Hongkong Under Japanese Occupation Report Confirms Atrocities
Henry Bough, Reuters and AP correspondent, describes Hongkong three months after occupation by Japan. He reports starvation, looting, internment of British subjects, and confirmed accounts of murder and rape by Japanese troops, with prisoners of war receiving scant food and civilians often in danger. The piece notes internees moved from boarding houses to a Stanley prison and warns of deteriorating western prestige.
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Henry Bough
Reuters
Hongkong
China
Associated Press
Chungking
Hell
Three Offsets To Discovery Pool Announced In Garvin County
The Associated Press reports three offsets to the discovery well at the Pauls Valley pool in Garvin County. Pure Oil and Mid-Continent Petroleum announce stakes in specific sections of the same township, indicating new exploration activity near the discovery.
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Associated Press
Pauls Valley
Garvin County
Pure Oil Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Company
Independent operator reports lacking leases in Garvin county wildcat area
Oil operator L. C. Heydrick reports scant lease activity in western Garvin county for a potential wildcat test. He holds leases in 1-1n-3w and 6-1n-2w. Perforation tests enhanced production in C. W. Sharps No. 1 well in Pottawatomie county Brown area. The No. 1 Randolph in Edmond field northern Oklahoma county is planned to drill to 6,750 feet.
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L. C. Heydrick
Ethwestern Garvin County
C. W. Sharp
Brown
Pottawatomie County
Edmond
Oklahoma County
Denver Producing and Refining Company
No. 1
Randolph
Hermes Captain Missing After Bay of Bengal Sinking
London reports Captain Richard Onslow commander of the aircraft carrier Hermes is missing and presumed killed after Hermes was sunk on April 9 in the Bay of Bengal by Japanese planes.
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London
Richard Onslow
Hermes
Bay of Bengal
The Pessimist by Bob Blanks Jr
A light humorous column by Bob Blanks Jr titled The Pessimist. It offers a quip about social manners and sharing meals with friends, hinting at a playful urban wit in a compact signature piece.
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By Bob Blanks, Jr
Non War Spending as GOP Campaign Target
Chicago April 22 Republican leaders target non war spending in the fall race. Chairman Joseph W. Martin says voters support war effort funding but want reductions in normal government expenses and non essential spending cut. He reports strong party unity and near debt free finances. A campaign program will be drafted in early June.
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Chicago
Joseph W. Martin
G.O.P. National Committee
Roosevelt
Martin
Japs Increase Attack On Panay Island
The war department reported heavy Japanese attacks on Panay forcing American Filipino troops to withdraw from Lambunao. Enemies pressed near San Remigio and Valderrama and air reconnaissance on Negros signaled broader aims. Navy said two PT boats damaged a light cruiser near Cebu amid ongoing battles in the Philippines.
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Washington
War Department
Panay
Lambunao
Antique
San Jose
San Remigio
Valderrama
Philippine Islands
Negros
Cebu
Manila Bay
Fort Hughes
Fort Drum
John D. Bulkeley
Philippine Archipelago
Eastern Gasoline Ration To Be Short
Washington officials say a May implement plan will limit motorists on the eastern seaboard to about five gallons per week. The plan, to be announced soon, may be drastic and will use a ration card system not tied to sugar books. The curtailment affects 17 states from Maine to Florida and follows a prior one third cut in deliveries to service stations.
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Washington
Seaboard
OPA
Eastern Seaboard
District of Columbia
Maine
Florida
Delaney Donates Scrap Iron to Scout Council
W. A. Delaney Jr. contributed an estimated 10 to 15 tons of scrap iron to the local Boy Scout council for defense. The executive board will decide this week how to use the sale proceeds from the materials.
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W. A. Delaney Jr
Boy Scout Council
Britains Daring Commandos Cut Through Nazi Coast Lines
Water superintendent Gurley Fowler was ordered held for district court trial Wednesday morning after three witnesses testified they had gone on a city wide voting spree in the citys recent general election with Fowler furnishing the transportation.
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Gurley Fowler
Fowler
Joe Beck
County Election Board
Elbert Beach
Beach
Navy Air Hero On War Bond Radio Program
Secretary Morgenthau and other leaders will air at 10 p m on the Blue Network to discuss the national War Bond quota and payroll savings plan. Guest Lt Commander Edward Henry O Hara promoted today joins speakers from labor and industry in the broadcast.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau, Jr
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organization
W. P. Witherow
National Association of Manufacturers
John W. O'Leary
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
T. C. Cashen
Railway Executives’ Association
Survivors Describe Ship Losing Tag Game With U Boat
Survivors of an American merchant vessel torpedoed and sunk April 12 in the Caribbean recounted a 12 hour engagement with a U-boat in which the ship rammed and dodged in a vain effort to shake the submarine before sinking. Dr. Benjamin A. Price, 64, missing physician and former Idaho county health officer, was aboard and presumed lost. Thirty-nine survivors were rescued by a United Nations warship and landed in Jamaica. others reached Haiti. The ship carried five passengers.
