Allied Bombers Blast at Lae
A. F. Winkler of Kalispell told about 1,500 Flathead county residents that a federal plan to raise Flathead lake water level 17 feet is only a prelude to a broader program. He warned the level would be raised 20 more feet over farm and business land, affecting power facilities at major dams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalispell
A. F. Winkler
Montana Highway Commission
Flathead County
Flathead Lake
Flathead
Winkler
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Pend O’reille
Idaho
U. S. Naval Training Station
Farragut
Kerr Dam
Polson
Lake County
Somers Lumber Company
Allied air raid on Lae in New Guinea described as strong
Allied bombers with Beau fighter escort delivered the heaviest attack to date on the Japanese base at Lae, dropping 20 tons of explosives and incendiaries and setting fires visible 75 miles. The raid targeted airdrome dispersal areas and supply depots while Beaufighters strafed from tree-top height.
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Australia
U.P
Japanese New Guinea
Lae
Douglas MacArthur
Madang
Buna
Morobe-Mambare
Morobe
Mambare
Douglas Harbor
Labu Lagoon
Meat for Miners Drive Launched in Butte
A Copper Commando meeting at 112 Hamilton street formed the Meat for Copper Production Committee to press for higher meat allotments for miners. J J Harrington will chair the rationing sub committee and lead a community advisory group with Robert Newcomb as head editor. Publicity chiefs are Carl Trauerman and E G Leipheimer. The drive aims to educate Washington on the need for more meat to support copper production.
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Copper Commando
Hamilton Street
J. J. Harrington
Victory Labor Management Production Committee
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Washington
Robert Newcomb
Butte
Newcomb
Catherine Penney
Mary Orlich
Stanley Babcock
Carl J. Trauerman
Mining Association of Montana
E. G. Leipheimer
Montana Standard
Harrington
Stockmen Attack OPA Price Rollback Plan at Montana Meet
Harry B. Coffee of Omaha frames the OPA price rollback proposal as appeasement to John L. Lewis and a move to settle coal strikes. Montana stockgrowers hear from WPB official Robert Roemer and Agriculture figures Grover Hill and Col. S. H. Mitchell. Hill warns feed prospects are weak but suggests boosting soybeans and peanuts plus importing feed. About 13,427 Montana registrants defer from military service to farm work, with 25 percent in livestock. Dr. Butler reports disease control progress in livestock, including no sheep scab in two decades. Coffee urges unity against the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
OPA
Harry B. Coffee
Omaha
Neb
Union Stockyards
South Omaha
Montana Stockgrowers' Association
John L. Lewis
Coffee
Address Association
Robert Roemer
Denver
WPB
Grover Hill
Washington, D. C
Col. S. H. Mitchell
Helena
Selective Service
W. J. Butler
Hill
Department of Agriculture
South America
Canada
Montana
Mitchell
Butler
Machinists Leave A F L After 30 Year Jurisdiction Fight
Washington May 27 The International Association of Machinists led by President Harvey W Brown announces it will sever ties with the A F L on Monday ending a 30 year jurisdictional struggle with other A F L unions. The move comes as John L Lewis United Mine Workers seeks reaffiliation, threatening labor power balance. Brown says repeated efforts to settle the dispute failed and the situation has become intolerable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Harvey W. Brown
International Association of Machinists
Ina
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Big Bombers Smash at German Areas
London report details R A F heavy bombers striking German targets after Mosquito raids on Jena. The Jena attack hit Carl Zeiss and Schott works amid anti aircraft fire. Three bombers were lost, with a round trip over 1,000 miles.
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London
Germany
Jena
Air Ministry
Carl Zeiss Instrument Works
Schott Glass Works
R. W. Reynolds
W. W. Blessing
Reynolds
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Dortmund
Dusseldorf
Ardmore Man Found Guilty of Mail Fraud in Mantle Club Case
Hugh B. Monjar of Ardmore Pennsylvania was convicted Thursday night on charges of mail fraud and violating the Securities Act of 1933 regarding the Mantle club. The Wilmington Delaware report states he served as president and founder of the club and faced sentencing in the case.
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Wilmington
Del
Hugh B. Monjar
Ardmore
The
Mantle Club
Allied air offensive hits Sicily and Sardinia targets
U S bombers and fighter aircraft thundered over Sicily and Sardinia. They destroyed several Axis aircraft at Comiso and Biscari while attacking airfields, ships, and coastal targets. British and American forces also damaged Axis shipping near Greece and Pantelleria.
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Italy
Comiso
Malta
Ponte Olivio
Biscari
Pantelleria
Sardinia
McNair Says U S Army Hasn't Done Badly
General Lesley J. McNair at mobile headquarters in Louisiana on May 27 said the American Army hasn't done badly and has won battles but the price has been too high in some instances. He warned that the force has not learned lessons well enough to meet battle demands.
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Mobile Headquarters
Third Army
Louisiana
U.P
Lesley J. McNair
W H Hoover Elected Vice President of A C M Company
W H Hoover named vice president and general counsel of Anaconda Copper Mining Company at the board’s organization meeting after the May 19 stockholders meeting. The roster includes Kelley as chairman, Hobbins as president, Dwyer as executive VP, with Hoover newly added as VP and general counsel. Hoover, long a Montana figure, has held multiple director and counsel roles and was educated at Wooster College and Harvard Law School.
