Lend-Lease Aid Accelerates To Allies In War Effort
Washington reports show 15th lend-lease annual view with $24.225 billion in equipment and services sent abroad. Britain and Russia receive the majority, with United Kingdom supplying aircraft, ships and weapons while the United States supplies planes and tanks for the anti Nazi campaign. China aided as much as possible with resources, and reverse lend-lease rises as Allies pool equipment.
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United Nations
Europe
Britain
Russia
China
Roosevelt
United Kingdom
Germany
Booby Trap Explosion Nearly Missed Gen Clark On Front
On the Fifth Army front in Italy Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark narrowly escaped death when a booby trapped abandoned German artillery piece exploded within 25 feet of his jeep. One soldier was critically wounded and several others injured. Clark continued his inspection after warning nearby troops about tampering with abandoned enemy equipment.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Mark YW. Clark
Clark
Hero's Widow Receives Posthumous Distinguished Service Cross
The widow of Pvt. Gilberto Estrada, Bisbee born and Nogales resident, receives the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for his lone action against an enemy gun nest during the campaign. Col. Edwin N. Hardy presented the decoration to Mrs. Estrada at a Saturday ceremony, praising her husband for noble courage amid fatal wounds.
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FT. Huachuca
Gilberto C. Estrada
Nogales
Edwin N. Hardy
Sa Estrada
Estrada
Allied Raiders Hit Kiel and Pas-de-Calais as Duisburg Bombed
A combined Allied air offensive struck Kiel's submarine center and the Pas-de-Calais fortifications while Duisburg endured a major daylight/night bombing. Up to 250 Flying Fortresses and Liberators led attacks with heavy fighter escort. British losses reached 30 planes amid a broader 3,000-aircraft assault targeting German transport and rail hubs.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Kiel
U. S
Pas-de-Calais
France
Duisburg
Hannover
Belgium
Europe
RAF
Germany
Air Ministry
Creqcenins
Rhine
Ruhr
Dortmund
Rhine-Herne
North Sea
Dortmund-Ems
Italy
Proposal to Affect Four Arizona Reclamation Tasks
Washington May 22 four reclamation projects in Arizona would be authorized if the Senate approves higher 1945 Interior Dept funding. The rise includes 15 272 000 for the Bureau of Reclamation and authorizes Colorado River front work and levee system Arizona California 300000 Davis Dam Arizona Nevada and Parker Dam area transmission line work Mouder canyon project 968000 and Parker Dam power project maintenance 350000.
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Washington
Arizona
Senate
Department of Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
Colorado River
California
Davis Dam
Arizona-Nevada
Parker Dam
Fhoenix
Ariz
Mouder Canyon
Arizona-California
Army Seizes Hummer Plant On FDR Order
Springfield, May 22. The Hummer Manufacturing company resumed production under government operation after workers returned to the early shift. 198 of 200 early-shift workers reported for 7 am, with 325 on two day shifts expected. The plant, employing 550 total, faced a 17 day strike by AFL machinists protesting a war labor board directive.
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Springfield
Hummer Manufacturing Company
Second Montgomery Ward
Nelson Talbott
War Department
John J. Saxer
Roosevelt
AFL
War Labor Board
Hummer Company
WLB
White House
Hummer
Army Begins Lt Swancutt Court Martial at Camp Anza
The Army opens the sensational court martial of Lt Beaufort G Swancutt at Camp Anza California for the March 5 shooting rampage that killed two 19 year old women Dorothy Douglas and Louraine Livermore from Long Beach California and wounded four others including a Riverside policeman. Swancutt who is hospitalized and in a wheelchair faces a murder case and a possible insanity defense. Capt Aubrey G Serfling is among the victims and the jury of 12 Army officers has been convened with the trial set to continue.
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Camp Anza
Calif
Beaufort G. Swancutt
Dorothy Douglas
Louraine Livermore
Long Beach
Aubrey G. Serfling
Preston
Minn
Riverside
Arthur B. Simpson
Arlington
Officers’ Club
Swancutt
la Crosse
Wis
Ernest Cole
Los Angeles
Charles A. Thomas
India
Mem
Russians Repel German Assaults Amid Heavy Losses
Moscow reports eight hundred Germans killed as Soviet forces fend off attacks along the Dnestr river northwest of Tiraspol and near Grigoriopol. Air battles also claim 28 German planes, with 52 downed the day prior.
