Attu Island Airfield Seized as Japanese Encircled
The navy says American forces captured the air field on Attu and blocked Japanese units in the Chichagof Harbor area after a ten day fight. Tokyo confirms heavy Japanese losses and retreat to ridges east of Holtz Bay as U S warships shell defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Greene
Associated Press
Attu Island
Navy
Tokyo
Chichagof Harbor
U. S
United States
Sarana Pass
Chichagof
Navy Bulletin
Holtz Bay
Massacre Bay
Stimson
Knox
Holtz
Massacre Bays
Holtz’ Bay
Soused Soldier Becomes Citizen After Court Action
A soldier joyful at potential U S citizenship disrupts with a personal party before a federal naturalization hearing. Several service members from Amarillo Childress and Pampa bases gain citizenship, including Chu Kee Wah born in China and stationed at Amarillo Field. Civilians listed include George Johann Kraft of Follett and others from Houston Lefors McLean Amarillo and international origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Amarillo
Childress
Pampa
Chu Kee Wah
Nevada
Amarillo Field
China
Henry Cyril Kellman
New York
Childress Air Base
Louis Kahn
Sioux City
Kurt Fritz Heumann
Arlington
Pam
Werner Hanstein
Theodore Panderly Nichols
Joseph Hoffman
Elphia
Wash
Eugene Czarchinski
Chicago
Poland
Zdzis Peter Swierczewski
St. Louis
Russia
Salvador Robles Rodriguez
California
Mexico
David Quindt
Siegfried de Levie
Seattle
Jenkiel Abramowicz
George Johann and
Godfrey Kraft
Follett
Ernest Herman Johnson
Houston
Sweden
Clarence James Kennedy
Lefors
Ireland
Willie Webba Shadid
McLean
Palestine
Theodore John Staus
Spearman
Germany
Alois Karl Waldschmidt
M. Expedita
Switzerland
Afra
M. Wilibalda
M. Wilfrida
Juliana Crandell
Austria-Hungary
Rita Mesa Espinosa
Mary Leo
Floods Strike Six Midwestern States Drench Farmland
United Press reports widespread Mississippi River flood damage across Indiana Illinois Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. Up to 82000 people evacuated 3000000 acres under water as dikes and levees held back rising waters. Five drownings reported with mass immunization warnings and water boil orders in flood zones.
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Mississippi
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
St. Louis
Red Cross
Grand River Dam
Bunker Hill
Clinton
Ind
Terre Haute
Delphi
Lafayette
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Mount Carmel
Navy Bill Passes House Unanimously for 29 Billion
The House approved a 29 billion naval appropriation by a 360 to 0 vote. The measure is the largest naval appropriation in history and funds include 9 billion for new ship construction 6 billion for aircraft and 2 billion for naval ordnance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
U.P
Army Bomber Crashes Into Gas Tank in Chicago
A U. S. Army bomber flying through heavy fog crashed into an illuminating gas tank on Chicago's southwest side. The blaze destroyed the aircraft and all occupants were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Balkan Defense Not Too Tough
Travelers report Germany may skip a summer Russian offensive to keep reserves ready for rapid movement west or south if Allied invasion occurs. Axis defenses in the Balkans are not complete yet warned observers, but cracking them would be tough but possible. Germany tightens control around Bulgaria and Black Sea ports with strict rules and warning shots for approaching personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ankara
Turkey
Europe
Balkans
Atlantic
Reorts
Adolf Hitler
Thrace
Dardanellesee
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Berlin reports large Allied fleet at Gibraltar
Berlin radio, citing Spanish correspondents, said 72 Allied ships were in Gibraltar today including the battleships Nelson and King George V and aircraft carriers Argus and Formidable. The claim noted 25 ships arriving from the Mediterranean with one American and two British merchantmen damaged, plus a British destroyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Argus
Formidable
Nelson
King George V
Gibraltar
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Weather Notes For Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for warmer conditions tonight and Friday with gentle to moderate winds. Light rain and scattered thundershowers are possible in Del Rio Eagle Pass and areas east of the Pecos, with cooler conditions tonight in Del Rio and Eagle Pass. Temperatures elsewhere show little change, slight warming in the Panhandle. In New Mexico, warmer conditions are expected in the east and center, little change in the far west. Yesterday's temperatures reached a high of 62 and a low of 40, with noon readings around 50 at 6:30 A.M.
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Amarillo
Texas
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Pecos
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Panhandle
New Mexico
Flooded rail Odyssey Ends Day Near Chanute
Two passenger trains carrying nearly 1000 passengers, mostly soldiers, wandered floodbound routes from St Louis toward San Antonio. They posted a 30 mile loss in 24 hours as crews diverted through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Red Cross provided food showers and entertainment at Chanute, with trains resuming toward Texas.
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Chanute, Kas
St. Louis
San Antonio
Chanute
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Parsons
Dewey
Okla
Red Cross
Emporia
Santa Fe
Wichita
Texas
Katy
Winfield
Kansas City
Mosquito Bombers Hit Berlin as Allies Pound Axis
Allied air forces blasted targets across Europe including Berlin with Mosquito bombers and daylight raids on Poix Amiens Glisy Crecy en Penthieu and tangierbrugge. In attacks on Sardinia Sicily and Attu Island Allied forces claimed 73 Axis planes destroyed and 29 shot down with four Allied aircraft lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Europe
U. S
Sardinia
Sicily
Tunisian
Berlin
English Channel
France
Poix
Amiens-Glisy
Crecy En Penthieu
Gamaches
Ghent
Tangerbrugge
Lys
Poisy
Sens
Bonniers
Attu Island
Tokyo
Russia
Moscow
Caucasus
Turkey
Balkans
Atlantic Wall
Burma
India
Southwest
Pacific
MacArthur
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Oro Bay
New Guinea
Anthony Eden
London
Kuban
Staraya Russa
Volkhov
Orel
Belgorod
Ber
Switzerland
Kursk
Leningrad
Roosevelt asks Congress for large army funding boost
President Roosevelt asked Congress to make available nearly 72 billion dollars for the army for the coming fiscal year starting July 1, bolstering his January budget by more than 6 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Luxury Surrounds Food Sessions At Virginia Hot Springs
James Marlow and George Zielke report delegates at a foreign food conference in Hot Springs Virginia see luxury rather than hunger relief. The Homestead Hotel offers $12 daily rooms and lavish amenities with liquor imports, private estates, and corporate ownership shaping life for 157 delegates and 281 aides over two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
George Zielke
Hot Springs
United States
Alleghenies
Homestead
Stock Exchange House
Virginia State Liquor Control Board
State Department
Virginia
Virginia Hot Springs Corporation
Unpredictable Lewis Seeks Readmission To AFL
The volatile United Mine Workers leader petitioned for readmission, claiming a unified labor movement. AFL welcomed the move as orderly while critics doubt the full motive and note jurisdictional and policy hurdles before any reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers
AFL
CIO
Lewis Witheld
New York
Lewis
UMW
District 50
Federatin
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United Press
Balkan
John Maynard Lbr. Co
The
Shaw-Walker
Russell Stationery Company
E. A. Regal Co
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Islands
United States Army
Corporation
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Joseph A. Loftus
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
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