Gunners on Corregidor Sink Armed Japanese Ship Anmngit
American gunners on Corregidor and other Manila Bay forts sank an armed Japanese vessel and silenced batteries as Japanese shelling continued. The war bulletin noted diminished air attacks on the fort and reported ongoing American Filipino resistance on Panay Island against invasion forces.
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War Department
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Panay Island
Philippines
Panay
Australia
John Curtin
Japan
Burma
Mandalay
Lashio
Paris
Tokyo
Shan Mountains
Lashion
China
Tornado and Fire Devastate Crowell Texas Crowd
A tornado and fire last night destroyed more than half of Crowell Texas causing at least nine deaths and over seventy injuries. The business district was wiped out with eight five percent damage to remaining structures. Authorities blocked roads as water trucks and air force cadets aided firefighting efforts.
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Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Victory Flying Field
Vernon
Eddy
Padlock Is Put On America's Shopping List
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced a sweeping wartime price order under Roosevelts war economy program. A padlock will be placed on the price of nearly every article in the daily shopping list and rents in boom towns will be regulated for the duration.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
German Radios Attack Roosevelt Anti Inflation Plan
United Press reports German radios argued Roosevelt's anti inflation program would deeply disturb American life and bring taxes and deprivation unseen in U.S. history. Other German broadcasts warned that manpower and food shortages were nearing desperation.
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United Press
Roosevelt
Rent controls proposed to curb inflation and restore pre boom prices
The plan urges holding rent levels to March peaks and restoring rents in areas housing over half the population to pre boom scales. Henderson estimates universal price ceilings would cut retail costs about 3 percent from current levels, though still roughly 13 percent above August 1939. The framework hints at broader anti inflation steps like higher taxes and extended rationing.
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Henderson
Texas Hero Capt Hewitt Wheless Honored by Fireside Chat
In Menard Texas Captain Hewitt T. Wheless is celebrated as a hero after the Presidents fireside chat recounts his Philippine bombing mission. His parents Mr and Mrs H H Wireless tearful with pride hear the tale of the crippled bomber and 18 Japanese fighters shot down. Wheless a Kelly Field graduate now serves back in the U S after a year in the Philippines.
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Menard
Tex
U.P
United States
H. H. Wireless
Hewitt T. Wheless
Capt
Tucson
Arizona
Mr. Roosevelt
Hewitt
Wireless
Kelly Field
Texas
Ree
Philippines
Wheless
Captain Wheless
Fresno
Calif
Weekald
Actress Jean Ames Plans Wedding to Amarillo Private
Hollywood April 29 A Screen Actress Jean Ames left for Albuquerque to join Private Paul Ellis of Amarillo Texas on a six day furlough and meet his family. Ellis from Camp Crowder Neosho Missouri traveled to Albuquerque to see Ames whom he said they became engaged six months ago.
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Hollywood
Jean Ames
Albuquerque
N. M
Paul Ellis
Amarillo
Tex
Camp Crowder
Neosho
Private Ellis
Fort Worth
Japs Cancel Imperial Birthday Military Review
Tokyo canceled a grand review planned for Emperor Hirohito's birthday due to unfavorable weather, per Berlin radio citing Tokyo dispatch. No details on air raid alarms or threats. In Van Alstyne a man named Daniel Wisdom Murphy is listed on a registration card, with a long Bible-era naming record attached. Fair weather with scattered thundershowers reported. high 82, low 55.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Berlin
RAF offensive turns on Kiel and Trondheim raids
British warplanes storm Kiel naval base and strike the Lair at Trondheim as the Royal Navy arms for a potential northern sea battle. Illustrious and other Home Fleet units deploy to guard Atlantic routes amid signs of a major clash with German battle squadrons.
