Letter From Home To The Boys In Service In Amarillo
An editorial feature invites readers to clip and send a personalized letter from home to servicemen. The page reports on local war news including a poison case, WAVES departure party, a desertion incident, a pioneer’s obituary, labor and prisoner notes, notable speeches, winged Army Air Forces graduates, and several local weddings.
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Amarillo
Dorothy Frisbie
Garfield Street
Adams
Lumpkin
Johnnie Scott
Glenda Scott
Homer Scott
Priskie
Dorothy
Scott
Paducah
Prisbie
Panhandle
Herring Hotel
Navy
Hunter College
New York
North Pierce Street
Henry L. King
Arthur Street
W. H. Ingerton
Harry
The
Old Tascosa
Tascosa
Ingerton
Hutchinson County
Billy Dixon
Potter County
Harold L. Lowe
R. D. Lowe
Fillmore Street
James E. Bales
E. H. Bales
Vega
Philippines
Sgt
Warren Robertson
Charles Robertson
Fountain Street
Java
Carlos P. Romulo
MacArthur
Bataan and Corregidor
Knife and Fork Club
R. A
Big Butch) Boyter
Coast Guard
Dalhart
Pruett Garner
John McCarty
Army Air Forces Gulf
Lubbock
Robert E. Wilson, Jr
Plainview
Eagle Pass
C. A. Austin, Jr
Skellytown
Foster Field
Philip D. Brockus
Spearman
Aloe Field
Trusten A. Thomas
Wellington
Moore Field
Olen L. Waters
Clovis
N. M
Boyd A. Self
Elida
Ellington Field
William
Leon R. Jackson
Elk City
Pampa Field
Hulon W. Phillips
Matador
Blackland Field
Pampa
Etola Froffitt
Cecil M. Waller
Dorothy Adelene Worley
Claude
Truman B. Schertz
Roanoke
Ill
Verlane McDonnell
Alfred Don Cates
Wilma Thomas
Hedley
Earl E. Elznie
Rankin, N. D
B. M. Puckett
WAAC
Meeting of Associated Landlords at Courthouse Tonight
Associated Landlords will meet on the courthouses third floor with Mrs George L Smith secretary noting special business and urging full attendance. City commission agenda limited to routine business per city manager A P Hancock. A large shipment of Canadian wheat worth three million bushels moves through Dallas and Fort Worth for Mexico undergoing cleaning and grading, using 4500 railroad cars.
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Armed Services
Sandies
Lubbock Westerners
Lubbock
Hull
Pampa Harvester
Gus Miller
West Texas State Cagers
Albuquerque
Bill Stockman
Ray Ellefson
Air Corps
Stockman
Ellefson
Buffs
Texas Tech
Canadian River Gassers
Amarillo College
Badgers
Amarillo Golden Glovers
Fort Worth
Associated
George L. Smith
A. P. Hancock
Dallas
Mexico
Texas
House Naval Affairs Committee Targets Navy Yard Absenteeism
The House Naval Affairs Committee approved legislation to require navy yard and station employees who are absent without authorization to report to selective service boards. The move aims to end civilian absenteeism in naval facilities.
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Washington
U.P
House Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Wickard May Ask Soldiers To Work
Secretary of Agriculture Claude A. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee he will ask the army to furlough troops if needed to help harvest the 1943 farm crops. government agencies consider a nationwide dimout to save transportation coal and oil for electric power production.
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Washington
U.P
Claude A. Wickard
Senate Agriculture
W.P
Heavy Cruiser Chicago Sunk In Solomons Fight
The Navy reports a week of heavy combat in the Solomon Islands starting Jan 29 with fifteen ships sunk or damaged, including the heavy cruiser Chicago. Twelve destroyers were lost or damaged and two American ships were lost as Japanese forces pressed operations to gain control in the area.
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Chicago
Solomons
Washington
Solomon Islands
Navy
Fire tragedy and notable deaths span Texas events
The mother of a fire victim, recently laid off from Pantex, sought work in town while her baby, ill with a throat infection, stayed with grandmamma who could not rescue the child. Boxwell Brothers handles the funeral. Also, Frank Murphy III is hospitalized for nervous exhaustion after being removed from a plane in Dallas. Poor aviation cadet Richard F. Gaffney, 23, died in a plane crash near San Angelo Goodfellow Field. he hailed from Jackson Heights New York.
