Churchill and War Rhetoric Dominate American Press Commentary
The piece reviews Churchill as a premier wartime orator and notes his blunt stance on reprisals if gas is used. It reports American air raids on Japan, gasoline rationing impacts, and praise for wartime youth efforts while urging Americans to accept wartime realities beyond escapist fantasies.
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Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Churchill
NINS
Apple Pie Ridge
Shangri la
Chinese Foil Jap Rescue From Trap On Burma China Front
Chinese communique reports Japanese troops trapped near Wanting and Lashio in Yunnan province trapped by Chinese forces. Chinese attacks, aided by American airstrikes, left about 3 000 enemy casualties as Japanese rescue efforts failed. Allied leaders note limited air support and British withdrawal in the Chin Din valley toward India.
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Chungking
Joseph W.W. Stilwell
Burma
Maymyo
Burman
Yunnan
Hunnan
Lashio
Burma Road
Tlungling
Chefang
Salween
AVG
Central
Harold R. L. G. Alexander
Chindwin
Wavell Forms Three Indian Armies to Defy Japan
Gen Archibald Wavell reorganizes three Indian armies to counter Nipponese advances in Burma as Japan pushes northwest toward the frontier. RAF sacrifices strike Magwe near Yenangyaung oilfields for a second time in two days as invasion fleets assemble at Rangoon for Bengal attack.
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New Delhi
India
Archibald Wavell
Burma
Rangoon
Bengal
Magwe
Yenangyaung
Henderson Sees Pay Freezing Need
Members of the house ways and means committee said Monday Price Administrator Sean Henderson told them compulsory savings of some kind and possibly a general freezing of wages might be necessary to combat inflation.
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Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means
Sean Henderson
France Asks U S Explain Action In Caribbean
France formally sought an explanation from the United States about its actions in Martinique and other French Caribbean possessions. Ambassador Gaston Henry Haye delivered the request to Secretary of State Cordell Hull on Vichy instructions, amid concerns over direct dealings with Admiral Georges Robert, high commissioner of the French Caribbean possessions. Haye urged patience and cautioned against provoking further complications.
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Washington
INS
France
Martinique
Gaston Henry Haye
Vichy
Cordell Hull
Laval
Georges Robert
Henry Haye
Hull
Tom
United States Demands Seen on Martinique Warships
German radio and Paris dispatches report the United States demand demobilization of French warships in Martinique and allow US garrisons on the Caribbean island. Le Matin calls the move an ultimatum and compares it to Britain’s Madagascar action as cynical.
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Berlin
United States
Martinique
Caribbean
DNB
Paris
le Matin
Britain
Madagascar
Japs Occupy Admiralty Isle
Japan announced it had occupied Lorengau on Manus Island in the Admiralty group 180 miles off New Guinea. The seizure extends the enemy base network and strengthens positions off northern New Guinea by pushing invasion bases further west toward the Bismarcks.
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United Press
Japan
Lorengau
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
New Guinea
Bismarcks
Torpedo Hits British Tanker Off U S East Coast
A Axis submarine torpedoed a medium sized British tanker 300 yards off the lower Atlantic coast on May 4 in daylight observed by beachgoers. Two crew killed and two wounded. 42 rescued by lifeboat and later reboarded before tow to an east coast port. Spectators saw the periscope and researchers say the attack occurred in sight of shore.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Atlantic
George W Boynton
WPB Calls on City to Provide St. Car Rails
Cedar Rapids council approves cooperation with WPB scrap division to remove unused street car rails for the war effort. City faces net loss removing rails as paving costs and rail value are weighed, with bond issues and WPA help discussed to cover about $20,000 in total costs.
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WPB
City
St. Car
Cedar Rapids
W. Ro Sieg
Special Projects Division
Sieg
Frank Young
Young
WPA
Car Hits Freight Derails Two Trains in Rock Springs
A light car driven by Alfred Sims of Rock Springs struck a freight train on a Sunday, derailing several cars and causing a Challenger locomotive to overturn. Four teen passengers and trainmen were injured but none seriously. Sims and two companions were held for investigation. Sims said a blinded headlight caused the crash.
