U S Forces Gain Ground In Attu Push
American troops fight over ice bound ridges on Attu island in a five day battle to drive Japanese from the Aleutians. Navy Secretary Knox says the assault is developing satisfactorily and sea air forces are ready for further lightning blows against Japan as Attu nears a potential breakthrough.
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Washington
Attu Island
Aleutians
Knox
Japan
Pacific
Attu
Kiska
United States
Amchitka
Tokio
Kurile Islands
Japanese Admit Losses on Attu, Berlin Broadcast Says
London dispatch via Radio Berlin quotes military circles that Attu fighting was very fierce and cites Gen Araki saying home front must stay strong through reverses while acknowledging losses on Attu.
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London
Attu
Tokio
Radio
Berlin
Baron Sadao Araki
OPA Urges Major Chains to Keep Meat Prices Low
The Office of Price Administration asked large retail distributors to keep meat prices at least 10 percent below new ceilings starting Monday. Applies to beef veal lamb and mutton for chains like Atlantic Pacific Safeway Kroger First National National Tea Colonial Jewel Bohack Grand Union Food Fair and others.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Safeway
Kroger
First National
American
National Tea Company
Germans Stage Sharp Assault on Leningrad Front
Moscow reports from Red Star describe a heavy artillery barrage followed by eight waves of German infantry attacking Leningrad. Russian forces fought back with heavy fire causing major losses, while reinforcements arrived to contain the assault. The front indicates massed German strength and a potential new offensive. In Kuban, the Red Army pounded Novgorossisk with artillery as air warfare raged along the front.
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Leningrad
Red Star
Kuban
Red Army
Novgorossisk
Bryansk
Orel
Tunis
Medjez el Bab
Royal Air Force
6Th Armored Division
Derbyshire Yeomanry
Thala
Allied air victory at Oru Bay hits 16 Japanese planes
Allied planes claim success against a Japanese raid over Oru bay on the New Guinea coast. The communique says 16 enemy aircraft were shot down and 22 possibly downed from a 45-plane raid. Casualties were light with no Allied fatalities.
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MacArthur
Australia
Oru Bay
New Guinea
Milne Bay
Buna
Waring Defied By Legion Post In South Fork
JOHNSTOWN Pa UP Unmoved by a threat of National Commander Roane Waring of the American Legion the South Fork Pa post indicated it would fight any attempt to oust it for defending John L Lewis UMW president Waring said he would resign unless the post was ousted the post adjutant said We don't care if he gets out of the Legion or not this post won't leave without a fight telegrams from other posts support our action
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Johnstown
Roane Waring
American Legion
South Fork
Legion
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Waring
Lewis
Florida State Legion
Joseph Nedelander
South Fork Post
Pay-as-Go Bill Wins in Senate Vote
Senate passed a Rums-type pay-as-you-go bill with a 20 percent withholding tax and full forgiveness of most 1942 taxes. The 49 to 30 vote followed hours of debate as Republicans built support with Democratic backers. The measure advances to the House for a final decision.
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Washington
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Walter F George
D-Ga
George
Lieut Lyman Killed in Asia in World War II Action
Lieut John B Lyman son of Mr and Mrs L P Lyman of 2510 First Avenue NE was killed in action in the Asiatic area May 8 1945. He previously was listed missing since May 8. A Franklin high school graduate he attended Western Military academy Coe college and served in the corps from August 1941 earning his lieutenant’s commission in March 1942. Surviving are his parents two brothers Hubert and George.
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Cedar Raunds
New
John B Laman
L. Po Lyman
First Avenue
Asiatic Area
Lyman
Franklin High School
Western Military Academy
Alton
Til
Coe College
Mas
Hubert George
L. PP. Gr
Oregonian Chief Palmer Hoyt to Head OWI Office
Washington AP reports Palmer Hoyt publisher of the Morning Oregonian Portland is named domestic director of the Office of War Information succeeding Gardner Cowles Jr Hoyt will assume duties around June 20 after a six month leave Cowles plans to return to Des Moines He is president of the Register and Tribune Look magazine and Minnesota Star Journal also leading Iowa Broadcasting Co Cowles likely to work with Wendell Willkie if he seeks the presidential nomination and accompanied him on a world tour
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Washington
Palmer Hoyt
Morning Oregonian
Portland
Office of War Information
Gardner Cowles, Jr
OWI
Elmer Davis
Hoyt
Cowles
Des Moines
The
Register and Tribune
Look Magazine
Minneapolis Star-Journal
Iowa Broadcasting Company
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Miss Universe Divorced In Reno Divorce
Mrs. Aliki Deplaraki Weiller once Miss Universe 1930 for Greece obtained a default divorce from Paul Weiller, French aircraft manufacturer, in Reno Nevada.
