Tornado_Ruins Pryor Main Street In Mass Destruction
A savage tornado devastated Pryor Oklahoma wiping out much of its six block business district. The state patrol reports 100 dead and more than 250 injured with martial law in effect and safety officials directing relief efforts.
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Oklahoma Ordnance Works
Leon C. Phillips
Walter B. Johnson
Johnson
National Guard
Ordnance Works
Main Street
Col
R. H. Cameron
Whitaker State
Vinita
Claremore
Tulsa
Don McElroy
Ordnance Plant
Storm Victim Hunting Girl Named Gladys
Pryor Oklahoma April 28 A tornado that killed at least 70 people struck as Jay Harbert searched for a waitress named Gladys hired two weeks earlier. He said she ferried coffee and hot dogs when the storm toppled his shack and gas pump and took the cash drawer.
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Pryor
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U.P
Jay Harbert
Gladys
Harbert
Amarillo Forecast Keeps Mild with A touch of Wind
The weather office predicts continued mild conditions for Amarillo with light winds this afternoon. Yesterday’s high reached 75 degrees and the morning low was 47 degrees.
Potter County Fails to Meet Bond Quota by Five Thousand
Potter County fell short of its Victory Bond and Stamp quota by 5000 dollars yesterday. Total sales reached 7575.25, leaving a deficit against the goal.
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Potter County
Survivors Arrive at Bonaire After Freighter Torpedoing
Twenty five survivors of a U S freighter torpedoed in the Caribbean arrived today at Bonaire, in the Dutch Antilles, according to the Aneta news agency. The ship and exact vessel not disclosed.
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Curacao
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Caribbean
Bonaire
Dutch Island
Here
Aneta
President Roosevelt to urge total effort in total war
The White House said President Roosevelt will speak tonight at 9 oclock to stress the need for total effort in waging total war. The address aims to rally the American people behind war mobilization.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Price controls loom as Roosevelt signals wartime measure
Washington awaits a blanket price ceiling under the emergency act, extending to retail, wholesale, and manufacturers. The move, tied to rent controls in defense areas, aims to curb price gouging and potentially expand to all businesses, with penalties including license suspension after due process.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Henderson
OPA
Terrifying skid ends with rescue at the bank
An American woman screams as tires skid on gravel. Stephanie spins into darkness while a man orders others to help pull her free. Voices fade to silence and the bank is praised as the sole refuge that saved her. The scene hints at a dramatic incident to be continued on page 8.
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Stephanie
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Continued mild and windy this afternoon with not quite so cold tonight. West Texas sees warmth today and tonight with thundershowers near Del Rio Eagle Pass area and east of Pecos River. New Mexico warms tonight and tomorrow with showers in the extreme northwest late tonight. 24 hour temps end 6:30 AM show a 47 to 75 range. Noon reading today 74.
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Pecos River
New Mexico
Allies in Burma facing disaster and near climax of fight
American pilots shot down 11 Japanese planes as Chinese forces battle to halt a major Japanese drive toward Lashio and the supply route to China. Allied forces, including Gen. Stilwell’s troops, defend Lashio with reinforcements flooding in from northern Burma and China while roads are destroyed to slow the 100,000-strong Japanese vanguard.
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United Press
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China
Lashio
Joseph W. Stilwer
Sashio
Towar
Hsipaw
Cologne
Trondheim
Norway
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Tirpitz
Prinz Eugen
RAF
Senate delays action on labor bill amid war unity push
Senate indefinitely postponed consideration of labor legislation after Sen. Tom Connally withdrew a motion to advance his proposal to extend government seizure power and freeze labor relations in strikebound plants. Sen. Byrd and allies wanted to attach 40 hour week, closed shop freeze, and higher initiation fees to the bill, but Connally cited wartime unity and warned against fighting the president’s guidance.
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Uay
Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Tom Connally
Texas
Byrd
Connally
Roosevelt
Congress
Four Axis Ships Hit by British Submarines
London April 28 British submarines have sunk two heavily laden enemy ships and a mine sweeper, leaving a German gasoline carrier burning fiercely in the Mediterranean. The admiralty announced tonight following Sunday’s report that four heavily loaded merchant ships were sunk by two British submarines.
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Submarine Trident Sinks Large Enemy Supply Ship
An admiralty communique reports the British submarine Trident torpedoed and sank a large enemy supply ship off the Norwegian coast. The sinking date was not disclosed.
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London
Trident
Admiralty
Japs Claim Occupation of Western New Guinea Bases
Japanese naval forces have completely occupied all strategic points in the northern half of Western New Guinea, according to imperial headquarters in Tokyo. The bulletin, released April 28, details the claimed advance amid ongoing Pacific theater actions.
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Tokyo
New Guinea
Imperial Headquarters
Roosevelt son promoted to major in U S Army Air Forces
The War Department announced that Elliott Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's second son, has been promoted from captain to major in the U S Army Air Forces. The dispatch notes the officer’s service status as of today in Washington.
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Lahr
Grant
Grundy
Patterson
Pat O’brien
Jack King
King
O'Brien
Trinidad
Washington
Army
Navy
The
War Department
Elliott Roosevelt
U. S. Army Air Forces
War Ration Book drive expands nationwide checks
The piece describes Uncle Sam's drive to issue War Ration Books as part of a nationwide roll call. It outlines how the Office of Price Administration will collect detailed family data at registration booths. Registrars across schools will process applications, calculating ration eligibility for about 130 million people, excluding fighting personnel.
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Sam
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Tony Ridge
Turkey Creek
Margaret Wills
Horace Mann
Japan braces for Mikado birthday air defense display
Dispatches report every anti aircraft gunner in Tokyo will be at battle stations tomorrow and hundreds of fighter planes patrol the skies for Hirohito’s 41st birthday. Tokyo still recalls the recent Allied raid and Gen Tojo warns the war will intensify, while a grand military review is planned near the western parade grounds.
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United Press
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Battle Station
Mikado Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
The
Mikado
Yoyou! Parade
Imperial Palace
Burma Drive Aims at Lashio Portend Big Burma Push
A Chungking spokesman says three spearheads drive toward Hsipaw Lashio and Ken Tung would trap Chinese forces near the Thailand border and open the way to Lashio and India. Chinese troops hold Taungeyo while Australia Allied planes strike Japanese bases in the Bismarck Solomon area to offset threats to Australia. Port Moresby looms as a likely target with reinforcements reported. see BURMA Page 12.
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