Allied Push Into Tunis And Bizerte Deepens
Allied forces report penetration into the outskirts of Bizerte and Tunis with heavy fighting along the Northern Tunisian front. U S troops seize Ferryville eight miles from Bizerte and advance toward the naval base as armored units reach Le Bardo near Tunis. Army and British units press a coordinated assault amid rising prisoner captures.
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Tunisian
First Army
le Bardo
U. S
Tunisia
Ferryville
Bizerte
Lake Bizerte
Naval Base
E.W.T
U. S. Second Corps
Tunis
Soviet Spokesman accuses Poles of spying in Russia
Soviet vice foreign affairs official Andrei Vishinski told American and British reporters that Polish government-in-exile agents in London carried out espionage in Russia. He said some admitted guilt and were sentenced. He named former ambassador Stanislaw Kot as involved and repentant, noting his current Polish government in London post since March 19.
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Moscow
Andrei J. Vishinski
London
Russia
Stanislaw Kot
Vishinski
Kot
War Today explores Tunisian front and Mussolini’s fate
War dispatch notes Allied pressure on Axis forces around Tunis and Bizerte with possible invasion of Sicily and Sardinia. It cites a large Allied convoy from Gibraltar and warns of Italian fear of invasion while Mussolini vows to return. It also covers Soviet Polish tensions and a cautious stance on Russo Polish relations.
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Mussolini
Stooges
Tunisia
Sicily
Bizerte
Tunis
Paris
Gibraltar
Balkans
Dnce
Carlo Scorzio
Fascist Party
Italy
Little Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
Allied High Command
Axis
United Nations
Sardinia
Sicilian
Davies Leaves Immediately For Moscow
President Roosevelt announced Joseph E. Davies will depart for Moscow almost at once to deliver a personal letter to Joseph Stalin. Davies will not reveal letter contents. the trip is not expected to last long and he may learn of the letter's contents in Moscow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph E. Davies
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Davies
Russia
Winston Churchill
Miss Grace Tully
Mother Charged With Murder Of Two Children
In Dallas a mother, Mary K. Frailey, is charged with the murder of her two children, Watt Martin III, 7, and Louise Beaumont Martin, 6, after a custody dispute that had just shifted custody to their father Watt Martin Jr. The killings occurred in Frailey’s apartment following a court ruling by District Judge W. L. Thornton placing the children with their father until September 14.
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Dallas
Mary K. Frailey
Watt Martin Ili
Louise Beaumont Martin
Allied Troops Take Village Of Bobdubi
Allied forces report capturing Bobdubi village five miles from Salamaua in New Guinea as air strikes press the area. The operation marks the closest approach to Salamaua in the campaign though no major assault on the base is indicated. Also, Japanese submarines are said to have sunk five Allied freighters east of Australia.
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Douglas MacArthur
Bobdubi
Salamaua
New Guinea
Mubo
MacArthur
Australia
Southwest Pacific
Fire Hazard Closes State Forest Lands
Atlanta May 7 National forest lands in the Appalachian section of North Carolina were ordered closed due to an extremely serious fire hazard. Acting regional forester H. Stabler cited a 12,000 acre Pisgah fire last spring and a shortage of fire crews as reasons for the emergency closure. The ban may lift when hazards diminish. closures in North Georgia and Tennessee depend on the fire situation.
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Atlanta
Appalachian Mountain
North Carolina
U. S. Forest Service
H. ©. Stabler
Pisgah National Forest
Stabler
Georgia
Tennessee
Panel Fails To Settle Railroad Wage Dispute
An emergency fact finding panel announced it failed to settle the wage dispute between 900,000 railroad non operating workers and major railroads. Panel chair I L Sharfman said the panel made every reasonable effort and will prepare a report for President Roosevelt, with seven thousand pages of testimony considered. No date was given for the report.
