Nation on Guard For Jap Reprisal
Secretary of War Stimson said the army is actively preparing to deter a likely Japanese retaliation after last month's Tokyo raid. He warned Pacific coast cities as primary targets and hinted a possible attack on the capital. Stimson noted a major offensive and nine new motorized infantry divisions by August, with seven more of the 32 planned by year end.
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Washington
Stimson
Tokyo
Pacific
United States
James H. Doolittle
Japan
Great Britain
Amarillo Seniors Celebrate Graduation at City Auditorium
About 494 Amarillo High School seniors graduated in a crowded Municipal Auditorium. Speakers included Rev. Lloyd Jones and D. Thompson Jr. Valedictorian O. D. Thompson Jr. received a scholarship to Amarillo College. Awards honored Pat McClarney and Joe Bob Mobley as Best All Around Girl and Boy.
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RH HS
Amarillo Senior High School
Charles M. Rogers
Eilenberg
Amarillo
Timmye Berg
D. Thompson Jr
America
Joe Bob Mobley
Lee Roy Royter
Supt. Rogers
United States of America
Oh A. H. S
Pat McClarney
Young Amarillo Woman Finds Work Through Short Ad
A brief Globe-News Situara Want Ad shows an Amarillo woman gaining employment after three days with 70 cent cost. The ad requests stenography and dictaphone stencil experience and lists Phone 2-1962, suggesting earnings of 8.40 per dozen jobs as a humorous measure. Dial 6262.
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Amarillo
Globe-News Situara
Hijacker Beats Boy Attendant at Dryden Service Station
A white man about 21 hijacked the Dryden Service Station on Thirty-Sixth Avenue and Washington Street near closing time. He struck 14 year old attendant Rodney Duling with a tire tool, took $24, and fled after four blows, leaving $5 in bills behind. Duling was treated at Northwest Texas Hospital and released. police had no arrests.
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Dryden
Thirty-Sixth Avenue
Washington Street
Rodney Daling
Duling
Daling
Northwest Texas Hospital
Duke and Wallis Arrive in U S for Fourth Visit
The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield arrive in Miami Beach for their fourth U S visit with war concerns prominent. In Denison a U S Army Air Corps lieutenant reports shooting down five Japanese planes since leaving the United States. Circulation figures show the Amarillo papers totaling 35,224 for May 28, 1942.
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Duke
Wally
U. S
Miami Beach
Fla
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
United States
Denison
U.P
Charles Falletta
U. S. Army Air Corps
Australia
Plow-Ups for Wheat Seen If War Lengthens
Harvard economist John D. Black told 50 reporters that wartime demands could trigger Great Plains plow-ups to favor wheat. He warned of possible shortages for wheat and corn and suggested regional production shifts, cattle land use changes, and continued emphasis on abundance over strict production limits.
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Cambridge
Mass
John D. Black
Harvard University Institute
Great Plains
Black
AAA
Mississippi Delta
Nebraska
Kansas
Ince
Georgia
Imost
Convoys Pass Through Submarine Alley Under Ocean Skies
A Navy task force returns from a convoy mission to Britain after a 5700 mile round trip with no ships lost. The crew reports 11 depth charge attacks and possible sinking of three U boats while zigzagging through fog and avoiding German planes. The skipper kept relentless hours and maintained perfect record.
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Britain
British Isles
Atlantic
Brazil Bombers Hit Axis Submarines Near Coast
Brazil reports air force attacks against three Axis submarines off its northeast coast, one sunk, as Brazil joins the Atlantic war effort to safeguard sovereignty and undefended sailors. Captain Oswaldo Pamplona Pinto led the bomber crew.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Air Ministry
United States
Washington
Germany
Air Force
Recife
Rome
Harry Schwane
J. G. Yates
Oswaldo Pamplona Pinto
United States Army Air Force
Pamplona Pinto
Russian Army Presses Toward Kharkov Amid Heavy Fighting
Soviet dispatches report continued Russian advances around Kharkov and in the Izyum Barvenkova sector amid fierce clashes with German forces. The German High Command claimed a victory in the encirclement south of Kharkov as Soviet casualties and equipment losses mount.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Ukraine
Kharkov
Izyum-Barvenkaya
Red Command
Izyum- Barvenkova
Izyum-Barvenkova
Izyum-Barenkova
Pravda
Frontline Snapshot May 28 1942 World War II Brief
Summary of wartime notes: German advances in Libya falter while Kharkov fighting favors the Reds. Brazil pilots destroy an Axis U boat and attack two more. Mexico plans war declaration against the Axis. American submarines sink and attack ships in the Western Pacific. Berlin claims Arctic convoy losses. Blakeley reaches Martinique. Somervell says US ready to act in Europe. Chekiang battles continue with heavy losses.
