Tunisian capitulation closes Axis era in North Africa
Allied headquarters report the Tunisian campaign ended in a decisive victory. 13 Axis generals captured, over 150000 prisoners, 1000 guns, 250 tanks seized, with von Arnim and Messe captured or surrendering. Sicilian air offensive continues as Marsala harbor is pounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Pinkley
North Africa
U.P
Europe
Jurgen von Arnim
Giovanni Messe
von Arnim
Ned Russell
United Press
Tunis
Italy
Messe
Fafidaville
Eighth Army
Victor Emmanuel
260 NHA Applications Now On File at Local Office
The Amarillo housing authority reports 260 applications on file for 544 living quarters at Pantex and Amarillo Army Air Field. 211 requests are for Pantex units with 360 available. 49 are for the army field with 184 available. Rents, including utilities, run from 24.50 to 32.50 dollars. Applications may be made in person by any worker’s family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pantex
Amarillo Army Air Field
Housing Authority
Polk Street
NHA
Army Field
Arthur Truitt
Amarillo
Ickes Expects No Coal Miners Strike As Truce Ends
Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes said he does not expect the United Mine Workers to strike when their 15 day truce expires next Tuesday midnight. He indicated the next move in the dispute lies with the government and noted a War Labor Board panel is drafting its report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Harold L. Ickes
United Mine Workers
Ickes
War Labor Board
WLB
John L. Lewis
UMW
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Illinois
Lewis
New York
Morgenthau Calls for 16 Billion More Tax Revenue
Secretary Morgenthau states a plan to raise 16 billion dollars in additional taxes after pay-as-you-go legislation clears Congress. He notes a new tax plan would be submitted and supported regardless of the final pay-as-you-go bill, with possible postponement of compulsory savings. Senate debate on the Ruml tax forgiveness plan continues, with support from Senator Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau, Jr
Congress
Morgenthau
Treasury
Approveu VY Vvirl CD
Roosevelt
Bennett C. Clark
Missouri
Senate
Patrol clashes amplify New Guinea fighting near Salamaua
Allied forces in New Guinea clash repeatedly between Salamaua and Mubo as weather limits air operations. A detachment fights to break free from encirclement near Lababia Ridge while ambushes on Komiatum and Bobdubi yield enemy deaths. B-25s raid Finsch Harbor and Salamaua airfields, Liberators strike Saumlaki and other targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Caswell
Komiatum
Bobdubi
Salamaua
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Finsch Harbor
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Gasmata
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Saumlaki
Tanimbar Islands
Dutch New Guinea
Bombs Dropped in Messina Port Raid Sinks Axis Ship
Official report says 171 tons of bombs were dropped on Messina in a Liberators of the Ninth U. S. Air Force raid. Recon photos show one large Axis ship sunk and three damaged as quays and harbor facilities were heavily battered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Messina
U. S. Air Force
Waterfront Fire Destroys Navy Piers in San Francisco
A massive blaze hit two Navy operated piers along the emporium area in San Francisco. Fire sent thick smoke over the bay and threatened extensive damage to materiel on the waterfront.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
U.P
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The forecast shows warmer conditions tonight and Friday with moderate to fresh winds. Light rain or drizzle is expected this afternoon on the South Plains and east of the Pecos, with cooler tonight except for minor changes in El Paso and Midland areas. Temperatures reach a high near 60 and a low around 38 with a noon reading near 49.
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Amarillo
West Texas
South Plains
Eest
Pecos
el Paso
Fig Bend
Panhandie
Panhanule
New Mexico
Exiled Dutch urge resistance as Axis control tightens
London May 13 The Dutch government in exile urged 400000 ex servicemen to defy orders to re internment claiming Germans would use labor slavery. The appeal aired from Free Netherlands Station Radio Orange signaling possible policy shift to outright resistance.
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London
Holland
North Africa
Adolf Hitler
Free Netherlands
Radio Orange
Eindhoven
Netherlands
Philips Radio Works
DNB
Brussels
Bern
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Laval
France
Stockholm
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovic
U S Will Release Control Of Some AFL Coal Mines
Lloyd Thrush of the AFL Progressive Mine Workers said the government will release control of 150 Illinois mines with union contracts. Fuels Administrator Ickes informed that orders to release, the first since May 1, would go out this afternoon or tomorrow, affecting about 145 000 AFL members. Thrush and AFL President Green pledged no work stoppage and no raids on United Mine Workers members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lloyd Thrush
AFL Progressive Mine Workers
Illinois
Thrush
Ickes
AFL
William Green
Progressive
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ration Books Found With Sugar Certificate Requests
The food panel urges immediate return of ration books from soldiers and deceased individuals found with canning sugar certificate requests. About 500 daily requests arrive by mail. many lack signatures. Sign and mail No 1 ration book to room 111, county courthouse, to avoid lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Dutch Revolt Spreads Into Belgium Amid Occupation Struggles
Reports from Europe say the revolt thrives in occupied Holland and has crossed into Belgium with attacks on German troops, rail hubs, and military sites. Sabotage and clashes ripple from Poland to Greece as Allied victory echoes shake Hitler's Europe.
