America Sends Representatives To Martinique
An American admiral and a state department official arrived in Martinique to demand guarantees that the French Caribbean possessions will not aid the Axis. President Roosevelt ordered the move. The talks with high commissioner Georges Robert aim to keep Martinique Guadeloupe and French Guinea under strict American guardianship while the French flag remains.
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Washington
State Department
Martinque
United States
Roosevelt
Vichy
America
John H. Hoover
Caribbean
Samuel Reber
Georges Robert
Martinique
Robert
Guadeloupe
French Guinea
Allies On The Offensive Across Global Fronts In War
UPI report details Allied advances in four battlefronts satur day night. In the Coral Sea the US navy and air forces push toward Japan’s invasion fleet, while in Burma Stilwell and Chinese troops threaten Mandalay. Russian fronts see massive Red Army offensives and heavy casualties. RAF targets German ports and U-boat bases as British air attacks deepen the second front.
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United Press
U. S
Coral Sea
Burma
Joseph K. Stilwell
Mandal
Douglas MacArthur
British Make Big Air Raids On The Nazi Supply Ports
A strong RAF force bombed Rostock and Warnemunde, hitting German Baltic supply ports, aircraft factories, a U boat training base, and a troop ferry line to occupied Denmark. Nineteen bombers failed to return as the RAFs second front offensive resumes after bad weather.
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London
Baltic
Rostock
Warnemunde
Balasting
Denmark
RAF
Hitler
Russia
Finland
Norway
Local Weather Summary For Saturday Morning and Sunset
Weather report shows high 83 and low 50 for the date. Normal highs 80 and lows 50. Sunrise 6 02, sunset 7 46, day length 13.7 hours. Station data ends at 10 p m Saturday with trace totals for month and year to date.
Red Army Hacking Into Nazi Lines Around Leningrad Front
Moscow reports the Red Army advancing methodically into German lines near Leningrad with guerrilla support, fighting costs for the enemy around 2000 in 48 hours. Tales include the ice road across Lake Ladoga feeding siege survivors and notable tank and village actions across Briansk and Kalinin sectors.
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Moscow
Red Army
Leningrad
Supreme Soviets
Lake
Ladoga
United Press
Briansk
Kalinin
London
Hitler
Calchuk
Tass
Shulepov
Skorik
Bryansk
Biergi
Diauaten
Nazi Gunmen Shoot Scores Civilians In Occupied Lands
London reports say German firing squads killed scores of civilians in occupied Europe, including 50 in Paris, as Reinhard Heydrich expands a terror campaign with Gestapo courts delivering death sentences. Anti Nazi disorders and sabotage spurred intensified reprisals across the region.
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London
Europe
Paris
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Heydrich
Heinrich Himmiler
der Henker
Czechoslovakia
Gastapo
Land Based Planes Decisive Factor In Allied Victory
London reports from May 10 say land based American bombers and dive bombers decided the Coral Sea victory over Japan. Australian sources say land based air power prevented a feared Japanese air attack and helped cripple the Japanese fleet, with cautious notes that the battle may still be unfinished.
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London
United Nations
The
Sunday Chronicle
Sunday Express
Walter Lucas
More Japs Ordered From West Coast Evacuation Upheld
The army issued five civilian exclusion orders for evacuating about 4 200 Japanese from Seattle and Pierce County in Washington and from Orange and San Diego counties in California. These, with two earlier orders, bring the total evacuated or ordered to leave military zone 60 to more than 65 000.
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Army
Seattle
Pierce County
Tacoma Wash
Orange
San Diego Counties
Cal
Navy reports show Japanese losses in Coral Sea clash
Washington May 9 The navy said no reports confirm Japanese claims of a U S battleship or two aircraft carriers sunk in the Coral Sea victory. Earlier an unofficial tally listed 178 Japanese ships sunk damaged or fairly sunk by U S naval forces as of the engagement.
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United Press
MacArthur
Australia
United States
Coral Sea
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Germany
Britain
Jutland
Washington
Navy
U. S
United Nations
USO Campaign Opens In Chaves County Tuesday
Workers in the United Service Organization launch a financial drive in Chaves County with a goal of 3800 dollars locally toward a national total of 32000000 to fund entertainment and recreational opportunities for armed services members wherever stationed. About seventy five businesses planned to participate and the item notes continuation on page two.
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USO Campaign
Chaves County
United Service Organization
Sidelights On The News In The Ozark Hills
In the Ozark hills a tranquil woman on a porch holds quiet dignity as time passes, the old farm fades, and children grow. Her calm heart and steadfast virtue remain more enduring than any worldly praise, even as the world’s loud music fades.
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Ozark Hills
Chinese Forces Under Stilwell Push Toward Mandalay
Chinese units under Lieut. Gen. Stilwell drive toward Mandalay outskirts after recapturing Maymyo, engaging in savage hand to hand fighting as Japanese planes and artillery bombard approaches. Reinforcements reach Singaing and Minmo amid ongoing air raids on allied positions in Burma and China.
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Chunking
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mandalay
Maymyo
Stilwell
Pagodas
Singaing
Minmo
Irrawaddy
Stilwer
Mandalay Hill
Burma
Taunggyi
Yunnan Province
Beep T
Vases Poth
Indo-China
Umnan
Central
Kiangsi
Fukien
Chekiang
Kienou
Chuchow
Yushan
Kanhsien
New Delhi
Chindwin
Chittagong
Indian
India
Akyab
Yunnan
Chefang
Myitkyina
Roswell Men Called To Active Military Service
Roswell notables including James M. H. Callender Harper Harvard graduate Philip Peed and Harold and Morris Carper prepare for aviation cadet training. Callender leaves for Fort Bliss then Washington to join the Judge Advocate General office. Others depart for mineral wells camp waiter s Chanute Field and aviation cadet training after Elks club refresher course. Bernara Gre valedictorian at Roswell High and N M M S and Stanford will report to Chanute Field in June for aviation cadet training and commissioning as 2nd Lieutenant after two months of training.
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James M. H. Callender
Roswell
Fort Bliss
Washington
Harvard
Phillip Peed
Hioswell High School
Harold
Reserve Corps
Camp Waiters
Mineral Wells
Texas
Bernara Gre
Roswell’ High School
Stanford University
Chanute Field
Rantool
Fil
Roswell High
Stanford
Wit
Air Corps
Mehlhop On Sub That Carried Out Heroic Operation
Lt Donald Mehihop son of Dex ter residents served as second in command on a United States submarine praised by Captain John Wilkes as one of the war’s seoperations. The submarine sank an enemy ship off Luzon, survived depth bombs, and returned to Manila. The mission details appear in Collier’s weekly with the title Take er Down.
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Donald Mehihop
F. L. Mehihop
Dexter
United States
John Wilkes
Asiatic
Collier's Magazine
Luzon
Manila
Apology Over Classified Rent Ad Error
The notice apologizes to Mrs. J. E. Zumwalt for a recording mistake in a rent classified, which caused callers to reach her at 419 instead of 410 South Penn. The ad truncation led to confusion and disruption, highlighting readers’ vigilance and misreading of ads.
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J. E. Zumwalt
E. Zumwalt
South Penn
Zumwalt
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Roswell Daily Record
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