A Letter From Home March 28 1944 Highlights
The page reports wartime life in Amarillo with weather, local military events, and weddings. It notes Col. Julius Dorenfield Jr. death at Camp Lee, Army exhibits, a 106 year old veteran, resignations to join husbands in service, and multiple marriage announcements. Also covers boxing, basketball, golf results, and local air force honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Texas State Guard
Municipal Auditorium
Julius Dorenfield, Jr
Amar
Dad” Taylor Mn
Wendell Cannon
Clark Jinks
Jinks
Arch Hunsley
New York
Happy
Tex
Texas
Peggy O’brien
Robert E. Watson
Seattle
Wash
Janie Edwards
J. E. Wren
Juanita Campbell
Bowmer Skelton
Beth Dale
de Wayne Hays
Dorothy Fay Carter
Orvil Tigart
Pauline McBride
White Deer
James L. Jordan
Chicago
Roberta Addington
Pampa
Andrew F. Sevrick
Pittsburgh
Amarillo
Ex-Sandies
Amarillo College Badgers
City Victory
England
Carl T. Dubuy
Tulsa
Perry Allen Beville
Harold King
H. B. Hale, Jr
Rte. 1
K. H. Hohlaus
Caribbean
Pfc
Billy Budd
Galveston
Bate Budd
Bill Perkins
Fort Hueneme
Calif
G. A. Collins
G. R. Collins
Draft Board
Hubert Cole
McCormick Favors U S Liquidity of Holdings After War
Col Robert McCormick editor of the Chicago Tribune proposes the United States require European nations to liquidate their Western Hemisphere holdings after the war. He warns of a proposed world super government with 44 votes for the US and 16 for Britain and Russia, power to tax Americans, fund armies, appoint officers, and a supreme judiciary that could haul Americans for trial. He attacks a Supreme Court justice and the secretary of state as backers of this worldarchy.
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Minneapolis
Robert McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
United States
Spon
British Empire
Russia
McCormick
Supreme Court
Social Security Board Holds Amarillo Conference
About 75 to 100 Social Security Board representatives from states gathered in Amarillo for a two day bi regional meeting to improve efficiency and economy of the old age and survivors insurance program regional leaders joined from Texas and nearby areas. Chief John J Corson from Baltimore led the discussion on streamlining the machinery amid growing workload and shrinking staff.
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Social Security Board
Amarillo
John J. Corson
Old Age and
Mr. Corson
Baltimore
Southwest
Texas
Fire destroys New Amsterdam Hotel in San Francisco
A blaze at the three story New Amsterdam Hotel in the industrial district killed twenty one people and injured many more. Fire Chief Albert J Sullivan said the fire likely originated from arson. The building housed about 100 tenants including shipyard and war industry workers and was fully engulfed within minutes. Firemen lowered nets for those who jumped from windows and tenants climbed to a nearby garage roof to escape.
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Albert J. Sullivan
New Amsterdam
Southern District
Texas A and M Board to Meet With Senate Group Friday
President F M Law announced a joint meeting of the Texas A and M College board of directors with the state Senate educational investigating committee in Austin on Friday. Law said the session is by invitation of Sen Penrose Metcalfe and will precede routine talks on the presidency and extension service matters.
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Houston
F. M. Law
Texas A. and M. College Board of Directors
State Senate Educational Investigating Committee
Austin
Penrose Metcalfe
San Angelo
Law
Senate
Jobs First to Service Men After the War
PULSE FEELER asks whether World War II veterans should get preference for postwar jobs. Local residents weigh in on veterans’ return, training needs, and equal opportunity, with varied views on skilled work and job security.
