Amarillo USO drive nears one third of goal at $6922.75
Nearly $200 more was added today to Amarillo's USO pot raising the total to $6,922.75. L H Puckett said the drive is about a third toward the target as volunteers and team captains coordinate campaigns with Cam Irvine named to head another USO team. The group plans a club house on the old weather bureau site if lease can be obtained.
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Amarillo
L. H
Cedar) Puckett
Cam. P. S. Irvine
H. P. Burgard
Paniex
USO
Japanese Plane Without a Pilot Dives at Bomber
Lieutenant Charles I Hitchcock of Winchester Indiana watched a Japanese Zero close in on his bomber over Lae New Guinea. With no pilot at the controls the craft dove toward their plane before crashing. The crew reported ten other Zeros fired on them but the mission continued. The tracer had pierced the cockpit but the pilot was missing.
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Charles’ IL Hitchcock
Winchester
Ind
Lae
New Guinea
Hitchcock
Brazilian Patrol Planes Sink Axis Submarine
Patrol planes off Brazil's north eastern coast sunk an Axis submarine after it attempted to submerge on May 23. Bombs were dropped on the submarine as three more patrol planes joined the attack and a request for assistance was sent.
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Fortaleza
Brazil
Globe To Pay Extra Dividend In Fiction
The Globe will begin presenting May Christie new serial THAT MAN IS MINE on tomorrow’s front page. Christie, famed for vivid local color and globe trotting, delivers a romantic adventure between New York and Miami with suspense and lively incidents.
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Globe
May Christie
Mojave Desert
California
Hollywood
Florida
New York
Monte Carlo
Cannes
Paris
Miami
China
Scotland
Atlantic
England
Buckingham Palace
Government House
Australia
Goldmines
South Africa
Kimberley
Diamond Fields
Switzerland
Holland
Italy
Christie
Gas rationing debated by governors and congressmen
Texas Governor Coke R Stevenson protested extending gasoline and mileage rationing as harmful to the economy and public spirit. Senator Maybank urged universal rationing and consistent rules, while others discussed draft age and selective service classifications amid war strain.
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Austin
Texas
Sam Rayburn
Coke R Stevenson
Japanese Diet opens to back shipbuilding push
An extraordinary Imperial Diet session in Tokyo opened to approve a large shipbuilding program and to intensify national mobilization. Domei reports the plan aims to speedily build many merchant vessels, reflecting Japan's losses in Southwest Pacific campaigns.
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Tokyo
Imperial Diet
Domei
Doemi
Pacific
Wheat straw remark sparks Marine recruiting note
A man in the marine recruiting office was observed cleaning his pant cuff while waiting for friends. Sgt. F M Bell warned any future returner about the wheat straw on the floor saying he could become a fine Marine.
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Marine
F. M Bell
Labor Party Upholds Wartime Truce at Conference
At London on May 25 the 41st annual Labour conference voted 2 219 000 to 164 000 to continue support for Churchill's government. Lord Strabolgi urged withdrawal to form a constructive opposition, while the party kept a plan for national control of mining with regional boards.
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London
U.P
Britain
Labor Party
Churchill
Lord Strabolgi
Labor
House of Lords
Strabolai
Clement R. Attlee
Dominions
Roosevelt seeks 280 million for work relief in new plan
President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 280 million dollars for work relief starting July 1 plus 2.767 million for administrative costs, trimming about 185 million from the prior total. He projects average monthly employment around 400,000 with 3 million still unemployed and suggests extending social security protections to aid the residual group now served by the WPA.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Work Projects Administration
Do a Little For Country Buy War Bond
wartime plea emphasizes bond sales and May totals. Mentions May quota 277800 with weekend sales 27355 and total 230704. notes daily average 9419.20 and Friday as last bond day. Encourages purchase within wartime drive.
Woman leaps from flat after domestic quarrel
In San Francisco on May 25 Mrs. Argelita Folder 29 threatened death by jumping from a second floor window. Her husband Meredith Folder heard her and waited in the street below. She jumped but both survived with no injuries.
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San Francisco
Argelita Folder
Meredith
Folder
Air Raid Warden Killed During Southern California Blackout
A blackout in Southern California lasted 45 minutes as planes were misidentified as foe. Air raid warden John H. Arnold, 57, of South Gate, was struck by a hit and run driver while signaling traffic in the blackout.
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Los Angeles
United States
California
John H. Arnold
South Gate
Australia First Front members held on treason charges in Australia
Army Minister Francis M. Forde announced the arrest of 19 men and women linked to the Australia First Front on treasonable conspiracy charges to aid Japan if invasion occurred. He said seized documents outlined assassination plans and sabotage of vulnerable targets.
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Selective Service
Johnson
Colorado
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Taft
Ohio
Army
Sydney
Australia
Francis M. Forde
Australia First Front
Forde
Windy May Weather With Steady High Near Seventy Five
The wind this May appears persistent with strong winds this afternoon and into tonight. Temperatures will stay near yesterday’s highs around 75 with a morning low near 57. Wv Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance.
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Bureau
Russians Hold Kharkov Front as Germans Lose Heavily
The Russian communique reports heavy German losses as they try to push a wedge into Kharkov sector and are counterattacked by Red Army forces. Along the 155 mile front, Timoshenko’s troops dig in before Kharkov while fighting in Izyum Barvenkovya.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Izyum-Barvenkovo
Semyon Timoshenko
Izyum- Barvenkovya
Leningrad
Timoshenko
Klim Voroshilov
Pravda
Communist Party
Ukraine
Albanian resistance and Kinwha battle reports widen war front
Across multiple fronts reports describe intensified Albanian resistance against Italian occupation in Tirana with the police chief killed by student assailants, plus Chinese defense near Kinwha under Japanese assault. Allied operations in the Pacific push back Japanese centers while a northern air offensive continues.
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Tirnana
Tomori
Tirani
Ali Petchi
Kinwha
Chekiang
Shanghai
Chungking
Yunnan
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Toni Joe) Henry
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