Japanese Drive Severs Burma Front As Mandalay Falls Near China
Japanese forces claim Mandalay's capture and push toward China threaten Allied Burma defense. Lashio fell, the Burma Road should be cut, and Ava Bridge spans were destroyed as British and Chinese forces retreat north of the Irrawaddy. Chinese reinforcements move to Hsenwi while Akyab port remains contested.
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London
Mandalay
Burma
Lashio
China
Nwi
Chungking
Hsenwi
Upper Burma
New Delhi
India
Irrawaddy
Myitnge
Ava
Monywa
Manay
Taunggyi
Sashio
Akyab
Nazis Call For Support At Home May Day Message
Adolf Hitler urged workers across greater Germany to stand with front line comrades. The May Day broadcast via Labor Front chief Robert Ley framed the war as existence of the nation and postwar strength, urging unity and commitment despite distances.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Labor Front
Robert Ley
C C Campaign Receives Boost in Amarillo Subscriptions
Saturday’s subscriptions to the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce budget gave the voluntary plan its biggest boost in more than a week. Pledges totaled nearly 1500 dollars and left the 40000 dollar three way budget within 7617 of the goal. The campaign involves volunteers from business labor unions and other groups not previously affiliated. Funds will support a defense fund and activities of both the senior and junior chambers. New volunteers include Southwestern Life Insurance, H V Robertson, Dickson Drug, Plasterers Union 396, W A Thornton, S Cas Johnson, Brown Cracker & Candy, N S Griggs & Sons, Amarillo National Bank, National Carloading Co, The Diamond Shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Southwestern Life Insurance Company
H. V. Robertson & Company
Dickson Drug Company
Plasterers & Cement Finishers Union No
W. A. Thornton
S. Cas Johnson
Brown Cracker & Candy Company
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Amarillo National Bank
National Carloading Company
the Diamond Shop
Cleanup Week Begins Monday in Amarillo
Tomorrow starts the annual spring cleanup paint up and fix up drive. City trucks will haul trash, districts to be visited are scheduled, and a report sheet will be distributed via schools. The campaign ends next Saturday with a child matinee at Rex Victory Star Theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Clubs
Amarillo
Rex
Victory
Star
Amarillo Plans Clean Up Paint Up Campaign May 1942
Proclamation announces a city wide Clean Up Paint Up and Fix Up program in Amarillo Texas from May 4 to May 11 1942. Mayor Joe Jenkins urges all residents to join and improve health safety thrift and civic pride through cleaning painting planting repairing and beautification efforts.
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United States
Houng
Amarillo
Tex
Joe Jenkins
City of
Evatt Arrives in Britain After U S Mission
Australian minister H. V. Evatt arrives at a British airport from the United States where he had been on a special mission. He holds posts as external affairs minister and attorney general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
H. V. Evatt
United States
Much colder Sunday with intermittent light rain across Amarillo
Weather summary notes a sharp drop in temperature in Amarillo and surrounding areas with intermittent light rain. It lists hourly readings from morning to evening with highs near 72 and lows around 49. Historical context references 1941 data.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Federal Wheat Control Wins Early Support in Referendum
Early returns show 14 of 40 wheat states voting 28 835 for quotas and 9 420 against indicating a clear majority for continuing rigid marketing quotas. Ohio Maryland and New Jersey lagged under two thirds while officials forecast strongest opposition from Ohio and Oklahoma. A tentative loan plan at about 1.14 a bushel accompanies the vote to encourage quota support. College Station reports 11 of 134 Texas counties backing quotas 174 for 28 against.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Colorado
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Michigan
New Mexico
Ohio
Virginia
New Jersey
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Potter County
Claude R. Wickard
Department
Supreme Court
College Station
Price Control Meet Called Here May 7
Thirty regional meetings to explain fully federal price control regulations will be held during May. Meetings start at 8 PM except where noted with some at 2 PM. Cities listed include Denison Wichita Falls Amarillo Austin Lubbock Corpus Christi Abilene Big Spring El Paso Laredo Texarkana Harlingen Paris Tyler Waco San Angelo Lufkin and more.
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Dallas
Denison
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
Austin
Lubbock
Corpus Christi
Abilene
Big Spring
el Paso
Laredo
Texarkana
Harlingen
News Writers Back in Moscow After Move During War
Foreign newspaper correspondents returned to Moscow from Kuibyshev for an indefinite stay. Diplomats were moved when German forces threatened encirclement, signaling increased Russian confidence amid Axis summer offensives in Russia. Russell Stationery Company.
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Moscow
U.P
Kuibyshev
Russia
Barnhill demands resignation of state selective service head
J R Barnhill chairman of Potter County Draft Board No 1 calls for Brig Gen J Watt Page state director of selective service to resign and seeks a national headquarters investigation. Barnhill accuses Page of inefficiency and asks for an inquiry while medical advisor Dr E A Rowley defends Barnhill's leadership and board cooperation strains are cited.
