Roosevelt Seeks Uninterrupted War Production Policy
Labor front tensions flare after Roosevelt’s ultimatum to Akron workers and widespread threats. Rubber workers in Akron and Buffalo return to production, while Jamestown’s Martin Rockwell plant stalls as workers strike. Textiles mills halt pillowcase production for Navy. union cites wage delay at War Labor Board. 1,900 demonstrators claim authorization. company count about 1,300. Labor talks with CIO and Anna Rosenberg continue. Continued on Page Thirty-two.
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Edward G. Gray
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Mississippi Flood Peaks at Cape Girardeau
The Mississippi reached a historic crest at Cape Girardeau Missouri as floodwaters spread across hundreds of thousands of acres in an 218 mile stretch from Cairo to the mouth of the Illinois River washing away crops vital to wartime food. Army engineers predicted little downstream effect from the Ohio River and noted wartime analogies raised by Col Malcolm B Eliott about potential enemy actions.
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Ohio River
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Illinois River
Germany
Malcolm B. Eliott
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20 Per Cent Retail Sales Tax Forecast
Washington forecast a wartime 20 per cent sales tax on selected items amid talk of a spending levy. Morgenthau pressed for 16 billion dollars in added annual taxes, while pay-as-you-go plans were ironed out by Senate House conferees. The compromise includes a notch plan ensuring at least a $50 abatement for taxpayers with higher bills and full or partial abatements based on annual taxes, all applying to the year with the smaller income.
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Bickering In OPA Irks Brown
OPA Chief Prentiss Brown faced questions at a press conference after a public clash between aides Lou Maxon and Dr. J K Galbraith. Maxon warned of a mass resignation over policy control while Galbraith threatened to quit if Maxon gained authority. Brown said he would not bow to “absurd statements” and noted the agency’s 160,000 workers could withstand several resignations. Continued on Page Twenty-three.
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Indictment Weighs on Carnegie Illinois Steel over War Fraud
A federal grand jury in Pittsburg charged Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp and four employees with concealing and destroying records of tests on steel ship plate produced for government contracts at the Irvin Works. Indictments expected today as war fraud case widens from forged test claims involving Navy Merchant Marine and lend-lease orders.
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Irvin
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Merchant Marine
Planning Board Funds Approved in Senate Fight
Washington forces won a bitter 44 to 31 Senate vote for a 200000 dollar appropriation for the National Resources Planning Board after opponents failed to raise the amount to 534000. An Independent Offices Appropriations Bill of 2621000000 containing funds for the planners passed after a final amendment required Home Owners Loan Corp liquidation plans by July 1 1945. President Roosevelt’s uncle Frederic A Delano chairs the planning agency which Taft denounced as partly socialist and partly imaginative.
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Swedes Recognize Exiled Norse Leader in London Posting
Baron Johan H. Beck-Friis Swedish minister to Norway travels via Lisbon to London to assume the role as diplomatic representative to the Norwegian government in exile. This marks the first Swedish official liaison with the Norwegians since the Nazi invasion.
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Hedy Lamarr Marries John Loder in Private Beverly Hills Ceremony
Actress Hedy Lamarr wed John Loder in Beverly Hills California with just five witnesses. Judge Cecil D. Holland officiated the ceremony in a private gathering keeping the nuptials intimate.
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Hedy Lamarr
John Loder
Cecil D. Holland
Americans Crack Jap Ridge Defense on Attu
On Attu Island US troops breached the ridge defenses guarding the main Japanese position at Chichagof harbor after two days of intense fighting. A foothold on high ground was secured, and US warships with heavy guns targeted enemy shore installations. Carrier-borne planes supported the operation as a submarine was sunk following depth charges and oil slicks.
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Hawaii Gets New Army Commander
Lieutenant General Delos Emmons announced Brigadier General Robert C. Richardson will replace him as commander of the Hawaiian Department on June 1. Emmons declined to name his next post, calling San Francisco a pleasant place to serve, while San Francisco Congressman Welch said General DeWitt was expected to be transferred over disagreements with the War Department on Japan’s re admission to the West Coast.
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Richard J. Welch
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Quints Prepare For Ninth Birthday In Callander
The Dionne quintuplets, ten in number with their parents Mr and Mrs Oliva Dionne, prepared yesterday to mark their ninth birthday today in Callander Ontario, the first time the parents joined the event.
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Oliva Dionne
Not One World Peace Idea From Hoover and Gibson
President Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson urged Americans to view peace as more than a world revolution sparked by radio and air travel. In a magazine article they call peace a task for the American people second only to victory in war and caution against blaming all problems on America. They say military victory is only a halfway point to lasting peace.
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Mosquitoes Attack Jena By RAF Bombers
RAF Mosquito bombers flew 500 miles from England to strike Jena in central Germany. Two formations attacked Carl Zeiss and Schott glass works near dark, with heavy anti aircraft fire and a balloon barrage in Thuringia. Preliminary reports say both factories were hit. three aircraft were lost, two colliding over Germany.
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Soviet and Allied War Fronts Report Global Engagements
Bombs dropped on Lae and air offensives strike Sicily and Jena as Russia reports a major Kuban push. Attu forces breach Jap lines. German and Soviet clash near Krymskaya with heavy losses claimed by both sides. Berlin and Moscow offer competing narratives while river-front maneuvers unfold.
Royal briefing on American bombers at English base
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth met American aircrews at a United States bomber base in England. They viewed raids on Wilhelmshaven Paris and Emden and studied photographs as Col Stanley Wray described raids growing tougher. The King examined the Thunderbolt fighter and its guns while Col Arman Peterson explained the weapons.
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Hitler Reported Set on Defense for Summer War Tactics
Reports from Stockholm indicate Germany plans to keep armies on the defensive this summer to allow time and U boats to decide the war. For the first time in three summers no Nazi offensive is expected in the east. German news and pictures show emphasis on a defensive wall while training new troops and rebuilding after Donets basin, Stalingrad, and Tunisia defeats.
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Mantle Club Chief Guilty of Fraud
Pi-Hugh B. Monjar of Ardmore Pennsylvania, president and founder of the Mantle Club, was found guilty of mail fraud and violating the 1938 Securities Act. The verdict came at 10 10 p m after about eleven hours of deliberation in Wilmington Delaware court.
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Lae Hosts Heaviest Allied Raid Yet in Pacific War
Allied forces launched their largest Southwest Pacific raid on Lae in northeast New Guinea, using Mitchells Liberators and Beaufighters to drop more than 28 tons of bombs on airfield, dispersal, and supply dumps. The attack followed a Japanese raid along the New Guinea coast and aimed to thwart reinforcements after the March Bismarck Sea battle.
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French Revolt Against Laval Is Rumored
Dispatches from paused sources claim a plot in Vichy to oust Laval Deat and other old party chiefs. Royalists employers women and some volunteers who fought in Tunisia are said to back a move to form a cabinet of new men with Marshal Petain as regent and Petain remaining head of state.
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