General Staff Frowns on Separate U. S. Air Force
Washington reports the general staff opposes a separate air force. Senator Chandler says war department officials urged delaying hearings on Senator McCarran’s plan for a Department of Aviation with full charge of wartime air activities. Some say Britain may copy unified command similar to Nazi model.
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Washington
Congress
Chandler
Kentucky
War Department
Senate Military Affairs Committee
McCarran
Nevada
Department
Great Britain
Royal Air Force
Girdler Plans Expanded Plane Production Holdings
Tom Girdler leads Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft in rapid bomber production. He tours the San Diego plant, discusses merging with Consolidated, and notes mass production for U S needs as the President orders more planes. He aims to avoid disrupting current operations during the merger process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
U.P
Tom Girdler
Wultee Aircraft, Inc
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Consolidated
Girdler
U. S
Republic Steel
Aviation Corporation of America
Vultee
Russians claim offensive pressures on Sevastopol amid new landings
Soviet forces reportedly landed on the Kerch Peninsula and Feodosiya with further landings near Yevpatoriya as Sevastopol’s garrison drives back the Germans. Moscow radio says the enemy retreats, while Sikorski predicts a Smolensk defense line and pins German losses on 12 of 22 panzer divisions. In Leningrad, a four day battle rages to cut off Germans along the Stalin Canal as Karelia sees German withdrawal and Finns react. In North Africa, Rommel uses sandstorms to slip forces westward, leaving British troops to press harder behind his lines.
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Crimea
Sevastopol
Izvestia
Caucasus
Kerch
Feodosiya
Feodostya
Yevpatoriya
Moscow Radio
Wladyslaw Sikorski
London
Smolensk
Moscow
Hitler
Russia
Sikorski
Joseph Stalin
Rostov-on-Don
Leningrad
Red Army
Stalin Canal
Karelia
Libya
Edwin Rommel
Agedabia
Rommel
North Africa
Lost Kodak Films Reported Between Streets
Some Kodak films were lost between 7th and Polk Street and 4th and Arthur Street. The note continues on page 10.
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KODAK
7Th
Polk Street
4Th
Arthur Street
Second Hand Cars Taking On New Value in Texas
War scarcity boosts used car demand in Texas with dealers raising or omitting prices in ads. The era features officials and local stories from Camp Bowie promotions to a Houston church bond transfer, and oddities like a horse hitching to parking meters as a convenience measure.
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Texas
Associated Press
Clyde P. Vandergrift
Market Report Highlights Trading Averages And Commodities
Merrill Lynch report shows Dow Jones industrials down 23 points at 1132 with mixed moves across rails utilities and industrials. Merrill data lists numerous stocks including Alleghany Am Zinc Anaconda Bethlehem Steel and US Steel with varied gains and declines alongside Chicago grain futures and Kansas City livestock prices.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce Fenner & Beane
Pene Siu Bee
Alleghany Luc Allis Chalmer
Am Roll Mill
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Zinc & Lend
Anaconda Armour & Ceet Ee
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomot
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel Borden Budd
Mfy
Calumet Hec
Consol
Am Tel
del Curtiss Wing Deere & Co
Douglas Atteratt
Elee
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Greyhound Corp
Houston
Int Harvester
Int Power & Pape Kennecott Cop
Marshall Field
Mid
Montgomery Ward Nash Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy
New York
New York Centra North Amer
Avia
Ohio Oil
Packard Motor Pan Amer Air ‘Paramount Pix Penney Ad Resseves
Penn RR
Steeds
Phillips Pet
Plymouth Oil
Pure
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck Shell Union of Socony
Uncle Sam Mailing Income Tax Forms Reach Amarillo
War front news is joined by home front updates as Amarilloans receive early income tax blanks. Taxpayers who earned at least 750 individually or 1500 as married couples last year must file, even if no tax is due. Those with gross income up to 3000 may use a simplified form. Deadline is March 15, with many wages likely to be taxed higher.
City Departments In New Quarters
City departments moved into new quarters as the city hall completes shifting. The delinquent tax office occupies space once used by engineering, now upstairs in the west wing. Health department nurses quarters use a former storage room on the top floor. Fire marshal Ed Spann occupies the old delinquent tax space. Plumbing and electrical inspection and building inspection offices are also upstairs.
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City Hall
A. P. Hancock
Delinquent Tax Office
Health Department
Ed Spann
City Accepts New Electrical Department Truck
The city received an order for a truck built for the electrical department from St Louis and A P Hancock city manager sent a rider to pick it up. The truck was purchased before the OPM ban but was frozen in St Louis after a special body was added.
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St. Louis
A. P. Hancock
Crashes Exceed War Deaths in November Says Police Captain
Amarillo traffic captain Tommie Thomas warned that U S accident deaths in November surpassed those from Pearl Harbor. He blamed risky driving and urged vigilance to boost safety on roads nationwide.