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J. R. Barnhill
Potter County
Texas
The
United States
General Hershey
Selective Service
Barnhill
General Page
Page
Selective Service Board
E. A. Rowley
Amarillo
Board No. 1
Tom Landis
Board 1
Barney
Landis
State Office
Arch Lidia
Guy Saunders
Lidia
Saunders
Mr. Barnhill
Women at Work On War Effort In Home Front
An article prepared for the News- Globe by Wide World Features discusses how women are needed in factories farms and even military uniforms. It asks what they can do what training is required and how many are needed.
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America
Army
Navy
News- Globe
Wide World Features
Registration Monday for War Rationing Books in Amarillo
Amarillo schools urge all residents to register Monday for sugar rationing. Elementary sites will handle registrations. high and junior high schools closed. Each family member receives a ration book with stamps valid in defined periods. An alphabetical schedule and single-attendee rule aim to speed processing, with details to be explained on KGNC Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Rogers
Amarillo
Office of Price Administration
Grady Wilson
Rolla Cartwright
Tom Seay
KGNC
Burma Front Faces Direst Peril as Mandalay Fell
Report notes heavy British and Chinese defense in Burma amid Jap claim of Mandalay capture. Mentions Japanese recon planes 700 miles off Australia and Russians widening wedges into German lines. US Army service troops aid British in Libyan desert as Congress urges nonviolent resistance to Japan. Weather slows air war. Mussolini orders rationing and excess-profit measures.
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Burma
Mandalay
Bengasi
Berka
Martaba
Malta
Tornado Strikes Pawhuska and Surrounding Areas
Tornadoes wreck homes and farmland across northeast Oklahoma killing at least five people and injuring scores. In Pawhuska the Lynn Addition sees three dead and up to 75 injured. nearby Dewey Fisher and Bartlesville regions report multiple fatalities and hospital arrivals. In Okemah area a separate tornado near Childsville kills ten and injures many, with nine bodies counted at Boley.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Oklahoma
Lynn
Jackie Dickson
Ray Wagmage
Charles Miller
Dewey
George Nichols
Bartlesville
Anna Weese
Fisher
Tulsa
Okemah
Childsville
Central
Frank Stewart
Boley Negro
Here
Russian Tanks Drive Wedges In Nazi Lines
Soviet forces push wedges between Bryansk Orel Kursk as they advance toward the Ukraine front. Guerrillas report 5,000 German casualties and 345 villages retaken northwest of Ore. The Leningrad front claims heavy German losses and air force strikes in the latest Russian update.
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London
Bryansk
Orel
Kursk
Stockholm
Moscow
Ukraine
Caucasus
Fatezh
Kharkov
Poltava
Dnieperopterovsk
Red
Ore
Soviet Information Bureau
Leningrad
Red Air Force
USO Meeting Here Today in Panhandle Texas
Harry Weiss and John Suman of the Texas USO arrive with Houston officials to plan a May 11 campaign. A 3 PM meeting at the Herring Hotel Crystal Ball room will feature motion pictures and layouts for 26 county chairmen and district committee members.
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Harry Weiss
John Suman
Texas United Service Organizations
USO
Panhandle
W. N. Finnegan
T. L. Fontaine
C. R. Conway
Houston
English Field
Jay Taylor
18Th Congressional District
Lawrence Hagg
Weiss
Humble Oil Company
Mr. Suman
Wales Madden
B. M. Puckett
Ed Hardin
Sam Sullenberger
Col. E. A. Simpson
Gene Howe
Carl Makeig
John McCarty
U S Troops Support Desert Army in North Africa
United States service troops are increasing in the Mediterranean theater to support the British desert army and air forces against Rommel. Major General Maxwell affirmed their presence, noting technicians and trainers aiding the Allied front near Tobruk and the Red Sea Arsenal under construction in Eritrea.
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Egypt
Desert Army
Cairo
United States Service
Afrika Korps
Mars Shal
Erwin Rommel
Russell L. Maxwell
Suez Canal
Desert
Tobruk
Libya
U. Ss
Mediterranean
Roosevelt
United States
Near East
Middle East
Far East
Malta
Italian
Sicily
Maxwell
RAF
U. S
Eritrea
Red Sea
Dollar Day in Amarillo Opens Tomorrow
The Amarillo Sunday News Globe previews Dollar Day with fixed maximum prices and no minimum limits. Shoppers are urged to review local ads and compare values, noting dramatic price contrasts such as socks at Kunming prices.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Kunming
China
Turkey egg toss yields hardier chick in Palestine
Eddie Devers inspected a nest of turkey eggs and deemed one would not hatch. He threw it against a fence post. a four day old turkey chick survived, hatched, and walked away, proving the bird is thriving in Texas.
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Texas
Palestine
Tex
Eddie Devers
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Imperial
Tokyo
Air Force Technical School
Maj. N. C. Voshel
Major Voshel
Sheppard Field
C. C
Evatt
Britain
of Weather Bureau
Russell Stationery Company
J. Watt Page
Uncle Sam
Australia
All-India Congress
Uwiy
Mussolini
Elliott Roosevelt
Valletta
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