Japan massing troops in Manchuria and eyeing Siberia
The Associated Press reports high Chinese sources claim Japan has nearly 1,000,000 troops in Manchuria and plans a strike on Russian Siberia in July. Neutral observers doubt a new front before Hitler’s Russian offensive and only after confirming German gains.
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Associated Press
Japan
Manchuria
Russian Siberia
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Tokyo
Chungking
South Seas
Hawaii
Siberia
Battle of
Midway
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rommel seeks bases to threaten British fleet at Mediterranean end
Analysis notes Rommel aims to secure bases to project land based air power against the British fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, risking Malta if successful. It also cites British and Allied air activity around Tobruk and El Gazala, with Mag forces withdrawing to frontier positions as Rommel’s offensive results unfold.
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Halfaya Pass
Royal Air Force
Tobruk
el Gazala
Yesteree
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
Mediterranean
Midway Island
Malta
Eighth Army
Hoppers Eat Everything But Squash Tomatoes
Mrs. Earl Gruver reports grasshoppers devouring most garden plants this season while sparing tomatoes and squash. She notes severe infestation on hollyhocks chrysanthemums and gladioli and says untreated vacant property nearby draws the pests despite poison efforts.
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Earl Gruver
East Thirteenth Avenue
Mrs. Gruver
Sugar Dates for Industrial Users Schedule Given
The Potter County Sugar Board announced trade registration dates and hours for institutional and industrial sugar users. Registration runs 9 to 4 on June 22 and 29, 9 to 12 on the mornings of June 23 to 26 and 30, and 9 to 4 on June 27.
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Potter County Sugar Board
Merrilt Lynch
Pierce Fenner & Beane
Alleghany Lud Steel
Allis Chalmers
Am Roll Mill A
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Zinc & Lead
Anaconda
Armour & Co
Ae SF
Ale Baldwin Locomotive Aviation Corp
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden Bees
Chrysler
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
General Electric
Gen Foods Eeees
Gen Motors Oe
Greyhound
Houston Oil
Harvesters
Nickels
Int
Power & Pap
Kennecott
Marshall Field
National Dairy Products
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures
J C Penney
Penn RR
Phillips Pet Steps
Plymouth
Remington Rand
RCA Aes
Republic Steel
St Josettee
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union Oil
Socony Vacuum Thy
Southern Pacific
Standard Brands
Vee
California
Indiana
New Jersey
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
U S
Steel
U Telon
White Motor
Wilson & Co
Chicago
John B. Golding VFW Meeting Tonight
John B. Golding Post VFW will hold a meeting at 8 o clock tonight in Odd Fellows Hall.
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John B. Golding
VFW
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Odd Fellows Hall
Torpedoed Norwegian Tanker Survivors Land at Port Isabel
Eighteen crew members from a torpedoed Norwegian tanker reached Port Isabel in two 24 foot lifeboats guided by a Port Aransas fisherman. Three sailors were lightly injured and went to Fort Brown hospital. one seaman was killed. The ship sank after a torpedo and subsequent firing. survivors noted poor marksmanship. This marked the first landing of Gulf Coast survivors.
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Brownsville
Port Isabel
Navy Department
McNear
Port Aransas
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Fort Brown
Coast Guard
Lower
Gulf Coast
Telephone Operator No Help to Cupid
Private Weldon Tidwell married Miss Opal Carter in a three minute telephone ceremony after an hour of waiting. Rev. W D Glatean officiated from Sumter, South Carolina, as the operator cut in with a reminder that the time was up.
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Sumter
8. C
Weldon Tidwell
Opal Carter
Mexia
Tex
W. D Glatean
Tidwell
Survives Hungry Week On Cold North Sea
Pilot Officer Holbroke Hoke Mahn of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a Harvard graduate from Denver, survived over a week in an open dinghy after a bomber was forced down off the Dutch coast. He endured no water, raw seagull flesh for food, and the death of two companions before a British torpedo boat found the dinghy and took him to a hospital.
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London
North Sea
Holbroke “Hoke” Mahn
Royal Canadian Air Force
Harvard
Denver
Colo
Mahn
Clark Gable Seeks Army Air Forces Commission
The Washington Evening Star reports actor Clark Gable took a physical at Bolling Field seeking a commission in the army air forces. It was understood that if he passes he will be commissioned as a major and make films for the air forces.
