Stilwell Recaptures Lost Area in Southeast Asia Drills First All American Tank Unit
Southeast Asia HQ May 1 Lt Gen Joseph W Stilwell reports recapturing almost half the Mogaung Valley two years after a severe beating in Burma. Medium tanks spearhead a valley drive as hopes rise he may reach Mogaung before the monsoon. Japs mass near Imphal for a major assault on the main Allied base.
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Southeast Asia
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung
Imphal
Kilgore seeks answers on self sealing tanks for troop planes
Senator Kilgore asks Secretary Stimson about self sealing gasoline tanks and cockpit armor for U S troop transport planes after Sicily losses. He notes recommendations from North Africa investigations, but says nine months pass with no action and cites internal Army resistance to safety upgrades while paratroopers faced danger.
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Washington
Stimson
Kilgore
West Virginia
Military Affairs Committee
Truman Committee
Europe
Sicily
U. S
Secretary of War
Army
North Africa
P. L
Pass Captured by Japanese in Henan Province
Chinese field reports say Eulao Pass fell to Japanese forces, a strategic loss guarding Loyang in Henan. An eight day battle north of the Lunghai line preceded the seizure, with invaders fortifying the pass and threatening a drive on Loyang as American planes aid Chinese troops near Chenghsien.
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Chungking
Eulao Pass
Loyang
Henan
Yellow River
Lunghai
United States Army
Chenghsien
Boomtown on the Potomac as wartime life blooms
Washington buzzes with war era bustle from the $83 million Pentagon to crowded buses and slum housing. Reporters chronicle clerks and guards, the unknown soldier tomb, Eastman’s farewell, and Cabinet figures while Congress investigates wartime conditions and civilian life amid restrictions and flights of politics. The piece names Zemke’s elite group of American aces and other war personalities, painting a vivid panorama of daily strain and public figures in a city at war.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Potomac
Pentagon
Congress
Clare Boothe Luce
Arlington National Cemetery
Connecticut Avenue
Joseph B. Eastman
White House
Cordell Hull
Commerce Building
Department of Justice
PBI
Capitol
Howard University
Bombing raids on Truk meet weak Japanese response
Washington reports a long run of attacks on Japanese bases at Truk Atoll produced only meagre anti aircraft fire and failed to draw enemy planes. Forty one tons of bombs hit Truk on Friday and Ponape also saw bombing on that day. The Navy notes minimal resistance despite the bombardment. The text also mentions a May 1 date and a local American Legion Auxiliary meeting details.
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Washington
Navy Department
Truk Atoll
Truk
Ponape
Stock quotations from New York May First
May first closing stock prices include Alaska Juneau mike at 5 percent American Can 85 Anaconda 26 Beech Aircraft 8 Bethlehem Steel 59 Curtiss Wright 5 International Rooster 70 Kennecott 30 North American Aviation 8 United States Steel 52 and Dow Jones averages with industrials 137.06 rails taig utilities 23.60
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Beech Aircraft
Bethlehem Steel
Curtiss Wright
International Rooster
Kennecott
North American Aviation
New York Atrnl
Northern Pacific
Nited States Steel
Dow, Jones
Rails
Utilities
MacArthur Won't Run for President in 1952 Field Shock
Washington May 1 Gen Douglas MacArthur declared he will not accept the nomination and the movement to draft him has been knocked down. The Chicago headquarters of MacArthur for President Club announced disbandment immediately. Democrats to name delegates representing 476 convention votes and Republicans 351 in 26 states.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Chicago
Macarthur For President Club
Allied air and sea raids on Japanese bases near Hollandia
Allied forces directed mounting attacks on Japanese air bases west of Hollandia with emphasis on the Schouten Islands near Big Geelvink Bay. Liberators from New Guinea bases struck Mokmer airstrip on Biak Island, destroying fuel dumps and aircraft, while Allied warships bombarded Wakde installations with 75 tons of explosives and heavy bombing followed by 51 tons along coastal positions.
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Southwest Pacific
Hollandia
Schouten Islands
Big Geelvink Bay
MacArthur
New Guinea
Mokmer
Biak Island
Manokwari
Liberators
US 5 Vessel Sunk in Mediterranean Loss of 498
War Department announces sinking of American ship in the Mediterranean with 498 presumed dead or missing. Report notes heavy bombers and escort engaged by RAF fighters against a submarine or air opposition last Saturday during a Berlin raid. Sixty three bombers and 14 fighters did not return. eight eight Nazi planes destroyed on the ground.
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Washington
Mediterranean
War Department
Piet
London
U. 5
Berlin
Canol Project Refinery At Whitehorse Dedicated By Officials
Whitehorse Yukon May 1 officials dedicated the Canol oil project refinery near this Klondike town as part of a wartime emergency effort. The plant linked to 596 miles of 4 inch line from Port Norman Northwest Territory will provide aviation fuel gasoline and diesel for Alaska Highway operations. U S and Canadian officials frame the project as vital against a powerful foe with ownership and sale terms discussed postwar. Geologists estimate 50 000 to 100 000 barrels potential. The U S retains pipeline ownership until war end with Canadian purchase rights.
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Whitehorse
V. T
Alaska
Canada
Northwest
United States
Klondike
Port Norman
Northwest Territory
Mackenge King
L. D. Worsham
Northwest Service Command
Teast
Canal
Edmonton
Philbanka
Alaska Highway
Navy may seize halibut fleet to break tieup
Vancouver Sun reports OPA officials consider an early seizure of the entire west coast American halibut fleet by the United States Navy to break a fishing boat tieup. Officials at Thirteenth Naval Headquarters in Seattle say they have not heard such a report.
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Vancouver
B. C
The
Vancouver Sun
United States Navy
OPA
Seattle
Thirteenth Naval Headquarters
Thousand Planes Pound German Installations in France Raid
London May 1 Allied air forces attack northern France and northern Italy with about a thousand American bombers and fighters pounding Maintenon and Genoa rail yards as pre invasion pressure builds. The raid follows 3,000-plane strikes yesterday and continues the nightly bombardment pattern across Europe.
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London
France
Royal Air Force
Maintenon
Paris
Genoa
Milan
Italy
Stalin Warns That Allied Attacks Must Crush Hitlerite Germany
Stalin in a Moscow May Day broadcast credits American and British help but insists only a combined eastern and western strike can free Poland Czechs and others from bondage. In Washington the House Naval Committee approves $1.3 billion for more landing craft for invasion operations.
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London
Josef Stalin
Moscow
America
Britain
Germany
Stalin
Washington
House Naval Committee
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M. White
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Zemke
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Robert Johnson
Lawton Okla
Zemke Group
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TOF
American Legion Auxiliary
Yelork
Dutch New Guinea
Warren
GOP
Barl Warren
California
Ohio
John W. Bricker
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Max Ware
Bert Miller
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