MacArthur Visits Hospital Wards in New Guinea Tour
General Douglas MacArthur surprised American hospital patients in New Guinea by an unannounced visit to the New Britain campaign casualties. He spoke with Lt. Col. Charles R. Castlen and Maj. Roy D. Arn, and joked with wounded Corp. J. D. Knight about his injuries from the Arawe landing on December 15.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Charles R. Castlen
Glendale
Calif
Roy D. Arn
Allied Forces
Southwest Pacific
Coral Sea
Warner W. Croxton
Washington, D. C
Army Air Corps
Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Escolta
Corp
J. D. Knight
Dallas
Knight
Arawe
Wilson I. Grant
Avery
Texas
Corey
Time picks General Marshall Man of the Year for 1943
Time Magazine names General George C. Marshall chief of staff United States Army as its 1943 Man of the Year. Other contenders included Churchill Chiang Kai-shek Stalin and Roosevelt for dramatic historical impact in the prior year.
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New York
George C. Marshall
United States Army
Time Magazine
Time
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Ge Stalin
Roosevelt
Weather Bureau Receives Constant Midnight Mail
During a severe weather spell the weather bureau averaged 18 calls per hour with a rush at midnight to 8 am, totaling 65 calls in one shift. The on duty clerk noted people stay up worrying about the weather while calls drop when conditions improve.
Senator Says We Must Maintain Biggest Navy
Rep. Sheppard, Democrat California, chair of the House subcommittee on naval expenditures, urged that the United States keep a postwar navy unsurpassed by any nation. He pledged not to scrap vital naval or air equipment and noted his role in ship-expansion bills totaling 94 billion dollars since 1940. He said the country will assume greater areas of responsibility and policing duties worldwide.
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Washington
Rep
Sheppard
California
House
Appropriations
United States
Congress
Crew Won't Let Their Ship Die in South Pacific
The U S S Akchiba earned the Presidential unit citation for gallantry after being torpedoed twice on November 28 1942. The crew beached the 14 000 ton ship fought fires salvaged cargo and saved the vessel over nine flaming days and nights. Comdr James S Freeman and Comar Howard R Shaw led the effort before a second torpedo damaged the engines and forced further repairs to sail Miles to a West Coast port. The Akchiba remains on duty in the South Pacific.
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South Pacific
U.R
Akchiba
Navy
Comdr
James S Freeman
Jasper
Ala
Alchiba
Howard R. Shaw
Somerville
Mass
Alchiba Navy
Markets and Livestock Data From Kansas City and Chicago
Markets report liquidating prices for financials and stocks with Dow Jones figures from Merrill Lyheh Pierce Fenner Beane. Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets list hogs cattle calves and sheep with prices and ranges for sale and saleable totals. Reports include mass dismissal in Algiers for a memorial mass and Churchill’s pneumonia recovery update.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lyheh, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Eugene
Kansas City
W.R
D. A
Admiral Halsey Presents Citation Pennant Aboard Alchiba
Admiral William F. Halsey presented a blue red and yellow striped citation pennant on board the Alchiba in a ceremony watched by Rear Adm. John F. Shafroth Jr and Lt. Come Harold E. Stassen. He praised the crew for heroic actions and noted the ship’s wartime service and the Navy Cross and Silver Star awarded to Ian final.
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William F. Halsey
South Pacific Force
John F. Shafroth, Jr
South Pacific
Come
Harold E. Stassen
Admiral Halsey
Alchiba
Moore-McCormick Line
Dove
Navy
2Nd Naval Reserve Division
Boston Mass
Sian
Freeman
Great Lakes Naval Station
Ian
Khiva Temple Seeks Record Membership At 89er Ceremonial
Khiva Temple mails notices to over 150 candidates for the 89er ceremonial at the Masonic Temple Friday night. The event aims to push Temple membership beyond its 1588 high as business sessions start at 6:30 and the ceremonial runs into the New Year dance after 10. Ladies attend in cowboy or western garb with special register times at the Herring Hotel and Shrine office.
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Khiva Temple
Masonic Temple
Herring Hotel
Shrine
East Fifth Street
the Temple
Bill Gilstrap
Temple
Shriners Hospitals
Lubbock
Point free status for canned snap beans and many frozen vegetables
The Office of Price Administration announced January point free status for canned snap beans and most frozen vegetables except corn peas and lima beans. It cut point values for canned peas and tomatoes while jams and non citrus marmalades rose from six to eight points per pound. Frozen fruits excluding blueberries and huckleberries and frozen fruit juices were also made point free, with the new values effective Sunday.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Mrs Estella Grove Taken by Death in Amarillo
Mrs Estella Grove 44 died at 8 25 this morning in a local hospital. She was wife of P A Grove of 2406 Taylor Street and a member of the First Baptist Amemia Class. Survived by husband two daughters two sons five brothers and four sisters all listed with Amarillo ties. Body in state at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home awaiting arrival of relatives.
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Estella Grove
P. A. ‘Grove
Taylor Street
Grove
First Baptist Amemia
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Ralph Cook
Wanda Mae Grove
Arthur, Jr
Edward E. Grove
Amarillo
Henry Mayberry
Clifford Eddy
Chone
Colo
Delmar Mayberry
National
Calif
Ome Ketter
San Diego
Roy L. Ketter
Clovis
Fruman Ketter
Arthur Ketter
Lester Ketter
Walla Walla
Wash
Elmer Ketter
England
D. F. Ketter
Boxwell Brothers Punerel Home
Allied push across Italian fronts tightens grip on key roads
War reports detail coastal forces pressing toward Ortona with time bombs and booby traps as Canadians aim for the Foro River and the Rome road. Inland, the British advance northwest of Villa Grande and near Tollo, with air raids targeting rail lines north of Rome and communications hubs in Central and Eastern Italy.
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Orizona
Villa ‘Grande
Tollo
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Rome
Tyrrhenian
Garigliano
France
Algiers
Pontefiume
Italy
Bbase
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Gen. Marshall
J. M. Hyden
Optometry
Financial Industrial Fund
Grain Table
Chicago
Chicago Livestock
Jean Darlan
Gervais de la Font
French National Committee
London
No. 10
Downing Street
Leek
American Rolling Millis
American Smelt & Ret
American Tel
American
Armour & Company
Aten, Top & Santa Fe
Aviation Co . Coee Od
Baldwin
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
General Electric
General
General F Motors
Gillette Razor
Greyhound International Harvester
International Paper
Inter
Kennecott
Glenn L. Martin
Gulf Oils
Mid Cont
Pet
Montgomery Eee
P 'Nash Kelvinator
National Biscuit
National Can
New York Central
Bia
North American Aviation
Ohio
Bila
Pan American Airways Soceerbere Aay
Packard Motors
Paramount Wee
Penn Pees
Standard Oil
Standard Oil NJ
Studebaker Cpease
Swift
Sane Tree
White Motors
Warner Bros As Seeneee
Tih
Western Union
Woolworth Edereeerss
Squibb
Rexall
Embassy
Ingram's
Phillips
Woodbury's
Parke Davis
Parke Davis Haliver Oil Plain
White
Lederle
Eeagle
Carter
Globe News
Globe-News
Foro River
Adriatic
Ortona
Amariulo
Regent's
Polk
Michele Morgan
RAILS
Alan Curtis News Kids Il
Cretney
Pampa
Tucumcari, N. M
Ibezon
Tal
Abbott
Buckley's
Red Arrow
Nyal
Cerutan
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