FDR to seek record 35 billion war fund from Congress
Washington May 3 The president will ask Congress for a record war appropriation near 35 billion dollars as leaders urge economy. Sen. Tydings says duplication of effort will be reviewed by a Senate subcommittee. Budget bureau shaping the proposal with House and Senate leaders pushing for larger outlays. Page 2 column 1.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Sen
Tydings
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Clarence Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Cannon
Oklahoma Tornado Strikes Kill Many Across State
Oklahoma tornado toll rises with 20 dead or missing and over 100 injured across a 100 by 50 mile area. Pawhuska and Okemah report severe damage, including destruction of homes, churches, and a school. Pryor’s prior twister left 61 dead and millions in losses.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Ilinois
Dewey
Okemaha
Pawnee
Tulan County
Pryor
Okfuskee Sagity
Pawhusks
Garand Rifle Makers Offer Profits Refund
The Western Cartridge Company of East Alton announced a plan to refund 1.5 million dollars of last year’s profits to the federal government from Garand M-1 semi automatic rifles. Profits rose due to higher production efficiency at Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven, Connecticut.
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East Alton
INS
Western Cartridge Company
Winchester Repeating Arms Division
New Haven
Farm Bloc Defies Roosevelt on Farm Price Reform
Senator Bankhead of Alabama says a senate poll shows President Roosevelt will not win a requested revision of the farm price control act. He and other farm bloc leaders doubt any serious move to alter ceilings from 110 to 100 percent parity. Senator Brown of Michigan also agrees the senate will not approve such legislation now.
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Iri
Sen
Bankhead
D Ala
Senate
Roosevelt
Senate Farm Bloc
Congress
Brown D
Mich
Wheat referendum favors continue federal quota program
Early tabulations show more than 75 percent of wheat farmers supporting another season of the federal marketing central program with 174 913 votes for and 56 745 against as voting closes across 40 states. In West Virginia 71 8 percent of counted counties back continued government fixed quotas for the 1942 crop.
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Washington
Morgantown
West Virginia
Four Destroyers Launched In 50 Minutes At New Jersey Yard
Kearny New Jersey May 3 Four destroyers slid down the ways in 50 minutes in a mass launch applauded by Gov. Charles Edison as the equivalent of a naval victory The ships all 90 percent complete were launched at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company on the Hackensack River The governor warned that ships still must be built faster to win the war The launches set a world record with three ships named for rear admirals and a fourth honoring a Marine sergeant major The ceremony celebrated wartime shipbuilding efficiency and the workforce praised by officials
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N. J
Charles Edison
Hackensack River
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Gov. Edison
Federal
U. S. Navy
United States Marines
Fletcher
Frank
Friday Fletcher
Vera Cruz
Radford
William Radford
U. S. S. Ironsides
Quick
Mervine
John Henry Quick
William Mervine
Berlin
Teltya
Edison
Navy Department
Sightless for Years Regains His Vision in Auburn
In Auburn New York on May 3 69 year old William D Ferguson declared his sight was restored by a miracle after kneeling in prayer last Friday night His wife in her seventies and Reverend David M Wellard corroborated the claim Mrs Ferguson said God has made my husband see again as she prayed beside him
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Auburn
N.Y
Willian D. Ferguson
Ferguson
David M. Wellard
Sugar ration books issued as Kanawha schools close
Housewives form lines today to register for sugar ration books as Kanawha County 273 elementary schools close. Virgil L. Flinn, the superintendent, says sessions run 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the other days. Descriptions and sugar on hand must be declared. penalties for false statements include up to 10 years in prison and a $10,600 fine.
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West Virginia
Kanawha County
Virgil L. Flinn
Vichy Holds Gen. Giraud as Nazis press
Gen Henri Giraud, who escaped a German prison and returned to unoccupied France via Switzerland, remained in the unoccupied zone as officials denied rumors of his capture by German authorities. Reports from European informants said he was near Vichy or a detention point there with uncertainty over his fate as Nazi pressure mounted.
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France
Henri Honore Giraud
Switzerland
Giraud
Germany
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Moulins
Associated Press
New York
Paris
Sait
RAF Blasts Axis Submarine Base In Turkey and Aegean
British dispatch reports RAF strikes Friday night on Paria Laki bay base near Lera island and on Rhodes and in Rhodes and Attica airfields at Menidi near Athens and Piraeus. Six squadrons reportedly hit the Ler o base while Libyan desert reconnaissance parties withdrew under light attack as Axis and German forces exchange activity.
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Menidi
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Marites
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Lero
Libya
Unidentified plane blamed for Charleston blackout
Charleston area suffered a 12 minute blackout after radio stations issued an alert at 10:43 p.m. and ordered the blackout at 11:05 p.m. Police labeled the cause as an unidentified aircraft and authorities said the move followed coast guard instructions.
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Coast Guard
Bombs Fall on Copenhagen and Danish Raid Reported
British and Allied air operations over Copenhagen and northern France are described. Bombs hit Copenhagen with anti aircraft fire heard in Sweden. Attacks targeted Pas de Calais docks Dunkerque and Abbeville airfield with bomb hits and ground strafing. German fighter losses noted. a southeast England town damaged.
