Do Wives Run The Household In Public Opinion
A Pulse Feeler survey asks if men are ruled by their wives. Responses range from housewives and a salesman to workers and a farmer. Most agree wives exert control, with playful quips about running the family and long marriages as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Northe
West Lith Ave
L. J. Cooke
MR. Cook
George Flannery
Guy
William Potter
Carpenter
Calvin Coolidge
L. W. Logan
Praise for Amarillo helium plant and director in Washington
Rep. W Norrell of Arkansas praised the Amarillo helium plant and its director Dr C W Seibel as most efficient at hearings on the Interior Department appropriations. Norrell cited Seibel’s long service since 1917 and noted the director’s dedication and character amid remarks on staff competence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
C. W. Seibel
Washington
Rep. W. Norrell
Arkansas
Department of Interior
Norrell
Appropriations Committee
R. R. Sayers
Bureau of Mines
Sayers
Seibel
Bureau
Allied base on Shemya fortified in western Aleutians
April 24 report reveals occupation and fortification of Shemya a small island in the far western Aleutians. Troops from the Fourth Infantry landed in a storm during the Attu battle in May 1943 and found no resistance though Japanese had surveyed the area. Engineers over ten months rebuilt the island to be impregnable as a key western Aleutians bastion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shemya
Aleutians
Attu
Fourth Infantry Regiment
Outfit
Lion Mountain
Chicago
Britain Eyes 24 Billion Budget For 1945 War Year
London reports Britain's wartime budget totals almost £6 billion for 1945. Chancellor Sir John Anderson warns inflation risk rises as the war ends and Britain may exit as a major creditor in world trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Britwn
Commons
John Anderson
Britain
Heavy U S Force Pounds Three French Bases and Calais Coast
United States forces attack three German airfields in Nancy Metz and Dion in France as part of a sustained aerial offensive. Additional Liberator raids hit Pas de Calais with Mustang escort while P-38s bombed northern France. RAF raids on Munich and Karlsruhe followed by heavy incendiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Calais
London
France
Reich
Britain
Nancy
Metz
Dion
Hitler
Eighth Air Force
Pas-de-Calais
Letter From Home To Boys in Service
A Panhandle wartime correspondence from Amarillo dated April 25 1944 recounts weather swings in the region and reports on local servicemen abroad and at home. The column notes promotions and assignments from Italy to the Pacific, local crime, weddings, and community events including Buffalo Lake’s opening air show and a military parade.
Waste fats move from Pinkney Packing to war efforts
A railroad tank car carrying 60 000 pounds of waste fats departed Pinkney Packing Company Amarillo. The fats will be used for ammunition sulfa drugs and other war products as government shortages loom. Amarillo aims to sustain national records in waste fat collection despite April targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkney Packing Company
Amarillo
Potter County
Narrow Escape Corridor of Threatened Chinese Forces
Chinese report says Japanese columns narrowed the escape corridor southwest of Chenghsien to 10 miles, marking a five mile advance and bringing the pincers within 15 miles. Chinese claim over 10 000 Japanese casualties in April battles and more than 60 000 Japanese troops drawn into the fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Chenghsien
Allied Air Bombers Hit German Industrial Targets
American heavy bombers attacked southwestern Germany and other targets in France, with attacks on Metz Nancy Karlsruhe Munich and Dusseldorf. Reports say 40 planes at Metz dispersed bombs with no fighter opposition while other raids yielded satisfactory bombing results. Some crews lands in Switzerland after Friedrichshafen mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
London
U.S
United States Army Air Force
Metz
Nancy
Karlsruhe
Munich
Dusseldorf
Chambly
Paris
Britain
U. S
Friedrichshafen
Switzerland
German Casualties in Russia Hit Half Million
Moscow radio reports 500000 German troops killed or captured since July in a great southern front offensive begun last July. Excludes the still incomplete Crimean campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
London
Moscow
Red Army
Crimean
Imphal siege lifts as Allied push north in Manipur
An Allied observer reports nearly 10,000 Japanese troops killed in the month-long Imphal battle. British Indian forces break northern enemy lines as armored columns drive toward Kohima and Ukhrul, with 4,900 Japanese killed in direct combat and many more likely killed by artillery and air power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Manipur
Imphal-Kohima
Imphal-Akhrul
Kohima
Ukhrul
Plains law officers gather in Amarillo for quarterly meeting
Peace enforcement officers, prose cutors and judges from Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico assemble in Amarillo. The 1:30 pm session at the USO Auditorium features FBI's Dean Morley officiating with Judge Jack Allen and Max Richardson addressing Texas laws arrests and identification. Sheriff Harry Rathjen leads a quiz session and Rev. Jim H. Sharp opens with invocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Texas
Western
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Amarillo
Plains Law Officers
USO
Dean Morley
Dallas
FBI
