Officer Shot as Two Men Flee in City
A patrol officer was shot while preparing to take two men to headquarters near the city hall. The wounded officer, Lem, bled from the mouth and was taken to a hospital for an operation. Savage, a plainclothesman, is hospitalized at St. Anthony's. Police broadcast a detailed scout car description and sought help from Southwest officers as a search ensued.
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Lem
Tommy Thomas
Savage
St. Anthony's Hospital
Police
Fire Department
City Hall
West Front Mounts Rhine Crossing Push Under Smoke Screen
Allied forces in the Northern Sector hold along the line with smoke screens masking positions as German troops retreat. U S First Army deepens Rhine bridgehead while Ninth Army strengthens northward. Third Army secures 14 towns and clears Germans west of Moselle and Rhine. Seventh Army engages in Saar area as Fourth Armored and Fifth Infantry push toward Coblenz and Trier region.
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U. S
Coblenz
Rhine
Laacher See
Landher See
Aldernach
Seventh Army
Associated Press
Moselle
Saar
Canadian First
U.S. Ninth
U. S. First Army
U. S. Third Army
U. S. Seventh Army
Mindanao
MacArthur
Formosa
South China Sea
Luzon
First Cavalry
Manila
Oder
Berlin
Kuestrin
Ernst von Hammer
DNB
Frankfurt
von Hammer
Iwo Jima still resists as US forces close in on Kitano Point
Japanese holdouts at Kitano Point on Iwo Jima fight with fanatical resolve as Marine and Navy bombardment tightens around the northern tip. Fifth Division seals the west coast while Fourth Division drives the east after Tachiiwa Point fall. Third Division widens the northeast wedge and joins the offense. airmen strike targets on Chichi Jima and Haha Jima.
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Iwo
Keller E. Rockey
Kitano Point
Clifton B. Gates
Tachiiwa Point
Graves B. Erskine
Chichi Jima
Haha Jima
Bonin Islands
Mindanao Invasion Moves Toward Zamboanga by U S Forces
U S invasion forces of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe's 1st Division land on Mindanao near Zamboanga after seizing four villages and two airfields. American recon planes operate from Mindanao while Basilan Island also reports landings. Heavy bombardment and air cover precede the assault as Luzon fighting continues nearby.
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Manila
U. S
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Jens A. Doe
Eighth Army
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
FCC
Basilan Island
Basilan Strait
Philippine Island
Philippine Archipelago
MacArthur
Borneo
Fifth
13Th
13Th Air Force
Doe
San Mateo
Wolfe
Calarian
San Roque
San Jose
B-29 Raids Cut Into Singapore Area Industrials
Daylight strikes by Superfortresses against factories near Singapore and rail targets at Kuala Lumpur followed earlier Nagoya bombardments. About 10 B-29s from India bases operated under Brig Gen Roger M. Ramey’s 20th Bomber Command, with mixed claims on damage.
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Washington
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
India
Roger M. Ramey
20Th Bomber Command
20Th Air Force
Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Nagoya
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tokvo
Tokyo
Walter Timm
Milwaukee
Ore
Timm
Curtisle May
21St Bomber Command
Decisive Breakthrough Before Berlin Nears, Say Soviets
Soviet dispatches described Red Army gains near Stettin and Danzig as a decisive Berlin breakthrough loomed. American heavy bombers struck the Baltic coast aiding the push, with fighting along the Oder and in Kuestrin as Germans reported counterattacks.
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Berlin
Baltic
Red Army
Moscow
U. S
Stettin - Swinemuende
Oder
Zhukov
Oder Valley
United Press
Henry Shapiro
Kuestrin
Goerlitz
Neisse River
Bedford Johnson Surrenders Japanese through Persuasion
Lt. Charles Bedford Johnson of Amerilla earned the Bronze Star for persuading Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender on Saipan. The honor was presented aboard a Pacific assault transport. the caves held many Japanese, some attempting to kill him before surrender. Johnson trained as a language specialist and interprets the Japanese for this mission. He is the son of C. B. Johnson and lived at 2120 Harrison before moving to Oklahoma City.
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Charles Bedford Johnson
Amerilla
Saipan
Pacific
Johnson
C. B. Johnson
Harrison
Oklahoma City
S P. Huff
Washington
Vance Huff
Polk
New York Enacts First U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law
The Ives Quinn bill becomes law as New York declares hiring discrimination illegal. Governor Dewey praises the act as a practical realization of equal rights, quoting the Declaration and the Constitution.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
Dewey
Ives-Quinn
State of
United States
Weather summary for Amarillo and region with warmup ahead
The bulletin notes fair conditions and cooler spells this afternoon with a warmer trend by Tuesday. It covers West Texas and New Mexico highlighting partly cloudy skies and temperature ranges from 25 to 30 degrees north to 50 on the southern border tonight.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Allied artillery says Fort Dufferin breached as Mandalay holds
Calcutta dispatch reports Allied guns smashing three breaches in Fort Dufferin walls in Mandalay. The 75 yard moat halted British infantry while Japanese fort defenders resist. Irrawaddy crossing at Myinmu yields major advance toward Myotha, 12 miles from Mandalay. Chinese troops move northeast from Lashio 125 miles away on rails toward the city.
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Calcutta
India
Fort Dufferin
Mandalay
Royal Palace
Irrawaddy
Myinmu
Myotha
Lashio
Supreme Court Refuses To Review Ward Case
The Supreme Court denied immediate review of a lower court ruling that President Roosevelt lacked authority to order Army seizure of Montgomery Ward plants and facilities. The decision sends the case to the circuit court of appeals for normal process before possible Supreme Court review.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Montgomery Ward & Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
Increasing Resistance Slows Push to Vergato
The Fifth Army drive toward Vergato near Bologna slowed as Allied HQ reported stronger German resistance along the front. Patrols faced their greatest opposition on winter mountain ice near Bologna. Vergato has been outflanked but defenders still fought hard.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Vergato
Bologna
Fifth
Pistoia
News Tip Winners Named With First Prize Go To Rogers
Mrs. L. B. Rogers of 802 Moore wins first prize in News Tips, earning $5 for last week. Second prize of $3 goes to Geral dine Farrow of 406 Madison for reporting a cigarette package taken while money remained in a purse at the bus station.
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James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
First Army
Remagen
Ninth Air Force
Ludendorff
Ruhr
Supreme Headquarters
Courtney H. Hodges
SHAEF
Lower Rhine
Nijmegen-Emmerich
U.S
Fourth Armored
Cobleny
Gillenfela
Bithure
10Th Armored
Trier
76Th Infantry
Bitburg
By Elmont Waite
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Iwo Jima
Island
Philippines
Stettin-Swinemuende
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
Amarillo Tent &Wning Co
Gregory K. Zhukov
Oder Estuary
Stettin
Pravda
Danzig
Neuteich
Gdynia
E.A. Regal Co
NEES
Byron Ellis
Sas
Bedford Johnson
Autry
S Weather Bureau
Russell Stationery Co
W. J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
L. B. Rogers
News Tip
Paul K. Shelford
Julian
J. E. Wren
West Fifteenth
S. May
van Buren
E. B. Shuffler
North Cleveland
Juanita O'Hagan
Monroe
O. B. Phillips
North
Lincoln
Phillip Benton
East Sixteenth
F. N. Martin
Lipscomb
Evelyn Putman
Milam
L. H. Hamilton
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