Yanks Drive Dagger Into Burma Japs
American veterans of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns push into Burma creating a bold thrust through northern jungles. They sever a Japanese flank near the Kukawng River Valley and seize Willanbum as Chinese and American forces trap the main Japanese column. Casualties for the Americans were officially described as light.
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Arma
India
Solomons
New Guinea
Chindwin River
Burma
Naga Hills
Kukawng River
Willanbum
Frank Merril
Ledo Road
Joseph W. Stilwell
New Delhi
Arakan
Kaladan
14Th Imperial Army
Akyab
Maungdaw
Buthidaung
Emblem Idea Suggested For Draft Rejected Men
A local Pulse Feeler column explores whether men rejected from military service should receive a recognizable emblem. Don Turner advocates an emblem to prove attempted service, while others offer mixed views about the need and practicality of such identification.
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Pulse Feeler
Don Turner
Western Street
T. F. George
Marshall Knighton
Pat Bybee
W. A. Benson
Joe Mitchell
Allied bombers strike at Berlin in large daylight raid
Radio reports describe a "very strong" bomber fleet targeting Berlin with weather aiding a pinpoint strike. U S Eighth Air Force indications point to a major aerial battle over the Reich from the Zuider Zee to near Berlin as Doolittle presses a long delayed campaign to reduce Berlin industries.
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Berlin
United States
Reich
Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering
VU. S. Eighth Air Force
Germany
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Zuider Zee
Havel Lakes
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Halmark Wins $5 News Tip Award This Week
Hershel Halmark of 416 Williams Street wins the $5 first prize for news tips after calling in about an army truck accident that killed two soldiers on Friday. Nell Daniel receives $3 for reporting the first robin of spring, and Mrs. R. J. Grover earns $2 for the tip about a house that ate a chocolate bar from a lady's purse.
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Hershel Halmark
Williams Street
Nell Daniel
Lamar Street
R. J. Grover
Germans Plan Next War Against United States
London dispatch summarises a Combat report claiming the German general staff, already believing defeat imminent, drafted a memo for a future war within 25 years. The plan centers on US as the principal adversary, with aims to hold European Atlantic coast bases and build a camouflaged dictatorship in France to forge future divisions and victory.
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Ernest Agnew
London
Germany
United States
Combat
London Sunday Chronicle
Otto von Stuelpnagel
France
Algiers
Stuelpnagel
Chronicle
England
Russia
West Atlantic
Europe
North Cape
Gibraltar
Atlantic
North Sea
Bud Nipping Weather Heads For Cold Night
The forecast warns of a cold night with temperatures dropping to the mid twenties. A 28 degree low was recorded this morning and yesterday reached 68, a 40 degree swing. Winds to rise tomorrow with gusts near 50 miles per hour and dust from neighboring states. Snow flurries occurred with the passing cold front.
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Chamber of Commerce
Blooded Livestock Parade Opens Fourteenth Fat Stock Show
Amarillo hosts the fourteenth Fat Stock Show at the Tri-State Fair Grounds with blooded beef hogs sheep and horses on view. Leading sale cattle paraded before hundreds as pig judging and calf sales proceed. 83 calves slated for sale with bids around 133.32 dollars. Over 100 horses arrive for judging with a 7:30 pm hotel banquet for owners and a 2 pm quarter horse judging tomorrow. The event runs through Tuesday with 4-H and Future Farmers of America judging and a Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association banquet.
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Poland
China
Duroc Jersey
Hampshire
Chester White
Joe Hatton
Hugh Barrick
Hugh W. Ford
Mason King
E. M. Regenbrecht
Regenbrecht
Extension Service
Texas A. & M
Gwynn Crossland
Sam Page
Amarillo
News-Globe
Future Farmers of America
Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association
Governor Kerr Visits Amarillo After Roswell Oil Talks
Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr arrived in Amarillo at 1 30 this morning from Roswell New Mexico where he met with Interstate Oil Compact Commission officials and his son Cadet Bob Kerr Jr. Plans for the New Orleans oil compact session were discussed. Kerr spoke on KGNC about Red Cross efforts and was in town with Mrs Kerr and daughter Kay. The day included livestock judging horse show and livestock exposition with forecasts calling for colder weather tonight and Tuesday.
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Oklahoma
Roswell
N. M
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Bob Kerr, Jr
New Mexico Military Institute
Kerr
New Orleans
J. C. Hunter
Abilene
Coke Stevenson
Oklahoma City
Governor Kerr
Miss Kay
KGNC
Red Cross
Cattle Industry Leader Urges Controlled Consumption
Norris Broaddus, president of Stockyards National Bank of Kansas City, urges government policy to avert trouble in the live stock sector. Speaking at Amarillo Fat Stock show, he advocates eating surplus cattle, fair ceilings to aid feeders, and reducing beef ration points to boost consumption while warning against radical policy shifts.
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Norris Broaddus
Stockyards National Bank of
Kansas City
Broaddus
Amarillo
Wichita
Kansas Livestock Association
Amarillo Hotel
Washington
Army officer's wife hires maid from ad as writer probes past
Evelyn Boyd responded to a maid wanted ad and became the maid for an army officer's wife. She sought material for her Spent Yesterday series and editors hint at whether she found it. Readers are urged to check the editorial page for details.
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Evelyn Boyd
Miss Boyd
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