Letters From Service Men Fill Local News Pages
Local families report several service members in the United States and abroad. Pilot Officer Joe Thomas May earns the Distinguished Flying Cross in India before possible transfer to the American Air Force. Others advance in rank or training across bases in Texas Kansas and Wisconsin while relatives share updates from Camp Bowie Payne Field and Camp Wolters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. May
Kodak
Joe Thomas May
Royal Air Force
India
May
RAF
Joe Thomas Meador
Camp Polk
C. J. Meador
Meador
Five Can Limit Set For Food Ration Start
The Office of Price Administration announced a five can limit on fruit and vegetable cans per person when rationing begins. Penalties include loss of an eight point stamp for each excess can. households of five would be allowed twenty five cans with a five can penalty if overage occurs. Each person, including babies, receives a separate ration book.
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Washington
United States
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Lone Star Gas System Reorganized Under Haley
D A Haley announced a reorganization that consolidates five operating entities into two companies and discontinishes the holding company. The Dallas Gas, Community Natural, Texas Cities Gas, and Lone Star Gasoline units are folded into Lone Star Gas Company, while gas field operations form Lone Star Producing Company. Haley becomes head of the full system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star Gas System
D. A. Haley
Haley
Lone Star Gas Company
Dallas Gas Company
Community Natural Gas Company
Whitewright
Texas Cities Gas Company
Lone Star Gasoline Company
Lone Star Producing Company
Texas
Poems and mail news from World War II era readers
Whitewright Mrs Haliburton will publish a brother Cpl Charles G Lance Jr poem only if allowed by policy. James Bryant US Navy moved from Athens to Hensley Field near Dallas Fort Worth and visited family. telegram says nephew Pfc Harvey Lee Smith Air Corps is prisoner of war of Japan in the Philippines. no word since the siege began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bryant
U.S. Navy
Athens
Hensley Field
Dallas
Fort Worth
A. M. Bryant
Pfc
Harvey Lee Smith
Air Corps
Philippine Islands
Raymond Smith
Adjutant General of
Army
Harvey Lee
Philippines
President Roosevelt surprises troops in Casablanca jeep review
In French Morocco on January 21 President Roosevelt became the first U.S. wartime leader to leave the United States and fly the Atlantic. He toured American troops in a Casablanca jeep, drawing wide smiles from soldiers who believed a brass hats rehearsal was underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
French Morocco
Roosevelt
United States
Atlantic
Oran Lass
Kansas City
Mark Clark
United States Fifth Army
Charles Fredericks
George S. Patton Jr
Ross McIntire
Harry Hopkins
Robert Murphy
French Africa
W. Averell Harriman
Africa
Mr. Roosevelt
Cold Weather Hits Sun Honor Roll
The Sun honor roll shows renewals slowed by near zero weather as readers stayed home by the fires. Publisher notes strong recent renewals and lists new names John Jenkins Billy Kincaid Miss Tommie Chenoweth C. E. Cooper Mrs. W. F. Holland Miss Lattie Brown Mrs. Doyle Withrow added this week.
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Sun
O. K
Texas
John Jenkins
Billy Kincaid
Tommie Chenoweth
C. E. Cooper
W. F. Holland
Lattie Brown
Doyle Withrow
Exodus From Hagerman and Woodville Ahead of Denison Dam Waters
Residents of Hagerman Texas and Woodville Oklahoma evacuate as Denison Dam projects flood area. Most homes below 625 foot contour have left. Hagerman post office closed, Woodville post office to move uphill. residents relocate houses to New Hagerman and New Woodville with Kingston Oklahoma nearby.
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Hagerman
New Hagerman
New Woodville
Kingston
Okla
Wouldn't Dare Farewell to India Bound Member
Club members bid farewell to a member departing for India. A friend jokes about the climate being hard on his wife, and the man answers with quiet defiance, "It wouldn't dare."
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India
All Edible Meats To Be Rationed In Point System
The Office of Price Administration announced that all edible meats will enter rationing around April 1 under a point system. Variety meats such as liver kidney heart tripe brains and sweetbread will be included in the voluntary plan already in effect and will require point surrender.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Roosevelt and Churchill Hold Historic War Conference in Africa
Casablanca meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill produced a 1943 war plan aimed at unconditional German, Italian, and Japanese surrender. They involved Generals De Gaulle and Giraud, kept Stalin informed, and pledged aid to Russia and China. Roosevelt also became the first sitting president to visit troops in an active war theatre since Lincoln.
