Coal Miners Return Amid Roosevelt Warning
Workers in Kentucky Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio resume mining as President Roosevelt urges production. John L Lewis says coal output will restart Tuesday while United Mine Workers officials report rapid return of many miners. UM W policy meeting set in New York to discuss next moves as wage talks continue and government oversees operations.
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J. F. SANDERSON
WASHINGTON
C.P
John L. Lewis
Sir musics
United States
Adolph Pacifico
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Harold L.J Ickes
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Germans Flee Toward Bizerte
Allied forces push toward Bizerte as U S and French units advance from Mateur and Djebel El Dib. American troops enter Mateur, 18 miles southwest of Bizerte, while French and Moroccan goums close in along the coast within 15 miles of the Bizerte base. Prisoners are being taken as German positions collapse after two weeks of heavy bombing and fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UIED
North Africa
Mateur
Tunis
Bizerte
2nd U.S. army corps
Kef Adjal Touila
Lane Achkel
Jurgen Von Arnim
Bay Five Nazi Bombers Raid Allied Convoy Battle
Allied fighters escorting a convoy in the eastern Mediterranean shot down four of five attacking enemy bombers at dusk on Saturday. A fifth bomber was downed by anti air fire. All Allied planes returned safely to base per British communique.
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CAIRO
Mediterranean
Kidds of the Western Caribbean Smuggling Isles
The Kidd brothers from low Central American islands are labeled smugglers by heredity and dominate local mahogany and shipyards. They influence regional economy, operate amid arrests and vanishing evidence, and are seen as a thorn in United States economic warfare efforts in the Caribbean. The family’s activities create a cat and mouse dynamic that keeps essential supplies flowing with controlled disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Economic ‘Warfare
Mcenee
Kidd brothers
low islands
Central America
Millard
Foughterites
American Mercury
Gulf of Mexico
United Na aes
Caribbean
Kidd
Kids
tietr enterprises
Kidd matogany
Hidd
Allied Air Attacks Hit Dutch Port and St Nazaire
Allied air forces bombed Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to strike at German industry while heavy raids targeted the St Nazaire submarine base in France. Mosquito bombers attacked Thionville, torching iron shops as RCAF Spitfires patrolled Ushant. Several German fighters engaged but offered little opposition. losses occurred on both sides during the St Nazaire and St Nazaire raids.
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LONDON
RAF
Netherlands
Ijmuiden
St. Nazaire
France
Thionville
Lorraine
Paris
Brussels-Saarbruecken
Ushant
Ldr
C. M. Magwood
Toronto
Lloyd Chadburn
Aurora
Ont
Ken Marshall
Milton
NAZAIRE
RCAF
St. Naz
Storm Troops Chief Killed In Germany
London reports Vic tor Lutze chief of staff of the Nazi S A dies at 52 from injuries after an automobile accident in Potsdam. Lutze, an early Hitler loyalist, took the post after Roehm’s murder in the Nazi purge and leadership shakeup.
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Germany
LONDON
Ber-in
Victor Lutze
S.A
storm troops
Hitler
Potsdam
Lutze
Col
Ernst Roehm
storm triopers
Roehm
Submarine campaign sinks hundreds of Axis ships
British submarines report destroying or damaging 704 Axis ships on the Mediterranean “death rim” since Allied landings in French North Africa on November 8. Of these, 120 ships were definitely sunk, with many damaged vessels likely unable to reach port.
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LONDON
C.P
Mediterranean
death rim
French North Africa
Heghle
mort
Funeral planned for Capt Jessup and Lt Scott in Ladysmith area
Capt Ralph Campbell Jessup 45 of Macleod Alberta and Lieut Richard Alston Scott 22 of Melville Saskatchewan die in army vehicle crash near Ladysmith. Full military honors planned. Next of kin notified, coroner says no inquest. Jessup born in Walla Walla Washington. highly regarded in southern Alberta military circles.
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NANAIMO
Ralph Campbell Jessup
Macleod
Alta
Richard Alston Scott
Melville, Sask
Ladysmith
here
Scott
Jessup
W. H. Jones
Ralph Jessup
Alberta
Walla Walla
Wash
Roosevelt Radio Address Details War Effort and Home Front
President Roosevelt states in a radio address that the nation faces a critical wartime moment. He notes massive mobilization of troops and industry, farm production measures, and extensive home-front labor while praising workers, farmers, and engineers supporting airplanes, guns, and ammunition.
Jap Raiders Hit Darwin EPL BP
Allied forces faced a powerful Japanese air raid against the Darwin area and Arafura Sea, with 21 bombers and 30 fighters attacking the Allied airfield. Allied losses were heavy, while three enemy fighters were destroyed and nine fighters damaged as Allied airmen countered from New Britain to Timor.
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ALLIED
Australia
C.P
Darwin
southwest Pacific
New Britain
Timor
Mubo
Salamaua
New Guinea
Green's Hill
Breadner Sees Alaska Defences On Pacific Tour
Air Marshal L. S. Breadner and Air Vice-Marshal N. R. Anderson returned from a two week Pacific coast tour visiting RCAF units with US Army Air Forces. In Alaska the air staff said forces are adequate to meet enemy threat with visits to Kodiak and Aleutian area as weather allowed. In Vancouver they toured the new combined MUIRS headquarters overseeing Pacific coast operations and noted strong interservice cooperation.
