Extension of Gas Rationing Faces National Debate
Washington reports a heated Capitol Hill clash over nationwide gasoline rationing as the War Production Board orders the Office of Defense Transportation to draft plans. Senators O Mahoney and Johnson critique executive overreach while Bone urges rationing to save tires. Officials warn guayule won t rapidly solve rubber shortages and synthetic rubber aims for 1 000 000 tons by 1943.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Congress
Johnson
Colorado
War Production Board
Office of Defense Transportation
Orage
Motor Transport Division
Mississippi River
Bone
Patents Committee
Guayule
Senate Appropriations
Quay
Department of Agriculture
C. M. Granger
Agriculture Department Forest Service
Granger
East Indies
Father Divine Opens DeLuxe Heaven for Harlem Followers
New York May 24 Father Divine, seated in a red plush chair before a gilded God portrait, opens a new heaven for Harlem followers with a call to the colors. About 1,500 present attend a turkey dinner at a $60,000 five floor community center serving as nursery, restaurant, home for the aged and training school under a neon Gods Holy Communion Table banner.
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New York
Father Divine
Harlem
Father Darling
U. S
Warm Weather Lingers Across Amarillo and West Texas
The region remains warm through Monday with scattered afternoon showers expected in Del Rio Eagle Pass and areas east of Pecos Valley. Temperatures reach mid to upper 60s to mid 70s with a trace of precipitation reported for the 24 hours ending 4 PM yesterday.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
West Texas
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Pecos Valley
Survivors Reported From U S Battleship Sinking Off Brazil
Buenos Aires May 24 official state fleet officer said Rio Iguazu rescued 53 people at sea but could not confirm if they were from a U S battleship. Berlin radio had earlier claimed 55 survivors from a U S battleship sunk by Italian submarine Barbarigo near the Brazilian coast. no independent confirmation yet.
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Buenos Aires
New York
Berlin
United States
U. S
Government Requisition Seizes Most Southern California Buses
The federal government seized virtually all inter city buses and drivers in Southern California for an indefinite period. Bus line officials were ordered to bring the vehicles and drivers to an undisclosed point at 1 PM Pacific War Time. How the buses would be used was not disclosed.
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San Diego
Cal
California
Russians Wrest Initiative From Nazis at Kharkov
Russian dispatches say the Red Army has shifted from defense to counterattack south of Kharkov, driving back German lines in the Izyum Barvenkovo sector and recapturing villages. Red Star reports air supremacy and continued pressure as Germans resort to massed tanks with limited effect.
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Izyum-Barvenkova
Fedor von Bock
Kharkov
Semeon Timoshenko
Red Army
Red Star
Red Air Force
Izyum-Barvenkovo
Burma Road Battles Push Near Kinhwa In Eastern China
Chinese and Japanese forces clash across Chekiang and Yunnan provinces as Japanese bombers strike Paoshan and other towns while near Kinhwa the fight rages, with Tokyo reporting progress and Chinese reports noting heavy casualties and disrupted transport routes. The day’s fighting also touches Nanchang as Chinese columns respond to the Japanese advance.
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Chungking
China
Burma
Burma Road
Paoshan
Yunnan
Chekiang
Kinhwa
Lanchi
Chientang River
Tungyang
Yiwu
Iwu
Pukiang
Kheenteh
Mekong
Salween
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Tungyang River
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Chinese Central Daily News
ODT Travel Survey Planned in Amarillo
A travel survey started by S. J. Cole director of the office of defense transportation aims to ration bus and railroad travel. L. L. Sisk said 20,000 travelers in Dallas Amarillo El Paso Fort Worth Houston and San Antonio will be interviewed and the survey will be completed by next Thursday midnight.
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Dallas
S. J. Cole
Office of Defense Transportation
L. L. Sisk
Amarillo
el Paso
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Battlefronts in May 24 1942 show counterattacks and global clashes
On the Izyum-Barvenkova front the Red Army halted a German diversion and launched a counterattack, leaving Nazi dead in Ukrainian hills. Elsewhere China and Japan clash as offensives loom, Allied bombers hit Amboina and Lae, and air battles rise over the Libyan Desert with Axis losses and British casualties.
