Survivors tell of Zamzam captured by German raider Dresden
AMERICAN survivors of the Egyptian freighter Zamzam say the raider sank their ship on April 17 and transferred them to the North German Lloyd liner Dresden. They described 32 days aboard the Dresden, crowded conditions, poor meals, and orderly routine under Captain Jaeger while awaiting rescue.
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Biarritz
France
Paris
South Atlantic
Tamesis
Dresden
Tonsberg
Norway
Recife
Brazil
Capetown
Africa
Charles J. W. Murphy
Fortune Magazine
Sergeant Collin’s accidental sit yields humorous plaster cast sign
At CAMP HULEN Texas on May 26 Sergeant J B Collins a personnel clerk at camp headquarters sat on a mimeograph stencil from the station hospital. He ended up with a sign on his rear reading Plaster casts Keep member well elevated.
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Camp Hulen
Palacious
Tex
J. B. Collins
Camp Headquarters
Collins
Queen Mother Mary Marks 74th Birthday in Wartime West Country
Queen Mother Mary observed her 74th birthday today while residing in the west country. She continues visits to bombed cities rest centers and army units and occasionally travels to London to lunch with the king and queen at Buckingham Palace where she presided for over 25 years.
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London
Mary
West Country
George V
Buckingham Palace
Prairie dogs take over Taos airport runways
In Taos New Mexico prairie dogs inhabited a small airfield delaying a planned visit. Custodian Ivan Kimsey found the field full of tunnels and mounds and the plane had to navigate a bumpy path to land safely.
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Paos
N. M
Ivan Kimsey
Maritime Commission signs 123 new merchant ship contracts
The Maritime Commission announced contracts for 123 additional merchant ships costing about 312 million dollars. Eighty five ships will join a long range plan of 500 ships begun three and a half years ago while the rest fall under the lend lease program. The move speeds the regular program from 50 ships per year. So far 198 ships and six naval auxiliaries started. 108 launched and 86 completed and in service.
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Washington
U.P
Maritime Commission
Commission
Parks Chief Warns Against Early Pruning of Trees
Chestern Fitz, superintendent of parks, cautions residents not to trim ice dam aged trees until fall. He warns cutting new tender shoots now will cause others to grow heavy and drop.
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Chestern Fitz
Hull Says Germany Threatening U S
Hull accuses Germany of using threats to stop U S self defense amid Raeder and Hitler plans. Raeder warned convoys would provoke fighting, Morgenthau skippers patrols on Atlantic routes, Early notes Berlin aims to cloud Roosevelt speech.
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Washington
Hull
Germany
United States
Erich Raeder
Stephen Early
Berlin
Roosevelt
Early
Raeder
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Europe
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
O'Daniel Urges Solons to Pass Budget Audit Bill
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel told the Texas Legislature he will veto another bill restoring the budgeting audit system unless a new budget preparation measure passes by tomorrow. He warned the current plan is slipshod and businesslike, and pressed for an auditor appointed by the Legislature with a unified budget office under a governor-appointed director. The governor also vetoed a bill allowing state colleges to issue bonds backed by student fees, calling it debt-prone and unconstitutional under the Texas framework.
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Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
Board of Control
O'Daniel
Joe Skiles
Denton
State of
Texas
Lincoln
Amarillo Cleanup Drive Mobilizes City Volunteers
Amarillo residents swarm backyards in a citywide Clean-Up and Paint-Up campaign. Five extra trash trucks are deployed to key districts as children join the effort for a free matinee, while the central committee led by Dr. Hugh Sticksel tracks progress and reports are mailed to campaign headquarters. Prizes entice participation as routes cover Wolflin, Washington to Travis, Harrison to Van Buren, and other districts.
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Amarillo
Central Committee
Hugh Sticksel
Texas
C. I. Hood
Ong
Lipscomb
Wolflin
28Th
28Th Avenue
Washington
Travis
Harrison
van Buren
San Jacinto
Florida
Alabama
Taylor
Fillmore
24Th
Pierce
North
Garfield
Royal Pig Club Formed at Windsor Palace
The King and Queen supported creating a pig club for royal household members at Windsor. The club aims to raise and feed pigs to supply the government while some are eaten locally. The mix up at Buckingham Palace underscores the palace distinction. This marks Britain’s 100th pig club formed this year.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
Windsor
Palace
Rudolf Hess
Ministry of Food Supply
Buckingham Palace
Royal Household
Castle
Britain
Modesto Semi-Pro Baseman Sparks Rally with Cycle
First baseman Dave Lees improves with each at bat in a Modesto semi pro game as he hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in four straight appearances, fueling his team's offense.
