Ralph Riggs Promoted to Rear Admiral in U S Navy
Ralph Riggs has been promoted to rear admiral in the United States Navy. He commands a cruiser division in the Pacific theater. A Amarillo High School and US Naval Academy graduate, he served in World War I and earned the Navy Cross for actions near the Komandorski Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Riggs
United States Navy
J. N. Riggs
Monroe
Admiral Riggs
Amarillo High School
United States Naval Academy
Ralph, Jr
Harry Riggs
Mark Clark
Italy
Komandorski Islands
Noted Geologist Visits Amarillo on Lecture Tour
Dr. Kirk Bryan of Harvard University lectured in Amarillo yesterday as part of an American Association of Petroleum Geologists tour. He will speak in Lubbock and Midland and was hosted by Floyd V. Studer, an Amarillo insurance man and archeologist, who praised the steak. Bryan has prior visits with Studer to inspect recently found flint mines in a prehistoric Southwest study, on trips hosted by the Panhandle Plains Historical Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirk Bryan
Harvard University
Amarillo
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Lubbock
Midland
Bryan
Floyd V. Studer
Dr. Bryan
Mr. Studer
Southwest
Panhandle Plains Historical Society
Churchill faces vote of confidence over Greece policy
In a heated Commons debate Churchill defends Britain's Greece intervention and denounces claims of a democratic coup. He rejects disarming allies and reiterates support for a free election in liberated lands while criticizing Sforza and De Gaulle. Labour presses for guarantees that troops will not suppress popular movements.
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Seymour Cocks
House
George VI
Friends of Democracy
Greece
Europe
Churchill
Sforza
Italy
United States
Otto Badoglio
Badoglio
Belgium
Eisenhower
Brussels
Pierlot
de Gaulle
Count Sforza
New USO Director E. D. Frederick Arrives to Lead Auditorium Club
E. D. Frederick, recently returning from Hawaii where he headed USO operations, has arrived to become permanent director of the Auditorium USO. A veteran of USO and YWCA work, he previously lived in San Antonio and spent 15 months with the Wahiawa Club near Honolulu. He began USC work in 1942 after a 30 year YMCA career in Greece and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Frederick
Hawaii
USO
YWCA
Frederick
San Antonio
Wahiawa Club
Honolulu
USC
YMCA
Greek bombardment targets Red Cross building near Athens
British reports say ELAS mortars fired at government barracks from a Red Cross marked building two and a half miles northeast of the Parthenon. Two smoke rounds were used for range, with sporadic mortaring continuing and no Americans killed or wounded per survey.
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ELAS
Red Cross
Donald Scobie
Greece
EAM
National Liberation Front
American
Air Transport Command
Fire damages at Badger Ice Co plant and docks
Damages from a fire at the Badger Ice Co plant and loading docks on the Santa Fe right of way are not yet determined. Officials estimate 300 to 400 dollars of loss to plant and equipment including a conveyor for servicing railway cars. An empty bank car is the main loss. Ice servicing will be done by hand. icing so far benefited local shipments, with some work shifted to Clovis and Waynoka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badger Ice Co
Santa Fe
Badger Company
Clovis
Waynoka
Soldier Loses Both Legs In Battle In France Letter Reaches Wife
Pfe. Oris L. Odom, 22, lost both legs four days after being shot at the front. He wrote to his wife Mrs. Marjorie Odom from a hospital in France a day after she was officially informed of the wounds. Odom served since Oct 19, 1943 and overseas three months. He was wounded on November 18 by a German 88 while at the front for the second time. He worked as a salesman for Plains Distributor in civilian life. His wife and 20 month old daughter Michael Ann live with Mrs. Odom’s parents at 503 Maryland Street.
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Pfe
Oris L. Odom
Marjorie Odom
Maryland
France
Cris Odom
T. B. Odom
Washington
Plains Distributing Company
Michael Ann Odom
New Color Scheme for Police Headquarters
The city hall police department offices and Judge J. A. Kirkman’s chambers are being repainted in battleship gray with lighter gray and creamy white. Work began two days ago and continued this morning as painters updated ceilings and walls in a pre-Christmas version of spring cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Kirkman
French Ports Now Busier Than Any Time in History
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AEF in Paris reports Rouen and Le Havre restored and handling more tonnage than before the war. Fully 75 percent of U S Army supplies now ship directly from America to France. Germans tried to destroy Rouen and Le Havre but Antwerp Cherbourg Rouen and Le Havre compensate for reduced operations at former beach landings.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEF
Paris
Rouen
le Havre
Seine
United States Army
France
America
Antwerp
Cherbourg
Japanese War Losses Reported for 1944
Japanese Imperial Headquarters released a year end casualty tally showing 168 000 killed and wounded for Japan. U S losses were put at 226 000 and Britain at 78 000 including 20 000 Britishers. The figures do not cover earlier years.
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Associated Press
United States
Great Britain
Nothing Taken In Burglaries
Amarillo detectives report four recent break ins with no items missing. Targets included The Star Machine and Foundry Company at 1200 Lincoln and Blackstone Cleaners 208 West Tenth Lockhart Cleaners 117 West Ninth and Miller Printing Company 617 South Fillmore.
