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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1942
Page
8
A fragmented 1942 notice mentions jobs with the IRS and a veep connection. The readable bits imply employment or payroll actions linked to federal tax administration during wartime. Further specifics are unavailable in the fragment.
Moscow reports more than 1500 German front troops slain in 72 hours near Moscow with remaining troops nervous and signaling no man’s land. Communiqués say Germans wiped out in street fighting, two field guns and a tank destroyed, soviet cavalry retook localities. Guerrillas report Stalin informed of 5000 enemy killed in six months and major railway and bridge destruction.
Japanese forces captured Corregidor after a five month campaign as American Filipino defenders endured relentless aerial and artillery bombardment. The fortress guns fought back but lack of air observation limited targeting. Roosevelt hailed Wainwright and his troops as living symbols of victory while noting hunger disease and shortages on the island.
London reports Stuttgart industrial plants bombed for the second night running while British raiders hit southern Germany in a third consecutive aerial assault since a new wave began. Four bombers are missing. Nantes docks and northern French airfields were targeted. German dusk dawn raids hit southeast English coast, killing several people.
Helsinki reports that a Red Army regiment and battalion broke Finnish lines in the Louhi sector but were surrounded and destroyed. Moscow said Russians have launched over 100 attacks since April 24, with thousands of casualties in the sector. A second report notes a Finnish counterattack cut supply columns of another Red regiment.
Commandos spearhead assault plunging twenty miles through jungle toward a naval base as heavy casualties are reported. Washington weighs a possible U S move against Vichy bases amid the action.
Reports say two French cruisers the Marseillaise and Lamotte Picquet are missing after British strikes on Madagascar. Vichy vows resistance while British forces push toward Diego Suarez. US cooperates with Britain to thwart Axis control of the island.
NEW DELHI May 6 United States heavy bomber forces attacked Mongaladon airfield north of Rangoon three times. American sources say 40 Japanese planes were destroyed and 35 damaged in Monday night and morning strikes. A Brereton command communique described fires seen for 70 miles and continued long distance attacks.
Red Star asserts in a Pacific air war review that Japan's industrial centers and strategic bases face further Allied bombing from American bombers. It notes Tokyo raids and a downed bomber on Russian soil, and claims Allied aviation has moved from defense to offense while Japan failed against organized resistance.
The U S light cruiser Marblehead, badly damaged and bombed yet afloat, arrived at an east coast port after a 13000 mile voyage. The Navy highlighted the crew's resolve as they fought to keep the ship afloat through water pouring in and steering gear failures.
A May sales update shows no quota met on any day. Totals include $277,800 yesterday and $42,416.50 for May so far, with a cumulative $253,383.50 from Victory Bond and Stamp efforts and a total of 32,916.50 previously.
Bethlehem Steel wire rope plant halted production after an unauthorized walkout. About 850 of 1250 workers quit, triggering a complete production halt. The strike followed management-worker meetings over demands on job classification shift differential and wage increases for skilled workers.
Deputy marshals James Elliott and Tom Harris seized 1950 pounds of sugar from a west McAlester residence, the largest rationed sugar confiscation since rules began last week. They also confiscated 51 gallons of whisky in the same raid.
A Senate military affairs committee member reports undersecretary of war Robert P. Patterson and Price Administrator Leon Henderson favoring in principle a bill to authorize the government to requisition private automobiles needed to prosecute the war.
Former governors James V. Allred and Dan Moody announced their candidacies to oppose U. S. Senator W. Lee O Daniel in the upcoming Democratic primaries. Allred resigned as federal judge to run, Moody telephoned the capitol to declare his bid. Both men previously served as attorney general and governors, with Allred 43 and Moody 48, noted as the youngest Texas governor.
Lloyd Emil Johnson of Providence Rhode Island requested by mail a birth certificate and asserted in writing that he was born in Boise Idaho on August 11 1942. The Idaho department of vital statistics will mail the document after verification. Russell Stationery Co. is listed with loose leaf price books and memo books.
A British official source says the United States Air Corps will operate as an independent fighting force. It will follow a coordinated strategy with the Royal Air Force and reinforce the aerial offensive against the Axis this summer, as arranged with Washington and likened to the World War I AEF.
The condition of C W Furr, seriously ill for several weeks at Northwest Texas Hospital, is reported as poor today by attendants.
Continued cool conditions this afternoon with diminishing winds. Tonight cooler with not much change elsewhere in West Texas and New Mexico. Rio Grande Valley similar to prior 24 hours. Temperatures 81 high and 3 percent? at 6 30 A M. Noon reading 52.
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