Little Inch oil line delays from welded pipe defects
The 1476 mile Little Inch pipeline from Texas refineries to the Philadelphia New York area is delayed at least two months due to 60 to 70 breaks in welded pipe. Youngstown Sheet and Tube supplied most welded pipe and faced scrutiny over defects amid War Emergency Pipelines operations.
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Janet
Madison United Press
Washington
Texas
Philadelphia
New York
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Defense Plants Corp
Youngstown Sheet &Tube Co
Ickes
Cincinnati
U.P
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Burt E. Hull
Hull
Youngstown
Area Digs Out After Blizzard
Abilene reports over half inch snowfall while a Panhandle cold snap closes roads and halts trains. Five Amarillo women missing after stalled wagon journey. one man found dead near Wichita Falls from cold exposure. Ranchers face scarce feed and water as South Plains cattlemen report light losses and seek emergency cake shipments to offset winter stress.
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Texas
Panhandle
Nat L. Inge
Wichita Falls
M. C. Duvall
Inge
Amarillo
New Mexico
Dumas-Dalhart
Dumas
South Plains
Avalanche-Journal
South Plans
Lubbock
Cotton al Mills
North Plains
Gen A. Simmons
Lubbock Cotton OL Company
Roy Hickman
Mullon
Oklahoma and Texas Hit Hard by Severe Winter Storms
A winter storm blankets the central U S with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Oklahoma and Texas suffer widespread disruption as Colorado refuses to send plows, snow and cold reach Arkansas and Kansas, while Kansas and Minnesota report subzero readings.
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Associated Press
Texas
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kentucky
Winns
Westhward
Canadian
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Shirley
Ark
Rockies
Wyoming
Tabernash
Kremmling
Colorado Rockies
Laramie
Wye
Coalville
Utah
Craigville
Colo
Burwell
Neb
Gallup
N. M
Minnesota
Rochester
Kansas
Advances In Italy Continues With Allied Air Raids
Allied air forces bombed Italian and Yugoslav targets as ground forces push forward in Italy. Fortresses of the 15th Air Force and Lightnings attacked Fiume and Maribor areas while 12th Air Force hit the Florence Leghorn rail bottleneck and Pontedera air plant. Four Allied planes were lost.
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Adriatic
Eighth Army
15Th Air Force
Fiume
Maribor
Yugoslavia
12Th Air Force
Florence
Leghorn
Pontedera
Russian Push Into Poland Deepens Southward
Reports describe a major Soviet offensive with Vatutin’s forces expanding from Klesow toward Sarny, 13 miles west, threatening an essential north south railroad. Berlin observers note massive Soviet commitment while German defenses remain active in Kirovogrod.
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Ludwig Sertorious
Berlin
Kirovograd
Nikolai Vatutin
Poland
Klesow
Resident Family Maintains Quiet Life with Cats
A small household of janitors lives quietly in a modest dwelling, sharing space with several cats. The family keeps routine routines, tending to chores and enjoying the companionship of their furry pets.
Four Picked Up At Local Cafe
Four whites two men and two women were arrested by city police Saturday night in a prominent Stubbeck cafe. One man a soldier was arrested for investigation and turned over to military police. The other man was held on a drunk charge and released after paying a fine. Both women were cafe waitresses. one was arrested for lacking a health certificate and the other for health department investigations.
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Stubbeck
Health Department
Deferment Changes for 1943 Hover Over Education
War Manpower Commission details deferments for students and future graduates. High school seniors may defer to year end. Preprofessional tracks for ministers doctors dentists veterinarians may defer. College students in listed fields eligible if graduating by July 1, with strict limits for later grads and a 10,009 cap.
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War Man- Power Commission
WMC
Congress to tackle renegotiation law and price controls
Congress resumes work on a bitter battle over the renegotiation law used to reclaim war profits deemed excessive. A major dispute centers on exempting standard commercial articles from its reach as spending and price control fights loom.
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Andas
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Senate
Office of Price Administration
Bombing Hits Ludwigshafen and Mannheim in Daylight Raid
American air force raids heavily damaged Ludwigshafen home of I G Farben poison gas plants and the nearby city of Mannheim across the Rhine. Swedish reports quote Morgen Tidningen saying Ludwigshafen now looks completely flattened after hundreds of bombers struck yesterday.
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Germany
High Command
Sweden
Ludwigshafen
J. G. Farben
Mannheim
Stockholm
Morgen Tidningen
Missing In Crash One Crewman Survives Trudge To Ely
Robert Dalton of Minneapolis, one of eleven crew members who parachuted before their bomber crashed near Cedar City Utah on Tuesday night, walked out to Ely after three days and nights through snowbound mountains. Ranchers brought him from Cave Valley fifty miles away, estimating a fifty to sixty mile trek. One of the others remains missing.
