Collegians Celebrate Hell Week At Amarillo College
Amarillo College pledges and co ed classmates join in Hell Week before initiation. Pledges dress in varied costumes from sororities and fraternities with group pecking order evident. Gamma girls led the most original camouflage outfits as officers watch pranks unfold.
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Amarillo College
Uncle Sam
Billy Miller
Lawyers and Engineers
Law
Kappa Delta Chi
Sigma Iota
Chi
Kathleen Hasty
Sigma
Veronica Lake
Lilly Cade
Gamma Girls
Postoffice Too Small for Yuletide Rush in Amarillo
Amarillo’s main post office, though large, cannot handle holiday mail traffic. Officials seek an auxiliary station as deadlines loom with over 100 workers handling peak volume. The push comes amid tighter deadlines for ships overseas and sailors, while Wichita Falls features a larger facility.
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Amarillo
Post Office Department
Wichita Falls
Smaller War Plants Operators To Discuss Technical Matters
Operaters from Amarillo smaller war plants will meet tomorrow afternoon to discuss technical issues. Topics include porosity in casting, overheating sewing machine needles, and marketing scrap rayon. The hour long session begins at 3 o clock at the Amarillo Hotel, called by the Smaller War Plants Corporation technical advisory service at the Chamber of Commerce request.
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Amarillo
Smaller War Plants Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Now Is Time To Water Trees Says Park Superintendent
Chester Fitz superintendent of city parks urges residents to water trees to fatten them for winter. Amarillo parks are being prepared for winter as crews finish mowing and a thick turf now will be worn down by spring.
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Chester Fitz
Mr. Fitz
Amarillo
Skin Bank Organized by Long-Term Convicts
Dr. Robert M. Goddard announced a skin bank at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, the nation’s first. Fifty long term convicts have been typed, found fit, and ready to donate skin as needed, with plans to organize donors in other prisons nationwide.
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Philadelphia
Eastern State Penitentiary
Robert M. Goddard
Goddard
Weather and health notes with local street reference
The report cites favorable weather with gentle to moderate winds and a temperature range from 37 to 69. It also urges vitamin use to combat winter ailments and mentions a local Post Office Drug at 612 Taylor.
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Post Office Drug
Taylor
Shrine official delayed by flight priorities
Potentate Mariano Soni of Anezeh Temple Mexico City was not aboard Braniff’s northbound plane that landed at English Field this afternoon. The delay is due to priorities on the flight. Soni and his wife, believed in Dallas, are expected tomorrow. A Khiva Temple delegation awaited the visitors at the airport.
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Khiva Temple
Mariano Soni
Anezeh Temple
Mexico City
Braniff
English Field
Potentate Soni
Dallas
Kenneth Coates Acquitted in Tire Ration Case
Kenneth Coates former Co op store employee in Amarillo was acquitted in federal court of selling tires without a ration certificate. Judge James C. Wilson presided as Robert H. Wilson was found guilty on related OPA violations and fined fifty dollars per count. Todd, now in the Army, faced charges later dismissed.
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Kenneth Coates
Co-op
Amarillo
James C. Wilson
Robert H. Wilson
OPA
W. R. Todd
Ex-convict tied to Galveston murder nabbed
Garbled dispatch reports an ex convict named James Thomas alias J C James arrested in Galveston on parole after a prior Lubbock shooting conviction. Sheriff Hutson says he plans further questioning on the Hunt slayings while a Texas patrol chief notes a Jim Thomas being held for parole violation in connection with the case.
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Galveston
Texas Rangers
J. C. James
James Thomas
Lubbock
Galveston County Parole Board
Hutson
West Texas
Dsean
Austin
U.P
Highway Patrol
Hill Foreman
Jim Thomas
Roy Hunt
Littlefield
Pilot Pittman Reports Five Jap Planes in Bay
Lt. Jack Pittman Jr. of Amarillo, an ace, downed three more Zeroes in the Southwest Pacific to add to two he bagged last April. He described a field day with five planes in total and noted the war in their backyard is active. Pittman has served in combat for the third time this war, beginning at Midway.
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Jack Pittman, Jr
Amarillo
Southwest Pacific
J Pittman
West Twentieth Avenue
Pittman
Midway Island
War Labor Rationing of Dallas To Be Changed
War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt said Dallas will have its Class 1 acute labor shortage rating modified after War Production Board advice that labor needs in the city have been cut by at least 10 000 workers.
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Dallas
Washington
Paul V. McNutt
War Production Board
Aircraft Official Loses Cash to Prowler in Park Ridge
J. Paul Herman of Douglas Aircraft Park Ridge reports a burglary after a prowler stole a billfold from his trousers while he slept in a tourist court cabin. The loss is estimated at 60 to 70 dollars. Police were notified, with several similar burglaries reported recently, all leaving the trousers in the window.
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J. Paul Herman
Douglas Aircraft Co
Park Ridge
Amarillo
House Committee Rejects All Proposals for National Sales Tax
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected all proposals for a national retail sales tax and moved toward completing action on a general tax bill. About 2 billion dollars in new revenue remained anticipated as the measure progressed.
