Japan Eyes China as Next Step in World War II
U S wartime strategists say Japan may push toward China to cut Allied strength, with possible follow ups including attacks on Russia and Australia. Experts list five likely moves from a north-south China squeeze to raids on Hawaii Alaska and India, while European fronts see renewed British air campaigns against Germany and hopes for a second front.
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Washington
Eurema
Philippines
China
United Nations
Pacific
Australia
Russia
Hawaii
Alaska
India
Burra
Britain
Germany
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Diego Suarez
Madagascar
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Antsirana
British Admiralty War Office
Anixina
Diego
Key N
Middle East
Diego Suaren
France
Pierre Lavall
Tananarive
Tulear
BEF
London
Winston Churchill
M. Churchill
Alsace-Lorraine
Churchill
Mediterranean
Kirpho
Crete
Peruvian President Prado Visits U.S. Amid War Optimism
President Manuel Prado of Peru arrives in Miami for a state visit and is welcomed warmly in Washington. He cites Pan Americanism as strengthened by wartime adversity and will tour armament works, Harvard, and major U.S. cities before a brief stay.
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U.S
Miami
Fla
Manuel Prado
Pen
Jane
Kite House
Washington
Prado
Detroit
Buffalo
Harvard University
New York
Party conventions to shape state election slate
Democratic and Republican candidates mobilize delegates after Tuesday primary. Democrats nominate Berry for Senate, Hildebrandt and Bailey for Congress, Bicknell for governor. conventions set for June in Sioux Falls. Republicans, unsure on governor race, meet in June to decide after Bulow’s loss to Berry. Strong delegate tallies show party strengths ahead of fall tickets.
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Sioux Falls
Tom Berry
U.S
Fred H. Hildebrand
George Bailey
Congress
Lewis W. Bicknell
Pierry
Joe Bollum
M. Q. Sharpe
Ailora
Leo Tommey
Aur
Millard Scott
U.S. Senate
W. J. Bulow
Harlan J. Bushfield
Arl Mundt
Francis Case
Bulow
Ringsrud
Bushfield
Mundt
Barnard
Bostrum
Harpe
Scott
Temmey
Berry
Prehal
Hildebrandt
Fellows
Vergchoor
Pledges All Of Wages To Buy War Bonds
Dallas May 7 John Kurz a state highway department employee pledges all his wages to buy war bonds He and his wife live on a rural five acre farm and have accumulated 1425 dollars in war bonds this year with their income likely sustaining the effort
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Dallas
Tex
John Kurz
State Highway Department
Hewand
Final Election Returns From Beadle County Primary
Final unofficial returns from the Beadle County primary show majorities for Bushfield Mundt Tommey Berry and Hildebrandt. The tabulation lists Ringstad Bushfield Mundt Barnard Bottom Sharpe Scott Temmey Berry Prehal Bulow Hildebrandt Tid Fellows Verschoor McAlister Anderson Radcliffe Guthmiller with the official count to be made Saturday.
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Beadle County
Bushfield
Mundt
Tommey
Berry
Hildebrandt
U.S
Ringstad
Congress
Barnard
Bottom
Sharpe
Scott
Temmey
U. S
Morgenthau Pushes Higher Personal Tax Exemptions
Secretary Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee that exemptions should be cut to 600 for single filers 1200 for married couples and 300 per dependent to raise about 1.1 billion dollars. The plan would add 6.9 million new taxpayers and accompany a broader 7.8 billion tax program. Present exemptions are 750 for singles 1500 for married couples and 400 per dependent.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
North Carolina
Congress
Wreckage Found Of Plane Carrying General Dargue
The War Department reports the wreckage of an army aircraft missing for nearly five weeks. Major General Herbert A. Dargue, commander of the First Air Force, and seven others were aboard when the plane disappeared during a transcontinental flight.
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Dargue
Washington
War Department
Herbat A. Dargue
First Air Force
Register 12 997 For Rationing
A county wide sugar rationing registration reports 12 907 applications received across the county on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with 12 582 stamp books issued. Federal rationing administrator Julian Blount urged immediate registration noting rural areas limited by bad roads may still register Friday with teachers assisting in issuing stamp books where needed.
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Julian Blount
Cruiser Edinburgh Is War Casualty
The admiralty announced that the cruiser Edinburgh was lost in a battle with German forces in the Arctic. A communique said 90 percent of the Edinburgh’s convoy reaching Soviet Russia survived the attack, while another convoy on the same line lost one ship.
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Lanlon
Edinburgh
Arctic
Admiralty
Russia
Rubber Shortage Grows Severe Warns Patterson
Undersecretary Robert F. Patterson warned the rubber supply is so tight that Sunday trips visits to relatives and petting parties must end. He projected a need to conserve a million tons of rubber as tires become scarce and urged curtailment of sports events and vacations amid fuel rationing. Patterson and six officials told the Senate Military Affairs Committee a government requisition plan should be enacted swiftly while noting 98 percent of crude rubber comes from the Far East and stocks are limited by war.
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Washington
Robert F. Patterson
War Department
Joe
Patterson
Johnson
Colorado
Office of Price Administration
Seaboard
District of Columbia
OPA
Price
Leon Henderson
Robert P. Patterson
Senate Military Committee
Weaning German Youth From Nazism A Postwar Challenge
War analyst Dewitt MacKenzie reports growing discontent in Germany and mentions unconfirmed claims that some Hitler generals oppose the Nazi regime. The piece discusses the need to show German youth that democracy is superior to Nazism as postwar reconstruction begins.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Germany
Hitler
Ufria
Campas
Russia
Will
Waxi
Fuehrer
Messigh
Sea MacKenzie
Die MP Madagascar seizure raises US seizure talk
British forces capture Diego Suarez in Madagascar as Allied gains spark U S political debate over seizing French possessions in the western hemisphere to deny Axis use. Senators Pepper and Connally press for immediate action while Churchill signals looming Allied offensives.
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United States
Diego Suares
Madagascar
Middle East
India
Australia
Vichy
Washington
Mada- Bascar
Hemisphere
Axin
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pepper
Florida
Portugal
Spain
Axia Ze
Tha
Portepii
Asores
Cape Verde Islands
Martinique
Guiana
Grain Shipments Over Great Lakes Ban Ordered
The Office of Defense Transportation barred all grain shipments over the Great Lakes from any port or point without a special permit. Effective May 15, ODT controls about 3406 vessels with 3,000,000 tons capacity moving ore, scrap, coal and grain. Only ships authorized by a general or special permit may operate for grain transport.
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Washingson
Office of Defense Transportation
Great Lakes
Pera
ODT
Japanese claim Corregidor occupation completed
Tokyo dispatches report that Imperial forces have completed the occupation of Corregidor and other Manila Bay fortifications. Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Weinwright and his staff reportedly surrendered on Malinta Hill to Japanese forces.
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Corregidor
Tokyo
Imperial
Manila Bay
Bam
Jonathan’ M. Weinwright
Malinta‘ Hill
Central
Point
Extra Sugar For Canning Expected In Boston
Five pounds of sugar per person for home canning will be made available by the Office of Price Administration. The OPA consumer division announced the policy through the regional office of the emergency program.
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Boston
OPA
Suger
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BLUEZ
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Astral
Gmc
General Motors Corporation
Labor Board
Blownt
MacKenzie
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