Leaders In India Zone In Capital For Talks
Washington reports that Prime Minister Churchill brought three senior Indian-area leaders to discuss wartime strategy with President Roosevelt. The delegation included Field Marshal Wavell, Admiral Somerville, and Air Chief Marshal Peirse. No Indian officers are known to attend. Possible combined sea land air operations against Japan discussed. specifics unclear. Also noted: a small farm sale near Yellow Springs fetched $950 to Charles and Mrs Ramsburg, with H. Kieffer DeLauter as trustee.
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Pius White House
Churchill
India
Roosevelt
Mit
Japan
A. P. Wavell
James Soimerville
Ceylon
Richard Peirse
Britain
United States
China
White House
Claire Chennault
Court
Bombers Hit Catania Harbor Area In Sicily Raid
Cairo reports U S heavy bombers escorted by RAF fighters struck the Catania harbor in Sicily yesterday. An ammunition ship, a tanker, and other shipping were damaged or destroyed. Docks and harbor installations suffered, one mooring demolished. The raid claimed several enemy aircraft destroyed and one Allied plane reported missing.
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Americaon
Catania
Sicily
Middle East
Aegean
Thesr
Study of Bombing Vesuvius Reveals Uncertain Effects
London May 12 The Royal Air Ministry said no official report confirms a bomb dropped into Mount Vesuvius during a Naples raid. Sir Harold Balfour told MPs Japan’s Mount Fuji would unlikely be a better target and seismologists advise explosions would not reliably trigger volcanic activity.
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Naples
Vesuvius
House of Commons
Harold H. Balfour
Air
Japan
Mount Fujiyama
Balfour
Only Tax Forgiveness Comes After Death Says Editorial
Washington May 12 The Senate debates pay as you go taxes and the real relief for most taxpayers is delayed until death when estates avoid a year’s tax under current law. In the meantime tax bills rise as 1942 earnings base impacts payments and future increases await war funding, with higher income surtaxes likely targeted at the 2,000 to 310,000 brackets. Treasury highlights a surge in savings, with individuals amassing nearly 29 billion last year across bank deposits debts bond purchases and other securities.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
Mey
Treasury
Securities , and Exchange Commission
U S Planes Hit Jap Positions in Solomons
The Navy reported American planes of the South Pacific Command attacked Japanese positions in the control and northwestern Solomons on Tuesday starting fires at Kahili airbase and burning a seaplane at Rekala Bay.
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Washington
Navy
South Pacific Command
Solomons
Kahili
Rekala Bay
Seventeen Join Army Draft. Navy and Marine corps Also
The Local Draft Board One announced seventeen registrants accepted for service in the armed forces. Four will report for duty this afternoon, with Army inductees leaving by Baltimore and Ohio train for Fort Meade. Navy and Marine selections include Richard W. Conrad of Brunswick and Eugene Marice Bitler of Frederick, among others listed by locality.
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Armed Forces
Navy
Marine Corps
Army
Baltimore and Ohio
Fort George G. Meade
Thes Navy
Richard W. Conrad
Frederick
Brunswick
Robert Kenneth Danner
Earl Regina Macberry
Charles William Singer
Edmund Kirby
Washington
Elvin Markwood Keller
Middletown
Paul William Esworthy
Jesse Donald Boone
Raymond Wesley Sweeney
Meredith McBarger
Brunsai
Jonn Brunt Jr
Frederic In Harp, Jr
Freder Ariz
Histown
Richard Newton Conrad
Charles Davis Sheffield
Kenneth Foster Fagan
Fredera
Marine Cor
Eugene Marice Bitler
Dervitt J . Cisude
Russian Push On Eastern Front As German Losses Mount
Russian dispatches report heavy German casualties on the Leningrad front within the last 24 hours as Red Army forces launch new activity north toward Novorossiysk. Editorials claim Hitler Germany faces a decisive phase in the war, while Novorossiysk fighting centers on Russian air and artillery assaults. Meanwhile a public sale of the late John H. Gillis’s estate raises questions as the administratrix, Lillie M. Humm, notes $325 to $350 for goods.
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Leningrad Fron
Novorosisk
Black Sea
Leningrad
Red Army
Levestia
Germany
Novorossisk
John H. Gillis
Lillie M. Humm
Richard E. Zimmerman
Emmert R. Bowl
Cer
Testimony Heard on Compensation Claims at State Trial Board
Testimony was heard today before the State Industrial Commission in the courthouse court room regarding compensation claims. Commissioner Emanuel Gorfine presided as witnesses testified on the cases.
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Tes
State Ostrial Agceident Commission
Court House
Commioner
Femenuel Gorfine
OPA cuts new ceiling prices for meat nationwide
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration trimmed retail ceilings on beef veal lamb and mutton by one to three cents per pound effective Monday. Processed ham and picnic meat ceilings also lowered with a change allowing sale of one third ham slices. A further ten percent cut is planned for June with subsidy payments to processors. Retailers in large-volume classes begin prices ten percent below ceilings. Prices vary by zone and grades must be shown separately to prevent hidden increases and aid enforcement.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Brown
Nearly An Inch Of Rain Ends Dry Spell In City And County
A thunderstorm and showers ended a three week dry spell, bringing about 0.56 inch of rain total in the city and county. May rainfall reached 1.12 inches, with 0.18 inch in the 20 days prior. The storm began around 8:15 PM and continued overnight, with a low temperature near 6 degrees.