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Amarillo
Star Machine and Foundry Company
Lincoln
Blackstone Cleaners
West Tenth
Lockhart Cleaners
West Ninth
Miller Printing Company
South Fillmore
Pacific War Dispatches on Burma Front and Japan Damage
Reports state Japanese forces lose ground north of Ormoc as U S Army 32d Division advances from Limon while the 77th Division cuts a backdoor. Tokyo says minor quake damage with no production losses as Ledo route nears reopening. Chinese counterattacks recapture Tushan as Chungking offers no confirmation.
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Panese Palanas
Ormoc
U. S
Limon
Nipponese Radio
Preston Grover
Associated Press
New Delhi
India
Burma
China
Kumming
Tushan
Kweiyang
Kweichow Province
Chungking
Marion Guinn Pleads Guilty in Burglary Case
Marion Guinn pleaded guilty to burglary connected with entering Cal Parley station and received a five year suspended sentence from a 47th District Court jury. Virgil Counts also pleaded guilty and drew seven and a half years, sentenced by Judge Henry B Bishop.
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Marion Guinn
Cal Parley
47Th District Court
Guinn
Virgil Counts
Henry
Bishop
Mrs Helen Webb Dies at 43 in Amarillo
Mrs Helen A Webb wife of Mil ton Webb of the Wood Webb Lumber Co died in a local hospital this morning at age 43. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star Amarillo Garden Club Child Study Club Polk Street Methodist Church and lived at 2505 Taylor. Survivors include husband son Jerry daughter Jane two brothers two sisters and her parents. The body is in state at the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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Helen A. Webb
Milton Webb
Wood-Webb Lumber Company
Webb
Order of Eastern Star
Amarillo
Jerry
Jane
B. C. Wileman
Oklahoma City
Roy Wileman
Altus
Okla
Reba Lowry
Fort Worth
Lee George
Wheeler
W. D. Wiseman
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Seventh Army pushes near Siegfried Line in eastern France
On the southeastern flank of the Third Army the Seventh Army under Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch advanced to seven miles from the Siegfried Line. American forces moved through Montbronn Rohrbach Enchenberg and pressed Vorhand strongholds while facing German resistance at Haugenau. Southward they penetrated four villages south of Ribeauville nearing Colmar as the French First Army slows at Colmar by road blocks and mines. French troops at the Vosges edge fight into Thann Bitschwiller two miles to the west.
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Third Army
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Siegfried Line
Hardt Mountains
France
Montbronn
Rohrbach
Enchenberg
Haugenau
Mertzwiller
Haguenau
Ribeauville
Colmar
The
Rhine
Vosges
Thann
Bitschwiller
German push limited as Ninth Army holds Roer lines
Front reports surviving German traffic on Rhine bridges east of Colmar and withdrawals to cover first line retreat. On the Cologne plain German counterattacks of about 150 men against American positions near Gergstein were repulsed. Ninth Army patrols near Roerdorf and Flossdorf faced heavy German fire.
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Rhine
Colmar
Cologne
Gergstein
Duren
Ninth Army
Roer
Roerdorf
Flossdorf
Linnich
Trial of R C Andrews Opens in District Court
The trial of R C Andrews charged with theft over fifty dollars began just before noon in the 47th District Court. It followed the first case of the morning in which Marion Guinn received a five year suspended sentence on a burglary charge. Andrews originally faced Randall County charges but the case was moved to Potter County for trial.
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R. C. Andrews
47Th District Court
Marion Guinn
Andrews
Randall County
Potter County
Grand Jury Recesses After Returning Three Indictments
The Potter County grand jury ended session yesterday after returning three indictments two for aggravated assault and one for swindling. No arrests have yet been made and the panel will reconvene December 15.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Army grenade-throwing champ set at Camp Blanding
Cpl. Michel Rizzo, an instructor at Camp Blanding Florida, is credited with a record toss of 88 17 yards. Earlier C. G. Conner of the state highway patrol was reported in St Anthony's Hospital with strep throat and his condition described as favorable.
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C. G. Conner
State Highway Patrol
St. Anthony's Hospital
Army
Cpl
Michel Rizzo
Camp Blanding
Fla
Odd Fellows Elect Munn and Officers in Amarillo Lodge
R H Munn a San Jacinto route city bus driver was chosen noble grand for six months with George Hutchinson as vice grand. E M Pherson continues as secretary and 8 H Dugger as treasurer. Co K Chamberlain named trustee for three years and E K Rogers to represent Amarillo district at the grand lodge in Waco next March.
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R. H. Munn
San Jacinto
Amarillo
Odd Fellows
George Hutchinson
IOOF
E. McPherson
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U. S. Navy
J. N. Riggs, Jr
Camp Howse
Gainesville
Tom Driberg
Independent
Driberg
Athens
Britain
Holland
Richard Acland
Commonwealth Party
Commons
England
Reginald Leeper
George
Quebec
Roosevelt
George Papandreou
Mussolini
Spain
Franco
House of Commons
Amarillo Printing Company
Emanuel Shinwell
Mr. Shinwell
Shinwell
Parthenon
Oris Odom
Pacific
Shizuoka Prefecture
Tokyo
Nagoya
Hamamatsu
Nagano
Washington St
Helen Webb
Roderen
John D. McBride
D. D
Zale
Blackburn
Shaur
Pierce
Harwood
Lord Craven
Doc
Fern Watson
Data Nome Specialist
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