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Tommie Thomas
Amarillo
United States
Pearl Harbor
Tur bulent dispatches on Turkey and dying diplomacy
A fragmented report notes Turkey’s grave concern over Allied USSR negotiations aiming to reopen the Dardanelles and compel Turkish participation. Another Ankara item claims a former American minister warned Bulgaria could vanish from the map, signaling shifting regional pressures.
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Germany
Turkey
Dardanelles
Russia
Ankara
Chorge Ho
Soft
Bulgaria
Tutare
Price Control In Test Vote in Senate
In Washington a test vote on wartime price controls faces the issue of who fixes farm prices. Senator Brown predicts enough votes to block farm bloc veto power. Senator Bankhead argues prior approval by the agriculture secretary is needed. The President's appeal is seen as a potential swing factor.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Brown
Michigan
Secretary of Agriculture
Barkley
Bankhead
Alabama
Long Distance Telephone Marriage Unites Couple in 8 Minute Ceremony
Pvt. Charles R. Bogar in San Francisco and Margaret Pickering of Hutchinson Kansas wed by telephone in an eight minute ceremony. The $6.85 charge covered the call with Rev Bernard Davis and Rev Claude Miller pronouncing them man and wife. They planned to wed in Salt Lake City on Christmas Day before the transfer.
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San Francisco
U.P
Charles R. Bogar
Margaret Pickering
Hutchinson
Kan
Bernard
Davis
Bogar
Claude J Miller
Miss Pickering
Salt Lake City
California
Margaret
Miller
Will Durant to Speak at Knife and Fork Dinner
World renowned historian Will Durant will address the Knife and Fork Club dinner on January 14 at the Country Club. Durant, author of Story of Philosophy, will discuss World War II origins and consequences and America's stake. Reservations open Monday. new club president O Dale Smith leads the upcoming season.
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Will Durant
Knife and Fork Club
America
Durant
Amarillo Club
Country Club
O. Dale Smith
New Meters Lead to Over 100 Parking Tickets
In Amarillo, over 100 tickets were issued for over time parking as new meters went into service. A corporation court judge announced the rate at one dollar for overtime. more than 400 meters are now active. The first collection began today with two hour zones described on Tyler Street Polk Street and East Third Avenue.
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Amarillo
Corporation Court
Ninth Avenue
Tyler Street
Third
Tenth Avenues
Polk Street
East Third Avenue
Pleasant Valley Pupils Buy $101.05 in Stamps
Pleasant Valley School with 129 pupils held stamp day and raised 101.05 dollars in defense stamps. The event involved all students purchasing stamps to total the specified amount.
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Pleasant Valley
Medals and Bonds For Pacific Rescuers Honor Duo
In Honolulu on January 9, Enelyn F. M. Fisler and aviation machinist’s mate Leonard Wagner earned Navy crosses for rescuing nine Army airmen from a downed bomber. They later received $100 defense bonds from Mayor and Mrs. George Buchanan of Holly Springs, Mississippi, in gratitude for saving their son James B. Buchanan.
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Honolulu
U.P
Enelyn F. M. Fisler
Aviation
Leonard Wagner
Pacific
George Buchanan
Holly Springs
Miss
James B. Buchanan
Amarillo Business College Joins Stamp Day Movement
The Amarillo Business College initiates a defense stamp day among students and becomes the first commercial school in Amarillo to start the plan.
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Amarillo Business College
Rubber claim sparks scientific dispute over synthetic process
Dr. Johnson denounces Schoch's acetylene based rubber advance as publicity stunt and fake. He says no rubber has been produced and the proposed electro chemical method is inefficient. The Daily Texan mocked the headline while Governor Stevenson notes Rainey has not sought funding yet would back an appropriation if asked.
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Dr. Schoch
Dr. Johnson
Daily Texan
Coke R. Stevenson
Rainey
Stevenson
Submarine Activity Reported From Far East Naval War
The Navy issued a communique describing cautious reports from submarines in Far East waters at the war’s start. Officials noted the danger of prompt reports due to the perilous missions as operations continue. In Arizona, cotton pickers receive their highest wages since World War I amid labor shortages.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Arizona
Agriculture Department
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Mark McGee
McGee
Office of Price Administration
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Fenner
Chicago
Merrit Fur Fenner & Beane
Kansas
Jan Bod
Oh Salinagy
Uncle Sam
City
Clobe News
Porce
Association of
David M. Patton
Ab, MD
Drs. Patton and
Carroll
Harrison Street
ZALE
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All
Lady Betty
Emerson Radio
Vile
Es Rogers Holloware
Fine American
Rogers Silver
Rogers
International Silver Co
Polk
Pawel
Jayne
Amelia
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