Letter From Home To Boys in Service in 1942 Amarillo
Thanksgiving week notes from Amarillo during war time. Local men in service receive a letter inviting updates and greetings. Panhandle news covers gas rationing debates, bank reorganizations, a rumored airplane plant, military figures with local ties, education disputes over flag salutes, high school football previews, golf and bowling results, local marriages and social events, and honor roll updates for armed forces personnel.
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Amarillo
Bill Gilstrap
Panhandle
Southwest
Washington
Congress
Jeffers
Mr. Henderson
First National Bank
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
N. M. Clifford
Wichita Falls
Electra
Tully Garner
Uvalde
Tex
G. H. Clifford
New York
W. H. Fuqua
RFC
Robert L. Riordan
Flying Fortress
R. L. McMurtry
el Paso
Roosevelt
Upton Close
Far East
Knife and Fork Club
Romulo
MacArthur
Bataan
Boston
Jehova's Witnesses
Avery Bush
Sandies
Harvesters
Pampa
Brownfield Cubs
Butler
West Texas State Buffaloes
Lubbock
Gus Miller
Windy Nicklaus
Hardin-Simmons
Texas Tech
R. B. Norman
H. A. Miller
Amarillo Municipal Golfers Association
Ross Rogers Course
J. R. Brown
B. W. Hayden
C. L. Jones
Alfred Nelson
Ladies Municipal Golfers Association
Riley Strickland
Amarillo Country Club
J. H. Davies
P. F. Sapp
J. S. Evans
Pacific Pump Company Keglers
Tulsa
News-Globe
Martha Nell Stack
Bruce Miner
Marvin Collie
Nancy Morris
Lois Smith
Thomas Conway
Roxie Lawson
J. H. Gilbert
Sybil Pidcoke
P. R. Wilbur
Anna Turpin
M. D. Arthur
Viola Ruth Adams
Harmon Fansler
Dorothy Benson
T. V. Sheehan
Rosa Lee McDaniel
Hugh Hale
Nat Towles
Lowell Miller
Badger Club
Kappa Delta Chi
Sigma Iota Chi
James Andrews
Nancy Everline
Beth Miesse
Jimmie Miller
John Reynolds
Mary Stone
O. D. Thompson
Paul R. Barnard
Douglas Moody Smith
Georgia
Naval School
Tom Duke
Cheyenne
Wyo
Paul Potter
Jack Parks
Tommy Nance
Sheppard Field
Harold McSwain
House Field
Texas
Walter Edwards
Stanford
Guilford Branson
Providence
R. I
Foy Duke
Kenneth Murphy
Gib Howard
Allied Drive Tightens in North Africa Amid Stalingrad Push
Allied forces press the Tunisian front as British American and French troops attack Axis positions around Bizerte and Tunis while Red Army offensives near Stalingrad dislodge German defense lines. Reports say Axis transports shot down in the Mediterranean and Hitler massing air power as the fight lengthens.
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Stalingrad
Mediterranean
Libya
Tunisia
North Africa
Don River
Volga
Hitler
Algeria
Tripolitania
Gulf of Gabes
Tripoli
Japs Put Up Tricky Fight Against Yanks
U S troops in New Guinea engage in a jungle battle described as one of the world’s worst battlegrounds. Japanese forces employ trenches, log barricades, barbed wire and sound effects while Americans push forward with precision fire, suffering few casualties. Corporals and sergeants share vivid accounts of machine gun nests, mortar barrages, and notable acts of valor as Cape Endaiadere and a nearby airdrome are attacked.
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Marlin Spencer
U. S
New Guinea
United States
Corp
Clinton Brownell
Platteville
Wis
Corp. DeLos A. Leland
Alex
Cape Endaiardere
Buna
MacArthur
Cape Endaiadere
Robert Augsburger
Winslow
Dee Stationery
Polk
Good Bargain Worth Dying For Letter From Lt Johnson
Lt Bradley Johnson, an American army pilot in Australia and New Guinea, writes to his wife Mrs R C Dodd that warfare is a good bargain and worth dying for. He says if he is killed it will be for a good reason and that their cause is the best reason to die for. The report also notes warm afternoon weather and a chilly morning with a high near 7 and a low around 33.