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Associated Press
Red Army
Izyum-Barvenkova
Kharkov
Tobruk
Sergeant Hunt Drowns After Boat Fall on San Joaquin
Stockton California May 24 Army patrol boats and sheriff's deputies searched the San Joaquin River for the body of Sergeant Robert K Hunt who drowned last night after falling from a speeding boat in darkness. Hunt attached to the army motor supply base came from Amarillo Texas. Friends said his father is a judge there.
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Stockton
Calif
San Joaquin
Robert K. Hunt
Hunt
Army
Amarillo
Texas
Los Angeles Air Raid Warning Sounded
An air raid warning was sounded shortly before 9 PM in Los Angeles. The city was immediately blacked out as radios went off a few minutes earlier. The blackout covered Los Angeles County and parts of adjacent Orange County.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Orange County
Flood Claims 32 Lives In Northeastern Pennsylvania
Floods and flash waters across Lackawaxen Susquehanna and nearby rivers killed at least 32 people in Honesdale and surrounding towns. Rescue efforts focused on debris filled areas with many unaccounted for as homes were washed from foundations and industrial plants halted. Emergency rations aided volunteers and home guards as communities faced widespread devastation including gas tanks breaking loose and threats to bridges.
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Honesdale
Pennsylvania
Gertrude A. Baleser
Lehigh
Adams Island
Allentown
Susquehanna
Schuylkill
Lackawanna
A. C. Voight
Hawley
Dr. Voight
Lackawaxen
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Easton
Dealware River
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Buffalo Lake Stages Greatest Opening Yet
The fourth annual opening of Buffalo Lake was dedicated to the United States Navy as the first inland Navy Day in the United States. Navy Army Marine Corps and Coast Guard representatives attended with a dance raising funds for the Navy Relief Fund and speed boat races highlighted the day. Notables present included Col. E. C. Black Maj. Richard Weller and Ensign Jack Crain among many others from Amarillo Pampa Panhandle and Dallas naval units. Crain won the navy rowboat race while Billy and Bobby Finnell won the sailing boat race.
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Buffalo Lake
United States Navy
United States
Panhandle
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Navy Relief Fund
Amarillo
Col
E. C. Black
Jack Crain
Navy
Frank M. Bell
T. K. Morris
Morris
Billy
Bobby Finnell
Roy Cretzinger
Hugh Etter
Plainview
Allied Warship Sinks After Japanese Air Attack in Pacific
Allied headquarters reported a ship off Australia was hit by Japanese planes. The vessel caught fire and listed after three bomb hits, survivors were rescued by a destroyer and the ship was sunk. Crewmembers described near misses and life raft drift before rescue.
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Allied
Australia
Pan
General MacArthur
Allied Bombers Hit Amboina Harbor Raid In South Seas
Great American bombers from Australia carried out a 1200 mile round trip raid on Amboina harbor and shot down three Zero fighters after blasting shipping. The operation followed by another strike on Lae and RaBaul airfields as Allied planes faced heavy ground fire but inflicted significant losses on Japanese aircraft.
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Amboina
Netherlands East Indies
Lae
New Guinea
Burns
Allied
Australia
Celebes
East Indies
New Britain
MacArthur
Rabaul
Vunakanau
Blanche Bay
Doolittle Sees Tokyo Raid as Starter for Wider Bombing
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle told an army hour radio audience that future strikes would target Japanese and German objectives beyond Tokyo. He credited American planes for the raid's success and noted no further details could be disclosed. Separately, the navy reported a small U S merchant vessel torpedoed in the Caribbean with survivors reaching a Florida port.
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Washington
James HH
Doolittle
Tokyo
War Department
Pacific
U. S
Navy
United States
Caribbean
Florida
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Edward C. Judson
Judson
DeLuxe
Weather Bureau
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Nippon
ODT
Sgt
Lehigh River
Paul Timmons
South Pacific
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