Battle For Attu Nears Climax On Pacific Front
In Washington reports the battle for Attu Island nears its final phase as American troops trap Japanese forces at Chichagof Harbor. Navy and Army Air Force support the assault with air and sea power and massed pincer movements aim to isolate the enemy garrison.
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U. S
Navy
Holtz Bay
Attu Island
Massacre Bay
Chichagof Harbor
Attu
Pacific Frontier
Washington
United States
Tokyo
Eugene Landrum
Aleutians
Sarana Pass
Massacre
Holtz Hays
South Pacific
Amchitka Islands
Guadalcanal
Russell Islands
Fresh Troops Go Into Battle of Midwest Floods
Fresh troops rushed to hold levee lines as six midwestern states face record flood crests along the Mississippi and its tributaries. Evacuations affect Peoria, Beardstown, Liverpool, and other towns while damages approach $25 million in Oklahoma and $20 million overall.
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Midwest
Mississippi
Illinois
Indiana
Oklahoma
J. A. Adams
Fort Chartres
Stringtown
Ivy Landing
Grand Tower
Ill
Missouri
Mississippi River
Jefferson Barracks
Scott Pield
Prairie du Pont
N. Claryville
Beardstown
Peoria
Richland
Wesley City
Chillicothe
Liverpool
Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture
Coffeyville
Kan
Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma
Terre Haute
Vincennes
Montezuma
Clinton
Wabash
Mosquito Intruders Haunt German Air Force
RAF Mosquito pilots harass German raiders over Europe while Goering keeps bombers at home. Wing Commander Tomalin notes jitters in the Luftwaffe as intruders disrupt morale and force fighters to shrink operations. Rae Smart leads a night raid, downing Junkers 87s and complicating rail targets.
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Britain
Reichmarshal Goering
RAF
Mosquito
Charles Douglas Tomalin
Germany
Berlin
Tomalin
France
Rae Smart
Gunter Field
Montgomery
Ala
Craig Field
Selma
Peter Wood
Albany
Arcadia
Fila
Food Czar Would Reduce Herds To Save Grain
Washington reports a war food administration study proposing a major shift in US agriculture. Meat production would be cut while cereals and vegetable proteins like soybeans rise, potentially lowering animal feed demand and altering the American diet during wartime.
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Foodc Zar
Washington
America
War Food Administration
Chester C. Davis
Canada
Great Lakes
Mr. Davis
United Nations
Davis
Stalin Receives Roosevelt Envoy in Moscow Kremlin
Joseph E Davies delivered a secret Roosevelt letter to Premier Stalin in the Kremlin after meeting Molotov. The envoy traveled from the United States aboard the same four engine plane used by Roosevelt to Casablanca last January. Churchill and Roosevelt both hope for a future meeting with Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek. Davies will brief Stalin and return home.
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Moscow
Joseph E. Davies
President Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Kremlin
Vyacheslav Molotov
United States
Davies
Casablanca
Churchill
Washington
Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Roosevelt
Tyist
Eden Presses Daylight Bombing Plan at Conservative Rally
Prime Minister Churchill’s bomb the Axis strategy is urged experimentally by Eden who lauds Churchill as the greatest Englishman and forecasts a US UK day and night air war to force surrender. Commentators debate human factors and feasibility alongside Russia and North Africa notes.
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London
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Eden
United States
American Congress
Arthur T. Harris
Germany
Britain
Goebbels
Geremany
North Africa
Fair Panhandle Wheat Yield Seen in Survey
NW Texas Panhandle wheat is expected to yield fairly despite potential hail. Farmers and experts say heading is good and sufficient moisture now would not boost yields. rainfall 20 days ago would have improved prospects. V FE. A. Regal Co., Real Estate Loans.
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Dalhart
Texas Panhandle
Allied Forces Advance with Attu Capture and Europe Raids
Battlefront brief notes Allied forces seize Attu in the Aleutians as airmen destroy 12 enemy planes in Sicily and Sardinia. Raids deepen over Europe, Davies reaches the Kremlin with a letter to Stalin, and Churchill and Roosevelt convene a Pacific War Council amid praise for the anti Axis effort.
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Sicily
Sardinia
Weather roundup and classified want ad sample from Amarillo papers
Weather outlook across Amarillo area and nearby states notes warmer temperatures and gusty winds with showers and thunderstorms possible in the mountains. The sample also shows a Globe News want ad promotion with a 40 cent rate and a 20 dollar sale for a 4 drawer filing cabinet at 705 Monroe.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Skeers
Ciants
Monroe
Randle guilty of manslaughter in high school boy death
In Annapolis on May 26 a 12 member jury found Mrs Helen Aileen Randle guilty of manslaughter in the death of Allen Willey a 16 year old student. The verdict comes after a high profile trial and is reported on page 18.
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Annapolis
Helen Aileen Randle
Allen Willey
Legion Chief Warns of Heavy Casualties in Africa Invasion
National Commander Roane Waring of the American Legion tells a Herring Hotel audience that American forces in North Africa suffered very heavy casualties. He cites graveyards and firsthand Ike information and argues the public should receive full facts rather than only victories.
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Legion
North Africa
Roane Waring
American Legion
Herring Hotel
Eisenhower
Waring
Nazi publication predicts land invasion to decide war
In Bern the Das Schwarze Korps says a real victory hinges on Allied land invasion of Europe and warns Germans that the Allies will likely strike by sea to sever the continent. It calls for preventing a coastline assault while fascist press reassures Italians Mussolini’s Italy aims to deter invasion and notes Japan-focused plans.
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Germany
Mussolini
Italy
Bern
Das Schwarze Korps
Ivasion
Popolo d’Italia
Japan
Corriere Della Sera
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