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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1942
Page
14
Remodeling of the Lyric Theater driven by West Sixth Street widening is finished. M Mendel reports interior work and new equipment to improve service.
Allied forces contest in the Pacific as American and Australian planes strike Amboina and Lae. Three enemy Zero fighters are shot down while an airfield building and two Japanese aircraft are damaged at Lae. An Allied ship sinks after enduring multiple bomb hits and a crashing enemy plane causes deck fire. a wounded crewman recalls nine enemy planes down and several bombers lost.
RAF planes swept occupied France with a strong force of Spitfires heading to Boulogne and another group flying above the clouds near Calais. A second Northern France sweep occurred in the afternoon. British reports note enemy activity along Southern England with bombs dropped at several locations causing damage and a few casualties. one enemy aircraft was destroyed.
British artillery shelled enemy vehicles in the central Libyan desert front yesterday as a general headquarters communique disclosed. Patrol activity was reported in other sectors.
In Amure eight miles west of Kremmling and about 130 miles west of Denver a collision of two westbound Denver Rio Grande Western freight trains killed three trainmen and a livestock shipper. Duties named are Conductor B Youngberg of Pueblo Brakeman C T Hedgecock Jr of Fireman 8 W Pyatt of Denver and Frank B Pitney a Nebraska live stock shipper. Preliminary findings show one freight backed into a siding then collided with the caboose of the following train.
Dominic Lofrese, 21, was sentenced to 60 days in the Detroit House of Correction for smoking a cigarette during the Sunday blackout. Recorder’s Judge George Murphy urged Lofrese that “This is war” as he imposed the sentence.
The rationing board has not issued new canning sugar registrations while awaiting Washington directives. A sign on the office door at 111 County Court House notes the temporary halt and ends with the quip So solly.
President Manuel Avila Camacho asked Congress to convene an extraordinary session to declare war on the Axis and approve emergency measures to defend Mexico against totalitarian aggression.
R T Craig former editor of the Athens Review filed for Congress in the seventh district saying there has been no widespread demand for him to run and that his platform will not offer a panacea for all ills.
Eugene Levine, 31, who pleaded guilty to five indictments with 22 counts of rape, robbery, grand larceny and sodomy, was sentenced by Kings County Judge Louis Goldstein to 82 years six months to 165 years at Sing Sing. Police say he admitted more than 100 crimes in three years.
Deputy U S Marshal Bill Lampe wrote to U S Marshal Red Wright saying he is sending his fish hook under separate cover and asks for a lantern. He said he has been working day and night and too busy this spring to think seriously about fishing, which he enjoys.
Spokane police report an emergency call about a young millworker who fainted while embracing his girlfriend. Officer M A Clinton filed the reply noting it was a false alarm and the man was not dead.
Attendants at Northwest Texas Hospital report Mrs Clyde Holtzclaw is slightly improved today continuing to receive care for her condition.
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