Letter From Home to Boys in Service
A weekly feature from The Globe and News published February 15 1944 outlines a wartime message home to service members. It notes weather in the Panhandle, War Bond progress in Potter County and Amarillo schools, local obituaries and military promotions, air field leadership changes, and the social notices of upcoming marriages amid ongoing sports coverage and community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Services
The
Globe and News
Nazis Call Foes Americans From Texas At Casino Battle
German veterans on the Russian front are said to fight Americans from Texas in the battle for Casino. The Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau in Stockholm reported the clash, with Texans described as capable as German fighters on the eastern front.
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Texas
Stockholm
Cassino
Senate backs unified plan to feed starving Europeans
The Senate unanimously approved a resolution urging Secretary Hull to work with Britain Sweden and Switzerland to establish a relief system for starving populations in Belgium Norway Poland and other lands including Greece Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
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Senate
Washington
Hull
Great Britain
Sweden
Switzerland
Belgium
Norway
Poland
Otherlands
Greece
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Adams To Address Annual C C Banquet
K S Adams president of Phillips Petroleum Co will be the principal speaker at the Ama Hllo Chamber of Commerce annual banquet and membership meeting. Rex Baxter Chamber manager announced the invitation acceptance. Adams will fly in from Bartlesville Oklahoma to deliver the address likely on post war activities. The banquet at Herring Hotel Crystal Ballroom is limited to about 400 with tickets to go on sale March 1. Plans for the 1944 45 membership campaign will be discussed tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ama- Hllo Chamber of Commerce
K. S. Adams
Phillips Petroleum Co
Adams
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Herring Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Luncheon Meeting Called at Capitol Hotel
Noon luncheon at the Capitol Hotel called by Herb Budke chairman of the membership committee. The gathering will review the year’s work and discuss upcoming activities.
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Capitol Hotel
Herb Budke
Why All the Rush To Get Vote Right
Local Pulse Feeler profiles Amarillo residents reacting to poll tax politics and the 1930s election climate. Citizens weigh voices on voting rights, Roosevelt, and reform while some advocate write ins and others resist or dodge the fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Tackett
B. G. Fulton
Elsie Kall
George Gray
R. W. Royal
Sam Liston
South Plains
Roosevelt
W. Lee O’daniel
O’daniel
Finnish Leader Seeks Peace Talks With Soviet Russia
Finnish leader Juha Kusti Paasikivi met with Soviet minister Alexandra Kollontay in Stockholm and aims for further talks. The notes reportedly demand Finland guarantee Nazi division escape, cede Petsamo, and surrender unconditionally. Moscow may accept 1940 boundaries, but Hangoe base dispute lingers. Russian forces press Korsun and Pskov offensives as Berlin reports a Russian amphibious landing at Narva Bay.
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Juha Kusti Paasikivi
Sweden
Mme
Alexandra Kollontay
Paasikivi
Soviet
Russia
Finland
Petsamo
Washington
Hangoe
Baltic
Eighth Army
Korsun
Pskov
Baltic Gateway
Vitebsk
Krivoi Rog
Berlin
Narva Bay
Estonia
Eight jurors report as trial juror pool grows
Eight men of a 40 member jury panel appeared for the county court today for the liquor law case of Parnell White. The judge ordered additional men to be summoned to complete the panel. The proceeding took place in the City Court area under the county jurisdiction.
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Parnell White
Yanks Bomb Monastery Near Cassino In Italy
Allied air forces bomb the Benedictine Monastery at Mt Cassino to clear the road to Rome. Dozens of German defenders flee the abbey as ground shells pound the hillside. a second wave of bombers drives out hundreds more. The 14 century monastery sits above Cassino.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinzerling
George Tucker
Naples
Monastry
Mt. Cassino
Rome
Danehhawa
Town of
Cassino
Japs Run Short of Airplanes
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said the Japanese seem short of planes and ammunition in the Marshall Islands with weak air opposition at Kwajalein. He noted American air power operates freely, except for a light counter raid on Feb. 11-12, and cited cautious Japanese pilots in Rabaul.
