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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
6
In Valetta Malta residents emerge hopeful as air raids ease. Families crouched in ruins share grim hunger while food and supplies remain scarce. even dances resume in blackout conditions amid shattered streets and bomb-scarred cliffs.
London reports a day of wartime rationing and shortages with new egg limits, cheese cuts, and candy unchanged. It notes coal rationing for autos, station sales of coal, a blade shortage easing, and warnings about fuel for lighters, plus social issues and war mobilization efforts.
United States arms headquarters in London issues regulations for American soldiers in England who wish to marry. Applicants must seek permission from superiors and file two months before the wedding. Married soldiers receive no special privileges or separate housing from single men.
In Buffalo New York Kenneth Kellner ten found a purse with $525 in war bonds and turned it to police. His father Edward Kellner three years earlier found jewels worth $1 506 in a salesman’s valise dropped on a street and reported them to police.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS Aviation Cadet Raymond W Kuhne 26 Owensville Missouri says his career has been going to extremes He traveled more than 800 miles underground as a cave explorer before entering the pre flight school at the San Antonio aviation cadet center to become a combat aircrew pilot
LAS VEGAS NEV There is only one real war baby here named William Thomas War born at the new basic magnesium war plant hospital. Doctors say the seven pound infant is the first baby born at the facility amid wartime efforts and pride.
Japanese radio concedes Attu island has fallen to American forces with about 60 percent of the garrison killed and remaining troops cornered. Roosevelt calls Pacific War Council with Churchill as Allied air offensives hit Sardinia Sicily and Berlin.
The Hoyte 4H Club met at Mrs. Coward’s on Wednesday May 19 with all members present. Menus prepared for encampment and garden work was demonstrated. Next meeting planned for June 2 at Mrs. Coward’s.
Over three days in the Mediterranean the German air force reportedly lost 272 planes as American superiority solidified. In the South Pacific 13 Japanese planes were shot down and barges sunk while two UN bombers were lost. Land fronts remain quiet aside from artillery in Russia.
The Russian Communist Party announces the dissolution of the Communist Internationale and a shift away from world revolutionary aims. Germany condemns the action while Democracies led by the United States and Britain praise it as removing the last obstacle to normalizing relations with Russia.
The report notes a potential shift as Russia is described Catholic and Germany reacts to the announced dissolution of the World Revolutionary organization, signaling a strategic setback for Hitler and the movement.
The Shafer family thanks friends for kindness during illness and after the death of William E. Shafer. They appreciate flowers and all who assisted, and will remember each person with gratitude.
Trinity River flood warnings reached residents in lowlands as the stream is expected to hit flood stage Sunday according to a Dallas newscast. In Cameron Hospital on May 19 a son was born to Rev Henry Bailey and Mrs Bailey of Maysfield named Henry McClelland Bailey Jr. Bailey serves as pastor at the Maysfield Presbyterian church. J P Petty of Sharp traveled to Cameron on business Thursday and Miss Mary Finks head of the Old Age Pension office in Cameron returned from a two week vacation.
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