Pacific Battle Line Grows Tense After Marshall Visit
Army reports a tense Pacific battle line after General George C. Marshall toured the front from the Southwest to the Central Pacific. Indications point to resumed Japanese air activity while Allied councils continue behind the scenes.
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Pacific Battle Line
Marshall
Central Pacific
Long Pacific Battle Line
George C. Marshall
United States Army
Cairo
Teheran
Southwest Pacific
Allied Leaders Meet As War Conference Details Pearl Harbor Era Moves
President Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek pledged to press Japan toward unconditional surrender. Gen. MacArthur announced Allied advances at New Britain Arawe and Bougainville while Marshall met staff in advance of operations. Air warfare intensified with Liberator bombers striking Taroa and Maloelap as ships and bases suffered damage.
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Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Marshall
New Guinea
Sixth Army
New Britain
Arawe
Rabaul
South Pacific
William F. Halsey
Willard &. Harmon
Solomons Islands
Bougainville
Honolulu
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Central Pacific
Nimitz
Richardson
Gilbert Islands
Marshall Islands
Gilberts
Seventh Army Air Force
Taroa
Maloelap Atoll
Southwest Pacific
Sir Thomas A. Blamey
George C. Kenney
India
Ceylon
Australia
Geyion
Southeast Asia Command
Adm
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Burma
Thomas T. Handy
U. S. Army
C. M. Cooke
Navy
Haywood Hensell
War Plans
Army Air Forces
Frank McCarthy
Amarillo invites bids for Tex. 41-569 War Public Works Project
City of Amarillo seeks sealed proposals for removing and resetting a 4 MGD pump and installing an 8 MGD pump with appurtenances. Plans from Freese & Nichols in Fort Worth. bids due January 11, 1944, 8:00 p.m. CST. Bids require a 5% bid bond and adherence to wage rates. plans examined at City Manager's office. Mayor Joe A. Jenkins signs notice.
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A. P. Hancock
Amarillo
Texas
Freese & Nichols
Capps
Fort
Senenre Aanwean Vane
Fort Worth
Joe A. Jenkins
Jury Acquits School Girl in Kentucky Slaying Case
In Burlington Kentucky on December 22 jury finds 16 year old Joan Kiger not guilty of murder in the deaths of her father Carl Kiger and brother Jerry at the family summer home. The mother Jennie Kiger is cleared of charges as well and the trial ends with cheers and tears in court.
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Burlington
Joan Kiger
Jerry
Commonwealth
Raymond L. Vincent
Joan
Jennie Kiger
Ward Yager
Carl C. Kiger
Covington
Chums
Kiger
Mrs. Kiger
One Child’s Santa Employment Plan Story
A seven year old signed Nan submits a tale where Santa chooses two asleep boys Tommy and Bobby as helpers after catching them awake or hungry and promising a trip to the far north. In a separate item the Winchester city manager receives 955 dollars as payment on a water bill after a company employee diverted a stream from a six inch main into the plant.
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Nan
Santa Claus
Santa
Tommy
Bobby
Winchester
Subsidy Fight Continues Over Food Subsidies
Washington December reports show ongoing battle over food subsidies as Congress recesses for Christmas. Price Administrator Chester Bowles warned that subsidy continuation will drive prices and wages higher, while major farm groups urge farmers to push to kill subsidies when Congress reconvenes January 10.
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Washington
Congress
Chester ‘Bowles
National Grange
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Bowles Calls End to Subsidies Amid Inflation Pressure
Bowles urged a grass roots push to protest food subsidies, arguing inflation could be curbed without subsidies. He noted living costs near eight months ago and expected stable canned goods but a drop in meat supplies come spring.
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Congress
Bowles
Fraudulent Farm Labor Checks Sweep Across Town
The article details a pattern of counterfeit farm labor checks cashed in multiple cities including Canyon Pampa Dalhart Amarillo and Lubbock. Amounts range from 13.50 to 22.50 with notes like farm labor and farm labor in full to date. An old protectograph prints Not over 22.50, and pencil endorsements show a practiced backhand. Charley Fisk of First National Bank recalls a similar epidemic two years earlier leading to grand jury action and convictions. Also notes Pvt Jack Beeman returning from air forces training to spend holidays with his parents.
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Claude
Canyon
Pampa
Dalhart
Amarillo
Lubbock
First National Bank
Jack Beeman
Denver
R. I. Beeman
Fillmore Street
Panhandle hot check artist plagues merchants in red ink
A con artist writes hot checks in red ink across Panhandle towns. Merchants report slips marked No account at First National Bank of Amarillo, forcing heavy red pencil marks. Globe-News Want Ads notes the scheme spreading with festive color.
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Panhandle
First National Bank of
Amarillo
Globe-News
Christmas Greetings From Fort Sill Soldier to Globe-News
Cpl. Paul Timmons chief clerk at Fort Sill sends Christmas and New Year wishes to the Globe-News staff at 600 Fillmore Street. The letter, in numbered paragraphs, thanks colleagues, notes enclosures returning through First National Bank channels, and recalls early motion picture theaters known as nickelodeons with five cent admissions.
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Paul Timmons
Fort Sill
Globe-News
Timmons
Globe News
Fillmore Street
First National Bank
Old Slave Forms Gathered in Waste Paper Drive
Unused slave registration forms from Pennsylvania date back to 1634 are found and headed for wartime salvage as court attaches move files into a new courthouse. The article notes only the Pope can canonize saints in the Roman Catholic Church since 1634.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
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