Panhandle updates lift war spirit and local news
Easter in the Panhandle shines amid war work and community events. Amarillo hosts Knife and Fork Club and Philharmonic closeouts while Buffalo Lake opens with amphibian jeeps and airfield flyovers. War Bond drives rise. Lark salutes Sgt. John Krizan with medals. Panhandle boys win wings and endure POW listings as local weddings, sports, and milestones fill the week.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Knife and Fork Club
Philharmonic Orchestra
Sandie
Buffalo Lake
Pampa
Khiva Shrine
Dick Powell
House debates text book selection bill in Austin
The House, in a lengthy session, voted to table a bill proposing a multiple list system of text book selection for elementary schools in Austin.
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Bill Austin
House
Doctor Hobby Freed on Bond in Narcotics Conspiracy Case
Dallas report states Dr. A M Hobby aged 72 brother of ex Governor William P Hobby was released on a $1,000 bond after being charged with conspiracy to violate the Harrison narcotics act in a U P dispatch dated April 27.
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Dallas
U.P
A. M. Hobby
Texas
William P. Hobby
Nationwide soft coal tie up hinted amid strikes and walkouts
In Washington and Kentucky marked by growing walkouts, the United Mine Workers faced pressure as strikes threaten a nationwide soft coal tie up by week’s end. The War Labor Board appealed to UMW leadership for restraint while panels prepare to review issues.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
New York
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
UMW
Lewis
WLB
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Philadelphia
David B. Robertson
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Walter White
Business Advisory Council of the Commerce, Department
Sunbronzed, Trim Lady Flyers Boost Army Trek in West Texas
At Avenger Field Sweetwater Texas women fliers in the Army’s new program train for war service. Hundreds of sunbronzed pilots, streamlined planes, participate as the Army extends air instruction to women, though field counts vary from five to fifty, promising thousands in the program.
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West Texas
Army
Avenger
Sweetwater
Weather notes and aviation training details in Texas and New Mexico
Cooler tonight and Wednesday morning across Amarillo and vicinity with little temperature change elsewhere in West Texas except Panhandle cooling. New Mexico shows cooler northeast to day. high 88 low 52 noon 66. The Flying Training Command at Fort Worth oversees Army Air Forces women pilot training led by Jacqueline Cochran with a tightly structured daily schedule and largely intense flight and ground instruction.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Houston
Flying Training Command
Fort Worth
Army Air Forces
Jacqueline Cochran
Who Speaks for Prostrate Poles in War Era Talks
London and Washington header the scramble over Poland's postwar representation after Russia cuts ties with the Polish government in exile. Churchill Eden and Sikor ski meet as Winant is summoned, raising the prospect of Soviet recognition of a Moscow based Polish provisional regime and confusion over who speaks for Poland at the United Nations talks.
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London
Britain
Russia
Poland
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Wladyslaw Sikorski
United Nations
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
United States
Theoecorn
Sky Giants Hit Nazi Steel City Duisburg
British four engined bombers raided Duisburg last night dropping up to 1500 tons of bombs. The raid targeted docks warehouses steel mills and coke ovens as part of a broader push on German communications. Seventeen planes were lost in the operation described as one of the heaviest raids of the war.
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London
U.P
Duisburg
Germany
Cologne
Air Ministry
United Press
New York
Europe
Ruhr
Rhine
Berlin
Stettin
Rostock
Rhineland
France
Loire
Reich
English Channel
Knox Sees Air Raids On Coast as Remote Possibility
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said there is a possibility of nuisance air raids on the East and West Coasts, but they are very remote. He noted Japan could use its Aleutian base as a springboard, yet termed such raids as remote possibilities. The rest of the note covers weather, with a 52 degree low and 88 degree high yesterday, and a Dallas wedding where the father sold war bonds totaling 3775 dollars at the reception.
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Washington
Frank Knox
Aleutians
Germans Send More Troops From Sicily
The United States 2nd Corps moved to seize heights near Mateur Junction and near Bizerte through rugged terrain, while another unit faced gun emplacements at Djebel Azag. The Ninth Air Force reported a daylight bombing of Bari with 250000 pounds of explosives. Mary Louise Beitz, a contralto, will guest soloist at the USO-Municipal Auditorium concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Louis Barron at 8 15. Tickets are $1.10 or season membership.
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United States
2Nd Corp
Mateur Junction
Bizerte
2Nd Corps
Djebel Azag
Cairo
Ninth United States Air Force
Bari
Philharmonic Orchestra
Uso-Municipal Auditorium
Mary Louise Beitz
Federation of Music Clubs
Miss Beitz
Saint-Saens
Addiiton
Robert Louis Barron
Philharmonic Association
Allied push tightens grip as Axis positions near Tebourba
Allied forces breach several outposts across northern Tunisia as American Second Corps and British First Army close on Tebourba, Mateur, and Jeffna. Air bombardment devastates Bari and Grosseto targets while French and British troops gain in the Medjez-El-Bab sector and along the Tunisian coast.
