Secretary Wickard urges farm support for Britain from Raleigh
In Raleigh North Carolina on May 13 Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard told about 5000 Carolina farmers that the United States must ship food and war materiel to England safely and on time to help check Hitler. He urged southern farmers to grow enough food for themselves so surplus crops can aid Britain and warned that delayed action could invite conquest. He spoke at the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association and Farmers Cooperative Exchange meeting, noting export needs for cotton tobacco and wheat and stressing the shipping crisis and lend lease limits.
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Raleigh
N. C
Claude R. Wickard
Carolinas
United States
England
British Empire
Hitler
Wickard
Great Britain
North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association
Farmers Cooperative Exchange
Broughton
British Fleet Repels Nazi Aerial Attack With Withering Fire
British forces report successful defense against a large German aerial assault while Mediterranean operations continue. The Royal Navy, anchored at the Egyptian base after repelling night torpedo bombers, launched heavy anti aircraft fire and naval gun barrages, forcing the enemy to retreat. In the Atlantic, April ship losses dropped to 301,070 tons out of 488,124 sunk overall, the lowest in 11 months, signaling effective counter measures.
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London
Low Countries
Atlantic
Adolf Hitler
Greece
Mediterranean
Britain
Herman Goering
Nazis Report RAF Attacks Hit German Ports
Berlin reports RAF bombers struck Bremen and other western German locations last night destroying a school and damaging another, plus a hospital and a museum with irreplaceable collection. British raids also set fires at Great Yarmouth and damaged Plymouth docks, while German bombers attacked Malta and Valletta targets, damaging runways, hangars, workshops, wharves, warehouses, and ships.
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Berlin
Royal Air Force
Bremen
Germany
Luftwaffe
RAF
Great Yarmouth
Plymouth
Malta
Luca
Valletta
Hitler and French Vice Premier Conference Reported
A conference between Adolf Hitler and French Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan was disclosed today in Berlin. The official notice gave no location or questions discussed and said the meeting occurred in the presence of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbenstrorp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Adolf Jittler
Jean Darlan
Joachim von Ribben- Lrop
Selective sales tax debate reshapes wartime funding plans
Washington comments reveal opposition to general sales tax as administration pushes two thirds of war costs onto consumers. Eccles proposes a selective sales tax on auto equipment, radios, refrigerators, burners, and kitchen gear to curb production of semi luxuries and free defense manufacturing. Trade shifts noted as imports from Europe shrink dramatically and from Axis nations vanish.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Marriner S. Beccles
House
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Reserve
Hess Flight and British Pilot Training Plans
United States and Britain discussed training hundreds of British pilots in the United States with American planes and instructors for primary training to about 2,000 men starting mid summer. Trainees would be civilians under neutral status, with six schools in California Florida Texas Oklahoma and Georgia. Plans call for later sending men to Britain for advanced training under lease lead act facilities. Hess flight amid German leadership turmoil and Hitler’s show of will to victory are reported with German press portraying Hess’s ailments and alleged peace efforts being referenced.
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United States
Europe
United Kingdom
Hitler
Italy
Washington
War Department
California
Florida
Texas
Oklahoma
Georgia
Great Britain
Britain
Associated Press
Berlin
Rudolf Hess
Scotland
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hess
Ness
Germany
England
Iless
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Marines Called To Keep Order In Shanghai Clash
United States Marines were deployed after a gun battle on Bubbling Well Road wounded at least ten people including American police sergeant A Wickdall. Madame Ho Sze Tao and two guards among the injured, with a Chinese coolie later dying. The disturbance began when Madame Elo’s car was stopped for a routine inspection at barricades between the international settlement and nearby wastelands.
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Shanghai
United States
Bubbling Well Road
A. Wickdall
International Settlement Police Force
Wickdall
Kennydale
Wash
Madame Ho Sze-Tao
Nanking
Madame Elo
International Settlement Police
Settement
Hadlands
Armament workers strike at Colts Patent Firearms plant
Hartford May 13 A unspecified number of Colts Patent Firearms Company workers, totaling 3400, walked off the job today. The strike involved nonunionized employees at a major arms factory. Detroit May 13 The United Automobile Workers CIO agreed to postpone action against Hudson Motor Co as directors review union demands.
