Letter From Home To the Boys in Service
A hometown update notes fishing openers at Amarillo City Lake and Buffalo Lake with prize catches, Army maneuvers, and a WAAC shack on Polk Street. It lists soldiers from the area, prisoners lists, engagements, and weddings, plus local sport results and upcoming events as the war effort continues.
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Amarillo City
Buffalo Lake
CAP
Tex ‘Thornton
J. W. Ray, Jr
Plainview
Bill Lampe
U. S
Uso-Municipal Auditorium
Panhandle
Potter County
Polk Street
Army
Sixth Street
Polk
Woolworth
WAAC
Waac Shack
New Mexico
War Department
U. S. Army
Japan
T. B. Bryant
Clovis
J. W
Record production hits new wartime highs in March
War Production Board chairman Donald M. Nelson reports March totals for aircraft ships and munitions but says first quarter arms output remains well below the pace required for 1943. Aircraft reach 6200 planes and heavy bombers exceed 500 monthly. naval shipbuilding hits a record with the 45000 ton Iowa launched. Secretaries Knox notes peak production period with four figure Navy aircraft outputs and a 25 percent fleet strength rise over January. Storms march munitions up 11 percent from February, yet steel limits loom as quarter totals show only 18 percent of the year’s goal.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Iowa
Knox
World War II Briefs From The Pacific Front
A Japanese official warns of shrinking reserves and praises Allied production while Britain and America mobilize. MacArthur reports heavy Allied losses due to winds near Darwin with several pilots missing after an air battle with 21 enemy bombers and 30 fighters. RAF raids hit Akyab and coast troops, and U S Army fliers shoot down six Japanese planes over Hunan with one American loss.
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Tokyo
Kisanosuke Yamada
America
Britain
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Arafura Sea
Darwin
Burma
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
China
Hunan
Southwest Pacific
Bizerte
London
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Takrouna
Enfidaville
Kuban
Caucasus
Kerch
Crimea
Hitler
Caucasian
Aviation Measure Clings to Life
The Love lady bill to regulate intrastate commercial aviation barely clung to life today as it advanced to the House with a favorable committee report but required a two thirds vote to call it up in the session’s closing days. Proponents doubted they could muster the needed majority. Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Austin
House
City Uplifts Wages Across Amarillo Departments
Amarillo city hall authorized salary raises across departments with a typical 10 percent increase for the remaining five months of the fiscal year. The fire and police base pay rises to 155 dollars, effective May 1, with flat or sliding scales in some divisions. City Manager Hancock says the hikes won’t require a budget increase.
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Amarillo
Joe
A. P. Hancock
Mediterranean invasion fears loom as Axis coats tighten
German broadcasts and Madrid reports indicate Allied reserves massed in Algeria and Morocco with possible landings on Sicily Sardinia or Tunisian coasts. Axis and neutral sources warn that invasion could come soon after Tunisia’s campaign concludes. Rhodes seized while Cyprus maneuvers continue.
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London
U.P
Todoar
Algeria
Morocco
Sicily
Sardinia
Madrid
la Linea
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Europe
Tunisia
Italy
Istanbul
Rhodes
Dodecanese
Aegean Sea
Cyprus
Ludwig Sertorius
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas outlook
The Amarillo area sees little temperature change with a cooler morning and strong winds easing tonight. Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms expected, with similar unsettled conditions across Panhandle South Plains and western New Mexico, and temperatures from a high near 87 to a low around 62 with noon around 80.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
German's Daughter Kidnaped by Dutch Patriots
Reuters dispatch from Istanbul reports Dutch patriots kidnapped the daughter of Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the German high commissioner in the Netherlands, and hold her as a hostage. Gestapo reportedly cannot find her. 47 Dutch traitors were named for death with 14 said killed, including Gen Hendrik Seyffardt.
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London
Reuters
Istanbul
Today
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Netherlands
Holland
Woods Hotel Fire Damaged Third Floor Room Early Morning
A fire at Woods Hotel 315 East Sixth Avenue started by a lit cigarette left on a bed by a departing patron. The blaze, which reached the attic, destroyed furniture in one third floor room. Firemen arrived at 4 25 and stayed until 6. Manager E D Bruce praised the department and noted no damage from water.
