Remnants of Axis Fight to Cap Bon as Allied Push Intensifies
Allied air forces sweep Cap Bon and Cap Zebid coast as German and Italian remnants, estimated up to 100000 men, resist in the Tunisian mountains. Reports say Axis surrender neared with Major General Krause offering armistice at 11 AM, Bradley demanding unconditional terms.
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Cap Bon
Europe
Panteleria
Palermo
C. R. Cunningham
United Press
Pantelleria
Tunisian
Soliman
Tunisia
First Army
Hammam Lif
Tunis
Ned Russel
Omar N. Bradley
Second Corps
Soviet Penetrates Outer Novorossisk Front Lines
Soviet forces have penetrated outer Novorossisk fortifications amid heavy fighting in the Kuban. Red Army attacks, supported by artillery and air power, claim advances as Germans report losses and Russian air raids target German communications behind Ukraine and central fronts.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Novorossisk
Kuban
Lisi‘hansk
Donets
Ukraiian
Caucasus
Temryuk
Berlin
Iverman
Red Air Force
Central
Kalinin
Johnie Dean Roneau Wins News Tip Prize
Franco presides in Madrid as war deadlock shifts talk to peace. Johnnie Dean Roneau wins $5 top prize for tips on a Horace Mann School fainting incident. Second prize goes to W P Weatherly for a bass jumping into a boat. Third prize awarded to George Groves for dog adopting chickens.
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Globe News
Johnnie Dean Roneau
North
Buchanan Street
Horace Mann
W. P. Weatherly
City Lake
Lincoln
George Groves
Maryland Street
Robert Hooks
Joe Franklin
Prospect St
Lee Howard
Rusk St
A. E. Stephens
West Eleventh Ave
Viola Ramzel
West First Ave
Donald Ridley
Mirror St
Mildred Hamm
Harrison St
H. S. Hall
East Fourteenth Ave
J. L. Dysart
Canyon Road
J. ©. Collier
Jackson St
Carol Chaney
Western Ave
F. E. Williams
Bowie St
Roland Young
Fairmont St
Jack Rutland
Maryland St
Ed Pittman
East 13Th Ave
R. L. Reeves
Mississippi St
Ida B. Attebury
Hughes St
J. B. Roberts
Fifth Ave
Weather Report For Amarillo Area And West Texas
The forecast notes little temperature change tonight with rapid warming into Tuesday morning and moderate to fresh winds. West Texas will be slightly cooler tonight with small changes elsewhere, warmer conditions in the west and north, and little temperature change in Pecos Valley Big Bend El Paso area and New Mexico. Temperatures over 24 hours ending 6 30 AM show high 49 and low 44 with noon at 52 and precipitation of .29 inch.
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Amarillo
Texas
Pecos Valley
Big Bend
el Paso
New Mexico
New twin engined cargo planes complete world flight
At a U S air base in India on May 8 the largest mass flight in transport history concluded a 15 000 mile journey from America to India via Africa. Pilots from U S civilian lines led the group and the convoy carried 90 tons of cargo with no losses. Notable participants included William Butler of Kilgore Texas from TWA. The British destroyer Pakenham was reported lost with details unrevealed.
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U. S
India
U.S
America
Africa
Grouvu
Northwest
Transcontinental
Western Airlines
William Butler
Kilgore, Tex
TWA
Allied air forces sink Axis boats off Tunisia
Allied aerial squadrons reported to have sunk innumerable small boats loaded with troops as panicked Axis forces fled toward Tunisia, signaling a collapse of Axis escape efforts in North Africa on May 10.
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Allied
North Africa
Cape Zebid
Tunisia
U. S. Army Signal Corps
NBA
Hill
Dale
Hitler Says Winter War Brought Heavy Suffering for Soldiers
Berlin radio quoted Adolf Hitler saying the winter involved the heaviest suffering and burdens for soldiers. He credited halting the Russian assault and counter-attacking for averting a crisis and noted home front sacrifices as equal in resolve to spare the nation the horrors of war.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Berlin Radio Today
Reuters
Berlin
Hitler
Mitler
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Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Casablanca
Zaghouan
Hermann Goering
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Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
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Here
Panhandle
Jack Swann
Potter County
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Lubbock
Tucumcari
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Clarendon
Dumas
Follett
Hereford
Pampa
Spearman
Oklahoma City
Fort Worth
Elk City
Abilene
Big Spring
Bureau
Crabtree
Ed Crabtree
Wheat
Russia
Russell Stationery Company
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Johnie Dean Roneau
Franco Drools
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Almeria
Franco
Spain
Vatican
Spanish Republic
Pakenham
Admiralty
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. Stan
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