Churchill pledges British war effort with US against Japan
Britain will fight Japan alongside the United States while strength remains, Churchill told Congress with Roosevelt. He noted Field Marshal Wavell’s presence at Allied talks did not aim to ease the war. The pledge underscores shared resolve as conferences continue.
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Great Britain
Japan
United States
Congress
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Roosevelt
Archival Wavell
India
Bombing Ruhr Dams Signals Air Power Threat to Japan
United Nations Headquarters in Australia reports Pacific air leaders praising the Ruhr dam strikes as proof air power can crush Axis life. They foresee similar damage to Japanese industry once American aircraft reach striking range. Officers say Ruhr shows air power as a practical tool to destroy military objectives across the Axis economy. The Japs are expected to learn this soon.
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Australia
Ruhr
Germany
Moehne
Eder
Allied Bombers Keep Up Attacks On Germany
Allied air forces continue heavy bombing of Germany day and night with sustained raids across continental Europe. Bomber streams press onward as defenses attempt to repulse repeated assaults.
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Germany
Europe
Germany Flood Toll Mounts Across Regions
Allied air offensives over France and northern Germany disrupt Axis rail lines. RAF Beaufighters join night bombings while London defences repulse early raids in retaliation for Ruhr and Weser valley bombardments.
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Air Ministry
Plight Of Japs Hopeless Unless Aid Is Received
Navy briefing from May 19 reports American invasion patrols on Attu have united and Japanese forces are retreating. Massacre Bay and Holtz Bay columns extended inland as final battles close in. A possible Japanese attempt to challenge U S sea forces could trigger a great sea battle.
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Attu
Ali II
Washington
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Chicago
United States
Weekend City Notes Include Weather and Oddities
Tuesday reports describe a large white dog blocking Highland avenue until moved by a driver, a student mistaking tin cans for lunch, boys launching a home made boat on the Neshannock River, and a heavy hail storm across the Ohio line. Rainy days hinder lawn mowing while a 4 30 bus ride prompts light ribbing at Highland hill before commuters reach Lincoln avenue.
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Grant Street
Neshannock 'S River
East Washington Street
U. S. Navy
Highland Hill
Lincoln Avenue
Daily Weather Report For The 24 Hours Ended At 9 AM
United States weather statistics show a maximum temperature of 83 and a minimum of 61 with 12 inches of precipitation and a river stage of 8.6 feet. A year ago the maximum was 86 and precipitation was 0.05 inches.
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United States
Jap Airdromes Hit By Bombers
Allied headquarters report new air attacks on four Japanese airdromes north of Australia and another assault on Wau New Guinea. Bombers struck Vunakanau Gasmata Cape Gloucester and Lae while recon flights over Steven Strait damaged a float plane. Casualty figures from the Centaur sinking off Australia’s coast were revised to 332 aboard and 268 dead.
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Lightning Strike Fatality In Maplewood Man Dies At Home
Pau Black a Wayne County merchant from Maplewood Pa was struck by lightning during a storm. He was knocked to the floor, rose to embrace his wife, and died shortly after.
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Pau
Black
Wayne County
Alford Named To New Castle School Board
Ira K. Alford of 915 Adams Street was appointed to the New Castle School Board to succeed Major Arthur B. Foster who resigned to serve in the Army. Alford will serve until December 1 1943 and an election in November will fill the six year term. The board failed to elect at its May 12 meeting with nominees Howard L. Reynolds and W. O. Potter, court petitions were rejected and Alford selected. Alford, longtime East Side resident and Thaddeus Stevens School alumni, is a plumber active in the Thaddeus Stevens School Reunion Association and will bring East Side representation to the board. His first session is tonight with a special meeting to adopt the budget and set the tax levy following last week’s disagreements.
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New Castle
Arthur B. Foster
Army of the United States
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W. O. Potter
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Thaddeus Stevens School Reunion Association
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Bomb Run on Wake Island Reports New Type Bombs
U S Air Force says Liberator bombers dropped 12 tons of high explosives on Wake Island. Col Clarence F Hegg led the raid using old and new type Zero planes, with cannon fired explosive bullets. No American losses. Japanese anti aircraft fire was wild.
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Wake Island
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Hartford
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Hegg
Lightning Ignites Wires at Butler Road Home
A Tuesday afternoon storm caused a short circuit in the cellar of Joe Glorioso on Butler road when lightning struck wires into his home. He extinguished the fire before Shenango township firemen arrived. their services were not needed.
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Joe Glorioso
Butler Road
Bombers Hit Trapani and Pantelleria in Sicily Raid
Allied forces launched heavy air strikes on Sicily’s Trapani harbor and Pantelleria Island. Flying Fortresses and fighters damaged multiple ships, with one vessel seen blowing up, as medium bombers targeted docks and rail yards.
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Pantelleria
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Panterellia
Strategic Air Force
Srmail Pantelleria Island
Tunisian
Showdown Looms Between Lewis and War Labor Board
May 19 report from Washington outlines a looming clash between John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers and the War Labor Board over miners' demands for a $2-a-day wage increase to cope with rising living costs. A nationwide coal strike threat looms as Ickes reiterates that any settlement requires WLB approval. Lewis refuses to submit his arguments to the WLB, warning of a general walkout if no deal is reached before the truce ends. He indicates negotiation with Ickes or mine operators acting for the solid fuels administrator.
