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May 3, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 4-6: "Beachcomber Finds Dutch Diamonds Worth £300,000" |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Individuals Sign Up For Sugar Rationing Starting Tomorrow" |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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Note the report in column 4: "50 Hardened Convicts Join Suicide Squad" |
(A report out of McAlester, Oklahoma states that 50 convicts have offered to serve in suicide missions for the U.S. government to help the war effort.) |
Also note the report in columns 6-7: "Restaurants Hide Sugar Bowl, Get Away with it" |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Sailor, Thought Dead, Spends 22 Days On Raft" |
(Seaman 2nd Class Rufus B. Roller, USNR was one of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard crew on the 4,839-ton freighter Otho, which was sunk on Apr. 3 by U-754. According to statements made by survivors at the time, all fifty-three people on board apparently got off the ship, but only twenty-two were ever found alive. Sixteen were picked up on Apr. 8 by USS Zircon PY-16. Six men, as stated in the report, were picked up on Apr. 25 by the Norwegian freighter Gallia, but one man, Ens. Carl A. Weiant, USN, died shortly after rescue. The remaining 32 people were never found.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "1,302 Aliens Ordered Interned" |
(This includes Japanese, Germans and Italians.) |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Jap Invasion Attempt Said Likely" |
(On the strength of seeing two aircraft, MacArthur's headquarters told the press that an invasion or an air attack may be imminent. I have never read anything that makes me believe that the Japanese had any serious plan to invade Australia. If the war had gone better for them, perhaps they would have considered the idea. Australia did suffer well over 100 air raids by the Japanese during the war, but these were mostly harassment missions designed to keep Allied forces tied down on the mainland.) |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Kitchen Range Sale Stopped" |
(The war production board orders a halt in production and sale of electric ranges except those produced for war use.) |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 3, 1942: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "2000 Hayward, San Mateo Japs Prepare For Exodus" |
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Page published May 3, 2023 |