Sub Brown U.S. May Have Es Bits By U S To Turn To Off Attu
An American Catalina crew near Attu during the second day of the assault tracked a Japanese torpedo wake, dropped smoke flares, and corralled a destroyer to counter the threat. The submarine was later found and destroyed as reports credited Lieut. Jess B. Jolly and Lieut. John S. Murphy with the account. The same dispatch notes wartime pay as you go tax talks in Washington, with Morgenthau citing a need for 16 billion dollars in additional revenue and possible sales taxes under consideration.
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Eugene Subns
Bat Island
Navy
Catalina
Attu
Jess B. Jolly
Box 84
Turlock
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140Th Avenue
Jamaica
New York
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Jolly
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Wilbur Wehmeyer
Devonshire
St. Louis
Congratula Maen
Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Morgenthau
Capitol Hill
Congress
Legion to fire shotguns at Key grave Memorial Day
A 12 man American Legion detachment will fire three shotgun volleys at the Francis Scott Key tomb in Mt Olivet Cemetery on Memorial Day Sunday. The substitution replaces rifles as a wartime measure after rifles were donated to the national effort. The Legion voted to keep the firing squad tradition despite the change.
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Clifford M. Yinger
Francis Scott Key
American Legion
Yinger
Veterans’ Organization
Isis
Legionnaires
Hitler Plans to Stay Defensive and Use U Boats This Summer
Axis and neutral reports from Germany say Adolf Hitler will keep armies on the defensive this summer hoping time and the U boat campaign will win the war. No Nazi offensive is expected in the East for the first time in three summers while Germany trains new troops and rebuilds equipment amid Donets Basin Stalingrad and Tunisia losses. Reports claim an Atlantic wall and Mediterranean defenses are shown to neutrals though may be propaganda. Meanwhile Edgewater mine in Birmingham idle over a maintenance dispute affecting 1,700 workers. Monjar found guilty of mail fraud and Securities Act violations in Wilmington after lengthy deliberations. American tourist spending abroad exceeds 3.0 billion dollars annually in normal times.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
East
Donets
Stalingrad
Tunisia
Atlantic Wall
Mediterranean
Estonia
Russia
Black Sea
Caucasus
Balkans
Serbia
Greece
General Emmons Leaving Hawaii for New Post
Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, who stabilized the Hawaiian Department after Pearl Harbor, will depart the islands June 11. He is to be replaced by Major General Robert C. Richardson, with speculation he may lead the Western Defense Command in San Francisco. Emmons received the Distinguished Service Medal for his work, while the War Department dismissed reports of disagreements over policy as nonsense.
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Honolulu
T Oh
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Delos C. Emmons
Hawaiian Department
U.S. Army
Pearl Arbor
Emmons
Robert C Richardson
San Francisco
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
John L. DeWitt
Attu Island
Richard J. Welch
Strategy Conferences In Washington Ended
Washington reports that British and American strategy meetings ended with a public note by President Roosevelt stating full agreement on future operations in all theaters of the war. Churchill and Roosevelt held staff talks since May 13, signaling plans for intensified Allied action though specifics remain undisclosed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Perley
Surplus Of Wheat Feared In Postwar Talks
Canadian delegates warned a wheat surplus could arise from war expanded acreage. They urged preservation of the Washington postwar wheat agreement to stabilize supplies and prices, with export shares for Argentina 25 percent, Australia 19, Canada 40, and the United States 16. They also pressed freer postwar trade, arguing tariffs must fall with accompanying financial measures to sustain employment and income.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Feed Conference
Washington
Canada
United States
Argentina
Australia
Great Britain
G. S. H. Barton
Barton
Barclay Visits Senate in Brief Liberia President Speech
President Edwin Barclay of Liberia arrived in Washington on May 27, addressing the United States Senate after a visit to the Capitol. He delivered a concise speech that set an American record for brevity, honoring the post Casa Blanca visit by President Roosevelt and marking a significant moment in U S Liberia ties.