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New Orleans
Caribbean
Benjamin A. Price
Jefferson County
Idaho
Price
United Nations
Jamaica
Haiti
Eighth Naval District
Margaret Bensusan
Corning
N. Y
John Alfred Small
Houston
Texas
Glenn Ivey
Long Beach
Cal
Robert Edwin Strief
Dallas
Tex
U. S
Buenos Aires
Eileen
County Teachers To Meet Saturday
Pontotoc county teachers principals and superintendents meeting in district courtroom Saturday morning to discuss sugar rationing consumer registration. County Superintendent Ray Stegall called the gathering Wednesday noting the need for full attendance to explain registration procedures.
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Pontotoc County
Ada
Ray Stegall
First Aid Class Begins Tuesday
W P Hopper city air raid warden announces a 20 hour first aid course for air wardens to start next Tuesday at the dire station. Ollie Coleman fireman and Red Cross instructor will teach each Tuesday night at 7 30.
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W. P. Hopper
Ollie Coleman
Red Cross
Dire Station
Hopper
Sugar rationing begins May 5 under OPA plan
The United States will start sugar rationing May 5 under the OPA’s first food stamp system. Households register at grade schools May 4-7 to obtain one pound sugar per each of the first four stamps in book No. 1. Restaurants and dairy suppliers face a 50 to 70 percent cut from last year’s usage, with registration for retailers set for April 28-29.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Man Kills Wife then Ends His Life in Ada
Roosevelt Logan, an Ada garage worker, shot his wife Bertie May Logan in their relative’s home near the city incinerator, then killed himself seconds before police arrived. Eye witness Cleo Miller told County Attorney details, saying Bertie May had been sick and asked to take money. the couple had separated recently.
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Fowler
Massey Motor Company
Wayne Lewis
Beach
Betty Lewis
Jack Conn
Ruby Beach
N. Danger
Joe Bennett
West Sixteenth
Bennett
C. A. Gay
Roosevelt Logan
Ada
Bertie May Logan
Logan
Cleo Miller
Bertie May
Roosevelt
British Chinese Back Across Pinchaung River
New Delhi dated April 22 reports the British with Chinese support completed a fighting withdrawal across the Pinchaung river in Burma near Yenangyaung. The communique notes continuing fighting in the eastern Irrawaddy front and Japanese counter attacks against Chinese forces guarding the withdrawal. No report on the status of the Chinese expeditionary force defending eastern Burma.
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New Delhi
India
Pinchaung River
Burma
Yenangyaung
Irrawaddy River
Pinchaung
British Commandos Raid Near Boulogne Drives Back Germans
British commandos conducted a two hour raid near Boulogne driving German troops back and surveying fortifications before withdrawing. The operation, coordinated after von Rundstedt took northern France command, disrupted coastal defenses and caused minimal British casualties.
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Boulogne
Reds widen second wedge in Finnish Karelia front
War front dispatches report the Red army driving a second six mile deep wedge into Finnish lines northeast of Leningrad amid violent fighting. Finns counter attack as Red reserves enter the night battle. Moscow reports also claim German fortress loss and Red fleet sinking 85 ships totaling 378 400 tons in Norwegian waters and Barents Sea.
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Kuibyshev
Red Army
Karelia
Leningrad
Moscow
Red Star
Moscow News
Red Fleet
Norwegian
Barents Sea
Solons Begin Work on New Tax Measure in Congress
Washington April 22 The ways and means committee opened work on a new tax bill likely involving a general sales tax. President Roosevelt to address Congress next week on curbing living costs and excess war profits. Committee to consider 31 percent surtax on corporations and higher excess profits rates. House passed a 19 billion dollar war appropriation with a rider to renegotiate contracts showing excess profits.
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Washington
White House
Ways and Means
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Senate
War
Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Senator Connally cites air force training school expansion at Kelly
Senator Tom Connally said the War Department authorized an air force training school and expansion at Kelly Field costing over 5 million dollars. Construction would be supervised by the Galveston district Army engineers. Kelly Field is in San Antonio.
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Washington
Tom Connally
D.tex
War Department
Kelly
Galveston District Army Engineers
Connally
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Britons Raid Nazi Held Boulogne Coast In Latest Cross-Channel Action
British commandos struck the Nazi occupied coast near Boulogne in the dawn hours, driven back after two hours. The operation, described as a small reconnaissance raid, tested defenses and gathered military information while reporting very light British casualties and damage to German fishing vessels. The action follows the St Nazaire raid and signals a series of cross-channel pressures on German coastal lines.
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London
Boulogne
Europe
Adol Hitler
Russia
Gerd von Rundstedt
France
North Cape
Bay of Biscay
St. Nazaire
Combined Operations Headquarters
Britain
Dover Strait
Kent
Nature Of Blasts Shows Not Mines
A navy spokesman stated the explosions that damaged the Argentine motorship Victoria 300 miles off Cape Hatteras indicated the ship was torpedoed by an axis vessel. He noted two explosions and argued that in open sea there would be no mine fields, making torpedoing the likeliest cause.
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Washington
Victoria
Cape Hatteras
Buenos Aires
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