House Approves Pay-As-You-Go Income Measure
The House passed 313 to 95 a pay-as-you-go bill wiping out 1942 federal income tax liabilities for about 90 percent of taxpayers and imposing a 20 percent withholding on wages and salaries, effective July 1. The bill abates the 6 and 13 percent brackets, reducing about 7.6 billion of the 10 billion in assessments. it now goes to the Senate amid party tensions.
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Washington
House
Robertson
D.-Va
Forand
R.I.J
Senate
Navy Links Are Menace to Japanese Bases Six Enemy Ships Sunk
The Navy reports a new chain of advance bases menacing Japan. Submarines sunk six Japanese vessels and damaged several others while a north Pacific battle near the Komandorskis ended with American torpedo attacks forcing a Japanese retreat. Casualties were light aboard the U S ships.
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U. S
Washington
United States Navy
Japan
Pacific Empire
North Pacific
Russell Islands
Guadalcanal
Solomons
United States
Pacific
Far East
Komandorskis
Bering Sea
Kiska
Attu
Associated Press
Rum Plan Battle Opens Pay As You Go Tax Shift
The House debated a Republican Rum plan to put nearly all 44,008 individual taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go system. The committee approved the Rumplan 197 to 166, and the full House then rejected it in swift action.
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Robertson
House
Price Ceilings Set for Substantial Food Items
Washington May 4. Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown says maximum price ceilings will be fixed on a substantial number of food items in about 150 cities beginning next Monday. The so called community maximums will cover poultry milk bread eggs butter cheese sugar cereals evaporated and condensed milk flour and more. Additional commodities will be added weekly to protect housewives. A stiffened enforcement program accompanies Sundays announcement. Roll back not yet in this plan but expected as a starting point.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
General Andrews dies in Iceland plane crash
Lt General Frank M. Andrews, commander of American forces in Europe, is killed in a plane crash near Iceland. Bishop Adna W. Leonard reports that Andrews and an enlisted man died with limited additional information available.
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F. M. Andrews
Iceland
Frank M. Andrews
London
U.S
Pittsburgh
Adna W. Leonard
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. W. Leonard, Jr
War Department
Andrews
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Middle East
Germany
U. S. Army
General Headquarters Air Force
Panama
Caribbean
Cairo
Hull condemns Admiral Robert over Martinique stance
Secretary of State Hull criticizes Admiral Georges Robert high commissioner on Martinique for refusing collaboration with the Allies. He says U S Navy will guide wartime policy and contrasts American aims to liberate French people with Robert’s Vichy alignment.
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Hull
Admiral Robert
Martinique
Washington
Georges Robert
United States Navy
Navy
Robert
State Department
United States
Vichy
Hitler
Antilles
Soviet Says Kuban Front Fierce Fighting Erupts
London report says heavy and bloody combat in the western Caucasus costs German forces manpower and equipment while the Soviets announce a withdrawal near Krymskaya. Luftwaffe losses run high as 65 German planes are downed and Allied air activity expands in the region.
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London
Western
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Krymskaya
Kuban
Berlin
Moscow
De Gaulle and Giraud Clash Over Unity in Open
In London General Charles De Gaulle publicly pressed for a unity conference to meet in Algiers and warned that he and the Fighting French would go there at once if allowed. He urged a united French resistance and a joint central authority at Algiers.
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London
U.P
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
Algiers
de Gaulle
France
Nazis Acknowledge Invasion Imminent
London dispatch reports Nazi broadcasts admitting the threat of an Allied invasion in Europe may come by amphibious strike on Sardinia and Sicily even before Tunis and Bizerte fall. Mussolini asked Hitler for aid as Axis nerves tighten amid war on the Russian front.
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London
Europe
Tunis
Bizerte
Vichy
Berlin
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Six Day Week Ordered in Coal Mines
Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes ordered a mandatory six day work week for about 530,000 coal miners. The War Labor Board again assumed jurisdiction in the coal wage dispute with United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis. President Roosevelt signaled the WLB as the final arbiter while noting no direct contract negotiation authority.
