British Fight To Save Tobruk Front In Bitter Desert Battle
Cairo dispatch reports the Eighth Army in a fluid, costly clash to halt Axis tank breakthroughs west of Tobruk, with Italian and German forces claiming progress north of Acroma and Derna air raids crippling enemy air power. British raids target Acroma, Ain el Gazala, and Derna as Tobruk’s fate hangs in balance.
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Cairo
Tobruk
Acroma
Ain el Gazala
Bir Hacheim
Eralbo
Torak
Eighth Army
Ein Er Gazala
el Adem
g@tobruk
RAF
Derna
Egypt
Mediterranean Convoy Battle: Italy Claims Major Losses
Italian broadcasts claim a second day of air attacks on a large British convoy bound for Alexandria or Malta. They say two escorting cruisers and a destroyer were sunk and a battleship, carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer, and four other ships damaged. Gains and losses reported by Il Giornale d Italia indicate the eastbound convoy dispersed and many transports turned back.
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Rome
Mediterranean
High Command
Atlantic
London
Il Giornale d'Italia
Britain
Alexandria
Malta
Sardinia
Sicily
Tunisia
Suez
Cape Teulada
Philippeville
Cape Bon
Tunisian
Il Giornale
Tobruk Battle Weighs on North Africa Fate
Descriptive dispatch from Cyrenaica notes weary British and Axis troops after three weeks of brutal fighting near Tobruk. Analysts debate whether the campaign will decide the North Africa theater or fizzle, with Rommel’s plan faltering and neither side clearly besting the other.
Small Farmers Meet Challenge In War Food Program
R W Hudgens of the Farm Security Administration says small farm units can boost food production for the war without extra labor. The program aids farmer income and loaned capital, with FSA supervision to raise output while not increasing labor use. Hudgens cites credit issues and high poverty among farm families and notes Amarillo officials are briefed on the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Hudgens
Farm Security Administration
Washington
FSA
Mr. Hudgens
Amarillo
Potter County Ballot Draw Sets July Primary Field
Potter County Democrats finalize ballot placements for the July 25 primary at a called meeting. Candidates were notified of assessments. some state race questions and residency changes were discussed. key offices listed with top contenders and lineups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Democratic Executive Committee
Oliver Eakle
Aerial Torpedo Attacks Smash Enemy Fleet in Aleutians
American air power struck the Aleutian front to sink at least one cruiser and damage seven other vessels including an aircraft carrier. The events followed Japanese attempts to expand in the Northern Pacific as Army and Navy aircraft pressed attacks amid fog and bad weather. The attack tally since Pearl Harbor stood at 59 ships put out of action, with eight aircraft carriers among them.
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Washington
Aleutians
Hemisphere
Pacific
Australia
Southwest Pacific
Midway Island
Mid-Pacific
Japan
Aleutian
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Chief
Aleutian Islands
Navy
Attu Island
Dutch Harbor
Kiska
Attu
Coral Sea
Midway
Pearl Harbor
Arnold
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
Western Hemisphere
United States Army
Kiska Harbor
Rat Islands
Army
North Pacific
Rubber Drive Launched Here In Amarillo
Amarillo begins national scrap rubber drive with two and a half tons gathered at local filling stations. Adkisson-Baker Co led with about 500 pounds bought at Ninth Avenue and Tyler Street. Proceeds support USO. drive runs through July 1 and may influence future gas rationing plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
USO
H. O. Starks
Panehandle District
Dallas
Amarillo Pilot Wins Distinguished Flying Cross
London report says Flight Officer William James Daley 23 of Amarillo Texas, RAF American Eagle Squadron, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. His citation notes keen officer with outstanding devotion to duty, having completed many sorties over Northern France Holland and Belgium since February and destroyed at least two enemy planes. Daley received his RAF commission last year and had been mentioned several times in air ministry bulletins.
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London
U.P
William James Daley
Amarillo
Tex
RAF
Air Ministry
Daley
France
Holland
Belgium
Texan
Weather Outlook and Amarillo Temperatures Report
Warm and windy with a good chance of thunderstorms late Tuesday in Amarillo and West Texas New Mexico area. Temperature by hours showed highs around 60 and lows near 52 with sunrise at 6 32 and sunset at 9 03. Precipitation for a 24 hour period ending yesterday at 4 PM recorded 0 16 inches.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Castro Suffers Heavily in Hailstorm
Castro County, Texas, suffered extensive damage after a Sunday night hailstorm cut a 10 mile wide swath west of Dimmitt. Losses were estimated around half a million dollars with many farmers uninsured. crops including wheat and cotton were destroyed and replanting is impossible in places.