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Washington
Washington Evening Star
Clark Gable
Bolling Field
Army Air Forces
the Star
Gable
Three Spanish Trawlers Sunk by Nazi Planes
London dispatch reports that 12 German bombers sank three Spanish trawlers 100 miles west of the French coast on Wednesday, in a raid on neutral fishermen. The same communiqué said the 1,120 ton British destroyer Wild Swan was also sunk.
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London
Admiralty
Atlantic
Wild Swan
Russians Reported Landing Near Kerch and Yalta
The BBC quoted German reports that Russians landed on the Crimean coast near Kerch and attempted another landing near Yalta southeast of Sevastopol. No corroborating landings appeared in German broadcasts heard in New York.
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New York
British Broadcasting Corporation
CBS
Crimean
Kerch
Yalta
Sevastopol
Japanese Port In Burma Bombed
New Delhi June 19 British Blenheim bombers attacked Akwab on Burma’s west coast. The raid struck a large waterfront warehouse and caused a direct hit, the RAF announced today.
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New Delhi
Akwab
Burma
RAF
Market summaries show varied livestock trends across markets
At Kansas City a.m. livestock totals reached 1,500 hogs and 650 cattle with prices mostly steady to down. top hogs at 14.30 for 190 lb. cattle volumes and pricing varied by weight class. Chicago reported 6,000 salable hogs with prices generally steady to higher and top hogs around 14.50, while cattle and calves held fully steady in trade.
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Kansas City
Chicago
U. S, CA
Luker Named Southwestern Regional Conservator of Soil Service
Cyril Luker of Amarillo Texas was appointed Southwestern regional conservator of the Soil Conservation Service headquartered in Albuquerque New Mexico. He succeeds Hugh G Calkins who took a post with the Office of Inter American Affairs. Luker has long served in Amarillo and holds a Texas A and M degree. He has two daughters and the family home is in Amarillo.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Cyril Luker
Amarillo
Texas
Southwestern
The
Soil Conservation Service
Luker
Hugh G. Calkins
Office of Inter-American Affairs
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Colorado
Southern Great Plains
Department of Agriculture Bureau
SCS
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Texas Tech College
Marilyn Luker
Amarillo College
Jeanne Luker
Amarillo High School
Sunset
B 24 Bombers Land in Turkey by Accident Says ANKA
The official Anatolian News Agency reports American Consolidated B-24 bombers that hit Romanian targets arrived in Turkey accidentally despite German accusations to the contrary.
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Ankara
Turkey
Anatolian
Mays sells LaFerol Apartments at 1619 Van Buren Street
The 16 place LaFerol Apartments at 1619 Van Buren Street change hands to Mrs Mellie Kate man of Clarendon and the deed has been filed for recording in the county clerk's office.
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W. A. Mays
van Buren Street
Mellie Kateman
Clarendon
Japanese Complete Molucca Occupation
A Japanese naval correspondent reports from Amboina that marines and naval forces have completed the occupation of the Molucca Islands in the Netherlands Indies group between Celebes and New Guinea, north of Australia. The landings on the last island were unopposed.
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Tokyo
Amboina
Molucca Islands
Netherlands Indies
Celebes
New Guinea
Australia
British Bombers Hit Railway in France
Low flying British bombers attacked Chaulnes Sur Oise, a key Paris Cambrai railway junction in German occupied France. Explosives struck switches and a freight yard in a night raid.
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Vichy
Chaulnes Sur Oise
Paris-Cambrai
France
Sticker system to mark ration books under gasoline plan
Washington June 19 The Office of Price Administration announced that to prevent chea ting under the permanent Eastern gasoline rationing plan beginning July 15 every automobile must display a colored sticker indicating the ration book type held by its driver.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Missing wooden leg found by Boston railway
An elevated railway lost and found in Boston holds a slightly used wooden leg wearing a black oxford and sock. A motorman reported discovering it in an empty car at the end of a run.
Buster King Injured After Midnight Auto Collision
Buster King of 1303 Lincoln Street is receiving treatment at Northwest Texas Hospital for injuries after reportedly being struck by an automobile around midnight yesterday. He is employed at Pantex.
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Buster King
Lincoln Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Pantex
Money in His Pocket, Pocket in His Pants
Sailor Joseph Fiorella lost 150 dollars but knows it is in his wallet, stored in spare pants in a locker aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington. A Belgian source said a German battery at Ostend race track was destroyed by British fleet shellfire with crews killed.
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Denver
Joseph Fiorella
Lexington
London
Belgium
Ostend
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Mack) McBride
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