Japs Report U S Ships Are at Sea
Japanese broadcasts claim a strong U S naval force with Hornet and Enterprise among others sighted about 380 miles east of the Solomon Islands, moving westward. A separate Axis report says a faster Japanese fleet heads toward northern Australia. Burma fighting sees British losses and 1,895 prisoners, with 5,035 British dead cited.
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Domei
United States
Hornet
Enterprise
Solomon Islands
Shanghai
Paris
Coral Sea
Australia
Damel
U. S
Solomons
Burma
Kelewa
Ayan
Germans Battle RAF in Daylong Air War Over France
The Luftwaffe in occupied France engaged in a long air clash with British fighters, reporting nine German and eight British dead. Berlin claimed 15 Allied planes shot down with no German losses as RAF sweeps over the channel persisted. Boston bombers hit Houlogue docks while Spitfires and Hurricanes defended. Rostock port operations were halted with large fires in ammunition warehouses.
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France
R.A.F
Berlin
RALF
Dunkerque
Houlogue
Expert predicts Nazi big offensive likely in near future
Edwin Shanke of Milwaukee, Chicago bureau, reports that wartime observers believe Hitler plans a major multi-front drive. The scheme allegedly targets the Black Sea flank and Far East resources, aiming to force a decisive, possibly defining, clash as UN air power grows. Continued on Page 2.
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Crimea
Adolf Hitler
Black Sea
Far East
Il Resour
Tervitory
Mieheena Indy
Street Will Stage War Bond Rally
New York on May 17 will host its biggest war bond rally in celebration of the stock exchange Tsoth anniversary. To permit brokers and their employees to attend, trading will be suspended for one hour starting at noon. Wall Street veterans say such recesses are extremely rare in stock exchange history, the last during World War I.
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New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchanges
Stock Exchange
Three Men Die In Wichita Plane Crash Including Helena Native
Wichita May 17 Three men died when a plane crashed near the Shecen Aircraft corporation outside Wichita All aboard were Ben H Miller formerly of HelenaMont and Bal timore Sun correspondent Billie Knorr and Cecil J Lucas both of Wichita The craft owned by Oscar Wortman crashed into a house and garage of BRCL Dunn No injuries on the ground Miller a Washington correspondent for the Evening Sun since 1928 was born in Easton Md and had a long career in newspapers including the Baltimore News Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News He was a noted football star at the University of Maryland and maintained ties with Helena many friends here.
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Wichita
Kan
Ben H. Miller
Baltimore Sunn
Helena
Mont
Lang F. Bowman
Sedgwick County
Billie Knorr
Cecil J. Lucas
Miller
National Association of Manufacturers
Shecen Aircraft Corporation
Bowman
Brcl Dunn
Henry Hay
Beech Airplane Corporation
Oscar Wortman
Aircraft Steel Company
Edward
Ailisonn
Washington
Evening Sun
Easton
Baltimore News
Denver Post
Rocky Mountain News
Associated Press
Santa Fe
N. M
A.F
Baltimore Sun
Eastern Maryland Gazette
Adena
University of Maryland
the Sun
Car of former Sheriff Weir found near Dubois Idaho
Clark county Sheriff Sid Close said the car of former Sheriff Larry Weir of Butte Montana, missing since April 20, was located eight miles north of Dubois. A broken wind, the vehicle otherwise intact, and authorities sought help from police in several northwestern states.
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The
Sherif
Sid Close
Clark County
Treaey
Larry Weir
Bure
Mont
Parker Newur
Dubois
Close
Garte
Weir
Butte
Helena
Ifo
Trutte
Northwest States
Clean Up Campaign To Be Started In Helena Today
Helena launches annual Clean Up week with emphasis on salvaging scrap metal for defense work. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Junior Chamber of Commerce, volunteers invited to bring scrap to designated sites and homes urged to remove refuse to reduce fire danger.
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Helena
Ielena
Hemy
Tejera Tha Alos Nher
Tyetee
Copmeree
Lotmeial
Old City Hall
South Min Street
Davis Streets
Varant
Broadwater School
Billings Woman Killed in Train Collision Crash
Mildred J. Gillings died at a local hospital after a car she rode in was struck by a train near the railroad crossing. Passenger injuries included skull fracture and arm injuries. driver Robert Tingley was hospitalized with multiple fractures after the collision with the train between two tracks. State patrol said the car failed to clear a side street before the train struck from the rear.
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Tillings
Mildred J. Gillings Donestie
Paitin Treishtamie
Robert Tingley
Meni
Tig
Tingley
Apie
Karpl
Siclan
Montana Policemen Meeting in Helena Deliberates On Policy
The executive board of Montana Police Protective League will open an allay conference in Helena at Maldy’s Trivedi 92200 O'clock this morning. Delegates from nearly every second class and first class Montana city will attend to discuss policy by laws and constitution and probable state legislation.
