Allied bombers hammer Japanese bases across Southwest Pacific
Allied air forces struck Rabaul on New Britain and targets across Ambon Dobo Dilli Lae Finschhafen and Stettin Bay Monday in one of the war’s heaviest raids. B 24s Liberators and B 25 Mitchells led waves with A 20 Havocs and P 38 escorts while Hudson patrols hit Dobo and Wau stragglers were rounded up.
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Don Caswell
Rabaul
Simpson Harbor
Hudson
Dobo
Aroe Islands
Dutch New Guinea
Australia
Ambon
Ambonia
Dutch East Indies
Dilli
Timor
New Britain
Stettin Bay
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Lae
Huon Gulf
Nelson Ousts His Assistant and Names Wilson Interim
Washington dispatch reports WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson asked for the resignation of Ferdinand E. B. Eberstadt and named Charles B. E. Wilson as executive vice chairman in charge of all WPB programs to end jurisdictional disputes hurting the war effort. Rogene Colgrove, son of Mrs. C. A. Lucas, a Lexington survivor now with the Card, sent a New York City postcard saying he is “having a heck of a swell time.”
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Washington
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Ferdinand EB. Eberstadt
War Production Board
Charles BE. Wilson
Nelson
Rogene Colgrove
C. A. Lucas
North Arthur Street
Navy
Amarillo
U.ss
Lexington
Colgrove
Company To Meet Tonight At High School Armory
Captain Sam Davis of Company C Texas Defense Guard calls a 7 30 evening meeting at the high school armory. All men urged to attend early for instruction in fatigue gear night maneuver patrol guerrilla warfare and interior guard duties under NCO supervision. Transport arranged to pre selected area.
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Sam Davis
Company C
Texas Defense Guard
High School
Davis
Potter County Rationing Board Faces Avid Optimist
A woman sought gaso line ration stock as she plans a filling station. The report notes 4 gallons weekly per customer as a potential standard. It mentions saving time and fuel by stocking gravies and soup and suggests bone marrow benefits from meat processing.
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Potter County
New War Ration Book Registration Forum
KGNC and KFDA to air a joint one half hour program explaining War Ration Book No 2 registration details. Potter County war price and rationing board chairs Chansior Weymouth Grady Wilson and Charles Rogers join Fancher Upshaw Rex Baxter and L R Cloninger on a community service panel to inform the public on rationing aspects.
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KGNC
KFDA
Community Service Committee
Potter County
Fancher Upshaw
Rex Baxter
L. R. Cloninger
Mrs. Lottie Murray Dies in Amarillo Hospital
Mrs. Lottie Mae Murray age 63 of Endee New Mexico died at 2 AM in an Amarillo hospital. Burial arrangements await word from out of town relatives at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial chapel. Survived by husband J. E. Murray two sons J D of Panhandle and Clarence of Endee a daughter Mary Elizabeth King of Amarillo four brothers three sisters and four grandchildren. She was a Baptist Church member.
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Lottie Mae Murray
Endee
N. M
Amarillo
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
J. E. Murray
J. D
Panhandle
Clarence
Mary Elizabeth King
Twenty three youths bound for Navy exams in Dallas
Twenty three 17 year old men from the Panhandle departed for Dallas to undergo final physicals and finalize navy enlistments. The group includes Leslie Blanton Hereford and others from Amarillo Pampa Borger Vega Hereford Phillips Woodward Okla Okla names list several, representing a large shipment since manpower curbs.
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Joe Roan
Amarillo
Elmo Sanders
Sunray
Charles Crites
Chester Cheatman
Borger
Johnny Strader
Woodward
Okla
James Hegdal
Jerald Cannon
Phillips
George Worsham
Adrian
Jack Dewees
Vega
James Martin
Hereford
John Faulkner
Turkey
William Arthur
Pampa
Thomas Brown
Stephan Winters
C. of C. Directors Meet Tomorrow
Chamber of Commerce directors plan a regular semi monthly meeting tomorrow at noon in the Amarillo Hotel. Letters to directors outline several proposed state bills for discussion.
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Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Hotel
Markets overview and livestock prices from Kansas City and Chicago
Markets show the Dow Jones figures at midday with industrials and rails down. Kansas City livestock reports hogs and cattle sales, with tops around 15.45 and 15.85 for select cattle and calves. hogs seen around 15.25 to 15.40 for 180 pounders and up. Chicago livestock figures list hogs at 15.50 to 17.15 for various weights, cattle and calves trading in the mid-teens to above 16, sheep with top near 16.35 and ewes around 8.75.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
NEW York Stock Exchange
Merrill — Pierce, Jenner & Beane
F. M
Alleghany Lud Steel
Allis Chalmers
Anaconda Ste
Armour & Co
Aos
Aviation Cor Eeeene
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation Veer
Bethlehem Steel Eeaneee
Ptneune Bee
Calumet Hecla
Chrysler Consol
Consol Copper Oil
del Perro
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
National Biscuit
National Dairy Products
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio
New Jersey
Studebaker
Texas
Woolworth
BOM
Club Women to Hear About WAAC Recruiting Efforts
Amarillo club women will meet at Legion Home tomorrow at 4 PM to hear army officers explain how women can aid WAAC recruitment. Sgt T K Morris, local recruiter, says women are crucial as the army seeks many WAACs to replace soldiers in combat support roles. Lubbock Induction HQ officers will speak at the session.
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Amarillo
Legion Home
Army
Waacs
T. K. Morris
America
Sgt. Morris
Lubbock
Morris
Panhandle postwar planning meeting speakers named
Jack Cunningham of Southwestern Public Service will headline the Panhandle wide postwar planning meeting set for Friday at noon, called by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. Rex Baxter reports broad acceptance from many Panhandle communities as the event nears. The Doughnut Institute notes Americans consumed 560 million dozen doughnuts last year with 10 million dozen donated to servicemen and two automatic machines sent with forces to North Africa.
