Coal Mine Strikes Spread as War Labor Board Eyes Decision
Washington May 20 Strikes spread to Pennsylvan ia Ohio and Kentucky as the War Labor Board weighs a decision by Tuesday on wage demands. Miners seek a flat $2 daily increase and concessions beyond the Little Steel formula while leaders insist on a contract and wage adjustments. UMW leaders warn of further action if the board delays. Officials push for a board approved agreement to avoid prolonged disruption.
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Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
United Mine Workers Dership
Bay
John L. Lewis
Ickes
Lewis
Teese
United States
Minier
Pennsvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Aphian
Chrysler War Plants Tied Up In Nationwide Walkouts
Detroit May 20 Three Chrysler war plants employing about 14 500 workers were closed in a strike wave with CIO UAW locals at the Kercheval Jefferson plants and Dodge main plant joining in. National War Labor Board officials urged workers to return to duty amid government interest in potential broader impact.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
CIO
United Automobile
Kercheval
Jefferson
Dodge
Carl Schedler
National War Labor Board
Washington
Jefferson - Kercheval
Ed Garey
Uaw-Cio
Early Reynolds
Reynolds
Yank Bombers Bomb Sicily and Sardinia in Major Raid
Allied air forces in North Africa report destroying 73 enemy planes in heavy raids on Sicily and Sardinia with four American losses. Flying Fortresses led the attack at Milo airfield near Trapani, blasting 37 parked planes and bombing installations while escort fighters shot down ten Axis aircraft in a 20 minute sea battle.
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North Africa
James H. Doolittle
Strategic Air Force
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Tunisian
Tunisia
Milo
Trapani
Egadi Islands
Manacled Skipper Of Ship Perishes In Scuttled Sub
Recife Brazil May 20 The 9300 ton Greek ship Editors sank after being torpedoed and shelled on May 1 en route from Buenos Aires to North Africa with linseed tar and the captain was taken aboard the attacking U boat survivors say a British destroyer then forced the sub to surface and it was scuttled when attacked by the destroyer. Eighteen survivors reached Fernando Noronha after escape from the ocean and were brought to Recife by life boat/ship.
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Recife
Brazil
Buenos Aires
North Africa
Tunisia
Fernando Noronha
U S Ship Survivors Land At Boston
The navy said a medium sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the north Atlantic in early May. Survivors landed at Boston.
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Washington
Navy
United States
North Atlantic
Boston
Postwar Food Rationing Seen at UN Conference
Hot Springs Virginia May 21 British Richard K Law chairman of the British delegation urged international action to establish an ever normal granary to store surplus crops and stabilize prices. Paul H Appleby undersecretary of agriculture said the United States should plan to continue food rationing for several years after the war as massive postwar food aid will be required.
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Hot Springs
United Nations
Richard K. Law
Paul H. Appleby
United States
Jury Convicts Mrs Randle of Manslaughter
Anapolis Maryland May 20 a jury of 12 found Mrs Helen Alleen Randle guilty of manslaughter in the death of 17 year old Allen Willey. The jury deliberated about two and a quarter hours and acquitted her of first degree murder. Sentencing set for 9 30 am next Tuesday with possible prison term from two to ten years or a fine up to 500 dollars.
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Anapolis
Helen Alleen Randle
Allen Willey
J.ene
Marvin I. Anderson
Randall
Ridgly P. Melvin
Olmar S. Randle
RAF Mosquitoes Attack Berlin and Railroads Hit by Axis
RAF Mosquito bombers attack Berlin as part of a week of strikes on the Reich capital. Allied raids target German rail lines with flak cars behind munitions trains while night sorties stretch along the European coast. Whirlwind bombers hit Poix Amiens and Grecy En Penthieu with rail targets at Gamaches and Eu.
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Europe
London
U. S
Kiel
Flensburg
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Reich
Air Ministry
Chabons-Sur-Marne
Nancy
France
Iban
Channel
England
Eur
Netherlands
RAF
Poix
Amiens
Grecy En Penthieu
Gamaches
Ghent
Lys
Poisy
Sea
Bonniere
Army and Navy Get Record Budget Boost for War Needs
The House approved a $29.46 billion Navy appropriation while the President sought $71.90 billion for the Army plus $12.47 billion unobligated balances. The package includes $4 billion for aviation and $9 billion for new ships. Senate action covers 1,000,000 tons of landing craft and 1,000,000 tons of auxiliary naval vessels costing about $1.24 billion.
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Washington
House
Army
White House
Stephen Early
Navy
Senate
OPA Men to Check Driving in Panhandle
Special investigators from the Charleston and Wheeling OPA offices were sent into eight eastern Panhandle counties to enforce the ban on pleasure and nonessential driving. The kickoff covers Jefferson Berkeley Morgan Hampshire Mineral Hardy Grant and Pendleton counties with hearings for violators and potential gasoline ration revocation.