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Dimmitt
Dewitt Lamb
Castro County
Texas adopts June oil production limits by Railroad Commission
The Texas Railroad Commission sets a statewide crude production limit for the latter half of June at 1,190,322 barrels per day, with an estimated actual production of 1,111,340 barrels daily. The order, signed by Ernest O. Thompson and Olin Culberson, resets schedules, increases East Texas shut downs, and notes Sadler's resignation while affirming a business as usual approach.
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Austin
Ernest O. Thompson
Olin Culberson
Texas Railroad Commission
Culberson
Jerry Sadler
East Texas
Harold Ickes
Sadler
Thompson
Claude Receives First 1942 Wheat Load
Claude officials welcomed the first load of 1942 wheat at the Nelson Elevator. Emmett Jones, who farmed eight miles south, received a $10 premium as the wheat tested 60 pounds to the bushel. Elevator officials expect more grain to trickle in this week, with harvest not at full swing for another week or ten days.
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Claude
Emmett Jones
Nelson
Jones’ Farm
Orrin J. Brown Executed in Hansford County History
Orrin J. Brown, 56, condemned for the hammer slaying of Mrs. Leota Murphy near Spearman, Hansford County, died in the electric chair at the state penitentiary. He was arrested in Chicago in 1941 after meeting the victim via a Denver marriage bureau and identified by a shoe name. Brown was convicted in 1941, appealed, and after a 30 day reprieve, was executed. he claimed another man was the killer. This marked Hansford County's first death penalty.
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Huntsville
Orrin J. Brown
Leota Murphy
Marion
Ind
Murphy
Brown
Denver
Colo
Spearman
Hansford
Oklahoma
Chicago
Hansford County
Italian storm troops join assault on Leningrad
Stockholm dispatch notes Dadligt Allehanda reporting a heavy land and sea attack on Leningrad with powerful trained Italian storm troops and assault boats taking part.
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Stockholm
Dadligt Allehanda
Leningrad
Sunk Lexington sailor to return home to Amarillo
One of the happiest couples in Amarillo last night were Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lucas who live at 719 North Arthur Street. Their son Rugene Colgrove, a yeoman first class, was aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington when it was sunk in the Pacific. He expects to arrive in Amarillo tonight after more than two years in the navy. The Lucases had not heard from him since February.
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Bob Stone
Potter County
John P. McBride
Justice of Peace
McBride
Stone
James FE. Kilday
Mr. Stone
Kilday
Amarillo
Congress
Eighteenth District
Eugene Worley
Wheeler County
Lynn Miller
Gray County
Court of Civil Appeals
Seventh Supreme Judicial District
E. C. Nelson
W. T. Link
Donley County
J. Ross Bell
Childress County
E. L. Pitts
Lubbock County
G. H. Little
Riley Strickland
Henry S. Bishop
James G. Lumpkin
Ernest O. Northcutt
Tom Seay
Ben Smith
Hubert Cole
John H. Winters
Lieee An Eg
George Killian
Dan Payillard
H. Grady Wilson
Annie Baker
J. D. Cazzell
C. W. Carder
Lewis Meritt
George A. Tomlinson
Gilsy Coffee
Charlie Ellis
Democratic Executive Committee
M. I. Huddleston
Robert A. Stone
C. A. Lucas
North Arthur Street
Rugene Colgrove
Lexington
Pacific
Colgrove
Mr. Lucas
Fort Worth
Denver
Russell Stationery Company
Battlefronts Rumble Across Global Theaters
June 15 1942 war brief reports Navy and Army bombers strike in the North Pacific sinking a Japanese cruiser damaging seven ships near the Aleutians. Japanese pincers push in China within 75 miles of meeting. Air raid hits Darwin Australia. German advances in Russia amid Nazi tank destruction and Kharkov defense. Tobruk encirclement pressure and Italian attacks on British convoys in the Mediterranean. The desert hour of climax rumbles as Africa and the Med theaters flare.
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Africa
Mediterranean
Tobruk
Desert
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Seleens
Axis
Middle East
Cyrenaica
Libya
North Africa
Egyptian
Erwin Rommel
Nile Valley
Russia
Kone
Pacific Frontier
Jimmy Daley
Dfc
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Evoces
Tidevacce
Castro
China
Darwin
Red
Kharkov
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