Prisoners' Treatment Sparks Public Pulse Feeler Debate
City Hall's Vera Ziegler blasts current German prisoner policy while Pulse Feeler surveys local views. Residents including Paul Crume and Lidya Sellers offer harsh and mixed opinions on humane treatment, forced labor, and war aims as America joins international accords.
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Vera Ziegler
Pulseler
Ziegler
America
Welch
Paul Crume
Germany
Japan
Lidya Sellers
McLean
Jack Mason
Humanity
E. C. Robertson
Ben Massey
Senate overrides veto as Barkley remains Democratic leader
In Washington on February 24 Congress overrides President Roosevelt's veto of the 2.315 billion tax bill 299 to 95 and Senate Democrats reelect Alben W Barkley as leader after accepting his resignation in protest. Barkley defends the veto message calling relief to the greedy. The Senate later planned to vote on the override tomorrow.
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Fred Mullen
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Democrats
Alben W. Barkley
Tomor
Senate Democrats
Barkley
Robert L. Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Sen
First Free Want Ad Finds a Job-Quick
Pharmacist Mate Douglas Meckel from Trenton New Jersey, now in Amarillo Texas, answered The Globe News free servicemen job ad and was hired that same day by rancher John A Cavin for Hansford County duties. Meckel, veteran of Guadalcanal, carries multiple medals and plans to learn ranching on site while exchanging his decorations for boots. Cavin praises giving servicemen chances and tailored work.
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Douglas Meckel
Trenton
N. J
Amarillo
Meckel
Globe News
John A. Cavin
Hansford County
Texas
Doug
Navy
Norfolk
Marine Corps
Guadalcanal
States
New Zealand
Douglas
Panhandle
New Jersey
Cavin
Soviet forces surge on Dno and Rogachev fronts in double setback
Soviet reports say German forces abandoned Dno and Rogachev opening room for Red Army advances across wide sectors. In Dno residents fight street battles as Soviets press from Strugi Krashoye toward Pskov while Malinovsky's forces push to the Bug River and breach defenses near Dnieper. German casualties exceed 2,500 with prisoners taken.
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London
Berlin
Dno
Rogachev
Baltic
Pskov
Strugi Krashoye
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
K. A. Meretskov
Volkhov Rmy
Straya Russa
Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ukraiian
Bug River
Gomel
Continued Spring Weather Predicted For Area
Yesterday reached 67 degrees marking a mild start to spring with similar conditions expected tonight and tomorrow. Morning low was 38 degrees as light winds eased and thin clouds linger. Amid weather notes, Medianews ad promotes rates for Ama lo Field audiences and a Paramount film Destination Tokyo showing schedule at 1 00, 3 45, 6 30 and 9 15.
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Tokyo
Paramount
Allied Forces Advance in New Britain and Marshalls Campaigns
Allied forces report major advances across western New Britain seizing a 3600 square mile area and linking Arawe with Marines at Cape Gloucester. Eniwetok Atoll fell with Parry Island capture and the last of thousands of defenders eliminated. Air strikes against Rabaul and Kavieng continued, destroying planes and vessels as ships and bases faced steady bombardment.
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Tokyo
Guam
Truk
Carolines
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshalls
Parry Island
Atoll
Ponape
Kusate
New Britain
New Guinea
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
Rottock Bay
Rooke Island
Vitiaz Straits
Huon
Rabaul
Donald O'Connor Weds Day Before Induction at Amarillo
Universal star Donald O'Connor wed Gwen Carter seventeen-year-old Los Angeles High School student the day before entering Army service. He, aged eighteen, sailed to training at Amarillo Army Air Field with the 91st Training Group while his bride returned to school after the ceremony.
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Donald O'Connor
Universal
Big Bombers Hit Gotha and Schweinfurt in Fifth Day
American heavy bombers struck Gotha and Schweinfurt in central Germany to hit ball bearing plants and aircraft works. The Eighth Air Force, with Allied escorts, attacked as part of a daily offensive aimed at breaking Nazi aerial resistance.
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London
U.P
Gotha
Schweinfurt
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Germany
United States
Reich
Steyr
Austria
15Th Air Force
Italy
Berlin
Leipzig
Eugene Casey Warns Demos Facing Defeat
A 1943 letter from Eugene Casey, administrative assistant to the President, warned Democrats faced potential defeat at the polls this year. Read before a Senate agriculture subcommittee investigating the rural electrification administration, the letter argued Republican gains were a crushing defeat for the New Deal and urged administration leaders to adjust.