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Chicago
I. L. Sharfman
University of Michigan
Roosevelt
Sharfman
War Labor Board Seen Heading Toward Crisis Soon
The War Labor Board faces a new stabilization crisis as coal wage hearings continue while the United Mine Workers refuse representation. AFL sources say the board is tottering on its last legs, with regional resignations possible if the board lacks power to remove wage inequalities. Protests and walkouts widen the mood of upheaval across sectors as CIO and AFL weigh the government wage and price administration crisis.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Washington
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
James F. Byrnes
WLB
UMW
John L. Lewis
Philip Muray
CIO
Cleveland
AFL
Nationwide 48 Hour Week Considered By War Manpower
Washington May 7 wartime manpower officials discuss extending the 48 hour work week nationwide with projected payroll effects. They fear higher wages could trigger price increases and possible unemployment in surplus areas if exemptions are not arranged.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
James F. Byrnes
OPA
New York
Tax Chief Rebukes Pay-Go Plan and Tax Spread
Colin F. Stam, chief of the Congressional Tax Staff, told the Senate Finance Committee that the House approved revenue bill fails to put all taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go basis and would provoke resentment among major taxpayers. He warned the plan would cost as much as full forgiveness of 1942 taxes under the Ruml-Carlson skip-a-year proposal, noting abatement would erase 1942 tax liability for single earners under 2500 and married earners under 2500 with no dependents.
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Washington
Colin F. Stam
Congressional Tax Staff
Stam
Senate Finance Committee
Reds Open New Smash On Axis Supply Lines
Soviet forces smash forward in the Kuban and push toward Novorossisk cutting roads and severing Axis supply lines. German and Romanian units resist with heavy casualties. reports say about 1500 Nazis killed as Red Army advances near Krymskaya and the Kerch Strait.
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Reds
Red Star
Novorossisk
Izvestia
Krymskaya
Red Army
Sadovoy
Melkhovsky
Blagodarny
Kerch Strait
Sea of Azov
Polish Premier Confers With Anthony Eden
London May 7 Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski met over an hour with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden after Soviet accusations against the Polish embassy in Moscow. The Polish government denied that Polish troops in Russia refused to cooperate and said only a reduced division of about 9 000 men was well equipped while Russians could not arm about 90 000 others. Eden had just conferred with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky, fueling speculation of new proposals to bridge Polish Russian differences amid talks of sending an American delegation to Moscow.
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London
Wladyslaw Sikorski
Anthony Eden
Russia
Moscow
Andrei J. Vishinski
Foreign Office
Eden
Ivan Maisky
FDR Sees No Coal Strike Against Government
President Roosevelt told reporters he expects no strike by coal miners against the government. He affirmed government employees cannot strike a government and said no plans to halt mine operations taken over by the state.
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FDR
U.S
Allied air and ground drive crush axis in Tunisia assault
Allied planes dominated the sky and pummeled Axis transport as British and imperial troops stormed toward Tunis. German forces retreated after heavy tank battles near Massicault and Djebel Bou Aoukaz, with Allied losses minimal and thousands of Germans captured.
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Grant Parr
NBC
Tunisian
Parr
Ludwig Sertorius
Berlin
Reuters
Bizerte
Djebel Bou Aoukaz
Tunis
Aoukaz
Furna
Massicault
Medjez-El-Bab
Foundry Officials Indicted for Sabotage and Fraud Conspiracy
Attorney General Biddle announces indictment of National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Company and seven top officials in Cleveland Ohio on nine counts. Defendants allegedly conspired with 21 employees to supply Packard Motor Car Company with defectively cast aluminum superchargers for Rolls Royce airplane engines bound for government use.
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Washigton
Biddle
National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Company
Cleveland
Ohio
BVT Steel
Packard Motor Car Company
Rolls Royce
Nazis Tighten Norway Defenses as Invasion Fears Rise
Reports from inside Norway say Germans accelerate fortifications after Narvik talks with Norwegian leaders and German officials. Norwegians prepare for revolt amid mobilization chaos while rail lines, airfields, and a submarine base near Trondheim are expanded.
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Stockholm
Narvik
Norway
Jaeren
Stavanger
Christiansand
Mosjoen
Orlandet
Trondheim
Tromsoe
Oslo
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