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the Woods
East Sixth Avenue
E. D. Bruce
Mr. Bruce
Russia Given Many American Planes
Moscow radio quoted Edward R. Stettinius saying more American lease lend planes were sent to Russia than any other theater. The remark was well received amid the ongoing large scale aerial warfare on the Russian front.
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Moscow
Edward R. Stettinius
Russia
United States Extends Hold in Pacific Seizes Russell Islands
American forces have occupied the Russell Islands northwest of Guadalcanal as part of extending their hold in the Solomon Islands. The Russell group lies about 18 miles from Guadalcanal and under 100 miles from Viru Harbor and Rekata Bay. Navy reports also note attacks on Rekata Bay and Kiska on May 2 3 with several aircraft involved. fires were started at Gertrude Cove.
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Washington
Solomon Islands
Russell Islands
Guadalcanal
Navy
Russell Group
Solomons
Viru Harbor
Rekata Bay
Pacific
Santa Isabel Island
United States
Kiska
Gertrude Cove
Mines Open Under Six Day Week Order by Ickes
Administrator Harold L. Ickes ordered a six day work week for about 3,850 government run coal ops as wartime overtime pay boosts could be cut if six days were not worked. John L. Lewis said UMW would not retreat from backing a 15 day armistice while WLB asserts jurisdiction amid looming negotiations and possible concessions.
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Washington
Ickes
Office of Price Administration
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
WLB
New York
Harold L. Ickes
Coal Iolds
James F. Byrnes
Lewis
Rubber Director Says Rubber Plan Dragged Aviation Gas
Rubber director Jeffers told the Senate Truman committee that prosecuting the synthetic rubber program had dragged forward aviation gasoline production and warned that curtailment would be a tragic error. He added officials would work with Undersecretary Patterson to break bottlenecks, stressing shared war aims over any personal motives. See John Maynard Liz Co. 800 W 5th.
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Washington
Jeffers
Patterson
Senate
Truman Committee
Monroe's R Street House Draws Washington Spotlight
A Washington mansion at 2101 R Street becomes the center of a war contracts probe as Edward V. Roberts reports how John P. Monroe hosts officials and dignitaries while many deny involvement. Monroe claims no contracts or profits, calling the house a shack compared with his Boston home.
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John P. Monroe
Red House
R Street
Congressional
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry W. Morgenthau, Jr
Monroe
Levin Campbell
Army Ordnance
R Street House
Archduke Otto
Austria
Americans Reach Mateur As Tunisian Advance Presses
Allied dispatches say U S forces seized Mateur 18 miles from Bizerte and 34 miles from Tunis driving toward Tebourba as they pressure the Tunisian front. British reports claim Ferryville under long range fire while German command evacuates Mateur without a fight.
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Associated Press
U. S
Mateur
Tunis
Bizerte
Nis
Posiligns
Tebourba
Ferryville
Tine
Cap Bon
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Jack
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Doran
Ted
Lloyd
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Red Goodwin
Sandie Center
Air Corps
England
al Clark
Classified
The
Globe News
Brownwood
Buford Avery
Ordnance Department
Amarillo National Bank
Seagraves
Duane C. Cotten
Cupid
Margaret McKenzie
the Globe
Arthur Abrams
Bayonne
N. J
Mildred Kirk
R. Dean Kirk
George H Caulfield, Jr
Phillips, Tex
Betty Blake
C. Carl Blake
Line Avenue
Philip D. Phillips
Borger
Camp Barkeley
Fort Worth
Louise Trigg
Steve L. Trigg
Robert Moody McKinney
James Farwell
Edward Karl Hatchett
Ed Hatchett
Clarendon
Ruth Gibbs
Claude Parker
Amarillo Municipal Golfers Association
Curtis Gilbert
H. C. McFarland
Bill Bogard
Dub Kleipeter
Price Cardinals
Price Brookfield
J. N. Trotter
Sandies
Amarillo Country Club
Sandie Golds
Blacks
Butler Field
Csapa
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Sardinia and
Transocean
Sertorius
Giuseppe Bastianini
Italian Foreign Office
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Egypt
Libya
German
Woods Hotel
Russell Stationery Company
Uncle Sam
John Maynard Liz. Co
5Th
Edward V. Roberts
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Warren R. Austin
Vermont
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Senator Bridges
Bridges
Concord
New
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Capitol Hill
James H. Morrison
Louisiana
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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