Burma front yields towns as troops fall back
CHUNGKING April 23 British and Chinese forces retreated under Japanese pressure on the Burma front. Pyinmana and Taungdwingyi were abandoned after heavy fighting. A further 40 mile Japanese advance was reported inside the Thai frontier in the Southern Shan states. Chinese acknowledged Pyinmana loss and a withdrawal to about 150 miles south of Mandalay.
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Chungking
U.P
Burma
Pyinmana
Taungdwingyi
Shan States
Mandalay
New Delhi
Floods and storms lash towns across Texas and New Mexico
Floods damaged railroad facilities in Coldorado and New Mexico. Trinidad Colorado faced its worst flood in 38 years with two feet of water in the Santa Fe station. Amarillo endured a 60 mile per hour wind gust and glass damage at a drugstore, while Rasher reports of washouts and bridges failing along the Panhandle. Raton Mountain washouts disrupted Santa Fe and Colorado and Southern lines as the Texas Zephyr waited in Trinidad. Dalhart rainfall neared 2 inches flooding Rita Blanca Lake, with plains wheat belt soaked. A broader World War II dispatch notes Madagascar crisis and Allied moves in Africa, including Vichy relations and French shipping seizures.
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Coldorado
New Mexico
Trinidad
Colorado
Santa Fe
Panadle
Amarillo
Maxor
Sixteenth Avenue
Wolflin Addition
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Trinidad and
Raton
George H. Minchin
Raton Mountain
Fort Worth
Denver
Texas Zephyr
Dallas
Trinidad Station
Purgatoire
Chestnut Street
Dalhart
Rita Blanca
Tucumcari
Clovis
Roswell
Adrian
Plains Wheat Belt
Region Music Festival Opens In Amarillo Stage
The 2500 musicians from School districts arrive to begin the Texas Region One Music Festival and Competition with choirs solos bands and small ensembles. Vocal and instrumental solos start at 8 in Amarillo High and Municipal Auditories. Massed chorus planned at 4 30 under Dr Archie N Jones from the University of Texas. Skelly grade school band of Stinnett opens band events at 7 30 in Municipal Auditorium. Class EE bands Tonight include Hereford Phillips and Kellerville grade schools. Class 2 C Patton Springs High Afton and Class D bands finish tonight at 10 30. Judges include Col Earl D Trons D O Wiley Oakley Pittman Milburn E Carey and Dr Archie See.
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Amarillo High School
Municipal Auditorium
Archie N. Jones
University of Texas
Skelly
Stinnett
Hereford
Phillips
Kellerville
Patton Springs
Afton
Pampa
Sam Houston
Southwest
Col
Earl D. Trons
North Texas Agricultural College
Arlington
D. O. Wiley
Texas Technological College
Oakley Pittman
Classen High School
Oklahoma City
Milburn E. Carey
Phillips University
Enid
Okla
Archie See
French Workmen Begin 150000th Volunteer Labor to Germany
Nazi occupied Paris reports the 150000th French worker joining voluntary labor in Germany as part of a 550 train. Newspapers compare to Belgium which sent 250000 volunteers early in 1942, despite its smaller population.
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Vichy
Paris
Germany
Belgium
France
Back injury ends hospital stay for saleswoman in Bridgeton
Bridgeport New Jersey April 23 LP Bessie Swank a saleswoman in a Bridgeton dress shop has been discharged from Bridgeton Hospital after treatment for a back injury suffered while attempting to fit a girdle on a customer. Boorum Pease office forms Russell Stationery Company.
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Bridgeport
N. J
Bessie Swank
Bridgeton Hospital
Panhandle Navy induction aims draw 1000 youths in Amarillo
Induction ceremonies scheduled for 5 pm in front of Navy Relief HQ at 408 Polk Street as over 1,000 Amarillo youths pledge allegiance to the flag and enter the Panhandle Navy. Volunteers, including W. W. McEntire, provide sound equipment for the event, while organizers seek a mascot goat and funds toward a Navy Relief quota of 3,180 dollars.
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Panhandle Navy
Navy Relief Headquarters
Polkce Street
Marine
Naval
W. W. McEntire
Maxoi Company
Mobil
Navy Relief Fund
Amarillo
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Wes Izzard
Amarillo High School
Glee Club
Rex Theater
Jim Golding
Jackie Cooper
Rex
West Amarillo
Rex Drug Store
Polk Street
Oklahoma pilot’s last Bataan flight earns Australia landing
Lieut. Jack Donaldson of Tulsa flew a lone last-ditch mission from a doomed Bataan airfield. Despite a crippled plane, damaged hydraulics, and limited fuel, he bailed out unharmed after a low-altitude strike against advancing Japanese forces. Donaldson later reached Australia with Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce’s raiders.