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Troy
N. Y
Australia
New Guinea
R. C. Dodd
Stephentown
Bradley Johnson
County Behind On Bond Quota Amid War bond Shortfall
Weekend sales of war bonds and stamps reached 45518.75 dollars, leaving a November shortfall of 218112.25 dollars to meet a 495100 dollar quota. The message urges everyone to buy a bond dated December 7 marking Pearl Harbor anniversary as the Armistice and Thanksgiving month aims loom.
Ickes seeks authority to build second southwest oil pipeline
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes told a congressional committee he has asked to authorize a second oil pipeline from southwest fields to New York and Philadelphia, which, if approved, would add about 200000 barrels daily to Eastern supplies. The Weather Bureau notes Amarillo and nearby areas will see rising temperatures today, with not much change tonight.
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Washington
Ickes
New York
Philadelphia
Allied broadcast shows heavy raids. Allied push in Libya and Burma
FCC said radio Morocco relayed an Allied communique describing intense air activity with heavy raids on Bizerte and Tripoli. In New Guinea and Burma, Allied forces attacked remaining Japanese pockets as U S bombers hit invasion forces in Mandalay. Hull cited French Dakar adherence and a pact removing Martinique threat. Montgomery's Eighth Army advanced toward Agedabia, nearing El Agheila Defile.
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New York
Federal Communications Commission
Radio
Morocco
Bizerte
Tripoli
Far
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Papua
New Guinea
Mandalay
Burma
United Nations
Dakar
Martinique
Caribbean
Western Hemisphere
Cordell Hull
Washington
Robert
Allied column defeats German force at Jalo in Medjerda valley
Allied troops advancing toward the Tunisian promontory through the Medjerda River valley defeated a German column at Jalo. The Medjerda runs northeast to the Mediterranean between Tunis and Bizerte, according to Algiers dispatches.
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Madrid
Medjerda
Mediterranean
Tunis
Bizerte
Jalo
Algiers
Amarillo Faces Beef Shortage Amid Quota Cuts
Amarillo packers Pinkney's and Doty's informed wholesalers they cannot supply beef until after January 1 when OPA sets new quotas. With limited out-of-town packers, stores rely on surplus stock. Beef may vanish in days. pork remains under quota though limited. War demand strains supplies as population rises.
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Amarillo
Pinkney’s
Doty’s
OPA
Panhandle
Washington
Amarillo civic leaders meet on Pearl Harbor bond day
On December 7 Amarillo civic clubs and interested residents are urged to gather at 3 pm in the Red and Gold Room of the Amarillo Hotel to plan observances for Remember Pearl Harbor by Buying Bonds. Roy Pollard, campaign chair, notes Kiwanis leads December Bond Sale drive.
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Amarillo
Pearl Harbor
Roy Pollard
Panhandle
Pollard
German-born author Jan Valtin arrested for deportation
Attorney General Biddle announced Richard Julius Herman Krebs known as Jan Valtin, author of Out of the Night, was arrested near Bethel Connecticut on a deportation warrant. He faces possible internment as an enemy alien during the war after alleged illegal entry and perjury. The Board of Immigration Appeals unanimously supported deportation.
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Washington
Biddle
Richard Julius Herman Krebs
Gestapo
OGPU
Jan Valtin
Bethel
Conn
Germany
Krebs
Justice Department
Darmstadt
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Earl G. Harrison
United States
Board of Immigration Appeals
Department
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Armed Services
Solomon
Africa
Hitler-Hirohito & Co
el Agheila
Gialo Oasis
Agedabia
Italian
Sicily
Adolf Hitler
An .Allied Headquarters
Nazi
Europe
Russia
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Andria
John Wilson
St. Louis
Leland
Wilson
Cape
Charles F. Ester
Wyandotte
Mich
Vic Reigal
Marshfield
Ester
Reigal
The
Bureau
West Texas
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Bengali
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
William T. Cherry, Jr
Abilene
Cherry
Rickenbacker
Honolulu
Valtin
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