Ship Zamzam Sunk En Route to Suez With American Losses
The Egyptian liner Zamzam sailing from New York March 20 toward Alexandria was sunk in the South Atlantic amid reports of enemy action. About 323 lives were lost, including more than 100 Americans such as ambulance corps volunteers and missionaries bound for Africa. Crew and passengers included prominent Americans and Egyptians. officials awaited authoritative lists and whether the incident signals piracy or a German warning.
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New York
U.P
Zamzam
South Atlantic
Alexandria
Egypt
Recife
Brazil
Capetown
South Africa
Middle East
Africa
William Gray Smith
London
U. S
Suez
Britain
U.S
Roosevelt
Mombassa
Kenya
Lake Chad
Charles DeGaullee
William V. C. Ruxton
Ambulance Corps
Philip N. Faversham
William Faversham
Cornelius Otis Skinner
Clifton Webb
Michael Kirchwey
Clark
Harvard
Frieda Kirchwey
the Nation
Levers
Evans Clark
Twentieth Century Fund
Francis J. Vicovari
American Ambulance Corps
France
William A. Wydenbruck- Lee
John W. Ryan
Newton
Mass
North Carolina University
George B. Ryan
Boston Herald
Vicovari
Wydenbruck-Lee
New Americans Are Honored Here Today
Amarillo observes I Am An American Day honoring naturalized citizens and youths born two years after World War I end. The 8 PM high school auditorium event features a 55 member band from Amarillo College and guests. Rev. Bryan Keathley will speak on Liberty is Worth This. Judge E C Nelson chairs. Public invited.
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Amarillo
Italian Stronghold Finally Gives Up
Washington reports a government drive may mobilize scrap aluminum from homes for defense needs. OPM revisits scrap campaigns due to metal shortages, amid local drives and doubts about unified effort. In Africa, about 7,000 Italian soldiers surrender at Alma Alaji with Duke of Aosta to surrender noon tomorrow. British forces report Axis withdrawals on the North African front. Gondar natives seize an important position in Ethiopia.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
OPM
Cairo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Alma Alaji
Duke of
Aosta
Trezzani
Tobruk
Iraq
Basra
Habbaniyah
Gondar
Amba Alaji
Addis Ababa
Hess Feared German Defeat Latest Hint
London reports BBC Germany broadcast saying Rudolf Hess has been writing and talking for a week and Churchill received a full report of his statements. The cue to Hess losing faith in victory lies in Haushofer's Zeitschrift Fur Geopolitik, whose author is described as pessimistic about Germany's prospects amid US intervention.
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London
BBC
Germany
Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Churchill
Hess
Zeitschrift Fur Geopolitik
Doctor Haushofer
Berlin
Haushofer
United States
Straw Hat Day Great For Umbrella Sales
In Lewiston Idaho a land office business kept straw hat day afloat despite rain. A parade was washed out and the mayor missed a straw hat coronation. A breaking machine froze a straw hat for a guessing contest. Umbrella sales flourished amid the wet day.
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Lewiston
Idaho
City to receive water pump bids tomorrow
Bids on the contract to furnish turbine pumps for water wells at the Word ranch are due to be received at tomorrow night's meeting of the commission. Public hearings on two re zoning applications are scheduled for 1812 Buchanan Street and 2500 Fillmore Street. Build Now, John Maynard Lbr, Co
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Word Ranch
Buchanan Street
Fillmore Street
Phillips Petroleum boosts Panhandle crude price in trio states
Phillips Petroleum Company raised crude oil prices in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas effective at 7 this morning. Panhandle crude gains nine cents a barrel to $1.10 for 40 gravity oil, bringing added revenue to Panhandle producers.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Austin
Panhandle
Bomb destroys ex home of Bligh in Kent manor
London May 19. A direct German bomb hit demolishing the centuries old manor house that was once Captain William Bligh, of HMS Bounty, in Farningham, Kent. Bligh and 18 others were set adrift in 1789 after mutiny. He sailed 4000 miles to Timor before dying in 1817.
