Southeast Coast Town Brushes With Total Blackout For War
A coastal town along the Southeast coast endures strict blackout rules as wardens monitor streets and transport. Night lights darken inland and ocean fronts, while trains and ships keep busy with wartime activity and drills. Residents adapt by using limited illumination and improvising living conditions.
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Ocean Front
River Bridge
Beneft
Amarillo
Army
Navy
Naval i
Mothers Write In To Seek News On Java Missing Troops
Local mothers and wives urge the War Department for information on Texas boys with Colonel Tharp in Java. The editor notes efforts to determine if crew members are missing or evacuated, seeking any official listing or clarification amid persistent rumors.
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Plainview
Tharp
Wichita Falls
Marshall
Tex
War Department
Java
Texas
E. E. Weiss
Col. Blucher S. Tharp
Two Panhandle Soldiers Lost
The War Department released a partial list of U S soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded in the Philippine Islands. Next of kin are notified and the Texans listed include Billie M. Black of Muleshoe and Harry D. Le Grand of Amarillo with their mailing addresses.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Black
Billie M
C. M. Black
Star Route 2
Muleshoe
le Grand
Harry D
Noble le Grand
Amarillo
Used Furniture Demand Boosts Globe-News Want Ads
Globe-News readers seek value in used furniture and appliances with strong ad demand. Mrs Campbell reports two days to find a buyer for an overstuffed sofa set including tables rug bed and dresser with phone contact 2-6696. Circulation May 21, 1942.
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Globe-News
Campbell
Globe-News Want
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Glider pilot training announced for Plainview and Clovis
The Army Air Corps plans to train 3000 glider pilots for Commando raids, to be in full operation by June 1 at four western airfields including Clovis New Mexico and Plainview Texas. Trainees must have 35 flying hours and 200 glider flights or completed elementary pilot course.
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Santa Ana
Cal
Army Air Corps
West Coast Air Corps Training Center
Wcactc
Luftwaffe
Army
Ralph P. Cousins
Clovis
N. M
Cutter Flying Service
William P. Cutter
Albuquerque
Plainview
Tex
Clin Breedlove
Clint Breedlove
Lubbock
Cousins
Shangri La Maps onto New Frontier Front Page
The New York World Telegram printed a mythical map placing Shangri La near other legendary realms on its front page. The feature cites a German broadcast claiming Brig. Gen James Doo little carried out the air raid from Shangri La, described by Roosevelt as a springboard for an attack on Japan.
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New York
Shangri-La
Roosevelt
Japan
New York World-Telegram
James H. Doolittle
Bill Pause
Valhalla
Utopia
Yongy-Bongy- Bo
Shangri- la
James Hilton
Four British Cadets Die in Gunter Field Crashes
Four British cadets were killed and two remained missing after a squall struck 35 training planes near Gunter Field between Atmore and Evergreen Alabama. The dead are Leading Aircraftmen James Maddick of Dundee Scotland Victor Lear of Rapstock North Bath England Patrick Overton of Portcawl South Wales and Ronald Randall of Birmingham England. The two missing cadets were not identified.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gunter Field
Atmore
Evergreen
James ¥. Maddick
Dundee
Scotland
Victor W. Lear
Rapstock
North Bath
Somerset
England
Patrick G. M. Overton
Portcawl
South Wales
Ronald FE. Randall
Birmingham
Wheeler No 1 in Draft Files For Butte Montana
Senator B K Wheeler of Montana tops a list of 45 to 64 year old men registered with Silver Bow County Draft Board No 2. His card was drawn first in a lottery to set the order for possible military call.
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Butte. Mont
B. K. Wheeler
Montana
Silver Bow
Dumas School Bid Set Here
Federal officials pause first contract awards for war public works in Texas and nearby states to review projects for indispensability to the war effort. Bid opening for Dumas school facilities estimated at 39,600 is scheduled in Amarillo on May 27.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
New Mexico
George F. Harley
Federal Works Agency
Harley
Federal Works
Philip B. Fleming
Dumas
Amarillo
Allied Subs Sink Jap Cruiser and Two Freighters
Allied submarines sank a 7,100-ton Japanese Kako class cruiser and two cargo vessels of 9,000 and 6,000 tons in the Southwest Pacific. MacArthur's headquarters reported 14 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged in New Guinea and Timor air bases.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Allied Headquarters
Australia
MacArthur
Japan
New Guinea
Timor
Lae
Koepang
Salvage of Normandie Begins After Renaming USS Lafayette
The U S Navy announced preliminary salvage work on the Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, will take about a year. Commander W A Sullivan outlined bulkhead division and controlled pumping to right the ship, which lies on a rock ledge at its New York pier, risking hull damage.