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Reno, Nev
Aliki Deplaraki Weiller
Greece
Paul Weiller
Elks Establish Service Men Postwar Fund in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Elks Lodge No 241 voted a $3,000 rehabilitation fund for armed forces members returning to civilian life after the war. Exalted ruler Willard J Chadima announced a committee to administer the fund with potential future additions. Gov Hickenlooper and Elks leaders praised the move as a model for community service.
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United States
Cedar Rapids
Custer
Robert Vesely
John Reid
Fred Niess
Giles Jaycee
David Bleakley
Bob Vinch
Chadima
James R Nichelson
The
Elks National War Commission
New York
Nicholson
Hickenlooper
Order of Elks
Allies Take 525 Planes In Tunisia
Allied headquarters reported capturing 525 Axis aircraft in Tunisia as the Mediterranean route opened. About 250 were near El Acuma, 90 near Bizerte and Sir Ahmed, and 180 on the Cap Bon peninsula, with no Allied losses claimed.
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Allied
North Africa
Sy Arthur Vedder
Mediterranean Sea
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Hun Ap
Hay
Luftwalfie
el Acuma
Bizerte
Sir Ahmed
Cap Bon
G-Men Arrest 552 on Draft Law Charges
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said agents arrested 552 men Friday in 20 cities on draft law charges. He noted more than 200000 investigations and warned men to report for physicals and cooperate with draft boards. Hoover cited locations including New York San Francisco Detroit Baltimore Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Washington
FBI
J Edgar Hoover
Armed Services
Bas ’ Hoover
New York
San Francisco
Hoover
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Birmingham
Hueser
Three Month Extension Passed for Coal Act
Washington AP reports the house approved a three month extension of the bituminous coal act beyond May 23 by unanimous consent to fund study of a two year bill. The act creates a mechanism to set minimum soft coal prices to curb price cutting and stabilize the industry.
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Washington
House
Senate
Why Hitler's Tunisian Timetable Went Awry
Edward W. Beattie recounts how Allied staffs outmaneuvered Axis plans in Tunisia, detailing 17 000 tons of weekly Allied supply, rapid reinforcements, and pivotal offensives that shattered Hitler's timetable. The piece highlights the British and American coordination, key battles, and the morale shift leading to a decisive victory.
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Edward W. Beattie
Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Massicauit
St. Cyprien
Jurgen von Ayrnim
Italy
Third Linn County death by own action reported
In four days the third Linn County death by own action is reported. Joe F Serbousek 41 of 1426 M Street SW hanged himself about 2 am Saturday from a bed iron post with a clothesline. He had heart trouble and poor health recently. Surviving are his wife Alice four daughters and four brothers. The body is at Kuba funeral home. Charles D Molloy 50 of 2039 Park Avenue SE, a railway mail clerk, died Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been despondent over health. investigation ongoing.
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Corence
Mundens
Munden
Joe F Serbousek
Serbousek
Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Pentck and
Ford
Alice
Ray Crosby Coggon
Elmer Smith
Richard Randall Norman
Okla
LaVerne
Joseph Lopata
Swisher
Will Shupitar
North Liberty
Sylvia Lopata
Fairfax
William
Ben
Wesley
Charles
Charles D. Meloy
Park Avenue SE
F. W Mulson
Linn
Mulson
R E. Munden
Gazette
Molloy
Mulsow
Allied Air Armada Pounds Emden Kiel Antwerp and More
Large force of American heavy bombers attacked Emden and other northwest German targets supported by raids on Kiel Antwerp Courtrai Velzen Haarlem and targets over northern France and western Russia. Weather hampered immediate damage assessment with 11 American bombers and 4 fighters lost. enemy losses not released.
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Witts
Sardinia
Alghero
Porto Torres
Europe
RAF
Messing
Cairo
Pantellena
Cap Bonu Tunmia
London
Germany
Emden
Wal Owas
Kiel
General Motors
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Courtrai
Belgium
Velzen
Haarlem
Netherlands
France
Air Miisers
Russia
Mediterranean
Hitler
Britain
R.A.F
Berlin
Ruhr Valley
Czechoslovakia
Frank D. Slough
Cleveland
United States
Kaiser Becomes First to Pour Steel at West Coast Mill
Henry J. Kaiser praised his rapid work as reporters gathered before the ceremony marking the first steel pour from the initial open hearth furnace. The 10 million dollar plant, the first integrated iron and steel mill west of the Rockies, began producing steel in an 11 month build.
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Fontana
Calif
Henry J. Kaiser
Rockies
Kaiser
Son of Darlan Is At Warm Springs
Alain Darlan aged 29 son of the late Admiral Jean Darlan of France is undergoing treatment for infantile paralysis at the Warm Springs foundation hospital in Georgia.
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Warm Springs
Warm Springs, Ga
Alain Darlan
Jean Darlan
France
Warm Springs Foundation Hospital
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