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Washington
U.P
Harold L. Ickes
War Labor Board
WLB
Ickes
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
New York
Roosevelt
Sea Gulls Blamed for Sabotage at Salem War Plant
Salem officials traced repeated electric eye signal alarms to sea gulls at a Salem war plant. Birds, seeking scraps due to harbor food shortages, triggered the warning beams as they flew past the sensors, causing three weeks of investigation.
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Salem
Mass
Allied bombers raid Babo Dutch New Guinea
Allied heavy bombers conducted a daylight raid on Babo in Dutch New Guinea, starting fires and damaging Japanese aircraft on the ground. Liberators hit barracks and jetties at multiple targets while two enemy float planes attempting interception were shot down. All Allied planes returned.
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M’arthur
Australia
U.P
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
Aroe Island
Lolobau
Kimbe Bay
Neck
New Guinea
Tajandoe Island
Tam Island
Langoer
Noenia
War Loan Drive Tops Target by Nearly Five Billion
Treasury figures show the 13 billion second war loan beyond the top by nearly five billion dollars with total sales at 17.819 billion in the campaign to fund wartime effort. Private William Leroy Stander of Ogden Utah earned the Navy silver star for conspicuous gallantry aboard a U S ship after a Japanese air attack.
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Washington
The
Treasury
South Pacific
U.P
United States
William Leroy Stander
Ogden
Utah
Navy
Montana youths to face Navy exams in Butte
A total of 277 Montana youths aged 17 to 20 who took an April 2 mental test for the Navy college training program have been summoned to Butte for physical exams and interviews by a Navy selection board based on the ninth floor of the Finlen Hotel. The board, led by Lt. J. J. McNamara, will process applicants May 10 and this week, with final decisions expected around May 15 after review by a Montana committee including J. L. Markham and Dr. Ernest O. Melby.
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Butte
Navy Selection Board
Finlen Hotel
Selection Board
Navy
J. J. McNamara
U.S.N. R
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
McNamara
J. L. Markham
Ernest O. Melby
Montana State University
Missoula
13 Persons Die in Munitions Blast
ELKTON Maryland May 4 Twenty persons were reported dead and scores of other workmen injured in a heavy blast and fire that damaged five buildings of the Triumph Explosive works. A Triumph official said a score were killed but many injured were in critical condition and the final toll was uncertain. State police described the scene as utter confusion with 100 to 125 injured.
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Elkton
Triumph Explosive Works
Triumph Company
Army
Third Service Command
Baltimore
U S Planes Bomb Antwerp in Second Daylight Raid
American Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force bombed the Belgian city of Antwerp in daylight, achieving a perfect mission report with all planes returning on time. Escorts included RAF and Allied fighters. three US planes did not return.
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U. S
England
U. S. Air Force
Antwerp
Europe
Eighth Air Force
Dominion
Eighth
Berlin
Associated Press
France
Holland
St. Nazaire
Allied forces push toward Bizerte amid reported resistance
Allied troops in North Africa drive along Lake Achkel toward the Bizerte naval base, occupying over half the lake’s northern shore and meeting resistance in rough terrain. American and French units press from Mateur toward Bizerte and Tunis, with Axis retreat continuing east of Mateur and new attacks on Pont du Fahs underway.
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North Africa
Bizerte
Lake Achkel
Associated Press
Harold V. Boyle
Mateur
Tunis
Boyle
Jenna
U. S
Ferryville
Bizerte Naval Base
Tebourba
Tine River
Algiers
Méditerranean
Lake Achel
Pont du Fahs
New York
WLB Official to Speak Here on Wage Stabilization
L A Hill of Minneapolis regional director of the wage and hour division U S Department of Labor will address a Butte business group Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce building on West Broadway. He will speak as a War Labor board agent and discuss wage and salary stabilization and the hold the line program to stop inflation. The meeting is arranged by the Chamber of Commerce Silver Bow Employers association and George L Martin secretary. W G Maloney local wage and hour inspector cooperates in arranging the talk.
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L. A. Hill
Minneapolis
U. S. Department of Labor
Butte Chamber of Commerce
West Broadway
Hill
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
Silver Bow Employers’ Association
George L. Martin
W. G. Maloney
Mr. Hill
Weather outlook with scattered showers and mild temps
A forecast calls for few widely scattered showers with little change in temperature on Wednesday and Wednesday evening. Tuesday’s temperatures show a high of 53 degrees and a low of 41 degrees.
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