Allied forces drive toward Tunis and Bizerte in Tunisia
Allied troops push from Lake Achkel toward Tebourba and Bizerte as British First Army seizes Djebel Bou Aoukaz. U S Second Corps and French units press from Eddekhila while Northwest African Air Forces strike Axis lifelines across the Sicilian Straits. Allied air action and heavy bombardment mark the campaign as Axis defenses crack along multiple fronts.
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Caucasus
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1St Army
Djebel
Djebel Bou Aoukaz
First Army
United States
Lake Achkel
Djebel Achkel
Djebel Chiniti
Mateur
Ferryville
Lake Bizerte
Bizerte
U. S. Army Corps
Eddekhila
Tebourba
Tunis
Medjez-El-Bab
Sicilian Straits
Flying Fortresses
Straits
la Goulette
Tunisia
Djebel Chemti
Sidi Salem
Hammamet
Enfidale
Red Army close to Novorossiisk in major Caucasus push
The Red Army announced a northeast advance toward Novorossisk breaking the Kuban bridgehead on a 154 mile front. Eight miles of gains seized Krymskaya and Jéberdjaiskaya while over 7,000 Axis troops were killed and 80 guns captured.
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Moscow
Red Army
Novorossisk
Kuban
Black Sea
Caucasus
Krymskays
Jéberdjaiskaya
Taman
Crimea
Red Air Force
Krymskaya
Neberdjaiskaya
Cactus Ordnance Works in Etter Closed by Officials
Major R E Smith announced the Cactus Ordnance Works at Etter is closed before production. Construction halted after one year. half the staff laid off, with office workers kept and a skeleton crew to weather-proof the site. Unemployment services notified. Illinois Smelting absorbs 150 workers. Brown and Root led construction. Chemical Construction Corporation to operate post-approval.
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Cactus Ordnance Works
Etter
R. E. Smith
Washington
Cactus
Smith
United States Unemployment Service
Illinois Smelting Company of
Dumas
Brown and Root Construction Company
Chemical Construction Corporation
Ordnance Department
Treasury backs Ways and Means plan over Carlson Ruml tax proposals
Randolph Paul, treasury general counsel, told the Senate finance committee there is little room for choice among three tax relief proposals. He said the Carlson-Ruml plan is inequitable and inferior to the Ways and Means and House bills, which he described as more equitable and capable of boosting next years revenues. He noted all three bills aim to change tax collection methods, with little difference in source collection and current tax payment provisions. The Ruml plan faces Republican opposition but gained some Democratic backing to the see Ruml plan.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Randolph Paul
Treasury Department
Ways and Means Committee
House
Paul
Ways and Means
Republinh
Army Develops Portable Pipelines To Move Gasoline Units
The Army unveils portable half mile pipeline sections with a 20 hp engine and centrifugal pump to deliver gasoline to motorized units. They can cross swamps forests and mountains at about 200 gallons per minute and may replace floating tanks. OWI notes mechanized divisions burn 18 000 gallons per hour while bombers use 200 gallons and fighters 100, and overseas petroleum shipments vastly exceed World War I levels.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWT
Army Motors
Motor Transport School
Baltimore
OWI
Hess Family In Britain Arrives With Hess in custody
In London May 6 the Hess family arrived in Britain. Laborite William Thorne said Rudolf Hess now a prisoner is supported by $60,000 in securities used for their keep. Frau Hess and their four year old son have been reported in Germany and Italy since Hess landed in Scotland on May 10 1941.
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London
U.P
Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Germany
Britain
William Thorne
Thorne
Hess
Commons
Devers Succeeds Gen Andrews in European Command
Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers, commander of the armored force, was named by Secretary of War Stimson to succeed Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews as commander of American army troops in the European theater. Reshingle and repair now. See John Maynard Lbr. Co.