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House Group
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Attempt on Mussolini Reported by Radio France
Radio France at Algiers quoted a report claiming an assassination bid targeted Benito Mussolini. The plane intended for a visit to Hitler’s HQ allegedly showed signs of sabotage, but details were not released. Also reported: Pvt Nelson L. Stephens of Dalhart Texas held on narcotics possession charges at Scott Field Illinois.
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Mussolini
Radio France
London
Algiers
Benito Mussolini
Hitler
Dalhart
ST. Louis
U.P
Nelson L. Stephens
Texas
Scott Field
Nimitz predicts Japan loss as air blitz aims at homeland
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce that Allied air bombardment will target the Japanese homeland once bases nearer Asia are secured. He said Japan’s total air strength has declined, ports of call will shrink, and victory is certain though end date uncertain, with 1949 unlikely.
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Honolulu
United Pacific Fleet
Germany
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
New Guinea-Solomons
Malaya
Nazi Officers Told to Prepare Men for Harsh Home Leave
Allied findings reveal Nazi high command orders to officers to comfort troops on leave and warn of devastating destruction at home. A July 1943 manifesto urges brief talks with returning soldiers about not spreading rumors and to prepare them for Allied air raid damage. A second directive targets soldiers, urging resilience and support for civilians in war-torn cities. Also note Sweetbriar's fur sale promotion.
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New York
Office of War Information
London
A.P
Washington
Norman C. Goodwin
Bradford
Mass
Bremen
Army
Liverpool
Germany
Benjamin Spring
Denver
Hamburg
Amphibious Thrust at Central Italy Reported
Stockholm reports Svenska Dagbladet cites Swiss sources that Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower plans new amphibious operations against central Italy with large Allied transport and warship concentrations off the Italian west coast. Corsica hosts troops for a potential attack while Rommel assumes supreme command in the Italian sector.
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Stockholm
Svenska Dagbl
Switzerland
Dwight Dar
Italy
Corsica
Caeta
Leghorn
Edwin Rommel
Japanese Women Questioned Over Nazi Prisoner Romances
Five Japanese women are jailed by the FBI for questioning after Denver papers published photos claiming Romanian? no, German prisoners embracing or with a Japanese girl. The images, found on an escaped Nazi prisoner recaptured in Las Vegas New Mexico, prompted an official inquiry.
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Denver
U.P
FBI
Las Vegas
New Mexico
Germans in retreat in Russia threaten major rout and Crimea link
Allied and Soviet forces press a widening breakthrough from the Dnieper to the Crimean front. Russian armor pushes toward the Nogaisk steppes and Perekop Isthmus while Krivoi Rog looms as a key fall point. In Italy Allied advances reach the Mondragone Vasto line as Eisenhower reports strong enemy positions to be cleared in detail.
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United Press
Russia
Lower
Dnieper
Sea of Azov
Italy
Rome
Ukraiian
Melitopol
Dnieper River
Red Army
Nogaisk Steppes
Perekop Isthmus
Crimea
Steppes
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper Bulge
Isthmus
Mondragone-Vasto
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allied and German Front Actions and Air War Report
Allied Fifth Army pushed along the western flank inland from Mon dragone as the British Eighth Army faced stiff resistance in the east. Bridges and river advances reached the Trigno line while Torella fell near Campobasso after a hard fight. Allied planes attacked Gaeta and Adriatic targets as Partisans in Yugoslavia and Slovenia disrupted German operations. American airmen recounted civil mistreatment by Germans as censors eased.
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Fifth Army
Mondragone
Eighth Army
Trigno
Torella
Campobasso
Gaeta
Jugoslavian
Adriatic
Jugoslavia
Brae
Ljubljana
Shoska Loka
Norway
Norway-Sweden
Allied landings reported in Solomon Islands and Pacific air strikes
Allied operations announced in the northern Solomons include a possible landing on Mono Island near Shortland while Gen. MacArthur reports continued air strikes on Rabaul and Kahili. Navy officials note Treasury Island was hit in raids, with heavy bomber activity over Bougainville Ballale and surrounding airfields.
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Associated Press
Solomons
Japanese
Radio Today
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
Kahili
Southwest Pacific
Tokyo
Mono
Treasury) Island
Shortland Island
Admr
William F. Halsey
South Pacific Command
Treasury
Kara
Ballale
Bougainville
Halsey
MacArthur
Big New Britain
Central Pacific
North
South Pacific
Navy
Ralph Bard
Honolulu
Pacific Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Salween
Tengchung
Yunnan
Haiphong
Indo- China
Mitchell
Hainan
Indo-China
Weather Amarillo area warms with light to moderate winds
Amarillo vicinity records a warmer day with gentle to moderate winds. West Texas shows little temperature change this afternoon, slight warming in the Panhandle, warmer elsewhere tonight and Friday forenoon. New Mexico notes minimal changes today tonight and Friday. High 69, low 37, noon 67. Kit y Ranch Loans. Southern States.
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Bureau
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
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