Royal luncheon in London and tour of war damage
The King and Queen hosted a luncheon for heads of women’s services including Mrs. Oveta Hobby and Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton. The visit included a first view of war damage to St. Paul’s, the City, and Stepney, tours of the City Fire Control Center and Guildhall, plus briefings by Sir John Laurie and Sir E. Gowers.
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London
England
Oveta Hobby
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Arthur Grenfell
YWCA
Washington
Duchess of
Reading
United States
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Ministry of Planning
Hyde Park
New York State
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's
Stepney
John Laurie
E. Gowers
Mansion House
Lord Eevor
Henry Morgenthau
E.R
Allied bombers strike Japanese bases in New Guinea
General MacArthur said long range Allied bombers attacked invasion bases in the New Guinea area while land fighting in the Owen Stanley mountains remained static. Bristol Beaufighters daylighted the range and struck Lae with beach targets strafed. three barges were destroyed and one aircraft was lost. The raid followed a fourth night bombing of Darwin in northwestern Australia.
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MacArthur
Australia
U.P
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
Darwin
Driver license renewals urged amid expiration deadline
Capt Polk Ivy of the Potter County Texas Highway Patrol warns motorists with licenses expiring before Nov 1 1941 to renew immediately. Licenses issued up to Sept 1941 expire midnight Nov 1 1941. Renewals and applications available daily at the Highway Patrol Office Potter County courthouse main floor.
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Polk Ivy
Potter County
Texas State Highway Patrol
Ivy
Highway Patrol
Potter County Court House
Arnold forecasts 2.5 million air force personnel by 1943
Lieutenant General Henry H Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, said the air arm will reach about 2 500 000 officers and men by year end 1943, roughly one third of total Army strength. The figure, announced at a speech to 2 500 graduates of the air force officer candidate school, exceeds earlier estimates given by Secretary Stimson before a House committee.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Army
Arnold
Air Force
Henry L. Stimson
House Amentary Affairs Committee
Washton
Battle for Guadalcanal Expands Across Solomons Fight
United States forces battle Japanese troops, ships, and aircraft around Guadalcanal as the conflict widens toward New Hebrides and Fiji. Marines hold the western airfield area while Army troops counterattack after a夜long assault. small Navy gains reported despite Japan’s heavy push.
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New Hebrides
Fiji Islands
United States
Guadalcanal
Navy
Japan
Red Army Drives Back Nazis on Caucasus Tuapse Road
Russian forces report a smashing counter‑assault along the cliff‑sided road to Tuapse forcing a German retreat that began days earlier. In Stalingrad fighting rages with debris‑stained streets as relief offensives push into German flanks. Further east along the coast, Russian troops strike into positions east of Novorossisk as autumn rains turn steppes to a quagmire and German losses mount.
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Moscow
Red Army
Black Sea
Tuapse
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Novorossisk
Red Star
Tzvestin
Don-Volga
Semeon Timoshenko
Pravda
Texas Cars To Get Lean Diet In Gas Rationing
Max L. McCullough regional director of the Office of Price Administration in Dallas says Texas will not receive liberalized gasoline rations. He notes the word liberal is misused and that local boards will determine allocations to preserve essential business. Further talks with Gov Stevenson and others planned. regulations due next week.
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Austin
Max L. McCullough
Office of Price Administration
Dallas
Coke R. Stevenson
Washington
Texas
McCullough
Mark McGee
Stevenson
George H. Sheppard
Jesse James
Strike Threatens Water Supply in Cincinnati
A walkout by 1,500 Cincinnati municipal workers amid wage demands endangers water service for about 500,000 people. Waterworks superintendent Carl F. Eberling warned reserves would last only two to three days. Separately in Stockholm, King Christian X of Denmark received two blood transfusions as doctors reported his pneumonia improving after a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
URP
Cincinnati Municipal
United Construction Workers
United Mine Workers
Carl F. Eberling
Stockholm
Christian X of
Denmark
Surprise furlough reunion stuns Canadian sergeant
Sergeant Dick Leppert, an RCAF pilot officer, returns to Kansas City on a two week furlough from England. He rings his home but his wife Mrs. Sarah Leppert is absent in Los Angeles living with her sister Mrs. Robert Rose. He did not know the address and finds no reunion at the door.
