Channel Port Taken 28 Miles From British Coast
German forces breached Scheldt defenses and advanced toward Calais threatening the Channel port as St Omer fell and Boulogne was reported occupied. Allied forces counter by attacking from Arras and Peronne to sever the German drive toward England.
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Berlin
Germany
Scheldt
Tournai
Ghent
Belgium
Calais
St. Omer
English Channel
Dover
England
State Auditor Accused Of Wrong Hiring In Arizona
Phoenix May 24 The state auditor Ann Frohmiller faces claims she used public funds to pay a deputy for legal services without legislative authorization The brief filed with the state supreme court accuses her deputy P H Brooks of rendering attorney work and argues such practice lacks legislative or court approval and improperly shifts legal duties from the attorney general
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Phoenix
Ann Frohmiller
State Supreme Court
Theodore G. McKesson
Clinton E. Mangan
State Textbook Depository
McKesson
Supreme Court
State Department
Crane Vs. Frohmiller
Baseball finals show NL night games and AL action
National League games include Boston at New York night contest and Brooklyn at Philadelphia in cold weather. Chicago beat Pittsburgh 4 to 2 after a 2 to 1 0 run error. Detroit and Chicago scores reflect late rally and pitching notes with Bridges Tebbetts Rigney Tresh Sieveland St Louis referenced in night game summary.
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New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Bridges
Tebbetts
Rigney and
Tresh
Sieveland
St. Louis
Odds In Nazi Favor Gen Kuechlen Says
London May 24 German air losses reached over 1,500 aircraft since the invasion of the low countries. The British air ministry reported fresh raids on German forces in France and Belgium. They said at least 80 German planes were shot down or damaged since yesterday, ten British fighters missing, several bombers not returning, and raids on Arras Boulogne and the Rhineland with spectaular victories claimed.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Low Countries
British
Air Ministry
France
Belgium
Arras
Boulogne
Rhineland
Wallace Carroll
U.P
French Channel
Dover
Calais
England
Royal Air Force
Ministry
Oswald Mosley
Ministry of Health
King George warns empire faces life or death struggle
King George addressed 500 million subjects in an Empire Day broadcast, saying defeat would destroy the world as known and bring darkness to its ruins. He urged confidence despite peril, noting fresh Nazi successes near the French coast.
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London
George
British Empire
France
King
German Commander Announces Advantage in Belgian Campaign
General Georg Von Kuechlen, leading German forces toward Ostend via Ghent and Bruges, says odds are greatly in their favor as they press to the sea. He notes enemy resistance but asserts German progress toward Ghent canal control and a stern battle nearby. He mentions another German army targeting Calais and Dunkerque, with aerial support and Stukas overhead. a Messerschmitt airfield near the English coast was seen, 30 minutes from Britain.
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Georg von Kuechlen
Ostend
Ghent
Bruges
von Kuechlen
Antwerp
England
Walther von Reichenau
French
Calais
Dunkerque
Britain
Messerschmitt
Messerschmitts
Allied move to cut corridor to sea in pivot of English Channel fight
Allied forces press from Cambrai and the Somme in a pincer aimed at severing the German corridor to the sea. Artillery emplacements from 75mm to heavy guns rake columns as planes bomb the German salient.
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Paris
Flanders Fields
Cambrai
Somme
Channel
Flanders
Trotsky Attacked in Mexico Villa Injures Secretary Reports
Leon Trotsky exiled Russian revolutionary was attacked by 30 to 40 men at his suburban villa in Mexico City area. Flying glass injured him slightly while a secretary claimed the assault was directed by Joseph Stalin. Trotsky, once a Bolshevik leader, has criticized Moscow trials and regime actions.
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Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Trotsky
Lenin
Moscow
Mexico
Russia
Diego Rivera
Coyoacan
Sheldon Harte
Italian Youth Sets War Tone as Duce Rejects Offer
In Turin, members of the Fascist University Youth were told games occur on the eve of war. Guido Pallotta said the last war will liberate Italy, open Gibraltar and Suez, and calm the Mediterranean as their sea. Mussolini called Allied concessions too small and late.
