Amarillo Launches Sixth War Loan Drive Amid Bond Push
Amarillo officials led by Guy Saunders report steady progress in the Sixth War Loan drive while aiming for a $6,140,000 goal. Bond buyers lined up for E Bond purchases at the Paramount Theater premiere of Something For The Boys and earned 100 votes per $25 bond. Local clubs including Kiwanis Lions Rotary and the Junior Chamber of Commerce held bond-related events with totals to be tabulated tonight.
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Amarillo
Guy Saunders
Paramount Theater
Roy Boger
Northahillo Kiwanis Club
Clayton Heare
Chamber of Commerce
Unity Appeal in Ottawa Sparks Rhetoric on Conscription
Prime Minister W L Mackenzie King urged the Commons to back a unified Canada amid a debated overseas conscription issue. He warned resignation if confidence fails and urged end to racial diversities, while protests erupted in Ottawa near Lansdowne Park and across the country with French speaking members from Quebec under pressure.
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Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
Parlament
Quebec
Dominion
King
Tih Columbia
Lansdowne Park
Parliament Hill
Patrol’s Perfect Spotting Wipes Out Jap Batteries
An American First Cavalry patrol slipped inside the Japanese perimeter on the Ormoc highway to aid an artillery battery. The observer approached within 300 yards of three Japanese guns, directing bullseye fire that knocked out three or four batteries and halted shelling. He reported enemy entrenchments along a mile of highway toward Ormoc.
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FIRST
Ormoc
Burns T
Tilton
Houston
British disapproval of Sforza fuels Italian crisis
In Rome on November 28 a reported British disapproval of Count Carlo Sforza as premier or foreign minister emerged as an obstacle in the crisis that toppled Ivanoe Bonomi's government. Sforza chaired party leader conferences while Britain and the United States held a cautious stance pending confirmation.
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Rome
Carlo Sforza
Ivanoe Bonomi
Sforza
RAF bomb dump blast leaves dozens dead in England
Authorities list 78 dead or missing after an explosion at a Royal Air Force bomb dump in Burton-on-Trent Midlands. Unofficial estimates soar to about 240 dead or missing, with around 200 servicemen among the casualties and the rest civilians.
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Gondon
U.P
Royal Air Force
Burton-on-Trent
Midlands
Reds Have Reasons For Delaying Push
City cab operators face a strike and state edict limits as the Office of Defense Transportation orders non essential trips outside Amarillo. A joint memo signed by seven of nine firms threatens dismissal for driving outside the city to night clubs or to Amarillo Army Air Field. City officials say they cannot control taxis outside city limits.
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Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Tire
Cab
County
Amarillo
Amarillo Army Air Field
L. M. Blackwell
Triple A
H. W. Lawrance
City Taxi
H. T
Benton
Rainbow Taxi
C. D. Davey
Hammond
F. L. Broaddus
Checker Cab
W. B. Hamilton
H. M. Wise
Safeway Cab
W. A. Mays
Yellow Cab
Johnnie's
Bill Boyce
Roy Broaddus
Texas Railroad Commission
Tobacco shortage muddied by crop data testimony
Congressional investigators heard that an 18 month supply of cured tobacco is backed up by a 1944 crop as the House agriculture committee noted record production of cigarette tobacco. Witnesses said domestic use will exceed exports, while growers favor AAA controls and oppose removing limits.
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Ernest B. Baccard
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Flannagan
Virginia
George E. Powell
Commodity Credit Corporation
AAA
Chapman
Kentucky
Third Toward Reich On 60-Mile Front
Patton's Third Army drives 2 to 5 miles toward the German border along a 60 mile front centering near Saarbrucken. First Army advances near Duren while Seventh and Ninth Armies push toward Cologne and Strasbourg fronts. German counterattacks and street fighting continue in the Hurtgen area as the push to Junich and Inden intensifies.
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Paris
George S. Patton
Third
Saarbrucken
Mmtan
Roer River
Cologne
Julich
First
Langerwehe
Duren
Upper Rhine
Strasbourg
Supreme Headquarters
Roer
Courtney
H. Hodges
First Army
Patton
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Alsatian
William H. Simpson
Ninth
Kirchberg
Altdorf
Merzenhausen
Flossdorf
Berlin
Neuss
Dusseldorf
Aachen
Gladbach
U. S
Texas Tech faculty accused of being cowed in letter controversy
University of Texas committee hearing probes academic freedom at Texas Tech in Lubbock. J Frank Dobie testifies that anonymous letters and a form letter from Whyburn urge faculty to avoid publicity and political speech. Dobie cites similar past letters by Clifford Jones and says the policy aims to suppress dissent. Ralph Himstead of AAUP expected to testify on academic freedom.
