Bloodiest fight won as Japan battles continue
The report notes heavy World War II fighting with U S casualties near 35 116 and major commands shifting as Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr and Brig Gen Claudius M Easley are listed among the dead Gen Joseph W Stilwell is to command the 10th Army while Adm Nimitz and Gen MacArthur announce advances in the Pacific The 8th Air Force joins bombardment plans and Okinawa stories report 87 343 Japanese killed in the campaign with heavy fighting across Luzon Borneo and coastal China amid evolving Allied tactics
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U. S
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10Th Army
Claudius M. Easley
96Th
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Burma
Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
U. S. Army
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Japan
Washington
James H. Doolittle
8Th Air Force
2Th
Nippon
Europe
Stilwell named to command U S 10th Army on Okinawa
General Joseph Stilwell, previously chief of Army Ground Forces, has been appointed by General MacArthur to command the U S 10th Army now mopping up Okinawa. The 63 year old, nicknamed Vinegar Joe, will lead forces after Lt. Gen. Buckner Jr. was killed in action. Stilwell has a long history in Burma China operations and previously led American Ground Forces in Washington.
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U. S. 10Th Army
Okinawa
Roy S. Geiger
Manila
Joseph W. Stilwell
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific Ocean Area
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
MacArthur
Stilwell
Burma-China
U. S
Washington
Chungking
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Burma
Burman
Nazis plan third war hidden in industry says Senate panel
Senate War Mobilization Subcommittee chair Kilgore reports secret German documents show plans to mask as neutral firms to finance and rearm after a defeat. He cites Strasbourg meeting Aug 10 1944 and urges hearings on the economic base for aggression.
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Washington
Senate
Kilgore
West Virginia
Senate Military Group
Strasbourg
Dr. Scheid
SS Obergruppenfuehrer
Hermandorff and Schonburg Company
Germany
Nazi Party
Captain Red Holmes Returns to See His Lion Pet
Major Jim the lion at the Tri State Fair grounds dons a grown temper as Capt. R. S. Holmes Jr. Red, now stationed in Calcutta, visits from India. Red relates his Himalayan hump flights, cargo details from India to China, and a reverse lend lease of hog bristles for paint brushes.
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Captain Red
Major Jim
China National Aviation Corporation
Tri-State Fair Grounds
R. S. Holmes, Jr
Red
Himalayan Heights
India
China
States
Amarillo Air Service
Municipal
R. S. Holmes
West Sixth
Calcutta
New York
California
Amarillo
Burma
Fort Hertz
Holmes
Amarillo School District Bond Vote Set Across Four Polls
Voters will decide on two measures in the Amarillo district including raising the maximum tax levy from 1.00 to 1.25 and a 750000 bond to upgrade nearly all schools and build a Negro school. Polls run 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at four polling places with specified judges and assistants. The district notes overcrowding, population growth from 46000 to 60000, and a reduced bonded debt from 2200000 to 1450000 with 150000 in the sinking fund. The levy will actually be set at 1.10 to retire bonds and fund operations, with bonds carrying under 2 percent interest.
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Amarillo
Russians Resume Moscow to Berlin Weekly Express Rail Service
The Russians announced the weekly express train between Moscow and Berlin will resume on June 25. The journey will take three days and include restaurant and buffet cars with movies baths and barbershops.
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Moscow
Inicr
Berlin
Victory Bond Flight leads as 900k votes cast in contest
Vote totals show Kathryn Clark at 122000, Leinau second with 121100, Tynette Wilson third with 112500, and Mary Wyre fourth at 106300. Sponsors include Kiwanis Rotary Lions and Junior Chamber. prizes include trips to Mexico City Hollywood and New York. Large War Bond purchases listed from American Smelting, Montgomery Ward, Westinghouse, Singer, and J C Penney.
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Sored
Rotary Club
Wilson
The
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Miss Wyre
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Globe News
Interstate Theaters
Mexico City
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Hollywood
New York City
Transcontinental
American Smelting and Refining Company
Montgomery Ward
Westinghouse Electric
Singer Sewing Machine Company
J. C. Penney Company
OE Occupation Assignments for US Divisions in Europe
Supreme Headquarters lists divisions earmarked for occupation and redeployment after European victory. Key units: 42nd 65th in Northwestern Austria. Third and Seventh Armies to share German occupation. 82nd Airborne to garrison Berlin. several divisions returned to the U S for Pacific transfer. multiple units remain in northern and western zones awaiting final placement.
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Eisenhower
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Austria
Germany
U. S
Patton
Third Army
Wade H. Haislip
Seventh Army
82Nd Airborne
Berlin
Bremen
Rhenish Palatinate
28Th
Amarillo Jaycee Elects Snodgrass President
Roy Snodgrass was elected president of the Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce at a Capitol Hotel noon meeting. He succeeds Fay Shackelford. New officers include Bill Curtis Dick Palmer and Jack Fyfe as vice presidents Manning Holland as secretary. Installation date not set Jaycee year begins July 1.
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Roy Snodgrass
Amarillo
Curly Hobbs Improves After Illness
Reports indicate slight improvement in the health of oil man Curly Hobbs who has been seriously ill for some time. He reentered St. Anthony's Hospital about a week ago for treatment.
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Curly Hobbs
Hobbs
St. Anthony's Hospital
Weather forecast for Amarilla and Vicinity and New Mexico
Partly cloudy this afternoon through Friday with widely scattered thundershowers late this afternoon and evening. New Mexico expected clear mornings with partly cloudy afternoons today and Friday. Highs Friday range from 70-80 in the mountains to 90-95 elsewhere. Precipitation totaled .94 inches in the past 24 hours. Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance.
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Amarilla
New Mexico
Weekly Band Concert in Ellwood Park Tonight
The 530th Army Air Force Band directed by Dayton W. Palmer will perform at Ellwood Park at 7 30 tonight for civilians and military personnel. The program includes overtures waltzes and marches with Under the Flag of Victory March dedicated to General Eisenhower opening the program.
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Ellwood Park
Dayton W. Palmer
530Th Army Air Force Band
Amarillo Army Airfield
Dwight David Eisenhower
War Bond remark by Stilwell on Okinawa victory drive
Gen Joseph W Stilwell named commander of the Tenth Army on Okinawa says there is no limit to battle stars a soldier can earn and that infantrymen will make further landings and hill assaults to shorten the war urging support for the Seventh War Loan.
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Washington
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tenth Army
Okinawa
General Rain Hits Panhandle With Localized Damage
Showers covered the Panhandle with Amarillo receiving the most rain among reporting points. Dumas had only .04 inches while the Globe News Building gauge read 1.12 inches and Eng lish Field logged .94. Hail damaged wheat across a strip from Pantex through St. Francis to Washburn.
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Amarillo
Panhandle Point
Dumas
Globe News
United States Weather Bureau
English Field
Washburn
Pantex Ordnance Plant
St. Francis
Churchill assures voters he is as chipper as ever
In London on June 21 Prime Minister Churchill told his election district that his faculties are as good as they ever were and urged a return to Parliament to continue serving the nation in peace as in war.
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London
Churchill
Rumors swirl on Hitler fate amid Hamburg arrest rumors
In Hamburg, rumors spread that Adolf Hitler may still be alive and in the city as Joachim von Ribbentrop is held there. Civilians question reports of Hitler’s death in Berlin while British security officers pursue the Ribbentrop case in a tightly guarded inquiry.
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Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Berlin
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