Letter From Home to Boys in Service
An editor notes readers may clip and send this letter to service members. It covers wartime rationing, gasoline limits, sugar and coffee shortages, the Community Chest budget, a Sol o club for soldiers and wives, and a music donation drive. It also mentions bond campaigns, a Panhandle Victory Queen contest, local sports, dances, and community updates from Amarillo.
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Roosevelt
Amarillo
Community Chest
Sollo
Panhandle
Pauline Spencer
la Nelie Ekelund
Geneva Morrow
Mary Kathryn Utterback
Edyth Strickland
Edith Zelley
Norma Jo Willingham
Mildred Baker
Memphis
Gloria de Vore
Sandies
Childress Bobcats
Sandie
Billy Jolly
Rex Daniel
Rayniel
Erskine Hawkins
Amarillo College
Amarillo High School
Paul Greene
Flying Tigers
China
Ems
Ohn Munn
Huddle Club
Fred Kelly
Sheppard Field
Jean Billau
Chicago
Mronnes
Second Front May Be on Several Fronts
Washington amid speculation that a multi front Allied strike will open before year end. Analysts cite Dieppe raid, Maginot and Siegfried Line factors, air superiority from Britain, Middle East concentration near El Alamein, Malta raids, and Dakar talks as signs of a dispersed second front across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Europe
Belgium
Hendaye
Germany
Holland
Britain
America
Middle East
Egypt
Rommel
el Alamein
Malta
Africa
Dakar
Mediterranean
Norway
Churchill
Dieppe
Hitler
West Africa
Washington
Amarillo
Final Phase Boast From Nazi Command On Stalingrad
German forces press street fighting in Stalingrad as reports say units push deeper into the city. Transocean Agency claims the station at Stalingrad has fallen while a Nazi spokesman boasts the battle has entered its final phase.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Stalingrad
Transocean
Volga
Balance of striking power seen by Blandy in the Pacific
Rear Admiral W. H. Blandy reported after a 26,000 mile inspection trip that United States forces currently hold the balance of striking power in the Western theaters. The statement underscores perceived U S military strength amid ongoing regional tensions and deployments.
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Washington
W. H. Blandy
United States
Pacific balance of power and naval ordnance brief
Blandy, navy ordnance chief, says the United States holds the balance of naval striking power in the Pacific for now but must push offense to deter Japan. He notes adequate delivery of ordnance, strong anti-aircraft guns, and the challenge of sustaining supply to Marines in Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
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Blandy
Navy Ordnance
Knox
Pacific
United States
Japan
Brandy
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
War bond sales rise with Potter County totals
War bond sales continued strong with Potter County at 42950 and a September total of 233366.50 dollars. The figure excludes theater sales. Purchasers are urged to secure duplicate slips today or tomorrow and swap them at the Paramount Theater for tickets to Stars Over America at Municipal Auditorium Wednesday evening.
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Potter County
Paramount Theater
Municipal Auditorium
Rationing Urged If Rubber Needed
Dallas on September 15 Rep Hatton W Sumners a Democrat of Texas argued gasoline rationing is unnecessary for the Southwest He said if the move aims at rubber conservation the federal government should act without delay and take what it needs.
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Dallas
Southwest
Hatton W. Sumners
Texas
Sumners
Civil Service Commission Granted Broad Transfer Power
The Civil Service Commission will gain authority to transfer any of the 2,300,000 federal workers between agencies starting Sept. 27 to enhance war effort efficiency. It may also reassign workers to private war industry jobs with consent or if the worker is in a critical occupation, as determined by the commission.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Neely-Greenhill- Lowndes
Sabotage Increases In Bulgaria Reported
Ankara dispatch reports rising sabotage in Bulgaria despite Nazi controls with Gestapo guarding most factories and railroad stations.
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Bulgaria
Ankara
Turkey
Savings Tax Plan Drawn By John R Beal
The Senate finance committee laid groundwork for a compulsory savings tax program to follow the tax bill. A Dec 1 deadline was set for the joint committee study on compulsory savings, with Taft noting it ties to taxation and bonds may follow.
