Duke of Aosta Surrenders At Ethiopian Fortress
The Duke of Aosta and 7,000 Italian troops surrendered to the British at Amba Alagi in Ethiopia after a 40 day siege. The fortress 280 miles northeast of Addis Ababa fell as Italians cited exhausted supplies and wounded. British honors planned for the garrison as they filed out, while resistance continued in Jimma and Gondar.
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Associated Press
Rome
Duke of Aosta
Ethiopia
Amba Alajji
Addis Ababa
Amba Alaji
Jimima
Gondar
High Command
North Africa
Tobruk
Rhodes
Dodecanese
Zamzam Sinks With Namun Voyage Passengers Reported
Gastonia, Wilson and Rocky Mount residents among 120 Americans and 81 others aboard the 8299-ton Zamzam, missing after leaving Recife April 9 for Cape Town. The vessel, bound for Alexandria, Egypt, carried 24 ambulance drivers to aid Free French and British forces in Africa, missionaries bound for Central Africa, and crew. London says the liner is presumed lost with no confirmed word. unconfirmed reports place some aboard arriving in Mombasa or Capetown. Ambulances valued at 1350 dollars each accompanied the group, led by Francis J. Vicovari, who earned the Croix de Guerre in France.
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New York
South Atlantic
Indian Ocean
Alexandria
Egypt
Recife
Perambuco
Brazil
Capetown
South Africa
London
Central
Africa
Mombasa
Kenya
Zamzam
Charles de Gaulle
Lake Chad
French Equatorial Africa
Francis J. Vicovari
American Volunteer Ambulance Corps
Maginot Line
France
William A. Wydenbruck-Lee
Frederick W. Hoenig
Wydenbruck-Lee
Tle
United States
Hoenig
Harvard
Four Vessels Sunk By Nazis
Berlin reports new air blows against British naval forces and merchant marine with four ships sunk. A 12,600 ton pair of merchantmen, a 10,000 ton tanker, and two small merchantmen in Crete and Suda Bay were bombed. York class cruiser and two destroyers hit, seven large merchantmen damaged. Seven British planes destroyed on Crete, a Hurricane downed. At Tobruk, Axis forces reportedly captured numerous British prisoners.
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Berlin
High Command
St. George's Channel
North Atlantic
Suda Bay
Island of
Crete
Tobruk
Administration Seeks Passage Of Major Bills
Washington May 19 Congress leaders pressed six administration backed measures aiming to raise about 33.3 billion in new taxes grant the RFC unlimited power for defense and allow the Office of Production Management to prioritize defense and British aid orders. A summer recess may follow if these objectives are met and foreign affairs require no ongoing session.
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Washington
Congress
Great Britain
House
Ways and Means Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Office of Production Management Authority
Hard Coal Strike Settled as UMW Aims for Wage Hikes
A tentative wage pact settled with operators of hard coal mines, benefiting about 100,000 mine workers under CIO United Mine Workers. A 7 percent basic wage rise applies to contract and day rates until October 1, then rises to 10 percent. The union sought a $1 daily rise and 20 percent for contract workers. Rail unions in Chicago moved toward a nationwide 30 percent raise, with demands of at least $1.80 per day, to be presented June 10. An Apollo Steel Plant work stoppage in Apollo, Pennsylvania, affected 900 workers and halted about $100,000 in defense orders.
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United Mine Workers of America
CIO
John L. Lewis
Chicago
Apollo Steel Company
Apollo
Inside German Split as Young and Old Divide in Morale
Undecided confidential reports delivered to the White House and State Department describe a twofold German morale: youths under 40 fully Nazi, shaped by war, and older citizens yearning for prewar life. An intra-Nazi quarrel centers on war conduct, with military leaders opposing a full attack on England and seeking control of the Mediterranean corridor. End with note on Roosevelts radio investigator Mark Elthridge indicating FCC power concerns.
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White House
State Department
Berlin
Republic
Canada
Hitler
Germany
England
Mediterranean
Suez
Gibraltar
Treasury official projects tax revision to boost corporate revenue
John L. Sullivan told Congress that revising excess profits tax and adding a 6 percent income surtax could raise about 31.1 billion dollars more in corporate taxes, with rates set at 33 percent on excess profits up to 15 percent of invested capital, 52 percent on 15 to 30 percent, and 65 percent above 30 percent. He noted no change in individual tax plans, keeping a 4 percent normal rate and applying a steeper surtax schedule starting at 11 percent, with exemptions unchanged.
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Washington
John L. Sullivan
the Treasury
Congress
The
Treasury
House
Ways and Means
Jenkins
R. D
Sulivan
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Sullivan
Fall Fatal Asheville
May 19. Jennie Raworth, 79, of Vicksburg family and longtime summer resident, fell on Pack Square in Asheville injuring her hip. She died hours later at a hospital from heart failure. Body to be sent to Vicksburg for burial.
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Asheville
Jennie Raworth
Vicksbury, Asss
Pack Square
Vicksburg
Planes Crash In Mid-Air In South Carolina
RAINS SC May 19 At least six persons believed killed when two army planes collided four miles from Rains. Witness W S Shelley reports one plane burned with three bodies, the other with at least one more body. Parachutes observed. occupants believed from Myrtle Beach. Fort Benning GA origin.
