OPA Sets Retail Price Ceiling on Summer Articles
The Office of Price Administration issues a formula to cap retail prices on summer items such as lightweight clothing outdoor furniture and beach toys. Retailers must use the lower of last year’s average cost or replacement cost after May 11 1942 and add the previous season’s average markup.
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Associated Press
Washington
Office of Price Administration
California
Florida
OPA
Battle Rages at Caucasus Gate
Heavy fighting raged through the night in the Kerch Peninsula as German forces hurled cavalry tanks and infantry at Soviet defenses. Red Army reports claimed destruction of 102 Nazi planes, German vehicles and a major counterattack failed, while notes from Berlin and Rome described German advances and cautious official claims of a first spring offensive.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Kerch
Caucasus
Red Army
Kozlov
Crimean
Rome
Kalinin
Red
Demenyuk
Black Sea
Red Fleet
Tass
London
Crimea
Berlin
Germany
Wilhelmstrasse
Foreign Office
Panhandle USO Drive Surges Toward Quotas Across Plains
Panhandle United Service Organization pushes toward a $40 636 goal as campaigns in 26 Plains counties accelerate. Palmer County already oversubscribed, with Potter County accounting for over half the regional total 22 000. Texas leaders note high service involvement and urge rapid fundraising to support USO centers at military sites and mobile units.
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Jay Taylor
USO Drive
Panhandle
Harry C. Weiss
Houston
Texas
United Service Organizations
USO
Weiss
Roosevelt
Salvation Army
YMCA
The
YWCA
National Catholic Community Center
Jewish Welfare Board
National Travelers’ Aid Association
Hemisphere
Weather snapshot with temperatures and sun times
The report lists temperatures and sun timings from 7 AM to 11 AM with a high of 83 degrees around noon and a low near 41 degrees. Sunset is at 8:42 PM and sunrise around 6:45 AM.
House Votes to Raise Army Pay to Fifty Dollars a Month
The House tentatively approved raising private and apprentice seamen pay to $50 monthly, with first class privates and second class seamen at $54, while back privates and apprentices remain lower. Final passage postponed. Senate figures may be restored in conference.
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Washington
House
Senate
Jackson
Mississippi
Sinking of freighter reported in St Lawrence River attack
Ottawa reports the first enemy submarine attack in the St Lawrence waters, sinking one freighter. Navy Minister Angus MacDonald says 41 survivors are ashore and shipping protection plans are in operation. Details of location withheld to protect enemy information.
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St. Lawrence River
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Navy
Angus McDonald
Quebec
Anticosti Island
Gulf of St. Lawrence
W. L. McKenzie King
Gulf
MacDonald
Nova Scotia
River
WPB Establishes Construction Bureau in War Priorities
War Production Board announces a construction bureau to process all construction priority applications. The unit will be led by William V. Kahler on leave from his post as chief engineer for the Chicago area at Illinois Bell Telephone Company.
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WPB
Washington
The
War Production Board
William V. Kahler
Chicago
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Battlefront Update May 12 1942 Across The Fronts
German troops renewed assaults on Red defenders in the Kerch Peninsula threatening the oil route to the Caucasus. British and Chinese efforts in Burma failed to alter the broader pattern. Jap invasion forces remained largely intact north of Australia after the Coral Sea clash. Germany seized France’s labor supply as Vichy stance drew little comment in Washington. Bombing raids by Nazi dive bombers sank three British destroyers in the Mediterranean.
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Burma
Assam
India
Calcutta
Upper
Kerch
Caucasus
China
Coral Sea
Australia
Germany
France
Washington
Vichy
Martinique
Jeeps Rolling With the News campaign by Amarillo Glee Club
Amarillo High School Glee Club members launch a citywide Jeep to send copies of Globe News to service members. Subscriptions cost 1 per year with prepaid options and billing later for those unable to pay upfront. The effort aims to reach every Panhandle service member with the first edition as a lasting souvenir.
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Uncle Sam
Globe News
Amarillo
Glee Club
Mabel Rowman
Miss Rowan
Panhandle
Rosendahl Reports Heavy U-Boat Activity Off Florida and Gulf
Capt Charles E Rosendahl head of the Navy lighter‑than‑air service told the House naval committee that there is a great deal of submarine activity off the Florida coast and in the Gulf of Mexico The committee approved a bill for 24 additional blimps Rosendahl said they are doing very excellent work in combating the submarine menace
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Washington
Charles E. Rosendahl
Navy
House Naval Committee
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Rosendahl
Poisoning Strikes Hedley School Pupils in Clarendon Shuttle
About 50 Hedley school children and seven teachers fell ill from ptomaine poisoning after lunch. Ambulances ferried victims to Clarendon Clinic and Womack Funeral Home with no fatalities reported by 8:30 PM. Officials suspected lunchroom food, with many kept under observation as investigators planned.
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Clarendon
Hedley School
Clarendon Clinic
Womack Funeral Home
W. C. Payne
Payne
Memphis
Buntin and Womack
Hedley
McLean
Womack
Pr. D. H. Cox
Dr. Lowell
Lumber Needed To Store Wheat
In College Station on May 12 the Texas USDA war board urged Washington action to end a critical lumber shortage delaying construction of farm wheat storage units. Chairman B. W. Vance warned storage could reach 27 million bushels unless materials are supplied in the Panhandle.
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Schwebe
Calcutta
Burma
Assam
Shwebo
India
Myitkyina
Tibet
College Station
Texas Usda War Board
Washington
B. W. Vance
Panhandle
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Daniel Deluce
Upper Burma
Rangoon
Monywa
Chindwin
Chintwin
Kalewa
Kangyi
United Nations
Singapore
Indies
Philippines
Caucasus Gate
Jerry
Washington, D. C
Panhandle Uso
South Fillmore
Globe-News
Max
Sunris
New Mexico
West Texas
Triaerarr
Representative Fish
New York
United States
Representative Vinson
Naval Affairs Committee
Vinson
Rankin
Sutphin
New Jersey
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Public Health Service
Nursing Service
May
Kentucky
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Mediterranean
Gulf Coasts
Russell Stationery Co
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
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