Axis Says Next Battle For Germany
Axis propaganda outlets gauge a forthcoming Allied push on Germany as Churchill and Roosevelt discuss strategy. Berlin radio downplays surprise at Churchill in Washington while noting Stalin’s absence. Hitler’s westward movement signals intensified preparations for the next Allied blow.
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London
Germany
Churchill
Washington
Roosevelt
Cairo
Berlin
Stalin
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer
Atlantic Wall
Missouri State Hospitals Crowded Under War Strain
Jefferson City Mo May 12 The house investigating committee reports Missouri state hospitals are overcrowded and short of doctors nurses attendants and equipment due to war conditions Attendants are seen as too willing to adjust while patients are well cared for and officials are committed The survey covered Farmington Fulton Marshall St Joseph Nevada Mount Vernon and Boonville institutions
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Jefferson D City
House
Missouri
Farmington
Fulton, Marshall
St. Joseph
Nevada
Mount Vernon
Boonville
Nichols Seeks Assurance of Membership in Congress
Rep. Nichols of Oklahoma asks Congress to act to confirm his right to sit in the House after a protest by E. O. Clark of Stigler over the November election. Nichols argues the protest time has expired and the contestant is barred. his margin was 385 votes. The House referred the matter to Elections Committee No. 3.
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Washington
Nichols
D-Okla
House
Congress
Congressional Record
E. O. Clark
Stigler
Okla
Oklahoma
Elections Committee No. 3
Fire destroys small cafe on South Stockton Avenue
Firemen answered an alarm at midnight last night in the 160 block on South Stockton Avenue where Gil bert's Cafe was burning. Police saw smoke from a vacant back building. Firemen had the blaze under control in 15 minutes. This was the first fireball in more than three weeks.
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Stockton Avenue
Gilbert
Rains Improve Oklahoma Pasture Outlook Despite Drought
Oklahoma stock ponds hold water and cattle condition at 82 percent of normal on May 1. Rains since May 8 relieve drought, boosting range and pasture quality. May 1 Oklahoma ranges at 63 percent, with stock markets showing higher April receipts ноtably.
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Oklahoma City
Department of Agriculture
Oklahoma
Pair Charged In Anthony Robbery Case
County Attorney Wayne Lewis said he filed robbery with firearms charges against David Leon Hare and Richard Alvin Brown over the ile C Anthony store robbery on May 2. Both held in Chickasha awaiting trial. arrested in Sapulpa after Grady County Sheriff investigation.
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Wayne Lewis
David Leon Hare
Richard Alvin Brown
Ile C. R. Anthony
Chickasha
Sapulpa
D. Arthur Wilson
Grady County
Hare
Brown
Anthony
French Arrests Endangered Laval Backers in Vichy
The Gazette de Lausanne reports 150 French citizens, including government officials, were arrested in Vichy on charges of plotting to overthrow Pierre Laval. The arrests followed a letter from Adolf Hitler to Marshal Petain warning of a plan to repeat December 13, 1940. Admiral Rene Pleton reportedly among the detainees.
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Bern
Switzerland
Gazette de Lausanne
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Marshal Petain
Hitler
Laval
Petain
Rene Platon
Foreign Ministry
Capital Should Conserve Paper Says Boren
Washington report quotes Rep. Boren of Oklahoma urging government to cut paper use. As chair of a committee studying newsprint, he claims federal agencies could save about 42 percent of current consumption by eliminating waste basket material and streamlining output.
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Washington
Rep. Boren
Okla
Oklahoman
Boren
Cpl. Germany Returns Home After Coral Sea Service
Corporal Thurman Germany and his wife passed through Ada en route to his Sulphur home. Enlisted in 1940, he served in the Coral Sea aboard the Lexington, was severely wounded spending ninety days in a hospital, and received the Purple Heart. His parents reside on a Sulphur-area farm.
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Thurman Germany
Ada
Sulphur
Germany
Marine Corps
Coral Sea
Senate Debates Pay As You Go Tax Bill
A pay as you go tax collection bill aims to place most income taxpayers on a current basis by July 1. The measure, transformed by the Senate Finance Committee, substitutes abating all 1942 or 1943 liabilities for windfall incomes and keeps a 20 percent withholding on wages. Senate leaders expect a brief debate but a final vote may wait until Friday.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance Committee
la Follette
Wis
George
Molotov Accuses Germany of Forcible Russian Labor
Moscow radio quoted Foreign Commissar Molotov charging Germany abducted Russians for slave labor and planned large scale use. He cited Goering's secret 1941 conference and Sauckel demands for 400 500 thousand workers, with Russians sent to the Reich under harsh conditions. He blamed the Hitlerite clique for these crimes and noted similar treatments of other occupied peoples.
