Roosevelt and Churchill Agree on Unified WWII War Plan
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are in full accord on a unified plan for war against the Axis across all theaters. Stephen Early announced a joint command for Asia and coordinated efforts to equip Allied forces, with twenty six nations signing the effort and the US prepared to engage the enemy wherever deemed necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stephen Early
London
England
United States
Great Britain
Asia
Congress
British Bombers Hit Back In Six Week War Crunch
British bombers killed several attackers and 22 injured in a major strike followed by a 70 plane assault that left at least 150 civilians dead or wounded. RAF fighters hounded enemy launches near Muar while Australian forces stalled Japan on the eastern front and bombers targeted ships in the Malacca Strait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muar
Malacca
Malaccan Strait
Matador High Cancelled Basketball Tournament
The Matador High School invitation tournament for boys teams is suspended this year. Principal Bert Ezzell cites transportation shortages and tire conservation for national defense as reasons and hopes the event resumes next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matador
Matador High School
Bert Ezzell
Ezzell
Baylor’s Jack Wilson Heads to Surgery in Setback
Baylor basketball star Jack Wilson underwent an ap pealdectomy tonight. hospital reports say he is resting comfortably. The Bruins’ defensive ace, nicknamed the “hard luck guy,” has battled injuries throughout his college career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baylor
Jack Wilson
Waco
San
Bruins
Wilson
Bright Willie Wins 5000 Dollar Hialeah Race
At Hialeah Park a crowd of 11 676 watched Bright Willie ridden by a lady owner win the 5000 dollar added Hialeah purse in his first start at age three. Mrs Meclvain received 4950 dollars with the mutuels paying 10 90 to 1 40 and 3 60 to 1. Favorite American Wolf paid 3 50 and 2 80. First Fiddle finished third about a length and a half back paying 5 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Ralph Melvain
Bright Willie
Hialeah
Hialeah Park
Meclvain
First Fiddle
Matador Beats Ralls To Tie 3 A Cage Lead
Matador High's Matadors defeated Ralls 34 31 to remain tied for first in District 3 A basketball with Floydada. Reed of Balls and Tunnell of Matador led with 12 points each as Ralls dropped to second place tied with the Lockney Longhorns in a close contest.
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Matador
Ralls
Special
Matador High
Matadors
Floydada
Ralls Jackrabbits
Lockney Longhorns
Reed
Balls
Tunnell
Russia Front Rises With pivotal new Soviet drive
In a major shift, Red armies press a broad offensive northwest of Moscow threatening the German hold from Smolensk to the Baltic. A Verdun of winter warfare on the Rzhev Volkhov sector could topple Hitler’s northern flank and push German forces toward retreat into the Estonia corridor.
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Pacific
Russia
Red
Moscow
Hitler
Dnieper
Smolensk
Baltic
Hmen
Leningrad
Valdai Plateau
Volga
Rzhev
Volkhov River
Elmen
Mozhaisk
Rostov
Crimea
Rzhev-Volkhov
Lake Simen
Lovat
Valdai
Esthenia
Lake Peipus
Ministers Meet Pledges Solidarity Against Axis Powers
The conference proposes four plans to bar Germany Italy and Japan from all relations and to unite actions until the threat ends. Ecuador Peru border tension nears settlement as 2000 police guard Axis shops in Guanaba Bay amid high security. Sumner Welles travels with a 18‑man bodyguard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Hemisphere
Germany
Italy
Japan
Ecuador
Peru
Guanaba Bay Naval Base
Sumner Welles
United States
Washington
Last of 23 Escaped Convicts Captured
The last of 28 escapees from East ham prison farm near Weldon was captured in Huntsville. Carl Anderson, 25, of El Paso, serving 24 years for robbery, was nabbed after a three hour bloodhound chase by Guard Marvin Reed. Other recent captures included Calbert Francis O'Brien Otto Fryer Ernest C. Jones and Roy Peitehard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Eastham
Weldon
Carl Anderson
EL Paso
Anderson
Marvin Reed
Calbert Francis O'Brien
Otto Fryer
Ernest C. Jones
Roy Peitehard
Volume Six Of Sam Houston Writings Issued
The University of Texas press released volume six of Sam Houston’s writings. This edition compiles his works from January 30, 1828, to February 25, 1858, covering a pivotal span in Texas history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Sam Houston
Texas
University of Texas Press
War Production Reform Plans Move to Cut Red Tape
Donald M. Nelson presses for streamlined war production while the Office of Production Management nears dissolution. William S. Knudsen is reassigned to the Army to direct conversion of industry, becoming lieutenant general with top ranks. Generals Marshall and MacArthur are the only officers above him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald M. Nelson
Office of Production Management
William S. Knudsen
Army
Knudsen
George C. Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Recruit wakes up in governor's mansion
Scene one shows Noah McCrory invited to spend the night at another applicant’s home named Dickerson. Scene two in Gov. Frank Dixon’s executive mansion reveals McCrory woke to find he had been the guest of Sam Dixon, the governor’s son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Air Corps Recruiting Office
Noah McCrory
Dickerson
Frank Dixon
McCrory
Sam Dixon
Gas distillate sands logged in Kenedy-area well test
A wildcat test in the C Martinez survey near Kenedy reported distillate sands at 6,095 to 6,398 feet in the upper Carrizo-Wilcox. The No 1 W D Strunk test was three and a half miles southeast of Kenedy and drilled ahead below 6,500 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenedy
Sellards Elected President of Paleontological Society
Dr. E. H. Sellards, head of UTs bureau of economic geology and the Texas Memorial Museum, has been elected president of the Paleontological Society of America, according to university officials.
