Tornado Toll Rises Across Oklahoma Kansas and Illinois
Tornadoes struck three states leaving 21 dead or missing and many injured. Oklahoma suffered the worst damage including a Tulsa County home lifted 300 feet and dropped into a flood-swollen stream. Pawhuska and Childsville areas reported multiple deaths and many injuries. Illinois and Kansas also reported casualties and extensive property damage, with Franklin County hit hard by damaged homes and a derailed freight train.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Kansas
Tlinois
Fort Har
Tulsa County
Othel Spence
Turley
Okla
Eugene Coleman
Ethel
Lucille
Franelle
Tulsa
Spence
Moreta
Girh Mary
Pawhuska
Childssville
Okemah Okla
Uinois
Bartlesville
Fisher
Illinois
Franklin
Seventeen Die in Salt Lake City Plane Crash
Seventeen persons died when a United Airlines sleeper jet struck a rain swept ridge near Salt Lake City airport. The wreckage scattered over a wide area as flames consumed the aircraft and its mail cargo. Rescue crews faced sleet and darkness while civil aviation officials ordered an investigation and soon a public hearing.
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Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
United Airlines
Ato
San Francisco
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Perry Hodgen
Oakland
Calif
Navy Reports 5,486 Navy Losses From War Start
Washington May 1 The Navy released the first war casualty tally covering Dec 7 to Apr 15 reporting 2,291 dead 2,495 missing and 907 wounded among Navy Marine and coast guard personnel. Most losses resulted from direct action with the enemy.
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Washington
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Mandalay Falls to Japanese Drive in Burma War
London reports Mandalay, famed Burma city, claimed by the invading Japanese army as they push toward remaining Allied-held territory. Lasio seized from Chinese, Japanese advance north of Hsenwi. British withdrawals and destruction of key bridges detailed by New Delhi. Continued fighting around Monywa indicates widening advance across the Irrawaddy.
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London
Mandalay
Burma
Lasio
China
Hsenwi
Chungking
Upper Burma
New Delhi
India
Irrawaddy
Myitnge
Av.a
Monywa
Taung
Rationing of Sugar Starts Monday Nationwide
Washington reports wartime sugar rationing begins with a four day registration for ration book one. The Office of Price Administration urges all citizens to register this week for potential future rationing, noting late registrants risk being unable to buy sugar until May 21. Each eligible adult should register for two books. stamps will permit a pound of sugar every two weeks.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
O.P.A
C.P.A
Train Wreck Kills 50 More Nazis
New York reports say 40 to 50 Germans were killed in another train wreck in occupied France near Touen. German authorities imposed reprisals arresting many hostages. The incident follows a recent wreck at Rouen where German soldiers died and hostages were executed. French civilians will be conscripted to ride troop trains as measures to deter attacks.
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New York
France
Touen
Roen
Rouen
American Brass Co Wins Navy Excellence Award for War Contracts
The Navy will award an unprecedented triple E pennant on May 6 to American Brass plants in Torrington Waterbury and Ansonia Connecticut. The three facilities will share the honor for producing copper nickel condenser tubes for warships and related components. About twelve thousand employees will receive commemorative buttons and the event will be officiated by Captain Robert Henderson. Governor Turley Representative Talbot and 48 long serving employees will attend alongside John A. Coe, with ceremonies at Torrington Waterbury and Ansonia.
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United States Navy
Connecticut
American Brass Company
Navy
Torrington
Waterbury
Ansonia
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Robert A. Turley
Joseph FE. Talbot
John A. Coe
Thomas J. Boy
Wary
Army to Start Taking Men in Feb 16 Registration Group Next Month
Washington May 2. Army service will begin next month for men who enrolled in the February 16 registration. State draft directors were told by Major General Hershey to include men of the 29-21 and 36-44 age groups in June calls. Local boards were instructed to draw for new selectees based on class 1-A counts in each group and regulate calls by remaining registrants. Officials estimate only a small portion of the 9 million registrants will be called initially, with stricter classifications anticipated by next month.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Lost Alder Gulch Gold Lode Found By Rod and Science
Virginia City May. A modern divining rod and geophysical methods uncover a lost bed rock channel in Alder Gulch Montana, linking 1860s high yields to a revived prospecting push. Elliott and Hilcott report a volcanic event hid the ancient creek bed, with $100,000,000 in past dust guiding today’s search.
