Hitler Asks Laval to Cede 1,000,000 Tons Shipping
The Associated Press reports Britain says Adolf Hitler pressed Pierre Laval to cede a million tons of French merchant shipping in the Mediterranean for German use as part of a broader push toward a Mediterranean invasion. Observers in Washington and London see a looming German drive toward Suez and strategic moves in Africa and the Caucasus, with Allied leaders seeking U.S. aid and counter moves.
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Dis
Adolf I Wer
Middle East
France
Pierre Laval
Mediterranean
Germany
Daily Sketch
Vichy
Axis
Black Sea
North Africa
Sevastopol
Libya
Egypt
Iraqerran
Persia
Turkey
Washington
London
Churchill
United States
Suez
Roosevelt
White House
Africa
Berlin
Tokio
Europe
Balkans
Western Desert
Suez Canal
Italy
Greece
Crete
Caucasus
Syria
Baku- Batum
Officials of State Fair Grumbling
Des Moines Iowa AP fate of Iowa state and county fairs in war deferment questioned. State board to decide on Aug 28 to Sept 3 exposition. County fair officials back fairs, citing war effort. 4-H leaders pledge cooperation with federal requests and plan marketing schemes for market animals.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J P. Mullen
Fonda
Fair Board
Minnesota
Waterloo
Eastern
Iowa Fair Managers Association
Iowa State Fair Managers Association
Paul C. Taff
Amesia
Iowan State College
Office of Defense Transportation
Taff
Towa
All-Iowa Fair Canceled Amid War Effort Pressure
Charles D. Moore confirms the All-Iowa fair will not be held this year and calls cancellation sensible. Governor Wilson, visiting Clear Lake, backs complying with President requests for the war effort, while Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman and State Secretary of Agriculture Mark G. Thornburg urge deferment as the only course under the circumstances.
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Waterloo
Lloyd B. Cunningham
State Fair Board
Charles D. Moore
Moore
Wilson
Clear Lake
Iowa
United States
Joseph B. Eastman
DDT
Mark G. Thornburg
RAF Blitz Routs Northern France In Massive Fighter Sweep
Britain’s Royal Air Force staged a large offensive sweep against targets in northern France on Saturday afternoon. Officials indicated about 1,000 aircraft took part in the raids across the region, signaling a major aerial operation in the war.
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London
INS
Britain
Royal Air Force
France
Air Ministry
RAF pounds Emden Osnabruck in heavy two week strike
London reports a strong RAF force hitting Emden docks and Osnabruck rail junction on Friday night. Nine British planes missing. The raid targeted German iron, steel and communications hub at Osnabruck and included Dutch air fields. Weather briefly hampered the operation but success was later confirmed.
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London
Emden
Osnabruck
Germany
Air Ministry
Britain
Netherlands
Gandhi backs aid to China if India gains freedom
In a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, Mohandas Gandhi said he favored effective resistance to Japan and Axis powers and all possible aid to China if India is granted independence. British observers see this as a shift from nonviolence, while American views doubt a real change in his stance.
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London
Pacific
China
Siberia
Aleutians
Axis
Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
New Delhi
Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Restrict Marriages of Troops Overseas
Army personnel abroad must obtain approval from area commanding officers before marriage. The order mirrors prior rules, despite Secretary Stimson’s February statement that permission was unnecessary. Dispatches noted some marriages among U S Army men overseas and warned brides about citizenship and immigration processes.
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Washington
United States Army
War Department
Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson
Ireland
Australia
Navy Seaman Robert J Moore Dies At Coral Sea
Robert James Moore aged 17, fireman second class, U S Navy, killed May 8 on the last day of the Coral Sea battle. The Navy reports he was buried at sea with military honors. Parents Mr and Mrs Charles Moore of 225 Twenty seventh Avenue SW Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert James Moore
U. S. Navy
The
Gazette
Navy Department
Charles Moore
Twentyseventh Avenue
Army Takes Over 36 Square Mile East Anglia Training Zone
London AP report says the British war office will evict all residents from a 36 square mile block in East Anglia near Holland by July 20. The area including villages will be used entirely for military training with every civilian villager and farmer forced to leave.
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London
British War Office
East Anglia
England
Holland
Guerrilla Struggle Expands in Montenegro
Yugoslav refugee government reports heavy Italian losses in Montenegro's Nikost sector as guerrilla fighting escalates. Italians claim 150 guerrillas killed. Norwegian Telegraph Agency notes Gestapo raids in Norway with hostage seizures, replacing collective fines in towns with patriotic activity detected.
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London
Nikost
Montenegro
Norway
Henderson Offers to Quit to Push Subsidies for Price Ceilings
Price Administrator Leon Henderson said he would resign if needed to win congressional approval of subsidies to support price ceilings at March levels. He claimed subsidies are essential to prevent consumer and retailer hardship and noted ongoing anti inflation measures and policy risks beyond subsidies. He cited steel savings, war cost implications, and endorsed gasoline rationing as a key control tool.
