Fourteen Die In Crack Passenger Train Wreck
A Pennsylvania train carrying nearly 1300 passengers from Atlantic City to New York wrecked on a curve near Delair N J at 10 8 p m killing fourteen and injuring many as investigators say the engineer may have exceeded the speed limit. Local authorities identified seven dead and nine others remained un identified including a mother and child both decapitated. The wreck was the railroad’s worst in years and routine checks found equipment and track in good condition.
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C. H. Bohr
H. N. Becker
Christian
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Trenton
Bennie Shapiro
Montclair
Comintern dissolution reshapes world revolutionary aims
Moscow’s move to dissolve the Communist International signals a shift away from direct Moscow led revolutions. The pact with Axis powers undercuts Propaganda and may strand Hitler, as Comintern had pledged to foment global upheaval. Stalin’s stance contrasts Trotsky’s earlier plans for world revolution.
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US Forces Repel Japanese Raid On Attu Island
On May 23 16 Japanese twin engine bombers attacked Attu with six P 38 fighters engaging. Five enemy bombers were shot down one US fighter is missing another was shot down but rescued. The Navy did not confirm bomber base origin.
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Navy
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Nazi Escapee Nabbed By Deputy Sheriff
Karl Anton Schwingenheuer, a German war prisoner who escaped from Camp Chaffee during flooding, was captured by Deputy Sheriff Jack Bishop near Talihina Oklahoma and returned to the stockade. FBI Special Agent Fred Hallford noted the prisoner failed to state milk quantities in pints or quarts, illustrating his unfamiliarity with American liquid measures. The escape occurred after floodwaters weakened the camp fence.
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Compromise Fails On Pay-Go Tax Issue But New Meet Planned
Washington May 24. A joint conference committee failed to resolve Senate and House differences on pay-as-you-go taxes and will reconvene tomorrow morning. Democratic conferees seek a compromise despite Republican opposition to the Rum skip-a-year plan. Senator Walsh and Secretary Morgenthau debated revenue needs as war costs mount, with Byrd and Danaher optimistic for a possible agreement.
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D-Mass
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D-Va
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R-Conn
Bombers and Fighters Strike Pantelleria in Triple Raid
Allied forces report U S medium bombers and fighters hit Pantelleria three times in five hours and RAF Wellingtons followed with a nighttime strike on docks and air field. The operations, targeting coastal gun emplacements, docks, airfield dispersal areas, and harbor warehouses, left extensive wreckage with several enemy planes destroyed on the ground and in air.
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Sicilian
Sharp Action Flare in Sevsk Area Near Kursk Base
Moscow reports intensified combat around the Kursk region with Soviet forces claiming 44 German planes shot down on Saturday and four more downed. Soviet dispatches mention heavy troop movements northeast of Kursk and ongoing Luftwaffe reinforcements as 313 enemy planes and 61 Soviet aircraft were recorded in a week of fighting.
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London
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Free French In Accord With Giraud
The Fighting French national committee announced in principle acceptance of Gen. Henri Giraud’s proposals for a central French authority at Algiers. Gen. Charles De Gaulle will depart for Algiers this week with de Gaulle’s side selecting two representatives each for a nine member authority. Catroux to return to Algiers with a friendly reply to Giraud’s May 17 letter. Rene Massigli and Andre Philip will accompany De Gaulle. No major differences between the committee and Giraud’s concepts were noted.
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London
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Algiers
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Catroux
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Foreign Affairs
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Interior and Labor
Gas Ration Cuts Hit Eastern Commercial Transit
Gasoline allotments for commercial vehicles in the 12 northeastern states are slashed 40 percent, curbing bus service and taxi activity and slowing delivery of nonessential goods. Some war production and military supply vehicles may face only 10 percent reductions. The War Production Board, ODT, and OPA begin enforcing the order to curb nonessential driving.
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Office of Price Administration
Maine
Virginia
War Production Board
Tokyo Says Exchange Going On Smoothly
Tokyo reports negotiations with the United States and Britain for a second exchange of interned nationals are going on smoothly. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tomokazu Hori told a press conference that an agreement is expected in the not far distant future.
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Britain
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AssociatedPress
Moves Partly Restore War Working Return Moves Partly Restore War
Back to work actions resume at about six Chrysler plants and two rubber firms as the War Labor Board nears a decision in the coal dispute. About 30,000 CIO members remain idle at Firestone and Goodrich. Goodyear and General Tire workers return after a weekend stoppage.
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Cio-United Automobile Workers
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Washington
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United Rubber Workers
Editor in Chief Joseph J. Taylor Dies at 43
Dallas Morning News editor in chief Joseph J. Taylor died today at age 43. He had been with the newspaper since 1904 and hosted the widely read State Press column. A native of Wilson, North Carolina, he moved to Texas in 1884.
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N. C
Texas
Allies Rain 2000 Tons Of Bombs On Dortmund And Ruhr
In the greatest air attack to date the RAF dropped over 2000 tons of bombs on Dortmund and other Ruhr targets. Four and two ton bombs and incidiaries set vast blazes as clouds hampered observation. The British lost 38 bombers in the operation, described as highly successful.
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Edward D. Ball
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Ruhr
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Essen
Channel
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Italy
Hull on Dissolution of Red Comintern
Secretary Hull welcomed Moscow's dissolution of the Communist International saying it will promote trust among the Allies and aid wartime and postwar cooperation. He declined to discuss U S influence. The White House and Stephen Early offered no official comment.
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Washington
Hull
Moscow
Communist International
United States
United Nations
White House
Comintern
Stephen Early
Harmony Reigns As Food Meet Moves Into Second Week
HOT SPRINGS VA May 24 The United Nations food conference moved into its second week with delegates in general agreement on expanding the postwar economy yet split over how to reach abundance. Debates focus on whether government or private enterprise should lead in a peoples century of plenty and on providing adequate diets for undernourished populations.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Marvin Jones
United States
Murray D. Lincoln
W. L. Clayton
International Finance and Trade
New Location Suggested For Stalingrad
Joseph Davies proposed building a new Stalingrad five to seven miles from the ruined city as a memorial and lesson for future generations. He spoke at a Kremlin state dinner with Stalin, Ve roshilov, and other dignitaries, amid lengthy toasts on UN friendship and postwar peace.
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Joseph FE. Davies
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Volga
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Marshal Klementi Veroshilov
Grand Palace
William H. Standley
U. S
United Nations
Standley
Archibald John Kerr Clerk Kerr
AFL CIO Unity Talks Are Stated
Washington May 24 The AFL Executive Council authorizes further unity talks with the CIO while vetoing a White House plan for a joint fraternal visit of William Green and Philip Murray. The council, meeting for a week, argues such a trip would clash with AFL policy on international labor relations.
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Washington
American Federation of Laor
CIO
White House
AFL
Executive Council
William Green
Philip Murray
Organized Labor England
London
Green
Murray
Withe
Salisbury graduation honors fifty nine awarded diplomas
Fifty nine graduates received diplomas at Catawba College during graduation exercises in Salisbury on May 24. Three honorary degrees were conferred during the ceremony.
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Salisbury
Catawba College
Germans claim troops in Sardinia for first time
London May 24 Reuters said the German radio announced that German troops are now in Sardinia.
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Sardinia
London
Reuters
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