Churchill Bids for Russian Aid in Pacific
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt announce a united front against Japan and plan a stepped up Pacific offensive. Churchill signals to Moscow that Japan pursues opportunism in Soviet relations while stressing continued Allied pressure on Europe and renewed anti-submarine efforts.
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Pacific
Washington
U.P
Winston Churchill
Roosevelts
Japan
Moscow
Russia
Soviet Union
United States
Allied Bombers Hit Jap Bases In Southwest Pacific
Allied headquarters in Australia reports single bomber raids on four Japanese bases amid bad weather. Attacks targeted Gasmata, Cape Gloucester, Talasea, and Madang with varying bomber strength and night sorties. Villages near Finschhafen also raided. overall, 14th straight day of pounding at Gasmata. In a separate note, M. Clifford Townsend named special War Food Administration representative to push a streamlined national food program using state and local administration.
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Australia
Southwest Pacific
High Command
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Japan
South New Guinea
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Talasea
Madang
Finschhafen
Omaha
M. Clifford Townsend
The
Food Production Administration
Chester Davis
Federal plan to raise Flathead Lake level in Montana
Federal agencies after secret investigations propose lifting Flathead lake water 17 feet above the present 2893 foot ceiling to supply Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River. The move aims to boost water for a vast power and irrigation project, addressing shortages at the Columbia.
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Kalispell
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Columbia River
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Columbia
Helena
Governor Ford
Army Engineers
Bonneville Dam Administration
Bonneville Advisory Board
Flathead Valley
Flathead
Bonneville Authority
Seattle
A. F. Winkler
H. C. Treloar
WLB Refuses 32 Wage Increase and Sets Bargaining Path
The War Labor Board rejects a $2 a day raise for soft coal miners but opens the door to increases near $1 daily via negotiated underground travel pay and other concessions. UMW leaders and operators plan talks, while union officials mull the decision as district presidents meet to decide next steps.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Electors to Vote on Poll Tax Bill
Washington dispatch reports the House approved a poll tax repeal measure by 265 to 110 allowing citizens in seven southern states to vote without poll taxes. A visiting sailor from Los Angeles protested from the gallery, citing Civil War loyalties as he questioned voting rights. He identified as Evan Owen Jones Jr, a two year Navy veteran who served in Singapore.
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Senate
Evan Owen Jones, Jr
Los Angeles
Navy
Singapore
Engineers Focus on Danger Points in Flooded Illinois River Region
U S Army engineers concentrated on the Beardstown to Grafton stretch of the Illinois river and the Mississippi near St. Louis as the most critical flood areas. About 10 000 soldiers and many civilian volunteers strengthened levees while Red Cross shelters housed evacuees. Beardstown’s Illinois river rose to 29 65 feet and could crest late Wednesday or Thursday.
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United Press
U. S. Army
Middle West
Illinois River
Beardstown
Grafton
Ill
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Red Cross
Illinois
Jap Air Attack on Island Meets Disaster
London reports a Japanese naval battle near Attu Island while U S defenses continue to tightencapture the island. Washington dispatch notes heavy losses for Japanese bombers as Army Lightning fighters engage over Attu with several bombers shot down. Two U S planes lost, one crew rescued, and earlier Saturday attacks on U S vessels yielded no opposition.
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Vichy Radio
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Attu
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Navy
United States
Compromise Tax Bill Written In Congress Deadlock Breakthrough
Washington May 25. Congress conferees reached a compromise pay as you go income tax plan. It would cancel a full year’s taxes for those owing 50 dollars or less and 75 percent for others. A 20 percent withholding on wages starts July 1 to bring taxpayers current. The remaining 25 percent would be paid over two years 1944 and 1945. The deal passed 11 to 3 and moves to the House then Senate. Doughton said both chambers could approve soon and the bill would cut about 6 billion dollars of yearly tax liability.
