Bombs and big war plans stir debate on victory
Washington observers clash over the merit of three-ton and five-ton bombs and the prospect of 20 ton bombs to Tokyo and Berlin as war production surges. The piece notes American, British and Japanese resilience, the role of earthquakes as a feared Japanese threat, and adds anecdotes from Washington life about sugar, baseball, circuses, and political critics of Secretary Knox and Jesse Jones amid wartime sentiment.
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Washington
United States
Tokyo
Berlin
Hitler
England
Japan
Italian submarine Pamplona surrenders in Brazil
In Fortaleza Brazil on May 27 the Italian submarine Pamplona reportedly surrendered to authorities at a northeast port. In St Louis a man built a wren house then posted rent signs. after a pair of wrens moved in, he adjusted the sign to rent reduced.
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Fortaleza
Brazil
Pamplona
ST. Louis
George Daish
Wren
Daish
Bulldog Loses Pursuit in Warehouse Rodent Chase
In Hillsboro on May 27 Jim O Hill reports a screwtail bulldog pursuing a mouse in a warehouse when it crashed into a timber. The impact temporarily paralyzed the dog as the mouse escaped.
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Hickory
Dickery
Dock
Hillsboro
Jim O. Hill
Housework helper seeks live-in position in Amarillo
Middle-aged woman offers housework and elder care experience. Seeks live-in work with a working couple or in a motherless home and is willing to relocate, preferably to Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Women Enroll For Auxiliary Corps Today
Women enrolled at regular army recruiting offices today for officer commissions in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Thousands may apply for 450 candidates to report at Fort Des Moines about July 15. Nine corps areas will select 60 each for recommendation. 40 will train, and 90 from the aircraft warning service will make the total 450.
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Washington
Regular Army
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Fort Des Moines
Corps
War Department
Department
Aircraft Warning Service
Army recruiting relaxes rules for WAAC notices
Amarillo Army recruiting sub station now releases names of recruits Wayne F Butler and Henry R Wesley both of Amarillo. The Army seeks highway machinery operators construction foremen oil field workers crane operators and other experienced workers. Youths 18 to 20 may enlist and be assigned to the desired service branch.
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Army
Wayne F. Butler
Henry R. Wesley
Amarillo
Moe Annenberg Paroled From Federal Prison
Moses L. Annenberg the Philadelphia publisher will be paroled June 11 from Lewisburg federal penitentiary where he is serving a three year sentence for income tax evasion the U S parole board announced.
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Washington
Uup
Moses L. Annenberg
Philadelphia
Lewisburg
U. S. Parole Board
Beer cellars in Wheeling eyed as air-raid shelters
Huge cellars carved from rock beneath Wheeling’s former breweries could become air shelters. Harry C. Miller, local civilian defense official, notes caves deep under hills may withstand bombing and could serve as protection if attacked from an Atlantic carrier to reach Pittsburgh and the Kanawha Valley.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Harry C. Miller
Atlantic Ocean
Pittsburgh
Kanawha
West Virginia
Harvard Professor Urges Mandatory Exercise for Professors
Cambridge Massachusetts United Press says Prof Karl Sax of Harvard Botany proposes compulsory four hours weekly exercise for faculty to match students who began a compulsory program April 6. He notes initial professor interest faded, needing renewed effort to engage more faculty members.
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Cambridge, Mass
U.P
Karl Sax
Harvard
Sax
Harvard Cranson
College Daily
Humble Oil Gives Record $500 to Amarillo USO Drive
The Humble Oil & Refining Company donated $500 to the Amarillo USO drive, the largest single contribution so far. L H Cedar Puckett reports the total raised today near $8,000 with a city county goal about $22,000 as local men aid service members.
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USO
Amarillo
L. H
Cedar) Puckett
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Potter County
Three Allied Ships Sunk in Atlantic
The navy announced three Allied losses in the Atlantic: a medium British merchant vessel, a small Greek merchant ship torpedoed, and a U S trawler sunk by enemy submarine fire. Survivors from all vessels were landed at an east coast port.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
United States
Professor Sax Demonstrates Student Conditioning Program
The 50 year old teacher does calisthenics at a college gym twice weekly with his son, Harvard sophomore William P. Sax, illustrating the program he advocates.
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Sax
William P. Sax
Harvard
Jerry Sadler Barred by Weight From Army Service
Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler who volunteered for military service as a private was informed his physical exam shows he is overweight. He will seek a waiver for weight excess. Action on the waiver would normally take until mid June to pass through military channels.
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Austin
U.S
Jerry Sadler
Sadler
CIO Charged With Sabotage of UMW
Regional directors of District 50 of the United Mine Workers Union charged the Congress of Industrial Organizations with deliberate sabotage of the UMW and asked steps to break CIO UMW relations in Washington.
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Washington
U.P
District 50
United Mine Workers Union Today
Congress of Industrial Organizations
UMW
Cio-Umw
Coast Joints Must Aid Service Men
Hollywood and Los Angeles cafes and night clubs selling liquor must help protect service men from spies and questionable women or be declared out of bounds. Lieut. Comdr. C. H. Fogg, commanding the Navy shore patrol in this area, issued the notice at a Southern California Tavern Association meeting.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
C. H. Fogg
Navy
Southern California Tavern Association
Friday night gatherings at Bill Webster’s home
A group of men meet weekly at Bill Webster’s, sharing quiet conversation over beer. They discuss politics, business, family, music, farming, and philosophy, with mellow beer preferred to ease the talks and occasional ale from Judge Cunningham.
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Judge Cunningham
Pete Swanson
Doc McGinnis
Doc Mitchell
Bob Newcomb
Myself
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