Attu Island Battle Ends with Allied Victory in Aleutians
American forces completed the three week fight on Attu Island amid heavy fog and cold, driving Japanese troops from the area. Casualties were estimated at 1,800 killed and 4 captured. mopping up operations continued as Japs offered little reinforcement and Kiska remained isolated.
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Kiski
Tokyo
Aleutians
U.S
Tunisia
Lake Cories
Lake Canirka
Fishhook Ridge
Chicagof Valley
Chicago Harbor
The
Solomons
Kiska
Federal flood grant supports six midwest states
ST LOUIS The six mid western states Missouri Illinois Oklahoma Kansas Arkansas and Indiana received 500 000 000 dollars in impounded PWA funds for flood rehabilitation from President Roosevelt. The grant requires a state match and allocates construction material priorities for the stricken areas.
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Mid
Missouri
Illinois
Oklahoma
Ranges
Arkansas
Indiana
Roosevelt
PWA
Knox urges swift demobilization preparation at Bethany
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told Bethany College graduates that to ease the shock of demobilization the nation must absorb millions of returning servicemen into industry business agriculture and education. He urged broader and improved education in the public interest.
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Bethany
Navy
Frank Knox
Bethany College
Knox
Dirigibles Predicted as Postwar Cargo Carriers
Karl Fickes Goodyear airship operations manager predicted widespread postwar use of dirigibles for long haul and large scale water transportation. He foresaw airship cargoes carrying trans Atlantic and Pacific shipments, with costs potentially shaping the future of air freight.
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New York
Karl Fickes
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Fickes
Butter Price Cuts Begin Amid Inflation Worries
Washington officials announce the first 10 percent reduction in food prices to Sept 15 1942 levels with June implementation. OPA chief Prentiss M Brown says more cuts to follow with meat and potato prices expected. living costs rise by 1.1 percent from March to April and 24.1 percent above prewar average. Congress moves to probe farm product marketing and distribution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Office of Price Adminstration
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Congress
House of Representatives
Senate
Agricultural Committee
FDR Fourth Term Favor in Poll
Fortune Magazine survey shows 64 percent favor a fourth term if war continues, 59.2 percent oppose if it ends. Majority rate Roosevelt’s war leadership as good and 66 percent approve home front handling, with fair or poor about ten percent. Princeton Gallup trial heat gives Roosevelt Wallace 54 percent nationally against Dewey and MacArthur 46 percent.
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Roosevelt
Fortune Magazine
Princeton
N. J
Gallup
Wallace
Gov
Dewey
Gen
MacArthur
Army Specialized Training Program Expands to 103 Colleges
Washington announces 103 colleges and universities chosen for the Army specialized training program. Twenty two of these will be star units for soldiers classified in special study tracks. By end of July about 60,000 soldiers will participate in programs spanning advanced engineering foreign area and language study medical pre medical dental and veterinary training.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Air Power Will End War Soon Arnold at West Point
At the United States Military Academy West Point a record 514 cadets graduated as Gen Henry Arnold, chief of the Army Air Force, declared the war would end soon by bombing military objectives with maximum destructive power. Among the graduates were the sons of 23 generals including Bruce Arnold, and 32 newly minted second lieutenants married immediately after the ceremony.
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West Point
United States Military Academy
Henry Arnold
United States Army Air Force
Arnold
Bruce
Hannah Williams Dempsey Divorce Case Chronicles Stage Fright
WHITE PLAINS N Y The Hannah Williams Dempsey divorce case moved toward a third round after a request for adjournment was denied as the judge ruled the defendant suffered not from illness but an acute case of stage fright Testimony described party scenes with Lew Jenkins Benny Woodall and Dempsey breaking down a door finding Hannah in bed and shoes under the bed Prosecutor Ned Peterson testified about the Los Angeles raid and a dramatic bedroom scene with Woodall in a red jacket Local tensions flared as Hannah cried out and Dempsey’s attorney challenged earlier defense efforts including phonograph records involving Yvette Colbert.
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White Plains
Hannah Williams
Jack Dempsey
Follies
Hannah
Mary Coehle
Dempsey
Champ
Woodall
Mrs Taft Dies Widow of President and Justice Taft
Mrs. William H. Taft widow of the 27th President and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft and mother of Senator Robert Taft of Ohio died last week at age 81. She was buried at Arlington Cemetery.
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Washington
William H. Taft
Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Robert Taft
Ohio
Arlington Cemetery
Office of War Mobilization created to unify war effort
President Roosevelt established the Office of War Mobilization led by James F. Byrnes to coordinate policies across multiple agencies, unify programs, and ensure decisive action on home front war efforts. The move signals a potential supreme command for war front matters, with key members including the secretaries of war and navy and War Production Board chairman.
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Roosevelt
Office of War Mobilization
Secretaries of War and Navy
War Production Board
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Supreme Court
Stamp honors Polish resistance to Nazis on sale June 22
The United States will issue a new postage stamp commemorating Poland's resistance to the Nazis with the first sale on June 22 in Chicago and Washington. It opens a series of 11 stamps honoring occupied European peoples. Postmaster General Frank Walker announced Chicago was chosen for the first day due to its large Polish-American population.
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Washington
United States
Poland
Chicago
Occupied
Europe
Frank Walker
Lincoln Kin Dead in Springfield Niece of Mary Todd Lincoln Dies
Mary Todd Lincoln’s niece Dr Mrs Louis Todd Keys dies in Springfield at 87. She furnished important personal data on Lincoln’s life before her death.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Louis Todd Keys
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Predicts Jap invasion on U S Pacific coast
Kilsoo Haan, Washington representative of the Korean National Front Federation, said on CBS last week that Japan plans to strike the U S West Coast between June and October 1943. Skeptics noted the U S still holds Hawaii and maintains a Pacific Navy.
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New York
Pacific
Kilsoo Haan
Washington
Korean National Front Federation
CBS
United States
Haan
U. S
Hawaii
Are Babies Allowed In Federal Housing in Greenbelt
About 100 expectant families in a federally operated housing project in Greenbelt Maryland question a lease clause requiring tenant notification of household changes and government written permission for additional occupants. The dispute centers on whether new babies or expectant mothers can reside in the units.
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Greenbelt
U.S
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William H. Standley
Standley
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Paul V. McNutt
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Treasury
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