Crop Prospects Decline Across South Dakota in April
South Dakota crop prospects fell sharply in April though subsoil moisture remained fair to good overall. Warm weather and moisture soon could revive prospects, with some sections receiving fair rains since May 1 but cold temperatures persist. Wheat and rye yields are projected lower than 1942 but above the 10-year average. total production foreseen at about 6.69 million bushels.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Evan, Jones
Pete Tral
Jones Inc
African shipping losses not heavy in North Africa convoy
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported shipping losses during the Allied campaign amounting to 2.16 percent of total traffic. From Nov 1, 1942 to May 8 this year more than 11 million tons of shipping reached North African ports, with traffic moving both ways under American and British naval escort totaling over 22 million tons.
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Allied
North Africa
North African
Casablanca
Freme
United Kingdom
States
Sixteen Generals Taken In Tunisia
An Allied offensive in Tunisia captured sixteen Axis generals headed by Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim. The list includes Marshal Giovanni Messe, now promoted to Marshal, described as the highest ranking officer among the prisoners. The report cites a Rome dispatch and Berlin radio via Associated Press.
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Tunisia
Giovanni Messe
Rome
Berlin
Record
Preas
Messe
Africa
Revolt In Occupied Holland and Belgium Spreads Across Europe
Reports from London May 18 describe revolt in occupied Holland spreading into Belgium with attacks on German troops and facilities. Sabotage and rail disruptions grow as Dutch and Belgian resistance intensifies amid Allied victory in Africa.
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Holland
Belgium
Europe
London
Africa
Arkansas Flood Worst In History
Fort Smith Arkansas flood of record crest 41.7 feet, far exceeding prior highs. Levees breached, thousands of acres flooded, six dead confirmed, 22 missing, and extensive damage across Oklahoma. Camp Gruber soldiers among the missing. Water supplies cut off to Fort Smith and Camp Chaffee as engineers abandon hopes of saving main levees downstream.
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Ark
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Camp Gruber
Okla
U. S
Hope
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Little Rock
Arkansas
St. Francis
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Prime Minister Churchill to Address Congress Declared
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will address the United States Congress in Washington on Wednesday at 12 30 p.m Eastern War Time after Speaker Rayburn invited him this morning. Rayburn will arrange a joint Senate House session and White House indicated a radio address tomorrow afternoon for home listeners in England.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Britain
America
Rayburn
House
Senate House
White House
Churchill
England
United States
Meadcasy
Farm Machinery Production Quota Will Be Raised
Washington May 13 A revamped farm machinery production program raises food to a top priority level equal to munitions. WPB deputy administrator M Lee Marshall says 1944 crop use will receive about 80 percent of 1940 output beginning in July. New appointments include J B Hutson as deputy administrator for production and Roy F Hendrickson as deputy for distribution.
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War Production Board and Food Administration
M Lee Marshall
Marshall
Chester C. Davis
Davis
JB. Hutson
Commodity Credit Corporation
Roy F. Hendrickson
Hendrickson
The
Associated Press
Agriculture Wickard
Hutson
Nazi Transport Center in Duisburg Hit by 1500-Ton Bomb Raid
Allied air forces delivered the heaviest raid of the war on Duisburg on the German inland port and transport hub, with 1500 tons of bombs. The attack followed Mussolini admitting Axis forces had ceased in Tunisia after six months of fighting, costing Germany and Italy vast prisoner, armor, and general losses.
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Roger Greene
Associated Press
Germany
RAF
Duisburg
Lown
Berlin
Lowestoft
Air Ministry
Cologne
Von Arnim Won't Sign Surrender Yet Quits Anyway
In North Africa on May 13 Allied forces mopped up the last ragged units of Hitler's African armies in Tunisia. General Alexander called the victory one of the most complete in history as about 175,000 prisoners were counted by war's end. Von Arnim, cornered near Ste Marie du Zit, sent envoys under a white flag then surrendered but refused to sign the terms of unconditional surrender.
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Hitler
Tunisia
Harold Alexander
North
Africa
Mediterranean
Jurgen von Arnim
K. A. A. Anderson
First Army
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von Arnim
Ste. Marie du Zit
Tuhis
Enfidaville
Cap Bou Peninsula
Mexicans Anes To Work On U S Farms
Denver May 13 Thousands of Mexican workers arrived at Union Depot for sugar beet field labor in Colorado Wyoming Nebraska and South Dakota under the Farm Security Administration. A special train from Mexico City brought hundreds with more than 2 500 to follow to Colorado Montana and Minnesota later this month. They will be transported home after their contracts end.
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Denver
Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
South Dakota
BSC
Mexico City
Montana
Minnesota
Farm Security Administration
Republic
Bombers Hit Boulogne Rail Lines in France Raid
British and American air forces conducted a combined daylight raid against railway targets at Boulogne in northern France. RAF Spitfires engaged enemy fighters, with several air battles reported and multiple enemy aircraft shot down.
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London
France
Boulogne
RAF
Northern
Roosevelt Churchill Talks Near Green Light for Invasion
Washington experts expect Roosevelt and Churchill to signal final go ahead for the European invasion while allies report heavy blows against Japan. Do nets River Valley fighting continues and Dutch resistance urges free troops to ignore German orders.
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Japan
Algiers
Holland
Stockholm
Russia
Donets
Central
Moscow
Leningrad
New York
Pearl Harbor
China
Chekizng
Burma
Allies seal Tunisian front as last Axis holdouts fall
Eisenhower announced the final collapse of Axis resistance north of Enfidaville after a bomb blitz and encirclement. Naval units report small enemy groups trying to reach Pantelleria while Cap Bon remains watched. Italian communique says the First Italian Army ceased fighting, ending 35 months of Africa campaigns with about 150,000 Axis prisoners taken.
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Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Enfidaville
Cap Bon
Pantelleria
Mediterranean
Sicily
Italy
Eighth Army
Egypt
Mussolini
India as springboard to attack Japan plan discussed
Washington reports say Roosevelt and Churchill weigh India as a base for major operations against Japan. Wavell Somerville and Peirse join to direct Burma theater forces and the Burma road, aiming to speed Allied material to China and power in the Pacific war plan.
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Washington
India
Japan
Roostvalt
Churchill
Archibald P. Wavell
India - Burma
Wavell
James Somerville
Britain
Ceylon
Richard Peirse
Burma Road
China
North
Africa
Asiatic
Ask Investigation Of Broker Profits On Farm Products
The House rules committee approved a resolution to authorize the agriculture committee to probe the spread between prices paid to farmers and prices paid by consumers. Chairman Fulmer noted wholesalers brokers and others may reap more from farm produce than the farmer, and the investigation could prompt revising distribution and marketing systems to cut the spread.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Agriculture Committee
Fulmer
South Carolina
Democrat
Thes Agricultural Committee
House
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