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Alder Gulch
Hugh Thompson
Virginia City
Montana
Cresk
G.R.B. Hilcott
Bozeman
Elliott
Montana State College
A. Raymond Jordan
Nature
Bombers cripple Nazi destroyer off Norwegian coast
London May 2 reports say British bombers crippled a swift Nazi destroyer off the Norwegian coast and attacked enemy air fields in northern France. An American Hudson pilot dropped two bombs on the deck of the warship and departed as heavy channel mists limited air activity. Photographs showed major damage at Augsburg's MAN diesel engine works, near Hitler's mountain retreat, with large roof holes indicating severe destruction to machinery.
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London
France
R.A.F
Somie
R.A.P
Hitler
Reich
M.A.N
Augsburg
Air Ministry
Atlantic
Plane Without Pilot Lands in Hayloft in Tupelo
A pilotless Army plane circled W. D. Partlow's barn lot near Tupelo Mississippi then crashed through a big hayloft door after the crew bailed out due to gas loss while heading to Kep field at Columbus New Mexico. One engine broke loose and wings splintered on impact.
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Tupelo
Miss
W. D. Partlow
Kep Field
Columbus
Migs
Four Army Fliers Die In Bomber Crash
Four airmen perished today when a bomber crashed and exploded during takeoff near Brownsville Texas. The Army said victims' names would be released after next of kin were notified. Witnesses reported one engine failure caused a wing to strike the ground at the Brownsville airport.
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Brownsville
Texas
Army
Soviet Army Smashes Nazis Back in Decisive Drive
London reports Red Army tanks push deeper into German hedgehog lines around Bryansk Orel and Kursk as they seek to seal off Ukraine. Fierce fighting near Fatezh Poltava Dnieper regions accompanied by guerrilla actions killing about 5000 Germans and recapturing 345 villages northwest of Orel. Northern front near Leningrad claims German losses near 1000 daily.
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London
Bryansk
Orel
Kursk
Stockholm
Moscow
Ukraine
Fatezh
Kharkov
Caucasus
Poltava
Dnieperopetrovsk
Red
Leningrad
Rift Between Two C.1.0. Leaders Brought Into Open
In Cokeburg Pennsylvania Philip Murray president of United Mine Workers Local 1197 broke down while admitting a rift with his predecessor John Lewis. He spoke before about 200 members, recounting his 35 years since leaving the mines to lead the union, acknowledging tensions within the CLC leadership.
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Cokeburg
United Mine Workers
Philip Murray
John
J. Lewis
C.lc
Murray
Local 1197
Pittsburgh
Sugar Rationing Seen Necessary Due to Political Mess
Political meddling has created a sugar situation where rationing is deemed necessary despite no actual shortage. The piece notes citizens' irony and mild anger at policymakers, recalling potential self sufficiency a decade ago and Montana sugar beet growers facing reduced acreage and crop estimates rather than the usual expansion.
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United States
Montana
Allied planes hit Japanese transports in New Britain New Guinea
Allied forces reported a direct hit on a Japanese transport and damage to another vessel. A tender capsized and six Japanese planes were destroyed with six more damaged over New Britain and New Guinea. Three small boats were destroyed at Salamaua last Thursday. London reported RAF raids across Denmark with alarms but no bomb drops. In Libya, RAF squadrons hit a big Axis submarine base at Leros Thursday night.
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Allied
Australia
New Britain
New Guinea
MacArthur
Salamaua
R.A.F
Eastern Desert
Libya
Leros
Dodecanese Islands
General Giraud May Be Returned to Nazis by Laval
New York May 2 1971 General Henri Monore Giraud the elusive French officer captured by Germany in two wars was reported in custody near Vichy amid Vichy German disputes over his return to the Nazis after another escape from Koenigstein fortress. Informants said he was handed to the Germans then later kept near Vichy with his future in doubt as Berlin pressed to regain their former captive and collect a 190000 mark reward.
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New York
Henri Monore Giraud
Germany
Vichy
Koenigstein Fortress
France
Switzerland
Laval Rival in Vichy Power Seen as Darlan Heir
In a Washington-Vichy crisis note, Admiral Leahy returns to the United States after talks in unoccupied France. President Roosevelt warned any French move to aid Nazi Germany would bring reprisals. The report centers on Admiral Darlan as the likely successor to Petain, controlling military forces, with Laval viewed as a Nazi ally.
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Kirkel. Simpson
Pierre Laval
William D. Leahy
Vichy
France
Roosevelt
United Nations
Leahy
Washington
Laval
Marshal Petain
Jean Darlan
Darlan
Petain
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