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Washington
Senate
House
Doughton
DN. C
Edsel Ford Dies at Detroit Home After Long Illness
Edsel Ford aged 49 president of the Ford Motor Company died at his Detroit home from a condition arising after a stomach ailment treated surgically 16 months ago. He had been in declining health after improving over the weekend and his death comes as Ford ramps up war production under his leadership. Ford, son of Henry Ford, led the company for 24 years guiding massive conversions to wartime output including bombers tanks jeeps and anti tank units.
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Henry Ford
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The
Ford Company
Roosevelt reports lend-lease totals reach 11.1 billion
President Roosevelt informed Congress that lend-lease aid through April totals 11.102 billion dollars and that Allies are building a formidable striking power for offensives toward Berlin and Tokyo. He noted Soviet shipments exceed Britain’s, but Britain remains the largest recipient overall. China’s share is clarified, totaling about 88.801 million with most being ordnance and aircraft.
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Tokyo
Soviet
Russia
Great Britain
Britain
China
India
Australia
New Zealand
Food Conferees Back U S Plan For Interim Food Body
In Hot Springs Virginia delegates at the international food conference voiced near universal support for a U S proposal to create a United Nations interim commission on food and agricultural problems. The plan calls for an interim agency by July 15 with 44 nations to have one representative each. Undersecretary Paul Appleby said the group could finish its work in four to five months and headquarters were presumed in Washington.
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U.P
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United Nations Interim Commission
U. S
Britain resumes major aerial blows against Germany
London reports large RAF formations, including heavy bombers, outbound over the southeast coast as Britain renews large scale air raids. Allied air forces attack Axis Europe from the west while US and British units in Africa strike targets in France and occupied Italy’s toe. Two bombers and two fighters are lost in the day’s operations.
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Britain
Europe
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Africa
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France
Dortmund
England
Dover Strait
Air Ministry
Nazis Using New Liquid Air Bomb Reported
London dispatch cites Rome radio claiming German air force deploying a new liquid air bomb. It supposedly destroys everything within 800 850 yards and yields blasts felt by bombers 14 000 feet aloft. AP heard the propaganda broadcast noting a recurring German radio theme.
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London
Rome
Associated Press
Nazis Move to Meet Invasion
Stockholm reports Germany has reinforced Jutland with about 150,000 troops, expanded coastal fortifications in Norway, and deployed 20,000 to Esbjerg. Observers say Jutland’s flat terrain, ports and roads suit rapid maneuvers for a possible invasion or defense against Allied landings in northern Germany and eastern Holland.
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Danish Jutland
Norway
Germany
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Denmark
Jutland
Esbjerg
Denemark
Slayer Sentenced in Maryland Manslaughter Case
Helen Aileen Randle, 31, convicted of manslaughter for the death of a 17-year-old boy she said cursed her, received a five year sentence in the Maryland women's prison on May 25 in Annapolis.
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Helen Aileen Randle
Maryland Women's Prison
Soviet offensives smash Nazi defenses near Kharkov
Soviet mid night communique reports thundering artillery scattering German concentrations northwest of Kharkov and smashing defenses southeast of the base. In the Gulf of Finland Red navy cutters outfight 13 enemy vessels, sinking two and damaging another, while a recon detachment in Sevsk area disperses about 800 troops and destroys trucks and an ammo dump. Snipers claim 208 enemy deaths in three days.
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London
Kharkov
Red Navy
Gulf of Finland
Monitor
Sevsk
Lishchansk
Donets River
Garfield School Area Faces Closure Protest by Parents
A committee of 25 Garfield school parents confronted the school board to oppose closing the district’s Garfield school area. They urged keeping the community intact and asked for temporary quarters if the building cannot be used. The board asked the group to send a committee to the next meeting for consideration.
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Scott Pries
Butte High School
Miners’ Union
Weather outlook with scattered showers expected
Little change in temperature with scattered showers. Tuesday's highs near 64 and lows around 37, indicating a cool, unsettled day with light rain likely across the area.
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