And Where Do Your Whiskers Sleep Grampa
Local inquiry probes whether long beards sleep under or over covers with mixed views from residents. Fern Dunlap asks the question. Mary Joe Stroud, Mrs Sparks, Christine Maddox, John Stewart, and Ben Freeman weigh in with humorous or cautionary takes while Pulse Feeler offers to pay a dollar per published question.
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Fern Dunlap
Pierce Street
Mary Joe Stroud
Ife
F. H. Sparks
John Stewart
Burma
Ben Freeman
Japanese cross into India as Burma front reports advances
Allied communique confirms Japanese raiding parties penetrate into Manipur State as British Indian and Allied forces fight further along the Burma coast toward Akyab. Mountbatten HQ notes heavy Japanese attack reduced. capture reported near Buthedaung. Tokyo radio claims Indian independence leaders rejoicing over INA march into Indian soil.
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New Delhi
Burma
India
Manipur
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Japan
Maungdaw — Hedauing
Akyab
Buthedaung
Berlin
Tokyo
Chindwin
Paletwa
Tokyo Radio Today
Indian Independence League
Temperature Plunges to 22 as Freeze Forecast to 20 Tonight
The bureau reports a 22 degree morning with a dry hard freeze. Forecast calls for a further wind chilled night with a low near 20 and partly cloudy conditions, followed by a warming trend tomorrow.
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Tomor
OPA Receives Gas Stove Priority Request in Portland
An Oregon Portland OPA office logs a gas stove priority application with a note explaining that the applicant has used a wood stove but his wife is ill and cannot fetch wood. The appeal highlights the need for easier heating due to health concerns.
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Portland
Orc
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Scorpion Submarine Declared Lost by Navy
The Navy announced the loss of the American submarine Scorpion, the fourth submersible overdue and presumed lost in eight days. The report came from Washington on March 22.
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Washington
Scorpion
Navy Today
American warplanes blitz Berlin in daylight attack
About 1,500 American aircraft struck Berlin in a daylight raid, supported by a strong fighter escort from the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. The operation followed earlier day raids and involved heavy bombers, with seven bombers and one fighter lost. German reports noted the attack as it moved toward central Germany, while London and Paris faced retaliatory raids.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
Germany
United States Army
U. S
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Frankfurt
France
Air Ministry
New Island Snatch By U S Isolates 90 000 Tojo Joes
U S Marines seized Emirau and Elmasao in the St Matthias group completing a ring around the Bismarck Archipelago. American battleships bombarded Kavieng New Ireland with about 1 000 tons of shells as Allied air power struck targets from the Marshalls to New Guinea. Tojo warned Japan’s position was very serious amid decisive struggles.
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United Press
South Pacific
U. S
St. Matthias
Bismarck Archipelago
Kavieng
New Ireland
Emirau
Elmasao
Hideki Tojo
Japan
St. Matthia Islands
Southwest Pacific
Truk
Carolines
Marshalls
Central Pacific
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Hollandia
Aitape
Madang
Torokina
Bougainville
Solomons
Empress
Augusta Bay
Army Liberator
Nazis Plan to Withdraw from Rome Open City Move
London reports the German controlled Rome radio says Germany will pull all military installations from Rome and divert traffic to place bombing responsibility on the Allies. The broadcast claims Rome will be an open city, though such a declaration has no binding effect without Allied acceptance.
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London
Rome
Badoglio
Italy
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas region
The forecast notes fair and colder conditions for Amarillo with a hard freeze tonight and a low near 20 degrees. Thursday turns partly cloudy and not as cold, while West Texas remains fair and cooler with cooler Panhandle and South Plains, and New Mexico showing scattered snow flurries in the north. 24 hours ending 6 30 A M recorded high 63 and low 22 with noon at 35.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
Big Bend
New Mexico
May Urge Enlargement of Veterans Facility
After a chamber meeting the military affairs committee led by Col. E. A. Simpson may urge the Veterans Administration to enlarge the Amarillo facility. Plans call for a hospital three times its present size. The committee postponed a prior meeting and was to reconvene at 4 30 this afternoon, with directors meeting Friday noon to hear a possible report.
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Chamber of Commerce
Bailey to oppose Congressman Worley for Congress
Lamar Baily informs County Democratic Chairman Bob Stone of his candidacy for Congress, opposing Congressman Gene Worley. Bailey, a former service member, is employed by a radio station.