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Texas
New York
Lone Star State
Union
Washington
Navy
New York City
Knox
Lafayette
W. A. Sullivan
Normandie
Commander Publishes Clear Job Procedure for Pantex Plant
Major H P Burgard announced simplified employment instructions for two groups seeking work at the Pantex Ordnance Plant. Applicants must register with the United States Employment Service and then apply through Certainteed Products at 308 East Fourth Avenue Amarillo, with interviews, screenings, and possible photos and fingerprints coordinated at the Central Employment Office and Pantex site.
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Pantex Ordnance Plant
H. P. Burgard
Burgard
The
Globe News
Amarillo
Globe- News
Certain-teed Products Corporation
Freese & Nichols and McKenzie Construction Company
United States Employment Service
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Freese & Nichols and McKenzie
Fillmore Street
John
Mary Smith
Certainteed Products Corporation
Certainteed Products
East Fourth Avenue
Mary
Cookie Jar Emptied at Civic Center
The cookie jar at the Service Men's Civic Center ran dry yesterday as soldiers called for a refill. Amarillo baking experts are urged to supply cookies today for upcoming demands, with deliveries expected at the Amarillo Hotel. A brief call for playing cards also went out from the center.
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Service Men
Amarillo
Hereford Pilot Saves Home Before Fatal Crash
Hereford Tex pilot Second Lieut. Charles J. Borden was killed when his P-39 crashed in flames near Harding Field Baton Rouge. Witnesses said he pulled the plane away from a house in the Baton Rouge suburbs before impact after a flaming dive. He was commissioned December 12, 1941 at Nather Field Stockton Cal. He was the son of L. F. Borden of Hereford.
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Baton Rouge
Charles J. Borden
Hereford
Tex
Harding Field
L. F. Borden
Nather Field
Stockton
Cal
Russian Breakthrough at Kharkov Reported in May 1942
On May 21 1942 reports note a Russian advancement at Kharkov moving six miles into German territory. The death of Lieut. Charles J. Borden of Hereford from Baton Rouge Louisiana is announced and his body will be received by N S and S Griggs & Sons with funeral services to follow.
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London
Idon
Bern
Switzerland
Wilmer Zeitung
Vilna
Poland
Minsk
Russia
Kharkov
Charles J. Borden
Hereford
Baton Rouge
N. S&s. Griggs & Sons
William Marsaillis
Amarillo
Borden
China
Foochow
Three Die In Fiery Bus Car Crash Near Claude
A midnigh crash two miles east of Claude left three dead including Miss Imogene Holbert and a Dallas architect, with ten bus passengers injured. The stolen car and Bowen bus collided head on, both engulfed in flames, as rescuers and investigators sought the driver and clues from a burned badge and whisky bottle.
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Claude
Bowen
Imogene Holbert
Western Avenue
Maxor Drug Stores
Dallas
Amarillo
Texas
Clyde H. Holtzclaw
Homer L. Penrod
Wichita Falls
C. M. Akin
Northwest Texas Hospital
Jesse McKissick
Bonham
Tex
Ethel Burch
Thackerville
Okla
Carl L. Dunlap
Esler Field
George W. Maness
Camp Bowie
L. O. Edwards
Edwin Pohlmeter
Sheppard Field
William LaRash
O. M. Ballard
James Johnson
Camp Shelby
Miss
Miss Holbert
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Clarendon
Soviet Kharkov Offensive Breaches German Line
Moscow dispatch reports Red Star detailing a 40 minute assault breaching a key German stronghold near Kharkov. Timoshenko’s forces pushed six miles into open ground as German resistance, and von Schwedier’s counter thrust, influenced the frontline, with additional raids and guerrilla activity cited on the wider front.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Semeon Timoshenko
Red Star
Karelia
Viktor von Schwedier
Barvenkova-Izyum
Crimea
Kerch
Caucasus
Izyum
Barvenkova
London
Kharkov Front
Belgorod
Lozovaya
von Schwedler
Bucharest
Bern
Chuguey
Timoshenko
Army
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Vance Johnson
Plainview, Tex
Panhandle
Wheeler
Weather Bureau
United States of
Continental Divide
Central Mountain Range
West Texas
South Plains
Big Bend
BOOTS
Dumas School
U. S
Miles
Kiev
Odessa
Ulina
ENSK
Bryansk
Egomel
Sevastopol
Iqmoscoow
Kursk
Barverkova
Dnheperope
Frovsk
Black Sea
Ryazan
Ostov
Smolensk
Germany
Mexico
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