War Moves by Air Power to Aid Free China
American air power is crucial to sustaining Chinese resistance along the Yangtze and aiding Kiang Kai-Shek’s forces. Japanese advances toward Chungking are checked as air support from Chinese, Allied, and U.S. units increases. With monsoon season ending, air deliveries and part shipments to China are prioritized to bolster the 14th US Air Force and air operations, shaping Allied plans through year’s end.
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U.S. Pat
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Yangtz River
China
Tokyo
Kiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Nihe Yangtze
Tungting Lake
Changsha
Indo-China
Burma
Kunming
Japan
Allied War Council
Washingon
Antistrike Law Moves Through House Amid Labor Clampdown
The U S House passed a stringent anti strike bill boosting the War Labor Board powers to compel witness appearances and curb union activity. It targets Mince Workers President Lewis, threatening fines and up to one year imprisonment for continuing aggressive labor actions in government mines. The measure, a substitute for the Smith bill, clears the House on a 231 to 141 vote and awaits Senate action.
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Washington
Senate
Lewis
House
Av Labor Board
Representives Forest A
Smithonnally
of Connally
Tex
Gov
Roosevelt warns miners on deferments amid suspected return to work
President Roosevelt says selective service deferments hinge on current employment and plans to direct UMW workers to return Monday. UMW leader John L. Lewis announces he will urge the union policy committee to order 530,000 striking miners back to work, though Lewis claims no direct power to compel.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Lewis
Solid Fuels
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers of America
Senate May Vote FSA Continuation in 1944 Bill
Senate appropriations subcommittee revised the 1944 agriculture bill to preserve the Farm Security Administration in its present form. It funds operating expenses at 29.6 million, elevates lending power to 97 million, and raises crop insurance and soil conservation to 400 million. School lunch funds reach 59.0 million, with an amendment to exclude soil money from price ceilings.
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Washington
Richard B. Russell
Senate Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Farm Credit Agency
House
John H. Banksead
Ala
Office of Price Administration
Russell
Canned Foods Prices Cut By Three Percent
A three percent reduction in the peak rate of tomato juice is the main change in the Jane revision. A complete table is shown on an inside page today.
French National Liberation Committee Debates Giraud Command
The Comite Francaise de la Liberation Nationale, formed to govern French territories outside enemy control, will study whether Gen Henri Giraud may keep command of the French army while Gen Charles De Gaulle co leads. De Gaulle resists a single military head, and a Lond on Telegraph dispatch hints at possible high level intervention. The issue was among several controversial topics set aside.
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Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
Henri Honore Giraud
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Comite Francaise de la Liberation Nationale
France
de Gaulle
London Daily Telegraph
Middle East
Telegraph
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Kinnick’s Son Nic Kinnick Killed in Action
In Omaha a telegram from the navy department notified Nile Kinnick Sr that Nic Kinnick former Iowa All American halfback and later assistant coach had been killed in action. The telegram gave no details on where the tragedy occurred. He had joined the naval service after the war began.
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Omaha
Nic Kinnick
Iowa University
Navy Department
Nile Kinnick
Deatas
Iowa
Kinnick
Naval Service
Hope of Finding Actor Dwindles
London air search for a passenger plane shot down en route from Lisbon to London continued in May with little hope of locating any of the 13 passengers and four crew. A Dutch communique said the search would run several days on the chance that survivors used rubber dinghies. Coastal command planes and naval aircraft aided the hunt over the Bay of Biscay, while Lisbon reported abandonment of the trace.
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London
Lisbon
Leslie Howard
Bay of Biscay
Lasbon
Russians Boost Nazi Plane Bag Over Caucasus Front
The Soviets report 23 German planes shot down yesterday, bringing total to 60 in the air war over the northwest Caucasus as ground fighting rages below near Velizh and the Kuban peninsula. Soviet high command cites 1,257 Russian planes destroyed in May with German losses at 143. Page Three continued.
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Moscow
North- West
Caucasus
Kursk
Berlin
Velizh
Velikhe Luki
Smolensk
Kuban
Novorossis
Crimean
Marine Sergeant Meskell Faces Year in Pacific War Zone
Tech Sergeant William T. Meskell, son of Oelwein’s Ross Meskell, returned from nearly a year in the Pacific theater. Enlisting Jan 4 1940 in Des Moines he trained at San Diego, earned a sharpshooter medal, and served as flight mechanic carrying supplies and wounded from combat zones. In 12 months he flew about 200000 miles and earned multiple decorations including Asiatic Duty and American Pacific Island Expeditionary Forces with two stars. He witnessed heavy combat and long shells near friendly positions and praises American air fighters as Japs learned to respect them.
