Pulse on Negro Voting Question in Amarillo
Readers respond to a question on African American voting with mixed views. Quotes include Mrs A J Morris praising party primaries, Ben Solnick supporting universal voting rights, Mrs H H Thomas opposing black voters, Peggy Seidsl affirming equality, and Skeet Gibson opposing negroes voting in the Democratic primary citing party exclusivity.
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Blanche Dickson
Harrison Street
Pulse Feder
Amarillo
A. J. Morris
Ie Amarillo Federation of Women's Clubs
Ben Solnick
United States
H. H. Thomas
Peggy Seidsl
Skeet Gibson
Texas
Maquis and Resistance Tie Up German Divisions in France
Allied communique reports Maquis Raiders and other resistance groups operating near the Swiss border in eastern France disrupt enemy transport. They occupied towns in Jura Ain and Haute, tying up two German armored divisions and forcing evacuation of a town after four days of fighting. French saboteurs continue harassment as German reinforcements struggle.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
N. Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Normandy
Whower
Jura
Ain
Haute
Cherbourg
Eisenhower
Supreme Command
Bradley
Stalingrad
St. Lo-D’ourville
la Haye du Puits
Peninsula
Normandy Front
Submarines SINK 16 Japanese Vessels in Pacific
Washington reports 16 more enemy ships sunk by American submarines, lifting the monthly total to 50. Since the war began submarines are credited with about 623 ships sunk or destroyed, including 36 probables and 115 damaged, with the latest haul including 11 medium cargo ships, four small cargo ships and one medium naval auxiliary.
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Washington
Pacific
Navy
Byrd Boom Develops Among Republicans
Washington June 23 A surge of support for Senator Byrd Virginia Democrat grows among GOP lawmakers as a potential vice presidential candidate. House Republican leader Martin says sentiment is rising and plans to visit Chicago to assess strength. Knutson, House Ways and Means chair, plans arrival to push Byrd for second spot on the ticket.
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Washington
Byrd
Virginia
Congress
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Chicago
Knutson
House Ways and Means Committee
Weather forecast: scattered showers and hot spell continues
The U S Weather Bureau predicts widely scattered showers this afternoon with little relief from the heat. Temperatures yesterday neared 99 degrees and should stay similar today and tomorrow. Light showers overnight yielded about 0.1 inch of moisture, with a trace recorded this morning.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Mercury
Battle in Hengyang area signals possible China war shift
The Chinese High Command warned that Hengyang fighting may trigger a wider battle for China as thousands flee the threatened city. Japanese forces are driven west and south of the Shweli River, with a Chinese unit approaching Tengchung.
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Chungking
U. S
Saipan
China
Hengyang
Ened
Shweli River
Tengchung
Salween
Yunnan
Lungling
Burma Road
Allies Press Through Italy Facing Stiff Resistance Near Perugia
Allied forces push along coastal sectors in Italy with a German stand planned between Lake Trasimeno and Lake Chiusi north of Perugia. Eighth Army meets strong resistance north of Perugia while Adriatic forces near Ancona rapid advance toward the Chienti River. West Coast Fifth Army advances toward Falonica through Livorno to Pisa as air force flies 2,300 sorties with several enemy planes downed.
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Rome
Italy
Lake Trasimeno
Lake Chiusi
Perugia
Eighth Army
Algiers
Adriatic
Ancona
Chienti
Fifth Army
Livorno
Pisa
Falonica
Mediterranean Air Force
Albania
Yugoslavia
London Faces Fresh Robot Bomb Attacks as Offense Rises
In London June 73 the German aerial offensive enters its second week with heavier robot bombs. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison calls the weapons impotent terror and asserts defense measures control the threat. Piloted bombs slip through coastal air defences, causing casualties while Berlin claims evaculations.
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London
England
Home
Herbert Morrison
Hitler
Berlin
Morrison
Ruth Googins Roosevelt Remarries in Fort Worth
Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt of Fort Worth former wife of Col. Ellett Roosevelt wed Lt. Col. H. T. Eidson of the Lawson General Hospital Atlanta at St Andrew's Episcopal Church Fort Worth this morning.
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Fort Worth
Ruth Googins Roosevelt
Col. Ellett Roosevelt
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
H. T. Eidson
Lawson General Hospital
Atlanta
Eden cites evidence of murder of 51 British prisoners in a German camp
Secretary Anthony Eden said Britain had a complete chain of evidence proving 51 British and Allied POWs were murdered in cold blood in a German war camp. He rejected German claims that mass escapes were staged by Allied staff and said the German explanation is an admission of war crimes and that no orders allowed POWs to participate in subversive actions.
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London
Anthony Eden
Comemons
Teen Saic
Germany
Eden
Task Force 58 Dominates Pacific Warfront
Washington reports the Pacific Ocean as Task Force 58's stamping ground as the massive armada defeats Japanese fleets moving east of the Philippines. Led by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, the unit fights across Truk Palau Yap Saipan and Volcano Bonin islands, turning the tide toward Japan.
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Washington
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Navy
Task Force 58
Philippines
Arthur W. Radford
Air
Pearl Harbor
58Th
Truk
South Pacific
Palau
Yap
Saipan
Marcus
Wake
Tinian
Bonin Island
Marc A. Mitscher
Bradley forces storm Cherbourg outer defenses in Normandy drive
Allied troops under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley stormed a fortified Cherbourg sector, capturing a height at Tourlaville and tightening the envelopment of the port. US and British air power bombed rail and road networks as German resistance stiffened around Maupertus airfield and the Cherbourg fortifications.
