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Alex H Washburn argues for a permanent Pacific policy, criticizing U S drift in the Orient and praising Britain's balance of power approach. He warns against letting one nation dominate the East and urges multilateral stability to prevent wider conflict.
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Germany
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China
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Italian Ports Gel Taste of Allied Airpower
Allied air forces pounded Italian ports at Civitavecchia and Sardinia on May 15. Direct hits damaged ships and fuel stores, with an ammunition dump exploding near Civitavecchia. Sardinia saw three ships sunk and multiple vessels and docks damaged. RAF and US bomber raids targeted Cagliari, Alghero, Forta Torres, and Messina while Pantelleria faced repeated raids. Two Allied planes were lost.
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Jorge
Sardinia
Alghero
Forta Torres
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RAF
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Cairo
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Tunisia
Vuntsian
Andrew Browne Cunningham
Comunander
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Splendid
Mediterranean
Coincidence Bonds Two WAACs at Third Training Center
Marie Cambridge of Woodside New York and Winifred Anderson of Haledon New Jersey enlisted in the WAAC together and served in the same company and barracks at the Third Training Center. After basic training Anderson became an assistant to the chaplains and Cambridge joined the classification office before both again worked together in the chaplains’ auxiliary office.
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Chaplains' Office
Japs Lose 125 Of 300 Planes In Pacific
Allied headquarters report in Australia that Japan has had 125 planes shot down or badly damaged out of 300 risked in a series of raids since April 11. Attacks targeted Oro Bay, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, and a Darewin airdrome, with Japanese losses far exceeding 45 percent of planes used while Allied losses stayed under 10 percent in similar raids. Despite heavy action over Oro Bay, Allied losses were minimal and no fatalities were recorded.
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Australia
Europe
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Arkansas Flood Under Control Says Army Officer
Arkansas flood expert Col Charles F Johnson says the great river flood is under control in the Little Rock area with troops and engineering gear on scene. Vicksburg District engineers report no major damage expected between Pine Bluff and the Mississippi River as crests approach. floods have inundated hundreds of thousands of acres and Oklahoma deaths and missing persons are noted.
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Little Rock
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Eighth Service Command
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Pine Bluff
Mississippi
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Tine Bluff
Fort Smith
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Olsla
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Parry
St. Francis
Warborn
Red Cross
Albert Evans
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Dean Swill
Camp Chaffee
Ross
Ozark
Homer M. Adkins
Baccalaureate at Saenger on Sunday
The Slope High School commencement exercises will be held at the Saenger theater Sunday morning at 1 16 oclock with Rev Thomas Brewster delivering the sermon The public is invited The program includes processional invocation prayer scripture reading announcements sermon and benediction with a youth focus and Congregation singing Also noted are ancient Douglas fir specimens found in Canada believed to be about 700 years old
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Saenger Theater
Thomas Brewster
First Presbyteran Church
R. B. Moore
Millard Biaquett
Moore
C. P. Whisel
Brewster
Braggett
Canada
Calico pants save fliers in Pacific survival tale
Pearl Marbor reports a nine-man Army Navy group drifted 66 days after their bomber was shot down near the Solomons. A native sailor was enticed by a calico pants promise to sail them to safety, aided by a storm and a lucky compass. They endured rain, shark meat, and rough seas before contact with American forces brought rescue.
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Associated Press
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Navy Armay
South Pacific
Solomons
Balfour Gibson
Berkele
Calif
Bones
Classen
West de Pere
Wis
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Santa Barbara
Robert J. Dorwart
Seattle
Sergi
Donald ©. Martin
Chicago
Robert J. Turnbull
San Antonio
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Tech
Jim H. Hunt
Nan
Effingham
Veech
William H. Nichols
Kaiserhe
Navy
D. D. Wiley
Iowa
Lieut
Dorwart
Wiley
Kieta
Bougainville Island
Churchill and FDR Discuss Post War Plan
Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt press toward joint postwar strategy as they hold fifth day of wartime talks. They hint at future invasions and broader aims beyond immediate battlefield wins while praising the Home Guard and briefing on the Washington visit.
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Churchill
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Roosevelt
United Nations
Europe
White House
Home Guard
British Information Service
Marty L. Hopkins
Rubber Men Act to Slow Down Bombers
Akron D.1 reports brake research aimed at stopping aircraft after touch down. Engineers cite expander tube brakes as giving greater stopping power for bombers, addressing the challenge of short runways and long landing distances under current field conditions.
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D.1
R. J. Keller
B. F. Goodrich
Here's A House That Wants Kids In Manhattan Kansas
Mrs H K Work and her two children refused to consider any tenant without children when seeking to rent a home in Manhattan Kansas while her husband served as a lieutenant in the U S Navy in San Francisco.
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Kiel Is Target Of Latest U. S. European Raid
London reports a four ply American bomber sweep, the war's largest air offensive to date, striking Kiel and targets across Belgium Netherlands France Germany and western Russia. Allied air power, including RAF raids, underscores a coordinated push, with railways factories and naval bases hit and plans for broader European battle shaping up.
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Belgium
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Russia
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Britain
RAF
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Sardinia
Sicily
Naples
Italy
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Ruhr Valley
Czechoslovakia
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Duisburg
Ruhr
Nazis Renew Attack on Leningrad
Moscow dispatch from Hed Star reports a sharp German assault on Leningrad after a heavy artillery barrage. German infantry pressed toward the city in chains of men, with seven more attacks that day. Red Star says Russian guns repelled the assaults but massed German forces remained near the front, while in Kuban the artillery bombardment of Novorossisk continued.
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Eddy Gilmore
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Leningrad
Hed Star
Fromt
Red Star
Kuban
Red Army
Novor~ossisk
Lake Ladoga
Attu Island Battle Signals New Pacific Offensive
Washington reports a barrage of blows against major Japanese positions in the Pacific, led by Attu Island as U S forces push the Aleutians drive. MacArthur and Halsey meetings, Roosevelt Churchill talks, and Knox comments frame a broad wartime strategy with joint Army Navy air power supporting continued offensives across the Pacific theater.
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Kurile Islands
Deadline Tonight for State Income Tax Returns
The deadline for state income tax returns is midnight tonight, Saturday May 15. Blank returns may be obtained from TL Pilkinton, deputy state revenue collector at the courthouse, and must be filed, notarized, and sent with a check to the Commissioner of Revenues, state capital Little Rock. In wartime, demand for critical materials and factories rose. sugar rationing lowered output, with about 9 billion pounds of refined sugar reaching American consumers.
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