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International News Service
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Harold L. Ickes
Lewis
WLB
U.M.W
Ickes
Solid Fuels
Violence flares across France over the Nazi slave labor decree
A Swiss dispatch reported by Die Weltwoche and relayed by the office of war information says protests erupted across France from Brittany to the northern border. Both young and old workers faced deportation as mass demonstrations took place from the Bay of Biscay to the Swiss border.
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France
Britanny
Die Weltwoche
Office of War Information
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Pyrenees
Tax Plan Faces 10 Day Deadline In Congress
Senate Finance chairman George Di Gaetano set a 10 day deadline for Senate and House to agree on a tax plan to allow withholding to begin July 1. He favored a 75 percent forgiveness, while Rumi and House plans would vary. conferees expressed frustration amid looming veto threats.
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George ‘di Ga
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New Clashes On Russian Front
Moscow dispatch reports fresh fighting between Soviet and German forces around Novorossiysk, with the Red Army repelling a new thrust near the West Caucasus. Soviet high command says 100 German troops killed and four boats sunk attempting to cross the Kuban river. The Moscow radio noted additional details.
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Black Sea
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Leningrad
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West Caucasus
Kuban
Grid Star Drowns in Youghiogheny River
Funeral services were planned today for George Kiefer 17 a Belle Vernon football star who drowned yesterday in the Youghiogheny River at Layton five miles from Perryopolis Kiefer disappeared while swimming with companion John Davis 17. Firemen recovered his body about 45 minutes later.
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George Kiefer
Belle Vernon
Youghiogheny River
Layton
Perryopolis
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John Davis
35th annual YWCA meeting speakers and elections
Dr Robert Meade Patterson, pastor of Central Presbyterian, spoke on The Hope of a New World at the YWCA 35th annual meeting held Tuesday evening. Elizabeth Emery reported elections to the board of directors and nominating committee from the YWCA board and general membership.
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Robert Meade Patterson
Central Presbyterian Church
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Tellers’ Group
Nancy Bechtel
P. Brown
Bernice Brothers Brown
Virginia Duf. Chambers
A. B Fankhauser
Jessica Jenkins
James M. Moorehead
Dorothy Young
Jesse Kerr
Ira Ramsey
R. L. Boyd
First Formal Review of New Castle Girls Athletic Club Drill
The Girls Athletic Club of New Castle Senior High staged its first public formal review in the Cathedral hall on Tuesday evening. Navy and white uniforms, precise marching, and a sharp manual of arms drill impressed the audience in a showcase supervised since February by Miss Margaret P. Fischer. Attending were United States Marine Corps officers as part of the reviewing party.
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New Castle Senior High School
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Margaret P. Fischer
United States Marine Corps
Floods Sweep Midwest Region Across Six States
Destructive flood waters spread across Illinois Indiana Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas driving thousands from homes and inundating thousands of acres of farmland. Weather bureau officials call it the worst central states flood in twelve years with millions in crop and property damage estimated.
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Weather Bureau
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Indiana
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Food conference sessions begin at Hot Springs
At Hot Springs Virginia on May 19 delegates from about 44 nations gathered for the first United Nations conference focused on postwar food. President Roosevelt urged removal of trade barriers and said cooperation is essential as Marvin Jones warned delegates their stay would be largely business with limited recreation.
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Hot Springs
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
Death notices of several residents in St. Louis area and nearby towns
Death records list Mrs. J. D. Bell age 88 of St. Louis Missouri Michael Kemesnik age 60 of Mora via street Alfred V. Ware age 71 of Croton avenue Miss Laura M. McNulty age 80 of Plain Grove township John B. Long age 33 of Ellwood City registered in the local notices.
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J. D. Bell
St. Louis
Michael Kemesnik
Moravia Street
Alfred V. Ware
Croton
Laura M. McNulty
Plaingrove Township
John B. Long
Ellwood City
Four Firemen Die in Salt Lake City Theater Blaze
Four firefighters were killed and at least twenty injured as a downtown fire collapsed the roof of the Victory theater during renovations. The blaze damaged department stores and imperiled Salt Lake City's central business district.
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Utah
Victoryv
Mrs Randle On Trial For Murder In Annapolis
Mrs Helen Aileen Randle, 31, society woman, goes on trial for the January fatal shooting of Allen Willey, 17, an Annapolis High School student. Indicted March 3 for murder, she is also accused of wounding her husband Alma S Randie, 34, a petty officer. The shootings occurred at the Randies fashionable home amid a quarrel among the three principals. Willey died the day after being wounded.
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Helen Aileen Randle
Allen Willey
Randle
Alma S. Randie
Roist
Randie
Willey
Dressed in Style: A Lobster-Laden Portrait of a Well-Tuned Youth
The writer recalls Arthur Mometer and Jim, noting their constant fashion and correct attire. They describe Uncle Sam influence and a confident, ready demeanor despite age, with emphasis on loud checkered socks and bright weather.
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Jim
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