Brilliant Broadway Star Shines in Soldier Show at Amarillo
Miss Jean Madden headlines the Army relief revue Three Dots With a Dash in the Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday. Funds from ticket sales benefit Army Emergency Relief for widows and orphans. Local business leaders sponsor. Donated talent and expenses by Miss Madden and Sheppard Field personnel. Tickets are sold at local druggists and Miller's Pharmacy.
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Hollywood
Municipal Auditorium
Jean Madden
Amarillo
Army Emergency Relief Fund
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sheppard Field
Miss Madden
Dick Powell
Walter Huston
Miss Adden
Flavia
Herbert Drug
Maxor Drug
Pool Drug
Cretney Drug
Miller's Pharmacy
Government slashes office machinery production for six months
The War Production Board ordered a sharp cut in office machinery output to June 30, 1944, aiming to build a stockpile for government and essential business needs. Non essential cutlery and other items also face production limits as agencies shift to full war effort.
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Washington
Ders
War Production Board
WPB
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Tata
Helium land purchase approved for Amarillo expansion
Roosevelt authorized the Interior Department to acquire land for a 4 million dollar expansion of the Amarillo helium plant. The plan includes drilling wells and new buildings to boost output at the world s only helium facility, with funds added by the Senate appropriations committee for war needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Amarillo
Tex
Senate Appropriations Committee
Department
U S Pledges Join in Air Raids on Nazis
London dispatch reports British and American air forces coordinating a major daylight offensive aimed at German industry city by city. Luftwaffe attacks on Canterbury cause damage with light casualties as Cologne remains largely alight after a massive raid.
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London
United States Air Force
RAF
Cologne
Boston
Holland
Cherbourg
Europe
Flushing
Brugge
Boulogne
Dieppe
Abbeville
Calais
Air Ministry
Rhineland
Germany
England
Canterbury
France
Channel
United States
Henry H. Arnold
Arnold
A. T. Harris
RAF Bomber Command
Harris
Evening Standard
U. S
Evening News
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Battlefront Quick View Signals Global WWII Press Briefing
The notice summarizes strategic moves across multiple theaters. German withdrawals from the Rhineland precede heavy Allied bombing in Cologne. In Asia Japan expands its offensive in Kwangt ng Province while U S and Australian raids target Rangoon and other objectives. The Soviet front remains quiet as Moscow anticipates a wider clash.
Doolittle Praises North American B 25 Plant at Inglewood
Brig. Gen. Jimmie Doolittle lauded workers at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood California for producing the B 25 bombers used in the Tokyo raid. He credited the crews and the factory with superb performance and hinted the Shangri La myth linked to the plant. Prizes were awarded in a production ideas contest to James R. Hinds Paul R. Burcham and Andrew Brown.
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Cal
Shanegri-La
Jimmie Doolittle
Tokyo
Shangri-La
Roosevelt
Doolittle
North American
America
Kindelberger
James
R. Hinds
Dallas, Tex
Paul R. Burcham
Kansas City
Andrew Brown
New York World Telegram
William Pause
Japan
Hitler Plans Major Offensive Across Russia in June
Louis P. Lochner reports Adolf Hitler aims for a general assault on the entire Russian front possibly in June or July and may push a pincer move through Turkey and Iran to reach the Caucasus. He cites a German source aboard the Drottningholm and notes expected surprises and the strategic aim to finish Russia with oil from the Caucasus.
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Russia
Turkey
Iran
New York
Louis P. Lochner
Lisbon
Adolf Hitler
Associated Press
Gerlin Bureau
Lochner
Drottningholm
United Nations
Caucasus
Tran
England
India
Germany
Franz von Papen
Franzel’ Papen
Bad Naudheim
von Papen
Iit
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
Ankara
Greece
Ionian Sea
Dardanelles
Piraeus
Navy Casualty List No 4 Cites Missing Enlisted Men
Navy Department released casualty list number 4 covering April 16 to May 10 1942. AP dispatches to the News list Panhandle enlistees missing including Anderson Excell Barker Buchanan Davis Day Gear Stone with their listed next of kin and addresses in Pampa Happy Amarillo and related areas.
