Buckner pushes plan for universal hunting license
Murrell L. Buckner of Dallas visits Amarillo to urge Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission reforms. He calls for universal hunting and fishing licenses and absolute regulatory powers, arguing the Fifth Game District could lead the state and keep 75 percent of license revenue within its territory.
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Jerry Malin
Panhandle Plains
Downstate
Murrell L. Buckner
Dallas
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Amarillo
Buckner
Texas
Kentucky
Irvin Cobb
The
Game Commission
Union
Pennsylvania
Kerrville
Japanese Army Retreat After Changsha Defeat
Chinese reports say 100000 Japanese troops fled north after a failed Changsha assault. Chinese dispatches estimate about 30000 killed, with many taken prisoner as troops blocked by Laotao River positions northeast of Changsha. Some 40000 were reportedly trapped on the plains below the river.
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Chungking
China
Changsha
Hunan
Laotao
Amarillo Leaders Eye Synthetic Rubber Plant Plan
Chamber of Commerce directors will hear details on a proposed Amarillo synthetic rubber plant. Mayor Joe Jenkins Col E A Simpson and Wes Izzard joined Sen W Lee O Daniel in Dallas for talks on financing the project. The UT research bureau process uses natural gas or crude oil and carbon black as main materials. The committee will address the directors about the plan.
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Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Col. E. A. Simpson
Wes Izzard
Amarillo Globe News
Dallas
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
University of Texas Research Bureau
O’daniel
Washington
Coldest Day Yet May Turn to Harsh Night
The forecast calls for the temperature to fall to 6 below tonight with the eleventh snowfall of the winter continuing. Morning readings showed 9 above at 6:30, rising to 4 above by 11, and the weather bureau warns of hazardous streets as skidding and spins on ice take a toll on tires.
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Weather Bureau
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas regions
Light snow and colder today with snow ending early Thursday morning. Temperatures fall to around six below zero by morning. Panhandle to the border sees snow flurries and freezing drizzle, with colder nights and near zero to below freezing lows. New Mexico areas east of Central Mountain ranges expect snow and clouds, with a chilly day and night ahead.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Big Bend
el Paso
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio
New Mexico
Mountain Ranges
Pecos Valley
High Octane Aviation Gas Big Problem
In early 1942 the United States faced a major challenge boosting output of high octane aviation gasoline for military use. Texas, the nation’s key oil producer, eyed refinery expansion while Ickes urged continued exploration for underground pools amid steel shortages. A plan to convert waste gas to synthetic rubber offered hope, but equipment and training hurdles persisted as Texas production rose and new wells were planned.
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Austin
U. S
Texas
Harold L. Ickes
Tulsa Opm
University of Texas
Ickes
Britain
Lions Club to Buy $137,000 in Defense Bonds
Amarillo Lions Club members pledge at least $137,000 in defense bonds this year. Fifty-one members commit to buying a $25 bond each month as part of joining the Bond-a-Month Club. The organization notes rapid growth in membership.
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Amarillo Lions Club
Lions
British claim 44 Axis planes destroyed in Sicilian raid
Cairo reports the British claim 44 Axis aircraft were destroyed in Sunday’s Royal Air Force strike on Castelvetrano airfield in Sicily. Details emphasize enemy losses and air superiority for the RAF in the Mediterranean theater.
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Sicilian
Cairo
Castel Vetrano
Sicily
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
War Budget Outlined For Next Fiscal Year
President Roosevelt called for a war budget of 56 billion dollars for the next fiscal year with 9 billion in new taxes and unprecedented borrowing to push the national debt above 110 billion. The plan, described as the largest budget in history, hinges on war developments and requires shifting labor and resources from civilian to military production.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Germany
United States
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Byrd
Roosevelt Seeks 31 Percent Cut in Farm Aid for 1943
President Roosevelt proposed direct Agriculture Department appropriations for the 1943 fiscal year totaling 811 million dollars, a 3876 million cut from this year. He aimed to reduce benefit payments, surplus purchases, and export subsidies while retaining authority for parity payments on basic crops if needed in 1944.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rural Electrification Administration
Farm Security Administration
One Man Urged to Head War Production Agency
Congress push urges a single supreme director to coordinate vast war production. Connally and Byrd demand one man controls Office of Production Management amid plans for 60 000 planes 45 000 tanks 20 000 anti aircraft guns and 8 000 000 tons of ships. Barkley says current organization can expand to cover big new outlays.
