Definite German ships out of action say British
London May 3 AP The heavy German ships Gneisenau Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen are out of action and must undergo extensive repairs, British officials announced. The ships were damaged by torpedo and bombing attacks in the channel fight and by mines and submarine action, dealing a heavy blow to German Italian Japanese plans for a global fleet assault. Reports indicate Gneisenau at Coeynia and Scharnhorst still in Kiel dockyard, with Tirpitz Admiral Hipper and Admiral Rohrer listed as remaining battleship types in Norwegian ports.
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Wes Gallagher
London
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Prinz Eugen
United Nations
English
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Armady Oatei
United States
Adele Hila
Tronmdstein
Norgesion
Tirpitz
Admiral Roheer
Admiral Hipper
Pring Buren
Goynia
Gneisenat
Coeynia
Acharnhorst
Kiel
Steel Workers Stand With Union Chief Amid Dover Dispute
Workers linked to the United Steel Workers organize a resolution declaring they will resist any actions aimed at disrupting their federation and challenging leadership of John L. Lewis. Philip Murray defended his administration while addressing the Pittsburgh conference and flagged union-wide opposition to a nationwide wage freeze.
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Tintsburgh
May
Cou
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Steel Workers
C-10
Philip Murray
Murray
Tygays
Cuokelurg
Joan Lt. Louis
United Mine Workers
United States Steel Company
Little Steel
D A R Session Honors 2390 Deceased Daughters in Memorial
Early delegates at the 51st Continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Chicago hold a memorial service honoring 2,390 sisters who died in the past year. The May 3 gathering marks a solemn tribute to late members as the congress opens.
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Chicago
Continental Congress
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Danish Center Given Air Scare Over Copenhagen Bombing Report
Copenhagen, May 8 Reuters from Stockholm quotes Sevensak Dagbladet reporting German bombs dropped on Copenhagen triggering 45 minutes of anti-aircraft fire. RAF sorties attacked northern France with four German fighters claimed destroyed. Targets included Pas de Calais docks at Dunkerque and Abbeville airdrome with hits on buildings and grounded planes. England air raid near southeast coast caused casualties. Vichy says British planes over Denmark drew anti-aircraft fire.
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London
Copenhagen
Denmark
R.A
France
Pas de Calais
Dunkerque
Abbeville
England
Reuters
Stockholm
Sevensak Dagbladet
Sweden
Vichy
Continent
Baltic
Old Glory Re Hung Atop Walls Of U S Fortress
War department reports the garrison at Corregidor raised the flag again atop a 100 foot pole after heavy enemy fire. Four servicemen earned the Silver Star for gallantry in hauling the colors up through shell and bomb threat. The same raid damaged Rangoon docks and military installations, while American bombers based in India defended the mission against anti-aircraft fire.
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Washington, Maya
Corregidors Dauntless
Manila Bar
War Department
Rangoon
Burma
India
Associated Press
New Delhi
Four Destroyers and One Submarine Go Down Ways Ahead of Schedules
Four destroyers slid down the wall in clocklike precision at Kearny New Jersey under wartime restrictions. Governor Edison hailed the mass launch as a milestone but cautioned that shipbuilding must accelerate to win the war. The Federal yard said four ships, 90 percent complete, launched in 50 minutes set a world record. At Mare Island California the submarine Sunfish was launched eight months ahead of schedule with Admiral Friedel noting it as another example of wartime progress.
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Kearny
N. J
Charles Edison
Hackensack River
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Edison
Vallejo
Calif
Mare Island Navy Yard
W. L. Friedel
Mare Island
Mass arrests and executions reported in Europe and Italy
Soviet agency says fascist party leaders arrested and shot in Italy at end of April amid calls to pull Italy from the war. Swedish press cites Norwegian arrests by German authorities and a Oslo death in prison with alleged torture. Moscow radio claims Czech forced laborers shot after a strike at a German plant, and Germans execute 14 in Vilnius for anti German activity.
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Moscow
Bucureau
Italy
Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Ano Thar Gnisling
Aftantidningen
Skauar
London
Moscow Radio
Germany
T Whe
Gestapo
Suim
Vilna
Poland
35 Billion War Budget Sought for 4 Million Army
Washington officials indicated a presidential request of about 35 billion dollars for the War Department, to be before Congress within a week. The measure would fund 22,000 more aircraft, tanks, anti aircraft guns, artillery, and an Army exceeding 4 million men with full equipment, aiming to reach 5 million by 1944.
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Washington, May
War Department
Congress
Budget Bureau
Rep
Cochran
D. Rio
Age Propriations Committee
House
Two Army Bomber Crashes Kill Nine in Northwest
Pendleton Oregon May 3 Two Army bombers crashed during training in the Pacific Northwest killing nine airmen and wounding three. One bomber went down near McChord Field Washington with three dead and one seriously injured. the other, a Boeing four motor flying fortress, crashed into the Bite mountains southeast of Pendleton killing six of eight aboard. Survivors included Technical Sgt Wesley A Wallace and Sel John Starr as rescuers moved through the woods to reach the wreckage.
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Pendleton
Ore
Pacific Northwest
McChord Field
Wash
Bite Mountains
Here
Avators
Pendleton Field
Las Vegas
Nev
Tendleton
German Morale Is Reported At Very Low Ebb
Moscow May 1 The ss Viet information burda quotes a German war prisoner Berest Triedrich of the Sad InSakes division. He says Red Army troops broke into their dugout and all 11 men surrendered. He laments the war’s protraction and recalls brutal winter and freezing conditions. He notes German soldiers are exhausted and question when the war will end with abhorrence toward another winter.