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Kansas City
U.P
Dick Leppert
Royal Canadian Air Force
England
Sarah Leppert
Los Angeles
Robert Rose
Sergeant Leppert
Clark Gable Promoted To Lieutenant In Air Corps
Clark Gable became a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps today and thereby won the right to grow again the famous moustache he had to shave when he joined the armed forces. The note appears in a Miami Beach dispatch dated October 28.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Clark Gable
United States Army Air Corps
Walter Sikes Wins News Tip Prize At Sunset Golf
Walter Sikes of Sunset Golf Course won the $5 first prize in the weekly news tip contest for a tip about a V shaped cloud formation last Tuesday evening. W H Elliott of 103 North Florida Street took second prize for a tip about a fatal accident on North Hughes Street. Max Merry of 818 Van Buren Street earned third prize for a tip about Elmer Lewis being drafted for the war. Other tipsters listed include Jo Bob Mann Connie Abbott Mrs Ballard and several others with addresses in city streets.
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Walter Sikes
Sunset Golf Course
Mr. Sikes
W. H. Elliott
North Florida Street
North Hughes Street
Max Merry
van Buren Street
Elmer Lewis
Jo Bob Mann
North Garfield Street
Connie Abbott
West Sixth Avenue
Ballard
East Tenth Avenue
Emmett Sinks
CG. L. Wortham
Pierce
J. C. Etheridge
Belleview Street
George Robinson
Pantex Ordnance Company
Lane ‘Mayhe
Navy reports heavy Japanese losses on Guadalcanal
The navy says troops on Guadalcanal have inflicted very heavy losses on the Japanese while American casualties are comparatively light. The report comes from a naval spokesman in Washington dated October 28.
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Washington
Navy
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Guadalcanal Warfare Rages as U S Navy Reports Sharp Losses
Navy communique details heavy fighting across hundreds of miles at sea near Guadalcanal. American forces claim sinking two Japanese destroyers and damaging three other ships including a battleship and an aircraft carrier. Two American minesweepers and aircraft supported the action, while a Japanese destroyer sank the U S S Seminole near Tulagi. Grumman fighters strafed the fleeing destroyer as shore batteries scored hits. American bombers and fighters targeted a Japanese task force north of Florida Island.
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Guadalcanal
Navy
Naval
Marine
Tulagi
Grumman
Florida
Naval battle in the South Pacific continues as reports clash
Tokyo said the naval battle in the Southern Pacific is still raging despite earlier Japanese claims that the U S fleet was destroyed near the Solomon Islands. Nichi Nichi quoted by DNB questions how Washington will conceal the crushing defeat from the American people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Tokyo
Pacific
United States
Solomon Islands
Nichi Nichi
DNB
Washington
U. S
American airmen sink cruiser in Solomon Islands raid
On their third mission the U S airmen scored a direct hit on an enemy cruiser and previously damaged others. Additional forces were spotted 400 miles northeast of Guadalcanal as Catalina aircraft attacked, scoring a torpedo hit on a carrier and two bombs on a cruiser amid heavy anti aircraft fire.
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New Hebrides
Fiji Islands
Samoan Islands
Hawaii
Australia
Navy
Stewart Islands
Amarillo Police Solve Mystery Of Whisky-Drinking Children
Police in Amarillo traced a whisky drinking case to four grade school pupils who were found with the smell of whisky on their breath. Officers discovered a cache of 22 pints hidden beneath a house, reportedly found by the youths themselves.
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Amarillo
Rommel's tanks driven back after armored clash
A Middle East command communique reports larger scale armor action as minefields are cleared. Allied forward positions faced a dusk raid by three Stuka dive bombers. The day saw the destruction of four Messerschmitt 109s eight Italian Macchi 203s and another plane. Light bombers attacked El Daba before dawn and then struck enemy lines near Allied troops.
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Middle East
el Daba
American Fighter Pilot Sets Aces Record In Egypt Action
United States pilots downed seven of 18 Axis planes in North African battles. Lieut Lyman Middleditch of Highlands New Mexico claimed three of the seven, the largest single day total by an American pilot. He previously shot down one plane the prior Sunday.