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Barclay
Senate
Washington
United States Congress
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Edwin Barclay
Liberia
House
United States Senate
Four Labor Parleys At White House
President Roosevelt held four White House conferences on labor and the economy with CIO leaders and union presidents. Philip Murray outlined CIO wage and price relief proposals, including subsidies, wage freezing, and War Labor Board powers, while discussing wage and inflation issues and a hoped early rubber strike settlement. Anna Rosenberg attended but gave no reason. discussions followed earlier CIO meetings in Cleveland.
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Roosevelt
White House
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CIO
George Harrison
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
David B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Anna Rosenberg
Cio-Afl Labor War Board
Murray
Executive Board
Cleveland
War Labor Board
Sub-Standard Steel Charged By Grand Jury
A Federal grand jury recommends indictments against Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp and four employees over substandard steel. The presentment cites concealment of material facts and destruction of records at Irvin Works. U S Attorney says indictments cover one phase while investigation continues. Judge McVicar signed the presentment.
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Pittsburgh
United States Attorney
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Murray E. Stewart
David B. Ireland
Walter J. Huemrich
John H. Mctonnell
Irvin Works
Corporation
Nelson McVicar
U. S
Charles Hohl
Ffour
United States
Carnegie
Rubber workers return to plants after wartime strike
Akron May 27 workers at Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and General Tire back on full shifts two hours after President Roosevelt ordered an end to a five day stoppage that left more than 50,000 idle. Union leaders said the War Labor Board wage case would be pursued by June 16, while production losses could exceed 18 million dollars as plants resumed operations manufacturing war materiel.
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Akron
CIO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
B. F Goodrich Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
General Tire &° Rubber Co
Goidyear Ooyerciuay Abidge
Fredict Hugo
Goodrich
United Rubber Workers
War Labor
George H. Bass
WLB
War Labor Board
Bass
Roosevelt
Goodyear
Firestone
Prisoner Who Cut Deputy Recaptured in Maryland
Randallstown May 2014 Prisoner Harry Handleman 43 who escaped Carroll County jail in Westminster last night after slashing a deputy sheriff was recaptured this afternoon by State Police Trooper Robert Morris near Liberty Road Harrisonville. He was taken to State Police headquarters in Pikesville. Handleman had escaped after cutting Chief Deputy Lee Cromer with a pocket knife and locking Cromer and Mrs. Charles Conaway in a cell while awaiting a preliminary hearing on burglary charges.
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Harry Handleman
Carroll County
Westminster
Sti Oe
Robert Morrris
Liberty Road
Harrisonville
Pikesville
Randallatown
Handleman
Lee Cromer
Cromer
Charles Conaway
Brown Sick Of OPA Rifts Amid Top Aide Feud
Washington May 27 AP The OPA chief Prentiss M Brown warned at a press conference that if his top advisers Lou Maxon and Dr J K Galbraith cannot get along he will pick the one he deems best and let the other go. Maxon and Galbraith clashed over control of policies and personnel sparking threats to quit and even a packing deadline. Brown sought to downplay the controversy noting the agency employs 160000 workers and could withstand several resignations. Production had resumed at General Motors where about 2000 workers were out although the wage decision did not affect them.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Lou Maxon
J. K. Galbraith
Maxon
Brown
Galbraith
General
Allies Drop 28 Tons Of Bombs On Lae
The Allied high command announced a heavy raid on Lae New Guinea, dropping 28 tons of bombs including 2000 pounders on the airfield and supply areas. Japanese counterattacks on Madang and Lae with 31 planes caused slight damage, while Allied jungle forces neared Salamaua within 15 miles, threatening the Lae base and hub on Huon Gulf.
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Lae
New Guinea
High Command
Morobe-Mambare
Noo
Huon Gulf
Salamaua
Madang
Labu Lagoon
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