Panhandle Storms and Guymon Cyclone Leave Damage
Severe weather swept the Panhandle Plains with heavy rain and hail near Pampa Dalhart and Dalhart area. A powerful cyclone leveled about a hundred buildings in Guymon Oklahoma causing widespread homelessness and power outages.
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Panhandle Area
Guymon
Okla
Rock Island
Liberal
Roy Allender
Dalhart
Oklahoma State Highway Patrol
Kansas
Beaver River
Texas County
Texhoma
Oklahoma- Texas
Amarillo
Great Cologne Raid by 1000 Bombers Heralds Invasion Push
Three quarters of Cologne burned and a vast area flatten by 1,250 RAF aircraft in what officials call the greatest air raid in history. More than 6,000,000 pounds of bombs devastated the Rhine city and surrounding Ruhr area as British, American and Canadian air crews struck in a coordinated operation timed to near perfection.
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Middleton
London
Cologne
Rhineland
United States
Ruhr
Hitler
Europe
Britain
Churchill
Germany
A. T. Harris
Bomber Command
Air Ministry
British Press Association
Army Cooperation Command
RAF
Belgium
Eagle
Netherlands
Rhine
Channel
Kalk and Humbold Deutz
Koln-Nippes
Franz Clouth
Washington
Henry H. Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Brehon H Somervell
U.S. Army Services of Supply Command
U. S. Army
Navy
George C. Marshall
West Point
France
Geremany
J. FE. A. Baldwin
Dollar Day in Amarillo Sparks Shandle-Plains Bonanza
Today begins a real bonanza for shoppers in the Shandle Plains area with Dollar Day in Amarillo. Merchants advertise dollar saving deals on many items, urging buyers to come early and stretch pennies toward a stronger war effort by buying war savings stamps. Stores promise attentive service as every business stays alert to serve shoppers.
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Shandle-Plains
Amarillo
Out of Gas to Out of Hay in Durham
In Durham North Carolina on May 31 owners of a filling station switched from selling gas to hay after running out of fuel. Seeing dairies and bakeries shift to horse drawn delivery they stocked hay for local customers. Demand was brisk once the sign changed to Out of Hay.
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Durham
N. C
World War II Battlefronts Abridged Summary May 31 1942
The report outlines major air raids on Cologne with 1,250 British planes causing vast destruction and German admissions of great damage. It links this to broader North Africa and Soviet fronts, noting RAF air superiority and Rommel’s forces strained. It also mentions Japanese actions in China and coastal provocation, including counterattacks around Kinhwa and Lanchi amid poison gas accusations.
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Associated Press
Cologne
Rhineland
London
North
Africa
Russia
China
Pacific
Panese
Yuhwan
Chekiang
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Surrounding Regions
Weather outline reports scattered afternoon showers or thunderstorms across Amarillo and vicinity and New Mexico. West Texas areas including Pecos Valley South Plains and Panhandle expect continued warmth with warmer conditions overall. The note references historical temperature figures and circulation data from May 31 1942 in the Amarillo Sunday News Globe.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
South Plains
Panhandle
New Mexico
Central Mountain Range
Amarillo Man Drowns While Trying to Save Son
Omar "Smokey" Sparks 33, proofreader for the Amarillo Globe News, drowned at Conchas Dam Lake while attempting to rescue his 13-year-old son Raymond Lee. Sparks lived at 314 East Sixteenth Avenue, Amarillo, and his body was returned for burial after a coroner's inquest was pending. He was survived by three sisters and two brothers, with funeral arrangements pending in Amarillo.
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Conchas Dam Lake
Omar “Smokey” Sparks
Amarillo Globe News
Raymond Lee
Mr. Sparks
Sixteenth Avenue
Amarillo
Sparks
Mr. Spark
Leo Sparks
Horace Griggs
N. S. Grig
Globe-News
Zorado S. Conner
1618
Ong Street
Jack Wilkerson
Pampa
W. C. Caldwell
Perryton
Guy T. Sparks
Panama Canal Zone
Chinese Attache Pleads for Aid in Strike on Japan
WASHINGTON May 31 P Maj Gen Chu Shih Ming Chinese military attache urged rapid US action to strike Japan from Chinese air bases threatened by Japanese advances. He noted fields in Chekiang and Formosa would allow daily bombing of Nagasaki, naval bases, and shipping lanes to relieve India and Australia.
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Washington
Congress
War Labor Board
Senator Hill
Alabama
Roosevelt
Hill
Manpower Board
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
House
Florida
Port Ingles
Jacksonville
Gulf Ports
Atlantic Seaboard
Senate
Chu Shih-Ming
United States
Japan
China
Chekiang
Nagasaki
Formosa
China Sea
Malaya
Burma
The
Indies
Philippines
United Nations
India
Australia
Final radio messages from Corregidor reveal surrender hours
Irving Strobing of Brooklyn recorded May 5 messages during the siege of Corregidor as shells fell and fighting intensified. He described heavy bombardment, dwindling supplies, nervous strain, and a planned surrender to General Beebe, sending love to his family before the end.
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Washington
Corregidor
Philippine
War Department
Irving Strobing
Brooklyn
N. Y
Honolulu
Army Hour
Strobing
Signal Corps
Wainwright
Seige
Manila
Lewis C
Beebe
Irving
Mininie
Barbey Street
O. K
Joe
Sue
Mac
Garry
Joy
Paul
Germans Admit Great Damage In Cologne
Berlin reported that Allied air raids on Cologne caused heavy destruction. The Nazi high command said the attacks targeted civilians with high explosives, starting fires that burned residential areas and damaged public buildings including three churches and two hospitals. Cologne, a major Rhine city with diverse industries, rail hubs, and a famed cathedral, lies near the French border.
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Air Ministry
Cologne
Piccadilly Circus
Britain
Dunkerque
Harris
England
Europe
Berlin
Méers
Hes
Ropean
Chamel
Germany
Rhine
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Wage Stabilization Conference
Panhandle Plains
Uta
McClelland Lake
Bert Howell
Claude
Braniff
Dallas
Santa Fe Railway
Texico Sesondax
Dumas
Fort Worth
Denver
Dal‘art
Women’s Army
Laughing Eyes
New York City
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Poers
Tobrukists
Rommel
Red Army
Kalinin
John Barrymore
Hollywood
Calvary Cemetery
Gordon W. LeVoy
Barrymore
Calvary Mausoleum
Lionel
Conchas Lake
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