Allied air power heads meet in Britain to plan major blow
A U S mission led by General Arnold and Admiral Towers arrived in Britain for talks to coordinate strategy for a master blow against Germany. The group, including Eisenhower and Clark, signals speeding decisions without Washington, as reports say 1,000 bombers a night could be possible, though immediate air attacks remain uncertain.
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London
United States
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
John H. Towers
Naval Aeronautics
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Washington
General Arnold
Admiral Towers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Department General Staff
Mark W. Clark
Voniny
Northern Ireland
Army
Navy
Australia
India
Great Britain
Butte to Host Nation's First War Production Day Show
Butte will stage a large War Production Day demonstration spotlighting World War II heroes Commander Edward H. H. Teed and Captain Hewitt Wheless. Army Navy and Marine units will attend with a Washington visiting party arranging events. The program, led by miners and smelters, will move to Great Falls for a June 3 demonstration.
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Butte
Eartt
United States
Opear
Comdr
Edward Tinted MW Iure
Hewitt
Wheless
President Nousevelt
Army
Kermitt Berylson
Herbert Heastey
Washington
Bergtson
Robert P. Patterson
Heasley
War Production Board
Navy
Marine
Great Falls
Berylson
Miners’ Union
Anaconda
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Mexico Chief Calls War Conference
President Manuel Avila Camacho urged congress to meet in extraordinary session and declare war, aligning Mexico with the United Nations. The move follows Axis attacks including the sinking of the Poto del Llano and the Faja de Oro, with sailors and marines deployed in the capital as war preparations increase.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexico
Congress
United Nations
Permanent
Congressional Commission
Avila Camacho
Axis
Camacho
Poto del Llano
Alexico
New Budget Reconsiders WPA and Social Security Reach
President Roosevelt outlined a revised budget projecting WPA outlays at 389.8 million dollars with 490000 employed for the year starting July 1. He suggested possible WPA elimination if social security expands, while studies on changes to the act proceed. The plan hints at extending federal state aid to needy under 65 with payments tied to state contributions, mirroring current aid to those over 63. Roosevelt emphasizes careful project selection to avoid material shortages and ensure work relief for those unable to find private employment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Works Progress Administration
Lack of Air Power Cited in Burma Campaign Decline
In Delhi May 2 the explanation cited loss of Rangoon Malaya and Dutch East Indies as doomed for Burma. General Stillwell said Japanese air superiority hurt Burma. An RAF officer noted India’s air strength has risen and Allied bombing increased, but planes remain insufficient. The air defense challenge was described as as vast as the country itself.
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Burma
Kew
Delhi
India
Rangoon
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
R.ag
R.A.F
Joseph W. Stillwell
Chiang Ksi-Shek
Bost
Stillwell
Luat
Two Baby Brothers Burn to Death in Car
In Albuquerque New Mexico on May 26 two infant brothers Christopher Nammer age 2 and Philip Peter Nammer age 11 months were fatally burned after being left alone in a car by their mother Launer Nammer while she looked at rental houses. City official Frank Darrow a passerby found the car interior aflame smashed a window and pulled the boys out before rushing them to a hospital where they died.
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Albuquerque
N. MM
Santa Fe
Christopher
Philip Peter
Helmuth Nammer
Launer
Frank Darrow
Helena Man Loses Arm In Truck Crash
Jewistann May 24 A Lewistown truck driver sideswiped by a car sent William Pilgeram 42 of Helena to a local hospital. A tourniquet was applied to his left arm but doctors reported him in fair condition. Pilgeram is a deputy field agent for the state lands and investment department living at elsewhere Park avenue.
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Lewistown
Helena
Winnett
Garfield Equiny
Willian Pilgeram
Austin Tarver
Pilgeram
State Lands and Investment Department
Satth Park Avenue
Montanans Seek High Type of O P A Directors
A Helena conference of Montana merchants urged that the Montana O P A director be a person with broad merchandising experience and business leadership. The resolution, presented by Montana price administration officials, was forwarded to Washington for consideration by Leon Henderson.
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Leon Henderson
ODA
Montana C.F.A
Montana
O.P.A
Clem W. Collins
Denver
Civic Center
WD. Rankin
Montana State Board of Food Distributors
Henderson
Washington
Rankin
George R. Shepard
Missoula
Montana O.P.A
A.T. Peterson
Billings
Montanans, Inc
Sessesion
Peterson
Montana Price Administration
Merchants of
Helena
Office of Price Administration
Price
Brazil Announces Hostile Acts Off Brazilian Coasts
Brazil reports heightened Axis activity near its shores. A North American patrol plane sank a submarine off the northeast coast on May 23 after a bombing run, while the freighter Commandante Lyra survived a torpedo hit and was towed to port with U S assistance. Six Brazilian ships have been sunk by Axis torpedoes since Brazil cut ties with Germany Italy and Japan. Recife police raid nets Germans and spy gear tied to Hans Sievert group. German consul's son Carl von Denateinen among detainees. Mexico pledges to declare war on the Axis and seeks Brazil's support.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Hame
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Recife
Romeradin
Jose Maria Davila
Oswaldo Aranha
Mexico
Hans Sievert
Herm Stolz Company
Carl von Denateinen
Fate of Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan in Limbo
Washington May 9 The pay-as-you-go income tax plan hangs in the balance as the House Ways and Means Committee remains deadlocked. The treasury proposes an 11 percent deduction from taxable income wage and salary payments and from bond interest and dividends to offset the regular tax bill due March.
