Anti-British Leader Flees Iraq For Iran in War News
Rashid Ali Al Gailani, Iraq’s anti-British premier, fled across the Iran border with aide Amin Zaki and Regent-designate Sharaf as British forces pressed toward Baghdad. British columns pushed up the Euphrates toward Khanuqta and Luqait, with mobile units in the drive despite rains and damaged bridges.
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Iraq
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Iran
Rashid Ali
Britain
Habbaniyah
Traq
Germany
Crete
Amin Zaki
Sharaf
Abdullah
Baghdad
Euphrates
Luquait
Basra
Khanugta
Khanuqta
Transportation Office Created By Roosevelt Aims At Coordination
Washington May 30 President Roosevelt ordered the creation of an Office of Transportation ending the National Defense Advisory Commission a year after it met The new agency will plan and coordinate defense transport across rail roads buses trucks pipelines ships airlines and barges Ralph Budd of Burlington Railroad is expected to head the railroad division with other transport experts guiding the rest Officials say government operation of railroads will not occur, citing World War I lessons and expecting better results under private management
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Washington
Roosevelt
Office of Transportation
National Defense Advisory Commission
Commission
Office For Emergency Management
Office For Production Management
Ralph Budd
Burlington Railroad
Defense Conmmission
British air raids hit several Syrian air and rail targets
In the past two days the British air force raided Tripoli Deirezzor Aleppo Rayak air dromes and Homs railway station in French mandated Syria causing some damage and one casualty an official report states. W J Cash associate editor of the News and author of The Mind of the South left with Mrs Cash for Mexico City to write a novel aided by a $2100 Guggenheim fellowship recently awarded.
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Syria
Tripoli
Deirezzor
Aleppo
Rayak
Homs
Memorial Day Observance Amid Wartime Uproar
Washington May 30 Memorial Day halted many defense efforts as ceremonies and parades took precedence. A three day weekend blackout began at major aircraft plants but a Greenfield munitions plant offered relief. Navy orders paused shipyards except essential maintenance. cargo vessel programs also slowed.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Greenfield
Mass
War Department
Navy
All in Clover in Clearfield Pa findings
Mrs Jess Irvin reacted to a report of a woman gathering more than 50 four leaf clovers. She checked her lawn and counted six seven leaf clovers four six leaf clovers 76 five leaf clovers and 61 four leaf clovers in total.
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Clearfield
Jess Irvin
Industrial Strife Eases as Defens e Production News Arrives
Defense production chiefs cheered as strikes eased across several plants. Packard Detroit reached a new contract with 8 cent hourly raises for about 11,000 workers while Monsanto East St. Louis ended a six week strike with wage boosts. MeXICes Rocks pressed steel back to 90 mm shells after restoring an 8 hour day. Shipyard machinists in San Francisco Bay held out on $500 million in ships as others crossed picket lines. Chairman Truman said he would ask strikers if they were willing to return to work.
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Packard Motor Car
Detroit
Illinois Chemical Works
Pennsylvania Shell
Nashville, Tenn, Afl
Packard
CIO
United Automobile Workers
AFL
Monsanto Chemical Company
East St. Louis
Pressed Steel Car Company
Ixces Rocks
San Francisco Bay
Truman
D-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Roosevelt calls for large bomber armada to dominance air power
Washington dispatch by Ray Tucker notes Roosevelt's push for a vast bomber fleet as the crucial edge in modern sea warfare. Experts say air power surpasses battleships, with bomber output at 500 weekly vs 50 of the largest bombers, delaying a two ocean Navy until 1942 or later.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
United States
U. S
Germany
Severa
Force With Force McNutt Addresses Memorial Day
Johnson City Tenn May 30 AP Paul V McNutt warned of a world war outcome to decide between slavery and freedom He urged mobilizing armed might to meet force with force but cautioned against expanding armaments at the cost of democracy He said defense is advancing rapidly and urged strengthening democratic faith and ideals for free nations
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Johnson City
Tenn
America
Paul V. McNutt
Hitler
McNutt
Mountain Home
British General Freyberg Reported Dead in Plane Crash
New York May 30 German radio quoted Cairo as saying General B C Freyberg commander of British forces on Crete was killed when his plane crashed en route to Alexandria. The German broadcast claimed Freyberg fled and was killed, criticizing the New Zealand general as cowardly during retreat.
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Cairo
B. C. Freyberg
Crete
Alexandria
CBS
Geran
Freyberg
Garberg
New Zealand
New Zealand Expeditionary Corps
Suda Bay
Congress Told Only 28 Ships Lost In Fight
Washington reports indicate only 28 ships loaded with war goods have been sunk en route to Britain since September 1939. Emory Land cited 8 of 205 US port departures sunk between Dec 30 1940 and Mar 31 1941, signaling small loss rates amid broader war risks and fueling debate over navy convoy policy and wartime shipping. The President noted naval patrol gains as Congress approved funding to requisition or charter idle foreign ships.
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Congress
United States
Britain
U. S
Canada
South America
Dominion
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Senate Commerce Committee
Land
United Kingdom
Vandenberg
Mich
United States Navy
Extraordinary Military Precautions At Bragg
May 30 Fayetteville reports extraordinary military precautions at Fort Bragg with no official explanation. Local opinion suggests a practice alert with security measures including halted vehicles and searches. Major John Murphy said guards cooperate with the State Highway Patrol as patrolmen are redeployed to Wilmington amid sabotage rumors at defense plants.
