Pepper's Bull Gets Welcome Pepper's Bull Gets Welcome
Washington dispatch reports supporters of Rep Howard W Smiths 40 hour week abolition bill hailed Sen Claude Pepper s break with the administration on war time hours. Pepper had been a steady administration ally and his call to abolish all restrictions on hours worked during the war shifts political signals in Congress.
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James Shepley
Washington
U.P
Congressional
Sen
Claude Pepper
Pepper
Roosevelt
Congress
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Carl Vinson
Georgia Democrat
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Former MacArthur Associate Visits with Army Contingent
Joseph C. Haire a World War I captain later colonel and 25 year Army veteran toured Amarillo with soldiers once in MacArthur's unit. A letter signed by Douglas MacArthur commends an enlisted man for promotion. Haire reenlisted after Pearl Harbor and now serves as a private.
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Amarillo
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph C. Haire
United States Army
General MacArthur
MacArthur
B. M. Puckett
The
Service Men's Civic Center
Haire
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Hatre
British Cruiser Hit in Raid on Malta
Berlin reports one British cruiser and five large merchant vessels hit by aerial bombs in Malta air attacks. A German submarine sank a 4000 ton tanker while pursuing a British convoy. An Italian communique notes Axis strikes on Malta amid sand storms in North Africa.
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Berlin
United Press
New York
Malta
High Command
North
Africa
Germany
Luftwaffe
England
Faeland
Japan Presses War in Bay of Bengal and Burma Front
Japanese naval forces enter the Bay of Bengal amid air and ground pressure against Chinese troops in central Burma. At Toungoo the Chinese defend a fortified line after 48 hours of heavy fighting as Japanese air attacks continue. Allied pilots sustain losses but down several Japanese planes. Dr. Lewis Richards receives praise for aiding wounded pilots.
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New Delhi
India
U.P
Japan
Bay of Bengal
Burma
Andaman Islands
Rangoon
Toungoo
Andamans
Ceylon
Madras
Britain
Joseph W. Stillwell
Mandalay
Urge Use of Prisoners as Blood Donors
The Central Howard Association urges forming a national prisoners and parolees blood donor system. Prisoners and ex-prisoners want to serve but are barred from enlistment, and a blood bank could supply plasma or powdered blood to the army navy Red Cross and related medical corps.
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Chicago
Central Howard Association
Association
Army
Navy Medical Corps
Red Cross
Regional WPB to Set 13 Offices for Decentralization
The War Production Board plans to establish 13 regional offices across Atlanta Boston Cleveland Chicago Dallas Denver Detroit Kansas City Minneapolis New York Philadelphia San Francisco and Seattle. Existing 120 field offices will be allocated among the 13 regions as branches.
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Washington
U.P
War Production Board
WPB
Atlanta
Boston
Cleveland
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Kansas City
Minneapolis
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Seattle
County Officials Attend West Texas Convention in San Angelo
County commissioners John Winters Jack Swann and George Killian travel to San Angelo for the West Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association meeting. Winters made a brief speech amid the gathering. Loug us Bleriot astonished the world by crossing the English Channel in an airplane.
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John Winters
Jack Swann
George Killian
San Angelo
West Texas
Mr. Winters
Lougus Bleriot
English Channel
Utopia Foreseen After War Era Says Lubbock Editor
Evelyn Boyd reports at the Seventh District Texas Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Lubbock. Charles A. Guy of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal predicts a distant utopia born from wartime upheaval as peasants in China Calcutta Libya and other places rise to influence world affairs. The day also featured panels on democracy in clubs wartime college education and home strength for victory abroad with leaders from West Texas schools police and patrols weighing in. The convention wraps up that afternoon.
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Evelyn Boyd
J. M. Crews
Childress
W. S. Izzard
Amarillo
A. ‘Lt. Biggers
Lubbock
H. F. Godeke
Knox Kinard
Hereford
T. V. Reeves
Canyon
Prac
Charles A. Guy
Lubbock Avalanche- Journal
Guy
China
Calcutta
Lybia
W. B. Irvin
West Texas
James M. Gordon
Texas Technological College
J. A. Hill
West Texas State College
G. W. McDonald
Wayland College
Plainview
J. F. Mead
Amarillo College
L. M. Wingerd
Brownfield
Don Reeder
W. W. Legge
Lubbock Highway Patrol
Negro-Managed War Plant Opens in California
In San Diego twenty white and negro girls begin work side by side at the Pacific Parachute Company plant making parachute equipment for U S forces. The site, led by Skipper Smith and backed by Eddie Anderson Rochester, plans to employ over 100 skilled women across four production shifts.
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San Diego
Calif
America
U. S
Pacific Parachute Company
Standard Parachute Corp
Eddie Anderson
Rochester
Smith
Anderson
Good Dollar Returns To C. R. Warren Jr
A nine month tale ends with a good dollar returned to C. R. Warren Jr of 1101 Lincoln Street. Warren, a Santa Fe brakeman, had loaned a coworker a dollar who later tossed it from a passing train. The bill was found on a Clovis local, scorched by weeds, with a note thanking him and saying he could not find Warren in Amarillo or Clovis.
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C. R. Warren, Jr
Lincoln Street
Warren
The
Santa Fe
Clovis
Emergency Oil Plan Reported
Washington announces an emergency program to funnel 5,000,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil to the East in five weeks. Petroleum Coordinator Ickes requires a 5% refinery output rise for heavy oil, cuts gasoline, shifts rail tank cars from Midwest and Southwest, and boosts oil gravity by blending lighter fuels.
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Washington
East
New England
Ickes
Atlantic Seaboard
Midwest
East Coast
Shucks Deaf Is Missed Again In Paris Bombing Attempt
Reuters reports a German broadcast saying a bomb aimed at Marcel Deat, French collaborationist leader, at a Paris meeting failed. Deat survived another assassination attempt in August at Versailles. he had been wounded and hospitalized for two months.
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London
Reuters
Marcel Deat
Paris
Deat
Versaille
Pierre Laval
National Labor Party
Explosion injures two at California Institute of Technology
Flash reports from Pasadena say an explosion rocked chemistry laboratories at Caltech with two men injured and one in critical condition. Other wires note Japanese leaflets dropped over Sumatra urging Dutch troops to surrender and new anti submarine command for Atlantic and Pacific coasts announced from Washington. Moscow radio claims Red Fleet landing behind German lines near Murmansk as war news continues.
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Pasadena
Cal
California Institute of Technology
Tokyo
Sumatra
Moscow
Red Fleet
Murmansk
Members Appointed to Civic Center Council
Two officials were appointed to replace Mrs. James Bush and Miss Charlotte Allen in the Advisory Council of the Service Men's Civic Center. Newly-elected officers are Mrs. L. K. Patton as vice-president and Mrs. E. C. Seaman as secretary. Additional members Mrs. Cedar Puckett and Mrs. Walter Irvin were added. The Service Center reports heavy troop train activity through Amarillo en route to camps.
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Service Men's Civic Center
James Bush
Travellers For Defense Committee
Charlotte Allen
Denver
USO
L. K. Patton
E. C. Seaman
B. M. Puckett
Cedar Puckett
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