CIO MEETS IN PHOENIX ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION PUSH
Congress of Industrial Organizations representatives from Arizona New Mexico Southern California and possibly Colorado will convene in Phoenix on January 25 to discuss accelerating defense production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
GPI
Congress of Industral Organizations
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Colorado
Dandelion Roots Imported In Large Quantities 1929 38
Between 1929 and 1938 the United States imported nearly one million pounds of dandelion roots for medicinal use. The plants commonly viewed as weeds were treated as a valued commodity during this period.
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United States
Allies Capture Halfaya Pass in North Africa Drive
British imperial forcesPoles and Free French won Halfaya Pass trapping 5500 Axis defenders. The surrender clears a supply route toward Tripolitania and ends any hope of a quick Axis comeback toward Cyrenaica as Rommel faces intensified Allied pressure at El Gheila. Prisoner totals rise to about 31000.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Egypt
Halfaya Pass
Tripolitania
North Africa
Hellfire Canyon
Gulf of
Sirte
Tobruk
Mediterranean
Salum
Halfaya
London
Erwin Rommel
el Gheila
el Agheila
Cirenaica
Carole Lombard: a life of wit love and screen success
The article recalls Carole Lombard with Clark Gable, noting their ideal romance, shared humor, and Lombard’s practical nature. It covers her rise from Sennett comedies to star status, her two marriages, fairness about wealth, and roles in classics like True Confession Nothing Sacred Made for Each Other Twenty-Fourth Century Vigil in the Night Mr. and Mrs. Smith They Knew What They Wanted and To Be or Not to Be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Gable
William Powell
Gable
Lombard
Gables
Carole
Clark
Jack Benny
Fort Wayne
Ind
Elizabeth K. Peters
Sennett
Powell
Mrs. Smith
Guardians of Burma Road Wipe Out Japs
American pilots guarding the Burma road destroyed three Japanese warplanes in a dogfight over Mengtu in southeast Yunnan. Four fighters of the third pursuit squadron led by Deputy Commander G. Bo McMillan returned to base unscratched in the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Burma
Mengtzu
Yunnan
G. Bo McMillan
State departments to observe Lee birthday holiday in Texas
Austin officials announce state departments will be closed on Monday honoring the birthday of Robert E. Lee. The holiday was created by legislative action and affects state offices statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Robert Ek. Lee
Lee
Ratliff Wins In News Photo Contest
C. W. Ratliff, Morning Avalanche, won first for Emergency Landing and second for High, wide and Handsome in a Texas AP Managing Editors photo exhibition. Contest saw Texas papers from towns under 50,000 compete. judge panel included McMullen of Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mead of Dallas Times Herald Duckworth of Dallas Morning News Hinga of Houston Chronicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Ratliff
Morning Avalanche
Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Associated Press
Ratliff
Texas
Dixie Lee Reger
Woodward
Oklo
Lorin McMullen
The
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
K. Mead
Dallas Times- Herald
Allen Duckworth
Dallas Morning News
Don Hinga
Houston Chronicle
Airliner crash ends marriage of film star and Clark Gable
An air corps ferry plane returning to Long Beach crashed after taking off from Albuquerque, killing crew members Wayne Williams and Morgan Gillette and hostess Alice Getz. The accident halted a planned return from Las Vegas and halted a tense search through the Potosi mountains. Investigators said no army or civil authorities released a cause.
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Winkler
Los Angeles
Morgan A. Gillette
North Hollywood
Alice Getz
Glendale
Fred Getz
Mineral
Lll
TWA
Williams
Las Vegas
Burbank
H. W. Anderson
Air Corps
Army
Clark Gable
Howard Strickling
M-G-M
A.T.G. Steffes
Potosi
Air Corps Ferry Command
Long Beach
Calif
Albuquerque
N. M
Table Mountain
Washington Air Crash Claims Eight Near Pendleton
Eight men including three second lieutenants were killed when an army air force bombing plane crashed 242 miles north of Pendleton Oregon. Names listed include Second Lt. A J Francisco Second Lt R C Shows Second Lt L E B Grindle Staff Sgt A D Spiers Sgt D Clark Capt W A Learman Private G T Wrable and Private L Fagan. Rescue crews from Pendleton air base reached the scene at 11 30 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Air
Fort George Wright
Wash
Army Air Force
Pendleton, Ore
Second Air Force
A. J. Francisco
R. C. Shows
L. EB. Grindle
A. D. Sp
Prison Movie Attack In Winney Prison
At Wynne state prison farm in Huntsville Willie Wells a Black inmate attacked a fellow prisoner Jesus Escobedo with a sharp object during a prison movie. The incident occurred at 7 55 p m Wells 28 a life term habitual criminal from Gregg County was captured after surrender Escobedo 25 a 25 year robbery convict from El Paso County was involved.
