Axis Air Forces Suffer Heavy Losses in Sicily Area
Allied spokesmen reported that within 24 hours about 70 Axis planes were destroyed or damaged as American fighters and bombers struck targets over Sardinia and Sicily. Flying Fortresses led attacks, grounding 44 aircraft and causing widespread fires. The blow disrupted Axis air efforts in the Mediterranean.
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Sicily
Merre J. Huss
SON. S
North Africa
Mediterranean
Sardinian
Strange Massachusetts Car Spotted on Mercer Street
A Massachusetts plated automobile with a gasoline sticker was seen on Mercer Street yesterday, underscoring the era's gas and travel constraints. The piece notes a CPA ban on pleasure driving in the eastern zone, plus OPA price guidance and blue stamp validity through May 31. City forester Owen Fox reports a park birding incident at Gaston Park where wrens argue over nest twine, ending with the male’s victory song.
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CPA
Washington
Pennsylvania
Owen Fox
Gaston Park
Park
Jenny Wren
Mr. Wren
Fox
Daily Weather Report United States Summary
Daily weather report shows today 24 hour period ending 3 am with maximum 81 and minimum 34 degrees, precipitation 0.48 inches, and river stage 7.3 feet. For the same date last year the record lists max 77 and min 67 degrees with precipitation 0.07 inches.
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United States
Recapture Of Attu Nearly Completed
Secretary of War Stimson announced American forces on Attu have captured a completed enemy landing runway and seized large quantities of equipment. Navy reports say Sarana Pass, opening the last Japanese positions on Attu, as U S forces press toward the final stage of the battle.
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International News Service
Washington
Stimson
Attu
Navy
Sarana Pass
Attu Island
May Air Offensive Aimed At Italy And Germany
U S reports a planned massive air offensive to knock Italy and possibly Germany out of the war in coming months. Churchill backs air assault as Netherlands exile government warns of intensified bombing. Success could save hundreds of thousands of American lives.
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Italy
Germany
Kingsbury Smith
Fh N. 7
Washington
Winston Churchill
Congress
Clermans
Netherlands
Local Soldier Listed as Missing In Africa
Mr and Mrs C R Campbell of 316 Harbor Street received word that their son PFC Jack O Campbell is missing in action in the North African campaign in Tunisia. The Adjutant General telegram said he has been missing since March 30. Campbell, born April 11 1914, enlisted July 24 1941 and served with the 38th Infantry 9th Division in North Africa since the invasion began last November. He had worked for Perelman’s before joining the service.
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C. R. Campbell
Harbor Street
Pfc
Jack O. Campbell
Tunisia
Adjutant General's Office
Pvt. Campbell
North Africa
38Th Infantry
Perelman’s
Longer Furloughs For New Recruits
Harrisburg May 20 Induction centers across the state plan 14 day furloughs for new recruits in line with a war department order. Philadelphia already has extended furloughs and the rest at Wilkes Barre Allentown Harrisburg Altoona Erie Greensburg and Pittsburgh will follow by month end. Dates for the remaining centers will not be announced in advance.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
War Department
Philadelphia
Wilkes-Barre
Allentown
Altoona
Erie
Greensburg
Pittsburgh
Army
Third Service Command
Driving ban may extend to the midwest says Ickes
Petroleum Administrator Ickes indicated that the ban on pleasure driving could be extended to the middle west. He said further gasoline restrictions may be necessary before the crisis is overcome and that this may require extension of restrictions to the midwest.
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C International News Service
Washington
Ickes Today
Middle West
Ickes
Mid-West
Allied Bombers Hit Sicily and Sardinia Bays
Allied forces blasted Sicily and Sardinia in heavy raids. American Flying Fortresses and bombers claimed 28 Axis planes shot down. Milo airfield and four Sardinian airfields were attacked, with several fires and many aircraft on the ground damaged. Axis fighters bolstered by air combat, nine to 38 fighters shot down several enemy planes while one Beaufighter helped destroy a torpedo bomber. Four Allied aircraft missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
North Africa
Sicily
Sardinia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Milo
Strategic Air Force
Targer
Plans for Move Against Japan Spotlight Allied Talks
Washington May 20 plans for intensive action against Japan dominated Allied strategy talks as President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met with the Pacific war council. The leaders were expected to report on grand strategy under development in White House conferences and how Hitler first approach might be altered to press Japan more forcefully. Pacific Allies especially China and Australia are pressing for greater emphasis on the far eastern theater of war.
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Washington
Japan
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pacific War Council
White House
Pacific
China
Australia
Far Eastern
Battle Action On Red Fronts Is Increasing
Moscow dispatch reports intensifying fighting on multiple fronts including Novorossisk and the Donets basin. Soviet forces repelled a German infantry assault, destroyed tanks and blockhouses, and shot down Nazi planes while artillery and air raids hit targets along the Leningrad, Kuban, Lisichansk, Izyum, and Sevsk sectors.
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DNB
Red Army
Novorossisk
Belgorod
Donets
Staraya Russa
Leningrad
Kuban
Sov
Izyum
Lisischansk
Sevsk
Kursk
Leningrad Front
Lewis Seeks To Rejoin AFL OfL
John Lewis aims to bring the United Mine Workers back into the American Federation of Labor Locally as part of a broader wage drive, with acceptance by AFL officials uncertain and jurisdictional disputes unresolved between AFL unions and UMW district 80.