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Moscow
Viet Information
Burda
Berest Triedrich
Red Army
Russi
Fire Breaks Out As Key West Sizzles In Blackout
A May unannounced blackout hit Key West at 10 p m plunging the southern city into darkness a $4000 fire started in a sidewalk cafe kitchen and spread to a nearby two story house igniting the mid town area Navy officials offered no Dillon May 3 police held Charles Hamlin 42 for FBI investigation after finding a draft questionnaire from a Twin Falls Idaho selective service board during a disturbance arrest
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Key West
Navy
Dillon
Charles Hamlin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Butte
al Ward
Hamlin
Selective Service Board
Twin Falls
Idaho
Ward
Transfer Plan Moves Citizens to U.S. From Canada
The War Department announced a joint Army Navy Marine board would depart tomorrow for Canada to arrange the transfer of a number of American citizens and former citizens from Canada back to the United States armed forces.
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Nashington
Mayo
War Department
Jhhat
Army-Navy-Marine Corps Board
Canada
United States
Armed Forces
America Hitting Its Stride in War Production
Rep. Lewis Ludlow announces the Office of Emergency Management released an update showing strong progress in war production. While exact figures are withheld, monthly output of certain aircraft and weapons already surpasses prior yearly totals, with tank and ammunition plants expanding rapidly and ship deliveries expected to rise.
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Indianapolis
Lewis Ludlow
Ind
Office of Emergency Management
America
Pearl Harbor
Ludlow
Detroit District Tries Blackout
Detroit, May 3. Netroit, war production center for the United Nations and nearby communities, conducted a 10 minute air raid practice blackout tonight. Civilian defense authorities called the test a success as reports trickled in from Detroit's 20,000 air raid wardens.
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Detroit
Netroit
United Nations
Nazi Propaganda Claims French Bombed Britain
German radio outlet Lenin's Old Guard broadcast that Vichy air forces dropped reprisals on British towns after Paris was bombed. It quoted Laval ministers' council approving twofold or threefold retaliation for French civilian bombings, claiming French planes hit south England. Reuters sources said no Saturday raids occurred and Germans tried to pressure Russia by exaggerating RAF actions.
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London
Lenin
Old Guard
Britain
Paris
France
England
Reuters
Western
Europe
Vichy
Mrs Hoover to Attend Girl Scout Conference in Butte
Mrs. Hoover wife of the former president will visit Butte for the Rocky Mountain regional conference of Girl Scouts. She is a national honorary vice president and will arrive Thursday from Palo Alto California with Mrs. Alan H. Means national president.
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Butte
Lerbert Hoover
Rocky Mountain
Girl Scouts
Primaries Tuesday Set Across States in 1942 Voting
Candidates for the senatorial, two gubernatorial, and house seats will be chosen Tuesday in South Dakota Indiana Florida and Alabama. Wartime campaigns feature canned speech making and little opposition to incumbents in the first major elections of 1942.
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Washington
South Dakota
Indiana
Florida
Alabama
Mandalay Falls To Japanese Forces In Burma Campaign
London May 3 AP The ashes of devastated Mandalay were held by advancing Japanese spearheads moving north toward China and west toward India in a surrounding blow to Allied forces in Burma. Heavy fighting raged at Kweichieh near Lashio as Japanese air and ground attacks pressed inland. The Flying Tigers retaliated at Lashio with bombing and strafing of airdrome facilities. Chinese forces, aided by Stilwell commanded troops, faced Japanese control of the Mindyashir road amid ruins of Mandalay, with reports the city lay burned to the ground and abandoned.
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London
Mandalay
China
India
Burma
Lashio
Yunnan Province
Chungking
Vierce
Kweichieh
Flying Tigers
A.V.G
Isyeukse
Chongking
Joseph W. Stilwell
U.S.A
Kining City
New Delhi
Vicin Uy
Japanese Attack On Moresby Expected
Strong Japanese forces move up the Markham valley in New Guinea. An attempt to take Port Moresby is believed imminent. Japanese have reached Natirah near Lae and a patrol penetrated 16 miles south of Salamaua as movements continue.
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Australia
Markham
New Guinea
Port Moreshy
Natirah
Lae
Salamaua
Host of Workers Is Employed Over This State
Washington May. Agricultural establishments in Montana employed about 171000 workers in March. The figure, an increase of 5000 from March last year, is nearly the same as February this year. Data cover non agricultural gainful workers excluding military, WTA NYA programs, CCC enrollees, proprietors, self employed, casual workers, and domestic service.
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Washington
May
Montana
Department of Labor
Department
W.T.A
NYA
Progerts
C.C.C
First air battle over Irish Sea reported by US Army
Bulletin from Reykjavik and London describes a German bomber damaged by a Norwegian fighter. The German plane dived toward the sea and escaped in a cloud. Unclear if on patrol or a mission. Also notes large Chinese encirclements in Shantung and Hopeh. British leaders Cripps and Bevin vow offensive action as tides turn.
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Reykjavik
Fcecland
Ireland
United States
Plantic
Detroit Race Clash Leaves Three Officers Injured
Detroit police battled a mob estimated at 2600 that destroyed a white owned restaurant after a negro was shot. Three officers suffered injuries from bricks during dispersal as state troops and police guard the Sojourner Truth housing project amid growing interracial unrest.
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Detroit
Sojourner Truth
Rioling
Interpreting The War by Edward E Bomar
Edward E Bomar analyzes Japan's Burma campaign and its implications for China. He notes military opinion that Japan aims to seal off China from the west rather than push toward Chungking, following rapid conquests from Malaya to Burma, with the Burma drive framed as a tentative stage in the broader war.
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Edward E. Bomar
Japan
Burma
Chungking
China
Malaya
Java
Philippines
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