Bombers Hit Mingaladon Airdrome in Burma
United States Army heavy bombers attacked the Japanese held Mingaladon airdrome north of Rangoon Burma last night. Fires were seen 100 miles away as Japanese night fighters and anti aircraft engaged. All American planes returned safely with no serious damage.
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New Deuhi
India
United States Army
Mingaladon
Rangoon
Burma
Tenth
U. S. Air Force
German Entry Visas Rise in French North Africa
Tass report from Lisbon says Germany pours into French North Africa with the Vichy regime issuing over 2,000 entry visas to Germans in three months, signaling a steady Nazi flow into Morocco and surrounding areas.
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Moscow
Tass
Lisbon
French North Africa
Morocco
Closure of Radio Telegraph Circuits Ordered by DCB
The Defense Communications Board ordered closure of all public point-to-point radio-telegraph circuits in the continental United States at midnight June 30. The action affects government and military communications networks.
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DCB
Washington
Continental United States
Defense Communications Board
Bounty Returns to Active Service as Cadet Training Ship
The Bounty lies beside an English quay on active duty again serving as a training vessel for sea cadets. This ship is not the famed Bicgh era brig but shares a romantic past as a tobacco brig, continuing a storied maritime lineage.
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London
the Bounty
Bilgh
John Barrymore In Critical Condition At Hollywood Hospital
Hollywood dispatch reports veteran actor John Barrymore remained in very critical condition after a tiring day. Stimulants allegedly spurred his heart but a slight rally did not improve his overall state.
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Hollywood
John Barrymore
Weather Forecast and Temperatures Snapshot
A weather bulletin reports temperatures with a high near 95 and a low around 53 for yesterday. It notes times for noon and afternoon, wind and sunrise sunset details, including a maximum of 95 and minimum of 41 for the prior day.
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Dius
Sea Ceaer
Teriane
War Job Rating Board To Open In Amarillo
The local Civil Service Commission rating board opens Monday in Room 811 at the Oliver Eakle Building to handle applications and exams for war department posts. Rudolph Batte heads the board from Amarillo, processing posts at the Army Technical School Par Tex, Partex Ordnance Plant, Glider School, Helium Plant, and VA division.
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War Job Rating Board
Loc Rating Board
The
Civil Service Commission
Oliver Eakle
Rudolph Batte
Commission
Amarillo
War Department
Amarillo Army Technical School
Partex Ordnance Plant
Army Air Force
Veterans Administration Division
Batte
Panhandle
Taylor Street
New Orleans
Texas Oil Runs Boosted by 15 Day June Order
Texas Railroad Commission authorized a 1 200 000 barrel daily crude oil limit for the first 15 days of June despite a federal recommendation for 1 068 600. Commissioners Sadler and Culberson said the higher cap would meet firm contracts and fill pipelines, with Sadler to confer in Washington on the Texas crude situation.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Jerry Sadler
Olin Culberson
Texas
Sadler
Office of Petroleum Coordinator
Washington
OPC
Culberson
Commission
Hoover Nominated to Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral John H. Hoover, who has been negotiating with French officials in Martinique on the future status of that Caribbean island, was nominated by President Roosevelt to be a vice admiral.
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Washington
John H. Hoover
Martinique
Caribbean
Roosevelt
Costly Axis Push Drives Toward Tobruk in Libyan Desert
British and Axis tanks, mobile artillery, and planes clashed over 1,600 square miles of Libyan desert with Axis forces reaching 15 miles from Tobruk. British officials said no breakthrough occurred and emphasized destroying armored units over gaining territory as both sides fought a costly engagement near Bir Hacheim Ain el Gazala and Bir el Gobi with RAF backing.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Middle East
el Adem
Bir Hacheim
Ain el Gazala
Bir el Gobi
el Mechill
Bac
Rent Control Session Sets 60 Day Defense Area Plan
Amarillo and Randall County host a Rent Control committee meeting to devise a 60 day system within a defense rental area. The panel, appointed by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, aims for advisory procedures to curb rents to the March 1 level without enforcement power.
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Amarillo
Hutchinson
Carson
Gray
Dallam
Hansford
Hartley
Moore
Sherman
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Somervell
Chekiang
Jap Airdrome
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Bounty
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the Weathereather Bureau
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