Ward Ward Montgomery Ward Plant Seizure Dismissed
Federal Judge William H. Holly dropped injunction proceedings over government seizure of Ward Chicago properties and plant operations. The Chicago plant was returned to management by Jesse Jones, with the case mooted as events transpired, while a CIO union won a bargaining election and urged the War Labor Board to enforce an expired contract.
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Chicago
William H. Holly
Montgomery Ward
Holly
Ward
Jesse Jones
Sewell Avery
CIO
War Labor Board
Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek Faces Deteriorating Chinese Front
Dewitt MacKenzie analyzes Japan’s push in Henan and along the Peiping Hankow Canton line threatening Chungking. China’s lack of equipment limits defense as Japan seizes industrial areas while the hinterland remains vast. A retreat to higher ground could incapacitate Chiang’s forces without ending the war for the Allies.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Japan
China
Hitler
Henan
Great Yellow River
Peiping-Hankow-Canton
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chungking
Chiang
United Nations
Russian engineers enter Sevastopol to begin repairs
Soviet engineers entered Sevastopol amid heavy resistance as they began the task of repairing the wrecked port. Front line reports describe walls of fire and German Romanian defenses, with heavy enemy machine-gun prevalence and bombardment that shook the mountains.
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Sevastopol
Eddy Gilmore
Frontine Dispatches
Red Star
G. F. Zakyarov
Y. C. Kreitzer
Moscow
Fall of Sevastopol Declared by Stalin After Siege
London May 10 Premier Marshal Stalin announced the fall of the Crimean fortress port Sevastopol after a 24 day siege in an order of the day. The dispatch notes one of the two original besieging Soviet armies may have already rushed to continued fighting.
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Stalin
London
Crimean
Sevastopol
Marshal Stalin
Duke Interests Are Republicans
Elizabeth New Jersey May 10 James H R Cromwell seeking to invalidate Doris Duke Cromwell Reno divorce tells Chancery Court he is friendly with President Roosevelt but that the wife's trustee and Duke interests are good old fashioned reactionary Republicans. He, a former U S minister to Canada under Roosevelt, says he lost his wife's affections because she was infatuated with another man and because her trustee despised him and poisoned her mind.
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Elizabeth
N. J
James H. R. Cromwell
Doris Duke Cromwell
Chancery Court
Roosevelt
Duke
Cromwell
U. S
Canada
X x x
UNC Alumnus Henry Moll Maps Coast-To-Coast Thumb Trip
University of North Carolina alumnus Henry Moll class of 1942 hitchhiked home from Hollywood visiting his alma mater. He rode in funeral hearses a freight train army trucks jeeps a Packard and a Model T across sand storms snow storms and floods before earning his diploma and serving as editor of the Carolina Magazine and Graham Memorial director.
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Chapel Hill
Henry Moll
Moll
Hollywood
University of North Carolina
Arizona
Kansas
Iowa
Wichita
Kan
Carolina
Thomas Wolfe
Carolina Magazine
Graham Memorial
Navy aims to keep Tokyo busy with Pacific air force leaders
The San Francisco meeting of Admirals Halsey Nimitz and King signals a busy Tokyo as Allied plans unfold. Nimitz received his second Distinguished Service Medal for conduct in 1941 and 1942 after Pearl Harbor, with few other details released.
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San Francisco
Navy
Japan
Halsey
Nimitz
King
Tokyo
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Trunk Murder Admitted By Texas Man
Crystal City Texas May 10 A confession that he killed his wife Mrs Louis Villegas by striking her in the back of the head with his fist and shipped her body in a trunk from Chicago to Los Angeles has been signed here by Sayla Villegas 26 deputy sheriff Garrett Barnes said last night Barnes quoted Villegas as saying he did not know the woman was dead until he tried to revive her that Villegas struck Mrs Villegos during an ess follow ing a visit to a Chicago tavern Continued on Page Tight
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Crystal City
Texas
Louis Villegas
Chicago
Los Angeles
Sayla Villegas
Garrett Barnes
Barnes
Villegos
New Army Budget Totals 49 Billion for 1945 War Needs
President Roosevelt seeks new army appropriations of 15 652 700 bringing total military spending for the next fiscal year to 49 billion. The plan covers munitions equipment and pay through 31 December 1945 with extended aircraft funding to 1946 and significant lemd and civilian relief amounts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Air Force
Ordnance Department
Doris Duke Divorce Declared Null and Void by New Jersey Court
Advisory Master Dougal Herr in chancery court ruled the Reno divorce of Doris Duke Cromwell from James H. R. Cromwell null and void in New Jersey. The decision voids the decree and questions Duke Cromwell's domicile claims and alleged Reno residency as part of the fraud finding.