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OTTAWA
L. S. Breadner
N. R. Anderson
Dominion
Pacific
R.C.A.F
United States army air forces
Alaska
air force headquarters
Breadner
Kodiak
Aleutian
RCAF
Robert Morray
Toronto
G.G. Diamond
Gladstone
Man
Vancouver
Anderson
MUIRS
Pacific coast
Reds Smash Nazi Attack in Kuban Front Fierce Soviet Night Shelling
Moscow dispatch says Soviet artillery raked German positions in the Kuban sector of the western Caucasus through the night. The midnight communique reported German efforts to widen the bridgehead were abandoned after a six day drive with about 7,000 Nazis killed. It also noted 200 more enemy casualties, 16 batteries silenced, and 10 blockhouses destroyed while Berlin claimed Russian attacks failed. Violent air battles persisted as Soviet bombers and fighters aimed to disrupt German offensive plans. A German assault south of Chuguev on the Donets front was repelled.
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MOSCOW
medatary
Kuban
Caucasus
high command
Berlin
Associated Press
Prus Sia
Red army
East Prussia
Chuguev
Donets river
Siarkovee
Sowa
Rae
Fire Ravages Hamilton Lumber Yard and Homes
A massive Hamilton blaze on Saturday caused about 150000 in damage, destroying a large lumber yard and four houses. Five firefighters and one civilian injured, several families left homeless as ARP volunteers and local citizens aided the effort. Canadian Army trades schools provided help as auxiliary police and responders secured the affected district.
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HAMILTON
Dominion Limber
Albert Frousseaux
AR.P
Canadian Army trades schools
Sharp Action on SEAW Recounted in May Conflict Report
New Delhi May 3 British communique reports sharp air and ground fighting on the east side of the Mayu ridge. RAF and Japanese planes exchanged blows yesterday during the battle of Surma. An ambushed enemy party on the Mayu ridge killed seven and shelled another position by artillery.
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NEW DELHI
Mayu ridge
RAF
Surma
zesit
Sabotage Suspected in Wreck at Arnaud Manitoba
Winnipeg May 3. Canadian Mounted Police military authorities and railway investigators probed a derailment of a Canadian Pacific Soo line special at Arnaud Manitoba. The train ran into an open switch. indications of sabotage were reported with three crew members injured. Conductor EB H Moultan survived with fractured ribs. engineer W J Yarde and fireman Joseph Cellen were hospitalized.
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WINNIPEG
Winnipeg Canadian Mounted Police
Arnaud
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
The
Winnipeg Tribune
Armand
The Tribune
P. H. Tucker
R.C.MLP
C.P.R
EB H. Moultan
W. J. Yarde
Joseph Cellen
One Third of Loan Passed Ottawa May 3 Victory Loan Progress
The Fourth Victory Loan enters its second week with 372,544,900 subscribed, over one third of the 1,100,000,000 minimum objective. Saturday subscriptions reached 59,785,550 and the first week total was 312,410,900. Officials note a 19 percent rise in dollars and 13 percent in subscribers, urging stronger effort nationwide. G W Spinney lauds Canada’s overall performance and the armed forces, especially the army, while stressing the need for higher gains.
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OTTAWA
national war finance committee
G. W. Spunney
Canada
Spinney
M.D. 4
Montreal
fis
British Sea Raid Sinks Merchant Ship Near Tunis Coast
A flotilla of British torpedo boats swept along the Tunisian coast, penetrating the Gulf of Tunis and drawing heavy fire from shore batteries. They sank a 20 million ton merchant ship after a strike near Ras Mahmut to Kebilia Roadstead, while carrier planes and destroyers engaged.
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GEORGE TUCKERE
Associated Press
mike abong
enemre-peid
fear Axk vemeth
Direachen
Ras Mahmut
Zembrella Irintal
Gulf of Tunis
Mussolini seeks German help in note to Hitler
A Berlin report cited by neutral papers states Mussolini asked Hitler for immediate military and economic assistance in a note. Other items include Athlone in Seattle for coast tour and regional loan totals rising in Moose Jaw.
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MUSSOLINI
HITLER
LONDON
C.P
Morocco
Berlin
Musesin
ATHLONES
SEATTLE
Earl of
etland
MOOSE JAW
Sask
Meme Jaw
TAGGART
OTTAWA
Ben. J. Gordon Targart
Saskatchewan
Canada
L. CUSHING
CALGART
EDMONTON
R. L. Cushing
Calgary
Alberta
Hs anneal
Howard Sértchbary
Tamsnten No
PLS
PEARCE
RCAF
dtcume
Selttel
frees Vulkan
Perree
GIRA
Browkin
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F.D.R
U.S
FDE
Bizerté
Red Adjai Touila
Marie Louis Koeltz
Djebel El Dib
Saouf
ATEUR
Ideida
Rpengere
ROMMEL
Edward Kennedy
LZFI
wey
AIDE ALLIED
sae
CAPT
Jap Raiders
EPL
REDS
Kebilia
Cape Bon
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