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Pantex
Boxwell Brothers
San Angelo
Aviaton
Richard Francis Gaffney
Here
Goodfellow Field
Jackson Heights
New York
Soviet Wedge Halts Assault Near Kharkov In Ukraine
Soviet forces drive into the Kharkov district tightening the noose around German troops. Vatutin’s units push from southeast, severing rail links and driving toward Rostov while Rostov fights to hold.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Donets
Rostov
Nikolai V. Vatutin
Shakhty
Likhaya
Voroshiievsk
Kutenikovo
Stalino
Sea of Azov
Taganrog
Don City
Russia
Amarillo Boy Aboard Cruiser Chicago in War Era
Orville Camp bell Jr of Amarillo is aboard the cruiser Chicago, son of L. Campbell of 1311 East Sixth Avenue and former Panhandle Laundry shop manager now at Amarillo Army Air Field. Bruce Autry Printing Co. shares a relative aboard Harold Autry of Mountainair New Mexico. Casualties were not large, officials say.
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Amarillo
Chicago
Orville Campbell, Jr
L. Campbell
East Sixth Avenue
Panhandle
Amarillo Army Air Field
Bruce Autry
American losses mount as Chicago sinks near Guadalcanal
After a seven day battle around Guadalcanal, the 9 050 ton cruiser Chicago was sunk following two air attacks on January 29 and 30 while covering American transport moves. One destroyer and three motor torpedo boats were lost. Captain Ralph Otis Davis survived. Japanese losses included several destroyers and many Zero fighters. U S reconnaissance had spotted heavy units in the area.
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Guadalcanal
Chicago
United States
Navy
Ralph Otis Davis
Baltimore
Truk Islands
Solomon Islands
Solomons
California WAVES and Texans bond on Santa Fe WAVES Special
On the Santa Fe WAVES Special train bound for Hunter College, about 150 WAVES and SPARS travel with six carloads from California and two more from Los Angeles. Californians and Texans share meals, barter jokes, and plan a WAVES song while awaiting New York arrival, with notes of camaraderie and light mischief.
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Oklahoma
Los Angeles
Chicago
Hunter College
California
Oakland
San Francisco
Sacramento
Amarillo
Olivia Eastus
Japanese Get Oil In Southwest Pacific War Effort
Secretary Knox said the Navy is pushing its submarine campaign against Japanese shipping in the Southwest Pacific very energetically. He noted the Japanese are likely exploiting territory and may have renewed oil production in shallow wells in northern Borneo while some East Indies installations remain intact.
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Washington
Knox
Southwest Pacific
Borneo
East Indies
Philadelphia Curfew For Girl Patriots
Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel ordered an 11 P M unofficial curfew in downtown Philadelphia for girls 16 and younger amid concerns over venereal disease linked to glamor girls chasing uniforms. The Philadelphia Navy Yard reported a 200 percent rise in venereal disease among navy personnel on shore leave.
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Philadelphia
Bernard Samuel
Navy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Weather forecast notes warmer night and breeze
The bureau says temperatures rise today and more moderate tonight with fresh to strong winds. A 41 degree drop occurred overnight with yesterday's high at 55 and this morning's low at 14.
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Bureau
Negro soldiers convicted in Phoenix riot deaths
Four negro soldiers found guilty of participating in the Thanksgiving night riots that killed three, were sentenced to 50 years at hard labor by a military court martial. A fifth soldier received 40 years at hard labor.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Weather roundup for Amarillo and West Texas and New Mexico
Rapidly rising temperatures across Amarillo and vicinity with warmer tonight. West Texas mostly warmer, El Paso area little change, De Rio Eagle Pass cooler with fresh to strong winds in the Panhandle. New Mexico warmer east today and Wednesday morning, cooler in west. Temperature range 55 high 14 low 40 at noon. Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Amarillo
West Texas
el Paso
de Rio-Eagle Pass
Panhandle
New Mexico
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Yours
Commission
House Committee
Wickard
Ronay
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
West Coast
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Associated Press
U. S
Faid
Tunisia
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Gulf of Gabes
Gafsa
Faid Pass
London
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Ben Gardane
Marshall
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Paid
Kairouan
Ninth United States Army Air Force
Middle East
Naples
Italy
Sicily
Africa
Tunis-Bizerte
Middle Eastern Command
Sheitla
Maknassy
Sidi Bou Zid
Evelyn Boyd
New York City
LaGuardia
Ross Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Gotham
Nary
Maxine Jordan
Bluebonnets
Russell Stationery Company
Patriots
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insirange
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