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Washington
U.P
Frank Knox
Marshall Islands
Kwajalein
Knox
Marshalls
Kwajalein Atoll
Rabaul
Tokyo
Allied bomb Rome as Cassino fight nears next German blow
Allied air forces bombed Rome and supported the Fifth Army front as Cassino entered its second week of hard fighting. Heavy raids hit rail targets in Modena Brescia Ferrara Mantua Verona and Arezzo while medium bombers struck Perugia and Leghorn and Dalmatian shipping was attacked. Eighth Army patrols remained active despite floods and snow as Allied air superiority pressed the enemy.
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Cassino
Fifth Army
Italy
Modena
Brescia
Ferrara
Mantua
Verona
Arezzo
Perugia
Leghorn
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Weather roundup warns livestock amid cold Panhandle surge
The Amarillo region faces cloudy and colder weather with light snow late tonight and strong winds. Livestock should be protected against 15 to 20 degree drops in the north Panhandle. Wednesday brings continued cold with periodic snow and winds, while the Panhandle and South Plains expect snow early Wednesday.
Argentina Declares War on Axis, Algiers Radio Reports
London February 15. Allied controlled Algiers radio said Argentina has declared war on the Axis. The broadcast, unconfirmed from Buenos Aires, followed reports that Foreign Minister Gen Alberto Gilbert resigned. The station cited Argentina’s sinking of an Argentine ship in the South Atlantic as the trigger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Algiers
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Alberto Gilbert
South Atlantic
Yugoslavs Fall Back in Battle Near Hungarian Border
London reports German forces captured Koprivnica a railway town on the Zagreb Budapest line ten miles from the Hungarian frontier and Ludbreg northwest of Koprivnica. Tito said Yugoslav partisans scored a major mine destruction in Idrija Slovenia while Chetnik detachments around Gratanica and Vigelina collapsed and many joined the 16th Moslem Brigade.
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London
Koprivnica
Zagreb
Idrija
Slovenia
Pod Varina
Bosnia
Gratanica
Vigelina
16Th
Weather Bureau Issues Livestock Warning
The Weather Bureau issued a livestock warning with a forecast of cloudy and colder weather. Light snow is likely late tonight with low temperatures 15 to 20 above in the Panhandle north. Strong winds, continued cold and occasional snow are expected Wednesday. Observer H. C. Winburn noted a slight miss probability for Amarillo and snow may hold off until morning with noon snow reported at Pueblo, Trinidad and La Junta.
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Weather Bureau
Panhandle
H. C. Winburn
Amarillo
Pueblo
Trinidad
la Junta
Premiere at Paramount Is Tonight
Tonight at the Paramount Theater the first pro wildlife features made for general Texas theater distribution screen in Texas. Mallard Flight and On Point were filmed by RKO Radio Pictures on the Big Bull Ranch in Hemphill County. Out of town guests include Will J. Tucker Clyde Rudasill Otto Lang and Bill O'Donnell. Sybil Hartington Jim Maggard and Capt. Duke Moseley will join the stage program with hunting dogs. Stage show at 8 15. KGNC broadcast at 8 30. Wildlife films at 8 45 followed by Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Tickets 45 cents. box office opens this afternoon.
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Panhandle
Potter County
Amarillo
Perryton
George M Perry
Plains
Vearbere
Paramount Theater
Old Tack
Big Bull Ranch
Wid Tite Sims
Wy Leon Bornyi Somimpame Thia
Austin
Sito Tans
Amarillo Army Air Field
E. Easterbrook
Easterbrook
An Army Air Base
Raley
Dalhart Army Air Bots
Army Hour
Army Hospital
Santa Barbara
Air Forces
Scud Redus
Lake Field
Ariz
Hud Prichard
Aubrey Rutledge
Air Corps
Douglas
B. L. Morgan
Navy
Athens
John Barnes
Bonnie Collier
Henry McCune Woolf
Martha Jameson
Charles W. Meadors
Mac Malone
David W. Irvin
Martha Carolyn Vick
Sam Raley
Louise Mardis
Thomas James Nottingham
Kathryn Spector
Ted Shapiro
Dora Spooner
Edgar C. Spiller
Lorena Warren
Seaman
Don M. Rainey
Ida Mae Bell
Carl Mahan
Lillian Eason
Edward Harvey
Virginia
Hereford
Derward Nollner
Abilene
Golden Sandies
Lubbock Westerners
Hull
Sandies
Pampa Harvesters
Dan Salkeld
Amarillo Field
Texas Tech Req Raiders
Amarillo College
Fort Worth
Laddie Leopard
Oklahoma City
Dalhart Army Air Field
Feather Reight
Jack Morgan
Borger
Donie Sharp
Jee Deee Stevens
Albuquerque
Cliff Unard
Lake Forest
Ill
Hampartzoom
Humpy
Jamgochian
Niagara Falls
N. Y
G. I
Groom
Jerusalem
Jesus
Texas
General Theater
RKO Radio Pictures
Hemphill County
Will J. Tucker
The
Texas Game Commission
Clyde R. Rudasill
Otto Lang
Bill O'Donnell
Interstate
Sybil Hartington
Jim Maggard
Duke Moseley
KGNC
Armored Air Freighters To Supply China In Southeast Asia
Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer said armored freight cars of the air will enter the theater soon. He described giant transports already beyond planning, flying from India to China with larger payloads at higher speeds and armed for self defense. American plants are producing the super transports as the U.S. readies their use.
