Senators Push Pacific Strategy Shift in Senate Debate
Senator Chandler urged immediate diversion of American forces to defeat Japan, sparking a two hour Senate debate. He argued for a Pacific first approach, warning that delaying could leave Britain weaker and Russia unlikely to aid. Supporters pressed for moving away from Europe and Africa, while critics doubted a Japan first victory could end the war. The exchange tied to Roosevelt-Churchill talks and Allied strength.
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Attu Aleutians drive reported ongoing with weather relief
Tokyo reports Americans reinforced and a possible turn in the Attu operation as heavy seas and fog hold progress. A Tokyo broadcast claimed naval and air bombardment aided reinforcements while U S Navy said operations against Japanese on Attu Island are continuing. The broader goal includes Kiska, where Japan has submarine and air bases.
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Centaur Hospital Ship Sunk by Japanese Submarine
The Centaur was torpedoed off the Queensland coast last Friday morning. 288 Australian and English medical personnel and 11 women nurses perished, 4 of 363 crew survived. Sister Eleanor Savage of Sydney, the only surviving woman passenger, helped morale with prayers despite injuries. The ship was illuminated and unescorted. it sank in three minutes with no patients aboard. Survivors spent 36 hours on a blown wheelhouse raft as the submarine surfaced nearby.
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U S Planes Raid British Wreck Nazi Dams To Flood Industries
British Lancasters flew at low altitude dropping mines that breached two large German dams and unleashed floods across the Ruhr and Weser valleys. Dams hit include the Eder with 202 million tons of water and the Mohne holding 134 million tons. Sorpe Reservoir was also targeted, affecting 70 percent of Ruhr basin catchment.
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Axis Blockade Runners Are Scuttled
British warships intercepted two heavily laden Axis blockade runners en route to German ports. Admiralty reports the crews scuttled the vessels the ships were the 3068 ton Hegensburg and the 4793 ton Sivaplana amid efforts to supply rubber tin and edible oils from Asian booty.
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Battle Casualties Pass Eighty Thousand in War
Washington reports the Armed Forces have lost over 80,000 men in 17 months of war with casualties expected to rise by about 5,000 as four weeks of Tunisian campaign reports are added. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard totals reach 23,955 casualties with 7,218 killed, 4,683 wounded, 12,054 missing. Army casualties through May 7 total 56,942 with 6,076 killed, 12,277 wounded, 24,345 missing, 14,244 prisoners. 4,006 wounded have returned to duty or recovered enough for discharge from hospital.
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Strike Delayed in Bitter Coal Wage Dispute
John L. Lewis announced from New York that United Mine Workers members will continue working under the retroactive extension agreement until midnight May 31. The War Labor Board condemned Lewis for defying its authority and refused to negotiate until he submits to its jurisdiction. Ickes urged continued work to enable immediate bargaining.
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Court Rules on Land Use Case in TVA Dam Land Take
The Supreme Court held that the United States need not pay compensation for potential profits from private development when land is taken for public use. The 5-4 ruling lowered a Fourth Circuit award of about $1,000 to W. V. N. Powellson, sole stockholder of Southern States Power Co., for 12,679 acres seized by TVA for the Hiwassee Dam and related uses in North Carolina. TVA said the award was excessive.
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Hull Spurns Republican Pact
Secretary of State Hull opposed a Republican bid to tie a congressional airing to reciprocal trade agreements. He warned any change could invite foreign interpretation and imply Congress might alter postwar deals. Hull acknowledged Congress can end a specific agreement by new law, otherwise only by executive action after three years.
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Northern Caucasus fighting. German assault on Kuban repelled
Soviet and Russian communiques describe heavy fighting in the Caucasus near Novorossisk with infantry, tanks, and air action. German losses include several tanks and batteries. Soviet airmen claim multiple enemy planes shot down. Reports also note 300 German deaths on Kalinin front near Moscow and Russian destruction of enemy positions along the Donets front.
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Howard Hughes Hurt in Lake Mead Crash
One man drowned and four others were hurt when a twin engine experimental flying boat crashed and sank in Lake Mead above Boulder Dam. Howard Hughes escaped with a minor head cut and three other injured men were taken to Boulder City Hospital.
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Love Sick Change Job Cleared by Board in Hartford
The War Manpower Commission Board of Review ruled that sickness of the heart is a valid reason for a young woman industrial worker to change jobs. The applicant, who claimed lovesickness, plans to leave immediately for Pearl Harbor Hawaii for a post in a government plant.
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Manpower shortage prompts call for pool control by WMC
Lawrence Appley of the War Manpower Commission told a wartime conference that national manpower reserves are gone and that the common manpower pool must be controlled. He cited 1,600,000 non agricultural deferments among registered men and warned that restrictions may be voluntary or compulsory depending on administration needs. Unemployment has fallen, he said, illustrating wartime economy needs as workers shift from production lines to military service.
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43 Jap Planes Attack Wau
Allied headquarters in Australia reported forty three Japanese planes attacked the Allied base at Wau yesterday. The communique said twenty two bombers escorted by twenty one fighters bombed the airdrome, causing slight damage and casualties.
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Roosevelt hints at veto on skip year tax plan
President Roosevelt warns he cannot accept eliminating a full year's tax burden on upper income groups during a war period. He backs pay-as-you-go taxation and urges a conference bill he can sign. House leaders say plan likely to pass. conference to amend the Senate Rum-flavored proposal remains possible.
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Government chiefs attack no strike bill in letters
A Washington group of top officials including William H. Davis Donald Nelson Navy Secretary Knox John McCloy Labor Secretary Perkins and War Shipping chairman Emory Land condemned Connally Smith anti strike limits. They argued the measure would fuel labor unrest hinder war production and disrupt dispute settlement machinery.
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General Gillem Succeeds Devers in Armored Force
The War Department announced Maj. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem of Nogales Arizona will be acting chief of the armored force, arriving at Fort Knox to take over from Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers who had been assigned to London as commanding general of American troops in the European theater after Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews died in an Iceland crash.
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Knox Sees Invasion Near Boston
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared at a Massachusetts Conference of Christians and Jews dinner that the Allied nations were gaining control of the enemy’s lines of communication and that the hour to strike at main fortifications in Europe and Asia draws near.
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Violent quake hits Guayaquil amid panic, no damage reported
A violent earthquake struck Guayaquil at 2:50 am yesterday causing panic in parts of the population. No property damage or loss of life was reported.
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