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First Army
Eighth Army
Pont du Fahs
First
Medjez-El-Bab
Tebourba
Tunis
Africa
Sicily
United States Second Corps
Adriatic
Bari
Bizerte
Grosseto
Mateur
Sidi N’sir
Jeffna
Lake Garnet Achkel
West Central
Longstop Hill
Heidous
Tunisia
Amarillo Pursues Extra Bonds for War Fund Drive
Amarillo has raised 5.45 million of a 6.00 million quota for the Second War Loan campaign with a goal to purchase two more bombers this week. Publicity chair Mrs. Bob McDonald notes a 383 thousand dollar loan by local residents and urges every citizen to buy one more bond to boost support for American forces. Potter County leader Cal Farley calls this a community point of pride to last beyond the war.
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Potter County
Lark
John Krizan
Tunisia
Roy C. Andrews
Bill
John Andrews
Guadalcanal
San Francisco
Roy Andrews
Navy
John B. Golding
V. PF. W
Solomons
Jack Self
W. E. Self
Amarillo
Panhandle
Army Air Corps
Gulf Coast
Robert J. Wadley
Fourteenth Avenue
Eagle Pass Field
Arthur G. Ray, Jr
Fillmore Street
Ellington Field
Thomas H. Lair
Pampa Field
Bob H. Sisson
Polk Street
Blackland Field
Duane Smith
Seventh Avenue
Elwood C. Nelson
Borger
Altus Field
Wilbert D. White
Farwell
Elmer L. Kimball
Littlefield
Eugene B. Tucker
Perryton
Aloe Field
Homer Roberson
Petersburg
Erle G. Owens, Jr
Plainview
Stewart A. Hatch
Clovis
Lubbock Field
New Mexico
War Department
Cpl
Raymone E. McGee
Rica McGee
North West
Thirteenth Avenue
la Vaughn Odneal
A. L. Odneal
North Taylor Street
Martin Hegdal
Blanch Hegdal
Dewey O. Hood
Mittie Caron Hood
Wellington
Robert L. Ison
Minnie Ison
Idalou
William E. Twigg
Manila Pearl Twigg
Lefors
James W. Beck
J. W. Beck
Grady Boyd
Callie Boyd
Roswell
Martlett E. Byars
Nellie Bertha Byars
Kenneth T. Havins
Stella Havins
Clayton C. Howell
Mary Howell
Clayton
John B. Hoyt
Ben
Delbert R. McDaniel
Edna McDaniel
Tucumcari
William C. Ross
Portales
Edith Lucille Thatcher
Adrian
Alabama
Santa Fe
Cardenas
N. M
L. A. McManus
Society Dept
Pegey Gallaher
Chicago
Amarillian
Donald Bernard Cooney
Corpus Christi
Kathryn Farne
Earl Hatchett
James W. Goodwin
Virginia Lynn Martin
Houston
Harold L. Oliver
LaJuan
Dallas
Emily Tucker
Eugene Barry Hughes
Oakland
Miss
Hawaii
Virginia Boyd
Robert Winston Curtis
Maxine Bradley
Wichita Falls
Dalhart
James R. Brown
Whitewright
Sara Bourland
Pampa
James Edward Leverich
Stamford
Sylvia Nelson
Texline
James Ogle
Lavonna Ardoth Dawson
Harvie Lee Johnson
Cooley Arender
Bill Stockman
J. W. Kleinschmidt
West Texas State
Army Air Reserve
Denver University
Olin Hinkle
West Texas State College
U. S. Army Air Corps
Amarillo Sandies
Golds
Butler Field
Richard Mixon
Phillips High School
Bobby Dunham
Pampa Harvester
Uncle Sam
Bob McDonald
Cal Farley
C H Johnson Wins News Tip First Prize
C H Johnson Route 2 Box 30 won the five dollar prize for a prompt report on a burning automobile. Mrs Jim Wafford 413 1 2 Pierce Street placed second for information on fatal injuries to Seaman Joe Wafford. Mrs M B Reynolds 701 Kentucky Street won two cents third prize for a story about firemen pulling a victory garden plow.
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C. H. Johnson
Jim Wafford
Pierce Street
Joe Wafford
M. B. Reynolds
Kentucky Street
J. ©. McCoy
Cleveland Street
Harry Hoover
West Tenth Avenue
Glen Hatfield
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