Lewis Return To AFL May Restore Waning Prestige
Washington May 20 John L Lewis returns to the AFL scene signaling possible union with a federation of unions that could reach seven million members. Analysts note his move may reshape labor politics while his ties with CIO remain speculative and Green's role within the AFL could shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Tabor
AFL
CIO
Tereay
Lewis
New York
American Labor Movement
District 50
UMW
United Mine Workers
CTO
Green
ATL
William Green
Tewis
Ickes Warns Midwest Driving Curtailed to Aid Shortages
Secretary Ickes said gasoline use for driving will be reduced before the crisis ends and limits may extend to the middle west. He urged non essential driving ban and noted potential further ration reductions and possible expansion of pleasure driving restrictions pending Office of Price Administration action.
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Washington
Ickes
Middle West
East
Tekes
Office of Price Administration
Jokes
Italian prisoners recaptured after escape from Camp Clark
Five Italian prisoners of war who escaped this morning from Camp Clark Missouri were recaptured shortly before noon at Carthage Missouri by a state highway patrol unit. The seventh service command headquarters confirmed the capture.
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Omaha
Camp Clark
Nook
Carthage
Seventh Service Command
Attu Island battle reported as two thirds of Japanese forces wiped out
Tokyo radio quotes a Comei News Agency reporter on May 12 10 a m bombardment and landing at Holtz Bay and Massacre Bay. US planes and warships blasted ridge positions while a large Japanese force suffered heavy losses. remnants encircled as bombers target Attu and other Pacific fronts.
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Tokyo
Comei News Agency
Attu
U. S
Holtz and
Massacre
Usr
Holtz Bay
Massacre Bay
Ceatt
Ach
Ihe
Japan
Washington
Aleutians
Kurile Islands
Russia
Siberia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Korpang
Dutch New Guinea
Burma
Army
10Th Air Force
Irrawaddy River
Mandalay
Rangoon
Arakan
Bay of Bengal
India-Burma
India
Statues That Wink Get In Trouble
In Lynn Massachusetts Patrolman Edward Ray spotted a blinking statue in an antique shop window and threatened it with his gun. The figure lowered its eyelids and emerged as a man accused of breaking and entering at night with intent to commit larceny.
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Lynn
Mass
Edward Ray
Report Big Fleet Near Gibraltar
Berlin radio claimed 92 ships were in the Port of Gibraltar today including British aircraft carriers Argus and Formidable and battleships Nelson and King George V. The report, unconfirmed by Allies, listed tankers and merchants along with 22 cruisers 18 British destroyers and some American destroyers.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Argus
Formidable
Nelson
King George V
Gibraltar
Beadle County Exceeds May War Bond Quota
Beadle County surpassed its May war bond target within eight days as of May 8 selling 78 243 in series bonds against a 71 150 quota county chairman George C Fullinweider said a Sioux Falls war savings bulletin noted Beadle was among 14 South Dakota counties oversubscribing in the first week The state total reached 74 percent of its 2 600 000 quota with 1 927 425 in E bonds sold.
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Beadle County
George C. Fullinweider
War Saving Staff
Sioux Falls
Beadle
South Dakota
Barrymore Stricken By Food Poisoning
Hollywood reports Lionel Barrymore is hospitalized at St. John’s Catholic Hospital in Santa Monica with food poisoning. Dr M A Seymoo says he should return to screen work in a few days after suffering from a meal of meat balls and spaghetti.
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Hollywood
Lionel Barrymore
St. John's ,Catholic Hospital
Santa Monica
M. A. Seymoo
Seymon
Floods Threaten Levees Along Mississippi River Reach
Emergency relief crews and troops battled floodwaters as levees from St Louis to Cape Girardeau faced possible failure. Ten dead, 22,000 displaced across six Midwest states, with thousands homeless and significant crop and infrastructure damage reported in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Indiana Illinois and Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Mississippi River
St. Touis
Cape Girardeau
Dociay
Midwest
Vern Alexander
Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Alexander
East St. Louis
St Louis
Indiana
Tilois
Arkansas
Kansas
Osage River
Missouri River
Jefferson City
St. Charles
Roy Wingate
Red Cross
Riverton
Tri-State
Missouri - Kansas- Oklahoma
Wabash
Ind
Terre Haute
West Terre Haute
Illinois
Wingate
Grand River
Tulsa
Watertown Soldier Named Italian POW in War Department List
Tech Harold F. Jensen of Watertown South Dakota is identified as a prisoner of war held by Italy. The War Department reported his name among 167 American POWs in an unstate camp. His mother Mrs Amanda Jensen resides in Watertown.