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London
Copenhagen
Denmark
RAF
France
Pas de Calais
Dunkerque
Abbeville
England
Reuters
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbildet
Sweden
T. Vichy
Soviets Take Victory Oath Amid Spring Offensive Hints
Soviet forces across the front swore to carry out Stalin’s 1942 war aims as Pravda signaled a new spring offensive. May Day meetings echoed pledges by Red Army troops to pursue the premier’s order and press operations toward Caucasus oil targets and wider German defeat.
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Stalin
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Winter Horror Bared By German Prisoner
Moscow reports quote German prisoner Ernst Friedrich of the 58th infantry division describing surrender after an attack by the Red Army. He says twelve men offered no resistance, the winter was brutally cold, and soldiers fear another winter in Russia while conditions remain muddy and war uncertain.
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Soviet Information Bureau
Ernst Friedrich
58Th
Red Army
Russia
Earth
Naval Setbacks May Force Reich to Revise Strategy
Britain announced German battleships Gneisenau Scharnhorst and cruiser Prinz Eugen out of action to undergo major repairs after February channel actions. Only Tirpitz Admiral Hipper and Admiral Scheer remain capable, altering Hitler’s plan for a large fleet assault.
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Prins Eugen
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U.S
Adolf Hitler
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Admiral Hipper
Bedynis
Kiel
Brest
RAF
Atlantic
Cripps Bevin Pledge Offensive by Britain
In London on May 3 17 two war cabinet members Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin spoke urging Britain to move to the offensive. Cripps told Poles on their national day to stand firm as the moment to strike nears while Bevin said Britain planned to strike at the right moment on other fronts as the tide turns.
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War Cabinet
Stafford Cripps
Ernest Bevin
Minster
Labor
Britain
Cripps
Bevin
Barnsley
Bullets Lash Nazi Bomber Off Iceland
In Iceland the first air battle near a U S garrisoned North Atlantic base pitted a lone German bomber against Norwegian fighters. The damaged plane fled into a cloud bank after a burst of fire. its destruction remains unconfirmed, with no clear mission indicated.
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Iceland
United States
North Atlantic
Laval Assures Leahy Against U S Break
London May 3 The Petit Parisien quoted Pierre Laval chief of government at Vichy saying France will not initiate a gesture of relations with the United States Admiral Leahy replied that the United States does not want to break off relations with France The Reuters dispatch from Switzerland relayed the report Admiral Leahy has been recalled to Washington to report to his government.
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Petit Parisien
Pierre Laval
Vichy
U. S
William D. Leahy
France
United States
Admiral Leahy
Reuters
Switzerland
Ueady
Washington
Prado sets course for Washington with Venezuela visit
President Manuel Prado left Lima by plane for Washington to meet President Roosevelt. He had just accepted an invitation to visit Venezuela’s President Isaias Medina during the trip, adding a regional diplomatic stop to the itinerary.
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Peru
Manuel Prado
Washington
Roosevelt
Venezuela
Isaias Medina
100 Million Moslems Vow To Resist Jap Invasion
Mohammed Ali Jinnah of the AH India Moslem League pledges that 100 million Indian Moslems will actively resist a Japanese invasion. He says resistance would be with tooth and claw, but only if armed and promised an independent postwar Moslem state. contrasts with Congress’s call for nonviolent noncooperation.
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W. W. Chaplin
New Delhi
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Ah-India
India
Jinnah
Congress Party
Nippon
Inalian
Fierce Battles Rage in Burma
Allied positions crumble as Japanese spearheads push toward China and India from Lashio. Mandalay ashes rise as Kweichieh near Lashio sees heavy fighting with high losses. AVG Flying Tigers strike Lashio airfield, bombing planes, barracks, and fuel dumps amid scattered enemy air support.
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Mandalay
China
India
Burma
Laship
Yunnan
Chungking
Kweichieh
Lashio
Flying Tigers
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U.S
Joseph W. Stilwell
Ching
Old Glory Rescued Twice At War Front
Washington reports American heavy bombers damaged Rangoon air base used by Japan in a raid last Wednesday. The mission withstood enemy planes and anti-aircraft fire. one enemy plane was shot down. Maj. Gen. Brereton relayed the news. In a separate act, three servicemen earned the Silver Star for raising the Corregidor flag after it was shot down, surviving shell and bomb fire. Corporal Louis A. Roark, Gypsum, Kansas. Pvt. Roy O. Bailey, Kansas City, Missouri. and Pvt. Harley H. Leaird, Durant, Oklahoma, are acknowledged for gallantry.
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War Department
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Burma
Lewis H. Brereton
India
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Corregidor
Arthur E. Huff
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Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corp
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Bailey
Kansas City
Harley H. Leaird
Durant
Okla
Island
Lisbon Plans Large May Air Raid Drills
German dispatches from Lisbon report major cities including Lisbon will conduct extensive air raid drills in May. All residents must participate and violations of the regulations will be heavily fined.
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Lisbon
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