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Ely
Nev
Jan
Robert Dalton
Minneapolis
Cedar City
Utah
Cave Valley
Aussing
Congratulations To Aviation Student And Family
Aviation student and Mrs Wayne Rouch welcome a daughter weighing 6 pounds 10 1 4 ounces born at 7 37 Saturday morning in Lubbock General hospital. Father stationed at Texas Tech college. Mrs A C Bullard and Mr A C Bullard welcome a daughter weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces born at 7 40 this morning in Lubbock General hospital. Father connected with Hooper Tire Co.
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Wayne Rouch
Fifteenth Street
Lubbock General Hospital
Texas Tech College
A. C. Bullard
Twenty-seventh Street
Hooper ‘Tire Co
WPB Adds Infant and Child Apparel to Essential List
The War Manpower Commission expands the essential activities list to include woven and knit underwear nightwear outerwear polo shirts and utility garments for infants and children. The inclusion aligns with a WPB plan ensuring material availability for manufacturers who commit to producing a set number of garments within a specified period.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Senator Thomas Aims Rider on Oil Tax Bill
Senator Elmer Thomas said the plan is to attach a rider to the federal tax bill to raise crude oil price to $2 a barrel an 83 cent boost. The statement was made in Tulsa on January 8.
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Tulsa
U.P
Elmer Thomas
Demos In Texas Open Campaign Dinners For Roosevelt Bid
Dallas January 8 Frank C Walker postmaster general and DNC chairman to headline Washington's Birthday dinner February 22 at the Adolphus hotel Texas donors at 25 dollars fund a 160000 drive for Democratic operation expenses Blalock and Mrs Clara Driscoll announce plans and a campaign HQ to open Tuesday Rosary says Texas will give 85 percent Democratic vote in fall election and Roosevelt may seek a fourth term if not declined by the party platform"
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Dallas
Frank C. Walker
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Myron G. Blalock
Marshall
Clara Driscoll
Corpus Christi
National Party
Adolphus Hotel
Blalock
Roosevelt
Pioneer Woman Dies Here Saturday Night
Mrs. P. J. Pollard aged 83 of 2012 Sixth street died at 11 o clock Saturday night after a weeklong illness in Lubbock where she had lived since 1909. She was a longtime Methodist member. Services Monday at 2 pm in Sanders Funeral chapel with burial in Lubbock cemetery. Survived by four sons J C W A O B J J all of Lubbock. five daughters including Mrs H F Moore Temple and Mrs A E Sanders Roswell NM. 35 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
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P. J. Pollard
Sixth Street
Lubbock
Methodist Church
Sanders Funeral Chapel
O. B
J. J
Wage Hike Pledged If Strike Cancelled
President Roosevelt offered rail conductors firemen and switchmen equality with train crew terms without pay loss if the strike order is cancelled. The award provides five cents an hour and a week of paid vacation annually, retroactive to December 27, 1943, with the prior four cent raise to also stand. Chiefs of the three unions were not immediately available for comment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pan American waives priorities for Latin America shipments
Pan American World Airways announced that air shipments to many Central and South American nations the Caribbean area including Mexico may be accepted without priorities. This change lifts prior priority requirements for these routes.
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New York
Pan American World Airways System Today
Central
South America
Caribbean
Mexico
Missing in action Sgt. Robert N. Lewis
War Department release Saturday lists Sgt. Robert N. Lewis of Littlefield as missing in action in the Mediterranean theater. The notice names the U S Army serviceman and places the action in the ongoing campaign in Europe.
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Robert N. Lewis
Littlefield
Mediterranean
War Department
Five Die As Plane Crashes And Burns
Five Army fliers died when a B 26 Marauder from Kellogg field crashed two and a half miles south of the base and burned. The left engine failure forced an emergency landing. two other crewmen were injured.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Army
Kellogg Field
David E. Bales
Earl Bradley
Salisfw
Okla
Bradley
Eighth Army
Rommel
Africa
Montague B. Waterhouse
Honolulu
James E. Lee
Abilene
Texas
Troy Tisenby
Chesterfied
S. C
Howard R. Molyneaux
Chicago
Claude C. Griffin
Fox
Ernest Ornelas
Brownsville
Minister Found Dead At His Denton Home
Dr. Charles D. Montgomery a 67 year old former Dallas pastor and longtime Oklahoma church leader was found dead at his Denton home where he served as superintendent of the Methodist district. Mrs Montgomery was in Dallas with their two children when the death was learned indicating he likely died of a heart attack sometime since Thursday night. He arrived in Dallas from Tulsa in 1935 and had led several Oklahoma pastorates before and after serving as Denton district superintendent.
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Dallas
Charles D. Montgomery
Oklahoma
Denton
Methodist
Montgomery
Tulsa
Paris
First Methodist Church
MacFarlane Named On Board In Italy
Lt. Gen. Frank Mason MacFarlane, governor of Gibraltar, is appointed deputy president of the Allied control commission in Italy, replacing Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce. Ike is president, with expected title shift to Gen. Sir Henry Malland Wilson. Christmas in Australia marked by picnics and War Bond appeals.
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Allied
Aspiers
Frank Mason MacFarlane
Gibraltar
Allied Control Commission
Italy
Kenyon A. Joyce
MacFarlane
Joyce
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Henry Malland Wilson
Mediterranean
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