Severe cold grips Panhandle as spring spell nears end
A blizzard like cold snap swept the Panhandle and South Plains with 40 mile winds and snow. Temperatures fell from 60 to near 20 with some towns reporting two inches of snow and freezing conditions all day. Observers fear damage to fruit and shrubs as the spell ends tomorrow and March's roar lingers. Aircraft were grounded though some transports flew over.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Dalhart
Plainview
Oklahoma Panhandle
Woodward
Waynoka
Shattuck
Canadian
Amarillo
Clarendon
Pampa
Lubbock
H. C. Winburn
R. F. Smith
Reservations for C C Chamber Banquet at 400 tickets
The Chamber of Commerce banquet on April 10 at the Herring Hotel has one fourth of tickets already reserved for Boots Adams of Phillips Petroleum as principal speaker. The membership drive is 85 percent complete after a successful mail campaign, with a planned post campaign cleanup. The agricultural committee met to discuss a West Texas Chamber contest. In national news, butter supplies rise 22 million pounds while cheddar increases 90 million pounds for spring months. meat allotments drop 606 thousand pounds. Free local delivery offered 8:30 to 9:30 A.M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Boots Adams
Phillips Petroleum
Herring Hotel
Herb Budke
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
A. F. Madison
Amarillo
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Burma War Rages as Allied Forces Close on Kohima and Imphal
Japanese and Allied troops press separate offensives in Burma near Imphal Kohima and Myitkyina as American Chinese and British units trap enemy forces. Rabaul Ponape and Solomons face heavy air and sea bombardment with significant damage reported.
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J.B. Kruger
Associated Press
Burma
Imphal
India
Ukbrul
Kohima
Southeast Asia Command
Naga
Assam
Joseph Stilwell
Myitkyina
Burma Road
Frank Merrill
Shaduzup
Merrill
Hkawnglaw Kka
Stilwell
Myittkyina
al- Med Reach
Tiddim
Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Ponape
The
Solomons
Amarillo Extends Push to Reach War Fund Honor Roll
Amarillo officials report only 10689.18 dollars remain to meet the Red Cross War Fund quota of 10.7 million nationwide. A noon meeting outlined remaining contact and mop up efforts, with Friday night as the campaign end. Volunteers urged donations from those not yet approached, promising cards and service member acknowledgments.
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Amarillo
Red Cross
War Department
Russians Cross Prut River in Romania Front, Drive Toward Bucharest
Soviet forces pressed southward through Bessarabia and along the Prut River advancing toward Iasi and Rumania. Russian mobile units struck across the Prut six miles east of Iasi while 100,000 German troops faced encirclement along a 200 mile southern salient. A Turkish broadcast cited Bucharest evacuation as a possibility, with Ukrainian and Transylvanian front units pushing toward key railway junctions.
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Moscow
Bessarabia
Prut
Iasi
Rumania
Fritz von Mannstein
Ivan
Konev
Black Sea
Upper Prut
Cernauti
Bucovina
Ukraine
Kamenets Podolsk
Kuriles Raid Reaches Onekotan Island in New Allied Bombing
U P reports say Army and Navy bombers struck the Kurile Islands last night hitting Onekotan 29 miles south of Paramushiro. Japanese offered no air resistance as bombs lit Paramushiro and Onekotan in stark flashes. Recon photos taken. plane that vanished after special flight westward remains missing.
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U.P
Kuriles
Onekotan
Paramushiro
Onekoatan
Army
Building Permits Issued for 15 New Homes
The city issues permits for 15 new four room homes in blocks on Washington and Monroe Streets to Barco Corporation. Ten houses will stand on Monroe Street and each is estimated to cost 4000 dollars.
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Washington and
Monroe Streets
City Building Inspector
Barco Corporation
Monroe Street
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surrounding Regions
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with strong winds diminishing late. Lows near 15 with Wednesday turning fair and less cold, winds from the west. Cloudy and colder in West Texas this afternoon with 16 to 22 Panhandle, 20 to 26 South Plains, near freezing elsewhere except Del Rio Eagle Pass area tonight. Wednesday remains fair though cooler in Del Rio Eagle Pass and milder in the Panhandle with winds remaining fresh to strong. New Mexico sees partly cloudy skies through tonight and Wednesday with colder conditions and a warmer Wednesday afternoon. 24 hours ending 6:30 A M shows high 60, low 23, noon 20, trace moisture from snow.
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Amarillo
West Texas
The
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
Hardship cases drive liquor supply for Washington branches
At a Federal Trade Commission hearing Franklin G. Sartwell of Milton Kronheim Inc described top government and congressional demand as hardship cases that priority access to scarce liquor. He said firms rush supplies to retailers when such calls come in for White House State Department or congressional events and social functions.
