Debate on G I teaching methods in postwar schools
Pulse Feeler quotes readers from 2816 Hughes Street and others weighing mass, rapid instruction versus traditional schooling. Dallas Holland notes Army Institute links fever mass teaching, while Leone McPherson and others oppose rush methods favoring careful learning.
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Dick Godwin
Hughes Street
F.H. Jackson
Ben Mastengame
Leone McPherson
America
G. I
Dallas Holland
Army Institute
Army
Funeral set for prominent Panhandle cattleman Will Herring
William E. Herring died in his Amarillo hotel room at age 73 after a long illness. The funeral will be Thursday at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with Dr. F A Foster officiating and assistance from Bishop E C Seaman and Dr. R Thomson. Interment will follow at Llano Cemetery Mausoleum. He was longtime Amarillo resident, head of the LS ranch, and vice president of Herring National Bank at Vernon. He is survived by his widow, daughter Mrs. Arthur Ware, twin grandsons in the Pacific theater, sister Mrs. L K Johnson, and two nieces.
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William E. Herring
Panhandle
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Miles Bivins
Chansler Weymouth
Dean Kirk
C. R. Garner
Dick Seay
Dick Ware
Charles Ware
Beale Queen
Ted Houghton
Dave Rubin
Blackburn- Shaw
Llano Cemetery
Arthur Ware
Hughes Street
Herring
Phoenix
Ariz
Amarillo
Mr. Herring
Col. C. T. Herring
Herring National Bank
Vernon
Cornelius Herring Ware
Charles Richard Ware
Pacific Theater of War
L. K. Johnson
James E. Slemp
Jessie K. Bailey
Fire Bug Foiled in San Francisco Apartment Blaze
Early today a fire bug struck a San Francisco apartment house but a tenant, Nellie Bury, intervened by stopping an elevator and dousing embers. Police link the incident to the same arson series that included the New Amsterdam Hotel fire killing 22.
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San Francisco
New Amsterdam
Nellie Bury
Hyde Street
Warning to Bulgaria and Romania on choosing Allies
Izvestia warned Bulgaria and Romania to break with Germany or face becoming war zones under Nazi control. It cited Hungary’s occupation as a sign and urged Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria to reject Nazi satellites or risk losing sovereignty and state existence. It noted Romania and Bulgaria’s troop counts and said Germany cannot crush resistant satellite states that arm for defense.
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Moscow
U.P
Izvestia
Bulgaria
Rumania
Ger
Finland
Russia
Hungary
Ostia
Germany
Hitler
Amarillo Seeks Miracle to Reach War Fund Quota
Amarillo aims to raise about 7000 towards a 112500 Red Cross War Fund quota. Officials say only 2500 remains to reach the target before Friday night and urge immediate city support, noting a miracle may be needed to top the goal.
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Amarillo
Russians Push Toward Odessa From Nikolaev Front
Russian forces led by Malinovsky move across the southern Russian steppes toward the port of Odessa with 300 miles to the northwest near the Czech frontier. Units of Konev’s army approach the Odessa Tiraspol Iasi rail line while Domanevka and surrounding towns fall to Soviet arms along a 175 mile front.
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London
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Nikolaev
Great Black Sea
Odessa
Bessarabia
Ivan S&s. Konev
Odessa-Tiraspol Iasi
Malinovsky
Bug
Domanevka
Woman Offers to Sell Ration Books for Money request
A woman in the rationing office claimed she was told she could exchange ration books for money and said she was ready to sell. The incident highlights irregularities in the food panel’s ration book system.
Hopkins Undergoes Operation at Mayo Clinic
Rochester Mayo Clinic announced that Harry Hopkins, a presidential adviser, underwent an operation today at St. Mary’s Hospital. The nature of the procedure was not disclosed, with officials saying a bulletin would likely follow. Hopkins has been in Rochester for several weeks under Mayo physicians’ care for a nutritional disturbance.
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Rochester
Minn
Harry Hopkins
St. Mary's Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Hopkins
B Card Motorists May Receive More Gasoline
The Office of Price Administration plans to boost B card gasoline ration if supply warrants after a 30 day survey. Col Bryan Houston said the increase depends on available gasoline and will occur only if there is enough to spare.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Bryan Houston
OPA
Bui Se
Mount Cassino Falls under German Control in Italy War News
Allied reports say German troops retook the upper slopes of Mount Cassino while Allied bombers disrupted southern Italian rail links. Indian and New Zealand troops on Hangman’s Hill and Hill 202 withdrew after ten days of siege, leaving Cassino to Nazi forces as air strikes targeted bridges and tunnels nearby.
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Allied
Naples
U.P
Cassino
Mount Cassino
Allied Air Force
Italy
Air Force
Anzio
Adriatic
Air Force Headquarters
Hangman’s Hill
Hill 202
Leave Farmer Deferments Up To Local Draft Boards
Washington March 29 Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey selective service director agreed to leave farm deferments to local draft boards after talks with war food administrator Marvin Jones. Senator Russell Georgia Democrat said Hershey would scrap the unit deferment system to protect war food production and stem military inroads upon farms.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Marvin Jones
Russell
Georgia
Senate Agriculture Committee
Tydings
Maryland
Roosevelt signs $1.35 billion for UN relief effort
President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the United States to participate in the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration to the extent of 1 350 000 000. Specific appropriation of the funds awaits congressional action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Congress
Churchill Threatens Resignation Over Equal Pay for Teachers
Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged to resign if Parliament rejects the government’s position on equal pay for men and women teachers. He warned of a confidence vote and demanded a clear majority, saying the education bill must reflect the government’s stance despite a tight 117 to 116 override vote.
