Chinese Attack Pushes Japanese Lifeline On Trans China Front
Chinese battle groups intensified assaults along the 850 mile front from Chungking to Indo China. General Chang Fah-Kwei’s troops led a southern offensive from Yungning capturing border areas and pressing toward Liuchow and Shaoyang. Chinese Sixth Army, American equipped, spearheaded Western Hunan actions near Tantow and Shaoyang.
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Chungking
Japan
trans-China
South-east Asia
South China
Yungning
Nanning
Southeast Asia
Kwangsi Province
Kwangtung
Chang Fah-Kwei
Ironsides
Chang
Indo-China
Liuchow
Pinyang
Chihkiang
Shaoyang
Paoching
China
Burma
Hunan
Tantow
Okinawa Front Advances and Japanese Air Losses Reported
US forces push on both Okinawa coasts with Maj. Gen. Shepherd and 7th Division making gains in Naha and Shuri areas while Japanese kamikaze raids sink a light unit and damage ships. Ninth Army Mustang bombers target Kasumigaura, sinking a cargo ship at Haha Jima.
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Okinawa
Navy
Nimitz
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Sixth Division
Naha
Asato
Archibald V. Arnold
7Th Infantry Division
Shuri
Doughboys
Tera
Kamizato
Pedro A. del Valle
First Marine
Andrew D. Bruce
77Th Infantry
Mustang
Tokyo
Ozato-Mura Heights
Iwo Jima
Kasumigaura Naval Air Station
Bonins
Haha Jima
Sakishima Islands
Ryukyus
Paramushiro
Kurile Islands
Palaus
Yep Island
Shuri Bastion
Frenchman Escapes Grave After Japanese Attack
KUNMING China May 28 Lance Corporal Fernand Cron of the French colonial infantry recounted escaping a mass grave with 53 comrades at Dongdang on the French Indo China border. He showed a four and a half inch scar on the back of his neck from a saber strike and said he and two Annamites crawled from the trench.
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Kunming
China
Fernand Cron
Dongdang
Crow
Cron
Yokohama Bombed in Largest B29 Daylight Raid
Guam May 29 The Yokohama industrial and shipping center was hit by over 450 B-29s dropping 3200 tons of fire bombs in the greatest daylight raid yet by Marianas based B-29s. The attack targeted warehouses docks canals and chemical plants with Yokohama described as Japan’s fifth largest city.
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Guam
Yokohama
Tokyo
Kawasaki
Japan
Drouth Slashes Wheat Prospects Across Panhandle
Five dry months have left Panhandle wheat fields with poor prospects. Across east Claude to the New Mexico line prospects fall from 15 bushels to plowed fields westward. Deep subsoil moisture and root growth offer slim hope for a crop without rain, with averages around 10 bushels near Amarillo and Claude, but many areas in Bushland and the North Plains show severely reduced yields.
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Eldon Durrett
Panhandle
Claude
New Mexico State Line
Claude and
Washburn
West Texas Wheat Country
Armstrong-Carson-Randall
Amarillo
Palo Duro Canyon
West Notomy
North Plains
Willow Run Plant to Close After Bombers Finish
Detroit May 28 The Willow Run bomber plant near completion of four engine B 24 bomber production and will shut down June 15. The notice cites partners Shaw-Walker Firing Cabinets Russell Stationery and Olver Wigleins Lumber Co with contact numbers and locations in Pittsburgh and Detroit.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Shaw-Walker
Russell Stationery Company
Are Japs Now Using Helium on Barrage Balloons
Aboard an American flagship off Japan May 28 U P pilots report Japanese barrage balloons failed to burn when shot down. Rear Adm. J J Clark says evidence indicates the enemy has helium or a similar non inflammable gas, despite U S control.
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Japan
U.P
United States
Kanoya
J. J. Clark
Showers Lightly Moistening Plains Weatherman Reports
Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms brought light moisture to parts of the Panhandle yesterday. Am a rillo saw a trace of moisture and a chance for more rain lingered through the night. Plainview reached 100 degrees tying a May record from 1939.
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Panhandle
Canadian
Gage
Oklo
Amarillo
Canyon
Plains
Plainview
Mercury
West Texas
South Plains
Pecos River
New Mexico
U S Marshal Arrives for Federal Court Session
J R Wright U S Marshal from Fort Worth arrived yesterday for the criminal session of the federal court in the Northern District of Texas bringing official presence and security for the proceedings.
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U. S
J. R. Wright
Fort Worth
Federal
Northern District of Texas
Navy Man Enters Victory Bond Flight in Amarillo
Dick Kelly son of Mr and Mrs R H Kelly of 1600 Crockett has been entered in Victory Bond Flight a program offering a luxury round trip by air with $100 expense money He is an aviation ordnanceman first class who joined the Navy in 1943 and served in the South Pacific with the bomber So Sorry He has nearly 2000 hours of flying time and awaits orders in San Diego while another Amarillo serviceman could also win if a bond is purchased and his name entered on a blank ballot
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Dick Kelly
R. H. Kelly
Crockett
Lionel Club
Amarillo
Pacific
Mexico City
Hollywood
New York City
Aviation Ordnanceman
Navy
South Pacific
San Diego
Tokyo
Vast British naval presence in Pacific fronts
A Reuters dispatch from British Pacific Fleet headquarters said more than 200 British warships are operating in the Pacific theater today, underscoring expanded naval activity amid ongoing operations.
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London
Pacific
Reuters
British Pacific Fleet
Crisis in Syria May Spark New General Clash
Reports from Hama and Homs describe street fighting between French and Syrians with fears of a general clash. Casualties exceed 200 in Hama, a seven year old killed in Homs, and tensions escalate as Assad Bey and Egyptian officials discuss the Levant crisis.
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Syria
Damascus
Hama
Homs
Jamil Mardam Bey
Reuters
Cairo
Nokrashy Pasha
Jean Lesouyer
Levant
Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey
General Arab League
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Lebanon
Mardam Bey
Paris
Orient
Ship Launch Pace Hits Four-Hour Schedule in December 1943
Detroit reports that using assembly line production, the American Merchant Marine placed an ocean-going vessel in the water every four hours in December 1943. Harvey Klemmer, economic adviser to the U S Maritime Commission, commented on the method today.
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Detroit
Assembly Line
Harvey Klemmer
United States Maritime Commission
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C. R. Dougherty
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Patsy
Marshall Gett
Mary Louise Autry
Vinally Au Toe
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United States Navy
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Olver & Wigleins Lumber Co
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