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Washington
Jacob L. Devers
Stimson
Frank M. Andrews
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
Lewis Gives No Help in Coal Fight
United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis continued to ignore the war labor board as panel hearings on the soft coal wage dispute opened behind closed doors. About 50 operators gathered while UMW offered no representation. Harold Ickes outlined emergency seizure plans and WPB officials warned of a nation wide dimout if miners walk out after the truce.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
UMW
WLB
Charles O'Neil
Appalachian
Harold L. Ickes
War Production Board
Charles O'Neill
New York
Roosevelt Hotel
Army Engineers Taper Off Work
War department engineers completed 90 percent of a ten billion dollar program to build camps plants airfields and related works for the armed forces and now expect to taper off. Congress may be asked to provide about one billion dollars for further construction in the next fiscal year beginning July 1 Major General Eugene Reybold said while briefing the Senate appropriations committee.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Eugene Reybold
Army Corps of Engineers
Senate Appropriations Committee
Weather and dairy news from Texas and Orson Welles induction
Mild Texas forecast with cooler morning temperatures and no frost risk. Amarillo rainfall at 70 percent below normal. water department scrutiny hinted. OPA to reform butter regulations as national dairy coverage tightens. Orson Welles reports for Army induction despite a draft deferment.
Invasion Certain May Hinge on Europe Operations
Director Elmer Davis of the Office of War Information said there will be Allied operations on continental Europe this summer. He stated the invasion could proceed even if a pocket of Axis resistance remains at Bizerte, noting the base is within artillery reach and that final German stands may occur there.
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Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Europe
Bizerte
Davis
Canning Sugar Rush Draws Huge Wartime Line
Hundreds wait in Potter County courthouse to sign up for six pounds of sugar per person for canning. The bottleneck forms at entry and through lower floors as clerks issue certificates. ration rules promise a 25 pound yearly limit with later access. Many bring children and dogs as demand far exceeds supply.
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Potter County
Sixth Avenue
Ration Board
Sikorski Backs Stalin Poland Russia Pact Against Germany
London dispatch reports Premier Sikorski welcoming Stalin’s proposal for a Polish Russian security pact against Germany. Both governments see prospects for resuming relations as Moscow says Poland should remain strong and independent after the war and may form an alliance with mutual aid against Germany.
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London
U.P
Wladislaw Sikorski
Josef Stalin
Germany
Russia
Sikorski
Moscow
New York Times
Stalin
Poland
Soviet Union
Aircraft dispute between Consolidated Vultee and machinists unfolds
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins certified the dispute to the War Labor Board. The contention, at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp in Fort Worth, involves 15,000 International Association of Machinists AFL members over check-off, wages and postwar time provisions. The notice also references E A Regal Co real estate loans.
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Washington
May
Frances Perkins
War Labor Board
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
Fort Worth
International Association of Machinists
AFL
Japanese Bombed and Strafed at Attu
The navy reported a bombing and strafing attack Tuesday on Japanese positions at Attu in the Aleutians. Liberator bombers struck Holtz Bay and hit enemy installations while Lightning fighters machinegunned targets near Chichagof harbor. Attu lies 172 miles west of Kiska.
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Washington
Navy
Attu
Aleutian Islands
Holtz Bay
Chichagof Harbor
Kiska
Aleutians
Weather Synopsis for Amarillo and West Texas
Cooler night with rapid warming Friday morning. West Texas sees cooler nights in Pecos Valley and South Plains with little change elsewhere. Scattered showers reported in Pecos Valley Del Rio and Eagle Pass area and central mountains of New Mexico. Temperature around 67 likely today in Tem Ti area.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Perens Valley
South Plains
Pecos
Valley and
del Rio
Eagle Pass Arta
New Mexico
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Tawaunaanial Ie Dla Lant
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Dumas War
Sam Houston
Texas
Sam Houston, Jr
Parris Island
S. C
Army
Devers
Gen. Andrews
Lewis
Army Engineers
Bureau
Trust-Busters
Dallas
Louis Baumann
OPA
Orson Welles
Hollywood
Ranch Cone
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes
Tnsurance
Patch
Labor Board
E. A. Regal Co
Balkans
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