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Huntsville
R. H. Baughn
Wynne State Prison Farm
Willie Wells
Jesus Escobedo
Baughn
Wells
Gregg County
Mscobedo
EL Paso
Texas Defense guard to receive winter issue uniforms
Dallas January 17 reports the Texas Defense Guard may get winter issue uniforms soon. Volunteers have worn summer cotton outfits while awaiting measurements sent to the Army for service clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas Defense Guard
Army
Free French raid on Fernando Po sparks Spanish outcry
Ar riba the Falange mouthpiece accuses Free French of violating Spanish territory by seizing three Axis merchants in a stealth raid on Fernando Po off West Africa. The claim names Duchessa d Aosta and two Hamburg freighters and notes a midnight Jan 14 attack.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Free French Today
Fernando Poe
Africa
Arriba
Falange
Spain
Fernando Poo
Santa Isabel
Churchill Arrives in Plymouth to Warm Welcome
The official welcome formed a bodyguard as 60,000 cheered Churchill's arrival. Mrs. Churchill had hurried from Wembley to greet him, telling the crowd she had not seen him since England’s Wembley match. Churchill traveled with Lord Beaverbrook Admiral Pound Air Chief Marshal Portal and Sir Charles Wilson aboard the Berwick skippered by Captain J. C. Kelly Rogers.
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Churchill
Wembley
Plymouth
Lord Beaverbrook
Dudley Pound
Charles Portal
Charles Wilson
Western Hemisphere
Berwick
J. C. Kelly Rogers
British Airways
Japanese Ships Sunk (Continued From Page One)
The article describes Japanese positions along the Batan peninsula facing Manila bay and Corregidor. It notes MacArthur potentially chose Batan for a defensive stand due to bay and sea protection of flanks. Tokyo radio claimed MacArthur’s forces were retreating down the peninsula, but no confirmation was available.
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Batan
Manila Bay
Corregidor
MacArthur
Tokyo
Boy Struck by Car Injured Near North Avenue H Culvert
Jerry Clyde Beesent seven at 711 Wolfforth avenue was treated at West Texas hospital after being struck by a car driven by J. P. Upton of 2515 Twenty-fifth street at a canyon culvert on North Avenue H. He suffered shock and bruises while playing with two other boys.
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Jerry Clyde Beesent
V. C. Beesent
Wolfforth Avenue
West Texas Hospital
J. P. Upton
Twenty-fifth Street
North Avenue H
Beesent
Upton
Paul Jones
Thirtieth Street
Lubbock
Nineteenth Street
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hunger Crazed Dogs Kill Diner Handyman on Route 1
On a busy U S route 1 corridor linking New York Philadelphia and New Jersey a handyman named Woodruff was found dead after police shot a dozen feral dogs during a siege at his shack. Two patrolmen and two captains fought snarling dogs while Woodruff’s body lay inside the door with poems eulogizing dogs on the table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York-Philadelphia
New Jersey
Woodruff
Benjamin Parsons
Jack Egan
Labor Peace Urged
The article urges renewed labor peace efforts after a long hiatus of about two and a half years. It argues that current conditions justify another round of meetings to overcome internal obstacles and support the war economy and labor members.
Jury reports and arraignments set in district courts
A jury will report at 1 30 p m Monday to Judge E L Pitts in 99th district court. At 10 a m Monday Judge Pitts will set two civil jury cases and four appearance cases. An arraignment of a negro charged with murder is set for 9 00 a m Monday in the 72nd district court of Judge Daniel A Blair in Crosbyton. The regular criminal docket is to be called a week from Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Pitts
99Th District Court
Pitts
72Nd District Court
Daniel A. Blair
Crosbyton
Governor Stevenson Schedules February Trips and Broadcasts
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson plans four trips and two radio broadcasts in February. The schedule includes a Fat stock show in Houston on Feb 6, a public meeting at Marlin on Feb 13, a Statehood day broadcast from Austin on Feb 15, a school dedication at Commerce on Feb 20, a Future Farmers of America broadcast from Austin on Feb 21, and an International Washington's birthday celebration at Laredo on Feb 22.
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Austin
U.P
Coke R. Stevenson
Houston
Marlin
Commerce
George Washington
Laredo
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Governor's Mansion
Cio
Carole Lombard
Guardians of
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Billy Zimmerman
Twenty-seventh Street
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Grollmans
G. G Porter
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