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Jack Cunningham
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo
New York
The
Doughnut Institute
North Africa
Laws Signed By Governor
Governor Coke R. Stevenson signed multiple laws. Measures include invalidating certain earlier elections in independent school districts and permitting maintenance tax levies, plus a five year ban on killing wild quail in Andrews County and court term changes. Other actions extend oil and gas inter state conservation, and expand appeals to the state supreme court.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Secretary of State
Andrews County
81St District Court
Congress
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Amarillo Woman First to Apply for WAVES Enlistment
Miss Hazel Mashburn of 1500 Taylor Street becomes the first Amarillo woman to apply for WAVES enlistment as the Navy Recruiting Station assumes all female reserve recruiting. Chief Harry Longabach now expects women to apply directly for WAVES SPARS and Marine reserves, with expanded recruiting of aviation cadets and Seabees.
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Hazel Mashburn
Taylor Street
Amarillo
Navy
Harry Longabach
Seabees
Coast Guard
Marines
Leathernecks
Pattern 7166 Crochet Design for Linen Edgings
Advertisement notes a filet crochet edged linen design with embroidered flowers and 12 motifs sized 5x15 to 2x4 inches. Includes transfer pattern, chart, and materials. Send eleven cents to The Amarillo News Household Arts Dept. 259 W 14th St New York NY for pattern 7166 with name address and pattern number.
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Amarillo News
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th Street
New York
N. Y
Legionnaires Meet For Washington's Birthday Program
Legionnaires and Auxiliary meet at 8 pm in Legion Home to honor Washington's Birthday. Col E A Simpson announces an entertaining program with Lew Fields and Sam Page as February chairmen, plus music by Mrs McCluney and remarks by Judge E C Nelson Jr comparing Washington to modern Legion beliefs. Board of Hanson Post met at Capitol Hotel today.
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Legion and Auxiliary
Col. Simpson
Hanson Post
Capitol Hotel
Two Amarilloans Return From Mother's Funeral
Mrs. E. A. Baker and Bill Carlton returned from Post after attending the funeral of their mother Mrs. W. C. Carlton who died at 73. Survivors include three other sons Glenn Carlton of Childress Lonnie and Lowrie Carlton of Post. two daughters Mrs. Sam Bynum of Dumas and Mrs. Anna Deutenberg of Los Angeles. a brother Tom Armstrong of Albuquerque. 14 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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E. A. Baker
Bill Carlton
Post
W. C. Carlton
Baker
Carlton
Georgia Street
Glenn Carlton
Childress
Lonnie
Lowrie Carlton
Sam Bynum
Dumas
Anna Deutenberg
Los Angeles
Tom Armstrong
Albuquerque
Knife and Fork Club Dinner Lecture Tonight
The Knife and Fork Club hosts a Febru ary dinner lecture at 7 15 PM at Amarillo Country Club. Col Carlos P Romulo speaker, publisher soldier and aide to General MacArthur, author of I Saw the Fall of the Philippines. He spoke in El Paso last night and is expected to arrive around 6 PM.
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Knife and Fork Club
Amarillo Country Club
Col
Carlos P. Romulo
General MacArthur
Philippines
Bataan
Romulo
el Paso
Germans Destroy Large Parts of Kharkov as Russians Close In
Investia, the government newspaper, reports German forces burned the Maxim Gorky Theater and heavily damaged Kharkov. Engels Avenue is said to have disappeared and two Don river railroad bridges were blown. The fall, celebrated by the Nazis on October 25, 1941, marked a major loss for the Soviet industrial city.
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Investia
Soviet Union
Don
Kharkov
Russia
Ukraine
Hitler
Soviet Breaks Through Near Kharkov and Envelops Axis Donets Zone
Soviet forces reported advancing west of Chuguev and near Kharkov capturing prisoners and booty. In the Donets Valley, about 250 000 Axis troops were encircled as Kuteinikovo fell cutting the Rostov rail line. German losses included 120 men and three tanks with another 400 killed in separate fighting.
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Stalingrad
Rostov
Kursk
Iito
Chuguev
Kharkov
Chuguev-Rogan
Red Army
Donets Valley
Kuteinikovo
Stalino
Sea of Azov
War Action Near Solomons Sinks Cruiser in Attack by Planes
On January 30 the crippled cruiser was towed toward safety by a tug when it was attacked by 13 enemy torpedo planes and sunk. The next day American bombers and fighters attacked an enemy group including a destroyer, a corvette, and a large cargo vessel in Vella Gulf, Northwestern Solomons.
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Chicago
Vella Gulf
Solomons
Navy reports battle in Solomons leaves ships sunk and burning
The day after engagements left ships dead in the water and burning. American aircraft pressed the fight with dive bombers torpedo planes and fighters in the northern Solomons area. Two destroyers were believed sunk and a third left burning according to navy statements.
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Solomons
Letters censored on wartime trip reveal group dynamics
A wartime dispatch notes censorship by Gladys Kemper of Guymon Oklahoma and Rebecca Moore of Littlefield as a travel group endures mishaps. The writer laments losses including a coat button and belt and a torn stocking during the initial train trip.
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Wire Services
Kansas City
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Amarillo Hospital
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U.P
G. Ross Robertson
Chemical Laboratories
University of California
Puente
Myrtle Mink
Calvert
Vert
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner , Beane
Industrials Co
WAAC
House
Rep
S. J. Isaacks
Isaacks
Alice Brooks
Legionnaires
Ordway-Saunders CO
Tudebaker
Bob Crudgington
Fillmore Street
H. C. Pestor
Income Tax Service
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