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Firaijly
Gasoline Famine Strikes Local Distributors
Local bulk plants describe gasoline stocks as critical and acutely low with terminals near dry. Distributors warn of possible exhaustion at filling stations and urge conservation to sustain essential services including physicians milk and farm operations. Some plants report 70 percent allotments, while war-front demand cited as cause for civilian stock decline.
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Dntes
Baltimore
Washington
Ifarmore
Statens
Mutual Re-Elects Officers At Annual Directors Meet
At the Mutual Insurance Company annual meeting of the directors, officers were re elected: President William M. Storm. vice president R E Delaplaine. secretary Miss Katie Seeger. treasurer L D Engelbrecht. clerks Miss Nora E Thomas and Mrs Viola J Fisher. executive committee W M Storm A L McCardell C E Cline. finance committee A LeRoy McCardell R E Delaplaine and W H B Anders.
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The
Mutual Insurance Company
William M. Storm
R. E. Delaplaine
Katie Seeger
L. D. Engelbrecht
Nora E. Thomas
Viola J. Fisher
W. M. Storm
A. L. McCardell
C. E. Cline
A. LeRoy McCardell
W. H. B. Anders
Court orders Austin Young to show cause for non support
A court order requires Austin A Young to appear Saturday at 10 to show cause why he should not be sentenced under an original conviction March 4 in Circuit Court for non support of his wife and two children. Young was ordered to pay 10 weekly toward their support. His wife Irene D Young alleges she is owed 40 in arrears as of April 15 in maintenance payments.
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Austin A. Young
Circuit
Young
Irene D. Young
Coal Truce Nears End Amid War Labor and Policy Options
Washington reports no clear path to avert a second soft coal walkout as the 13 day wage truce expires next week. Government eyes four avenues including Ickes leadership, a possible War Labor Board interim report, new Congress actions, and Roosevelt invoking broader powers to ensure coal is mined.
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Washington
Ickes
War Labor Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Consumption Of Dairy Products To Be Out
Washington May 12 Further restrictions on civilian consumption of dairy products seem likely as government dairy authorities doubt 1943 milk production prospects. War Food Administration officials discuss rationing fluid milk in deficit areas and evaporated milk nationwide, plus limiting milk use in some dairy products. A production study notes late spring conditions, retarded pastures and shortages of feeds and labor have discouraged hopes for a record 1943 milk output.
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Washington
War Food Administration
T Hought
Food Administration
Aftite Re Board
American Evacuation Hospital report May 16
Associated Press war correspondent Wes Gallagher suffered a fractured vertebra when his jeep overturned outside Bizerte two days earlier. The incident occurred near an American evacuation hospital in northern Tunisia, with the May 16 report noting the delay.
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Tunisia
Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Bizerte
Axis Prisoners Counted By U S Second Army Corps
An American staff officer reported 35,902 Axis prisoners held by the U S Second Corps up to last night with the number rising, though slowly. He noted a six to one ratio of Germans to Italians and said vast war materiel including 88 millimeter guns and tanks was captured, much to be handed to the French army.
New Milk Order Raises Prices for Shippers in Frederick
A new OPA milk order raises maximum prices for milk bought from producers in the Montgomery Frederick Prince George's area to reflect higher butterfat content. The change increases per hundredweight prices and per gallon rates, with adjustments based on butterfat levels. The order, effective May 1 1943, designates Frederick as part of the Montgomery Maryland area and requires purchasers to notify producers of adjusted maximum prices by May 20 1943.
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Frederick City
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Frederick
Rosenstock
OPA
Montgomery
Maryland
Prince George's
Rozenstock
Montgomery Maryland
Baltimore- Annapolis
Arlington-Alexandria
Baltimore-Annapolis Area
Baltimore
Thalso
Ballimore-Annapolis
Ballimore
Isolated Enemy Forces Surrender as Allied Push Advances in Tunisia
Allied HQ announced a major advance in Tunisia as isolated enemy forces surrender freely around Cap Bon and Bou Ficha, with air and ground patrols infiltrating enemy positions. The Sousse and Zaghouan regions saw renewed resistance, while Axis casualties and prisoner totals near 100,000 were noted, including 33,458 Germans among 37,998 prisoners in the Sre area.
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North Aferica
Run Bon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
K. A. N. Anderson
Cap Bon Peninsule
Tunisia
Cap Bon
Sre
Bernard Freyberg
New Zealand
Bou Ficha
Enfidaville
Eighth Army
Zaghouan
Zaghovan
War Plant Construction Now Sufficient For U S War
Washington May 12 The War Production Board ordered a sweeping cut back in new war plant construction and machine tool output as the nation now has the plants and tools needed to beat the Axis. Three killed Charleston West Virginia May 12 An explosion at the Carbide and Caroni Chemicals plant yesterday killed three workers and injured 12 as production continued.
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Washington
War Production Board
Charleston
W. Va
Big South
Carbide and Caroni Chemicals Corporation
Uruguay Breaks Relations With Vichy After Dupuy Arrival
It was announced that Uruguay severed ties with Vichy France after Luis Dupuy arrived here. Dupuy had previously been Uruguayan chargé d affaires in France, signaling a shift in diplomatic posture during the tense period.
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Uruguay
Moanievites
Ussteuge
Mayty
Vichy
Luis Dupuy
France
Rails Stand Out As Market Opens On Mixed Session
Quiet strength of loading rails stood out today in an otherwise ragged stock market where pivotal shares bogged down under modest selling pressure.
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