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Bataan
Japanese Radio Curiosity Pushes for Bombing Details
United Press reports Tokyo radio indirectly pressed the U S Army and Navy for figures on the Allied air raid last Saturday. Meanwhile Japanese raids on Kiangsi Chekiang and Kwangsi areas were reported with fires and downed aircraft as Chinese dispatches detailed losses and escapes. A German Tokyo dispatch described heightened vigilance for enemy planes and a large deification ceremony planned at Yasukuni Shrine for 5 017 fallen Japanese troops with more than 30 000 family members expected.
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Tokyo Radio
United States Army
Navy
Japan
San Francisco
Army
United States
China
Kiangsi
Chekiang
Changhai
Ushan
Chuchow
Kweilin
Canton
Kwangsi Province
Yasukuni Shrine
Tokyo
Malaya
Pay Raises For Amarillo Police And Firemen
Pay raises for Amarillo police and fire departments were approved to take effect May 1. Each member except chiefs gains 10 dollars monthly, raising rookie paid to 100 for firefighters and 140 for policemen, with annual budget implications and ongoing salary reviews.
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Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Austin Hancock
George B Cooper
Sid Harper
Jenkins
Cake Is Total Loss In Car Crash
Los Angeles report says nurse Mildred Heddy baked a cake for a friend and delivered it by car. The cake slid from the seat, she grabbed it, and the vehicle crashed into a tree. Heddy suffered a dislocated hip and was hospitalized. The cake was a total loss.
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Los Angeles
Mildred Heddy
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surroundings
Amarillo and vicinity expect locally heavy showers this afternoon and tonight with cold air moving in late tonight. West Texas shows intermittent rain and mild temperatures while New Mexico sees scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly at higher elevations. Temperature extremes over the past day ranged from 3 to 60 degrees with noon at 49.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Central Mountains
Bob Kesterson
Union Coercion Charges Dismissed in Court
Federal jury acquitted President George P. McNear Jr and two Toledo Peoria Western Railroad officials of violating the National Railway Labor Act by coercing union employees. The decision came in Peoria Illinois as of April 12, with the jury finding no evidence of coercive action by the officials.
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Peoria, Ill
George P. McNear, Jr
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
National Railway Labor Act
Freeze Price Freeze Prices to Halt Upward Trend
Washington April 23 report says the Office of Price Administration will issue a general price freezing order effective by May 1. It will freeze most retail wholesale and factory prices with few exceptions, mainly agricultural products under specific acts and seasonable items. Gasoline remains outside control and no new farm sale prices will be set. enforcement focuses on quotations along supply chains.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Congressional Farm Bloc
Yankee Pilots Blast Japs in Burma Battle
In Burma the American Volunteer Group the Flying Tigers brace against heavy Japanese air power after driving the enemy from Mingaladon and Magwe. In two dogfights over the Green Mountains and Shan states AVG pilots shot down 15 to 16 Japanese planes, with none lost. A Royal Air Force sergeant Texan had the closest call before the melee sent several Japanese planes flaming toward fields. See YANK PILOTS Page 2.
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Burma
Flying Tigers
AVG
Mingaladon
Magwe
China
Britain
Green Mountains
Yunnan
Shan States
Royal Air Force
Canada
U. S. Air Corps Training School
Love Field
Dallas
Texas
Ickes Denies Gas Rationing Projections
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes said there was no justification for estimates that eastern motorists would be limited to 2 1 2 to 5 gallons a week under the new rationing plan. He asserted that if plans succeed there will be no such cut and that the aim is to supply as much gasoline as possible.
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Washington
Ickes
Leon Henderson
All This Week Bargain Chest Offers Rent Sell Buy Swap
Bargain advertised for the week listing 15 words 7 days and 15 words 3 days with prices noted as regular 1.80 and 1.05 respectively. It promotes a sensational offer to rent sell buy or swap with a contact dial 6262 for details.
Invasion Fear Spurs Nazi Reserves Call Up
A Soviet spokesman said Hitler has mobilized 1.9 million reserves including 900000 youths aged 17 and 18, with nine tenths of Germany’s fighting strength on the Russian front. British RAF raids hit the Rhineland and Le Havre, Dover Strait guns boomed across the Channel after a major night assault.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Stockholm
Europe
A. Lozovsky
Hitler
England
Rhineland
le Havre
France
English Channel
Dover Strait
Invasion Hints Rise as Allied Raids Increase
London reports mounting speculation that aerial and commando raids signal an impending Allied invasion. May is eyed as a possible zero hour with raids on Boulogne and German defense preparations noted along the western front. Soviet dispatches claim German forces in Ukraine shift to defense while forecasts point to a southern push toward the Caucasus.
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Europe
The
Star
Reich
Stockholm
Norway
France
Normandy
Ukraine
Hitler
Caucasus
Moscow
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