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Navy Department
Associated Press
Panhandle
Anderson
von R
Excell Anderson
Glazier
Hemphill County
Barker
Russell P
Sarah Barker
Littlefield
Buchanan
Knox A
C. V. Buchanan
Happy. Davis
George D
Ernest V. Davis
Crest Street
Pampa
Day
James R
Marie Day
E. Foster Street
Gear
Joe Bailey
Jess J. ‘Gear
Cleveland
Amarillo
Stone
Grenville Cook
May C. Stone
Happy
Navy commissions new lighter-than-air squadron at Elizabeth City
The Navy commissioned a new lighter-than-air squadron at the naval air station in Elizabeth City to combat Axis submarines off the Atlantic coast. Commanding officer of the new group, C. P. Squadron 14, is Lieutenant Commander Daniel S. Weintraub. Details on the craft or their numbers were not released.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Atlantic
Naval Air Station
C. P. Squadron 14
Daniel S. Weintraub
Bulgarian Ex-War Minister Executed for Espionage
Radio Berlin reported that Gen. Vladimir Zaimoff, former Bulgarian minister of War, and five others were sentenced to death in Sofia for spying for Russia. Zaimoff was executed immediately.
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London
Radio Berlin
Vladimir Zaimoff
Bulgaria
Sofia
Russia
Zaimoff
Bombers Pound Burma Bases In Three Air Raids
U S heavy bombers under Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton conducted three raids in Burma during May 29 to June 1. They sank an enemy tanker, damaged other ships, hit runways at Myitkyina airfield and damaged parked planes while all American aircraft returned unharmed to base in India despite anti aircraft fire and enemy intercept attempts.
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Washington
War Department
Lewis H. Brereton
Burma
India
Department
New Delhi
Brereton
Myitkyina
General Brereton
Rangoon
Mexico Declares War on Axis Powers in World War II
President Manuel Avila Camacho signed a declaration placing Mexico at war with Germany Japan and Italy. The move, approved by Congress, follows Axis attacks on Mexican ships and marks Mexico as the 27th Allied nation. The act grants powers to mobilize resources and manpower as relations with the Axis deteriorate after Pearl Harbor.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexico
Germany
Japan
Italy
United Nations
Congress
Florida
United States
Pigmy U Boats Raid Sydney
Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney Harbor in a rare Southern Australian raid. Three subs likely sunk. only a ferry steamer was destroyed. Shells and depth charges roared as harbor defenses engaged. residents awakened by the night attack at 11 PM. About twenty one ferry passengers witnessed the clash.
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Sydney
Australia
Broad
Pearl Harbor
Fire in Boy Scout Forest Burned 1000 Acres Contained
A fire scorched about 1,000 acres of Boy Scouts of America timber in Carson National Forest. Assistant Supervisor Kenneth Keeney announced the blaze was brought under control tonight.
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Tavo
A. M
Boy Scouts of America
Kenneth Keeney
Carson National Forest
Minefields Trap Rommel as Axis Deadlock Near Tobruk
Cairo June 1 AP The two Axis armored divisions in Libya remain trapped by British minefields and air bombardment south of Tobruk after two days of fighting. Rommel’s forces struggle to escape through two gaps as British artillery, tanks and the RAF pound supply lines and air centers. Cruewell, captured with his reconnaissance plane shot down, is among the highest ranking German officers captured.
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Egypt
Libya
Tobruk
Erwin Rommel
Neil M. Ritchie
Ludwig Cruewell
African Corps
Rommel
Ain el Gazala
Bir Hacheim
RAF
Knights Bridge
Martuba
Derna
el Tmimi
Messina
Sicily
Cruewell
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Africa
France
Yugoslavia
Kiev
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