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London
U.P
Churchill
Commons
House
Roosevelt confirms bronchitis no alarm headlines
President Roosevelt says he has bronchitis but feels fine otherwise. He confirms the diagnosis after coughing fits and says the illness has persisted for two to three weeks yet is not serious and there is no cause for alarm. He notes only about one in 48,500 cases progress to pneumonia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Guerrilla Troops Operate With Yugoslav Partisans
In the Dalmatian coastal zone American combat units trained for guerrilla warfare join Yugoslav Partisans and British forces. Raider groups have been operating across the Adriatic, achieving high prisoner takings and light losses. A WWI veteran leads an American outfit coordinated by a senior British officer.
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Bari
Italy
Adriatic
Charge CIO Committee With Subversive Communist Acts
The Dies committee in Washington charged the CIO political action committee with leading a subversive Communist campaign to subvert Congress to a totalitarian program.
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CIO Committee
Washington
U.P
Dies
CIO Political Action Committee
Congress of the
United States
Patterson Urges 3.5 Million 4-Fs For War Effort
Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson told a House military committee that 3.5 million 4-Fs aged 18 to 37 should be assigned to essential industry or drafted into labor battalions. He outlined plans to extend national service or selective service to control such manpower while meeting war needs and warned that noncompliant 4-Fs could be called to active duty in special labor units.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
House Military Committee
Woeuin
Bombers Hit Germany In Broadside Over Central Regions
Berlin radio reported two powerful American bomber formations attacked Germany with fierce battles against massed Nazi defenses. The daylight raid, said by DNB News Agency to possibly reach the heart of Germany, followed three days of attacks on German air bases in France and marked the 15th such operation this month.
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London
U.P
Germany
Berlin
Reich
Eighth Air Force
DNB
Feutoburgian Forest
Muenster-Bielefeld-Osnabrueck
United States
France
Schweinfurt
Frankfurt
Archibald Sinclair
Weather Summary for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Fair to night and Thursday with temperatures below freezing tonight and warmer Thursday. West Texas expected fair this afternoon tonight and Thursday with not so cold conditions. New Mexico to be fair and warmer this afternoon tonight and Thursday with highs around 40 to 65 and lows from 20 to 40. 24 hours ending 6:30 AM: high 38, low 14, noon 44.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Japanese push into Manipur thrust in India campaign
British Imperial troops pull back about 15 miles inside the Indian frontier as Japanese forces press an attack through the Somra hills toward Imphal. The four pronged invasion concentrates near Ukhrul with reports of heavy air battles over Burma and Allied air forces claiming a March tally of 130 enemy planes, with 33 Allied losses.
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New Delhi
U.P
Somra
Manipur
Imphal
Ukhrul
India
Kohima
Burma
Freeze Snaps Panhandle With Thirteen Degree Drop
A severe cold snap lowered temperatures to 14 degrees and frozen curbs held a city bus. Weather observer H C Winburn warned the freeze may set back fruit development by about a year, though warmer days are ahead and Easter plans remain uncertain.
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H. C. Winburn
Winburn
Panhandle-Plains
R. F. Smith
Lonergan Signs Off in Murder Trial
The defense in the Wayne Lonergan murder case rested after presenting three witnesses. Lonergan, charged with first degree murder in heiress Patricia Lonergan's slaying, did not take the stand. Witnesses included Mario Gabellini, an interior decorator, and Dr. Isidore Michel, Lonergan's physician.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
Edward V. Broderick
Mario Gabellini
William Prendergast
Insufficient Postage on Hundreds of Letters Here
The Amarillo post office warns of high insufficient postage rates. A red and blue LOOK sign above letter drops alerts mailers to increased first class and air mail rates. Mail with return addresses is sent back. others are forwarded for additional postage collection at destination.
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Amarillo
United States
Four year old Billy Meers dies after massive blood transfusion effort
Dallas reports Billy Meers aged four, famed for his chronic nephritis case, died after receiving 352 pints of blood in plasma transfusions. Despite nationwide donor campaigns and volunteer services from WACs and service members, his condition worsened in February and March, ending in coma.
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Dallas
Billy Meers
Billy
Charles Meers
Baylor Hospital
Allied bombers strike Wewak and Hansa Bay in ninth day
United States bombers from Liberators Mitchells and Bostons dropped 158 tons over a 100 mile area, sinking a coastal vessel near Wewak and destroying two barges at Manam island, as MacArthur reports 26th Japanese ship sunk in two weeks. Ground troops press mopping up in the Admiralty Islands with naval guns on Pityilu.
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Allied
South Pacific
U.P
New Guinea
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Liberators
Billy Mitchells
Boston
Douglas MacArthur
Manam Island
Admiralty Islands
Pityilu Island
Manus
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Will Herring
F. A. Foster
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Arthur Finnegan
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Rolls
John Maynard Lumber Co
W. 5Th
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Konev
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Tasi
United Press
James E. Roper
Patterson
Lonergan
Charles B. Shuey
Union
Chanute Field
Wacs
Flying Fortress
Washington Post
Boston Herald
Texas
Amarillo Army Air Field
Baylor Blood Bank
Russell Stary Company
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