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Washington
Congress
Connally
Texas
Byrd
Virginia
Foreign Relations Committee
Office of Production Management
Steinhardt Named Ambassador to Turkey
President Roosevelt nominates Laurence A. Steinhardt to be ambassador to Turkey, succeeding J. W. A. MacMurray. Steinhardt, currently ambassador to Russia, is a New York City native with MacMurray based in Brooklandville, Md. The move follows his service in Soviet Russia and draws official interest in Washington.
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Washington
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Russia
Roosevelt
Turkey
Steinhardt
J. W. A. MacMurray
United States
New York City
MacMurray
Schenectady
N. Y
Brooklandville
Ankara
Soviet Russia
Sea-Borne Red Troops Tighten Trap On Nazis
Allied war report says Sea-borne Soviet troops trap Nazi siege at Sevastopol while front lines see heavy fighting. Germans admit losses around Kharkov and Kharkov area counterattacks claim fronts stiffen. Turkey rumor of mobilization in Romania and Hungary circulates amid broader push into Ukraine. Finnish leaders’ Stockholm visit fuels peace talks chatter as Hogland recaptured.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Donets
Ukraine
Kharkov
Russia
Pittsburgh
Hitler
Yevpatoriya
Crimean
London
Ters
Turkey
Rumania
Hungary
Leningrad-Smolensk - Dnieper
Moscow
Kerch
Preoadosiv
Stockholm
Finland
Berlin
Hogland Island
Gulf of Finland
British Fall Back Before Singapore
A United Press report summarizes naval actions as U S bombers raid Japanese warships off Mindanao while Japan claims sunk ships. Washington calls it groundless. Fighting intensifies in the Philippines as American and Filipino forces resist near Corregidor and on Luzon, with wider Malay Peninsula clashes around Kuala Lumpur and Johore.
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Fulmippit
U. S
Mindanao
Saigon
Rome
New Mexico
Washington
Luzon
Batan
Corregidor Island
Far East
Singapore
Philippines
Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
London
Tokyo
Johore
Bataan
We Have War Job To Do Says Hill
Grover B. Hill assistant secretary of agriculture says at a lunch in Amarillo that with the nation at war the job must be done better, producing cattle wheat corn cotton and all products. He spoke in Memphis to cotton farmers before continuing to Salt Lake City for an American National Livestock Association meeting.
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Grover B. Hill
Salt Lake City
American National Livestock Association
Plains
Washington
Hill
Memphis
Tenn
Amarillo
Mr. Hill
Parnor
ABCD
Amarillo Eyes Field Expansion At Airport
A Amarillo Chamber of Commerce special committee led by Ed Hardin inspected land east of Amarillo's airport and will weigh enlarging the 740 acre field to keep pace with aviation. Some members favor expansion only, others support enlarging and improving current facilities while pursuing bomber base prospects. The committee includes C. W. Farr Oscar Randel George Ordway Herb Budke and George Autry.
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English Field
Amarillo
Ed Hardin
Mr. Hardin
C. W. Farr
Oscar Randel
George Ordway
Herb Budke
George Autry
German Plane Production Higher Than Spring 1941
The ministry of economic warfare said Germany is producing more planes tanks and submarines than in spring 1941 though total armament output trails the peak reached at that time. London dispatch notes January 7.
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London
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Germany
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State Commission
France
Russell Stationery Company
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OPM
William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
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Maritime Commission
Senator Barkley
Barkley
Kuibyshev
United Press
War Department
Corregidor
Pacific Islands
Malaya Peninsula
Buila Now
John Maynard Br. Co
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