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London
Holland
Belgium
Africa
Hitler
Europe
Poland
Norway
Yugoslavia
Greece
Low Countries
Allied Merchant Shipping Tonnage Reaches North Africa
Naval sources report over 11 million gross tons of Allied merchant shipping sailed to North Africa from Nov 8 to May 8 with losses of 2.16 percent. The traffic, moving both ways, involved more than 22 million tons actually escorted, with losses mainly to Axis submarines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
W.P
United States
Britain
Japanese Launch New Attack In Try For Rich Rice Crop
CHUNGKING May 13 The Japanese strike west of Lake Tungting to ruin the area’s rich rice crop before Burma reconquest. Both sides report heavy casualties. A fresh Yangtze crossing from the north Java area aims to sever Chinese communications and block reinforcements to the lake region in northern Hunan. In Taiheng Mountains Chinese troops killed over 500 Japanese in one sector and several hundred in another.
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Chungking
Honan
Kwaungtung
Lake Tungting
Burma
Yangtze
Java
Lake
Hunan
Taiheng Mountains
Army Flier Killed in Pampa Plane Collision
Lieut William A Gibbons 23 of Salt Lake City was killed in a collision two miles northwest of Pampa. Cadet Melvin J Hamann of Rochester New York was injured after parachuting from Gib sons plane. Lieutenants Paul Patinson Arcadia California and William R Neilsen Chicago escaped the crash. The fliers were aboard twin engined advanced trainers.
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Pampa
William A. Gibbons
Salt Lake City
Here
Pampa Air Field
Melvin J. Hamann
le Grand Road
Rochester
N. Y
Gibbon
Paul Patinson
Arcadia
Cal
William R. Neilsen
Amarillo Misses Freeze with Warmer Tonight Forecast
Weather report notes a freeze was missed by several degrees from last night with lows around 38 across Amarillo and exposure readings near 33 in town. Clayton recorded $2, and Dalhart neared freezing. Light drizzle persisted with little moisture. cooler today but warmer tonight as winds shift from moderate to fresh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Clayton
Dalhart
Small Craft Ordered Out Of Water Off Scotland
The admiralty ordered all small craft along the eastern Scottish coast below the Firth of Forth down the east coast and around the channel coast up to Lynmouth on the Bristol Channel to be immobilized or taken out of the water unless officially authorized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Firth of Forth
Channel
Lynmouth
Bristol Channel
Rommel Reported In Greece Arrives at Salonika
A CBS quoted British French broadcast said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel arrived in Salonika Greece. BBC did not disclose its source. Salonika is a port on the Aegean Sea and a potential Allied invasion objective in the Balkans.
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New York
CBS
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
Salonika
Greece
BBC
Aegean Sea
Balkans
Mussolini Demands Anti Aircraft Firepower From Hitler
Anti Nazi German circles reported to Handels Tidning that Mussolini sent a peremptory demand to Hitler for anti aircraft artillery and planes to defend Italy. The tone of the demand reportedly astonished Hitler headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Goteberg
Handels Tidaling Today
Fremier Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
U S Forces Resume Offensive on Kiska in Aleutians
U S forces renewed air strikes on Kiska Aleutians on May 11 hitting the runway and camp area. In the Solomons Fortress bombed Balikale Island and Kahili area starting fires believed to involve enemy aircraft. Three ships reported lost near Guadalcanal earlier include destroyer Aaron Ward tanker Kanawha and corvette Moa.
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Washington
U. S
Kiska
Aleutians
Navy
Solomons
Kanawha
New Zealand
Moa
Ballale
Kahili
Shortlands
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Marsala
Vittoro Emanuel
Allied Headquarters
Dwight Eisenhower
Harold Alexander
Eisenhower
Alexander
Nagi
Afrika Korps
Tunisian
Tunisia
4Th
St. Marie du Zit
Hammamet
R. A. N. Anderson
Anderson
Mafalda
Prince Phillip of Hess
Yolanda
Henri Calvi di Bergolo
Aria
Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma
Cap Bon
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Zaghouan
Enfidaville
First Army
Sixth Armored
Pantelleria
Zembra
Cape
Algiers
Sicily
Moscow
Red Air Force
Lishchansk
Donets
Red Army
Orel-Bryansk
Kursk
Lishhansk
Kharkov
Kuban
Novorossick
Black Sea
Leningrad
Moscow Radio
Kharkov- Crimea
Dneiper
Bryansk
Smolensk
Kalinin
Rostov
Red
E. A. Regal Co
Warn Dutch
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Russell Stationery Company
Scotland
Rommel
U.S
Aaron Ward
Dalcanal
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