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London
Moscow Radio
Vyacheslav Molotov
Germany
Molotov
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Fritz Sauckel
Reich
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Holland
France
Belgium
Cypriot Deployments Reported by Stockholm Paper
The Stockholm paper Dar ens Nyheter reported that an American Army division commander and staff arrived in Cyprus with U S troops said to be massing among Allied units. No confirmation from Allies followed. The report suggested Cyprus could serve as a staging point for a Balkan invasion.
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Stockholm
Darens Nyheter
Sofia
Cyprus
Mediterranean
United States
Leaders From India Theater Of Operations Visit Washington
A White House disclosure states Prime Minister Churchill brought three important leaders from the India theater to Washington. The meetings with President Roosevelt may focus on strategy against Japan.
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Washington
White House
Churchill
India
Roosevelt
Japan
Oil Workers Union Certified for Phillips Petroleum KC
The Labor Relations Board certified the Oil Workers International Union as the bargaining agent for Phillips Petroleum Company production and maintenance workers in Kansas City Kansas after an April 30 election. The company employees voted 374 to 79 in favor of the union.
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Washington
Labor Relations Board
Oil Workers International Union
C.I.O
Phillips Petroleum Co
Kansas City
Kas
WAAC Promises Cake To Marine Son
A marine private met his mother a WAAC auxiliary for the first time in 18 months. He asked for a chocolate cake from his mother, who is a WAAC worker arriving from Elgin Field. He said he is first cook for his company and will bake the cake during his 10 day furlough.
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Chicago
WAAC
Edward Brasus
Margaret Brasus
Elgin Field
Florida
Edward
Brasus
Soldiers Sailors Get Five Gallons
Washington May 12 Members of the armed forces on leave may obtain five gallons of gasoline for personal errands when no other transport is available. Under the plan the service member may go to the local rationing board with leave papers valid for at least three days and receive a maximum five gallon allowance.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Boise City Sergeant Saved By Parachute
SHREVEPORT La May 12 The bomber crash killed the pilot but six crew members parachuted to safety including Staff Sgt Earl C Pittman engineer. His wife Mrs Lois Pitman lives in Boise City Oklahoma.
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Shreveport
Barnsdale Field
Earl C. Pittman
Lois Pitman
Boise City
Oklo
Cap Bon Falls to Allied Forces as Axis Resistance Crumbles
Allied advances in North Africa encircle Cap Bon with British armor and air power pushing inland. German and Italian troops surrender in large numbers, with over 100000 prisoners anticipated as a 15 mile wide ring holds the last resistance southwest of the cape.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Cap Bon
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Cape
K.A. N. Anderson
Tunisia
U. S. Army Corps
French Free Corps
Goumiers
War Production Board halts new projects to boost weapon output
Washington May 12 WPB orders sweeping cutbacks in new war plant construction and machine tool output. An estimated 4 billion dollars in government financed projects will be reviewed and cancelled where existing plants can do the job. The move aims to shift effort to direct war production and reduce unemployment as shifts occur from civilian to military manufacturing.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Pacific Move Supposed By Big Three In White House Talks
Three Far East leaders Archibald Wavell James Somerville and Richard Pierse arrived in Washington as Roosevelt and Churchill weigh new China aid plans. Speculation grows of a joint land sea and air push against Japan to open the Burma road and strike Japan from China.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Churchill
China
White House
India
Washington
Archibald P. Wavell
James Somerville
Devon
Richard Pierse
Burma
Japan
Far East
Hideki Tojo
World War Two alliance leaders meet as Tunisian victory looms
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill hold another war council in Washington with Field Marshal Wavell and other India theater leaders present. Churchill arrives with key advisers as Allied plans for Europe and Asia pivot on Tunisia gains and the promise of a Japan-focused strategy.
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Europe
Churchill
Si Alen Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Dudley Pound
Charles Portal
Lord Leathers
Lord Cherwell
Si. Sastings
Defense
FE. I. C. Jacob A
War Cabinet
Roosevelt
America
Stephen Early
Governor Kerr Proclaims Flag Week and Citizenship Day
Oklahoma City reports Governor Kerr issued proclamations designating June 8 to 14 as flag week and May 16 as citizenship resignation day He urged citizens to display flags at homes and businesses and to buy war bonds during that week
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Oklahoma City
Kerr
Roose velt and Churchill in the air
Column by Bob Bi notes that frequent Roose velt and Churchill appearances unsettle others, leaving people anxious and restless amid constant travel and public appearances.
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