Allied blitz ends Axis hold on Cap Bon in North Africa
Allied advances across Cap Bon reduce Axis strength as German troops in Zaghouan fight on. About 700 square miles remain under enemy control, with 87 000 plus prisoners taken and numbers rising toward 100 000 as Eighth Army and First Army pivot south and west.
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Virgil Pinkley
North Africa
O.S
Cap Bon
Zaghouan
Hammamet
Hitler
Mussolini
Eighth Army
Soliman
Menzel Bou Selfa
Grombalia
Lake Achkel
2Nd Corps
Tebel Achkel
Africa
Dutch state of siege 26 patriots executed in Holland unrest
Netherlands reports a state of siege in Nazi occupied Holland with 26 patriots executed and 10 sentenced to death after disorders tied to a general strike attempt. Aneta cites Seyss-Inquart ordering the siege amid food supply disruptions and interservice reinternment orders.
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London
Netherlands
Aneta
Holland
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Netherlands Army
de Telegraaf
Amsterdam
City reports few new undulant fever cases
Amarillo health officials note 5 new undulant fever cases in the past year amid estimates of 75 to 100 chronic cases overall. The statement outlines transmission from milk and raw foods, with emphasis on pasteurization, testing cattle, and thorough washing of vegetables to prevent Malta or Mediterranean fever now widely distributed.
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City
Amarillo
Cuy Health Department
Health Department
Malta
Tropics
German Shock Troops Desperate Rabble in Cap Bon Retreat
Report by Daniel De Luce from Cap Bon describes Hitler’s shock troops fleeing into hills or surrendering to the British First Army. Five thousand German infantry surrendered in four hours. major and officers bemused, with fuel and food scarcity cited. Sherman tanks outflank German 88s near Hamman Lif as the armored advance drives a panicked retreat.
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Daniel DE Luce Grombalie
Cap Bon
Adolf Hitler
First Army
Dunkerque
Hitler
Brombala
Soliman
Africa
Hamman Lif
Mediterranean
Tunis
Grombalia
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas
The Amarillo area sees little temperature change tonight with a cooler Wednesday morning and varying winds. West Texas expects a warmer afternoon and night with cooler northern Panhandle tonight. New Mexico trends cooler northwest to day and west and north tonight with windy conditions. Temperatures over 24 hours ending 6 30 AM show high 71 and noon 79 with a 0.07 inch precipitation.
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Amarillo
West Texas
North Panhandle
New Mexico
U S Planes Hit Japanese Bases in Solomons Raid
United Press reports dive bombers and torpedo planes struck anti aircraft positions and started fires at Munda and bombed Vangaranga on Kolombangara. All US planes returned safely. Other actions include a Dutch Guinea air base raid and Babo airfield damage, with Japanese raids on Millimgimbi and Burma lines.
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United Press
U. S
Munda
Solomons
Navy
Vangaranga
Kolombangara
Dutch Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Babo
Darwin
Northeast New Guinea
Mubo
Skip-a-Year Tax Plan Faces Opposition in Senate
Senator La Follette warned the skip-a-year tax bill will raise taxes for many in 1943. He argued forgiving taxes now shifts rates higher later and questioned recovering forgiven amounts from middle and lower income groups. Col Elliott Roosevelt arrived in London on furlough from North Africa.
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Washington
U.P
Robert M. la Follette
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
LaFollette
Senate
Elliott
London
Col
Elliott A. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
North Africa
Hair drive hair for war work moves to Maryland firm
The Office of War Information asked for long blond hair for war production but found no use for it locally. The Washington Institute of Technology in College Park Maryland with a war contract will receive a limited amount to make weather instruments. Hair accepted pays $1 an ounce in war bonds.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Blondie
OWI
Washington Institute of Technology
College Park
L C Proctor Named New Welfare Chief
AUSTIN May 11 The State public welfare board appointed L C Proctor of Austin as director of school plants and executive director of the department of public welfare, pending Senate confirmation to succeed J B Murchison who resigned. The board withdrew Dudley L Lewis of Fort Worth nomination after it remained unconfirmed.
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Austin
Tex
State Public Welfare Board
L. C. Proctor
Department of Education
Department of Public Welfare
Senate
Proctor
J. B. Murchison
Dudley L. Lewis
Fort Worth
Red Army fights stiff in Novorossisk siege
Red Army troops crawl forward under heavy resistance in the Novorossisk front amid fierce combat. Red Air Force conducts raids on supply lines while German counterattacks push into the Kuban with tanks and artillery. Berlin reports 159 tanks destroyed April 29 to May 16. 3,000 ton Russian freighter sunk in Barents Sea.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Novorossisk
Red Air Force
Kuban
Black Sea
Berlin
Associated Press
Barents Sea
Sky Over English Channel Active With Allied Bombers
The English Channel saw two way traffic as Allied bomber formations crossed after noon and many squadrons headed toward France. German raids on an east Anglian town killed many girls when an inn was hit, while the day featured sharp activity across the continent.
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London
English Channel
Continent
Shannels
France
Hazi Bombers Hit East Anglian Town
Fifteen German Focke Wulf fighters attacked an East Anglian town early today dropping explosives and machine gunning buses. A bomb hit a building housing auxiliary territorial service girls where 11 bodies were recovered. Casualties were also reported at another building with workers.
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London
Auxiliary Territorial Service
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Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
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Hungary
Turkey
Bulgaria
Neely -Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
Ond
Millimgimbi
Tokyo
Buthidaung
Burma
Mayu Peninsula
India
Tung Ting Lake
China
Rostov-Bataisk
Caucasus
Channel Sky
Hazi
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