Attack Axis In the West
A military observer in London says Allied power in Western Europe has shifted in their favor for the first time since the war began. Large numbers of battle-ready American troops arrive in northern Ireland, with Canadian and British forces training for an offensive. The observer notes Germany’s army is deteriorating and Russia’s difficulties loom, enabling plans for an offensive with about 20 divisions and 300,000 men.
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London
Western
Europe
Islands
United States
Germany
Northern Ireland
Russia
Stimulating Tonic Claims Boost For All Ages
An advertisement touts a tonic promising energy and vitality for men and women over 40 and beyond, boasting quick results. It promotes Ostres Tonite Tabdleta with a 20 cent introductory price and lists Cretney Drug and Walgreens in Amarillo as sellers.
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Latiena
Amarillo
Cretney Drug
Walgreen's
Carter's Little Liver Pills Marketed As Laxative Aid
Advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a laxative that relieves constipation and stimulates bile flow for better digestion. Claims include improved mood and energy the next morning with use, urging readers to buy from druggists for 10 or 26 cents.
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Carter
Probe Waste Of Mutilated Auto Tires
Fort Worth, May 19. A tire rationing board ordered the state highway department to explain why hundreds of mutilated casings were not salvaged for further use. For nine years the department cut out serial numbers and shipped casings to Austin for replacements. The practice piled casings in highway yards. The mutilation halted on Dec. 22, but district engineers must explain reclamation efforts at 2 PM Wednesday.
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Fort Worth
U.pi
State Highway Department
Austin
Highway Department
Troop transports shown to outpace U-boat success
The speaker asserts that U-boat fleets failed to starve Britain and could not halt large American troop movements across the Atlantic. He notes gleaming new US tanks in Ireland prove US leverage via skilled drivers and mechanics and claims American troops are far ahead of WWI divisions. Attlee confirms aid to Soviet Russia continues despite harsh Murmansk sea conditions. Railroads report 1,617,000 serviceable freight cars in 1941.
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Britain
Atlantic
United States
Ireland
France
Clement R. Attlee
House of Commons
Soviet Russia
Murmansk
Dominions
World Seeks A Transfusion At Southern Baptist Convention
Dr. J B Lawrence of Atlanta told the Southern Baptist convention in San Antonio that nations will look to the United States for a blood transfusion and urged Christians to permeate social and political life with the gospel to shape lasting peace. The session approved admitting 31 California churches into fellowship, a move prompted by migration from Texas Oklahoma Missouri and Arkansas. Pat M Neff was unanimously elected president, leader of Baylor University and former Texas Baptist official.
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San Antonio
J. B. Lawrence
Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
Lawrence
Home Mission Board
United States
California
Southern Baptist
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Northern Baptist
R. W. Lackey
Bakersfield
Calif
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Dutch Warned To Keep Heads In Face Of Provocation
London May 19 the Dutch government in exile warned occupied Netherlands by radio to await the moment for action and to keep their heads despite provocation as reports reached London after learning of ongoing German pressure.
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London
Himmler Arrival Signals Dutch Tense Break Point
Dutch and Nazi observers linked Heinrich Himmler’s transfer to the region with rising internal strain in the Netherlands. The move followed a week of Nazi repression aimed at breaking Dutch resistance, including 96 executions as German forces pressed to subdue patriots amid looming invasion fears.
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Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Himmiler
Netherlands
Japs Reorganize Their Air Force
Japan announces a second reorganization of its air force creating an army air force headquarters to be led by a full general appointed by and reporting directly to the Mikado Hirohito. This move stems from wartime needs as the conflict continues.
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United Press
Japan
Mikado Hiro
Japan Creates Separate Air Force Independent of Army Navy
The move establishes a distinct air force for Japan, effective June 1. Air force headquarters will take precedence over the army air division headquarters formed April 15.
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Hito
Japan
Army
Navy
Air Force
Army Air Division
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