Texas Flood Toll Tops Four As Trinity Recedes
The death toll reaching four as upper Trinity River floods ease. A body was found at Garland Road crossing in Dallas, with rescue teams assessing wide damage across Dallas County. Bridges lost, 20 000 to 25 000 acres underwater, and many roads closed.
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Associated Press
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Garland Road
White Creek
Dallas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Kerrville
North
Texas
Dallas County
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Trinity
C. L. Phelps
Rockwall
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Garland
Rowlett
Vivian Haskett
Charlie Cowherd
Collin County
Laval and Abetz meet as France endures Nazi reprisals
In Paris Laval met Hitler envoy Otto Abetz amid ongoing Nazi executions in occupied France. German authorities shot 20 hostages at St Nazaire and 30 at Rouen in retaliation for a railway sabotage, with plans to kill 80 more and deport 1,000 French. Free French sources say Vichy handed 60,000 tons of merchant shipping to Japan in Indo China, prompting US protests.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
St. Nazaire
Rouen
Laval
Otto Abetz
Hitler
Berlin
Abetz
Chateleon
Henri Philippe Petain
Calais
London
Japan
Indo- China
United States
Libya
Tunisia
North Africa
United States State Department
Indo-China
State Department
Germany
Mills Drafted for War Production in Textile Plants
The government orders about half of cotton textile mills to convert loom capacity within 60 days to bag osnaburg and bag sheetings for sand bags camouflage cloth and food bagging. The action aims to double material output for military and civilian use. Also Roosevelt personally awards the Medal of Honor to Lieut Edward H O’Hare for shooting down six Japanese bombers near the Gilbert Islands and promotes him to lieutenant commander.
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Washington
Osnaburg
U.P
Roosevelt
Edward H. O'Hare
Gilbert Islands
O'Hare
Bob Kesterson
Fire destroys Gray Photo Shop buildings and six tenants
A late night blaze gutted the Gray Photo Shop building and six tenant firms, with losses over 100000 beyond insurance. Firemen were treated after exposure. two women were rescued from a beauty parlor. Fire officials say a trash box sparked the fire, and the structure must be razed. Insurance arranged with Neely Greenhill Lowndes.
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George B. Cooper
Ed Spann
Sweetbriar Shop
Spann
J. F. Craig
Sweetbriar
Blackstone Beauty Shop
Southwestern Investment Company
Thomas King Company
Amarillo
Craig
City Tonight Tabs Bids on Bond Issues
Amarillo city commission opens sealed proposals for 670 dollars of 750 thousand bond issues approved in a war emergency vote. Mayor Jenkins notes war program support and possible future site for bomber base. bids cover water line to Air Corps Technical School and related street sewer improvements with strict use of funds. vote totals show strong approval despite rain. Bond issue details continue on Page 2.
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Commission
Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Jenkins
Air Corps Technical School
Water Works
Globe News Tip Prize Won by R. C. Brown
R. C. Brown of Route 1 Box 97 Pampa wins the $5 first prize in the week’s Globe News Tip contest for reporting the truck crash near Conway in which one man was killed. Second prize goes to Bill Hallmark, three dollars, for tip about an Amarillo woman thrown from a horse. Third prize to Mrs. J. H. Cooper for tip about the R. W. Jones family appendicitis operations context.
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R. C. Brown
Route 1
Box 97
Pampa
Conway
Bill Hallmark
Woodland
Amarilla
J. H. Cooper
Harrison Street
Allies Prepare Invasion Force With Allied Air Power
Allied air forces and U S warplanes are being ferried to British bases to join RAF offensive operations against occupied Europe. Churchill approved a plan to unify the army navy and air force into a single operations staff as part of coordinate action ahead of potential Allied invasion plans.
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Associated Press
United States
RAF
Churchill
Britain
Coordihe
Europe
George C. Marshall
U.S. Army
Hero O'Hare Promoted by President Roosevelt
Lieutenant Edward H. O’Hare, famed naval aviator who shot down five Japanese bombers and damaged a sixth in five minutes, received the Congressional Medal of Honor and a promotion to lieutenant commander from President Roosevelt.
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Edward H. O'Hare
President Roosevelt
O'Hare
Democracy Grows in Jap Camp
Manzanar California April 21. The camp houses 3,303 Japanese settlers moved from the Pacific Coast area and rapidly developing into a self contained town with a fire department hospital police and English language newspaper. Loyal residents estimate 95 to 98 percent favor the United States and many send pictures of Washington Lincoln and Roosevelt to show loyalty. Camp life includes tar paper buildings bath houses wholesome food and guards at the gate. A letter from Emont Tatsui describes the camp as nicer than Hollywood with snow on the mountains and construction underway for schools dances a swimming pool and a baseball field.
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America
United States
Japan
Manzanar
Akamatsu
No. 6
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
U. S
Amarillo Area Warms Some and Sees Showers Later
Weather forecast notes warmer temperatures for Amarillo and West Texas with intermittent rain in Pecos Valley and Big Bend, and cooler tonight. Panhandle and South Plains warmer. New Mexico also warmer with scattered mountain showers. 6:30 A.M. min 45 max 51. noon 50. V Repair Now. John Maynard Lbr. Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
Big Bend
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Private Ends Furlough One Month Too Early
Pvt. Dexter J. Johnson, home on furlough, started hitch-hiking to California where he was due to report Friday. A letter granting him an extra month’s leave arrived hours after he left. Fluorescent desk lamps. Russell Stationery Company.
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Kansas City
Dexter J. Johnson
Johnson
California
Bargain Rates On Want Ads This Week
Bargain price offer for want ads all week with 15 word 7 day rate and 15 word 3 day rate. Regular price discounts highlighted. Dial 6262 for rental sell buy swap options at seventy cents.
Feelers Spurned By Allies Peace Drive Hinted Amid Bombings
Allied officials dismiss a purported Japanese peace offensive as propaganda while new air-raid alarms sound in central and western Japan after the Saturday raids on Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe. Tokyo ministers minimize damage and Australia fears invasion as Toyohiko Kagawa calls for peace prayers.
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Associated Press
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Tokyo
Yokohama
Nagoya
Kobe
U. S
Berlin
Amarillo
China
Imperial Tokyo
Australia
Francis M. Forde
Brisbane
Forde
India
Toyohiko Kagawa
Greater East Asia
Navy takes over Brewster plants to boost aircraft output
The United States Navy seized Brewster Aeronautical Company plants in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania after finding no finished planes produced. Captain George C. Westervelt, now in command of production, said output ran at 40 percent capacity and the takeover followed the President's directive to increase production.
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United States Navy
Brewster Aeronautical Company
George C. Westervelt
U. S. Navy
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Westervelt
United States
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