Letter From Home to Boys in Service
EDITOR S NOTE invites readers to clip and send a personal message to service members. The column reviews post primary political results in the Panhandle Texas area, updates on elected officials and local races, plus community notes on housing, traffic, and newcomer integration. It also reports accidents, deaths, local sports, and social news, ending with a closing sign-off.
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Armed Services
O'Daniel
Jimmy Allred
Allred
Panhandle
Potter
Hutchinson
John Lee Smith
Jesse James
Beauford Jester
Railroad Commission
Jerry Sadler
Sadler
E. L. Pitts
Lubbock
E. C. Nelson
Amarillo
Court of Civil Appeals
Glen Coffee
Charley Ellis
Potter County
Gene Worley
Sydney
Australia
Pacific Coast
Riley Strickland
Tyler
Sixth Avenue
Rose Bowl
Fillmore
Arthur M. Trum
Houston
al Reville
W. B. Burns
Baltimore
Country Club
Lynn H. Childs
Palo Duro Canyon
Veterans Hospital
Perryton
Charles P. Shepherd
Canyon
Loren O. Middleton
Edward H. Brainerd
W. B. Patterson
Pampa
Notre Dame University
J. E
Frances Campbell
California
Betty Rose Cradit
Eddie Storseth
Naval
Las Vegas
N. M
Johnny Ekelund
Louise Roach
West Texas State
Overton Donnell
San Diego
Dick McSpadden
Dorothy Rittenberry
Jack Gouldy
Madge Lahey
Paul Berthelot Jr
Moscow
Kan
War Production Board backs Kaiser cargo plane program
The War Production Board committee evaluating Henry J. Kaiser’s plan to build 500 giant cargo planes pledged support and said it will do everything in its power to aid the program and avoid interfering with military plans. Kaiser said there was no change since the committee meeting and would team with Howard Hughes on the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
War Production Board
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser
Howard J. Hughes
Axis Preparing for Another Hard Winter on Russian Front
Reports from Budapest indicate a public collection of winter clothing for Hungarian troops has begun. Berlin radio via a trans ocean dispatch recorded by United Press says a Hungarian youth organization is leading the drive and that press and public leaders urge generous donations to warm soldiers on the Russian front.
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United Press
Axis
Budapest
Berlin
Transocean
New York
Coyotes trapped after nightly melon depredations in Redlands
Redlands California on August 25 a county predator hunter named Carl Hart was summoned by a rancher losing 20 to 30 watermelons nightly. Hart set traps and captured 4 coyotes and one young boy who pledged not to repeat the act.
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Redlands
Calif
Carl Hart
Hart
Gripsholm Repatriates 1451 Americans to Jersey City
The diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm arrived at Jersey City pier at 8 A M bearing 1451 Americans repatriated from Japan, the first such arrival since the war began. Mexico City reports ten new light bombers joined the Mexican air force with more expected this week.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gripsholm
Japan
Mexico
Mexico City
United States
Saboteurs Reveals Tender Love
In Elgin Illinois aviator C A Bohle spots a 50 foot initial sign in a hayfield reading C B D R. Sheriff Damisch calls FBI. Joseph Bagg learns the letters were cut by his son Charles 15 to honor his classmate Dorothy Russell, ending the hunt.
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Elgin
Ill
U.P
C. A. Bohle
Bohle
Marcus W. Damisch
Kane County
Damisch
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chicago
Joseph Bagg
Bagg
Charles
D. R
Dorothy Russell
Battle of Guadalcanal Expands as Japan Attacks from Northeast
The August 23 to 24 clash sees American carriers and land forces repelling a major Japanese counterattack near Guadalcanal. US aircraft reportedly hit several enemy ships including carriers and a battleship, with Tulagi base possibly captured. The battle enters a large scale phase with ongoing air and sea fighting and cautious assessments of damages to Japanese carrier strength.
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Guadalcanal
Navy
Solomon Islands
Solomons
Tulagi
Guadalcanal Island
United States
South Pacific
Truk Island
Proline
Truk
Japan
Aleutians
Japs retreat in China to open another front
Chinese high command reports Lishui base near Chungking under direct attack as Japanese forces retreat from Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces to prepare a new thrust elsewhere possibly toward Siberia India or Australia. China Times urges UN offensive to counter Japan strategy as Linchwan and nearby targets are retaken. Second base in Kiangsi falls as attackers push toward Chuhsien.
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China
Chungking
Lishui
Japan
Chekiang Province
Associated Press
China East Coast
Siberia
India
Australia
Chiang Kai-shek
Chekiang
Kiangsi
Chiang
The
China Times
United Nations
Russia
Linchwan
Fuchow
Nanchang
Jushang
Chuhsien
Execution Corps for Axis Puppets Formed
London reports indicate Gen. Draja Mihailovic has created a special execution corps to assassinate puppet collaborators with the Axis. Targeted leaders include Serbia’s puppet premier Milan Nedic and Croatia’s Ante Pavelic, with killings already carried out and death lists to purge traitors.
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London
Draja Mikhailovitch
Axis
Aare Qureeteu Lupo
Milan Neditch
Serbia
Ante Pavelic
Chachak
Bulic
Mikhailovitch
Jugoslav
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Mild today with widely scattered thundershowers late afternoon. West Texas may see showers or thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight with higher afternoon temperatures. New Mexico has scattered storms this afternoon and tonight with warmer readings later. Temps ranged 66 to 81 in the past 24 hours. Noon reading was 75 with .03 inch precipitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Bureau
English Field
Adrian
Claude
Dimmitt
Hereford
Lubbock
Pampa
Stratford
Big Spring
Abilene
Consolidated Produces New Cargo Plane at Fort Worth Plant
A new four motor cargo aircraft nears mass production at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth Texas. The first ship of the type rolled off the Texas line a month ahead of schedule and promises faster speed and heavier payload than existing craft.
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Fort Worth
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Texas
Nazi Tanks Roar Near Stalingrad
Berlin boasted that Stalingrad would be decided within the week as German forces crossed the Don with tanks and dive bombers in day and night raids. Soviet reports said heavy fighting continued in trenches and streets as reserves moved in and Luftwaffe attacks set armament works aflame. Churchill returned from Moscow amid Allied plans seen as imminent, while RAF raids hit Frankfurt and Wiesbaden with heavy losses reported on both sides.
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Vichy
Berlin
Stalingrad
Don
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
London
Churchill
Moscow
London Daily Telegraph
The
Daily Mail
British Bombers Raid Nazi Rhineland Moonlight Attack
RAF bombers struck Frankfurt and Wiesbaden in a strong moonlight raid despite night fighter interference. About three hundred bombers targeted Rhine towns starting fires. one Lancaster fought off a Focke Wulf and a Wellington squadron repelled 11 German night fighters with no losses.
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London
U.P
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Frankfurt
Wiesbaden
Rhineland
Rhine
RAF
Neely-Greenhill- Lowndes Insuran
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Melbourne
Walter Murdoch
Melbourne Herald
Conde
Marseille
Tamatave
Madagascar
America
Archangel
Tyrone Power
Hollywood
Henry Fonda
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Jugoslavia
Pavelic
Neditch
Russell Stationery Company
Consolidated
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Dieppe
France
Kremlin
Middle East
Stalin
Germany
Lyon
Europe
Nazi Rhineland
Jefferson City
Robert Lee Cardwell
Market
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