Knox Warns Japan Of New Air Raids
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox returning from the South Pacific tour predicted that organized resistance on Guadalcanal would end within 30 days and warned Japan to prepare for new American air raids on Tokyo. He said Japanese efforts to reinforce Guadalcanal are abandoned and cited widespread offensive spirit and improving world war conditions.
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Pearl Harbor
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
South Pacific Front
Guadalcanal
Tokyo
Knox
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
New Hebrides
Nimitz
Pacific Headquarters
Washington
United States
Pacific
Midway
Canton
Johnson Islands
Fiji Islands
Samoa
New Caledonia
Alexander M. Patch
330000 Die For Hitler 330000 Die For Hitler
The German disaster at Stalingrad is larger than thought with 338000 Soviet and German losses. Berlin pushes gloom to rally propaganda and highlights Paulus promotion. Rostov, Caucasus withdrawal continues. new encirclement west of Voronezh adds 100000 more. A missing kitchen stove at Mrs Himes’s rooming house is reported and a night fighter vitamin A requirement is noted.
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Stalingrad
Berlin
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Paulus
Sixth Army
Caucasus
Voronezh
Hitler
Red Army
F. E. Himes
East Second Avenue
Giant Airships May Diminish Ocean Liners Status
Col. Edward S. Evans told the St. Louis Traffic Club that postwar giant airliners could make luxury ocean liners obsolete. He described 250 000-pound cargo ships flying at 300 to 400 mph with 3 000 to 8 000 mile ranges and called for air cargo to employ thousands of military veterans.
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ST. Louis
U.P
Edward S. Evans
Detroit
Army
Navy
Evans
Birth announcements and hospital notes from Northwest Texas
Births are reported for several families at Northwest Texas Hospital including a son born January 29 to an unnamed couple, and daughters born January 28 and 29 to the Pierson and Ward families. The section also lists residents connected to Amarillo with addresses and local hospital and clinic updates.
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Northwest Texas Hospital
W. R. Pierson
Pierson
East Tenth Avenue
R. H. Ward
Mississippi Street
Jack Vineyard
North Pierce Street
E. D. Rucker
Germany Prepares for Bad War News on Russian Front
London dispatches report Germany readies the public for grim news as Berlin cites Soviet advances and the loss of Stalingrad hostages. Mussolini’s purge widens as Cavallero is replaced by Ambrosio and Rossi, amid Axis doubts and talks of coup plots by royalist circles.
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Robert Dowson
London
U.P
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Cavallero
Mussolini
Axis
Hitler
Electric Robot Memory Device At General Electric
In Schenectady New York General Electric researchers unveil an electronic memory oscillograph. Dr A W Hull explains it stores an image from a quick flash for 1 25th of a second and triggers a camera exposure of 1 56th of a second.
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Schenectady
N. Y
U.P
General Electric Co
A. W. Hull
Black-Draught the friendly laxative of the Southwest
Ask yourself these questions when you buy a laxative. Black-Draught is a best seller across the Southwest, trusted for four generations. It is pure herbal and gentle in action when directions are followed, sold as powder or granulated form. 25 to 40 doses cost 25 cents. Get Black-Draught from your dealer today and have it handy for your next need.
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Southwest
Backward Dance at Amarillo Hotel Draws Local Teens
The Huddle Club hosts a Backward Dance Saturday night at the Amarillo Hotel with 25 cents per couple for a date night. The item notes several eligible men expected to attend and invites girls to bring a date. It also includes unrelated radio and performance notes from the broader entertainment page.
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Huddle Club
Amarillo
Tommy Dorsey
Bette Davis
Henry King
Joe Reich
County Sheriff Lafe Hatch’s Car Stolen in Holbrook
Thieves took the Navjo County sheriff's car from in front of a Holbrook drugstore and drove off. A nationwide pickup order circulated to peace officers before the car was found later beside a Texas highway.
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Holbrook, Ariz
U.P
Holbrook
Texas
Lafe S. Hatch
Navajo County
Young burglars kidnap man after grocery crime
Five youthful burglars broke into a Texan grocery, bound Luther Burke, and dumped him from a car on the Dallas highway after the burglary. Sheriff Russell Galloway said no money was taken from the store.
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Grand Saline
Luther Burke
Dallas
Burke
Russel Galloway
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Japan
By Frank Tremaine
Armed Services
Espiritu Santo
William F. Halsey, Jr
U. S. Naval
South Pacific
Aes’ East
Sir R Caens
By Glenn Babb
Rostov
Krasnodar
Tikhoretsk
Bellshein Cleaning
Bell's
Our
Receiving and Shipping Department
Cash & Carry
Bell Tailors, Inc
Polk St
Floyd V. Studer
American United Life Insurance CO
Bell Tailors
Ireland
Scotland
Nottingham
England
Polk
Amarillo, Tex
Lovat
Faun
Oxford
Friar
Cambridge
Acorn
Quartermaster Corps
Roosevelt
China
Burma Road
Round Town
Allura Art Shop
West 7Th Ave
8. A. Sims
al Hickmott
Virginia Edna Cunningham
G. B. Morris
Bonnie Mae Hinson
Fred DeCoster
Hello Dept
H. FP. Marston
Jeannie
Albuquerque
West Ninth Avenue
Marston
Kraft Cheese Company
Portales
N. M
W. W. Armstrong
Kay
Brooks Street
Pantex
Helen Gray
Pampa
A. B. Goldston
S. D. Malone
Plainview
Kenneth
Wayne
Northwest Texas Hospital News
Emily R. Saunders
Hayden Street
W. M. Reeves
Co. H. Cutright
Griggs
Okla
M. A Clifton
Dumas
C. B. Hanson
Virginia Street
Grant Mercer
North
Lincoln Street
R. C. Ramsey
Jackson Street
Effie Scott
Birmingham Street
H. T. Martin
Borger
H. V. Whisler
Western Avenue
Elaine Cash
Upton Jones
van Buren Street
Donald Wayne Jones
Jack N. Jones
West Sixth Avenue
Rome
Ugo Cavallero
Vittorio Ambrosio
Ambrosio
Ezio Rossi
Italy
Africa
Karl Doenitz
Erich Raeder
White House
the Builders Supply CO
West
7Th Ave
Man
Russ Morgan
Louis Armstrong
Louis Primia
Eddy Howard
Benny Goodman
West Texas State
St. Joseph's
Philadelphia
Elaine Kelleam
E. E. Finklea
Dick Mills
Sandies
Lubbock Westerners
Presbyterians
Lang Wagner
Bermuda
ERN Bell Telephone Company
Plarge
Credit Managers Association
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