Seabees on Attu help build airbase as fights persist
Pacific front reports say Attu Island fighting continues with Japanese air raid losses. Navy bulletins show 12 of 16 bombers destroyed or probably wiped out and four escaped toward the Kuriles while U S Lightning fighters repelled the raid. Seabees of the navy construction battalion are aiding combat forces and may complete a new airbase on Attu.
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Washington
Attu Island
Navy
Kuriles Islands
Attu
Aleutians
Amchitka Island
Kiska
Knox
United States
North Pacific
South Pacific
Shortland Island
Solomons
Allied Air Offense Rolls Across Europe and Africa
Allied planes pound Western Europe and strike the Mediterranean from Africa as bombers hit Dortmund and Sardinia while Cagliari evacuates. Rome reports martial law in Sardinia and Sicily as refugees flee toward Rome. Russia holds and Britain and the United States push toward Berlin with daytime precision bombing and night raids.
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Europe
France
Dortmund
Mediterranean
Cagliari
Pantelleria
Rome Radio
Sardinia
Sicily
Reuters
Zurich
Italy
Rome
North Africa
Germany
Russia
Churchill
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Washington
Africa Corps
Burgoyne
Saratoga
Africa
Stalingrad
Hitler
Skip a Year Tax Compromise Reaches House Vote
Senate and House conferees agree on a pay as you go income tax plan to cancel a full year’s taxes for those owing 50 dollars or less and 75 percent for others. A 20 percent withholding levy on wages would begin July 1 with the remaining 25 percent stretched over 1944 and 1945.
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Washington
Senate
House
Doughton
North Carolina
Coughton
Congress
Weather roundup for Amarillo and West Texas
Weather report notes warmer Wednesday with scattered thunder storms in Amarillo and vicinity and west Texas. New Mexico shows widely scattered showers and thunderstorms in northern mountains and northeast Wednesday evening. Temperatures mostly steady with limited changes.
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Amarillo
West
Texas
el Paso
New Mexico
Sailor For Poll Tax Ban Sparks House Debate
The House passed a bill 265 to 110 banning poll taxes in seven Southern states for primaries and general elections. A visiting sailor, Evan Owen Jones Jr., interrupted from the gallery arguing against poll taxes, calling the Civil War a distraction as debate focused on voting rights and constitutional authority.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Evan Owen Jones, Jr
Los Angeles
Navy
Singapore
Rep. Whittington
Mississippi
Jones
Kenneth Romney
House Chamber
Capitol
Hobbs
Alabama
Rep
Hoffman
Michigan
War Ration Book 3 Forms Distributed With Mailing Rules
Postman urges delaying mailing until June 1 and asks households to use proper mailing addresses. Do not mail bent or folded forms. Russell Stationery Company notes ration books Scrapbooks and photo albums may be available.
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Russell Stationery Company
Canning Sugar Expanded. 16 Pounds Per Person Now Allowed
The food panel announced that 6 pounds per person for canning sugar can be obtained by mailing Ration Book No 1 to Room 111 at the County Courthouse, in addition to 5 pounds from stamps Nos 15 and 16. Each person may receive 16 pounds now and 25 pounds for the year, with processing ongoing and books available at the board office.
Trainmen Save Boy From Death After Fall Under Train
Ronald Edward Prien eight, fell from an overpass onto a moving Denver track. Fort Worth and Denver switch engineer Carl Hamilton stopped the train in time. Fireman R A Johnson and switchmen Bowman Lucas Conner rushed the boy to hospital.
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Ronald Edward Prien
St. Anthony's Hospital
Carl Hamilton
Fort Worth & Denver
Rock Island
Denver
Hamilton
R. A. Johnson
L. Bowman
C. A. Lucas
M. ©. D. Conner
First Avenue
Tyler Street
Griggs
Ronald Edward Pllen
Lester J. Prien
West Eighth Avenue
Prien
H. H. Thomas
Amarillo
Bulgaria Decrees Jewish Labor into Special Camps
New York May 25 broadcast from Berlin reports Bulgaria's interior ministry issued a decree sending all Jews capable of work to special labor camps. The item notes the Berlin radio recording by CRS and offers no further details.
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Hoffman
Rep
Starnes
Alabama
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Marcantonio
New York
House
Berlin
Bulgarian Ministry of Interior
CRS
Battlefronts show Allied air superiority in multiple theaters
Daylight raids by 300 Allied planes cripple southern Italian defenses and disrupt enemy positions. Northern France defenses face renewed pressure as Allied air power expands. Japanese bombers fail to reach Attu targets, while Japanese forces clash with Chinese lines at several points.
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London
Axis
Europe
Mediterranean
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Tex
Hirohito
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Casablanca
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The
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Comintern
India
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China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Britain
America
Winston Churchill
Newa
Amarillo Globe
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Postman
Boy
Bulgaria
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