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Fayetteville
Fort Bragg
John Murphy
State Highway Patrol
Wilmington
Parking meter note hints at trick in Salt Lake City
Traffic beat reports a downtown coin box note signed with a double cross rule. Meter collectors say the message tops the dime theft and cost someone 20 cents to learn dimes don't operate the meters.
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Salt Lake City
Schmeling Says He Survived Crete Action In War Tale
Max Schmeling is quoted by German press recounting his role in the Crete invasion. He describes wandering in the Crete wilderness, rejoining his unit, and helping capture a coastal road and a penitentiary amid heavy fighting and sniper fire. The official death denial places him in an air force hospital with a tropical disease.
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Berlin
Max Schmeling
Crete
Siegfried Kappe
Schmeling
Air Force
British Break Up Ship Party at Port of Spain
Intercepted at sea by a British cruiser the 8379 ton French passenger ship Winnipeg was escorted to Trinidad amid champagne celebrations for a Martinique arrival. Hundreds of German passengers are interned. 210 Germans 76 Austrians and 70 others detained while the rest are examined aboard. Two American born women told how Germans discarded letters and papers overboard during the 26 day voyage from Marseille via Oran Casablanca to Trinidad.
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Port-Of-Spain
Trinidad
Martinique
Winnipeg
Antoine Peissel
Martha Seale
Junius Street
Dallas
Tex
Marcel Lowenstein
Paris
Stamford
Conn
Marseille
Oran
Algeria
Casablanca
French Morocco
Close Watch at Wilmington Shipyards During Sabotage Alerts
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper said law enforcement officers in Wilmington have orders to monitor for possible sabotage at shipyards and nearby defense projects. He confirmed rumors of attempted sabotage but doubted their substance, adding the city is organized and on alert for any incident.
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Wilmington
Thomas E. Cooper
Cooper
Air Corps
Los Angeles
North American Aviation Aircraft
Consolidated
San Diego
Douglas Company
Santa Monica
el Segundo
Lockheed
Burbank
Vultee Aircraft
Downey
San Francisco
Huntington Beach
M. M. McCallen
W. H. Bachman
Los Angeles Harbor
Allies Crack Before Drive By Air Land Crete Victory Claimed
Berlin reports German forces breached Crete in a major invasion as British resistance collapses island wide. Retimo Candia and Suda Bay fall amid air land and sea assaults. two more Allied destroyers sunk in the Straits of Crete.
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Berlin
Germany
Crete
Retimo
Candia
Canea
Suda Bay
Straits
Artificial Fire Not New Angle
Army sources explain artificial fog as a familiar chemical warfare tool used by Germans against Crete defenders. It creates a harmless white smoke that can be dropped, sprayed, or released from ground generators. Materials include titanium tetrachloride or chiosulphonic acid with sulfur trichloride. exposure can blister skin but in field concentrations it forms a harmless, crisp smelling haze.
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Washington
Crete
Military And Civil Guards Stand Watch Over Nation's Defense Work
Defense plants from coast to coast were placed on heightened alert by civilian authorities citing sabotage risks. Fort Dix leaves cancelled for 14 000 troops underscored the tense mobilization while Fort Custer and Los Angeles areas saw intensive guard and patrol measures.
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California
Fort Dix
N. J
Fort “Ustler
Mich
Los Angeles
West Coast
Fort Custer
Battle Creek
Richard Merrick
Reveille
Noti
Britain Admits Crete Danger as Axis Reinforcements Advance
London dispatch says Crete defense near collapse with Candia and Suda Bay in German hands. Retimo holds, but Germans push toward the town. RAF raids from Egypt attempt to delay reinforcements while air power and naval losses loom large. Italian landings denied official confirmation but likely.
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Crete
Britain
Mediterranean
Middle East
Haifa
Palestine
Iraq
Alexandria
Egypt
Tobruk
Libya
Retima
London
Berlin
Candia
Canea
Suda Bay
Retimo
Royal Navy
Cretan
Italian liner Conte Rosso sunk off Sicily
Rome May 30 The 17879 ton Italian liner Conte Rosso was sunk by a torpedo south of Syracuse while in convoy most of the crew saved. The high command also said British destroyer Atewart exploded after heavy damage from Italian planes, with 22 crew rescued and 26 seriously wounded. The vessel had been a troopship and frequented the New York port.
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High Command
Syracuse
Sicily
Shanghai
Exchange Telegraph
New York
Wounded Corporal Branton Shot in Restricted Zone
Corporal Charles Branton of Washington, North Carolina, was struck by a ricochet bullet fired by military police as he entered a restricted zone in Athens Georgia. He was en route to maneuvers in Tennessee with Battery C, 113th Field Artillery, and was seriously wounded, police chief E W Wood said.
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Athens
Charles Branton
Washington, N.C
E. W. Wood
Branton
Maneuvers
Tennessee
113 Field Artillery
South Carolina Considers Daylight Saving Time
Governor Burnet R. Maybank said daylight saving time may be instituted in South Carolina soon. He stated the measure would help conserve electric power and align with a regional movement in the southeast.
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Columbia
S. CC
Burnet R. Maybank
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