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Moscow
Dnestr
Tiraspol
Grigoriopol
Stanislawow
Lwow
Poland
Radio Informs Occupied Lands Of D Day Needs
Gen Eisenhower's staff urged occupied peoples to aid the invasion by supplying precise local knowledge on roads bridges rivers and potential landing fields. The broadcast warned of reprisals and outlined how civilians should identify routes blocks woods and fords and advise on suitable landing areas.
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Ned Nordness
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Eisenhower
95YearOld Attorney Admitted To Supreme Court Practice
Dr. Joseph H. Shull a 95 year old Stroudsburg Pennsylvania lawyer and physician was admitted to practice before the supreme court today making him the oldest ever admitted His son Judge Samuel Shull aged 66 took the oath at the same time
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Supreme Court
Washington
Joseph H. Shull
Stroudsburg
Samuel Shull
Allied Troops Smash Japs in Myitkyina
Allied forces push the Japanese garrison into a corner of Myitkyina as part of a broader surge in northern Burma. More than 25 000 Japanese casualties reported since January with thousands more at risk of death or surrender in the Myitkyina and Mogaung valley sectors.
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Walter Logan
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
U.p
Myitkyina
Mogaung Valley
Burma
United Press
Frank Hewlett
Yitkyina
Irrawaddy
Police Plan All-Out Move On Gambling
Police Chief Harold C. Wheeler announces a broad raid campaign after Friday morning’s operation at the Post Office News and Smoke Shop on 11 South Scott Street. Charles Rennels faces a gambling bet charge tied to the raid and requests a two week continuance while Magistrate Paul J. Cella sets a one week delay and bonds him at 300 dollars.
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Sam Levitz
Reginald Proper
Proper
Frank Monahan
Post Office
South Scott Street
Harold C. Wheeler
Chief Wheeler
Charles Rennels
Paul J. Cella
Rennels
Cella
Marine Aviator Rescued After Desert Trek Near Hyder
A marine aviator from El Centro California parachuted from a single seat Corsair and wandered four days in the Arizona desert. He was found by a rescue party near Hyder Arizona weak from hunger but able to walk.
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Yuma
Ariz
el Centro
Cal
Arizona Desert
Hyder
Real Attack From England Set To Struggle For Berlin
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie forecasts a crucial European battle. The decisive fight will test Berlin’s west wall defenses as Allied forces press from supply bases and air power, with Italy’s front shaping the broader push toward Berlin.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Berlin
West Wall
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Marcus Island Air Attack by U S Navy Task Force
An American naval task force launched a two day air strike on Marcus Island 1,150 miles southeast of Tokyo. Japanese communique says over 32 American aircraft were shot down. Marcus suffered negligible damage. The raid demonstrates U S Navy reach near Japan.
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London
U.P
Japan
Marcus Island
Tokyo
United Press
Bonin Islands
Mins
Marcus
Soerabaja
Java
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Imperial
Ogasawara Islands
Miamitori Shima
Yanks Annihilate Japanese On Insoemear Island
Allied infantry supported by fighter planes overwhelmed the trapped Japanese on Insoemear in the Southwest Pacific. The advance was reported from Allied headquarters with details to follow on page 12.
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Insoemear Island
Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Insoemear
Marcus
76 Japs Killed For Each Yank In New Guinea
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS reports Japanese casualties in northern New Guinea at 3,829 for the month, 3,343 killed, equating to 76 Japanese dead per American in the Hollandia Aitape Wakde operation. American 28 dead, 95 wounded in Hollandia Aitape sector. Wadke area air weather hampered forces.
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New Guinea
Wakde
Hollandia
Aitape
Sixth Army
Wakde Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Tor River
Hollandia- Aitape
Wadke
Poles Enter Piedimonte in Liri Valley Advance Near Terracina
Allied forces push along the Liri valley and coastal front in southern Italy as Poles reach Piedimonte and Americans seize Terracina after a nine mile west coast advance. German forces throw reserves into the defense while suffering notable losses.
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Naples
Terracina
Anzio
Rome
U. S
Third Defense Wall
Italy
Pico
Monte Marino
Monte Antone
Monte Capiccio
Piedimonte
Liri
Eighth Army
Pentecorvo
Mark W. Clark
Monte Leucio
Pontecorvo
Cassino
Pontecorvo-Pico
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FDR
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U.S
Howard Flieger
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Gen. Clark
WLE
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Stilwell
England
Hitler
Fuehrer
Liri Valley
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