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Hartford
Conn
Colts Patent Firearms Company
Detroit
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Hudson Motor Co
Negro Lynched By White Men in Quincy Florida
In Quincy Florida on May 13 22 year old Ne gro A C Williams accused of assaulting a 12 year old white girl was shot to death after a band of white men seized him in a second lynching attempt. Sheriff Luten said there were virtually no clues and no arrests were made. Williams body lay on a bridge north of town after the attempted rescue and second abduction from a jailcell and hospital transfer.
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Quincy, Fla
A. C. Williams
MM. P. Luten
Luten
Here
Dan Davis
Gadsden County
Williams
War analyst J W T Mason, 62, dies in New York
J W T Mason, a longtime war analyst for United Press and veteran newspaper man of 43 years, died today in New York of a heart attack.
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Newsalan Dees New York
J. W._ T. Mason
United Press
Hoey Would Accept State Dem National Committeeman Role
Governor Broughton revealed a letter from former Governor Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby saying he would accept the Democratic national committee member post if offered by the state executive committee. Hoey emphasized he is not actively seeking the position while Reynolds’ rival stance was noted. Broughton said the majority of state committee members prefer Hoey and that he has recommended Hoey’s selection.
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Raleigh
Broughton
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Democratic National Committee
State Executive Committee
Hoey
R. J. Reynolds, Jr
Winston- Salem
British Troops Turn Back Axis in Salum Area Front
Cairo May 13 The Middle East war bulletin reports British mechanized troops beat back five small Axis columns attempting reconnaissance eastward in the Salum area of the Egyptian frontier. Germans and Italians withdrew and our air forces attacked them. At Tobruk no change, while Imperial forces push through jungles and Amba Alagi reports 200 additional fascist prisoners captured.
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Cairo
Egypt
Salum
Middle East
Tobruk
Imall
Amba Alaji
Italian Ship Lost Believed Sunk With Six Aboard
British authorities believe the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto, a 35,000 ton vessel in the Med, was sunk. Six crew members are reported lost, with confirmation awaiting official notices. The event marks a significant naval loss in the Mediterranean theater with Italian forces reporting further details.
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Italy
Vittorio Veneto
Contract Awarded For Corbitt Trucks With Winches
The army awarded a $730000 contract to Corbitt Co. of Henderson North Carolina for trucks equipped with winches and cargo bodies.
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Washington
Army
Corbitt Co
Henderson, N. C
Scottish Farmer Captures Hess With Pitchfork
Glasgow report recounts Rudolf Hess, 1941 Nazi deputy leader, landing armed farmer with a pitchfork. Hess, unarmed, spoke to the farmer for an hour, declined tea, and accompanied officials for medical care after injuring his ankle. Farmer David McLean described Hess as cultured and amiable, noting Hess’s explanation of a four hour flight from Augsburg in a Messerschmitt.
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Glasgow
Rudolf Hess
Britain
National Socialist Party
Hitler
Secret War Council
Tiess
David McLean
Ife
McLean
Wes
Hess
Germany
Messerschmitt
Augsburg
Bavaria
Hess Parachutes Into Britain Shaking Nazi Network
London reports Rudolf Hess parachuted onto a Scottish moor after crash landing his Messerschmitt 110. British officials say Hess was sane and defiant, not on a peace mission, and his arrival could politically benefit Britain as war news swirls. A farmer found him wounded, and Hess is now a prisoner of war.
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Associated Press
London
Rudolf Hess
Messerschmitt
Hess
Britain
Germany
Scotland
Augsburg
Bavaria
Alfred Duff Cooper
Hitler
Unmarked crates wash ashore along Eastern Carolina coast
In Manteo on May 13 coast guards and residents salvaged unmarked crates of oranges, lemons, carrots, potatoes and onions after crates washed ashore along a 30 mile stretch. Officials counted about 230 crates on 15 miles between Caffey's Inlet and Kitty Hawk, with total estimates ranging to 300–500 crates. No ship incident reported.
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Manteo
Coast Guard
Coast
Nags Head
Elizabeth City
Caffey’s Inlet
Kitty Hawk
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High Point
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Tulsa University
Josephine Scott
Cleveland
Samuel R. Gerber
Haltenberger
Miss Scott
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International Settlement
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