Sale Time for Livestock at Panhandle Show
Brisk bidding marked the Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association sale with Col. Earl Gartin auctioneering as about 75 Hereford bulls and females are sold. Shamrock champions head the list, ribbons awarded to 50 entries, and the show closes tomorrow after sales of club calves pigs and lambs.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Hereford Breeders Association
Earl Gartin
H. H. Reeves’. Shamrock
Hereford
FFA
Colonel Gartin
Not Quite So Warm Tomorrow Forecast Issued
The Weather Bureau predicts not quite so warm conditions tomorrow. Today’s clouds and fog are expected to lift by noon, with diminishing winds in the afternoon. Temperatures should reach the high 50s today and hover around 50 tomorrow.
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Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Rome Riots Spread From Carabinieri Clash to Regina Coeli
Riots spread to Regina Coeli Prison as convicts and detainees rose up before dawn. Bomb explosions rocked Rome with sporadic disturbances across the capital while clashes near the royal palace left a Communist demonstrator dead and several wounded.
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Rome
Regina Coeli
Italy
Royal Palace
Carabinieri
Don't Talk About Tank Superiority Say Armored Enduring Blows
A Detroit era dispatch reports 13,500 war workers idle in two disputes while 2,000 resume due to a quick settlement. In the Third Armored Division unit near Cologne Sgt. Robert Earley and fellow crewmen vented that American tanks lack the best equipment, preferring more capable tanks. They describe shortages and losses as they push with old M-4s, and drivers express frustration at not naming tanks. Weather notes include Amarlilo area warming, West Texas changes, and New Mexico fair skies with 25 to 40 degree lows.
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Detroit
Rush Stationery Company
Germany
Robert Earley
Fountain
Minn
Cologne
Earley
Charles Miller
Kansas City
France
Sylvester Vila
St. Louis
Virgil Sanders
Pomona
Cal
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
British reach near Mandalay and Iwo and Luzon battles intensify
A BBC NBC broadcast says a British armed column nears Mandalay Burma. Marines push on Iwo Jima behind heavy fire as American divisions in the Philippines reorganize for final Luzon campaign phases. Tokyo reports include air raids on Japan and recon in Korea while Lashio airfield falls in North Burma.
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Associated Press
BBC
Mandalay
Burma
NBC
Iwo Island
Philippines
Luzon
Tokyo
Japan
Korea
Lashio
South China
Imperial Navy
Pacific
Marco Mitscher
U. S
Iwo
Little Island
Comei
John D. Frederick
Springfield
Fury of Flood Mounting Across Ohio River Valley
Rising flood waters along a 1000 mile arc of midwestern lowlands have left thousands homeless and killed at least eight. The Ohio River nears 70 feet at Cincinnati while Louisville braces for evacuations. the Mississippi threatens flood towns and levees as the Red Cross evacuates 5,000 to 6,000 families. Emergency actions include Army Fifth Service Command aid, Coast Guard support, and state guard mobilization.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
White River
Arkansas
Louisville
Ohio
American Red Cross
Army
Fifth Service Command
Columbus
Coast Guard
Ohio State Guard
Harem gowns added to Mrs Roosevelt wardrobe
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt disclosed at a news conference that she and daughter Anna Boettiger have received harem gowns as gifts from a Near East monarch. She recalled a bejeweled crown sent after the Casablanca Conference and noted it rests in the Roosevelt library. Meanwhile in Manila March 7 the first WACs have arrived on Luzon and were assigned to U S Forces in the Far East.
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Washington
Frank D. Roosevelt
Anna Boettiger
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Casablanca
Roosevelt Library
Hyde Park
Luzon
Manila
P. I
U S
Argentina Repudiates Aggression for Territorial Policy
Buenos Aires March 7 Cesar Ameghino acting foreign minister said Argentina repudiates aggression as a means of territorial expansion and national policy. Observers read his remarks as echoing adherence to the Inter American Conference Act of Chapultepec approved in Mexico City.
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Cesar Ameghino
Argentina
Ameghino
Fourth Armored Division Captures German Corps Commander
Maj. Gen. Hugh Gaffey's Fourth Armored Division of the Third Army takes Lt. Gen. Graf Von Rothkirch, the German corps commander who besieged Bastogne and faced the famous "Nuts" reply. The same division that broke Bastogne now hauls in the Nazi leader, in a case of poetic justice.
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Paris
Hugh Gaffey
Third Army
Graf von Rothkirk
Bastogne
Belgium
Anthony McAuliffe
Reds Push to Berlin Sparks Allied War Drive
Reports from Berlin and Moscow indicate Zhukov’s First White Russian Army pressing toward Berlin. Soviet forces strike Kuestrin and the Oder river defenses while Izvestia cites fierce battles on roads to Berlin and potential bridgeheads on the east bank.
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Gregory K. Zhukov
Berlin
Kuestrin
East
Oder
Moscow
Izvestia
Transocean
Zhukov
Ivan S. Konev
Silesia
Vistula
Patton's Fourth Armored breaks German lines in Eifel drive
American Fourth Armored Division spearheads a rapid advance into the Eifel region forcing German retreat toward the Rhine. Patton’s forces push toward Coblenz and Andernach as First and Ninth Armies close in on Bonn and Cologne. Allied air and ground pressure trap pockets of resistance while hundreds of prisoners and large stockpiles fall into American hands. The Rhine approaches as Cologne holds against stubborn pockets of defense and retreating German units.
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Mayen
Coblenz
Rhine
Andernach
Patton
Fourth Armored
Berlin
Fifel
First
Bonn
Cologne
Eifel
Rhineland
Third Army
Monreal
Kyll River
Bitburg
First Army
Wesel
RAF
Daun
Coblen
Fourth
Butt
Gindorf
Kyllburgweiler
Seinsfeld
Steinbor
Fifth Armored
Meisburg
Spang
Spangdahlen
Schwartzenborn
76Th Infantry
Binsfeld
Tenth Armored
76Th
Rhine Bank
Volksturm
Third Armored
Dom Cathedral
United Press War
R. Cullingham
Allied push nears Rhine as Cologne cathedral stands amid ruins
In the West, Allied forces drive near Bonn and Coblenz while German bridgeheads west of the Rhine collapse. US Third Army breaches to 15 miles from the Rhine as Cologne endures heavy RAF bombing and the cathedral remains despite years of aerial assault.
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Rhine
Neuss
Wesel Wesel
Bonn
Cologne
Third Army
Saar Basin
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By Ann Stringer
British Reach
Mrs. Roosevelt
Buenos Aires
U.P
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance
Autry
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
E A. Regal Co
W._ J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
REDS
Pomerania
Lower Oder
Stettin
George S. Patton
Middle Rhine
Hohenzollern
U.S. Ninth Army
Duisburg
The
Ninth
Hohenzollern Bridge
Weser
Amall
U. S. Third Army
S&s Seventh Army
Saar
U.S
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