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Modesto
Calif
Dave Lees
Amarillo Area Forecast and Weather Notes
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Tuesday for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday, temperatures steady. New Mexico partly cloudy to night and Tuesday with afternoon and evening storms over higher elevations. 24 hour temperature range 56 to 72, noon reading 71. Also stationery price notes from Russell Stationery Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
RAF Planes Aid Crete Defense Amid Fierce Fighting
British and German forces clash along Crete with German reinforcements, air and sea actions reported around Malemi Canea Retimo Candia. Allied troops, including New Zealand units, counter attacked as reports note prisoners taken and ongoing heavy combat near western Crete while the Bismarck hunt unfolds.
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Cairo
Royal Air Force
Crete
RAF
Canea
Malemi
New Zealand
Candia
Retimo
Middle East
Malemi- Canea
T. G. Heywood
Greece
Bismarck
Hood
CIO Strike at Carborundum Plant Stirs Defense Industry
CIO workers at the Carborundum plant in Niagara Falls began a strike this morning threatening grinding wheels and abrasives used in defense production. Company officials said production would see little curtailment and most of the 3,200 employees remained on the job. Negotiations were to open later in Ravenna on a 25 cent wage boost for 5,000 laborers at the arsenal as broader defense labor tensions rise.
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Associated Press
CIO
Niagara Falls
Ravenna
Ohio, Arsenal
United Mine Workers
Southern Soft Coal Mines
Senate Defense Investigating
San Francisco Bay Area
William Green
APL
Defense Mediation Board
John L. Lewis
UMW
AFL
Carborundum
Arsenal
10 Year Wet Cycle May Be In the Cards
Weather signs and past rainfall data suggest a ten year wet cycle with May rainfall patterns. Floods subsided in southeastern New Mexico while Carlsbad reports property losses and one death from flash floods. Rio Grande and San Juan flood levels remain below peak, with warm Colorado snowmelt adding freshets.
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
N. M
Carlsbad
Pecos River
Rio Grande
Colorado Mountain
San Juan
Pecos
Arroyo
McMillan
Red Bluff
Tex
Manning's Blitz Ambulance Duty Highlights Battle of Britain Reporting
The article praises Paul Manning, London staff correspondent for NEA Service and The Globe News, for his courageous dispatches during the London blitz. It describes his night as an ambulance worker and frames his reporting as a vivid, truthful history of life and death in wartime England.
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Britain
Paul Manning
London
NEA Service
The
Globe News
Manning
Blitztorn
England
ASCAP Loses in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court sustained the validity of Nebraska and Florida laws curbing ASCAP activities. The ruling prohibits price fixing by ASCAP and was a unanimous decision, potentially affecting entertainment venues from juke box taverns to large movie studios nationwide.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Florida
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP
High Court
Packing Officials To Meet Tonight
Executives and salesmen of the meat packing industry will meet tomorrow night at the Amarillo Hotel with Ray Pinkney as chairman to discuss advertising and merchandising methods.
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Amaerillo Hotel
Ray Pinkney
Still Found in Kentucky State Park Exhibit
State patrolmen deputy sheriffs and a federal deputy captured a still in Levi Jackson wilderness road state park. The device proved a museum piece being restored in a natural setting to join the park display of former mountain industries.
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London, Ky
Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park
Two Hale County youths drown in Texas lake tragedy
In Plainview Texas two Farm boys Vernon Landers 15 and Herbert Sweat 17 vanished after entering water on horseback Sunday. Their horses battled in a 35 acre south Plainview lake prompting a search by police firemen and boatmen. Landers was found near midnight Sweat early today in 12 feet of water. A saddle slipped and one rider tried to save the other. Double funeral services are planned for Tuesday.
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Coleman
Carlsbad
Friona
Santa Fe
Plains
Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Adrian
Clarendon
Crosbyton
Dalhart
Dimmitt
Lubbock
Miami
Muleshoe
Plainview
Boise City
Clovis
Tucumcari
Des Moines
Clayton
Panhandle
Hale County
Vernon Wayne Landers
Herbert Sweat
Partment
35 Acre
Landers
Sweat
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Francis Vicovari
New York
Ned Laughinghouse
Wilson
N. C
Lillian Danielson
Vilas
Kan
Jaeger
Taos
U. S
Police
Build
John Maynard Lbr, Co
Japan
Morgenthau
Treasury
Cabinet Defense Committee
E. J. King
Hans Heinz Sennehenn
Philadelphia
O’daniel
Solons
Royal Porkers
Shigeko Terunomiya
Morihiro Higashikuni
Memo
Russell Stationery Co
Man
Suda Bay
Newby’s
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Senate
National Defense Mediation Board
San Juan River
Kentucky State
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