Allied Liberators Hit 5000-ton Japanese Cargo Ship Near Wewak
Four Liberator bombers scored direct hits on a 5,000-ton Japanese cargo ship near Kaliru island, 17 miles from Wewak, as dusk fell Tuesday. The ship burned and listed while two smaller vessels near Wewak were possibly damaged. Japanese fighters and anti-aircraft fire contested the raid, with one enemy fighter damaged. Wewak area has faced repeated Allied attacks, with past months seeing dispersed convoys and bombings along the waterfront.
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Brydon Taves
M’arthur
Australia
U.P
Kaliru Island
Wewak
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
New Guinea
Timika
Dutch New Guinea
Tocal
Kai Islands
New Council Is Businesslike
The new city council held its first business meeting with Mayor Barry O Leary presiding. Absentees included Alderman H B Strasser and Alderman Emmet Malone. The body approved bids for police and public works equipment, garbage removal contracts, and confirmed several mayoral appointments to the fire department airport commission and city inspector posts. Bonds for department heads were approved.
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New
Barry O'Leary
O'Leary
H. B. Strasser
Northern Pacific Hospital
Missoula
Emmet Malone
Office of Price Administration
Police Department
Department of Public Works
Fred Martin
James J. McGuirn
James Malvey
Butte Fire Department
W. J. Magill
John Crawford
Tom J. Davis
Weather Forecast Continues Cool With Snow Showers
Continued cool with occasional snow showers on Thursday and Thursday evening. Wednesday will reach a high of 45 and a low of 31.
MacArthur commemorates Corregidor fall on anniversary
General Douglas MacArthur marked the first anniversary of Corregidor's fall in Manila Bay. He called the rock a barren site scarred by war yet symbolic of the nation's honor, saying until its flag is lifted the nation remains unredeemed before mankind and must reclaim the garrison's remnants as its Holy Grail.
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MacArthur
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Bulgarian Police Seek Assassins
In Sofia police raided areas Tuesday night in a bid to capture assassins of Col. Athanas Panteff former police chief killed Monday. Over 1,000 arrested in a two day sweep. foreign powers suspected. Sofia radio warns citizens to stay indoors as traffic and shops shut. Hungary’s regent Horthy suspends parliament amid regional unrest.
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Bern
Switzerland
Sofia
Athanas Panteff
Bulgaria
Associated Press
London
Panteff
Military Academy
Sofia Radio
Hungary
Nicholas Horthy
Hitler
Nicolas Kallay
Budapest
Kallay
Relief Agencies Gift Sparks $2.43 Million Donation Message
The Petroleum Industry War council presented 2,433,185.20 to the American Red Cross the Army emergency relief the Navy relief society and the United Service organizations from profits on rubber scrap. The payment covers a quarter cent per pound from last summer. No deductions were taken for drive expenses. Benes to visit Washington for May 12 state dinner at the White House.
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Washington
U.P
American Red Cross
Army Emergency Relief
Navy Relief Society
United Service Organizations
Petroleum Industry War Council
Boyd
Bombers Hit Dortmund In Massive Night Raid
London reports the largest four engine bomber strike yet on Dortmund, a Ruhr industrial city near Essen. The raid caused heavy destruction and fires with two ton bombs dropping at about four per minute. Thirty six bombers were claimed down by night fighters and anti aircraft fire.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
Dortmund
Germany
Cologne
Air Ministry
Essen
Ruhr
Daily
Berlin
Japanese Admit U S Attacks Near Coast
A Japanese naval spokesman Riichi Tanaka acknowledged in a radio broadcast that American submarines are operating within two miles of japan’s coast. He praised small patrol boats while noting a submarine event about 3,000 meters from land, escaping in mist.
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Japan
New York
United States
Riichi Tanaka
Tanaka
Russians Break Through Nazi Lines in Kuban Eight Miles Deeper
Allied dispatch reports Russian forces piercing German lines in the Kuban region and advancing about eight miles deeper. In North Africa, three Allied columns converge on Bizerte, with American and French troops nearing the coast as British forces hold position west of Tunis.
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Kuban
Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Bizerte
Mateur
First Army
Tunis
Tunisia
Cap Koran
Lake Achkel
Dijebel Cheniti
Ferryville
Lake Bizerte
Djebel Marina
Time
Tebourba
Medjez-el-Bab
Eddekhila
Eighth Army
Cape Bon
Reinforcements Arrive for Royal Canadian Air Force
London May 5. The arrival of new air force reinforcements from across the Atlantic for the Royal Canadian Air Force was announced Wednesday.
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London
Royal Canadian Air Force
Atlantic
Missing sub found in London report says Ulven located
London May 5 The Swedish submarine Ulven, reported missing, has been found. Reuters, citing Stockholm, reported the discovery on Wednesday night.
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London
Ulven
Reuters
Stockholm
George Forrest Death Probed
A coroner's jury in Butte exonerated all parties of blame in the death of 70 year old George Forrest, a city teamster, struck by a stray bullet April 9 while hauling equipment to a Mining city victory garden on the South Side. No shooter was named. Coroner Rudy Sagatovic presided.
