Mexico demands Axis satisfaction over torpedoed ship
Mexico urged Germany Italy and Japan to explain the sinking of the Portrero de Llano off the Florida coast by May 21 or face steps to defend national honor. The government said the 7500 ton tanker carrying 50,000 barrels of oil was unarmed and attacked without warning, with 13 Mexican lives lost.
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Mexico
Ezequiel Padilla
Germany
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Japan
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Confederation Workers of Latin America
Foreign Office
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la Prensa
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le Prensa
Portrero de Llano
Oldest Man in U.S. Turns 117 in Vidalia
Walter Wilson, born a slave in Washington County Georgia, is cited by the census bureau as the nation’s oldest living person at 117. He marks the birthday with optimism and says long life comes from obedience and nature’s laws. He still walks four miles to town for tobacco, Cuba forecasts pineapple production exceeding 1,200,000 crates this year.
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Walter Wilson
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Wilson
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Grain Release Protest Shows Rural Dissent in Washington
Grain belt farm group leaders rush to Washington to oppose a war measure to release millions of bushels of stored grain for livestock at cut rate prices. They confront Senators over a farm appropriations bill policy allowing below parity sales of government grain surpluses for feeding. The dispute centers on keeping prices near parity and resisting price suppression.
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Hitler Cant Quit Battle Hits on Crimea and Kharkov
A World War II analysis notes Hitler’s spring offensive targets Crimea as the Crimean Panhandle, aims to breach the Kerch Strait and threaten the Caucasus. The Red Army drives in Kharkov, forcing Nazi reinforcements and complicating operations, while cautioning against premature conclusions about the war’s next moves.
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Kerch Strait
Crimean
Rostov
Factories and farms mobilize for total war effort
American factories farms and mines will shift to nonessential production under rising federal spending, projected to reach 60.6 billion dollars by November as War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson outlines a lean times forecast. In Wrightsville Pennsylvania J H Silar adapts to rationing by biking and rowing across the Susquehanna to reach work, citing bridge tolls as a burden.
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Donald M. Nelson
Wrightsville
J. H. Silar
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