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London
U.P
William Bligh
Bounty
Farningham
Kent
Bligh
South Seas
Timor
Malay Archipelago
Pitcairn Island
Blight
More National Guards Are Called by FDR
President Roosevelt announced activation of eight National Guard aviation squadrons, one infantry battalion, and one coast artillery battalion. The order broadens military readiness as the country mobilizes forces for ongoing national defense efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Guard
Rockefeller says US must ship defense goods to democracies
New York May 19 Nelson A Rockefeller coordinator of commercial and cultural relations between the American republics insisted the United States must ensure defense supplies reach democracies as trade under a Hitler dominated world would fail. Fine leather billfolds Russell Stationery Company.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States
Rail unions call for 30 percent wage rise nationwide
Representatives of five major railroad operating unions totaling about 350 000 workers announced a national campaign for a 30 percent increase in basic pay. They seek at least $1.80 extra per day, with wage demands to be submitted to the railroads on June 10 under the National Railway Mediation Board. The conference included the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Engine Men, Railroad Trainmen, the switchmen's union, and the Order of Railway Conductors of America.
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Chicago
National Railway Mediation Board
Brotherhoods of
Switchmen's Union
The
Order of Railway Conductors of America
Weather flecks snow doubt as cooler air arrives
Mr Collman says no snow is expected though cooler conditions arrive with a chance of scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Temperatures reach about 80 F today before dropping to around 45 F tonight. Yesterday brought showers with Clarendon recording a heavy shower and a 0.7 inch fall. Southwest winds near 20 mph shift to the northwest late in the day. Fair and cooler weather expected tomorrow with several towns reporting light precipitation amounts.
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Childress
Crosbyton
Lubbock
Memphis
Miami
Muleshoe
Pampa
Plainview
Boise City
Gage
Oklahoma
Elk City
Okla
Clovis
Des Moines
Clayton
Permits for two homes issued by city in Amarillo
City hall building inspector issued permits for two new homes in Amarillo this morning, boosting construction value by over $10,000. W. L. Veale plans a $5,300 five room house at 2600 Van Buren Street, while Clyde Bray will build a $5,000 six room concrete tile home at 1101 Avondale. Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance.
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Amarillo
City Hall
W. L. Veale
van Buren Street
Clyde Bray
Avondale
Amarillo Weather Forecast With Scattered Storms Tonight
The forecast covers Amarillo and nearby areas with scattered thundershowers and a drop in temperature to about 45 tonight Then Tuesday will be fair and cooler Southwest Texas shows partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers in the north and east while southeast remains mostly cloudy and cooler New Mexico expects fair weather but scattered thundershowers in the east and higher mountains today with cooler conditions on Tuesday Temperature extremes over 24 hours ended at 6 30 A M ranged from 59 to 77 with noon reading at 80 Roofing Materials at Newhy s
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
O Daniel to Run or Resign as Governor in Senate Bid
Texas political observers expect Governor W Lee O Daniel to announce a bid for the U S Senate tonight issuing a plan to resign the governorship and launch a national campaign via Texas radio stations He argues for federal universal pensions and frames the race as a clash with the New Deal while weighing which own office holder to pressure to quit or back He faces potential opposition from Lyndon Johnson Hal Collins Jerry Mann and others and the outcome hinges on whether he enters the race or stays out
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Lewis Nordyke
O'Daniel
Texas
Austin
U. S. Senate
Hal Collins
Senate
Jerry Mann
Martin
Lyndon Johnson
Ernest Thompson
Jerry Sadler
Railroad Commission
New Deal
Johnson
Pat
Washington
Mineral Wells
Cain
Mann
Wendell Willkie
O’daniel
Jim Ferguson
Ferguson
C. V. Terrell
Walter Woodus
Safety Lane Is Coming To Amarillo Soon
Amarillo gears up for a state safety lane test on North Fillmore and South Polk streets beginning June 2. The city will operate the inspections with local Safety Council help. Sergeant Tom Gassaway will supervise, but volunteers must provide the inspection staff. State equipment and forms will be supplied, with the operation running two to three days per street.
