Roosevelt to send message aiding democracies against Axis
Senate Democratic Leader Barkley said President Roosevelt plans a special congressional message soon to advance aid to democracies and curb Axis powers. He conferred with Barkley Vice President Wallace Speaker Rayburn and John McCormack in Washington.
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Roosevelt
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Henry A. Wallace
Sam Rayburn
House
John McCormack
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Italian Army Surrenders In Ethiopian War
The Duke of Aosta the Italian viceroy in Ethiopia accepted British terms for the surrender of Amba Alaji and its garrison. British and allied forces trapped the fortress 280 miles northeast of Addis Ababa and will enter today. Italian numbers ranged around 7,000 with reports up to 35,000 to 38,000 total including colonial troops. The capitulation follows shortages of food and water and a difficult rainy season ahead.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
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Rail Workers To Demand Big Wage Increase
Five major railroad unions announce a national campaign for a 30 percent pay rise for 350000 workers, with a minimum daily increase of 1.80 dollars. They will present demands to railroads on June 10 under the Railway Labor Act, aiming to cover all rates and allowances.
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National Railway Mediation Board
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British Bomb Air Base To Halt Nazis In Syria Raid
In Beirut May 19 U P British planes bombed the large French air drome at Palmyra and dropped leaflets on Aleppo Damascus and Deir Ez Zor. Iraqi high command says British armored cars were destroyed near Basra and two gunboats were damaged on the Tigris. The Baghdad radio claims sharp fighting in western Iraq with a column reaching Transjordan and attacks on British forces continuing.
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Baseball scores from the American and National Leagues
Box scores show Cleveland beating Philadelphia 9 1 0 while St Louis defeated New York 14 5 in the National League New York beat Pittsburgh 6 2 1 and other results include Detroit 14 Boston 2 and Chicago 9 Washington 7 plus Cincinnati 4 0 and Boston 3.
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Nazi Combination To Attack U S, Wickard Says In Talk
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard warned that Germany seeks a dictatorship coalition to attack the United States He said such a combination would be met with armed might in a Farm and Home Radio Hour address from Hutchinson Kansas The warning followed Hulls postwar objectives speech outlining fair materials and equal opportunity for all
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United States
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Hull
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
North Africa front line holds key frontier barrier
British and Axis forces clash along the Egyptian Libyan frontier as a prewar barbed wire barrier becomes the desert battleground. Tobruk bombers harry Axis supply routes while RAF planes destroy dozens of vehicles and several aircraft. Across the region, reports detail fighting near Fort Capuzzo Salum and the frontier as Axis advances and Allied defense tighten.
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RAF
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Case Offers Bill To Take French Isles
U P May 19 Rev Francis Case introduced a bill to authorize the secretary of state to negotiate for acquisition of French possessions in the western hemisphere. The plan covers Martinique Guadaloupe St Pierre Miquelon Clipperton Island and French Guiana with ships airplanes and cargoes as the French government may sell. Costs would come from a 2 billion stabilization fund.
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South America
New Mexico Families Flee As Levee Breaks
A break in the west Rio Grande levee at Palvadera forced 150 families to flee to higher ground. The 500 foot breach flooded over 2,500 acres of farmland and river bottoms about 60 miles south of Albuquerque, with CCC enrollees and officials helping evacuate residents. Nearby Bosque lowlands were warned after the break reached Socorro.
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New Mexico
Palvadera
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Socorro
CCC
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy
Coal Walkout Ends Quickly Pact Reached
In New York on May 19, a brief coal strike in the anthracite sector ended as the United Mine Workers of America and Pennsylvania hard coal operators tentatively agreed on a wage pact for about 100000 miners. John L. Lewis sent word for a return to work tomorrow. the deal offers a 7 percent wage rise through October 1, rising to 10 percent thereafter, after the union sought higher daily and contract wage increases.
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United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
UMWA
Coal workers and shipyards ease discord over defense output
Moves in the coal industry and on West Coast shipyards lift hopes for settlement of disputes risking defense production. About 100000 miners idle in Pennsylvania anthracite fields, as operators meet to resolve strikes.
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West Coast
Pennsylvania
Six Army fliers die in mid air collision near Mullins
In South Carolina May 19 six Army fliers died when two bombing planes collided in mid air while six planes were flying north. One crewman parachuted but the chute failed near ground and he died en route to Mullins hospital. Witness Harold Sawyer 19 said he saw planes emerge from clouds. Guards barred spectators as government agents prepared to take charge.
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Army
Here
Mullins
Fort Benning
Should Britain Take Syria And Force Vichy To Nazis
Dewitt Mackenzie argues the Italian surrender in Ethiopia frees British forces for a wider war. He warns General Wavell to strike the German Italian expeditionary force in Libya before they push toward Egypt and the Suez Canal, or face a two-front crisis.
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Egypt
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Suez Canal
Wavell
Middle East
Iraq
Treasury proposes broadened excess profits tax on corporate gains
Treasury official John L. Sullivan urged Congress to widen the excess profits tax to cover all corporate profits that rise during the defense period. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee he said many defense contractors’ profits escape the current tax. He estimated more than 1 billion dollars in revenue could be raised by extending the tax and combining it with corporation income taxes.
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John L. Sullivan
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Ways and Means Committee
Sullivan
Treasury
Roosevelt calls up eight guard air squadrons and units
President Roosevelt orders eight more national guard aviation squadrons an infantry battalion and a coast artillery battalion to active service with induction dates to be set by Army officials the units include the 121st coast artillery battalion anti aircraft Nevada 1st battalion 297th Infantry Alaska and aviation observation squadrons 121st District of Columbia 122nd Louisiana 123rd Portland Oregon 124th Iowa 125th Oklahoma 126th Wisconsin 127th Kansas and 128th Georgia each squadron has 116 enlisted men and 31 officers
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