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Uncle Sam
Oclwem
Tech
Willam T. Meskell
Ross Meskell
Meskell
Des Moines
San Diego
Cal
States
Pearl Harbor
South Pacific Islands
Pacific War Zone
Meskelle
Pacific
Italian Planes Abandon Sicily Amid Tense War Readiness
Allied forces intensified operations in the Mediterranean as Italy abandoned airfields in Sicily and Sardinia and moved garrisons to the islands. Sicily and Sardinia schools closed, buildings converted to military hospitals, and Italy gripped by fear of imminent Allied landings. Pantelleria remained alarmed while Naples faced RAF bombers, and Eisenhower reported Axis air strength eroding with ongoing bombings and aerial losses.
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London
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Madrid
Sargina
North Africa
Pantellone
Sicilian Narrows
Pantelleria
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Royal Air Force
Naples
Tunig
Dwight DB Eisenhower
Northwest Africa
Mediterranean
Eisenhower
Flers
Axis
Itajan
Poles Kill 54 Gestapo Agents in Underground Action
United Press reports Polish underground killed 54 Gestapo agents in April and ongoing sabotage in Denmark. British radio notes 40 Gestapo deaths in Lublin and 34 in Kielce, with others slated for execution. Danish sources describe four bombs at Aalborg cement plant causing widespread damage. A Nazi-controlled Dutch paper claims a man accused of striking a military polee man was executed at Ghent.
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United Press
Denmark
Axis Europe
Lublin
Kielce
London
Roerdal Cement
Aalborn
Jutland
Toulouse Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Epernay
France
Office of War Information
Ghent
Attu Casualties Final Totals Revealed
The Navy reported Attu campaign losses to the U S army at 1 535 casualties including 342 killed with Japanese losses at 1 791 dead and 11 prisoners. American totals: 342 killed 1 135 wounded and 58 missing. Some enemy bands roamed. no organized resistance remained.
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Washington
Navy
Attu
Db. S. Army
Tokyo
Henry L. Stimmson
Germany Out of War In Forty Four Claim
The article discusses Allied plans aiming to end the European war by 1944 with Germany defeated, Italy neutralized, and Japan by 1946. It notes the intent to prevent overburdening the Soviet Union while keeping Russia in the war as a key to European victory, and mentions strategies involving sea power around Gibraltar and movement toward North Africa.
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Washington
United Nations
Germany
Japan
Italy
Soviet Union
Red Army
Roosevelt
Churchill
Russia
Russi
Europe
Aais
United States
Africa
Gibraltar
Rommel
Demands Federal Liquor Rationing During War
ST PAUL Man UP Bishop Ralph Cushman president of the Anti Saloon League of America charged the Laministration is playing favorites by excluding liquor from the rationing program on the League's 50th anniversary. He said the League seeks temperance not prohibition and that John Barleycorn is sabotaging the war effort while pro liquor sentiment is entertained by the administration. He added the League will press vigorously in 1943 to stop dishonest liquor advertising shaming the nation.
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ST Paul
Ralph Cushman
Anti-Saloon League of America
Anti-Saloon League
John Barleycorn
Cushman
Argentine Revolution Seizes Buenos Aires Palace
United Press report from 1943 describes a military uprising that seized the Plaza de Mayo, drove out President Ramon S. Castillo and cabinet, and promised elections and American alignment. Gen. Pedro Ramirez led the revolt, with Gen. Rawson claiming triumph after routing Castillo toward a warship. Rebels called for unity, anti Axis diplomacy, and immediate action on Rio de la Plata pact.
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W. W
United Press
Buenos Aires
Plaza de Mayo
Ramon S. Castillo
Pedro Ramirez
Castillo
Ramirez
Antonio Rawson
Montevideo
Palermo
Ramiez
Ypmg
Rawson
Robustiano Patron Costas
Patron Costas
Gon Rodolfo Marquez
Butter Prices Lowered Today
DES MOINES. UP A five cent per pourrd reduction in butter prices went into effect today for low n creameries as part of price lowering action by the office of price administration. Reductions affect creameries primary distributors jobbers and retailers with June 4 for creameries and June 1 for distributors and jobbers. Retail cuts go into effect June 1. The five cent drop bases on cost figures with mandatory five cent retail reductions and in many cases six cents.
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Des Moines
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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F.R
Lable
Secretary of Interior
JEEP
Joseph S. Stein
Hollywood
Dakar
Earl B. Bond
San Antonio
International
Oelwein
Gether
Bill Meskell
E. R. Wheeler
Gestapo
U. S
East
Newark
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