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Jon
Maldy’s Trivedial
Montana
Weather in Helena Warmer Monday With Showers
The U S Weather Bureau reports Helena will warm up on Monday with a spell of light showers expected in the afternoon. Temperatures rise modestly as a wet, breezy day develops across the city with scattered showers likely by late afternoon.
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Helena
The
U.S. Weather Bureau
Allied Offensive Talk Pressures Axis Amid North Africa Tension
London reports a British war cabinet member hints at a second European front while Axis nerves rise over the Mediterranean front. Berlin says Rommel meets Italian Libyan leaders as Britain masss forces. Mussolini and allies fear a stronger Allied push in North Africa before heat of summer.
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Noland
Norgaal
London
Britain
Axis
Lisbon
Sir Stafford Cripps
Berlin
North
Africa
Eighth Army
Libya
Erwin Rommel
Huare Bastico
Ialian
Rome
Mussolini
United States
Mediterranean
Malta
French Threaten To Destroy Merchant Ships In Martinique
Vichy authorities warn that any seizure of French merchant ships at Martinique will be met by sabotage orders to crews. Urenet sources report the implied US warning follows Laval's rejection of most US demands. Newspapers publish the communications without comment.
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Vichy
France
Vrenet
Martinique
Afrarnoon
Pierre Lava
United States
Tin Ehief
Washington
Georges Robert
Laval
Ayres to Join U S Army Medical Corps
Actor Lew Ayres, famed for his war objector stance, is expected to be assigned to the Army Medical Corps soon. He has received a notice to report to a military craft at Hood River Oregon, near Wreth, where about 100 war objectors are housed in a former COC ramp.
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Ore
Lew Ayres
Ayres
Hood River
Wreth
Soviet Kharkov Offensive Claims Major Push and Losses
Moscow reports the Kharkov front offensive drove 20 to 60 kilometers west, recaptured 200 settlements, and crushed German forces with about 12,000 killed and 1,200 prisoners taken. Four hundred German tanks were destroyed as Red armies seize trophies and advance toward Kharkov.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Red Army
Ukraine
Talk of Sales Tax Plan Is Revived
Washington May 17 AP Representative Robertson a Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee said Congress should have the courage to approve a general sales tax. The committee will begin tomorrow considering individual tax rates as part of the Treasury's 8.7 billion revenue goal. Robertson argued a sales tax is needed to meet the emergency funding, despite political unpopularity, with some expecting a 1 percent or other rate yielding about 1.0 billion. The Treasury had recommended broad options to raise revenue.
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Robertson
D Va
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Treasury
Ghoumi Ls Robertson
Tool Factory Blaze Under Inquiry
A fire at the Acro Tool company plant in Buvivak Calin May Ut injured one man and halted production. Federal Bureau of Fives Lion Kent opened an inquiry to determine if sabotage caused the blaze at the tool factory, reportedly destroying patterns and blueprints.
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Calin
May
Daciay
Federal Bureau of Fives
Lion Kent
Sabotge
Atverf
Acro Tool Comyan Ye
Shipyards Unions Agree to Cut Demands on Pay
Chicago May 17 Representatives of the nation s ship yards workers agreed to relinquish an estimated 75 900 000 to 100 000 000 in wage increases during the next year as part of a wage stabilization accord covering about 50 000 workers in private shipyards The pact provides wage increases of 8 percent and shifts to savings bonds the elimination of Saturday and Sunday premium days and a five day 40 hour week with time and a half for the sixth day and double time for the seventh The agreement ends three weeks of negotiations among AFL CIO Navy maritime commission War Production board and shipyard managers
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Wevernment
Amerigian Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Navy
Maritime Commission
Kremlin on White Rus purges reported in Red Star
AP dispatch notes Stalin era style claims that German tortures killed thousands in White Rus as census tallies show a population of about 5.5 million. Other items report Allied bombing of Myitkyina airfield, Mussolini touring Sardinia, and Malta Coastal Batteries sinking E-boats with Axis aircraft losses.
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Museun
Communist Party
White Rus
Red Army
Red Star
Tamloo
White Russia
U.s.s
Berlin
Mussolini
Sardinia
Taly
Rome
War Production Board shifts focus as shipping battle intensifies
Edward F. Bomar analyzes WPB contract cancellations as a shift toward winning the immediate shipping and arms battle. Plans unlikely to complete before mid month suggest a broader war strategy revision, with optimism rising from Allied blows and Churchill’s note that victory may be near, even as U boats threaten cargo losses. Rear Admiral Greenslade warns of faster ship production as war goods accumulate on both coasts while cargo losses loom.
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Edward F. Bomar
War Production Board
Kharkes
Chirehil
London
Demuers Neenad
Witterlaase
Havi Ng
Oakland
Calif
John W. Greenslade
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By Edwin Shanke
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India
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