War Production Board aims to unleash 4 billion dollar plant program
Washington dispatches report the War Production Board plans a 4 billion dollar review of gav projects to boost production to defeat the Axis. The WPR says the United States now has the machine tools and capital equipment to shift civilian factories to war production, signaling an end to extended plant construction and potential easing of civilian limits. A local anecdote recalls a man in Mud Lake who chained his fishing boat to a large tree to protect it but a thief cut the tree and stole the boat anyway.
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Offensive Plans in the Making Says Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill told the British home guard from the White House that offensive plans are being developed with President Roosevelt. He urged planning many marches ahead as Hitler’s forces threaten Britain, insisting victory is a process and invasion danger remains until Hitler is beaten.
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Boris Appeals to Hitler as Revolt Spreads
London dispatch reports May-King Boris of Bulgaria urged Adolf Hitler for extra secret police to quell internal disturbances. Gestapo chief Himmler allegedly rushing to Sofia as unrest spreads across Europe amid Vichy suspicions and Dutch underground warnings.
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Belgium
Berlin
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Netherlands
Squabble Over Drafting of Family Men
Washington reports a clash between executive and legislative branches over drafting fathers in 1943. The Army extends inductee furloughs from seven to fourteen days with a plan to reach three weeks by September 1, 1943, aiming to ease personal disruption. Senate Military Committee Chair Reynolds moves to hearings on Kis day to delay father inductions through 1943, while Senator Wheeler seeks a broader exemption. War Department opposition is noted.
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Wheelers
Army Battles Flood Waters in Little Rock Area
The Army and engineers battled Arkansas River flooding across hundreds of thousands of acres near Little Rock. Camp Robinson trainees aided by 3 500 basic trainees worked at danger points while civilians evacuated vast farmland and towns. Fort Smith braced as the river crest reached record levels, with widespread outages and Red Cross refugee care along the stream.
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Pine Bluff
Kennett
House Panel Says Lovett Unfit for Office
Washington May 14 The House Appropriations Committee approved a subcommittee finding Robert S. Lovett secretary of the Navy unfit to hold government office. The panel moves to block funding for Lovett and other named officials while Dies charges subversive ties. The Kerr subcommittee probes Lovett Watson and Dodd amid Un American Activities concerns. The report also clears Goldman Schmidt, Fahy, and certain Interior Department staff as fit for public trust.
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Then Islands
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D-Nc
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Goodwin B. Watson
William E. Dodd, Jr
Federal Communications Commission
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Watson
Dodd
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House Committee
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Jack Bradley Fahy
Interior Department
Allies Turn Air Power on Sicily Offensive in North Africa
Allied air forces struck Sardinia Sicily and Italy in a major, ground-troop independent offensive. U S bombers hit Cagliari harbor base. Liberators rain 250000 pounds of explosives from Malta Naples and Reggio Calabria. Pantelleria shelled by British ships. Naples targeted by Wellington raids. Nine German Italian fighters down. one escort plane lost. Observers call raid the most successful in recent weeks.
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Central War
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Flooded Arcansas reaches 1,150,000 acres as rivers crest
U S engineers estimate 1,150,000 acres inundated or to be flooded by the Arkansas and White rivers. About 3,500 infantry troops from Camp Robinson moved to defend levees under the 393rd Engineer Regiment from Camp Claiborne Louisiana. Troops deployed along the Arkansas river levees between Little Rock and Pine Bluff for sandbagging and patrols. Louisiana units aided along the White and St Francis Rivers in northern and eastern Arkansas.
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Reds Advance Toward Black Sea Port
Moscow dispatches report Red Army gains in the Kuban region and near Novorossisk as German counterattacks intensify. A heavy artillery barrage precedes a possible final push to push Germans into the sea while air battles rage from the central front to Warsaw.
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Leningrad
Berlin
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Monitor
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Poland
Liski
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Izvestia
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Lishchansk
Donets
Hitler Expected to Start Drive Against Soviets
Washington expects Hitler to attempt a spectacular victory over Russia in coming weeks to offset losses in North Africa. U S leaders and allies monitor strategy talks as Allied planning weighs a possible European invasion and intensified Pacific war efforts amid potential German responses.
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Battle Raging on Enemy Held Aleutian Base
United States forces landed on Attu, the westernmost Japanese outpost in the Aleutians, and began fierce combat Tuesday. Dawn operations, fog shrouded, followed May 11 landings as Tokyo broadcast claims of fighting intensified. Attu's seizure would curb Kiska and bring Paramushiru within aerial reach, shaping a broader Allied push in the region.
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Aleutians
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Ee Pacific
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Attu
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Federal Communications Commission
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Atsuta
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Japan
on'Attu
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Russia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Associated Press
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Alaska
Tokyo
U. S
Department Store Sales Rise in Eighth District April
Department store sales in the Eighth Federal Reserve district rose 14 percent in April from a year earlier. City gains included St Louis 3 percent, Memphis 32, Little Rock 28, Springfield 36, Fort Smith 36, and a 13 percent rise for a group including El Dorado Pine Bluff Ark Jackson Tenn and Clarksdale Miss.
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St. Louis
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of
Allied Air Forces tally 2000 enemy planes in North Africa
The War Department reported that Allied Air Forces of North Africa destroyed about 2,000 enemy planes and lost roughly 770 over six months and three days after French North Africa landings. In May alone, 300 Axis planes fell for 49 Allied losses, with May 7–11 showing about 11 Axis planes for every Allied plane.
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Washington
North Africa
French North Africa
War Department
Arthur W. Tedder
Senate Rejects Amendment to Tax Plan
Washington May 14 The Senate rejected 47 to 21 an amendment to the revenue bill to credit current payments against this year’s income and collect the full 1942 tax in 10 semi annual installments beginning next March 15. The amendment by Senator Ellender aimed to abate taxes, drawing opposition from Finance Chairman George. The vote clears the way for a separate proposal by George to abate 75 percent of a year’s taxes with 25 percent due in two installments next March.
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Senate
Ellender
D-La
George
D-Ga
Finance Committee
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