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Casablanca
French
Morocco
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Germany
Italy
Japan
Atlantic Ocean
Churchill
Charles DeGaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
North Africa
America
Britain
Giraud
de Gaulle
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Chiang Kai- Shek
China
United States
Abraham Lincoln
War Coffee a Helpful Hint to Coffee Drinkers
Reading this wartime tip explains saving used coffee grounds drying them and re roasting to restore aroma though not fully. The revived grounds mix with fresh coffee to stretch supplies and save money. Readers are advised to buy adding machine paper at the Sun office.
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Sun Office
Offensive opened by Soviets near Voronezh expands major drive
The Berlin radio said Russian troops began attacking German lines northwest of Voronezh with substantial forces. This would mark the eighth major Soviet offensive across a broad front from Leningrad to the Kuban. German captioned broadcasts quoted Capt. Ludwig Sertorius noting overlap with the central front and questioning a shift in the offensive’s center of gravity.
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Voronezh
Berlin
Red Army
Axis
Russia
Moscow
Ludwig Sertorius
Kuban
Caucasus
Orel
Vyazma
Napoleon
War crops to get 100 million incentive payments
Secretary Wickard outlined a program offering growers up to 100 million dollars in extra incentives to raise production of soybeans peanuts flax grain sorghums sweet potatoes and dried peas. Bonuses include per acre payments for surpassing 90 percent of farm goals and rising toward 110 percent.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
Department
Congress
Agriculture Department
German Industrial Centers founded by American Bombers
All American air strikes hit Wilhelmshaven and Emden as Fortress and Liberator bombers attack Germany. RAF Mosquitoes target Copenhagen shipyards and submarine works while Night raids hit Lorient and Bordeaux. Casualties reported in Copenhagen. one Mosquito lost.
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London
Germany
Wilhemshaven
Emden Industries
RAF
Copenhagen
Denmark
Lorient
French
Bordeaux
Burmeinster and
Wain
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Stockholm
House of Commons
Aarhus
Aalborg
United States
Wilhelmshaven
Stalin Says Red Army Wiped Out 102 German Divisions
Stalin announced the Winter offensive destroyed 102 Axis divisions and advanced about 248 miles in two months from Leningrad to the Caucasus. He reported 200,000 prisoners and overrun thousands of localities as Voronezh and southern sectors were liberated along a 1 200 mile front. The order stressed continued drive to expel German forces.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Leningrad
Caucasus
Stalin
High Command
Voronezh
Donets
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pvt
Tom Ayres
Independence, Kansas
Army Air Forces Bombardier School
Big Spring
James Roscoe Brown
Army of the United States
Brown
Army Air Forces
Grover C. Brown
Whitewright High School
Buford W. Simmons
K. B. Simmons
Independence
Kansas
Lon A. Bradley
Route
1087Th Basic
Billy R. Conner
A. L. Conner
Pilot Grove
Majors Field
Greenville
Sheppard Field
Russell McGinnis
C. P. McGinnis
Army Engineers
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Weldon O. Jones
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Muroc Army Air Base
Muroc
Calif
George K. Stephens
Lubbock
Lieutenant Stephens
Air Field Hospital
Raymond I. Brown
O. M. Brown
Route Four
Payne Field
Camp Wolters
J. D. Young Jr
San Francisco
William Guy Andrew
Eula Andrew
Route One
Army Air Technical School
Truax Field
Madison
Wisconsin
Andrew
Boca Raton Field
Florida
Preston Hefner
O. A. Hefner
U. S. Army
Billy Smith
Amarillo
Juanita Mae
Sergeant Smith
J. E. Smith
Canaan
W. B. Bixler
J. A. Bixler
Eighth Service Command
Fort Sam Houston
the Sun
Paul Haliburton
Camp Edwards
Mass
Charles G. Lance
Lone Star Gas
Denison Dam
Emden
British Isles
Reds
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