German Air Transports Sent Flaming Into Sea
Allied reports detail a sharp attack on Rommel’s Tunisian defenses with 20 giant German transports and 10 escort planes shot down over the Gulf of Tunis. Eisenhower confirms firm gains as 8th Army presses the Tunis belt and Red Army reports heavy Nazi losses in the Caucasus.
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Bou Fida
Takrouna
Enfidaville
Erwin Rommel
Gulf of Tunis
A. N. Anderson
1St Army
Bor Llied
Tunisia
Algiers
8Th Army
Eisenhower
Tunis-Bizerte
DNB
Royal Navy
Rommel
Dunkirk
North Africa
Biverte
Ford of Canada plants halted as UAW CIO clash shuts Windsor
In Windsor Ontario production at Ford Motor Company plants No 1 2 and 4 stopped after a sit down strike and lockout dispute with the United Automobile Workers CIO. Roy England said workers were locked out at Plant No 2 while plants 1 and 4 were ordered to return home. The plant will stay closed as negotiations continue with provincial labor conciliator Louis Fine assisting.
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Windsor
Ont
U.P
Ford Motor Company of Canada
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Canada
Roy England
Uaw-Cio
England
Wallace Campbell
Ford of
Louis Fine
Ontario
Labor Department
No. 2
Wallace Clark
No. 4
U S Forces Occupy Funafuti Amid Pacific Actions
Navy communique notes occupation of Funafuti unopposed in Ellice group near Gilbert Islands. Reports say light casualties from a Japanese air attack and recalls prior operations sinking enemy vessels. Also mentions four U S air strikes in Solomons and a daylight bombing on Nauru. Separate item notes rent controls in 14 defense areas including Lubbock, Texas.
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Ellice
Gilbert Islands
South Pacific
Navy
Funafut
Ellice Group
U. S
Gilbert
Ellice Islands
Funafuti
Solomons
Pororang
Shortland
Nauru Island
New Ellice
Lubbock
Washington
Office of Price Administration
CPA
del Rio
Texas
Faces Death For Slaying Pretty Bride
Robert E. Lee Folkes, 20, a negro cook, was found guilty in the first degree of murdering Mrs Martha Virginia James, 21, aboard a California bound train. The jury rejected mercy and under Oregon law he faces the death penalty in the gas chamber. Folkes had allegedly confessed to police in Los Angeles.
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Albany
Ore
Robert E. Lee Folkes
Oregon
California
Martha Virginia James
Southern Pacific Limited
Folkes
James
Los Angeles
Norfolk, Va
Finland Crisis Deepens as U S Legation Leaves Helsinki
The staff of the United States legation departed Helsinki by plane for Stockholm, leaving charge d'affaires Robert Mills McClintock behind. The American minister Schoenfeld and his family reportedly left for Washington last December. Ironclad censorship was imposed on Finnish political dispatches as Easter tensions mount over Finland's war with Soviet Russia and its UN relations.
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Helsinki
Finland
United States Legation
Stockholm
Robert Mills McClintock
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
Washington
London
Sweden
Russia
United Nations
Area Needs Visit by FDR To Break the Dreut
The piece recalls President Roosevelt's 1938 visit and a rainmaker effect. It notes current forecast predicts cooler weather with no pre Easter spell, and lists highs from 52 to 98 degrees across locations. Winds are gentle to moderate.
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Fdr
Roosevelt
Mexico
Magic Valley
Rio Grande
Bureau
Big Spring
Weather Update for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity cooler tonight and mild Saturday morning with gentle to moderate winds. West Texas little temperature change tonight. New Mexico scattered showers in northern mountains. 24 hour temps ending 6 30 AM show high 85 low 52 noon around 67.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Range Riders Roar At Saddle House Dance
Nestor Valverda played a bold bow as the Will Rogers Range Riders held a dance at the saddle house. Tex Thornton showed the club’s humor by selling an $18 horse at auction after a tumble. Guests from the Heel and Toe club joined County Commissioner John H Winters and Mrs Winters in dancing and socializing.
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Lewis Nordyke
Nestor Valverda
Will Rogers
Saddle House
Frances Edwards
Tex Thornton
Prince of Wales Club
Thornton
Tex
Frances
Nestor
Heel and
John H. Winters
C. W. Hefley
Mr. Hefley
Windy Bill
Anson
Frank Butler
Butler
Prince of Wales
Jack Little
Riding Club
Americans Answer Jap One Way Ticket to Hell Call
Americans respond to Japanese threats by rallying to War Bonds with strong local totals in Amarillo. Citizens urge investments to fund military needs, aiming to accelerate victory and return of troops. Local volunteers report large contributions and a push to reach April Second War Loan targets.
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Hell
Japan
America
United States
Amarillo
Sam
Joe Pendleton
Food Nutrition Point Rationing Friday Section
The Globe-News announces a new weekly Food Nutrition Point Rationing section to inform readers on rationing and nutrition during the war. A Bremen raid is noted with U S bombers destroying 63 German planes in an unescorted raid by the Eighth Air Force.
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Globe- News
London
Bremen
United States Air Force
Washingtons Tug-of-War over war fuel and rubber policy
Washington reels over a clash between military aims to bomb Nazi Europe and Rubber Director William M Jeffers who wants to keep both rubber and aviation gasoline programs flowing. Senator Gillette plans immediate investigation into claims 100 octane gasoline is being diverted to rubber plants and that the dispute threatens the war effort.
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Washington
Congress
Nazi
Europe
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
Patterson
Gillette
Towa
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Ickes
James F.F. Byrnes
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White House
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Georgia
Piney Woods
Ellis Arnall
H. R. DuVall
DuVall
Greenwich Village
New York
W. D. Carter
Tom Wingate
Henry Munn
Ray Parks
Housewives
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lhr. Co
800 W, Ltd
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Russell Stationery Company
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