May 3: Adolf Hitler begins a week-long state visit to Italy. He is greeted by Benito Mussolini amid great ceremony.
May 3: Flossenbürg concentration camp takes in its first prisoners.
May 5: Mussolini puts on a grand naval review of over 200 warships in the Gulf of Naples to impress Hitler.
May 14: The swashbuckler film The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains is released.
May 22: British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax tell the French ambassador not to count on British support in the event of a war over Czechoslovakia. Poland's ambassador also tells French Foreign Secretary Georges Bonnet that Poland would not move if France moved against Germany to defend Czechoslovakia.
May 23: Rufus Franklin, Thomas R. Limerick and James C. Lucas take part in the third documented escape attempt from Alcatraz Prison. A guard shot Limerick (who soon died) and Franklin and the escape attempt is foiled.
May 26: Hitler lays the cornerstone for a new Volkswagen plant in the Fallersleben district of Wolfsburg. Mass production is projected to begin there by the end of 1939.
May 31: BBC Television broadcast its first-ever game show, called Spelling Bee. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | Over a dozen ships have vanished in, "The Graveyard of the Pacific." An arch-criminal with a magnetic ray matches wits with "The Shadow." He seems to be able to bring the dead back to life. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 821 - Mine Claim Scheme | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 174 - The Prisoner of Shark Island | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A drama based on the true story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, condemned for treating the wound of John Wilkes Booth. Stars: Gary Cooper & Fay Wray | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-05-03 - 41) Echo Man | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 822 - Bart Colt Gang | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1938-05-05 - Citizenship Insurance Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Britt Reid alias the Green Hornet, is on the trail of a crooked politician and his gang, who resort to murder to protect their phony citizenship racket that cons immigrants. aka The Political Racket | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 823 - Kidnapped Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Annabelle Wilson has been abducted by the savages and "Misto The Magician." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | In the torture chamber of The Octopus. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 119 - Aboard the Steamship Amazon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While enjoying an ocean cruise, Lamont Cranston is suspected of being a murderer. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 824 - Ammunition for the Indians | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 175 - My Man Godfrey | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The classic screwball comedy of the Depression. Stars: Carole Lombard & William Powell | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 825 - Framed for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 826 - New Fangled Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 34 - Natives are Restless | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | he natives are not only restless, they attack the crew of the Poll Parrot! Dicken has been shot with an arrow. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Trapped in the torture chamber, with the Octopus' men closing in! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A killer in jail for life manages to enact his revenge on those who sent him up. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 827 - No Worse Enemy | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 176 - The Girl from Tenth Avenue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A lawyer gets good and drunk when his fiancée marries someone else. Recovering the next morning, he finds himself married to a total stranger. Stars: Loretta Young & George Brent | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 828 - The Man Least Suspected | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 829 - Confederate Money | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sue and Johnny face unknown dangers in the jungle. It's a moving shadow with gleaming eyes! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The thought-recording machine shows Barney's mind to be perfectly blank! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman shoots a man to death, claiming he was attacking her. Questions arise. Stars: Merle Oberon & Walter Huston (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1938-05-24 - There Was A Crooked Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The daughter of a crusading reformer is kidnapped to silence him. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 831 - The Word of a Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 832 - Border Rustlers | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 36 - Johnny & Sue Team Up with the Jaguar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny and Sue head out to the privateers' camp in an effort to recover the diamonds | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barney Dunlap has returned ... after being hypnotized by The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 833 - The Rosalinda Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 178 - I Met My Love Again | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman ends her engagement to marry a foreigner. Stars: Joan Bennett & Henry Fonda | ||||||||||||