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London
Omar N. Bradley
Cherbourg
Wth
Tourlaville
Maupertus
Panhandle Elevator Ships First Carload of Wheat
A car load of wheat shipped from the Kimbell Elevator in Panhandle measured 62 pounds per bushel. The grain came from the Osborne farm nine miles west and the Lill farm six miles east of Panhandle. Yields were about 30 bushels per acre. cutting expected to be in full swing by mid next week.
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Kimbell
Panhandle
Osborne
Lill Farm
Roosevelt Names Delegates To Monetary Conference
President Roosevelt named 12 government leaders and economists to represent the United States at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. The delegation will be headed by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and include bipartisan members from the Senate and House banking and currency committees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Bretton Woods
N. H
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Banking and Currency
Senate
House
Allied Aerial Offensive Hits Reims Laon Rail Yards
RAF heavy bombers attacked the Reinforcement crammed rail yards at Reims and Laon as part of one of the war's largest day operations since Normandy. British light bombers hit Lisieux Dreux and Evreux while fighters destroyed several German planes over northern France. Mosquitos struck Hamburg. Over 6 000 Allied planes dropped potentially 8 000 tons of bombs from Cherbourg to Paris aiding the Cherbourg advance.
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London
RAF
Reims
Laon
Germany
Lisieux
Dreux
Evreux
France
Hamburg
Cherbourg
Paris
Pas de Calais
FDR Says Finland Cannot Buy Recognition
President Roosevelt stated Finland cannot buy recognition over its WWI debt payment of about 140000 dollars. He noted Finland's government allied with Germany against Russia and ordered Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope to depart, calling the diplomat persona non grata while denying a rupture in relations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Finland
State Department
Hjalmar Procope
United States
Procope
Germany
Russia
Weather snapshot for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Partly cloudy conditions expected across Amarillo and vicinity with isolated thundershowers. In West Texas and New Mexico, scattered storms possible east of the continental divide with warmer highs on Saturday and a few thundershowers near the El Paso area. Max today ranges 80 to 100 depending on location with a 24 hour high of 99 and a low of 70.
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Amarillo
West Texas
el Paso
New Mexico
Continental Divide
Germans report Soviet summer offensive on eastern front
Berlin says Red Army launched a broad assault north of the Pripet Marshes on the main road from Moscow to Berlin and Warsaw. Moscow claims triple spearheads deeper against Finns and Karelia as heavy tank and air support accompany fighting near Vitebsk and Tarnopol.
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London
Red Army
Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Berlin
Pripet Marshes
Warsaw
France
Italy
Mogilev
Vitebsk
Lake Onezhskoe
Onega
Aunus Isthmus
Karelian
Ernst von Hammer
International Or Bureau
DNB
Transocean
High Command
Potter County War Bond Drive Targets Faster Sales
Potter County bond sales reached 125 605 dollars with 22 125 in E bonds while countywide sales total 1 306 827 50 including 382 038 in E bonds. A called meeting of the Potter County War Bond committee led by C T Ware Virgil Patterson Howard Paul Col E A Simpson Mrs Wayne O Keefe and Guy Saunders convened at the Amarillo Hotel to boost enthusiasm and surpass the 200 000 daily mark and meet the 6 585 000 quota as school committees report varied participation from students.
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Potter County
Fotter County
C. T. Ware
Virgil Patterson
Howard Paul
Col
E. A. Simpson
Wayne O'Keefe
Guy Saunders
Amarillo
Bolivian Regime Recognized by 18 American Republics
The United States and 17 other American republics recognized Bolivia for the first time in six months marking a shift in regional diplomacy. Uruguay has agreed to extend recognition but has not yet completed formal steps. Recognition followed Bolivia's apparent support for the United Nations cause.
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Washington
United States
Bolivia
Uruguay
Senator Vandenberg Outlines Three Point GOP Program
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican and Mackinac Conference foreign relations sub committee chair, told the Republican convention resolutions committee in Chicago that the party should adopt a three point program pledging total victory in the war, postwar international cooperation, and conservation of essential American rights.
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Chicago
U.P
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Mackinac Conference
Republican Convention Resolutions Committee
Nazi fuel shortage throttles Luftwaffe training
London June 23 AUP Germany now uses less than half of its liquid fuel needs for armed forces. The shortage has curtailed aerial activity and led to the complete elimination of Luftwaffe training, a ministry of economic warfare spokesman said.
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London
U.P
Germany
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Heat Wave Drives Sharp Rise in Amarillo Water Use
With temperatures near 100 degrees, Amarillo records a surge in water consumption but no June record is set. Officials say the city should escape water rationing this season, noting 14 million gallons used on June 26 last year and again last Wednesday.
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Amarillo
Police Don Sun Helmet Umbrellas
Patrolmen on the Tyler Polk beat test tropical sun helmets praised as cooler and water shedding. Officers including H L Mauldin Rosy King Norton Graham Hudson Mauldin Nall join motorcycle unit testing the hats on a three wheel bike led by Jimmy Davis. A wind test and practical riding challenge are planned to see if the snake eating hats stay on.
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Frank Buck
H. L. Mauldin
Tyler-Polk
Rosy King
EBC
Norton
Roy Graham
Steve Hudson
Mauldin
T. H. Nall
Jimmy Davis
Davis
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