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Austin
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Senate
University of Texas
J. Frank Dobie
Texas Tech
Dobie
Tech
Board of Directors
Clifford Jones
Jones
Penrose Metcalf
Whyburn
Wardlow Lane
Center
Ralph Himstead
American Association of University Professors
Early Trial Set for Graves in Snelson Killing
District Attorney Jim Lumpkin announced Frank Graves would be arraigned within days on the May 28 indictment for murdering Mrs. Dorothy Snelson. The trial likely on December 11. Graves is held without bond after being returned from California on a robbery charge. Detectives questioned him at length as a knife linked to the assault is held by officers.
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Jim Lumpkin
Frank Graves
Dorothy Snelson
Lumpkin
Graves
Dee
California
Snelson
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast and Regional Temps
The forecast notes partly cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday with a colder snap and a hard freeze Wednesday night. It covers West Texas Del Rio to Eagle Pass and Panhandle trends, with lows 24 to 30 degrees in the Panhandle and South Plains, and New Mexico expecting similar cool, dry conditions and highs from 40 to 60 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
del Rio-Hagle Pass
San Angelo-El Dorado
Pecos River
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Hard Freeze Expected Here Tomorrow Night
The U. S. Weather Bureau predicts a hard freeze tomorrow night with temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees. No moisture is expected with the cold.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Japs Chase U S Forces Across China and Pacific
American and British evacuations ordered in central China as Japanese columns drive toward Kweiyang and Chungking. Pacific air battles yield dozens of Japanese losses, including 87 planes, with B 29 raids on Tokyo and Bangkok areas and renewed strikes on Cebu Negros and Mindanao.
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China
Kweichow
Hunan
Saipan
India
Tokyo
Bangkok
Kweiyang
Burma
Hochih
Paoching
Weiyang
Chungking
Protests by Brussels Workers Target Pierlot Regime
An estimated 3,000 tram postal and telegraph workers demonstrated in Brussels against Premier Hubert Pierlot. The strike disrupted public utilities but passed with no serious incidents as white helmeted police stood at barricades and crowds shouted against the government. Leaders argued with police near the Bourse while marchers pressed for cabinet resignations.
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Brussels
U.P
Hubert Pierlot
Front de L'independence
Pierrot
Navy Ace Harris Notches Third Quadruple Kill
Lt. Cecil E. Harris, a former South Dakota boy, shot down four Japanese planes for the third time, bringing his total to 24. He achieved the quadruple kill during a Manila sweep two days earlier and added another during a daylight attack on the US task force.
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Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Philippines
Manila Bay
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Cebu
Negros
Mindanao
U. S
Western Pacific
Cecil E. Harris
Boy
South Dakota
Harris
Tojo
United States
Churchill assures Commons on ammunition supply
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons there is no reason to doubt Britain will have the ammunition needed to fight. His remarks came after President Roosevelt spoke of shell shortages as parliament opened its tenth consecutive session following the 1935 election.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Churchill warns of harsher war phase after current conflict
Churchill states another war will begin with greater vigor abroad once this war ends. He mentions national service as a potential foundation of a military system but says the issue is not urgent. He also emphasizes defeating Japan after Germany.
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Churchill
Japan
Germany
RAF Bombers Hit Neuss and Fresburg in Major German Raids
RAF heavy bombers mounted a dawn assault dropping about 4000 tons on Neuss and Fresburg supply hubs behind the Western Front as a 72 hour bombardment of rail and supply centers continued. American heavy bombers targeted Offenburg while Mosquitos raided Berlin amid ongoing Allied operations near Freiburg and Heisen.
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London
RAF
Neuss
Fresburg
Germany
Freiburg
Mulhouse-Kolmar
First Army
Seventh Army
Rhine
Offenburg
American pilot sinks two Japanese subs with single bomb
Ensign Raymond G. Baldwin of Devon Connecticut bagged two Japanese submarines with one bomb during a carrier flight 200 miles south of Java. Baldwin spotted four Sydney-type subs tied in pairs in a sheltered anchorage and, on his second pass, dropped between the two craft blowing out their sides.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Raymond G. Baldwin
Devon
Baldwin
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