Attempt on life of Nazi Field Marshal Keitel abroad
The Moscow radio reported an attempt to assassinate Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel during his visit to the Hungarian front. Separate dispatches noted Spanish officials saying the occupation of Andorra by French gendarmes was a police move with no political significance.
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New York
Wilhelm Keitel
Moscow Radio
The
Madrid
Andorra
George Hayden
New Mexico
Highway Department
Sunshine State
Hayden
Amarillo
Police Department
George Thompson
Palo Duro Canyon
Rescued Man Seen Alive From Japanese Prison Camp
Mrs Mayme Campbell of Amarillo learns her son Charles Humpy Campbell, long listed missing in action, has been seen alive in a prison camp. The report traces his escape from Bataan and his service with Gen Douglas MacArthur's Manila air force, amid a USO club reunion note referencing a rescued group from a Japanese prison ship attacked by American planes.
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Humpy
Central Committee
Amarillo
New Memorial Park
Mayme L. Campbell
Tyler
Charles “Humpy” Campbell
Campbell
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
USO Club
Pacific
Japan
Air Service cuts corners to save time at Kelly Field
At Kelly Field in Texas the Air Service Command demonstrates faster maintenance methods. A spark plug cleaning technique uses air blast sand to finish in 45 seconds, replacing hour long manual picks. The visit coincides with Texas in the War Week and highlights efficiency gains in plane overhauls.
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Air Command
Kelly Field
U.P
United States Army Air Service Comand
San Antonio Air Service Command
Patch Test Proves Lady Esther Face Cream Beautifies Skin
A vintage ad urges readers to try Lady Esther Face Cream with a patch test on oily dry or pore troubled skin. It claims four actions cleansing softening pore refinement and a smooth base for powder, promising visible improvement after one application.
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Esther
Lady Esther
Air Service Command drives massive overhaul plant gains
The Air Service Command oversees parts supply to 60 air fields across Texas New Mexico Arkansas and Louisiana. It is the largest installation of its kind with 18000 civilian workers of whom 35 percent are women and nine percent Black. Output per worker has risen dramatically with magnetos per month up from 41 to 113 starters from 21 to 74 and carburetors from 23 to 34. Wing changes drop from two and a half hours to half an hour.
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Air Service Command
Texas
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
German Prisoners to Work at Dallas Quartermaster Shop
German prisoners of war will be employed at the Dallas Regional Quartermaster Repair Shop at Fair Park to repair clothing and equipment. They will work a night shift and be housed at the CCC Camp at White Rock Lake under the Eighth Service Command.
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Dallas
Fair Park
CCC
White Rock Lake
Eighth Service Command
British Forces Capture Jap Communications Base in Burma
East African units of the British 14th Army have taken Kalemyo in Burma, a Japanese communications base that blocked the route to the Chindwin river. The report aired by London radio and recorded by CBS notes the strategic advance.
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New York
14Th Army
Burma
Kalemyo
Chindwin
London Radio
CBS
Bombardier Is Promoted To Captain
William J. Perdue, a bombardier with the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea, has been promoted to captain. He joined the service soon after Pearl Harbor as a private and went overseas about two years ago.
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William J. Perdue
Fifth Air Force
New Guinea
Captain Perdue
Pearl Harbor
Amarillo Native Becomes Captain Before Deployment
Born and raised in Amarillo, the new captain graduated from local high school and lived with his grandmother Ida Attebury at 1101 Taylor Street before entering service. He has aunts Mrs. Jesse A. rne Mrs. L. B. Pinkerton and Mrs. Adrian Curtis and an uncle A. J. Attebury residing in the area.
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Amarillo
Ida Attebury
Taylor Street
Jesse A. Rne
L. B. Pinkerton
Adrian Curtis
A. J. Attebury
Russian on New Artificial Legs Walks Seven Miles in Two Hours
The Red Star reports a Soviet engineer Boris Yefremov demonstrated new artificial legs by walking 74 miles along the Leningrad highway in two hours 23 minutes, signaling large scale production soon.
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Moscow
Red Star
Boris Yefremov
Leningrad
Angelina County Tops Sixth War Loan Drive Total
Lufkin reports Angelina County surpassed its $1.5 million six War Loan Drive quota by about $100,000 after a one day radio bond sale. The drive opens Monday with the county already over the top.
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Angelina County
Lufkin
Rockets Bombs Hit Palace of Exiled Albanian King
A Beaufighter squadron of the Balkan Air Force dropped 32 rocket bombs on the Nazi-occupied palace of former King Zog near Tirana yesterday. It was the second bombing in 10 days, and Mediterranean Allied Air Force headquarters said the raid finished the job.
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Rome
Balkan Air Force
Zog of
Albania
Tirana
Mediterranean
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