No Short Cut To Pacific Victory
Prime Minister J. Curtin says no shortcut to victory in the Pacific after a three day conference with General MacArthur. Allied air and sea forces report heavy battles from the Marshalls to the Solomons with ships sunk and vessels damaged. Ground forces claim a two day Bougainville raid with up to two hundred Japanese killed while U S losses include the submarine Wahoo and escort carrier Liscome Bay.
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Pride
Ostates
John Artin
Australia Today
Pacific
Marshalls
Solomons
Bougainville
United States
Liscome Bay
Gilbert Islands
Curtin
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Cairo
Japan
Europe
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
New Guinea
Taroa
Maloelap
Gilberts
Ben Robertson Buys Property In Amarillo
Ben Robertson announced the purchase of the lot and buildings at 113 and 115 West Sixth Avenue from Kansas City Life Insurance Company, which had acquired the property from Alex Davidson. The 80 by 125 foot site includes the Sixth Street Package Store and City Cab Company offices. Robertson, a local businessman and former police officer, plans development after the war. A separate report says a negro quartermaster soldier at Amarillo Army Air Field was killed after resisting detention. a board of officers will investigate.
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West Sixth Avenue
Ben Robertson
Robertson
The
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
Alex Davidson
Sixth Street
City Cab Company
Amarillo
Panhandle Lumber Company
Police Department
Wichita Falls
Mr. Robertson
Amarillo Army Air Field
Army Band To Play at USC
The First Army Air Forces Band of Amarillo Field performs its second fall concert at 7:30 Sunday in the Auditorium with no admission charged. The group includes over 25 musicians, many playing multiple instruments, totaling more than 35 pieces under Chief Warrant Officer Guy L. Stone. The program features San Lorenzo March, Margie, Ballet Egyptian, Great Little Army, Headlines, Down South, Chinese National Anthem, New Chinese March, Chinese Dance, China Boy, Fortune Teller Overture, Mexican Hat Dance, On the Quarter Deck, and the Air Corps Song.
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Army Air Forces
Amarillo Field
Myddleton
Capt
Thomas Darcy
Gould
Bainbridge Crist
Yoder
Victor Herbert
A.partichela
Alford
Air Corps
Creomulsion Advertises Quick Relief for Bronchitis
After flu recovery a lingering cough may turn into bronchitis if ignored. Creomulsion claims to go to the seat of trouble, loosen phlegm, aid nature, and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes. Druggist guarantee offers money back if not satisfied.
William A. Pascoe Dies. Amarillo Native Passes in Long Beach
William A. Pascoe 61, former Amarillo resident and father of Mrs. C. F. Staples, died yesterday at his Long Beach California home after years of poor health. Survived by widow Maude Pascoe and ten children, plus brothers and sisters in several states. funeral plans pending as Mrs. Pascoe travels from Amarillo to attend.
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William A. Pascoe
Amarillo
C. F. Staples
Garfield Street
East Sixteenth Street
Long Beach
Calif
Mr. Pascoe
Maude Pascoe
Mary Pascoe
Elk City
Okla
Delbert Grimes
San Diego
Lloyd Prather
Bakersfield
Ruth Ferrell
Maybell
Shirley Pascoe
Cpl
Raymond A. Pascoe
Thehilippines
Paul G. Pascoe
Ireland
William M. Pascoe
Marines
Harold Pascoe
Alvin
Beatrice
Nebr
Frank
Denver
Allen Gregory
Amy Jackson
Fredericksburg
Pascoe
Potato Eyes Inspiring to Spudtroopers
U S Army spudtroopers receive motion picture lessons on the M4 87 mm potato through instructional films produced by Fort Monmouth trainees. The satire styled film, titled Nomenclature care and peeling of the M4 87 mm potato unmounted, blends faux training with comic dialogue as soldiers learn potato handling and weapon metaphor. Also notes rubber tire shortages forecast for 1944 and American Samoa distance from San Francisco and Hawaii.
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Dorothy Williams
Washington
U.S. Army
G. I
Signal Corps
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Chinese Hold Changteh as Japanese Foothold Remains East Gate
Chinese forces backed by American air power maintain control of Changteh in Hunan Province while acknowledging that Japanese troops still hold a foothold at the town east gate. A Chinese relief column broke siege lines to connect with the garrison on December 1 as battle intensifies near Changsha.
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Chungking
Hunan Province
Changteh
Changsha
Shanghai
Nazis Surrender as Eighth Army Advances Near Sangro
Scared German stragglers surrender to the Eighth Army north of the Sangro River as main Nazi lines crumble above the Sangro. Allied bombardment devastates Fossacesia and wrecks villages while British forces press the retreat and prisoners are put to work clearing rubble.
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Richard D. McMillan
Eighth Army
Sangre
U.P
Sangro River
Sangro
Bernard L. Montgomery
Fossacesia
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Pacific Victory
Army Band
Usc
Amarillo Globe
Kiska
Spudtroopers
Tews
American Samoa
San Francisco
Hawaii
Salween River
China
U. S
Irrawaddy River
Uncle Sam
Deeca
Nole
Nerwere
Arilliance
Fashsant
P.F.C
POLI
Passacésia
Récca San Giovanni
Herma
DEMA
Polk St
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