Chinese forces claim victory over Japanese on Yangtze front
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s armies reported killing or wounding about 40 000 of 100 000 Japanese troops in a 40 day Yangtze campaign and surrounding the Owchihkow stronghold. Chinese spokesmen said two thirds of the Japanese force escaped the trap as they retook the rice bowl region of Hunan and halted a new offensive in Yunan near the Burma frontier. Domestic airline routes totaled about 30 000 miles in 1941.
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Yangtze River
Owchihkow
Yochow
Yangtze
Yangtze Valley
Chiang
Hunan
China
Yunan
Burma
Homecoming visit for Sgt C D Hoover after Alaska duty
Staff Sergeant Charles D Hoover Jr arrived in Amarillo for a short visit with his parents after an 18 month Alaska and Aleutians assignment in the Air Corps. He describes cold windy conditions and life in tents with card games, shopping for parkas and fur gear, and sleeping in two down filled bags. He plans to attend Officer Candidate School in Miami and hopes for service in China.
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Charles D. Hoover, Jr
Amarillo
C. D. Hoover
Madison Street
Hoover
Alaska
Aleutians
Air Corps
Pearl Harbor
Charles
Texas
Army Air Corps
G. I
Uncle Sam
Miami
Fla
China
Wall Street Mixed as Markets Report Sluggish Trading
Market data from Merrill Lynch shows Dow Jones industrials down 19 points to 199.66, rail and utility sectors mixed. Kansas City livestock bulletin notes hogs steady to 13.65 top, cattle and calves varying with salable supply. sheep trades active in truck division with lambs around 14.75 and ewes 7.50 to 7.75.
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Kansas City
U. 8S
D. A
Massachusetts Bakery Fowl Ban Cited in Ad Claim
A Massachusetts bakery faces a legal restraint claim against allowing fowl on premises as part of a public notice style item. The text discusses a financial liquidation figure and an offer price unrelated to the ban.
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Massachusetts
Police Arrest 2 Youths in Burglary Case
Sheriff Hugh White of Tulia requested Amarillo police aid after two youths were taken into custody in a burglary. The suspects drove a car with two American flags on the headlights and a pistol wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. Officers recovered cartons of cigarettes and a money sack of change in the vehicle as the youths were questioned in Amarillo City Jail.
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Tulia
Hugh White
Amarillo
White
Tax Bill May Take to Hills for Drafting Session
The House Ways and Means Committee floated meeting in the Alleghenies near Hot Springs Virginia to draft a larger wartime tax bill. Rep Robertson urged members to finance their own $4 daily expenses to work in cooler mountains. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said no new taxes should be added to 1943 incomes and noted the administration’s revenue goal is unlikely.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Virginia Mountains
Rep
Robertson
Virginia
Alleghenies
Hot Springs
Senate Finance Committee
Allegheny Mountains
Treasury
Morgenthau
Doughton
North Carolina
New York Criminals To Be Resentenced
Louis Lepke Buchalter and Murder Inc. henchmen Emmanuel Weiss and Louis Capone will be resentenced by New York's Court of Appeals on July 20 for first degree murder. The proceeding marks the first chamber sentence in 30 years for such cases. Execution date to be set by Chief Judge Irving Lehman after the original Sing Sing date expired.
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Albany
N. Y
Sing Sing Prison
Hitler congratulates Hungary's regent on 75th birthday
Adolf Hitler sent a telegram to Admiral Nicholas Horthy congratulating him on his 75th birthday. The German press celebrated Horthy as leader of a German satellite nation, with Berlin radio broadcasts noted by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Nicholas Horthy
Hungary
Berlin Radio
Firemen seek civil service changes and election timing
Firemen and city officials met to discuss civil service for firemen and other workers. They propose extending civil service to police and city employees, revising the petition, delaying the election until after the next fiscal year, and letting the mayor attend Texas League of Municipalities meetings. The initial petition was filed too late for April voting, prompting a revised petition and potential special election. Firemen have already sued for back pay and received wage increases amid rising living costs.
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Texas League of Municipalities
Commission
City Commission
Department
Russian troops advance near Kursk and Orel amid
German DNB reports Russian shock troops moved into action west of Kursk and north of Orel hinting at a looming Soviet summer offensive. In Guadalcanal the air battle cost the U S 76 casualties and damage to a merchant ship and landing barge amid previously disclosed losses.
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London
U.P
DNB
Kursk
Orel
Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
U. S
Armstrong County Without Attorney
The 47th district attorney's office will assist Armstrong County with misdemeanor cases as District Attorney Jim Lumpkin plans to set cases in Claude on Monday. The county has been without a county attorney since Richard Morris left for military service nearly a year ago and remains short staffed. The sole eligible candidate is unavailable due to his workload. In counties without a county attorney the district attorney handles misdemeanors and other duties.
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Armstrong County
Jim Lumpkin
Claude
Richard Morris
Clarence Brady in Hospital Seeks Letters From Friends
Cpl. Clarence Brady former head of the piano department at Amarillo College is confined in Kennedy General Hospital Ward 16 Memphis Tennessee and wishes to receive letters from Amarillo friends. Brady served in the Army in the South Pacific where he contracted his illness and was recently returned to the United States aboard a hospital ship.
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Cpl
Clarence Brady
Amarillo College
Kennedy General Hospital
Memphis
Tenn
Amarillo
Dean Folsom Jackson
Brady
South Pacific
States
Riot charges likely against rioters in Beaumont violence
Col Sidney C Mason said the military court probing the Beaumont race riot that killed two and damaged property would likely turn a dozen or more men over to county authorities on arson and assault to murder charges. About 200 of nearly 300 held were released. four courts of inquiry continued to question remaining prisoners for possible charges against leaders. Three men were handed to city authorities and fined $25.
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Beaumont
Sidney C. Mason
Col. Mason
Health of Army Never Better
Maj. Gen. James C. Magee, former army surgeon general, told the House Appropriations Committee that the health of the Army has never been better than at the present time.
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Washington
James C. Magee
House Appropriations Committee
Rioting Ebb Falls as Yard Workers Return to Duty
Mason said a man arrested with a shotgun would be turned over to federal officials though no charges were filed yet. The Pennsylvania shipyards near normal with workers back, nearly full force restored as state troopers prepare to leave.
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Mason
Pennsylvania
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