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Amarillo
State Safety Division
Department of Public Safety
Joe Jenkins
George F. Schauer
North Fillmore Street
South Polk Street
Schauer
Homer Garrison
Tom Gassaway
Gassaway
Sadler Sees Oil Crisis
In Austin on May 19, Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler warned the Texas oil industry of a major setback after Continental Oil Company won a permanent injunction to produce from the Conoco Driscoll field sufficient oil to meet its orders. He said if the decision stands, proration has failed, signaling what he called the most serious problem since rationing began.
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Austin
Texas
Jerry Sadler
Continental Oil Company
Conoco-Driscoll
Sadler
Mine Workers and Owners Reach New Agreement
In New York on May 19 a short stoppage in the anthracite coal sector ended as the United Mine Workers of America and Pennsylvania hard coal operators tentatively agreed on a wage contract. The pact would grant wage increases to about 100 000 hard coal miners.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Pennsylvania
Strike Threat Closes Merry Melodies Studio
In Hollywood on May 19 labor difficulties halted part of movie cartoon production. Union workers for Leon Schlesinger, producer of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, threatened to strike unless wage increases across classifications were granted. Schlesinger closed the studio yesterday accusing the AFL Screen Cartoonists Guild of raising demands by about 300 percent.
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Hollywood
Leon Schesinger
Schlesinger
AFL
Screen Cartoonists Guild
Firemen Retrieve Retriever From Storm Sewer
Philadelphia police officer George Dougherty rescued a cocker spaniel named Rowdy that chased a ball into an open storm sewer eleven feet deep. After pulling the dog to safety he requested firemen to lower a ladder so he could climb out. Washington meanwhile reports a meeting set for Thursday on inter American financial and economic advisory committee proposals.
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Philadelphia
George Dougherty
Daniel F. Fairbanks
Dougherty
Washington
inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee
More Nazis In Iraq
Reuters reports from Beirut dated May 19 describe French anti-aircraft batteries reopening fire on British planes bombing Rayak airdrome in Syria. The British conducted leaflet raids on Damascus Deir Es Zor Has sed and Aleppo with propaganda in French and Arabic while German planes arrived in Iraq. The Baghdad staff warned against firing on planes of doubtful nationality and Major Von Blomberg reportedly died aboard a German plane. General Dentz urged Syria to resist British aggression as Petain called for peace. British raids and RAF involvement were linked to Axis support for Iraq.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Rayak
Syria
RAF
Damascus
Deir Es Zor
Hassed
Aleppo
Iraq
Baghdad
von Blomberg
Marshal Petain
Dentz
Persian Gulf
Basra
Fleet Air Arm
Habbaniyah
Quests at Hotel Turn Out To Be Robbers
Two casually dressed men registered as guests at the Scott Hotel in Dallas robbed the lobby cash register of 325 dollars. They forced staff including the night clerk to sit on the floor and flee in a black sedan after telling employees to go to the top of the building.
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Dallas
U.P
Scott Hotel
J. E. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Taxi Driver Found Unconscious After Alley Attack
George Dewey Gordon, a taxi driver, was found unconscious in a Taylor Street alley late Saturday night. He received emergency treatment at St. Anthony's hospital and was released on Sunday. Police said he apparently was struck on the head.
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George Dewey Gordon
Taylor Street Alley
St. Anthony's Hospital
German plane sinks British submarine southwest of Weymouth
Berlin report from May 19 via DNB states a German bomber surprised a British submarine off Weymouth in the English Channel, hitting her twice before she could submerge and sinking her quickly southwest of Weymouth.
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Berlin
DNB
Weymouth
English Channel
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Westport
John Maynard Lbr, Co
Libya
Phillips
Russell Stationery Company
Newhy's
Loe
Texas Capitol
W. Lee O'Daniel
United States Senate
Marjorie Woodworth
Harvard Lampoon
Lampoon
Crimson
Strike Threat
Merry Melodies
Henry Dentz
Mers-El-Kebir
Dakar
England
Turkey
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