Hitler's Frantic Berlin Conference Ends With Decision to Stay
A stenographer at Hitler's Berlin headquarters recounts the April 21 22 meetings as Russian bombardment intensifies. Hitler, Eva Braun, Bormann, Keitel and Jodl discuss fate while Keitel Bormann urge retreat south. Hitler declares he will stay in the Reich Chancellery despite mounting pressure.
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Obersalzberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Reich
Gerhardt Herrgeselle
Hitler
Herrgeselle
Eva Braun
Martin Bormann
Nazi Party
Wilhelm Keitel
Gustav Jodl
Reims
Friedrich Strasse
Hallesches Tor
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Volkstrom
Herrecleselle
Bormann
Keitel
Jodi
Herrbeselle
Reichschancellery
Fuehrer
Jodl
Norway
Goerig
Goering
Plea for Food Czar and OPA Critique Merge in Senate Report
The Senate Agriculture Committee backed creating a supreme administrator for food, faulting the Office of Price Administration for failure to enforce price and ration controls. It urged price relief measures, expanded hog and cattle subsidies, raised dairy and grass cattle marketing incentives, and tighter meat distribution controls.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
OPA
Lucas
Illinois
Eliender
Louisiana
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
Santa Fe Official H. R. McKee Dies at Slaton
Funeral services for H. R. McKee longtime Santa Fe Slaton division superintendent will be held at 4 pm at Slaton Presbyterian Church. Burial in Lubbock cemetery. McKee served 34 years with the railroad and earlier worked at Las Vegas Raton Dodge City and Slaton. Survived by widow two sons Capt John McKee Army Air Forces in Africa Robert McKee Denver and a daughter Mrs Richard Robbins Denver.
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H. R. McKee
Santa Fe
Slaton
Slaton Presbyterian Church
Lubbock
McKee
The
Las Vegas
39Th
Raton
Dodge City
John McKee
Army Air Forces
Africa
Robert McKee
Denver
Richard Robbins
All U S Postage Stamps Described in New Edition
The revised postal department edition covers every United States postage stamp from 1847 to the first of last month with illustrated entries. Available to the public through the Government Printing Office in Washington. Payment by postal note money order or check. 30 cent charge not accepted for stamps.
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United States
Postal Department
W. D DeGrassi
Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society Meets in Amarillo
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society executive committee will meet at 3 p m Friday in the Amarillo Hotel on the call of New ton Harrell the newly elected president. They will decide on government bonds for building funds totaling about 10000 with an additional 50000 being sought. The society plans building completion as construction resumes with the steel and concrete framework in place and most materials on hand.
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Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
Amarillo
Newton Harrell
Panhandle Plains Historical Society
Open Your Door interviewers named for Amarillo radio series
Open Your Door programs on USO-Travelers Air radio feature Mrs. John Ralson Wednesday and Mrs. B. G. Maberry Friday as volunteer housing staff interviewers. S. B. Whittenburg chairs the series heard at 3 45 over Radio Station KFDA to help servicemen and families find housing in Amarillo.
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Uso-Travelers
John Ralson
B. G. Maberry
Ralson
Maberry
S. B. Whittenburg
KFDA
Amarillo
Relax Restrictions on Local War Plants in Amarillo Area
An Associated Press dispatch from Dallas reports that war plants in the Amarillo area may expand without approval from the Production Urgency Committee and the War Manpower Commission. The change applies to Dallas and other No. 3 and No. 4 labor areas, with limits on plant labor staff increases. A. J. Langford, chair of the PUC, stated the policy.
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Amarillo
Production Urgency Committee
War Manpower Commission
Associated Press
Dallas
U. S. Employment Service
Austin
WMC
PUC
Borger
Beaumont
Fort Worth
A. J. Langford
Cab Driver Slugged And Hijacked In City Incident
John H. Berry a 51 year old Hammond Cab Company driver reported being slugged hijacked and robbed of his cab and wallet after picking up two men in front of the Amarillo Hotel. The cab was found abandoned on Ben Masterson Road later. Berry suffered a cut above the right eye and head bruises with ten dollars missing and attackers not yet found.