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Rome
Turin
Guido Pallotta
Gibraltar
Suez
Mediterranean
FDR Plans Pilot Training For 90 000 Recruits
President Roosevelt outlined a program to train 50 000 men as pilots in the next year using three months of basic flying instruction. He said the Civil Aeronautics Authority would administer the plan and seek a supplementary appropriation. Training would draw from 435 cooperating colleges and schools and could feed reserves for the army and navy air forces.
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Roosevelt
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Army
Navy
Congress
CAA
Arizona Guard Ordered to Texas for August Maneuvers
The Arizona national guard is ordered by the War Department to join the third army in maneuvers along the Texas Louisiana boundary from August 5 to 25. Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Tuthill announced that about 70 000 guardsmen and regular troops will participate with Arizona contributing 1 400 guardsmen and equipment transported by special trains. A weekend field training schedule will precede departure.
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Phoenix
Arizona National Guard
War Department
Third Army
Texas-Louisiana
Alexander M. Tuthill
Tuthill
Arizona Guard
Arizona
East Texas
Italy Declines Churchill Offer Amid War Tension
Private advices report Britain’s Prime Minister ill and communicating with Benito Mussolini to seek Italy’s stance on entering the war. Mussolini remains unyielding and has not publicly changed his non belligerent position though Italian spokesmen hint at possible shifts. Dispatches note Rex liner sailings and other ships delayed.
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Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Benito Mussolini
Italy
United Press Today
Mussolini
Churchill
Germany
Rome
Rex
Battle of Flanders Shapes World War II Outcome
DeWitt MacKenzie notes the Flanders battle as pivotal in the German blitzkrieg. Allied efforts aim to close a 25 mile gap near Arras and Bapaume, prevent German reinforcements from reaching the coast, and reunite the northern Allied line while fighting along the channel fronts.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Flanders
Somme
Belgium
France
Channel
Arras
Bapaume
French Forces Counterattack Germans Near Meuse River
Paris reports French units repelled German counterattacks south of Sedan on the Meuse near the Belgian border. London says German parachutists in France were dispersed by British rear guard troops armed with rifles.
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Paris
U.P
Sedan
Meuse
Boulogne Falls to German Forces in Channel Front line shifts toward Dover
German troops won Boulogne and closed to 28 miles from Britain as Calais faced potential loss. Royal Air Force claimed decisive air superiority with 23 fighters shot down and 26 damaged. Home defense tightened with 34 arrests including Mosley. Dover and the southeast coast reinforced as invasion fears rise.
Seven Hundred Americans Seek Visas to Ireland
London officials report that seven hundred Americans applied in the last 24 hours for visas and exit permits to Ireland to escape Nazi danger while in England.
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London
England
Eire
Railway line Paris Rouen bombarded to isolate Paris
German sources report regular air raids by the Luftwaffe on the Paris Rouen railway to sever French capital from Le Havre, aiming to cut western harbor access and impede supply lines.
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Berlin
Paris
Rouen
le Havre
Abbeville Razed by Germans After Relentless Bombing
Red Cross worker Alan S. Roger arriving in London spoke of Abbeville’s destruction after a German motorized column seized the port city. He said the bombardment was relentless, with high explosives incendiaries and darts causing extensive civilian casualties and devastation in the shattered streets.
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London
Abbeville
English Channel
Red Cross
Alan S. Roger
Roger
France
Allied blockade talks open with Rome from Paris
Paris reports that on May 24 France and Great Britain began negotiations with Rome to secure a relaxation of the Allied blockade in the Mediterranean. The move aims to ease wartime naval restrictions and improve supply routes amid ongoing World War II tensions.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Rome
Mediterranean
French engineers blow up Rhine river canal locks
Basel reports French army engineers detonated many locks on the Rhine Rhine Rhone canal flooding hundreds of square miles on the French side.
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Basel
Switzerland
Earthquake in Peru Kills 34 and Wounds 1200
A one minute quake rattled Lima and other Peruvian cities killing 34 and injuring more than 1,200. Authorities reported 12 dead in Lima, 20 in Callao, and two more in Huaraz, the capital of Ancash.
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Peru
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Huaraz
Ancash Department
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