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New Delhi
George E. Stratemeyer
U. S
Southeast Asia
India
China
Attacks Across Pas de Calais Invasion Coast Air and Sea
U S and Allied air forces raid the Pas de Calais sector with Marauders, Liberators, Spitfires and fighter groups led by RAF and American units. Separately the British Navy bans entry into a 150000 square mile offshore zone around Britain to deter observation and protect anti submarine efforts. Neutral ships warned to avoid the area or risk action.
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London
U.P
United States
Eighth Air Force
Pas de Calais
Royal Air Force
Channel
Admiralty
Europe
Britain
Atlantic
Spain
France
British
Routine Questioning Uncovers Unreported Burglary
Deputy Sheriff Bill Dever questioned a boy who disclosed a burglary at the Arcade Cafe in the Amarillo Building. The juvenile explained the entry aimed to reach the basement and steal coins from a marble machine, along with candy taken from the cafe.
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Bill Dever
Mr. Dever
Sheriff’s Office
Amarillo
Dever
Japan Denies Objections to Prisoners Receiving Packages
United Press reports a Japanese spokesman said Japan has no objections on principle to gift parcels for American war prisoners but noted delays due to a complex port of exchange issue. DNB adds Japan is stalling on shipments though intent remains unclear, with officials unsure about a Vladivostok route.
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DNB
Japan
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Airport Development Plans Discussed By Amarillo Groups
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will hold a joint noon luncheon Friday at the Amarillo Hotel with the executive committee and the aviation committee led by Bob Stone. They will discuss postwar expansion of English Field and set a definite program for its development and improvement.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee
Aviation Committee
Bob Stone
English Field
Unopposed Capture of Rooke Island Opens Vitiaz Dampier Route
Allied forces seized Rooke Island unopposed completing domination of Vitiaz and Dampier Straits on the Bismarck archipelago supply line. Japanese air attacks hit Cape Gloucester Arawe Torokina Bougainville Roy Island and Kwajalein. Allied bombers and fighters struck New Britain New Guinea Admiralty Islands Marshalls and Burma with light losses and heavy raids on Rabaul Kavieng Wewak and Eniwetok.
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U. S
Rooke
Umboi
Vitiaz and
Dampier Straits
Bismarck Archipelago
Cape Gloucester
Arawe
New Britain
Torokina
Bougainville
Central Pacific
Roy Island
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Mid-Pacific
Burma
14Th Army Airforce
China
Arakan
Taung Bazaar
Rabaul
Kavieng
New Irland
Wewak
Ujelang
Eniwetok
Ponape
Carolines
Utirik
Ujae
Rooke Island
Long Island
Cape Wencester
Huon
Wilnes Strait
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Yours
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Fifth
Baxter
Tomor
Pulse Feeler
Associated Press
Yoshitatsu Yasuda
Buna
Allied Headquarters
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Pecos River
New Mexico
Paramount Is
the Paramount
Jack King
Interstate Theaters
Silver Box
Russell Stationery Company
Bay of Biscay
By Philault
St. George's Channel
Eire
Bishop’s Rock Light
Scilly Isles
England
Chausee de Sein
Ushant
le Socoa
Bishop's Rock
United Press
Vladivostok
City Commission
Joe Jenkins
C. C. Executive Board
Beery
Neely -Greenhill-Lowndes
Morrie Landsberg
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
Eniwetok Atoll
U.S
Truk
Caroline Islands
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