Allies Advance Deep Into Italian Front Near Sulmona
Allied Eighth Army reports a wedge into German lines along Italy’s spine driving toward Sulmona. They seize Palena on the Aventino River and nearby mountain villages Fallasc, Gamberale, and San Angelo, extending gains beyond nine miles with heavy German demolitions and regrouping noted.
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Naples
Eighth Army
Italy
Sulmona
Palena
Aventino
Adriatic
Sul
Fifth Army
Cassino
De Valera Calls Vote After Transport Bill Defeat
In Dublin May 10 a political clash mounted as Prime Minister Eamon de Valera ordered a national election for May 30. Opposition accuses him of dictatorial tactics, while Fianna Fail blasts the move as needed for stability though Independents hold the balance. London commentary suggests crisis appears manufactured to bolster neutrality stance.
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Eire
de Valera
Transport Bill
Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Irish Free Press
Fianna Fail
Dail Eireann
Irish Independent
London
Hiness
F. T. O'Kelly
Dail
Many Plants Begin Civilian Production Refocus
Senator Ball of Minnesota hailed progress toward resuming civilian goods production. He said there are plans to quit war work and shift factories, as the War Production Board eases limits on small plants. Ball, Hatch, and Ferguson met with Donald M. Nelson and aides to discuss facility releases from war needs.
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Washington
Senator Ball
R-Minn
War Investigating Committee Today
Ball
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
WPA
WPRB
Hatch
DNM
Ferguson
Nelson
Tightening of Defense Axis Aim
On May 10 London reports the German effort to harden western defenses amid the expanding British American air campaign. Pelz, a 29 year old Oberst, is named to lead west air forces and assemble a force to counter invasion, as Germany reorganizes into three corps. Allies expect air superiority within seven to twenty days after invasion, with RAF strikes on ammo dumps and rail hubs, and intensified bomber and fighter operations.
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London
Low Countries
West
Belgium
Netherlands
Dunkerque
France
Adolf Hitler
Pelz
Europe
Hitler
RAF
Admiral Derrien Goes On Trial In North Africa Case
Admiral Edmond Derrien former commander in Tunis faces a life trial before a special French military tribunal in Algiers charged with aiding the Germans by aiding the Axis in the Mediterranean after the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942.
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Algiers
Edmond Derrien
Tunis
Mediterranean
North Africa
Aerial Attack Rolls On Into 26th Straight Day
Allied air forces strike deep into German and occupied Europe in the 26th day of a major offensive. More than 30 tons dropped on front-line targets including airfields and rail hubs. British and Mediterranean air units pound Berlin Paris Annecy works while American Thunderbolts and RAF craft hit rail yards and airfields in France Belgium.
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London
Europe
Alps
Ankara
Bucharest
Romania
Berlin
Paris
Annecy Ballbearing
France
Annecy
Air Ministry
Anenecy
Schweinfurt
Mediterranean
Britain
Belgium
United States
RAF
Air blows strike Japanese bases near Dutch New Guinea
Allied HQ reports Monday air strikes against Japanese airfields in Dutch New Guinea near the Philippines. MacArthur notes operations against enemy air facilities with only minimal Nipponese air opposition. Liberators and fighters engaged, one bomber lost. Nimitz announces time on Ponape in the central Pacific 440 miles east of Truk.
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New Guinea
Southwest
Central Pacific
Philippines
Trak
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Ponape
Truk
Seventh Army Air Force
Allies Open Land Route To China In Burma Drive
Allied forces push on three fronts around Mogaung in northern Burma as Mountbatten reports heavy Japanese casualties. Chindits operate in the Mawlu area and strike along the Mandalay Myitkyina railway, signaling a broad drive to reopen a land path to China.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Mogaung
Burma
Lord Louis Mountbatten
China
Mawlu
Mandalay-Myitkyina
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Dorothy Malone
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Doris Duke
Dougal Herr
Herr
New Jersey
Reno
Irish Times
Labor Party
William Norton
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