Explosion Kills Four In Smithfield Munition Truck Crash
A truck loaded with 30,000 pounds of munitions exploded after a crash near Smithfield North Carolina. The blast damaged hotels, gas stations, and a tavern, killing four and injuring about 100. Victims include George Stroupe and Cecil Propst. crowds and Civil Defense units mobilized.
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Selma
E. N. Booker
Booker
George Stroupe
Gastonia
CCC
New Holland
Cecil E. Propst
Lawndale
Minnie Lewis
Eigh
Buck Mitchell
Dunn
Fat Stock Show Opens in Amarillo Tomorrow
The Amarillo Fat Stock Show begins Monday at 9 AM with swine judging led by Ray B Mowrey of Texas Tech. Activities include cattle judging at 10 AM, sale cattle at 11 30 AM, and herd bulls plus get of fire at 1 PM. The Panhandle Livestock Association holds its annual convention at 2 PM at the Amarillo Hotel.
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Ray B. Mowrey
Texas Technological College
Western Stockyards
The
Panhandle Livestock Association
Amarillo Hotel
Axis warfare chiefs plan terror campaign against United States
Informed experts warn Axis leaders are preparing a terroristic campaign aimed at breaking American resolve. Edmond Taylor discusses how Axis psychological warfare seeks to divide Americans and replicate their European strategy of terror. The first of two articles appears on the Editorial Page Section 2.
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United States
France
Edmond Taylor
Taylor
War Department censorship guides Amarillo papers on war site info
The Amarillo Daily News explains wartime censorship rules that suppress public details about camps schools bomber bases and shell loading plants. It cites a Washington dispatch noting a Texas plant costing over 5 million dollars and reiterates that site locations contract awards and exact details will not be made public without War Department approval.
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Amarillo Sunday News-Globe
War Department
Amarillo
Dispatch
United Press
Washington
Amarillo Globe
Texas
United States
War Department Bureau of Public Relations
Jonesville
Army
Indiana
Under Secretary of War
Chief of Engineers
Jones & Company
Richmond
Kentucky
Louisville
Corps of Engineers
Smith Corporation
St. Louis
Amarillo Globe News Publishing Company
Java Falls to Japanese Forces in World War II Frontline Update
March 7 1942 report notes Dutch Allied defenses in Java collapsed under overwhelming Japanese hammering. Bouwer Aneta News Agency dispatch cites heavy Allied fleet losses and severed communications as Japanese advance continues. Britain's reports of a US convoy to the Southwest Pacific and American tanks reaching Burma are also mentioned.
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Java
Bandoeng
J. B. Bouwer
Aneta News Agency
Soviet push for second front in Europe rises in London
Soviet pressure for a second front in northern Europe gains backing in London as Moscow argues a bold cross to hit Hitler before autumn. Allies weigh Norway and Arctic routes to link U S British and Soviet forces and free Red troops for a southern drive while continuing on the eastern front.
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United States
London
Hitler
Japan
United Nations
Atlantic
Pacific
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Norway
U. S
Murmansk
Archangel
Russia
Moscow
Red Army
Chungking
Naotake Sato
Kuibyshev
Saburo Kurusu
Washington
Siberia
Pearl Harbor
Caucasus
Rostov
Switzerland
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Staraya Russa
Libya
Fezzan
Tripoli
Rome
National Income Sets Record Despite War Era
Washington reports the commerce department records national income at 94.5 billion dollars for last year, up 22 percent from 1940 and 13 percent above the 1929 peak. This marks a new historic high in U S economic output.
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Commerce Department
Gas Price Ceiling Removed by Office of Price Administration
Washington March 74 The Office of Price Administration removed price ceilings from aviation gasoline 91 octane rating or higher and all materials used in its production to raise output.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Oil Holidays Hiked to 13 For March
Texas oil production will be cut by four new shut ins in March raising the total to 13 days. Commission engineers said output will average 1,292,239 barrels daily, 189,557 below the week’s average, as fields exempted include Lolita West Ranch and Cotton Lake among others. Harold Ickes asked for cuts to ease storage and transport problems.
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Federal Petroleum
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Jerry Sadler
Lolita
West Ranch
Heyser
New Refugio
Tom O'Conner
Amelia
Cotton Lake
Webster
Hastings
Lovell’s Lake
Magnet
Raccoon Bend
Raccoon Bend Cockfield
Turtle Bay
Plymouth
Reynolds
Wade City
Turkey Creek
Orange Grove
O'Hern
Conoco Driscoll
Hoffman
Loma Novia
Rincon
Yates
German Radio Builds Crisis For Turks Reds
Istanbul police rounded up Bulgarian subjects described as Communist suspects after an official claim that foreign communist elements inspired the bomb near German Ambassador von Papen in Ankara. German radio linked arrests of former Yugoslavs to the attack and hinted Turkish Soviet relations could worsen in the near term.
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Franz von Papen
Ankara
von Papen
Osmer Tokat
Yugoslavia
Honolulu Alert On Raid Alarm
Honolulu endured a 67 minute air raid alarm with no hostile planes seen. Radios were ordered off the air as army detectors reported unidentified elements at sea and civilians rushed to air raid shelters while soldiers and sailors posted to their posts.
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Japan
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Dutch Defenses Collapse as Japanese Breach Bandoeng
A 13 hour delay in dispatches reports Japanese troops breaking through Bandoeng northern defenses on Java. The Dutch headquarters and Tangkoeb Prahoe region capitulated under fierce air assault as communications faded and fear grew that Java's last strongholds would fall to the advance.
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Java
Bandoeng
Dutch East Indies
London
Long Island
Tangkoeban Prahoe
Bandoen
Sai
Aneta
Dutc
Perha Datch
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Bob) Neale
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