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Lewis
A.F. Ofl
A. F. Ofl
N.S
Jack Vincent
Washington
John Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Nll
UMW
APL
Wiliam Green
AFL
UMW District 80
Falls 10 Stories Not Badly Hurt
Chicago May 20 Physicians reported Robert McDonald 33 weighing 240 pounds suffered no broken bones after a 10 story fall from the 14th floor of the First National bank building. He landed on a skylight on the fourth floor and sustained many bruises and cuts but no fractures per X rays. He leaped from a window as officers came to arrest him on a charge of beating a Milwaukee hotel bill.
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Internationa News Service
Chicago
Robert
McDonald
First National Bank
Milwaukee
Eight States Battle Floods Across Midwestern Region
Flood waters from swollen rivers inundate eight midwestern states including Indiana Missouri and Illinois endangering crops and power plants. At least eight dead with many missing while 20 000 in Indiana lose homes. Federal troops patrol flood zones as martial law is declared in Taylorsville and West Terre Haute. health officials urge boiling water amid epidemic fears.
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Ternational News Service
Midwest
Indiana
Missouri
Oklahoma
Taylorsville
West Terre Haute
Henry P. Schricker
Werellinois
Arkansas
Ohio
Oklaahoma
Kansas
Michigan
Allies Bomb Timor Airbase in Dawn Raid
Allied dawn attack by bombers and long range fighters hit the Japanese held Penfoel airdrome at Kupang Timor. Jets downed three Nip fighters and damaged others while three Allied fighters failed to return. Additional raids targeted New Britain Gasmata Cape Gloucester and Oro Bay as Nip air retaliation proved limited.
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Croternational News Service
United Nations
Australia
Penfoel
Kupang
Timor
MacaArthi
Nip
New Britain
Gasmata
Tanits
Cape Gloucester
New Guinea
Oro Bay
Douglas Harbor
Air
Death Record: Sherwood Brown and Anna Dusinczuk
The notice lists six year old Sherwood Brown of Apalachicola Florida and 66 year old Anna Dusinczuk of Ellwood City in a death record.
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Sherwood Brown
Apalachicola
Fla. Mra
Anna Dusinczuk
Ellwood City
School Budget Not Adopted After Board Meeting
New Castle school board adjourned after three hours without adopting a budget or setting the levy for the coming year. A special meeting is planned Saturday at eight to attempt budget adoption. If not approved by month end, the matter goes to Lawrence County court. Discussions touched teacher raises and janitor increases amid tax increase debate.
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New Caste
Lawrence County
J F Cable To Leave Service
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad honors J B Cable with a testimonial dinner as he takes extended sick leave after seven years as terminal trainmaster. Cable will relocate to Dayton Ohio seeking retirement after a rest period. Huston Rhoads presided at the event with notes of his career progression.
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Pilling
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. B Cable
Castleton
Mr. Cable
Charles
HH. Richards
Case
Akron Junction
New Castle
B. & QO. Railroad
Cable
Dayton
Huston Rhoads
Ag. Tonst
Hour By Hour Bombing Will Be Nazis Fate
London May 20 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the Conservative conference that allied bombing would continue hour by hour until victory. He echoed Churchill's Washington speech urging ceaseless air raids. Eden vowed Germany and Mussolini would not escape punishment as U S forces crush Japan on Attu.
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International News Services
London
Germany
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Washington
Eden
Mussolini
United States
Attu
Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Fear Deadlock On Tax Measure
Washington May 20 a senate house conference opened amid discussion of a possible deadlock that could scrap both tax bills. Fourteen conferees met in a secret session as Lea Walter and George Ga chaired the senate committee. Some conferees favored the Run plan but its fate looks doubtful after three adverse house rules. Senator Byrd and Senator Walsh signaled continued support, but a deadlock now seems likely.
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Robert Humphreys O.N
Sint
Washington
Senate
Rales
Marry Yr Byrddy
Conferver. Seu
David J. Walsh T
Mass
Bennett Clark
Walsh
Berlin Targets Again Bombed By RAF Fliers
Mosquito bombers of the British command hit Berlin last night as WW II air operations continued. RAF planes also struck airfields railways and canals in northern France and Belgium in eighth consecutive night of Allied raids with no losses. The Berlin raid was the seventh or eighth of the war against the capital, likely by Mosquito craft, which interrupted Nazi celebrations last January 30.
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London
British Bomber Command
Berlin
France
Belgium
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Germany
Dover Straits
Boulogne
Dunkirk
Raids on Berlin Cause Near Panic
A Berlin visitor reports persistent Royal Air Force raids creating near panic in the German capital. Destruction is described as enormous with residents exhibiting high tension amid the bombardment in May near Europe.
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Berlin
Europe
Roya Air Force
Penie
Adolf Hitler
Jeeps and their rugged, nimble ride praised by dreamer
The passage gushes over Jeeps, praising their tough build and smooth handling. It notes their ability to take punishment, endure rough roads, and turn sharply like a dog chasing its tail. The speaker dreams of owning one someday, despite doubts about age.
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Jack O, Campbell
Black Sea
By Natalia Rene
Moscow
Russia
West Caucasus
Donets River
Kharkov
Timor Island
Pentoei Airdrome
MacArthur
AIR Mail
Frank Gregory
Capitol Dome
J.F. Cable
C. H. Richards
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U. S
Kiel
Leon. Dolan
ONS
Unie Royal Air Force
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Arthur Mometer
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