Britain Lays Out Warning to Arab Peoples and War Front Moves
British Foreign Secretary Eden urged Arab peoples to shun the Axis while pressing for war materials. RAF raids hit Frankfurt Mannheim Heidelberg Belfast and Dover as Luftwaffe bombed the Clyde and Liverpool areas. Axis forces moved to occupy Greek islands and Tobruk defenses faced renewed assault amid mounting Near East tensions.
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United States
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Britain
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Eden
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Glasgow
Liverpool
Merseyside
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Pepper Urges U S Tough Stance and Strategic Occupations
Sen Claude Pepper calls the United States to occupy key global points and to close exits to the Axis. He urges aggressive home-front steps, a national emergency, and ships sailing where allowed, matching Britain in action. Pepper cites Tokyo as a target and references House proposals pressuring Japan.
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U.P
Claude Pepper
Florida
United States
Great Britain
Dakar
Africa
Azores
Canary
Cape Verde Islands
Greenland
Iceland
Singapore
Senate
Far East
Europe
Asia
Axis
Pepper
Japan
Clyde T. Ellis
Arkansas
Arnold Report On Britain's Needs Heard In White House Session
President Roosevelt convened a war cabinet in the White House to approve expanded bomber output. Maj Gen H H Arnold delivered Britain's latest aerial needs, as the plan to boost heavy bomber production to 500 a month moves forward, with NDAC dissolution and defense coordinating changes underway.
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Washington
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Army Air Corps
England
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Harry L. Hopkins
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Secretary of Treasury
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Secretary of War
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Secretary of Navy
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George C. Marshall
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Naval Operations
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Early
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Music Week Festival Hits Its Stride in Amarillo
Amarillo hosts the National Music Week Festival with three of five free programs staged. Tonight the Philharmonic Orchestra performs at 8:15 pm in the Municipal Auditorium under director Robert Louis Barron featuring Jeanne Ysaye violin soloist in Mozart Concerto in E flat major. The program also includes Schubert Rosamunde overture and other works. admission is free.
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Municipal Auditorium
Polk Street Methodist Church
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Mme
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Eugene Ysaye
Madame Ysaye
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Gounod
Amarillo
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Hubert Wegener
Emil F. Myers
Judge Fines Self Then Suspends the Fine in Salt Lake City
A police judge, Frank E. Moss, fined himself 50 cents for illegal parking and wrote Excused Judge's car Was holding court on the back of the ticket. The incident underscores oddities in local enforcement and self scrutiny.
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Salt Lake City
Frank E. Moss
Seek Defense Job on Plains
The Texas House approved a concurrent resolution asking the War Department and Office of Production Management to study locating munitions plants in the Texas Panhandle. Rep. Ennis Favors of Pampa sponsored the measure citing natural gas supply and strategic Panhandle location for defense.
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Austin
House
Senate
War Department
Office of Production Management
Texas Panhandle
Ennis
Pampa
Panhandle
Texas Senate OKs gas use plan for carbon black in Panhandle
The Texas Senate approved a bill to let the Railroad Commission regulate gas use for carbon black in the Panhandle, with a 750 million cubic feet daily cap and a twilight gas zone option. The measure, tied to industry needs and wartime supply, passed 13 to 9. Also approved were criminal libel penalties, Rangers salaries kept at current levels, and highway patrol pay changes amid debate on manning and wage scales.
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U.P
Texas Senate
House
Railroad Commission
Texas Panhandle
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Senate
Commission
Texas
Hazlewood
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Stimson To Deliver Major Address Tonight
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson will speak at 8:30 P.M. Central Time tonight. The speech, kept secret in topic, will be broadcast nationwide by Mutual and NBC networks. War department attaches call it an important address.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Mutual Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Company
War Department
Whirlaway Is Put to Shame By College Boy
Earl Lee Archer a 20 year old University of Arkansas sophomore from Louisville pursued Mary Helen Linger of Kansas City across states after a Derby encounter. He followed the couple in a motorcycle, rode with notes exchanged at stops, and asked police to help locate the girl when broke. Miss Linger's father John M. Linger a realtor warned Archer the meeting might embarrass him and hinted age uncertainty. Archer left Fayeteville Arkansas for school and promised to write. He claimed to have the name and address.