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Washington
White House
State Department
Congress
Franklin G. Sartwell
Milton Kronheim, Inc
Federal Trade Commission
Sartwell
City Plans Purchase of 60000 Gallons Asphalt for Streets
The city commission will open bids for 60000 gallons of asphalt tonight at its first meeting in two weeks. Earlier bids were opened for cast iron pipe to enlarge water distribution lines and the contract awaits commission approval. Applications to re zone North Heights property are on file for consideration tonight.
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City Commission
North Heights
Bevy of Beauties Bevy of Beauties
Martha Dodge charges Maj Horace E Dodge heir to a 100 million motor fortune with infidelity over four years. She alleges seven beauties including Cafe Society girls and Lt Clara Tinsley of the Army Nurse Corps. She cites gifts such as Nylon stockings valued over 1400 dollars.
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New York
U.P
Maj
Horace E. Dodge
Martha
Mickey” Devine Dodge
Supreme Court
Cafe Society
Dodge
Army Nurse Corps
Clara Tinsley
American Bombers Hit German Air Bases in France
Hundreds of American Flying Fortresses and fighter escorts swept over northern central and eastern France attacking Chartres Chateaudun Rheims and Dijon in the second day of daylight raids. The assault followed a blitz by 1 900 planes and covered hundreds of square miles as Luftwaffe bases were struck and several fields severely damaged.
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Rabaul
Ponape
Truk
Eniwetok
Marshalls
Ujélang Atoll
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Anoth
London
France
Paris
United States
Chartres
Chateaudun
Rheims
Dijon
Hershey calls mining 4 F men for wartime service
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of Selective Service, told Rotarians in Providence that the nation must recruit some of about 1.5 million men under 26 classified 4-F, arguing many could contribute in noncombat roles. He repeated the demand to act. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt heads home from Cuba after a Caribbean tour visiting American military installations.
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Providence
R. 1
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Rotarians
Havana
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cuba
Caribbean
Allied artillery repels Cassino German attack near Terelle
Allied forces broke up a German assault on the Cassino front near Terelle and pressed the Hotel Continental and Des Roses positions with heavy shelling. The German attack on the Terelle road was defeated while the Nazis bombarded Allied lines south of Cassino. Allied air power and Mosquitos targeted rail lines and shipping along central Italy and the Dalmatian coast. about 65 enemy aircraft were active with two downed for three Allied planes.
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Naples
Cassino
Terelle
Des Roses
Rome
Garigliano
Fifth Army
Orsogna
Eighth Army
Italy
Witness Testifies to Heard Screams Before Heiress Murder
New York transcript shows nurse Annalise Schoenberg testifying that she heard a woman's screams from the Lonergan apartment around 9 a.m. on the morning of the heiress's death. She described hearing phrases and returning to the doorway, then hearing only a shuffling sound.
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New York
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Wayne Lonergan
RCAF
Annalise Schoenberg
McNutt sees no immediate need for labor draft law
Washington March 28 Paul V McNutt head of the War Manpower Commission told a House military subcommittee manpower is relatively good and no national service legislation is needed now He noted potential merit in job controls for about 3 000 000 men in 4 F but the Army opposes inducting them He did not explain how 4 Fs would be used or diverted into essential industry The committee aims to resolve manpower within a month
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
House
Army
McNutt
Costello
California
Interagency Committee On Deferments
Jokes Weaken Nazi Fear As Internees Report Laughs At Hitler Regime
An Associated Press dispatch from New York cites an internees’ view that anti Nazi humor spreads at home in Germany. Jokes mocking Hitler and Goebbels circulate among party members and foreign workers, signaling waning fear and shifting attitudes despite Gestapo crackdowns.
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New York
Gestapo
Hitler
Nazi Party Party
Germany
Goebbels
St. Ter
Hell
Nhetherworld
Hades
St. Peter
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Adolf
Mussolini
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Armed Services
Globe and
Ows
Hanson Post American Legion
World ‘Union
Rolls
Joan Maynard
San Francisco
Texas A. & M
Dallas
L. J. Cappleman
Office of
War Food Administration
Russell Stationery Company
Pulse Feeler
G. L
Ford Mayeay
G. F
Frame
Bud Carter
Cheryle Bush
F. J. Knight
C. C
Beery Prescription Shop
Bridge
Berlin
Poland
Red Army
Lwow
Bucharest
CBS
Carl A. Spaatz
Pyrenees
Sellar
Ame
Ataly
DNB
Neely-Cgireenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Turkey
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