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John H. Berry
Hammond Cab Company
Florida
Ben Masterson Road
Pampa Highway
Berry
Amarillo
Taylor
Harrison
van Buren
Mr. Berry
Star Night Club
Legion Program Tonight Honors Colonel Herndon
Hanson Post of the American Legion will host a program at 8 15 tonight in Legion Home 1800 Harrison to honor Lt Col O E Herndon hospital manager the past five years and leaving for Lake City Florida Initiation of new members business session entertainment and refreshments are planned
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O. E. Herndon
U. S. Veterans Hospital
Hanson Post
American Legion
Legion Home
1800
Harrison
Herndon
Lake City
Fla
Legion Post
Goebbels Found Dead in Berlin Underground City
The Red Army paper Red Star reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and his family died by suicide in an underground Berlin complex. The complex 20 meters below the surface housed factories offices and arsenals connected by electric railways with reinforced concrete armor walls.
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Moscow
U.P
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Red Army
Red Star
Goebbels
Hermayon Goering
Goering
Continue Search for Hit and Run Driver
Peace officers here continued their search today for the driver of the automobile involved in the death of two servicemen on the Panhandle Highway early Saturday morning. Two leads were probed yesterday but fizzled. Capt. Tommy Thomas and Amarillo police work the case with no further clues. Bodies of Marine Pvt. Hubert Weldon Elkins and Albert Lee Willis remain at a local funeral home with funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Panhandle
Tommy Thomas
Amarillo
Lincoln Life Agents Finish Training Course
J. L. Lawrence state supervisor for Lincoln Life Insurance Company Houston has completed a motion picture training course for agents and representatives in this territory Attendees include Houston Self C O Byrnes Lubbock W D Duree Dimmitt C B Rittenberry general agent Roy C Barr Mrs R F Stewart and Mrs Boyd Elliott Amarillo
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J. L. Lawrence
Lincoln Life Insurance Company
Houston
Houston Self
C. O. Byrnes
Lubbock
W. D. Duree
Dimmitt
C. B. Rittenberry
Roy C. Barr
R. F. Stewart
Boyd Elliott
Amarillo
Bolzano Ends German Honeymoon After Surrender
In Bolzano Italy on May 13 Nazi forces lingered after Italy's surrender. Col. W. C. Fry of the 88th Division assumed command and ordered the defeat acknowledged, dissolving SS and Wehrmacht quarters and ending civilian fraternization with occupying troops.
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Bolzano
Italy
S. S
Germany
U. S. 88Th Division
Col. W. Co. Fry
Washington, D. C
88Th
Fry
Karl Wolff
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich von Vietinghoff-Schell
Norway Finds Appropriate Job for Vidkun Quisling
Oslo May 15 Vidkun Quisling the traitor is reported to be cleaning the toilets of Oslo’s largest prison. Quisling aged 58 and described as fat asserts he remains the legal head of Norway’s government and complains about prison treatment.
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Oslo
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
United Press
Quisling
Fat
Doctors' Piles Remedy Promoted by Thornton & Minor
Advertises Thornton & Minor Rectal Ointment and Rectal Suppositories for quick relief of piles pain itching and swelling. Claims men and women patients benefit with swelling reduction and softening, with a low cost refund if not satisfied. Sold at Cretney Drug and Walgreen's in Amarillo.
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Thornton & Minor
Amarillo
Cretney Drug
Walgreen
TVA Created by Congress in 1933
The Tennessee Valley Authority was established by Congress in 1933 as a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region. It aimed to provide navigation flood control electricity generation and economic development.
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The
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
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Herrge- Selle
General Krebs
Herrgesell
Admiral Doenitz
Doenitz
U. S
Ceal
News-Globe
Lincoln Life Agents
D. W. Godley
CIE
Blackham
Shaw Funeral Directors
Pierce
Ted
Ted Malone
Alan Young
Guy Lombardo
Business Men
Amarillo Hotel
C. S. Pryor
Charma
Polk
Mor
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Oldest Bank
the Panhandle
Kitty Kerrigan's Millinery
Polk Street
Jack Owens
Ethel and
Albert
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