Largest RAF raid targets Duesseldorf as Italy bombed
RAF swarms 500 bombers hit Duesseldorf in the fourth May attack, with earlier strikes on Dortmund. Allied forces raid Messina Pantelleria and Sardinia in Italy, while U S Liberators join the assault. Reports cite heavy bombing of Ruhr targets and European front shifts amid war-wide plans and political tremors.
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Dusseldorf
Rhineland
RAF
Dortmund
Africa
Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Messina
U. S
Italy
Churchill
France
Duesseldorf
British
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Germany
Rhine
Duisburg
Northwest African Air Force
U.S
Desert Air Force
Rome
Rubber Workers Strike Paralyzes Akron War Production
More than 57 000 striking war workers protest war labor board policies and halt jeep and rubber plant output across Akron Ohio and Toledo. Spicer and Timken plants, along with General Tire and Rubber, face mass walkouts as CIO United Rubber Workers press wage demands. WLB urges return to work while considering compromises.
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Sherman Dalgrymple
Washington
WLB
Ohio
Toledo
Willys-Overland Co
Spicer Manufacturing Co
Willys-Overland
Spicer Co
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Electric Auto-Lite Co
UAW
Owen Schaefer
Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
United Press
War Labor Board
Akron
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
William H. Davis
General Tire and Rubber Co
CIO United Rubber Workers
General Tire
International Executive Board
B. F. Goodrich Co
Oodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Prospects Good for Tax Bill in Congress
House leaders pressed to bring up the compromise pay as you go income tax plan with 75 percent forgiveness for most and a 20 percent withholding against wages. The measure aims to wipe out much of 1942 tax obligations, apply quarterly payments for non wage income, and include windfall provisions and armed forces exemptions.
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Washington
House
Senate
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Vandenberg
Michigan
Finance Committee
Rep. Knutson
Minnesota
Coughton
Treasury
Sky-Busters Seek Jap Skinning Knives for Naval Aviators
Cadet St. Cmdr. J. L. Novak of Corpus Christi appeals to West Texans for about 20 high quality skinning knives to arm the Panhandle Plainsmen before their transfer to naval duty. Of 60 original Sky-Busters, 40 remain, with many to graduate weekly and head to postings worldwide. Novak, cadet captain hopeful, trains on PBY planes.
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Globe-News
St. Cmdr
J. L. Novak
Corpus Christi
Panhandle
Novak
Sky-Busters
Navy
Edsel Ford Dies at 49 Head of Ford Motor Co dies at 49
Detroit May 26 Edsel Bryant Ford 49 head of Ford Motor Co died in his sleep from undulant fever at 1 30 AM At his bedside were Henry Ford Eleanor Clay Ford Benson and William Clay Ford and Eleanor Ford His death ends an era in the auto empire he built from the Highland Park plant to global expansion He married Eleanor Clay in 1916 and is survived by four children and his parents established Ford leadership and succession plans for the company.
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Detroit
W.P
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford
Ford
Eleanor
Benson
William Clay
Detroit- Edison Co
Detroit Public
Detroit University School
Highland Park
Edsel
Com
Pany
Eleanor Clay
Henry
William
Public notice to trade nylons for Steinway grand piano
A public notice from W. Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance on May 26 offers to exchange a dozen pairs of nylons plus cash for a medium sized Steinway grand piano.
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New York
Experts Say Italy Unlikely to Be Invaded This Summer
Washington observers doubt a summer Allied invasion of Italy, predicting major European drive against Germany with Italy a secondary factor. They foresee Italy collapsing, Mussolini in exile, a possible abdication of King Victor Emmanuel III, and US officers setting up a military administration in Italy.
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Mussolini
Germany
Vittorio Emanuele
Prince of
Naples
U. S
Richard G. Maslock
Washington
Italy
Europe
Berlin
France
Balkans
Alps
United States Army
School of
Charlottesville
Dempsey Bedroom Incident Revealed in Divorce Trial
Prizefight photographer Harry Goldman testified in White Plains that he saw Mrs. Hannah William Dempsey in bed with Benny Woodall, manager of Lew Jenkins, during an all night party at the Dempsey Central Park West apartment. He described others at the party including Madeline Webb and Dorothy Gomez.
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White Plains
N. Y
Hannah William Dempsey
Benny Woodall
Lew Jenkins
Dempsey
Goldman
Trim
Coast Guard
Woodall
American forces clear Chicagof Valley on Attu Island
United States troops wiped out the Japanese position in Chicagof Valley Attu Island as heavy and medium bombers and fighters pressed a follow up drive on Chicagof Harbor. The Chicagof Valley sector was cleared on Monday with no enemy casualty report, signaling further Japanese pullback in the North Pacific isle.
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Washington
United States
Chicagof Valley
Attu Island
Navy
Chicagof Harbor
Chicagof
Pacific Isle
Weather summary for Amarillo region and West Texas
Little change in temperature expected tonight and early Thursday. Light to local rain or drizzle possible in northeast Panhandle and South Plains this afternoon and night, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in northern mountains and northeast New Mexico later today. Temperatures for the past 24 hours show high 82, low 68, noon 76. For shingles and related lumber, see John Maynard Lumber Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
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University of Texas
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Hayden Street
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Amarillo High School
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Columbia
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Uvalde
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Austin
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Stephenville
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Moran
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Patricia Bradberry
San Angelo
Billie Lou Hallmark
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Eral
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United Steel Workers Today
Tass
Adrian
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Edsel Ford
By Robert W. Hefty
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