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New York
Cornelius F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
William Harold Hoover
James R. Hobbins
Robert E. Dwyer
Daniel M. Kelly
Clyde E. Weed
Frederick Laist
W. H. Hoover
Elbert O. Sowerwine
James Dickson
W. Kenneth Daly
Kenneth B. Frazer
Thomas E. Conrad
Jeremiah D. Murphy
Hoover
Butte
Lodi
Ohio
Abatement Plan Outlined for 1942 43 Taxes in Congress
Washington reports conferees refined a pay as you go abatement scheme to cut tax bills for 1942 or 1943. Morgenthau urged $16 billion in annual additional revenue and lawmakers mulled wartime sales or spending taxes. The plan provides full abatement for up to 50 dollars, a 50 dollar cap for 50 to 66.67 dollar bills, and 75 percent relief with 25 percent due in two installments in 1944 and 1945, all based on the year with the lower income.
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Washington
House-Senate
Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Delegates Fear Action May Upset World Wheat Accord
Canadian delegates at the UN food conference fear new wartime acreage measures or actions could disrupt the Washington world wheat agreement signed last year. Canada United States Argentina Australia Great Britain are major players in the pact aimed at stabilizing postwar wheat supplies and prices. G S H Barton urged preserving the accord as the basis for global trade stability while seeking freer postwar trade.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Washington
Canada
United States
Argentina
Australia
Great Britain
G. S. H. Barton
Weather Forecast Sees Little Temperature Change
A small shift in temperatures expected Friday with little change from recent days. Thursday’s forecast showed a high of 78 and a low of 34 degrees, suggesting cool early conditions and a mild day ahead.
Jap Defenses on Attu Are Shattered
United States forces announce a decisive breakthrough on Attu Island as Japanese defensive lines crumble under allied assaults. Reports credit heavy air and naval support, with American troops advancing to secure key positions and repel remaining pockets of resistance.
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Attu Island
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Attu
United States
Attu island battles and mighty Mississippi flood report
U S troops break Japanese ridge defenses at Chichagof harbor on Attu after two days of brutal combat as floodwaters push the Mississippi to a record crest at Cape Girardeau Missouri. Illinois flood impacts reach Beardstown with evacuations and receding water.
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Chichagof Harbor
Aleutian Island
Associated Press
Mississippi
Cape Girardeau, Mo
New Commander for Hawaiian Area
Honolulu May 27 Brig Gen Robert C Richardson will replace Brig Gen Delos C Emmons as commander of the Hawaiian department on June 1 Emmons declined to reveal his future post but said no place would be more pleasant to serve than San Francisco The report notes a transfer rumor involving Lt Gen John L Dewitt who headed the western defense command and the Fourth Army
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Honolulu
Delos C. Emmons
Robert C. Richardson
U. S. Army
John L. Dewitt
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
Emmons
San Francisco
Rubber Industry Resumes Production After Strike
Akron Ohio May 27. Smoke rose from rubber plant stacks as war production restarted after a five day general strike that idled 52000 workers. Officials said workers largely obeyed Roosevelts back to work ultimatum, with today set as the deadline for compliance and threatened drastic action if not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Ohio
U.P
Roosevelt
Berlin Breaks in Lines As Soviet Drive Presses On
Berlin reports a major Soviet assault against Kuban lines with 150000 troops, hundreds of guns, planes and tanks. Germans say they halted the breaches by nightfall after a strong counterthrust, while Moscow remained silent about ongoing fighting. The action targeted Krymskaya, near Novorossiysk, with heavy artillery and air support.
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London
Red Army
Germany
Berlin
Transocean
Associated Press
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Moscow
Krymskaya
Novorossisk
Chinese War Report Doubling Down On Yangtze Front
Chinese high command says over 1,000 Japanese dead south of Ichang in Hupeh as two of three columns push west along the Yangtze. Chinese defenses claim border gains and promise a decisive battle west of Ichang while warning the invaders seek to reach Chungking.
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Chungking
U.P
Ichang
Hupeh
Yangtze
Changyang
Ching River
Yuyangkwan
Chenchiatayen
China
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Kalispell Maps
Flathead Valley
Don Caswell
Machinists’ Union
By Walter Cronkite
Thuringia
Duesseldorf
Oslo
Kuban
U. S
Daniel DE Luce
Allied
North Africa
Greek
Cairo
Mediterranean
Greece
Northeast Coast
Massacre Bay
Holtz Bay Pass
Northern Force
COATS
Degibson
A.C. M. Company
By John M. Hightower
Navy
Lake Cories
Lake Nicholas
Ohio River
Ill
Illinois River
Malcolm B. Elliott
St. Louis
Beardstown
Dwight H. Green
Eugene Burns
Burns
Stimson
Hawaiian
Black Sea
Temryuk
Sea of Azov
Moldovanskoje
Hijevskoje
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