U boats Sink 3 Ships In April Report
German U boats sank three American vessels in the western Atlantic during late February, with a fourth damaged and a fifth lost off Cape Elizabeth Maine after explosions. About 112 dead or missing. Navy patrol ship PE 56 sank off Maine April 26 after a mysterious blast. In March a large United States tanker carrying high octane fuel and kerosene went down off northern South America with around 50 dead or missing. Swiftscout torpedoed off Point Judith May 5 with twelve missing. Atlantic States reported port arrival after an underwater explosion near Provincetown Massachusetts.
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No More German Prisoners to be Brought to U S
General Breton Somervell announced that the movement of German war prisoners to the United States stopped Monday. The War Department asked General Eisenhower to arrange for their return, and no further German prisoners will be brought to the country.
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United States
War Department
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Breton Somervell
Army Service Forces
Army reveals point system for discharges and redeployment plans
Army Service Forces details redeployment metrics at a seminar led by General Somervell. The plan envisions moving 845000 troops out of Europe over three months, with monthly peaks near 500000, as veterans return to industry and farming. Channel Islands freed after German surrender terms presented by a British naval officer aboard the task force.
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Army Service Forces
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Channel Islands
London
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Hulfmeier
Islands
27 Youths Arrested in Pittsburgh Street Riot Over Girls
Pittsburgh May 10 Twenty seven youths were arrested after gangs fought with hatchets crow bars and other weapons in a street brawl over girls. Two youths were injured as about six carloads from the South Side invaded the Forbes street Stevenson street district leaving the street littered with weapons and debris.
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St Thomas Altar Boys Attend Vocation Day
St Thomas altar boys join Vocations Day activities in Erle for the ordination mass of three priests. Bishop Gannon will present insignia pins to Stanley Samble and Joseph Jansén who qualified in the recent contest. Also traveling: Paul Jansen, Joseph Hand, Daniel Finney, Arthur Itis, and William LorBrien.
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Joseph Jansén
Paul Jansen
Joseph Hand
Daniel Feeney
Arthur Itis
William LorBrien
Kesselring claims Hitler overtaxed but genius in war
In a fragmentary interview from Harrisburg dated May 10 a German commander Kesselring asserts Adolf Hitler was overtaxed by the burden of leadership yet a genius in military strategy. He says Hitler would have welcomed peace with Britain and America and laments the load he bore. Meanwhile Pennsylvania declares 72 000 anthracite miners ineligible for unemployment after their job stoppage at contract end.
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Great Britain
America
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Hitler
der Fuehrer
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Arthur Shields Elected Democratic City Chairman
Arthur A. Shields of Brookstreet was chosen chairman of the Democratic City Committee at a meeting last evening in Austin Dempsey resigned from the post. Shields accepted the leadership amid the formal transfer of duties at the T. A. of M lodge rooms in the Barlow block.
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Arthur A. Shilelds
Brookstreet
Democratic City Committee
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Barlow Block
Austin Dempsey
Shields
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