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Rock Springs Wyo
North Western Union Pacific
Alfred Sims
Rock Springs
Sims
Duster Committee Backs Indianapolis For Legion Confab
Indianapolis was recommended by the American Legion national convention liaison committee for the 1942 convention to be held September 19 to 21. Leo J Duster of Cedar Rapids Iowa chaired the committee and urged a ten percent delegate cap due to wartime conditions, subject to national executive committee approval.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
American Legion
Leo J Duster
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Custer
Charles F Hilman Veteran Poultry Broker Dies
Charles F Hilman 67 a veteran Iowa poultry broker died after a lingering illness at 10 am Monday at 834 Third Avenue SF where he lived and worked He opened a Cedar Rapids brokerage in 1907 and earlier represented a New York freight line for two years Born June 2 1874 in Freeport Illinois he lived in Ida Grove Sioux City Cedar Rapids and Omaha He was a Mason Shriner and Shrine KCCH member and attended Grace Episcopal Church Cedar Rapids The body lay at Turner chapel
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Cedar
Randy News
Charles Frederick Hilman
Iowa
Third Avenue SF
Cedar Rapids
New York
Freeport II
Peter
Nellie Mayer Hilman
Ida Grove
Sioux City
Omaha
Amelia Cecil Durch
Chippewa Falls
Shesur Ives
Hilman
Masonic Order
Crescent Lodge
Grace Episcopal Church
Turner Chapel
OPA price ceiling meeting to explain new order
The meeting at 8 pm in Memorial coliseum features George Haskell as principal speaker with E M Gene Pinney as chair. It explains the April 28 price filing order affecting 30 000 items and outlines questions about ceilings and exemptions for retailers and the public.
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Leon Henderson
Memorial Coliseum
E. M
Gene” Pinney
Chamber of Commerce
F. K. Hahn
George Haskell
Chicago
John C. Weigel
OPA
Haskell
Hahn
Linn
Benton
Cedar Counties
Clinton
British saboteurs cripple Norwegian rail line near Trondheim
British electrical experts sabotaged the Transhams railway south of Trondheim after smuggling into German-occupied Norway. They disabled the transformer guard at Bordshaug and blew up the main station, forcing a switch to old steam locomotives on Norway’s first electrified line between Orkla sulphur mine and the sea.
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Stockholm
Transhams
Trondheim
Norway
Orkla
Bordshaug
U S Ends Silence on Tokio Raid
Reports detail the April 18 air raid on Tokio by U S army bombers with attacks on military plants and fires that burned for days. The war department broke a three week silence and noted large fires and casualties while Japanese broadcasts claimed limited damage and altered casualty figures.
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Tokio
United States Army
Japan
Rad
War Department
Yokohama
Na- Zoya
Pulitzer Prize Biographer Forrest Wilson Dies at 59
Forrest Wilson died at 59 in Weston Connecticut on Sunday less than a week after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for biography for Crusader in Crinoline about the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was acclaimed for his detailed literary portrait and scholarly rigor.
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Weston, Conn
Forrest Wilson
Harnett Beecher Stowe
Churchill Warns Gas Use If Germany Mobilizes War
Prime Minister Churchill warned that Britain would use gas in retaliation if Germany employs gas against Russia. The speech, marking two years in office, praised Allied resolve and criticized Mussolini, Hitler, and Russian winter setbacks while noting RAF activity and American support.
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London
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Russia
Churchill
Britain
Benito Mussolini
France
Italy
Hitler
Fenarance
Submarine, Surface Losses Reported in Pacific Combat Update
The Navy announced American submarines in the Far East sank three Japanese ships including a destroyer and two cargo vessels. Allied headquarters said bombers damaged two enemy submarines off northeastern Australia. Reports cited ongoing Coral Sea activity with unclear outcomes for the main fleet.
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Washington
Navy
Far East
Allied Headquarters
Australia
Coral Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Mondas
Corl Sea
MacArthurs
Navigators Lead U S Bomber Missions In Pacific
A wartime AP account details mid Pacific bomber missions where navigators rely on exact timing and charts without radio aids. Lt Dale E Stauffer explains navigation key to hitting tiny island targets, underscoring teamwork among pilots bombardiers engineers and radiomen.
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Mid-Pacific
South Seas
America
Ernest H. Manierre
Hartford
Conn
Seu
Dale E. Stauffer
Opportunity
Wash
Camileat
Dale E Hanson O
Crescola
University of Minnesota
Nazis Report Red Attacks Repulsed On Russian Front
The German high command acknowledged localized Red thrusts on the Russian front but said they collapsed or were repulsed. They claimed air forces shot down 27 planes to 1 in favor of Germany on the far northern front, listing 22 British Hurricanes among Soviet losses.
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Associated Press
High Command
Air Force
Soviet recaptures Kalinin front in two day battle
Soviet communique reports the Kalinin front recaptured after a two day battle in which about 600 enemy troops were slain. The fighting on most of the battle line showed a comparative lull.
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Moscow
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Chuck” Kosch
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