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Watertown
Washington
Tech
Harold F. Jensen
Amanda Jensen
5. D
War Department
Italy
Aerial Expansion Seen Behind FDR Army Fund Boost
President Roosevelt asked Congress to approve nearly 72 billion dollars for the Army in the coming fiscal year, driven by a projected air program expansion. The Army aims to receive about 1.147 billion pounds of aircraft, surpassing all other nations’ combined output, with a Naval bill of about 24 billion pending. The budget covers pay, food, clothing, and equipment for over 8 million soldiers including 475 thousand WAACs, and allocates funds for dependents, military pay, and food supplies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Ponsum
White ‘House
Stephen Early
Rayburn
War Department
Illiterates Cited As New Draft Pool
Dean William F. Russell of Columbia University told a statewide conference of school principals that 650000 physically fit men in the draft age in the United States are so illiterate that no branch of the service will accept them. He said these men educated only through the eighth grade could be drafted sparing thousands of key industrial workers.
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Sacramento
United States
William F. Russell
Columbia University
Russell
Churchill signals no basic shift in Allied strategy
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes Churchill’s address to Congress noting statements on aiding China and weighing military power against conquest. The article suggests speculative interpretation but finds no clear change from early 1942 Allied policy toward Hitler and invasion timing.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Churchill
Moade
China
Germany
Italy
Allied Air Offensives Hit Berlin Sardinia and Sicily
RAF and Allied air forces struck Berlin and multi targets across Sardinia Sicily and France in a ninth straight day of heavy bombing. Night raids hit German bases at Paix Amiens Glisy Crecy En Penthien rail yards Garminches Eu barges Lys river targets and several trains near Poisy Sens and Bonniers with losses reported for Allied aircraft and bombs dropped on key facilities.
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Associated Press
RAF
Berlin
Holland
France
Hitler
Europe
U.S
Sardinia
Sicily
English Channel
Paix
Amiens-Glisy
Crecy En Penthien
Garminches
Ghent
Tanverbrugee
Lys
Attu Island trench action and global war reports
Allied troops press last stand Japanese remnants on Attu while Tokyo concedes heavy Japanese losses. Moscow reports Red Army gains on major fronts as German forces face stiff resistance. Britain and USA boost air strikes in Burma and New Guinea as plans for summer offensives loom.
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Attu Island
Tokyo
Russia
Moscow
Caucasus
Berlin
Turkey
Balkans
Atlantic Wall
Hitler
Burma
Eden vows relentless air war as Axis battles rage
British Foreign Secretary Eden declares bomber command strengthens and will strike relentlessly until victory. Nazi raids on London continue with minor damage reported as Soviet headquarters say Red Army repels counterattacks in Kuban while fighting intensifies along a 1500 mile front with new Russian thrusts reported near Staraya Russa and Orel.
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Europe
Anthony Eden
London
Churchill
Eden
Gersmany
Mussolini
Kuban
Caucasus
Staraya Russa
Volkhov
Orel
Belgorod
Berlin
Switzerland
Kursk
Leningrad
Huron Man Held On White Slave Charge
Henry Strong a 38 year old Huron resident is jailed in Sioux City Iowa on a federal white slave act charge. FBI agents and local police arrested him as he awaits federal grand jury action next week with bond set over two thousand dollars. He admitted to his attorney that he transported a Negro woman from Sioux City to Huron but said she chose to cross the state line and enter his car.
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Henry Strong
Huron Negra
Sioux City
Sioux City Journal
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Grand Jury
Carlos W. Goiz
Huron
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Mohne
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Bath
Plainfield
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Henry W. Clements
Alice Moran Clements
Barrymore
Mississippi
Chichagot Harbor
MacKenzie
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