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OPA
Panhandle
Charleston
W. Va
Wheeling
Bernard Sclove
Charles Town
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Jefferson
Berkeley
Morgan
Hampshire
Minera, Hardy
Grant
Pendleton
Sclove
Last Jap resistance in Aleutians flickers out
Alaska reports last Japanese resistance collapsing on Attu island as American naval guns fire at surviving forces. In Europe the RAF continues attacks on Berlin while allies claim 73 Axis planes down with minimal losses. Stalin receives a confidential Roosevelt letter as Soviet front action continues. Allied bombers drop over 125 tons on Burma installations amid shifting operations near India.
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Alaska
Aleutians
Attu Island
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Joseph E. Davies
Roosevelt
Hope for break in tax deadlock in Washington May 20
A Senate House conference committee met to resolve differences on pay as you go tax. The treasury ordered 120 carloads of paper to prepare forms for a July 1 start of a current tax system. Payroll withholding could begin within two to three weeks after a bill signing.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Senate
House
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Japs Continue Raids in Pacific as Allied Raids Reported
Allied forces in Australia report Japanese air offensive in the southwest Pacific with raids on Milne Bay Port Moresby Dobodura and Cape Ward Hunt New Guinea. Bombs fell on Rabaul airfields as both sides exchange attacks in a broad Pacific contest.
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Milne Bay
Port Moresby
Australia
Priday
Amine
Southwest Pacific
Dobodura
Cape Ward Hunt
New Guinea
High Command
Douglas Harbor
Buna
Rabaul
New Britain
Oro Bay
Bobdoubt
Wau
Oro Sey
Gazelle Peninsula
Vunakanau
Battle for Attu final stage amid strong Japanese resistance
The article reports intensified combat as Attu Island battles enter a final phase with strong Japanese resistance. Concurrently German water movement near Kerch Strait is unclear, while Soviet forces report sinking six enemy troop barges and probing the Novorossisk region to break the siege.
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Attu Island
Yanks Step Up Burma Assaults and Bombing Raids
New Delhi May 20 American airmen have intensified their Burma attacks as British Indian forces push deeper into central Burma. Liberator crews dropped a record total of over 125 tons on Japanese installations along the Irrawaddy, after a 150 ton tally on Tuesday. Sabotage deep inside Burma disrupted the Mandalay Myitkyina railway with 75 blowups including the Bondaung gorge bridge, rendering the line largely useless to the Japanese.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Irrawaddy River
Mandalay - Myitkyina
Bondaung Gorge
Lear Promoted To Lieutenant General Amid Senate Clash
Washington May 20 The senate approved the promotion of Major General Ben Lear to lieutenant general after a contentious fight led by Senator Bennett Clark who charged Lear ordered a forced march that punished soldiers for cheering girls near Memphis in 1941. Clark argued Lear was overbearing and violated orders that disrupted National Guard units.
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Washington
Ben Lear
Senate
Ann
Bennett Clark
D-Ma
Memphis
Clark
Missouri
Lear
War Department
National Guard
Davies Delivers Secret Note to Stalin in Moscow
Joseph E. Davies handed Roosevelt's secret message to Premier Marshal Stalin in the Kremlin after meeting with Vyacheslav Molotov on arrival from the United States. The envoy used the same four motor plane that carried Roosevelt to Casablanca. The note's contents and any reply remained undisclosed.
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Moscow
Joseph E. Davies
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Kremlin
Vyacheslav Molotov
United States
Davies
Casablanca
Churchill
Washington
Marshal Stalin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Stalin
Russia
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Attu Island
Mississippi River Walls Menaced By High Waters
As floods rise along the Mississippi Missouri and Ohio basins evacuation warnings spread across Illinois Indiana and Oklahoma. About 28000 people are homeless and property and crop damage exceed 30 million dollars. Army engineers warn of rising crests while crews reinforce levees in Jefferson Barracks Missouri and Scott Fields Illinois.
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Mississippi River
Associated Press
Mississippi
Illinois
Indiana
Oklahoma
J. A. Adams
Fort Chartres
Stringtown
T Landign
Grand Tower
Tll
Missouri
Jefferson Barracks
Scott Fields
Pairie du Pont
Americans Press Attu Island Breakthrough Against Trapped Japanese
United States forces assault Attu as ships and bombers support a hard fought drive. Major General Eugene Landrum leads pincer advances to isolate the Japanese garrison with airfield control now in American hands and aims to finish the fight on Attu.
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Attu
Washington
Attu Island
Chicago Harbor
United States
Tokyo
Kiska
Uy Department
Stimson
Eugene Landrum
Mandantee
Chicaeel
Sarana Pass
Massacre
Holtz Bays
World War Pacific Picture Looked Optimistic Says Council
President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Canada’s Mackenzie King reviewed the Pacific war outlook with the War Council in Washington. An observer called the overall picture optimistic but no concrete new strikes against Japan were disclosed. Shipping remained a key element in the war effort.
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Washingon
Roosevelt
Churchill
Mackenzie King
Canada
Pacific War Council
Japan
Lord Halifax
Rea
Council
United Nations
Pacific
Oday
Congress
T. V. Soong
Alexander Loudon
Netherlands
United States
Genoo
Aleutians
Jon
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