Jap-Russ War A Help To Us
A Pulse Feeler survey asks five people whether Japan should attack Russia per Hitler. Hazle Wood says it would hurt the Allies. Nelson sees both benefits and drawbacks. Spector supports Russia. Mrs Bobo and Mrs Bradley oppose, saying Russia is already fighting Nazism and should stay allied. The feature notes Pulse Feeler pays $1 per used question.
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Pulse Feeler
Japan
Hitler
Russia
Grady Hazlewood
Germany
Vernon Nelson
Pacific
Europe
Europe.” Mrs. T. Spector
Germans Bolster Defense As Soviets Press Through Ukraine
German reinforcements rush to blunt Soviet advances along a 350 mile Ukrainian front. Battles rage near Sarny and Shepetovka as Red Army forces push toward Rumania and Bessarabia. Strelsk and Nemovichi fall, severing German lines and forcing a retreat to Kovel amid heavy casualties. Guerrilla units aid Vatutin’s forces while firing on supply routes and rail lines.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
Ukraine
Sarny
Old Poland
Bessarabia
Rumania
Germany
Shepetovka
Poland
Gan Red Star
Red Army
Strelsk
Nemovichi
Wilno- Rowne
Russia
Kovel
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Kiev-Warsaw
Wilno-Rowne
Vatutin
Ovograd Volynski
Rovno
Novograd Volynski-Shepetovka
Amarillo Mulls 90 000 Gamble on Army Field Transfer
Mayor Joe Jenkins said Amarillo plans to deed 1 500 acres of Amarillo Army Air Field to the War Department to secure a permanent postwar installation. The city would keep English Field, with no transfer provisos, and a possible deed back if unused after the war. The land cost 90 000, funded by a May 1 1942 bond issue amid strong local support.
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Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
War Department
Amarillo Army Air Field
English Field
Jenkins
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Urges Adequate Airport and Military Aviation Site
City leaders insist Amarillo must build an adequate airport adjacent to Amarillo Field to attract a permanent postwar military aviation installation. Proposals call for two mile runways and an extension of English Field, with rail and highway relocations likely. Officials stress cost while warning neighboring cities could take the advantage.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Army Air Field
Amarillo Field
English Field
Great Texas Plains
Hitler urges Japan to strike Russia to blunt Soviet push
Well informed sources say Adolf Hitler pressed Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Oshima to attack the Soviet Union now. He proposed a Russian Pearl Harbor plan aiming to draw Red Army forces away from the German front and cut Vladivostok supply lines. Japan reportedly hesitated as news of the talks leaked from occupied regions.
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Cairo
Adolf Hitler
Japan
Russia
Hitler
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Hiroshi Oshima
Vladivostok
Manchurian
Changkufeng
Tokyo Reports Formosa Raid
The Tokyo radio said Allied bombers attacked the Takao area on Formosa last night with small damage reported. Formosa, near China's coast, was raided on Thanksgiving Day by Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's 14th Air Force, destroying at least 31 enemy planes with no losses to attackers.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Takao
Formosa
Japan
China
Claire L. Chennault
14Th
U. S. Airforce
Shinchiku
Lt Gene Groom No Longer A Half Zero Man
Marine First Lt Gene F Groom of Amarillo Texas now sinks a Zero in combat over Rabaul, earning his first confirmed victory and shedding the Half Zero label. A Marine Corsair pilot in the Northern Solomons, he previously worked for the Farm Security Administration and trained at Corpus Christi before enlisting in 1942.
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Fred Hampson
Vella Lavella
Solomon Islands
Marine
Gene F. Groom
Bougainville
Amarillo Iet
Groom
Rabaul
Marine Corps
Gene Franklin Groom
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Farm Security Administration
Tree
It’ll Stay Cold for Tonight
The forecast calls for continued cold tonight with temperatures around 10 degrees after a noon reading of 15. Freezing fog and a glaze of ice linger, though livestock remain unaffected. Panhandle towns report ice on ground with snow flurries in Pampa and Etter and stalled traffic on Fourth Avenue due to thick ice.
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Bureau
Amarillo
Dalhart
Dumas
Panhandle
Clarendon
Lubbock
Pampa
Etter
Fourth Avenue
Fillmore Street
DeGrassi Marks Second Anniversary Without Smoking
Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi observes two years since quitting smoking after 50 years of habit. He recalls urges but reports health at a peak and shares his blunt method: quit outright, no tapering, or cigarettes. He warns others but offers his approach as workable.
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W. D. DeGrassi
DeGrassi
Wing and A Prayer muse comes home from war mission
Pi Captain Lowell May recalls the bomber mission that inspired the song coming in on a wing and a prayer. He says his 350 mile belly landings with one wing crippled sparked the popular tune later recounted by Ernie Pyle in a syndicated column.
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Dallas
Jan
Lowell May
Reese
Tex
May
Ernie Pyle
Record air battle yields massive looses over Germany
London reports indicate more than 300 German planes were shot down in a major daylight raid on Berlin era targets as American crews claim heavy losses but press note at least 59 bombers and five fighters missing with 136 German fighters downed and 100 enemy aircraft destroyed.
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London
Germany
Reich
Berlin
London Evening News
U. S
Schweinfurt
United States
Britain
Regensburg
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Hitler
Sweden
Baltic
Danzig
Arab Spy Almost Foiled Clark's North Africa Mission
New York report quotes Captain Andre Maurois recounting an Ottoman Arab observer on a Algiers beach in 1942 who nearly disrupted Gen. Mari H. Clark's plan to land Allied troops. The Arab reported the gathering to Vichy police, but a coast guard officer disrupted the chase, and the villa conference ended without action.
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New York
Mari H. Clark
Algiers
North Africa
Andrew Maurois
Clark
Maurois
Imade
Pupils to Enlist in Bond War for Fourth Drive
Amarillo school children will join front line workers in the Fourth War Bond drive. Cal Farley, county war finance chairman, praised a program by Alice Landergin School pupils who delivered talks on bonds. He urged every student to boost sales and raise $100 more per person than payroll deduction.
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Amarillo
Cal Farley
County War Finance
Cal
Alice Landergin
Violet B. Davidson
Farley
Sarny Captured by Russian Troops Near Polish Border
London reports that on January 12 the First Ukraine Army seized Sarny, a fortified railway junction 35 miles inside former Poland after crossing the Sluch River. Premier Stalin called Sarny an important strongpoint in German defenses in the Polish sector.
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London
Ukraine
Sarny
Stalin
Old Poland
Sluch River
Polessye
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas region
Clearing in Amarillo this afternoon with fair skies and colder tonight lows near 10. West Texas sees clouds this afternoon and tonight with clearing over Panhandle and South Plains, light snow in Big Bend and El Paso areas, and lows 8 to 14 Panhandle 14 to 18 South Plains 28 to 32 Del Rio Eagle Pass. Winds fresh today and tonight.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Big Bend
el Paso
New Mexico
Continental Divide
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