1942 summer campaign opens. Reds claim progress in Kuban and Donets regions with villages captured near Veronikovskaya and Novorossisk, while Red Air Force and anti aircraft units claim several Axis planes shot down.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Caucasus
Nanta
SUG Vvimiuminol Pally UL Gan Pravda
Ukraine
Donets
Red Army
Novorossisk
Veronikovskaya
Kuban
Anastasevskaya
Red Air Force
Smolensk
Kharkov
Amarillo Marine recalls Guadalcanal scalp souvenir
Carl A. Russell Jr. a sick leave Amarillo Marine recalls Guadalcanal combat, says troops took a Japanese scalp as a souvenir but ethics forbid bringing it home. He was wounded at night while sniping, rescued by fellow Marines, sent to New Zealand and San Diego before returning to Amarillo. He enlists in 1942 and hopes to return to duty April 26. Also notes 1,750 army airmen killed in U.S. flying accidents in early 1942.
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Guadalcanal
Carl A. Russell Jr
Amarillo
South Pacific
United States
States
Russell
Panhandle
Bertha King
T. S. Torrance
East Seventeenth Avenue
Eunice
N. M
U. S. Marines
Washington
U.P
Continental
Weather corner Amarillo region mild with warming trend
The Weather Amarillo and Vicinity notes a slight afternoon warming and little tonight. West Texas mild today while New Mexico shows no major temperature change. Temperatures for the prior 24 hours list a high of 74 and a low of 46 with noon at 77, and an ad for V Reshingle and Repair by John Maynard Lbr. Co. at 800 W. 5th.
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New Mexico
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Roosevelt Vetoes Farm Prices Bill
President Roosevelt vetoed the Bankhead bill to raise farm prices by excluding benefit payments from parity calculations, calling it inflationary and harmful to stabilization and the war effort. He warned it could raise the cost of living and consumer food budgets and jeopardize wartime programs.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Senate
House
Lewis accuses military intelligence of pressuring miners
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, alleged after talks with Northern Appalachian soft coal operators that military intelligence agents are intimidating miners. He cited visits to district offices demanding company names, mine locations, and union officer identities with hints of a second military front in the coal fields.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
World tranquility schemes spark odd postwar proposals
Senators received quirky ideas from constituents to restore peace including 25 pounds of tobacco per person annually and a new English climate. Other notions urged vitamin distributions, oceanic dumping of gold, aluminum coins, international FBI, and a Denver host for a world congress amid fears of air pirates and postwar violence.
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England
Washington
Denver
FBI
Morgenthau Plans Postwar Currency Stabilization Session
Secretary Morgenthau will outline a four point tentative plan for postwar international currency stabilization at an extraordinary joint session of three Senate committees. Treasury sources say all Latin American nations except Argentina have been invited to participate with United Nations in Washington conferences on a final stabilization program.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Senate
Treasury
Argentina
United Nations
Conf
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McDonald Site
Canyon Highway
Bush Estate
Ross Rogers Or
Rome
Beirut
Lebanon
Hama
Russia
Nee'y-Greenhall-Lowndes Insurance
Carl A. Russell, JR
Usmc
West Texas
National War Labor Board
eVee Loose -Reaf
Russell Stationery Company
Wolf-in-ae
Seneca
Ulus
Louise Lincoln
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