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John R. Beal
Washington
U.P
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Polish White Slaves
The Polish government in exile accuses Germany of driving thousands of Polish women and girls into Nazi brothels as a weapon to pacify troops on the Western Front. A spokesman cites 1800 women from Gdynia, all officers wives, sent to German brothels with many returned pregnant.
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John A. Parris
London
Germany
Warsaw
Gdynia
Poland
Allies Halt Push on Port Moresby
Allied forces reported a five day lull in the Owen Stanley range fighting as they hampered Japanese advances toward Port Moresby New Guinea. Allied airpower swept the Tenimber Islands and Jamdena Island while Hudson bombers attacked small Jap cargo ships at Saum-jaki.
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Lofty
Australia
New Guinea
Tenimber Islands
Royal Australian Air Force
Hudson
Saum- Jaki
Jamdena Island
MacArthur
Tenimber
Kai
Darwin
Moresby
Efolgi
Owen Stanley
Kokoda
Allied Dieppe raid toll swells to 3350 casualties
Canadian casualties from the Dieppe raid total 3350 dead wounded and missing according to the department of national defence. A casualty list was issued. The report also notes RAF raids on Japanese bases in Burma with attacks on oil field workshops and airfields at Myitkyina.
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Solomons
Ottawa
Dieppe
Department of National Defense
New Delhi
RAF
Burma
Myitkyina
Prisoners Reach Safe Port After Solomon Islands Actions
Four hundred fifty Japanese prisoners captured by Marines in the Tulagi and Guadalcanal sectors have reached a port outside the immediate operation area. A Pacific Fleet communique announced last night. In Chicago, Standard Oil of Indiana said it released about 5350 tank cars for rationed petroleum to the Far West, using under 35 percent of its Middle West allotment. In Liverpool, a drifting barrage balloon crashed into a suburb, wrecking twenty houses with minor injuries reported.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Chicago
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Middle West
Liverpool
Weather and campus notes from Seattle
Amarillo and West Texas forecast shows continued warmth with fresh winds and scattered afternoon storms in the Panhandle. New Mexico temperatures rise to 86 as noontime reads 80. Seattle sorority rushees shift from formal dinners to popcorn balls and caramel apples.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Seattle
University of Washington
Chinese Close In on Kinhwa as War Pushes East
Chinese troops near Kinhwa close in on the town once held as a bomb Tokyo airbase in Chekiang. They retook Wuyi 23 miles south, with about 500 Japanese defenders killed. Japanese lines around Kinhwa stiffen as fighting continues west and north with heavy Japanese losses reported.
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Chungking
Kinhwa
Tokyo
Chekiang Province
Wuyi
Mei River
Lanchi
Elmer Morrison Car Stolen Tires Removed From Vehicle
Elmer Morrison found his car parked across from 504 Harrison Street with rear tires and wheels missing. The thief left the car propped on rocks under the brake drums. Morrison alerted police but lacks tire serial numbers or brand to identify recovered parts. Weather notes follow. An unnamed American newspaper man was reported among Tobruk prisoners after a Sunday British raid.
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Elmer Morrison
Harrison Street
Morrison
Rome
London
Tobruk
Son in Egyptian Desert Appears in Newspaper Photo
McALLEN Texas reports that S FE Pratz’s father finally heard from his son Second Lt Leroy H Pratz who had been missing since July 22. An AP wirephoto shows him in the Egyptian desert giving a thumbs up while squatting beside a tank.
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Mcallen
Tex
S. FE
Pratz
Leroy H. Pratz
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Vance Johnson
Chicago Sun
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Eastman
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Central
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Rzhev- Vyazma
Red Star
Fedor von Bock
British
Air Ministry
Wilhelmshaven
North Sea
Berlin
London Admiralty
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Russell Stationery Company
Veo Lcvillpierveu
Walter F. George
Georgia
Treasury
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Pulsory Savings
Taft
Port Moresby
Milne Bay
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