Grand News From the Pacific East Front Shows No Showdown
A Pacific front dispatch notes renewed Allied claims of air and naval superiority after Pearl Harbor, while observing that Japanese forces have not engaged in a decisive battle. It reports no American combat losses and highlights heavy Japanese carrier damage, but suggests Tokyo will avoid direct confrontation with Admiral Spruance's fleet in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
J. M. Roberts, JR
Pearl Harbor
Rembert James
Associated Press
Fifth Fleet
Grand Fleet
Spruance
Nimitz
Radio Tokyo
Midway
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Philippines
Clearing House for Harvest Help Set Up
In the Panhandle area, Amarillo Chamber of Commerce to act as a clearing house for harvest labor and equipment as 1944 wheat crops surge. Rex Baxter says to coordinate with county agents to connect combine owners, truckers, and drivers with wheat owners needing hands. Harvest starts south of Vega and Adrian with yields from 32 to 46 bushels per acre reported. storage capacity and boxcar shortages worry farmers.
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Chamber of Commerce
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Rex Baxter
East Panhandle
North Plains
Tomor
Vega
Adrian
Dumas-Stratford-Ochiltree Territory
Perryton
Claude
Washburn
Hereford
Plainview
D. A. Adams
West
Fort Worth
196 Apply for War Ballots
Potter County residents in the armed forces filed applications for war ballots, with poll tax receipts where needed, for the First Democratic Primary on July 22. Ballots mailed starting July 1 and due back by July 18, with 500 special red envelopes and self addressed return envelopes included. Ballots mailed air mail to service members at home and abroad.
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Potter County
Hubert Cole
Secretary of State
Austin
Cole
Mrs. Bivins Visits San Antonio Guests
Mrs. Julian Bivins returns with Miss Betty Teel and Mrs. Fred Post to San Antonio. They will stay several days as guests of her daughter Mrs. Ernest Batson after a weeks stay to attend to business interests. North Adams wardens receive 500 steel helmets and gas masks after over two years of home front service.
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Julian Bivins
San Antonio
Betty Teel
Fred Post
Bivins
Ernest Batson
North Adams
Maus
U.P
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