Coral Sea results and salvage drive shape wartime outlook
The Coral Sea campaign yields clear naval losses for Japan and three U S ships, while air power over Midway signals dominance. A national scrap rubber drive is urged, with plant expansion and higher prices to spur salvaging amid transportation limits. Cedar Rapids notes local gubernatorial chatter and the American Legion boys state effort, plus Mussolini’s faltering strength and cartoonist irony about the axis rulers.
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Coral Sea
United States
Cedar Rapids
Bob Fontana
Grinnell
Bourke Hickenlooper
Hickenlooper
American Legion
Roosevelt initiates nationwide scrap rubber drive to conserve tires
President Roosevelt announced a 15 day, 12 01 am start for a 400000 oil stations driven scrap rubber collection. Stations will pay one cent per pound and collect through June 30, sending material to Rubber Recovery. Rural county boards will lead rural pickups while households are urged to search for rubber items and submit them to stations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
The
Rubber Recovery Corporation
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Army
Navy
Oil Company
Bureau of Industrial Conservation of the
War Production Board
Petroleum Industry
Petroleum Coordinator
First Edition of Yank Debuts as Stars and Stripes Anniversary
The first edition of the official army newspaper Yank will be issued Saturday. The issue marks the anniversary of the last Stars and Stripes edition from 1918 19, underscoring a historical link between the titles.
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New York
INS
Yank
U S Resumes Shipments to French North Africa
Secretary of State Hull announced that American food clothing and fuel shipments to French North Africa will resume soon on the same basis as before the Laval Vichy government. safeguards will prevent supplies from aiding the Axis and the move followed thorough government consultation.
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Washington
French North Africa
Hull
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Tokio Now Admits Two Carriers Lost
Tokyo asserts two Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk in Pacific battles off Midway and the Aleutians, saying the loss is offset by greater gains. Japan had previously admitted only one carrier loss. civilian naval expert Ito said the higher toll is implied by recent operations.
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Tokio
New York
Maniori Ito
Midway
Aleutians
Ito
Hawaii Air Force Head Is Missing
Washington AP reports Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker commander of the Hawaiian air force is missing after leading a June 7 Midway attack. His bomber disappeared over the sea and extensive searches found no trace. Tinker was the first U.S. air general to be reported missing in the war.
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Washington
War Department
Clarence L. Tinker
Midway
Tinker
Herbert A. Dargue
Harold H. George
Army Air Forces
Hawai
Pearl Harbor
Delos C. Emmons
Hawaii
Walter C Short
Hawaiian
Pacific
Frederick L Martin
Pay to Dependents and Deferment of Family Men Approved
Senate and House conferees approved a bill authorizing monthly payments to dependents of armed services members and deferments for married men with wives and children. The plan sets scales from 50 dollars for a wife to 72 dollars with two children, with portions covered by the soldier’s pay and the remainder by the government.
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Washington
Senate
House
Armed Services
Thomas
Utah
Francis V. Keesling, Jr
Selective Service
Keesling
Oldest U S Carrier Lexington Destroyed After Coral Sea Fight
The 33,000 ton USS Lexington, launched in 1925 and commissioned in 1927, was damaged by bombs and torpedoes during the Coral Sea battle. Flames from fuel lines exploded dogs, the ship blew up as crew fought fires for hours, with many sailors rescued before abandonment. Captain F. Sherman was last to leave the carrier.
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Southwest Pacific
Lexington
Coral Sea
FS Sherman
Washington
United States
Australa
Fletcher
A. W. Fitch
F C Sherman
Sherman
Fore River Ship~ Building Company
Quincy
Mass
Jane's Fighting Ships
Neosho
Sims
Pacific
Man Falls to Death From Train Near Mt Vernon
Cedar Rapids report says Anthony E. Dobraski 31 of Rockford died after leaping from an eastbound North Western steamliner between Mt Vernon and Lasbon. Linn County coroner says skull fracture caused death. arms broken. Deputies note passenger's claim he said Here goes and jumped after expressing financial worries.
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Anthony E. Dobraski
Rockford
North Western
Mt Vernon
Lasbon
Roe Munden
Linn County
I Taught My Plane To Strike The Carrier In Coral Sea
An AP reporter recounts the May 7 1942 battle in the Coral Sea. A bomber squadron attacks an enemy carrier amid tight fuel limits and intense anti aircraft fire. The narrator describes the tense briefing, the takeoff, the rocketlike dive through smoke, and the carrier’s destruction by torpedo and bomb hits.
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Coral Sea
Southwestern
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Coral Sea Battle Costs Japan Heavy Losses and Lexington
Washington reports the Battle of the Coral Sea inflicted heavy Japanese losses and sank the aircraft carrier Lexington after a 15 hour fight. American losses included the Neosho and the destroyer Sims, with numerous ships damaged and cargo planes, while Allied forces halted any invasion of Australia.
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United States
Lexington
Neosho
Sims
Sage
Ther
Risy
Navy
Surprse
Ryukaku
Laval Charges Doriot Seeking To Unseat Him
In Vichy Laval publicly accuses Jacques Doriot of aiming to seize control of the Vichy government. Laval bans Doriot’s terror organization from rallies in unoccupied France and recalls a quarrel with Doriot in Paris last Monday. He says Doriot wants power, but the government is mine.
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VICHY
Pierre Laval
Jacques Doriot
Fnday
Laval
Doriot
France
French Legion
Paris
Sing Sing Executions Reported After Prison Break
Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, condemned for the killing of a Sing Sing guard during a prison breakout on April 14, 1941, were executed Thursday night in the prison.
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Ossining
N. Y
Joseph Riordan
Charles McGale
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