West Texas plea for New Deal coverage at Chicago convention
A Texas correspondent urges The News-Globe to send writers to Chicago to cover the Democratic convention from the New Deal side. He praises Roosevelt’s war leadership, notes strong local support, and suggests candidates Lew Fields and Dr. Harold Schoen as favorable voices. The writer argues for fair coverage and asserts Roosevelt’s re election odds amid wartime morale.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
News-Globe
News- Globe
Roosevelt
Wes Izzard
John McCarty
Mason King
N. D. Bartlett
High Plains
Chicago
Lew Fields
Mr. Fields
Harold Schoen
Texas
United States
Wes
John
Bart
Mason
George
Fred
Armistice expectations described in wartime dispatch
The narrative notes Germans hope for safer lives with American and British protection and that many expect the war in Europe to end by September. Readers frequently anticipate news of Germany preparing to surrender, with armistice rumored as not a great surprise.
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Germany
Berlin
Europe
Green sought by Vince Lack for contact
Hobart Mayes asks Bob Green and Lola Green to provide address or phone number at Globe News office. He says he has just arrived in town and is anxious to get in touch.
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Bob, Lola Green
Tack
Bob Green
Lola Green
Globe News Office
Hobart Mayes
Griggs coin purse found on Tyler Polk bus
A reader reports finding a lady's cloth coin purse with money on the Tyler Polk bus. Owner can identify at N. 8 Griggs and Sons. no reward accepted. Also a billfold containing money and papers found. owner may claim at N. 8 Griggs and Sons by identifying.
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Griggs and Sons
Tyler Polk
Mail Rockets to Transform Postwar Mail and Travel
Mansfield Ohio United Press reports G F E Pendray predicts rockets will handle mail and express shipments at 120 miles per minute in peacetime. He foresees human travel at 1500 mph, weather data from single rocket flights, and turbines replacing gasoline engines in aircraft and other transport.
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G. F E. Pendray
Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co
Pendray
American Rocket Society
Pacific War Update Calls Japanese Losses Mounting
Admiral Nimitz said five more enemy ships were sunk in the Bonin Islands carrier task force. Since the Marianas start June 10, Japanese losses reach 58 ships sunk and 94 sunk or damaged with 835 planes destroyed. Mountbatten reported Mutaguchi confessed failure in northeast India, army in dire straits, while Chinese forces reached within a mile of Teng Chung near reopening the Burma Road.
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Philippines
Chester Nimitz
Bonin Islands
Marianas
Louis Mountbatten
Mutaguchi
India
Tengchung
Burma
Stimson Reports Troops Ready to Face Enemy
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson praised American troops after visiting Fifth Army headquarters in Rome. He said the soldiers are not afraid and are eager to engage the enemy, expressing strong confidence in their readiness and spirit. Goosepower in Agriculture Gains Notice in Mississippi.
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Navy
Roosevelt
Rome
U.P
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
Fifth Army
Hickory Flats
Miss
J. A. Farr
Cornersville
Farr
Hollywood critique on teen star churn and studio ethics
In Hollywood a 19 year old under studio contract attempted death by her own hand after a year of being shuffled mid career. The piece argues studios push teens with publicity while failing to give real talent a fair chance and calls for stricter selection and support of young performers.
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Hollywood
Allied Break Through Near La Haye du Puits In Normandy Push
American forces widen a semi circular advance on the 25 mile Normandy front with bombardments heavy at Vire and La Haye du Puits threatened by encirclement. Airel fell in the first hour while other columns closed in south and east of La Haye. Casualty details not given. BBC NBC reports on La Haye unconfirmed by supreme HQ. British Second Army patrol reaches Caen dock area without contact.
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la Surrelerie
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Second Army
Weather outlook ties harvest to cooperation forecast
The Weather Bureau predicts weather will aid the harvest with daytime cloudiness and warm afternoons in the low 90s, and clear nights for the weekend. Observers expect cooperative conditions to support field work.
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Weather Bureau
Clarence H Black Funeral Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Clarence H. Black a veteran railroad maintenance man were held this afternoon at 2 o clock at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home with Father P L Bottoms in charge Burial took place in Llano Cemetery
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Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
P. L. Bottoms
Llano Cemetery
Pick Up 250 Dogs a Month in Amarillo
Barking stray dog problem persists as Basil Plemons, Amarillo poundkeeper, reports monthly intake of about 250 dogs and 60 to 65 cats plus a few rabbits and stray chickens. Today’s pound holds 15 dogs. tomorrow about 15 more join, and every day some animals are euthanized when homes are not found. Even as farmers and parents place nearly 100 animals monthly, pups and adults continue to be taken from streets and homes, with specific counts and street locations listed.
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Amarillo
Basil Plemons
Youths Joy Ride Stolen Car Arrested in Amarillo
Two youths stole a car in Atlanta and fled to Amarillo where city police officers arrested them. They were placed in custody today.
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Alabama
Atlanta
Amarillo
U S Marshal Lampe charged as youths admit travel route
U S Marshal Bill Lampe faces a violation charge with bond not yet set by a U S Commissioner. Kenneth Sparks from Memphis Tennessee and Jarmon Lopez Best from Birmingham Alabama told FBI agents they traveled from Atlanta to Memphis to Jackson Mississippi to New Orleans and then to Amarillo.
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Bill Lampe
Dyer T
United States
Kenneth Sparks
Memphis
Tenn
Jarmon Lopez Best
Birmingham
Ala
FBI
Atlanta
Jackson
Miss
New Orleans
Amiarillo
Liberators Blast Troop Train Concentration in North France
American Liberators attacked Beziers railyards in southern France destroying at least 150 of nearly 400 rail cars. Bombs scorched heavily loaded passenger and freight trains with over 100 direct hits, wrecking oil tanker cars.
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France
Beziers
King Peter forms coalition cabinet led by Subasic
Exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia announced in London the formation of a coalition cabinet headed by Dr. Ivan Subasic as prime minister. Subasic will hold foreign affairs and war portfolios. Tito's aides arrived from Yugoslavia to represent the Partisan liberation movement.
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London
Peter
Yugoslavia
Ivan Subasic
Marshal Tito
Tito
Chieftain’s Liberation Movement
Subasic
36th Division Commander To Return to States
Maj. Gen. Fred L. Walker commander of the 36th Texas Division in Italy will return to the United States to head the Fort Benning infantry school. He led the division from Salerno to Rome and helped link the Italian front with the Anzio Beachhead. General Marshall congratulated Walker on the division’s drive to Rome during a front visit.
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RCME
Fred L. Walker
36Th
United States
Fort Benning
Angio
Walker
Velletri
Rome
George Marshall
U. S
500 Heavies Raid Oil Installations in Odertal
Rome July 7 UP an estimated 500 American heavy bombers raided oil installations at Odertal in Galicia about 75 miles southeast of Breslau. The raid targeted facilities supplying German military operations.
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Odertal
German
Ilesia
Breslau
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