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Washington
LLP
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Congress
Roosevelt
OPA
Signals From Hotels Warn Axis Submarines
Atlantic City defense council chairman County Judge Thomas Siddall told disabled World War II veterans that enemy agents flash signals to Axis submarines from resort hotel windows. He said he saw signals reflected from hotels in Atlantic City and other shore resorts.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Atlantic Coast
New Jersey
Thomas Siddall
Atlantic City Defense Council
Siddall
Atlantic City
Initial Axis Stab Toward Egypt Failed
British Eighth Army repulsed two German columns near Bardia and 25 miles from the Egyptian border as Rommel probed the Libyan desert. Tobruk endured Axis bombardment and possible paratroop action was discussed. London papers called for an inquest into Libyan reverses and criticized equipment and leadership.
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Great Britain
Eighth Army
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Gambut
Bardia
Rommel
Tobruk
Axis
London
The
Daily Mail
Germans Execute Elias Former Czech Premier
London radio reports German forces executed Alois Elias former premier of Bohemia Moravia at age 52 after a trial for treason and aiding the enemy. The case follows Heydrich’s assassination and prior executions by German authorities in occupied Prague.
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London
Alois Elias
Bohemia-Moravia
Czechoslovakia
Elias
Prague
Radio
Berlin
Reinhard
Heydrich
Gestapo
Bohemia- Moravia
Lexington survivor recalls Coral Sea battle from Cedar Rapids
Frank Divis, 20, from Cedar Rapids, is the third Lexington survivor to recount the carrier battle that sank the ship in the Coral Sea. He served in the firing control station and helped rescuers in a whaleboat after the ship was torpedoed, noting orderly exits and the absence of hysteria.
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Lexington
Cedar Rapids
Sam
Naval Air Arm
Frank Divis
John Divis
Divis
West
Bernard Butler
Marine Corps
Marvin Melsha
Coral Sea
Disvis
Butler
Wilson High School
Melsha
Disis
Davis
Indiana Coal Mine Strike Settled in Washington Conference
Indiana's coal strike ended after a Washington conference in which Gov. Henry F. Schricker announced an agreement between coal operators and district 11 United Mine Workers officials under the labor department. About 6,000 idle miners will return to work Monday after a two month stoppage caused by a wage increase demand from 259 shot firers and drillers.
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Indianapolis
INS
Indiana
Washington
Henry F. Schricker
District 11
United Mine Workers of America
Department of Labor
Minneapolis Milk Delivery Strike Disrupts City Supply
Strikes and lockouts at 17 plants owned by the Minneapolis Milk Dealers association halted milk deliveries to Minneapolis's 492,000 residents. The Milk Drivers and Dairy Employes union AFL called strikes at six dairies while 11 others were locked out. Only one firm continued regular deliveries.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Milk Dealers Association
Milk Drivers and Dairy Employes Union
AFL
Red Push Rumored as Sevastopol Battle Heats Up
BBC reports a Russian recovery near Kalinin front and new Soviet offensives amid growing German pressure on Sevastopol in Crimea. German high command claims fierce fighting in the north Sevastopol defenses as bombings and shelling intensify across the coastal fortifications.
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Red Army
Smolensk
Sevastopol
Crimea
BBC
London
Kalinin
Moscow
Kerch
Thei
Kharkov
Erich von Mannstein
Crimean
Ukraine
Severnaya Bay
Berlin
Sugar allotments rise with institutional meal increases
The Office of Price Administration announced that restaurants hotels boarding houses and other institutional sugar users may receive increases in their sugar allotments proportional to any rise in meals served this year. Previously such users were limited to 50 percent of last year’s sugar usage with no easy adjustment for more meals.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Pay as You Go Income Tax Plan Adopted by Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to reject a sales tax and to back a payroll deduction system for income taxes. Beginning Jan 1 employers would withhold 10 percent of wages above exemptions, with credits applying to 1943 and 1944 tax installments. The plan scales with personal situation and depends on exemptions for singles and married individuals with dependents.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-Nc
Treasury
Randolph Paul
Morgenthau
31 912 Pounds Added to Rubber Pile Friday
Linn County residents turned in 31 912 pounds of scrap rubber at gas stations on Friday bringing the campaign total to 151 741 pounds. The Rubber for War committee renewed its appeal urging housewives and farmers to collect every scrap, stressing the need to reach the 1 200 000 pound quota.
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Cedar Rapids Sr
Linn County
Rubber For War Committee
Nearly An Inch of Rainfall in Cedar Rapids
Weather forecast for Cedar Rapids calls for occasional showers and thunderstorms with cooler conditions Saturday night and Sunday forenoon. The city received 0.90 inches by 2 pm Saturday, plus 0.28 inches Friday, totaling 1.18 inches in two days. Temperatures dropped from highs around 80 to 66 by midmorning, with 70 at midnight and 77 in the evening.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
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