Flag Raising Delights crowds at Cactus plant ceremony
Teary cheers greeted Old Glory at the Cactus Ordnance Works in Dumas as a 20 by 40 foot garrison flag was raised amid the Panhandle crowd. Major Gen. Campbell urged toughness and production while noting plans for flag raisings in Berlin and Tokyo.
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Dumas
Cactus Ordnance Works
Ordnance Guard
Army Air Forces
Amarillo
Panhandle
Cactus
Moore County
North Plains
L. H. Campbell
U. S. Army
Washington
Berlin
Tokyo
Ordnance Plant
Japan Reaffirms Small Losses as Marines Hold Milne Bay
Dispatches report sustained Allied air and sea pressure around Milne Bay with Japanese positions battered by surface ships submarines and bombers. Command notes few losses and says every enemy attempt to retake land ends in annihilation or capture of forces landed by U S Marines.
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Washington
Navy
Solomons
Guadalcanal-Tulagi
Guadalcanal
U. S
Australia
United States Army
Milne Bay
New Guinea
South Pacific
Allied repulse of Japanese reinforcements in New Guinea
General MacArthur's headquarters reports Japanese reinforcements reaching Milne Bay in southeastern New Guinea and heavy fighting ongoing. A Japanese cruiser and eight destroyers may have landed troops while Allied planes and ground forces Pound Japanese units. Additional clashes reported around Lae and Salamaua as air activity remains high.
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General Macarthurs
Australia
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Kokoda
Buna-Gona
Lae
Salamaua
Amboina
Buka
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
Urgent Laborer Demand At Cactus Ordnance Works
Brown & Root issued an urgent appeal for laborers at the Cactus Ordnance Works in Dumas. Hiring at about 100 per day, carpenters at roughly one third that rate. Housing and transportation arranged, with CCC buildings moved from nearby towns to house workers. Apply at the United States Employment Service office in Dumas for processing.
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K. Montgomery
8. Gruneck
Dumas
United States Employment Service
Montgomery
Cactus Ordnance Works
Gruneck
Cactus Project
CCC
Memphis
Uncle Sam
Perryton
Sentinel
Okla
Cactus
Major Gruneck
Government Employment Service Office
Spitfire Fighters Foil Raid On Malta
Spitfire fighters shot down an enemy plane and damaged others during an Axis raid on Malta this morning. Some fighters likely failed to reach their bases, reports indicate.
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Valletta
Malta
Russians Hold Stalingrad Front as Germans Press Attacks
Soviet and Allied actions converge amid fierce fighting around Stalingrad and northwest of Moscow. Russians report no material front changes yet claim gains on the Kalinin front while repelling two German assaults north of Krasnodar.
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Associated Press
Stalingrad
Volga
Moscow
Red Army
Russia
Berlin
Kotelnikovski Front
Krasnodar
Caucasus
United Nations
Grozny
Black Sea
Rzhev
Finland
Kotelnikovski
Don
Scrap Harvest Piles Up in Amarillo Drive
Mayor Joe Jenkins invites residents to view the scrap dump at 614 West Fourth Avenue after yesterday’s harvest. Scrap salvage chairs C. J. Fowlston and Roy Greenhill praise the drive in Amarillo and Potter County, with prizes given to service members for their work digging up Seventh Avenue streetcar tracks for Uncle Sam.
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C. J. Fowlston
Roy Greenhill
Amarillo
Potter County
Sgt
J. A. Carson
Oscar B. Lawrence
Everett Emerson
Seventh Avenue
Polk and
Tyler Streets
Herbert E. Hart
Municipal Auditorium
Polk
Tyler
Army Air Forces Technical School
Uncle Sam's Steel Mills
Truscott's Rangers shaped by Texan organizer in Dieppe raid
Newsweek profiles the American commandos called Truscott's Rangers. Brig. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. directs planning and training while Maj. William Darby organized and led the Dieppe battalion. The unit, drawn from volunteers, trained with British Canadian and Fighting French forces.
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Truscott
Dieppe
Amarillo
W. C. King
Rusk Street
Miles Bivins
Lucian K. Truscott, Jr
Rangers
Newsweek
Londdén
Kenneth D. Stempson
Russell, Minn
Roger
Maj
Robert Rogers
Wobi Madaondo
White Devil
Kenneth Roberts
New York Times
William Darby
Our Country Expects Victory And It Shall Have Just That
Message from Col. Leroy P. Hunt to Marines before Guadalcanal action declares the first US ground offensive in the Solomons. It emphasizes victory as the nation's expectation, urges duty and unity, notes tough Japanese opposition, and calls for full effort and blessing.
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Washington
Navy
Col
Leroy P. Hunt
Solomons
Guadalcanal
United States
Marine Corps
Storm Nears Texas Coast Houston area threatened by Gulf hurricane
The weather bureau said a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to reach the coast between Palacios and Galveston or over the Galveston Bay area. Warnings extend from Corpus Christi to Vermilion Parish and storm alerts cover Vermilion to Mobile and Corpus Christi to Brownsville.
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New Orleans
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Palacios
Galveston
Tex
Galveston Bay Area
Corpus Christi
Vermillion Parish
Vermillion
Mobile
Ala
Brownsville
Amarillo Weather Forecast and Regional Showers
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity shows continued moderate temperatures with high winds on Sunday. West Texas expected to see showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rain. Big Bend area little temperature change. Highs around the 80s, with overnight lows in the 60s to 40s in some locales.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Big Bend
Dollar Day Comes Back in Amarillo Bargains
Amarillo shoppers are urged to plan ahead for Dollar Day with widespread sales on school supplies hats dresses and student clothing. Local merchants advertise significant price cuts and a rush to shop early as tomorrow’s event highlights endless items at reduced prices.
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Amarillo
Sunday News Globe
Battlefronts Report Shifts and Allied Air Strikes Increase
Russians hold positions near Stalingrad and gain at Rzhev while Nazi push in the Caucasus slows. RAF and American air power strike Germany. Solomon Islands bases aid US pilots who sink and threaten Japanese destroyers. Chinese pursuit tightens near Canton. Australians and US troops clash at Milne Bay. Egyptian front tense awaiting eruption.
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Lucius Wvofkets
Pat Flynn
Southwest Pacific
Mary Jane Black
Jean Hallmark
Geneva
Pfc
Eugene Boyles
Amarillo Field
America
Kukum
Eward J. Snell
Snell
Philadelphia
Vineland
N. J
Philippines
Cuba
Pekin
Tientsin
Tulagi
Gavutu
Tanambogo
Makambo
Florida
Florida Island
Bride
Russell Stationery Company
Kalinin Front
Red
Army Man of Texas
West Point
Muskogee
Army
Corsicana
Texas
Oklahoma
Fort Bliss
el Paso
The
Amarillo Daily News
RziMev
RAF
Solomon Island
Canton
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