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Washington
House
Ways and Weans
Treasury
Rationing of Gas in Two Northwest States Is Modified
The Office of Price Administration canceled card rationing for gasoline in Oregon and Washington set to begin June 1. A 1-3 percent curtailment to dealers remains, not the 50 percent cut initially announced. Indications emerged that ships would move oil and gasoline to the East Coast via inland waterways.
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Northwest States
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Oregon
O.P.A
Pacific Northwest
O. Pla
Weather in Helena From U S Weather Bureau
Helena forecast shows light showers with little change in temperature. Monitored by the U S Weather Bureau, the outlook emphasizes gentler precipitation and stable temperatures through the period.
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Helena
U.S. Weather Bureau
Hitler Seeks To Occupy Africa Port
The Moscow radio reported that Germany demanded permission from Pierre Laval to occupy Tunis. Laval warned against a declaration seeking protection from Germany and Italy, while Ramel threatened to seize Tunis by force if Laval refused. Berlin indicated Italy may decide how far to push French territorial claims as Vichy’s stance cools with Germany and Italy.
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San Francisco
Moscow Radio
Germany
Pierre Laval
Tunis
CBS. 1 Ning
Vichy
Italy
Britain
America
Laval
France
Ramel
Libya
Bern
Switzerland
Paris
Berlin
Toll of Death by Flood Not Yet Tabulated
Honesdale Pa May 25 With 81 known dead fears of greater loss rise as relief work proceeds in eastern Pennsylvania after week end floods Six persons remain missing in the Hawley region and hope of finding them alive fades as Lackawanna Lehigh and Schuylkill Delaware rivers recede through the area
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Honesdale
Pennsylvania
Tlonesdale-Hawley
Lackewaxen
Lehigh
Sehuylkill
Delaware
Nazis Launch Surprise Attack At Kharkov Front
Moscow dispatch says German forces massed 150 tanks and heavy artillery south of Kharkov attacking the Jizyum Barvenkova front while Red armies hold firm. Timoshenko’s units push toward Kharkov on the Russian right and center as naval fliers claim sinking two German destroyers and an 8,004 ton transport. Soviet communique notes continued battles with violent fighting on the Tayum Barvenkova front and minor actions near Leningrad.
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Moscow
Jizyum-Barvenkaya
Kharkov
Timoshenko
Jaryum-+Barvenkova
Tayum- Barvenkova
Pravda
Red
Izyum
Izyum-Daryenkova
President Roosevelt Sends Message to Argentina
Washington reports Roosevelt sent a message to President Ortiz of Argentina praising the nation’s path to preserve political and economic freedoms. The telegraph hinted Argentina may align with American nations against Germany, Italy, and Japan, while Ortiz faces health issues and a dispute over Castillo’s central policy.
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Washington
Argentina
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
Japan
Robert Ortiz
Dar
Family of Nations
Ortiz
Stamon B. Castillo
Married Men May Be Deferred In Draft Debate
Washington May 25 A Senate military committee vote on a bill to empower Roosevelt to classify family men into separate groups for deferred service was expected tomorrow. Backers argue it would ease anxiety of men with dependents who face army calls, while 18 and 19 year olds remain under debate. Major-General Hershey said selectors with genuine dependency would be safe from 1942 draft. the nation may prepare for an army of perhaps three to four million.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Colp
Senate
Roosevelt
Cambridge
Mass
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Harvard Forum
Nieman Journalism Foundation Institute
Item for Pay for Alleged Red Is Back in Bill
Washington May 26 The senate appropriations committee restored an $8,000 item for the annual salary of Stephen Raushenbush chief of the research and planning branch of the interior department's power division The house had struck the item from the department's annual appropriation bill after Representative Winter R Kan declared in a floor speech the power official was a socialist communist and a draftsman of the blur print of communism for America
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Stephen Raushenbush
Interior Deparment
House
Winter R
Kan
America
War interpreting War By Kirke Simpson
Conticting reports from the Kharkov front in Russia offer little on the outcome of the first pitched battle of the summer. They show Russians and Nazis matched in modern equipment, with a long irregular front aflame with attack and counter attack. Timoshenko seized the initiative, but air and armored support remain elusive for the Nazis, making the Kharkov clash possibly a turning feint rather than a decisive victory.
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Kirke
Simpson
Kharkov Trant
Russia
Tymoshenko
Kharkov
Dnieper
Hitler
Timoshenko
Naai
Ukraine
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Foreign Chiefs Center
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Cassidy
Leningrad
Lewis B. Hersher
National Selecive Service
Toston
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