Texas Sets 395 Million Goal for Fourth War Loan Drive
Texas announces a 395 million dollar quota for the Fourth War Loan with 210 million to individuals and 185 million to institutions. Nathan Adams of Dallas, state chairman, mails county quotas to county chairmen urging strong volunteer sales to exceed prior bonds distribution. County quotas to be announced early in the week.
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Texas
Nathan Adams
Dallas
Plaza
Mr. Adams
Adams
United States
Snow and Ice Storm Damages Two Downtown Buildings
A severe ice and snow storm caused major damage to two business blocks. A long steel frame and corrugated awning collapsed from the McLane Company building during the night, and an Eplen Furniture entrance awning fell at 11 am injuring no one. A hotel crowd might have been endangered. a visiting Cameron resident was noted.
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McLane Company
Eplen Furniture Company
Milam
Warves
Bulgarian capital evacuated amid heavy Allied raids
Sofia is evacuated after heavy Allied bombing raids. Fifth Army under General Clark advances toward Cassino in Italy. President Roosevelt asks Congress for 100 billion dollars for the war effort. War losses total 139,800 killed and missing or wounded. Mildred Michalka of the Ration Board is ill with flu. Mrs. Jack Wicks and her baby visit Cameron relatives. Johnnie O Neill of Burlington hospitalized in Cameron.
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Balkans
Fifth Army
Clark
Cassino
Italy
Roosevelt
Congress
Stimson
United States
Jack Wicks
Baby of
Cameron
Yoakum
Reds drive deep in Poland as Germans flee east
Soviet forces press 85 mile front with Stepany, Kalinkovichi, Mozyr reconquered. Stalin proclaims big victory as Red Army crosses 45 miles into the old Polish border. American airpower strikes the invasion coast of France with 1400 planes in action.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Stepan
Kalinkovechi
Mozyr
Stallin
Red Army
France
Americans Lose 60 Bombers In Heavy Raid On Germany
In the great battle over Germany Tuesday American bombers fell to heavy losses as Nazi air fields near Rome were strafed. Meanwhile American marines claimed nearly 3000 Japanese dead in Southern New Britain while pushing their advance. Edward Tomasek, cafe owner in Buckholts, visited Cameron on Wednesday. Betty Mae Thompson returned home from Newton Memorial Hospital on Wednesday.
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Rome
Betty Mae Thompson
Newton Memorial Hospital
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