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Lamar Bailey
Amarillo
Bob Stone
Gene Worley
Bailey
Vesuvius Threatens Coast Towns As Lava Shifts Slope
March 22 report from Mount Vesuvius shows lava flow rechanneling to the west, menacing Torre del Greco Torre Annunziata and Resina near Herculaneum. Authorities plan evacuations if eruption worsens while crops and Lacrima Cristi vineyards suffer heavy damage and Naples area is dusted by ash.
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Mount Vesuvius
U.P
Torre del Greco
Toerre Annunziata
Resina
Herculaneum
Italy
Lacrima Cristi
San Sebastiano
Massa di Somma
Naples
Salerno
O'Daniel Plans Muskogee Radio Address Not Endorsing Candidate
Senator W Lee O Daniel says a radio address from Muskogee Oklahoma will not back any candidate in the congressional race. He will discuss demoralized home front conditions from Washington and urge six year terms for federal officials. He aims to promote a better class of men for Congress.
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Dallas
W. Lee O’daniel
Muskogee
Okla
Congress
Washington
O'Daniel
Dallas News
Takes Pity on Postmen but Not on Their Feet
A post office worker found a nearly full quart bottle of whiskey abandoned in a Taylor Street courtesy box this morning. The incident suggests someone left the liquor for the mailmen, though the worker could not explain the motive.
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Perry Vaughn
Postoffice
Taylor Street
New Zealand Troops Press Cassino Gap Amid Heavy Fighting
Allied headquarters report slow but steady progress by Fifth Army forces in southern Cassino with fierce hand to hand combat. German artillery and mortars pound the ruined town as British and New Zealand units attack Monte Cassino slopes and surrounding positions amid ongoing reinforcements and infiltrations.
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Naples
New Zealand
Fifth Army
Cassino
Monte Cassino
Anzio
Padiglione
Adriatic
Orsogna
Tollo
Arielli
Army Show Brings War to Everyday Language for Amarillo Parents
The three day Service Forces Exhibit at the USO Auditorium offers plain explanations of rations pills and water purification, with a captured Messerschmitt and medical corps displays from Camp Barkeley. Amarillo schools dismiss early as students view guns, pigeons, and technicolor films, and visitors are invited to ask questions.
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Mom
Pop
Auditorium
USO
Italy
Johnny
Amarillo
Medical Corps
Camp Barkeley
Messerschmitt
North Africa
Amarillo High School
Dalhart Army Air Field
Churchill says Allies to renew consultation on Atlantic Charter
London reports Prime Minister Churchill said there would be renewed consultation among the principal Allies on applying the Atlantic Charter as war phases change. He did not specify a new Big Three meeting. In Miles City Montana flood relief, 4000 pounds of explosive were dropped to clear the Yellowstone River jam. Amarillo School Board election candidates filed by blind deadline. Avery Rush and Bill Gibson run unopposed for terms.
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London
Churchill
Commons
Daniel Lipson
Miles City
Mont
Yellowstone
Amarillo
Germans Move to Occupy Balkans Amid War Pressure
Berlin and London report German troops controlling Hungary and expanding toward Bulgaria and Romania. Ankara dispatches claim Bulgaria seeks German help, while Romanian leaders discuss armistice with the Soviet Union as Nazi forces tighten grip on railways and administration.
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Ankara
Russia
Bulgaria
Britain
United States
London
Ion Antonescu
Romania
Bessarabia
Hungary
Budapest
Berlin
Balkans
Foreign Office
Court awards refund and interest for backward horse purchase
Superior court jury awards $296 to George Card of Detroit after testimony that a horse bought for $125 from Aldric Rossignol would only move backward even when blindfolded. Plaintiff cites Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance and John Maynard Lumber Co. as related entities.
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Portland
Superior Court
George Card
Detroit
Aldric Rossignol
Russians Reach 30 Miles From Prut River in Balkans Drive
Soviet communiques report Russian forces slicing through Bessarabia toward the Prut border and closing in on the Odessa Tiraspol Iasi rail line. Elusive German escape routes near the Odessa bottleneck are said to lie within 48 miles, while Lwow is within 56 miles as Kovel sees heavy fighting.
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London
Bessarabia
Balkans
Prut River
Rumania
Moscow
Odessa
Dniester River
Cernauti-Baltsky
Prut
Odessa - Tiraspol
Iasi
Old Poland
Lwow
Kovel
Warsaw
Berlin
Soroki
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Black Sea
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Pulse Feeler
Willkie
Roosevelt
Anitowoc
Wis
Wendell
America
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Sevelt
White House
New Island
Russell Stationery Co
910 Polk
Tojo
Lamar Baily
Vesuvius
Yellowstone River
Hitler
Balkan
Europe
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lumber Co
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