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Washington
Eugene Casey
Senate Agriculture
Rural Electrification Administration
Irving Dillard
St. Louis
Carroll Beedy
REA
Henry Slattery
Casey
Sweden protests Russia over Stockholm bombing clashes
Sweden's foreign office said it would protest to Russia about bombs dropped on Stockholm Tuesday night. Moscow denied Soviet aircraft involvement, while Sweden’s telegraph agency reported Russian markings on bomb fragments.
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Stockholm
Swedish
Foreign Office
Russia
Moscow
Swedish Telegraph Agency
Weather and regional forecast brief for Amarillo area
The bulletin reports partly cloudy skies with mild temperatures across West Texas and New Mexico. It notes showers and snow flurries in the mountains, cooler conditions in western portions, with highs around 67 and a low near 38. Beery Prescription Shop advertises free delivery from 8:30 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. and lists phone 2-6559.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
M Mountains
Continental Divide
Beery Prescription Shop
London Bombing Casualties: Destruction in Residential Borough
War reporter William R. Higginbotham describes a London bombing raid with searchlights and ack-ack fire as fires spread through a residential block. Firemen work amid shattered glass and rubble while rescued civilians and American soldiers observe the devastation and await word on missing residents.
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Bronx
New York
Rogers Park
Chicago
Barkley Emerges as Strong Democratic Presidential Prospect
Senator Alben W. Barkley rose as the most potent Democratic name outside the White House as a reforming bloc within the party rallied behind him in a dramatic challenge to President Roosevelt. Allies abroad watched as domestic party split sharpened the leadership battle with far reaching implications.
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Washington
Alben W. Barkley
White House
Roosevelt
Senate Recess Delays Veto Action After Barkley Speech
Lister Hill of Alabama notes a noon recess tomorrow after a brief Senate meeting delaying any veto override action to at least tomorrow. House supporters of administration taxes showed little pushback as Barkley denounced the veto in a Senate speech. Doughton and Knutson commented on the debate while the administration effort lagged.
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Lister Hill
Alabama
Senate
House
Barkley
Doughton
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Anzio Front Flares As Allied and German Forces Clash
Allied headquarters reported renewed fighting on the Anzio front with artillery dislodging German groups near Cisterna and Nazi attempts to infiltrate lines southwest of Carroceto repulsed. In air actions, four engine bombers attacked Steyr while Allied fighters and bombers bombed shipping along the Adriatic coast and Yugoslavia.
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Naples
Anzio
Cisterna
Carroceto
Austria
Steyr
Italy
Yugoslavia
Air Command
Fifth Army
Cassino
Adriatic
Zara
Marina
Knin
Split
Drvenick
Corfu
Alaska Highway Picture Shows Tonight Free Admission
Wade Brymer of the Chamber of Commerce highway committee announced strong interest in an 8 o'clock showing at the Amarillo Hotel. The 20 minute film chronicles the Alaska Highway’s construction and portrays rugged scenery as the first in a series sponsored by the Chamber. Admission is free.
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Wade Brymer
Chamber of Commerce Highway
Amarillo
Alaska Highway
Chamber of Commerce
Nelson and Wilson Start Gulf Coast War Plant Tour
War Production Board Director Donald Nelson and Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson depart Washington by plane for Texas to inspect Gulf Coast plants. They are to join Dewey rubber director in the coastal area for a tour aimed at boosting wartime production.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Charles E. Wilson
Texas
Gulf Coast
Beaumont
Dewey
Fonnt
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Red Cross
Mr. Cavin
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
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Marianas Islands
Pacific
Central Pacific
Saipan
Tinian
South Pacific Air Command
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
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Manchuria
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Sakhalin
Smamchatka
Aparamushiro
Kiska
Ikorea
Philippines
Honshi
Kyushu
Palau
BONIN
Hokkaido
Jini
Caroline IS
Marcus
Rabaul Solomon
Marshall
Gilbert
Tojo
Brides’ Books
Russell Stationery Company
Toko
Demos
Sweden
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Jnsurance
William R. Higginbotham
Jefferson City
Robert Garcia
Palo Alto
Cal
Donald C. Stone
Little Rock
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Shanghai
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Osaka
Gulf Coast War
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