Allied Bombers Hit Duesseldorf In Major Raid
An armada of RAF heavy bombers attacked Duesseldorf in a twin assault following Dortmund. About 500 bombers, many four engine giants, dropped high explosives as clouds hid full results. Twenty seven planes were reported missing. a continued offensive against German arms centers was noted with further raids toward Calais. Duesseldorf, a key Rhine port with steel works, has been heavily targeted in prior raids.
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London
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Germany
Air Ministry
Dueszeldorf
Fighter Command
Holland
Belgium
France
Calais
Ruhr
Adolf Hitler
Rhine
Cologne
Great Krupp
Allied Bombers Hammer Italy Outer Defenses
Allied aircraft including Flying Fortresses and Liberators struck Sicily Sardinia and Pantelleria in a massive air assault. Northwest African Air Force and Middle East Command bombed docks rail lines air fields and naval bases while 11 planes failed to return. The raids, delivering 175 tons of explosives, aimed at major industrial and military targets.
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Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Northwest African Air Force
Mediterranean
Northwest African Command
Messina
Middle East
Eight Given Parole By Broughton
RALEIGH May 26 Bill Staton convicted in Union County last October on manslaughter charges in a traffic crash that killed Clyde Little Bright Williams and John Williams was among eight prisoners paroled today by Governor Broughton. Staton had a three to five year sentence. Also paroled were James B Pride Jr Durant Feimster Rayfield Farmer Dock Henry Taborn and Hagan Williams with varied sentences for assault larceny and related offenses.
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Raleigh
Bill Staton
Union County
Broughton
Staton
Clyde Little
Bright Williams
John Williams
James B. Pride, Jr
Wilson County
Durant Feimster
Iredell
Rayfield Farmer
Caswell County
Dock Henry Taborn
Granville County
Hagan Williams
Montgomery County
Steady Cash Offered for Steinway Grand piano
Public notice states an offer to trade a nylon doze n for a medium Steinway Grand piano with cash. The exchange request appears in the newspaper notices dated May 6 and involves a private seller in New York.
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New York
Edsel Ford Dies After Brief Illness at 49
Edsel Ford son of Henry Ford and longtime Ford Motor executive died at 1 30 am in Grosse Pointe Shores at age 49 after a stomach ailment and fever. He led Ford’s war production drive and helped mass produce planes tanks jeeps and other materiel. Survived by his wife, parents, a daughter Josephine, and three sons Henry Benson and William all in the armed services.
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Detroit
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Ford
Grosse Pointe Shores
Ford Company
Edsel
Florida
Henry
Benson
William
Armed Services
Josephine
Roosevelt and Churchill Prepare Joint War Council Statement
The White House said President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are drafting a brief joint statement on their war councils. Secretary Stephen Early could not say when it would be released, and noted it would not be today. The two leaders spent most of the morning together.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stephen Early
Russia
Soviet Union
Japan
Britain
Europe
Axis Presses Rumania For Large Army
Ankara reports German pressure on Rumania to deploy a new large army to the Soviet front this year. Bar on Manfred von Killinger reportedly coordinating the push. observers foresee 18 to 25 divisions by fall. Rumania faced heavy losses at Stalingrad and repression of suspected saboteurs widens in towns like Ploesti, Zilave, and Simpia.
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Ankara
Germany
Rumania
Manfred von Killinger
Soviet Union
Russia
Stalingrad
Ukraine
Transylvania
Hungary
Ion Antonescu
Ploesti
Zilave
Simpia
Congress Races to Put New Tax Collection On Books By July 1
Congress moves swiftly to enact pay as you go income tax measures by July 1. The plan would cancel up to a year of tax for low liabilities, provide partial abatements for others, impose a 20 percent withholding on wages, and require quarterly payments for nonwage income. Military exemptions and death-related tax cancellation are included with special rules for high earners.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Bombing war assessment argues Allies can shift to invasion
The piece weighs the limits of air power against Germany and Britain's resilience. It notes Germany's Ruhr armament concentration and Britain's centralized wartime industries while claiming Allied bombing now uses heavier block-busters and heart-busters to shorten the conflict.
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Hitler
England
Germany
Britain
Ruhr
Fuehrer
London
John Bull
Uncle Sam
Atlantic
British Isles
Western
Europe
Corsair Superior to Japanese Zero, Navy Says
The Navy describes the Corsair fighter with its 2 000 horsepower engine as clearly superior to all Zero models. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz relayed word that in South Pacific combat the Corsair outmaneuvered the Japanese aircraft, marking a decisive edge in air superiority.
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Washington
South Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Rubber Strike Spreads To Fourth Big Company
The CIO United Rubber Workers hold a special session to decide on a War Labor Board back to work plea as a strike spreads to a fourth major Akron firm. About 51,000 idle. Goodyear, Firestone, and Goodrich halted production. Goodyear Aircraft unaffected.
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Carter L. Davidson
Akron
CIO
United Rubber Workers
War Labor Board
General Tire & Rubber Co
General
WLB
B. F. Goodrich Co
Or Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear
Firestone
Goodrich
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Italy Invasion Doubted For This Summer
Washington observers doubt an Allied invasion of Italy this summer as the main European push likely targets Germany. Italy seen as a secondary factor with Alps and geography complicating a southern thrust. Bombing Italy out of the war appears the working policy until a broader land invasion occurs.
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Washington
Italy
Europe
Berlin
France
Balkans
Chinese Roll Back Drives Japanese Forces Near Chungking
Chinese central news agency reports 4 percent of Chinese troops drove back a Japanese column west of Lake Tungting and slowed a three way advance likely targeting Chungking. Enemies south of Yuyangkwan were repulsed and pulled north. fighting along the Yangtze between Ichang and Yochow remains fierce with heavy bombardment and Chinese losses described as staggering.
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Chungking
China
Lake Tungting
Yuyangkwan
Ichang
Victory Followed Up With Drive On Second Jap Base
United States forces cleared Chichagof valley on Attu Island and pressed a follow up drive toward Chichagof harbor as heavy bombers fighters and ground troops supported the attack. Navy communique noted continued air bombardment and fires started on Japanese positions.
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Washington
United States
Chichagof Valley
Attu Island
Navy
Chichagof Harbor
Army
Chichagof
Pacific
Chichagot Harbor
Ringicove
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Dauntless
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
North Pacific
United States Army
United States Army Air Forces
Chichagol
Attu
Lake Nicholas
Churchill urges Italians to disown leaders and quit war
Prime Minister Churchill tells Italians to disown their leaders and withdraw from the war. He cites no Allied front plan and notes no formal steps to select an European commander. Roosevelt and Churchill briefly share a press conference with limited new war steps.
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Associated Press
Washington
Churchill
Russia
Europe
Roosevelt
Bargaining Resumed In Coal Dispute
In Washington the soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers resume talks amid a tacit truce over portal to portal pay. The War Labor Board set concessions including vacation pay and safety provisions, potentially adding about a dollar a day, pending portal to portal negotiations.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
UMW
John L. Lewis
WLB
Reds Report Capture Of Four Towns
Soviet front reports four settlements captured in the north central sector as land action shifts from the south. Red air forces pound German railways and supply hubs while bombers strike behind enemy lines. Rostov Yelnya and Spas Demenskoe junctions are hit. eight enemy planes downed near Leningrad. Col. Nikolai Akimovy cautions Germany may resume broad operations in summer 1943.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Rostov
Yelnya
Spas Demenskoe
Lishchansk
Donets
Leningrad
Nikolai Akimovy
Stalingrad
Middle Don
Caucasus
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