Jack Allen
Perryton
Max Richardson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry Rathjen
Hemphill County
Jim H. Sharp
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Weather Turns Cooler Tonight With Winds Continuing
Dry and dusty conditions prevail as the U. S. Weather Bureau forecasts cooler weather tonight and tomorrow. Rainfall is ahead of the first quarter average, aided by early snow. topsoil is drying, with 2.96 inches moisture to date versus a 2.84 inch seasonal norm. Temperatures reached 73 at noon and should rise to the upper 70s, with strong winds diminishing tomorrow afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Weather Bureau
Hollandia Falls to Allied Forces in New Guinea Invasion
Allied forces under General MacArthur press into Hollandia and nearby airfields in Dutch New Guinea. Tadji airfield is reactivated within 48 hours of capture as the inland fight and air campaign continue. In India Burma, Allied troops breach several roadblocks near Imphal with Japanese casualties estimated at over four thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard C. Bergholz
Associated Press
Japan
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Tadji
Aitape
Ward Tami
Lake ‘Sentani
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Netherlands Indies
Southwest Pacific
Wewaki Hansa Bay
New
New Guinea
Tenth Son To Enter Armed Services Soon
E. J. Stovall of Abilene will enter Officers' Training School at Fort Benning and may set a record as the family with ten sons in military service. He has nine brothers serving, seven officers and two enlisted. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stovall, live in Abilene, with his father a civilian canteen worker at Camp Barkeley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
New England
Panhandle
Man
Amarillo
Amarillo Field
Canyon
Lubbock Westerners
Pampa
Chamber of Commerce
Borger
American Legion
18Th District
Henry Teubel
Tulsa
John G. Ridings
J. W. Moreman
Dallam County
Jerome B. Wheatley
Potter
Moore Counties
Austin
Ava Maness
Army Nurse's Corps
Texas
Albania
Maness
J. N. Riggs
Harry C. Riggs
Mark Clark
Italy
Memphis
Frank Hobson Gable
J. E. Gable
Pacific
Wash Tubbs
Daily Papers
Kenehan
John W. Kenehan, Jr
Leslie Turner
Florida
Turner
Jack Warnix
Donald Chamberlain
Naval Air Corps
E. Burroughs
Army Air Corps Training School
Columbus
Miss
Charles F. Green
Dalhart
K. K. Bigelow
Lawrence Proctor Stevenson
John Legrand Branson
Robert B. Glenn
Navy
Sout Pacific
Gene Groom
Marine Air Corps
United States
Groom
T. M. Caldwell
South Pacific
Seaman Roy Wilson
Buddy Meyer
W. %. Clark
Jereld Marable
Gene Noland
Cal Farley
English Field
Mary Stack
Tol Ware
Corinna Jane Lewis
Raton
Las Vegas
N. M
C. D. (Bitz) Hoover
Betty Wilkinson
Richard C. Kowalski
Lucile Hollingsworth
Marine Pfc
Buffalo Lake
Pat Flynn
Rabaul Harbor
Childress
E. J. Stovall
Fort Benning
Stovall
Mr. Stovall
Robert Stovall
Abilene
Camp Barkeley
Battle Climax Near Sevastopol in Black Sea Siege
Russian siege armies and air forces attacked Sevastopol systemically as battles intensified. Soviet planes and ships claimed 15 vessels sunk and 36 aircraft destroyed in 24 hours while German and Hungarian troops repelled Red Army counterattacks near the Carpathians and upper Dniester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Red Air Force
Fleet Air Arm
Berlin
Carpathians
Upper
Dniester
Poand
Lwow-Stannislawow
Overseas Force Size Matches Draft Rejections
New York April 25 United States forces overseas total about 3,690,000 Maj. Gen. Lewis B Hershey national director of selective service disclosed last night to the national war and peace fitness conference of the American Association for health physical education and recreation that 3,600,000 men rejected in the draft roughly equals the overseas force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
National War and Peace Fitness Conference
The
American Association For Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Weather report for Amerila Vicinity and West Texas
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with cooler conditions and winds diminishing. Scattered showers likely in Del Rio Eagle Pass area and east of Pecos River this afternoon and Wednesday, with fresh to occasionally strong winds. New Mexico sees partly cloudy skies with showers in west and north portions. Highs around 72 to 73 with a 45 overnight low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amerila
West Texas
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Pecos River
New Mexico
Parson Wins Stethoscope Photo Identification Contest
In Seattle on April 25, the naval hospital newspaper The Stethoscope held a contest to identify a published photograph of Betty Grable's legs. The chaplain won the competition, with Neely Greenhill Lowndes noted among participants.
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Seattle
Naval Hospital
The
Stethoscope
Betty Grable
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T. J. Sullivan
DR. C. W. Seibel
Stremya
Ohn Meynare Lbr. Co
RAF
Air Ministry
Armed Services
Globe and News
Fats
Pinkney
We. Brides
Russell Stationery Company
Walter Logan
United Press
Guinea
Geelvink Bay
India-Burma
India
Asahel Bush
Cyclops
Central Pacific
Truk
Carolines
Ponape
Ulul
Puluwat
Marshall Islands
China
rMadangsg
Salamaua
Moresby
Finsehhater
Coral Sea
New Ireland
Rabaul
Mew
Australia
Parson
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes
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