Land Front in the Air Offers Strategy Shift in War
DeWitt MacKenzie argues Britain's widescale bombing targets Nazi Germany and supports a second front in western Europe. He cites Cologne devastation, potential 10 000 bomber nights, and notes air power may cripple war industries faster and with less cost than a land assault.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
Hitler
Europe
Russia
Jone
A. T. Harris
London
Midway
Germany
Royal Air Force
Cologne
Rhenish
Harris
United States Air Corps
Two Ships Torpedoed in Pacific and Atlantic Sinkings
The Associated Press reports two ships torpedoed off the Pacific coast and in the western Atlantic bring the confirmed total of submarine sunk ships to 262. A Norwegian vessel was also sunk causing extensive losses including a negro cook who died of exposure. The Atlantic sinking is noted as the 255th official tally since December 7. The American oil industry identified 30 new fields and 193 new formations in 1940, the most in any year.
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Pacific
Atlantic
American Institute of Marine Underwriters
West Coast
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Navy
Panhandle Outdoor Sportsmen Discontinue Meetings
The Panhandle Outdoor Sportsmen announce the group will discontinue monthly meetings until September. The executive committee made the decision and notes the September meeting will resume security planning.
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Panhandle Outdoor Sportsmen
Fderal
Names and Places Round Town Notices from Amarillo
Five year old daughter and family relocate to Amarillo from Groom with new address 824 Kentucky Street. Townsend works as a fireman at Pantex. Carlsbad locals A T Wallace foreman at Pan Tex Plant now 1018 West Sixteenth Avenue. L W Stitt and sister Harold Miller visiting Los Angeles relatives. Audra Trout and Bertha Potter travel from Blanchard and Taliban to visit family. Jack Marshall and Doc Mills plan Amarillo move. Spanish Government permits showing 44 feature films and 15 shorts from the United States this season.
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Amarillo
Groom
Kentucky Street
Townsend
Pantex
Carlsbad
A. T. Wallace
West
Sixteenth Avenue
Mr Wallace
L. W. Stitt
Fillmore Street
Harold Miller
Dixon, Tenn
West Coast
Los Angeles
Audra Trout
East Ninth Avenue
Blanchard
Okla
Trout
G. A Trout
Bertha Potter
Taliban, N. M
Jack Marshall
Waynoka
R. 8. Roth
East Twenty-first Avenue
Doc Mills
Lincoln Street
Marshalls
United States
Surprising Air Raid Alert Shocks Durban Port
Durban South Africa reports its first air raid alert of the war. The alarm sounded at 9 45 PM and lasted four hours and ten minutes as three Allied ships were sunk off the eastern coast of southern Africa. The port quickly blacked out and restored normal conditions after the alert ended.
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Durban
South Africa
Africa
Employers Calling For Young Labor
The Amarillo High School employment office, run in summer, reports high demand from students and graduates. Principal R. B. Norman said many calls go unfilled, noting girls with secretarial training and boys over one year old are among those seeking work.
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Amarillo High School
R. B. Norman
Employment ads urge registration for youths
Calls from employers pour in daily seeking boys and girls for work. The bureau urges all interested youths to register to be considered for available positions.
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Bureau
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Joan
R. J. Peek
Forest Hill
North Taylor
Jackson
Banders
r_ sal
Bakle
New South Polk
Powell
Western Ave
W. H. van Shaw
North Amarillo
C. M. Woodruff
J. W. Clifton
H.N. Wheeler
Abilene
Tex
Park City
Julian
van Buren
Powell Re Realty
Brand New
Wolflin
J. M. Donaldson
Crockett
Askew & Brown
South
Tyler
S. C
Sam) Albright
Hugo H. Loewenstern
Polk Ph
Hughes Street
G. C. Odom & CO
Country Club
Margaret Wills
Sam Houston
FHA
Tom W. Cotten
Arcade
Ama
Delaney Agency
Memphis
Texas
Central Finance Coo
San Jacinto Heights
Plainview
Aew
EF. L. Cogg
Harry Warner
West 13Th
M. C. Wisdom
Southern States Loan Co
East 5Th
Northeast
Fred M. Seale
Rule Ave
E. A. Regal CO
6Th Ave
Eakle Bidg
Roy Britain
Eakle
Gus Watson
Powell Realty
TOM W.cotten CO
C. J. Nelson
Panhandle
Tom Sparks
Globe- News
L. M. Bruner
Globe-News
Gilvin & Gilvin
East 4Th
Buyers & Sellers Exchange
Fillmore
DODGE
Frost Motor Co
Joe Sargent
FORD
RAY Lloyd Motor CO
Walter Irvin
Taylor
2Nd — Inc
Plymouth
Cullum Motor CO Tyler
T. B. Davis
Bob Crudgington
Byrd & Wilkinson
Spikes-Truitt Pontiac Company
Keith Motor CO
Polk
Harvey Southworth
Mr. Anderson
Blackstone Hotel
Schultz
P.O
Lass Vegas
N. M
National House
Best Trailer Coach Co
N. E
Kentucky
New House
Garfield
Elmer Bros
N. Fillmore
International
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Japan
America
Saly
Johnny Foster
Amarillo Finance
Fisk
Eakle Bldg
American Finance Co
3Rd & Polk
Plains Chevrolet Co
Southworth Paint & Body Shop
N. Fiji
The
Associated Press
Round Town
Fine Diamonds
J.T. Russell
Jeweler
Wen
James Ellison
Eecrean
Durbans
L.N. Pittman
Optometrist
Tolzien
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Globe News
Cretney Drug
6Th and Polk
Essick
Nunn
Montgomery & Montgomery Doctors of Optometry
Oliver Eakle
W. E. Houghton
T. M. Montgomery
Dr. J. Mike Montgomery
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