Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Slain in Cairo Chamber
Cairo reports Prime Minister Ahmed Maher was shot and killed in the Chamber of Deputies after reading a royal decree declaring war on the Axis. Witnesses cited a 22 year old extremist as the assailant. Maher led a Saadist coalition government. The attack followed Egypt and allied declarations amid Allied plans toward the Rhine.
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Cairo
Ahmed Maher
Chamber of Deputies
Farouk
Middle East
Germany
Japan
Turkey
Roosevelt
Churchill
Saadist
Bug in Australia Bug Puzzles Globe News Office
A greenish yellow beetle like insect with purple markings was brought to the Globe News Office by Mrs. Cecil Gardener. Found on a rug sent from New Guinea via Australia and noted as phosporescent by the owner, it flew in Friday and remains alive, fed by cracker crumbs and water.
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Alabama
Globe News
New Guinea
Australia
Amarillo
The Smith Family at Paramount in Meet Me in St Louis
The Hardy family fans are invited to Paramount for Meet Me in St Louis. The Smith Family appears in a nostalgic show highlighted by songs and memories from a beloved cinema era.
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Hardy
St. Louis
The
Paramount
Smith
Seldon Simpson Named Regimental Executive
Lt Col Seldon Simpson of Amarillo has been named regimental executive officer in the 36th Division after returning to duty. He has served since 1940, fought at Salerno and in Italy, and was wounded on Sept 28 1944 in France. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism and was recommended for the Croix de Guerre.
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Seldon Simpson
Amarilol
Vincent Lockhart
Globe News
Simpson
Salerno
France
Lockhart
Everett
Remiremont
Armed Forces of the
United States
Amarillo
Texas
E. A. Simpson
Western Front
Nonnie
Berlin
Schools Seek Constitutional Bond Amendment for Campuses
Dudley K Woodward announced the legislature would be asked to approve a constitutional amendment allowing bonds to be issued against income from the permanent university fund for permanent campus improvements at the University of Texas and Texas A and M. He also backed a separate $20 million bond issue for 12 state-supported colleges including seven State Teachers colleges.
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Dudley K Woodward
Texas A. & M
University of Texas
Woodward
University Board of Regents
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Red Cross Camp and Hospital Plan Leader Moves to Albuquerque
Edward S. Richeson, longtime Red Cross director at Amarillo Army Air Field, is named field supervisor for New Mexico and most of West Texas. He will maintain Amarillo Field oversight while based in Albuquerque with his family, leaving Amarillo around March 10.
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Amarillo
Edward S. Richeson
Amarillo Army Air Field
New Mexico
West Texas
Panhandle
Albuquerque
Amarillo Field
Richeson
National Red Cross Organization
Ike Abandons War Duration Guesses
General Eisenhower said he would not predict the war’s length again after previously forecasting an end in 1944. He admitted the 1943 estimate—that Germany would surrender with Allied advance into Europe—was not borne out by events, noting German resistance persisted despite Russian pressure.
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Paris
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Rhine
Red Army
Germany
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Kansas
France
Ardennes
Eastern Front
Silesia
Ruhr
Saar
Europe
Mrs Ina Christian Rites Set in Minneapolis
The body of Mrs. Ina Lane Christian will be sent today to Minneapolis Minnesota by N S Griggs and Sons from the Santa Fe Railroad. She died Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs L H Thawley 2102 Hayden Street Detroit?
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Ina Lane Christian
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Minneapolis
Minn
Santa Fe Railroad
Himmler Boosts Frontline Morale in Eastern Theater
Dispatch from Poznan reports Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler delivering rallying cries to troops on the Eastern Front for battles to the last man. Marshal Petain is in good health and kept in exile in Sigmaringen after a letter dated January 1. Mr and Mrs Stewart travel to Waco to visit Mrs Stewart’s ill sister. Pope Pius XII, recovering from influenza, celebrates mass in his private chapel.
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Moscow
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Hitler
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Poland
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Paris
Marshal Petain
Sigmaringen
Germany
Barcelona
Petain
Waco
R. F. Stewart
South Taylor
Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Devastating Allied Air Offense Roars On Twelfth Day
Allied air forces press the 12th straight day of bombardment against German rail yards submarine yards and oil refineries. U S Eighth Air Force with 1600 planes and RAF with 700 strike targets from Graz to Ferrara while bombers hit Misburg Hamburg Harburg and U-boat yards at Hamburg and Bremen.
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Berlin
Germany
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Eighth Air Force
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Bremen
Hamburg
Italy
15Th Air Force
Graz
Vienna
Yugoslavia
Klag
Enfurt
Ferrara
Padua
Udine
Ninth Air Force
Kamen
Dortmund
Misburg
Harburg
Phillips family seeks word on son on Iwo Jima
Mr and Mrs C G Phillips of 301 Florida report their son Platoon Sergeant Robert W Phillips of the Fifth Amphibious Corps is serving with Marines on Iwo Island. They say Sergeant Phillips is a member of the Marine group on Iwo Jima and believe he is fighting the enemy there.
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Marine Group
Iwo Jima
C. G. Phillips
Florida
Robert W. Phillips
Iwo Island
Fifth Amphibious Corps
Marines
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