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Earl Lee Archer
University of Arkansas
Louisville
Mary Helen Singer
Archer
Miss Linger
St. Louis
John M. Linger
Helen
Stanford University
Fayetteville, Ark
Linger
Cultivates His Billfold in a Tough Plowing Twist
Shelbyville Indiana farmer War Ren Carpenter finished plowing a field on his farm with a tractor and discovered he had lost his billfold containing 97 dollars. He lined his family up to watch behind him and plowed again then removed the plow and used a cultivator to search the field a third time and found the money.
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Shelbyville. Ind
Warren Carpenter
Urges Retail Sales Tax To Help Meet Cost of Arms
The National Association of Manufacturers urged Congress to adopt a general retail sales tax and broaden the industrial income tax base. NAM committee chair Livingston W. Houston said industry is willing to shoulder its full share to meet defense costs, appealing to patriotic citizens.
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U.P
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress
Livingston W. Houston
NAM Committee On
News Tip Prize Won By Orie Phillips in Weekly Contest
Orie Phillips of 613 North Pierce Street wins the week's news tip contest and $5 for his tip about a man turning a bobcat loose in a taxi. Second prize goes to A. B. Holt, Randall County Clerk, Canyon, for a tip about a triple wedding by a Randall County justice. Third prize to FE. Greathouse for tipping a lightning strike on a house at Eighth Avenue and North Cleveland Street.
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North Pierce Street
A. B. Holt
Randall County
Canyon
Amarillo
Greathouse
North East
Eighth Avenue
Cleveland Street
Vernon Gode
Panhandle
G. T. Parker
North West
Earl Hastie
Crockett
Eleven U S Ferry Pilots Die in British Ship Sinking
Ottawa reports eleven United States ferry pilots killed in a recent ship sinking attributed to enemy action. The men were enlisted to fly American bombers to Great Britain. ship name and sinking details were withheld. Among the victims were J A Woodall of Dallas and W H Nance of Houston.
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Ont
U.P
United States
Great Britain
Britain
J. A. Woodall
Dallas
W. H. Nance
Houston
Networks Will Go Easy on Hitler's Speeches
New York May 6 The major radio networks will not rebroadcast Adolf Hitler's speeches in the United States because of the speaker. If Hitler is to say something of historical importance they may broadcast his words, as in the past. None of the networks carried his speech last Sunday but all aired news summaries.
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New York
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hitler
Plans to Expand U S Helium Plant Near Amarillo
Bid results announced yesterday prompt expansion plans for the U S helium plant west of Amarillo. Dr C W Siebel says proposals will go to Washington with recommendations for the successful bidder as bids already submitted.
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U. S
Amarillo
Washington
C. W. Siebel
Amarillo Forecast Shows Fair Weather Into Wednesday
The Weather Bureau forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. West Texas and New Mexico expect similar conditions with scattered clouds. 24 hour extremes ranged from 49 to 72 degrees, noon reading 75. Social security record systems. Russell Stationery Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Social Security Record
Russell Stationery Co
Strike Halts Tool Making At Ex-Cell-O Detroit Plants
United Auto Workers CIO halted production at Ex-Cell-O Corp three Detroit plants delaying vital machine tools aircraft engine parts and propellers after wage dispute talks failed. Navy order valued at 1.816 million cited as context amid broader defense labor stoppages and mediation efforts nationwide.
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United Press
Ex-Cell-O Corporation
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Roosevelt
OPM
William S. Knudsen
Washington
Defense Mediation Board
General Motors-Uaw
GMC
United Mine Workers (Cio
New York
Order Repair Of 27 Ships Seized Italian Vessels
The Maritime Commission has ordered repair of 27 seized Italian vessels, announced in Washington. The action, reported by Up The Build Now, indicates government efforts to restore shipping capacity during the period.
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Maritime Commission
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