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South Carolina
W. S. Shelley
Shelley
Myrtle Beach
Mullins
Moore
Fort Benning
Iraqis Bomb British Ships in Persian Gulf Raid
A Beirut broadcast quoted a Baghdad report claiming the Iraq air force bombed British warships near Basra. It said British planes struck Iraqi bases and that Basra carrier activity was detected while Basra and Habbaniyah air field damage and siege pressures threatened the British garrison with capitulation.
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New York
Beirut
Baghdad
Iraq Air Force
Persian Gulf
Basra
Fleet Air Arm
RAF
Iraq
Habbaniyah
Hull Seeks Ways to Assure Aid to Britain
Secretary Hull asserted the United States will find a way to guarantee adequate supplies to Britain as World War II loomed, stressing Britain's defense as vital to U.S. security and outlining five postwar peace points. He refused to promise immediate peace, urging the tide of force be turned back. Senator Wheeler urged President Roosevelt to pursue negotiated peace in Europe.
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Washington
Hull
America
Great Britain
Britain
Wheeler
Mont
Roosevelt
Europe
Montanan
Pace
Japs To Stick By Axis Pact
Tokyo reports say Japan will wait on Roosevelt moves while remaining allied with Germany and Italy. Observers note Japan will extend material aid to the Axis regardless of any declaration of war, stressing United States entry as the pivotal factor.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
Kokumin
America
Five German Planes Downed Off South Coast
Five German fighters were shot down off the south coast this afternoon without British losses. An authoritative announcement said two British fighters were shot down this morning but the pilots were saved.
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London
Hickory Man Drowns in Escambia Bay Bridge Accident
Robert Lester Bolick a 33 year old insurance salesman from Hickory North Carolina drowned when his car plunged from the Escambia Bay bridge into 18 feet of water on Saturday in Pensacola Florida.
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Hickory
Pensacola
Fla
Robert Lester Bolick
N. C
Ecambia Bay Bridge
French Anti Aircraft Batteries Open Fire on British Warplanes
Beirot Lebanon May 19. French anti aircraft batteries reopened fire as British planes bombed Rayak air drome in Syria yesterday. No casualties or damage reported. RAF responded with leaflet raids over Damascus Deir es Dar Hassed and Aleppo. Dentz urged Syria to resist British aggression and claimed France was defending against criminal acts.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Rayak
Syria
RAF
Damascus
Deir Es Dar
Hassed
Aleppo
Baghdad
von Blomberg
Henri Dentz
Mers-el-Kebir
Dakar
England
Gastonians reported among Zamzam sinking victims
In the South Atlantic the Egyptian liner Zamzam sank with 120 Americans aboard. Among them were Gastonia residents Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Young en route to Nairobi as missionaries. Mrs. Young was Doris Warren of Detroit before marriage. The Youngs studied at the Moody Bible Institute and married after graduation. Their families learned of the disaster from a news broadcast.
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Gastonia
South Atlantic
Fred J. Young
Nairobi
Africa
Young
T. N. Young
J. Norman Young
Gastonia Gazette
Doris Warren
Detroit
Mich
Mrs. Young
Moody Bible Institute
Wilson tobacconists believed aboard Zamzam sunk
Six Wilson tobacconists who left for South Africa were reported aboard the Egyptian liner Zamzam, believed sunk in the South Atlantic. Names include Thomas Miller Ned Laughinghouse Tinkie Johnson Harry Cawthorne James Smith and Paul Burton.
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Wilson
South Africa
South Atlantic Ocean
Thomas Miller
Ned Laughinghouse
Tinkie Johnson
Harry Cawthorne
James Smith
Paul Burton
Missionary Rosa Powell on doomed Zamzam voyage
Rocky Mount reports Rosa Powell wife of Rev Carlyle Powell longtime Baptist missionary to South Africa was aboard the ill fated Zamzam. Sister of D B Powell she is Ashton North Carolina native and her husband, born in Warsaw, sailed earlier and is reported safe in South Africa. Their daughter Mary Hester Powell studies at Meredith College Raleigh.
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Rocky Mount
Rosa Powell
Carlyle Powell
South Africa
Mary Hester Powell
Meredith College
Raleigh
De Gaulle Urges revolt by French in empire against Vichy
General Charles de Gaulle leader of the Free French, in a Brazzaville broadcast, urged Frenchmen in the empire to rise against Vichy chiefs and join the fight against the common enemy. The appeal, relayed by British radio, was heard in New York via NBC.
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DE Gaulle
Vichy
New York
Charles de Gaulle
Ieadre
Brazzaville
French Equatorial Africa
France
NBC
Base At Kiel Struck Again In RAF Night Raids
London reports RAF bombers hit Kiel shipyards and Emden in night raids, with Cherbourg docks also attacked by Fleet Air Arm planes. Berlin notes a German harbor city bombed by a few RAF aircraft over northern Germany. A German bomber was shot down off the East Coast. few English raids occurred with two Wazi fighters shot down.
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Kiel
Emden
Air Ministry
Cherbourg
France
Fleet Air Arm
Berlin
Germany
England
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