Allied invasion zero hour nears off Italy with large fleet
News from London reports imminent Allied attack on Italy as Montgomery predicts "very soon" and Allied convoys pour into the Mediterranean. A-36 fighters, Spitfires, and improved anti tank weapons arrive as forces prepare for possible landings near Rome and Corsica to threaten Axis defenses.
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London
U.P
Italy
Mediterranean
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Pietro Badoglio
Algiers
Catania
Sicily
Tiber
Rome
Sardinia
Corsica
France
War era farming plea and community event in Amarillo
A truck farmer seeks public input on hiring Japanese-American workers to boost vegetable production, noting FBI approved labor and government support. The piece also promotes a servicemen wives breakfast at The Paramount and The Herring Hotel with free tickets, a Betty Grable film, and a Mother Soldier and Sailor Day concept, urging community response.
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Amarillo
American Fighting Services
FBI
California
Paramount
Herring
News-Globe
Otho Thompson
Betty Grable
Coney Island
Stalin blocks Allied airstrikes at Ploesti blamed for losses
The piece argues Stalin blocked American bombers from Russia for Ploesti raids, causing 52 shot down and 15 interned in Turkey. It claims 67 bombers were lost, with higher risks if bases in Russia had been used, and labels Stalin a hijacker undermining allied efforts. The column also critiques law burdens, reports on Sen. Connally’s Amarillo dinner, and notes local views on postwar planning and community figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Stalin
Ploesti
Romania
Stalin
Ankara
Turkey
Ninth Air Force
William Philip Simms
Scripps-Howard Service
Russia
Egypt
Krasnodar
Black Sea
Dill
Europe
A Patchwork of Facts on Women and Society
A collection of quirky statistics and opinions on women height names marriage divorce and work life in the era includes tall versus short debates about Cleopatra and Mary Pickford claims about diet fattening numbers on birth months and marriage trends plus notes on diabetes death rates and motorist safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita Loos
Biondes
Anna
Ann
Anne
Mary
Seattle
Long Island
Manhattan
Cleopatra
Nell Gwynne
Dr Barry
Queen Victoria
Joan of Arc
Molly Pitcher
Mary Pickford
British Taxes Dwarf America's Tax Burden in 1942
The National Industrial Conference Board, a private research group, estimated that Britain taxed 40 percent of national income in 1942 while the United States taxed 27 percent. It projected U S tax share rising to 33 percent in 1943. In a separate dispatch, Sgt Floyd Whisenhunt of Bonham Texas compared war to farm rat hunts in a personal letter home.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
Bonham, Tex
U.P
Floyd Whisenhunt
Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Vatican
Tire theft threat to return item demands action
Dear Tack asks the thief who took a tire with serial 837M1095 to return it to Consumers Supply in Happy, warning Sheriff Adams and his men will handle the case if not returned. The notice precedes other small ads about a housekeeper seeking work, a 13 year old seeking a job, and found keys at Twenty eighth and Polk Street.
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RKO
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia
David Selznick
Star
Ingrid Bergman
Warner Brothers
Warner's
Selznick
Hollywood
Tom Connally
Conally
Senator Connally
Darling
Gunner William Caeser Lewis
U. S. Army
Margaret Mitchell
Happy
South
Cleveland Street
Twenty-eighth
Polk Street
Eakle Park
Globe News
Elmo Shields Reindicted In Potter County Case
The Potter County grand jury re indicted Elmo Shields for killing his wife this morning. The prior indictment was quashed due to a poll tax issue. Defense argues lack of a negro on the jury and may seek quashing on that basis. A deputy sheriff rounded up a pickup juror after failures to assemble 12 qualified jurors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Elmo Shields
Henry Bishop
Shields
Birmingham Pittsburg of the South nickname noted
The article states that Birmingham, Alabama, is known as the Pittsburgh of the South, highlighting its industrial reputation and historical nickname.
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Birmingham
Ala
Pittsburgh
South
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Margo
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Frank Sinatra
Judy Garland
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First Air Force Orchestra
Guy Stone
Herring Hotel
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Jack King
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Pierce Street
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Mr. Ware
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Public Service Company
Cunningham
Joe Jenkins
Rex Baxter
Washington
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Jean Ann Ferguson
Sgt
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Stratford
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Texhoma
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J. E. Puckett
Pampa
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Yale
Phi Beta Kappa
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Germany
Keepig
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Rear
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National Bureau of Standards
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J. J. Freid Eae Tat Hs
Panhandle Lumber Co., Inc
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