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George Forrest
Butte Teamster
Mr. Forrest
Victory Garden
Rudy Sagatovic
Labor Board Resumes Coal Wage Controversy Hearings
The War Labor Board plans to proceed with a preliminary hearing on the coal wage dispute as John L. Lewis again signals he will refuse to attend. The tri partite fact finding committee was convened in New York for the session, with coal contract talks ongoing since March 10.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
New York
VU. M. W
Drafting of Fathers Set for August in War Policy Shift
Major General Hershey announced the induction of fathers would begin in August or sooner with new orders letting draft boards give preferential deferments to those in 35 essential industries. The plan aims to protect essential workers from early service while prioritizing less essential men for induction, and realigns dependents as a limited deferment factor.
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Hershey
Washington
U.P
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service Headquarters
Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Stimson
Kenneth D. McKellar
D.- Tenn
Wheeler
Kilday
Senate
House
McKellar
War Department
U S Planes and Supplies Sent to Russia in Lend-Lease
Washington reports that the United States shipped several thousand planes and many tens of thousands of trucks jeeps and other vehicles plus over one million tons of food to Russia. Through April 1 shipments totaled 3.5 million long tons valued at about 1.83 billion dollars with quarterly increases in early 1943. Most deliveries reached Russia with losses mainly on the north Russian route and many supplies moving via the Persian gulf route.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Stettinius
Persian Gulf
Americans Hit Japs Heavily
CHUNGKING May 5 The 14th United States Army Air Forces with new Liberator bombers struck its heaviest blow of the war against Japanese installations in Hainan island and the Hanoi Haiphong area. Four engined Liberators wiped out Saman airport on Hainan and supported on to Tokyo plans led by Chenault. Mitchell bombers attacked targets in northern Indo China as P 40 fighters strafed areas.
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Chungking
14Th
United States Army Air Force
Japan
Hainan Island
China
Hanoi- Haiphong
Indo-China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Saman
Tokyo
Claire L. Chennault
Tokyo Radio
London
U. S
Gulf of Tonkin
Soviet Planes Raid Rumanian Port Constanta
Soviet naval air force planes attacked the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta, causing fires and explosions as announced by Moscow radio. Rome radio had earlier said the raid occurred Monday night, though the Moscow report gave no date.
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London
Constanta
Black Sea
Moscow
Rome
Senate to Open Tax Hearings on Pay as You Go Plan
The Senate finance committee will study the House approved pay as you go tax bill starting Thursday. Chairman George of Georgia indicated Treasury officials would attend a closed hearing and major policy decisions could come that day or by Friday. Republicans and some Democrats favored the Rum plan variant allowing most taxpayers to skip a full year's tax. The House measure would lift 1942 liabilities for many filers with incomes under 2500 single or 3200 married, with higher earners still paying in the first brackets.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
Treasury
Senate
Wounded General McNair Returns to Washington
Lieut. Gen. Lesley J. McNair commander of the Army ground forces was wounded in Tunisia on April 23 and returned to Washington by plane. He went directly to Walter Reed hospital and was reported able to walk with no further condition details available.
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Washington
Lesley J. McNair
Army
Tunisia
McNair
Walter Reed
10 Inhabited Places Are Captured In Kuban Front
London report: Red Army breaks through German lines on a 1514 mile Kuban front and captures ten inhabited places plus Krimskaya. Soviets take Krasny Chernomorsky Zaporozhsky Vesely Sadovoi Bladodarny Melekhovsky Nizhne Grechesky Verkhne Adagum and Ne Berdjaiskaya, with 7000 enemy dead and 80 field guns seized. Yalta and Constanta raids aimed at hindering Axis evacuation and reinforce moves.
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London
U.P
Kuban
Krimskaya
Russia
Moscow
Neberdjaiskaya
Novorossisk
Yalta
Crimea
Constanta
Rumania
Bryansk
Gomel
Brest-Litovsk
Germany
Caucasus
Ludwig Sertorius
Transocean Agency
Sertorius
Krimsyaka
Krasny
Connally Bill Passes Senate To Expand War Powers
The Senate approved the Connally measure by 63 to 16 to bolster President Roosevelt's authority to seize and run plants shut down by labor strikes. It marks the first anti strike legislation approved by the Senate since the war began after John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers rebuffed the War Labor Board over a coal field shutdown.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Connally
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Butte High Names 27 to National Honor Society
Twenty seven Butte high school seniors were named members of the National Honor Society of Secondary Schools. Selection honors character service scholarship and leadership with members maintaining a 2.2 grade average or higher. Pins will be awarded at a May 18 PTA meeting in the school auditorium. The 1943 members include Lila Achten Christine Austreng Lenora Babcock Dan Bartlett Bonita Butterworth Caroline Collins Bob Darragh Phyllis Dunstan Marjorie Floyd Shirley Honsinger John L. Johnson Elizabeth Jordan Marjorie Julson Helen Lloyd Roberta Milligan Bernice Murphy Elizabeth Nelson Jean Oxley Ray Peskur Jim Proffitt Betty Scalabria William Slager Lawrence Stork Phyllis Storer Ills Andree Yeager and a
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Butte High School
National Honor Society of
United States
National Association of
National Education Association
Parent-Teacher Association
National Honor Society of Secondary Schools
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Butte High
Lila Achten
Christine Austreng
Lenora Babcock
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U.S. Washington
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
White House
German City
England
United Press
Nauru
South Pacific
Truk
Seventh Air Force
Labor Board
Henry L. Stimson
Department
Selective Service
Armed Services
Rumanian
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