Crushing Soviet Drive in Kharkov Front Report
A chaotic war bulletin notes a Soviet breakthrough snapping Nazi resistance in aKharkov sector. Simultaneous Pacific dispatches hint at a Coral Sea renewal with U S carriers Hornet and Enterprise sighted 580 miles east of the Solomons.
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Kharkov
Coral Sea
Pacific Battle
Burma
China
U. S
Ornet
Enterprise
Solomons
Australia
Truk
Lae
New Guinea
Deboyne Island
Louisiade
Mandated Islands
Tokyo
Domei
United States
Hornet
Solomon Islands
Shanghai
Paris
U.S
Oilman Cy Rieger Dies in Minnesota
Amarillo oil operator Cy Rieger died early yesterday in St. Paul Minnesota after a career spanning the Panhandle and Wichita Falls He was a former semipro and pro baseball player and served in the Army with the Lost Battalion His death leaves a legacy of oil development in Gray and Hutchinson counties and civic involvement Funeral arrangements will be announced later
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Cy Rieger
Amarillo
St. Paul
Minn
Reiger
W. M. Rieger
Polk Street
J. W. Caplan
Monroe Street
Rieger
Herring Hotel
Hibbing
Minnesota Iron Range
Ann Schultz
Panhandle
Wichita Falls
Borger
Jackson Pool
Gray County
Gray
Hutchinson
Jeep Makes Debut Today in Amarillo for Servicemen
The Amarillo Globe-News launches the Jeep weekly edition to deliver eight pages of regular Daily News and Globe stories to soldiers sailors and marines in the region. It is a service paper with no ads priced at $1 and aimed specifically at servicemen with news dated for May 11 to May 17.
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Amarillo
Globe-News
Jeep
Daily News
The
Globe
Weather temperature notes and forecast values
The report preserves scattered weather readings with daytime highs around the mid 50s to mid 60s and evening lows near the high 40s to low 60s. Readings include maximums near 55 to 63 and minimums around 41 to 59 with some stray figures.
Chinese and AVG Strike Japanese in Burma Front
Chinese forces and American volunteers report decisive defeats of Japanese columns north of the Burma Road on the Salween River. Chinese claims say units were driven back to the highway with heavy losses, while attacks near Tengyeuh Lungling Mangshih and Indo Chinese operations threaten a new southern front.
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Chungking
Burma Road
Salween River
Burma
Flying Tigers
Indo-China
Lungling
Tengyeuh
Salween
Lunglin
Hungsmushu
New Delhi Radio
India
Mekong
Kengtung
Thailand
Mong Hai
Mong Lin
Central News
American
Laokay
Hanoi
Yunnan
China
Kunming
Central
Tengyueh
Mangshih
Cost of Living Ceiling Takes Effect Across Retail Goods
Washington May 17 The OPA imposes a universal price ceiling on retail items from groceries to clothing effective tomorrow. Most stores already aligned prices and officials expect the average family saving about 12 percent versus the last 30 to 40 days. Retailers become government licensees and may lose their license for violations. consumers urged to cooperate and shop for bargains.
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William Needham
Washington
United States
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Price Control Guide for Food and Daily Goods
A consumer notice lists price controls on various items including meat seafood vegetables fruits eggs poultry dairy and processed goods. It outlines public eating places bars charity sales periodicals movies utilities travel tickets and securities subject to federal controls while identifying staples such as ice cream oats corn flakes lard sugar salt and rice under the program.
Allied Bombers Hit Lae and Deboyne in Heavy Raids
Allied air forces with Australian and American crews destroyed nine Japanese planes in three Lae raids in New Guinea and damaged a Deboyne Island seaplane. The Lae attacks caused extensive fires and ground damage with no Allied losses.
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Allied
Australia
Lae
New Guinea
Deboyne Islands
MacArthur
Deboyne Island
Louisiade Archipelago
Coral Sea
United States
Rabaul
New Britain
Hap Jolny
Bud Flint
Rabaul Harbor
USO Campaign Reaches 45 Percent Of Texas Goal
State USO war fund drive reports $493,542 raised in first week, over 45 percent of a $1,110,000 target. Quotas met in Gillespie Palmer Andrews Midland Sterling Pecos Nolan Stephens Live Oak and Edwards counties.
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USO
Houston
USO War Fund
Gillespie
Chester Nimitz
Palmer
Andrews
Midland
Sterling
Pecos
Nolan
Stephens
Live Oak
Edwards
Frontline Battles Rage Across Russia and Europe
A Sunday report describes German forces in disorder as the Soviet steamroller nears Kharkov and Krasnograd, with Red Army advances threatening key Ukrainian targets. British air raids over occupied France illuminate ongoing global conflict, while AP writers Steinkopf and Massack relay German shortages, a booming black market, and Italian defeatist mood under Mussolini.
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Kharkov
Krasnograd
Ukraine
Jimmy Daley Scores Another German Kill in Gravelines Sweep
Two American Eagle pilots credited by the air ministry with downing one German plane each in today’s Gravelines operation. Flying Officer R S Edner of Fergus Falls Minnesota and Pilot Officer W J Jimmy Daley of Amarillo Texas reported successful aerial victories amid the sweep over Gravelines, occupied France.
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London
R S. Edner
Fergus Falls
Minn
W. J. “Jimmy” Daley
Amarillo
Tex
Air Ministry
Gravelines
France
Del Rio Air Force Training School Planned
Sen. W Lee O Daniel announced war department authorization for an air force training school to be built at Del Rio. The project, approved by Gov Coke R Stevenson, will cost more than 3 million dollars and aims to expand military aviation capacity.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
W. Lee O'Daniel
War Department
del Rio
Reds Claim Major Soviet Breakthrough Near Kharkov
Moscow reports a Kharkov offensive pushing 20 to 60 kilometers, recapturing 300 localities and taking 1,200+ prisoners. Soviet communique lists 400 German tanks destroyed and large trophy haul as fighting rages from Kharkov toward Krasnograd and in Kerch Peninsula.
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Moscow
Kharkov Front
Red Army
Kharkov
Ukraine
Red Star
Krasnograd
Semeon Timoshenko
Crimea
Kerch
London
Red
Dnieper
Constantinograd
Dnieperopetrovsk
Kiev
Lozovaya
Kharkov-Sevastopol
Kerch Peninsula
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Sangre de Cristo Mountains
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Consumer’s Guide
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Krenz
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Willis
Indiana
Roosevelt
Earl Browder
Downey
California
Department of Justice
Pepper
South Pacific
Russia
Germany
Italy
Alvin J. Steinkopf
Richard G. Massack
Berlin
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Massack
Mussolini
Massock
Jimmy Daley
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