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Associated Press
Germany
Kiel
Lair
Trondheim
Norway
London
North Atlantic
Trondheim Fjord
Royal Navy
Roosevelt
Washington
Europe
RAF
Rostok
Heinkel Aircraft Works
Berlin
Switzerland
Luebeck
Hormans
Mussolini warns prefects of discipline and punishment
Premier Benito Mussolini told district prefects that internal strife and fraud threaten Italy and that inexorable punishment will fall on the guilty. He cited factors like food shortages, Axis occupation aid limits, and transport cuts as causes of wartime strain. The Rome radio conveyed the remarks amid rumors of a potential political crisis in Rome.
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London
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Rome Radio
Mussolini
Switzerland
Victor Emmanuel
Galeazzo Ciano
Il Duce
War appropriation bill targets excessive profits
President Roosevelt signed a $19.15 billion war appropriation bill with a rider to renegotiate contracts showing excessive profits. The measure funds 31,000 new Army planes and numerous agencies, plus a $343.94 million civil functions allocation for the War Department including river and harbor work.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Unidentified object off coast triggers LA radio alert
Los Angeles area stations were silenced for 33 minutes early today as a preliminary alert covered the city and surrounding 50 mile radius. The Fourth Army in San Francisco said the alert was activated due to an unidentified object off the coast.
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Los Angeles
U.p)i
Fourth Army
San Francisco
Japanese Land on Mindanao Island Seizes Cota Bato Port
Japanese forces landed at Cota bato on Mindanao's western coast and completed the occupation in four and a half hours, according to the Japanese expeditionary headquarters in the Philippines. The report from Tokyo cites broadcasts dated April 29.4.
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Tokyo
Cotabato
Port
Mindanao
Philippine Islands
Philippines
U S Warships Face Axis in Mediterranean
President Roosevelt said American warships are in combat in the Mediterranean and troops have taken bases in the Near and Middle East as the United Nations vow to block Axis use of Vichy territory. He urged total mobilization and price controls to sustain a long war, with a goal near 73 billion dollars annually by 1942.
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Washington
Hitler
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Roosevelt
United Nations
Near East
Middle East
Pierre Lavall
Vichy
Germany
Italy
Japan
America
North
South Atlantic
Arctic
South Pacific
South America
Greenland
Iceland
British Isles
Middle
Young seamen avenge sinking with deck gun strike
Five US seamen under navy sanction reported they attacked an Axis submarine three days after their merchant ship was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. The gun crew's ages ranged from 17 to 22 and most had never been to sea before.
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New York
U. S
United Nations
Atlantic
Frank M. Keathley
Corsicana
Tex
Third Naval District Headquarters
Tornado Destroys Foard County Hospital in Crowell
April 29 report says manager E Tackett saw a rapidly falling barometer and evacuated two patients to a windowless N-ray room. Four assistants stayed with them as the tornado passed. The X-ray room and occupants survived. the rest of the hospital, opened a year ago today, was demolished.
Crowell Tornado Wrecks City. Major Losses Reported
Devastating tornado strikes Crowell and surrounds destroying homes and key buildings including the M S Henry Store and First Baptist Church. 80 percent of residences damaged or destroyed with up to 1 000 people needing aid as rescuers rush to debris and emergency Red Cross stations treat the injured.
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Razor
M. S. Henry
First Baptist Church
George Self
Crowell Motor Dealer
Crowell
Quanah
Pease River
Lake Pauline
Chillicothe
Methodist
Vernon
Red Cross
Weather Forecast For Amarillo And Vicinity
The forecast calls for widely scattered showers this afternoon and continued mild conditions. West Texas expects scattered thunder showers this afternoon and tonight, locally heavy in the Panhandle and South Plains, remaining warm. New Mexico sees showers and thunder showers over the continental divide late today, with shower activity west and central tonight, snow in higher mountains, and cooler conditions in the far northwest. Temperatures range from a 55 degree minimum to 82 degree maximum in the last 24 hours, with noon at 74.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Continental Divide
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Northwest Texas Hospital
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