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Cairo
Oct
United States
Egypt
Lieut
Lyman Middleditch
Highland
N. M
Alamein frontline sees heavy fighting and air superiority
Allied forces report vigorous clashes along the Alamein line with heavy fighting at night and close-quarters infantry duels. British Eighth Army under Montgomery uses close artillery support as air power, including American bombers, pounds Axis positions. 16 Axis planes shot down on Monday.
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Royal Air Force
Alamein Line
Radio
Rome
Eighth Army
Berlin
B. L. Montgomery
Rommel
Alamein
Toburk
Wouldn't Retire Gets Killed Near Gulf Refinery
PORT ARTHUR Oct 28 An elderly Gulf Refining Company employee resisted retirement claiming manpower needs. Two weeks later the 66 year old was killed when a car struck his bicycle near the Gulf plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur
U.P
Mitchell Church
Gulf Refining Company
Gulf Plant
Harry R. Lewis Resigns From Pantex Post
H. J. Hartley president of Certain-fe d Products Corp announced the resignation of Harry R. Lewis as assistant general manager of the Pantex Ordnance Plant. Lewis will leave for Washington D C soon as his oil and gas production experience is needed by the War Production Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Hartley
Certain-feed Products Corporation
Harry R. Lewis
Pantex Ordnance
Mr. Hartley
Lewis
War Production Board
Washington, D. C
Ford River Rouge plant closes over swing shift dispute
Four Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant departments were shut today after a clash between workers and management over swing shifts. The action affects production lines and reflects broader labor tensions at the Detroit facility.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Oil Pipeline Extension Aims at Atlantic Seaboard Delivery
The 24 inch pipeline from East Texas Oldfields to Norris City Illinois will extend to the Atlantic seaboard. Donald M Nelson of the War Production Board announced 224000 tons of steel for the 857 mile extension costing 60000000 dollars. Harold L Ickes said the line will deliver 300000 barrels of crude oil daily to the Eastern Seaboard.
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Washington
East Texas Oldfields
Norris City
Ill
Atlantic Seaboard
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Harold L. Ickes
Seaboard
General Hadon Visits Amarillo Officials After Appointment
Brigadier General Julian B Had don who recently assumed command of the Air Forces Technical School at Amarillo Field conferred this afternoon with Mayor Joe Jenkins and City Manager A P Hancock The commanding officer requested the appointment Health conditions were listed as a discussion topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian B. Haddon
Air Forces Technical School
Amarillo Field
Joe Jenkins
A. P. Hancock
American Bombers Hit Hong Kong in Third Strike in Four Days
The Japanese said United States bombers struck Hong Kong again today the third attack in four days. They reported seven B-25 medium bombers escorted by five P-40 fighters conducted the raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Hong Kong
Weather Summary From The Bureau Of Informed Skies
The bureau notes a warm and windy pattern with a chance of intermittent showers by morning. Yesterday’s high reached 72 degrees and the low this morning was 46 degrees.
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Bureau
Tragic Detroit Streetcar Crash Kills Nineteen
A Grand Trunk Western passenger train struck a Detroit Street Railways bus at Caniff Avenue, killing nineteen people including several students. The bus, stopped for a freight crossing, was hit midsection as the southbound train approached, scattering bodies along two blocks. Witnesses noted functioning signals, and authorities described the incident as Detroit’s worst street railway disaster.
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Detroit
Detroit Street Railways
Grand Trunk Western
Chicago
William F. Clos
Caniff Avenue
Fred A. Nolan
Detroit Transportation System
Joseph Levinski
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding area
The forecast calls for warm and windy conditions this afternoon with occasional light rain and little temperature change tonight. West Texas sees scattered rain and moderate temperatures while New Mexico expects rain spreading across the state with snow in the high mountains.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
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Air Corps
the Solomons
America
Silver Box Typewriter
Russell Stationery Company
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
News Tip Prize
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WASP
U. S. Navy
Pantex
General Haddon
Mary Alla
Clos
Hamtramck
Nolan
Durand
Mich
John Irwin
W. McDaniels
S. Babcock
John Maynard Lbr. Ca
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