Axis envoys in U.S. may depart tonight
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Ceilings on prices threaten stores’ working capital
Trade association officials believe OPA should act quickly to offset lag between wholesale and retail costs
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Casualty list raises Army’s losses to 404
Names of 121 U.S. soldiers killed in Philippines are revealed
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Jap admiral predicts attack on MacArthur lifeline
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign writer
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Dimout ordered by Army on New England coastline
San Francisco has alert; Detroit industrial area and Key West, Fla., hold practice alarms
By the United Press
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Subs’ menace off U.S. coast being beaten
American, British navies map big drive, Admiral Stark also says
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Miss Jean E. Blotzer, a graduate nurse of St. Joseph’s Hospital, has cabled her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blotzer, of Inland Ave., Kennywood, that she is well and happy. Miss Blotzer sailed with the U.S. Army.
White House message to the Daughters of the American Revolution
May 04, 1942
My dear Mrs. Pouch:
During times of peace, there are intervals when it seems difficult to keep alive the outward manifestations of patriotism. As a result, we sometimes wonder whether the new generation has forgotten the sacrifices and heroism of our forefathers, whether the inheritors of this America are confused in purpose and soft in deeds.
The war is now five months old and we have had our answer. Two million men have been called to arms. In far places and near, our soldiers, our sailors, our air pilots, the beleaguered men of the merchant marine, have shown the stuff of heroes. Everything we have asked of them they have delivered. Everything – and more. There was no confusion of purpose, no softness in deeds, in Bataan. There were heroes at Wake Island and Pearl Harbor and in the rice paddies of Java.
Our men in uniform have proved worthy of America. Now it is up to us at home to prove worthy of them. They have set us an example of sacrifice, of unity, of singleness of purpose that we on the home front must emulate if the Nation is to survive.
There is a message that I wish every delegate to the 51st continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution would carry home with her, carry home to her townsmen, her friends, her neighbors. It is in the words of Thomas Jefferson. 133 years ago, Jefferson wrote:
The times do certainly render it incumbent on all good citizens, attached to the rights and honor of their country, to bury in oblivion all internal differences and rally around the standard of their country.
U.S. War Department (May 5, 1942)
Army Communiqué No. 214
Philippine theater.
General Wainwright’s forces defending the island forts of the entrance to Manila Bay were bombarded by enemy artillery for five hours today. Japanese batteries, including many 240-mm guns, kept up a continuous shelling of all of our forts, with a particularly intense fire on Corregidor.
For the third consecutive day, there was 13 separate air attacks on Corregidor. The Japanese used both light and heavy bombers in their raids.
Additional landings on the island of Mindanao have been made by the Japanese from four transports near Tagoloan in Macajalar Bay. The enemy advance from the landing points is being stubbornly resisted by our troops.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
President Roosevelt’s message to Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright praising the defenders of Corregidor
May 05, 1942
During recent weeks we have been following with growing admiration the day-by-day accounts of your heroic stand against the mounting intensity of bombardment by enemy planes and heavy siege guns. In spite of all the handicaps of complete isolation, lack of food and ammunition, you have given the world a shining example of patriotic fortitude and self-sacrifice. The American people ask no finer example of tenacity, resourcefulness, and steadfast courage. The calm determination of your personal leadership in a desperate situation sets a standard of duty for our soldiers throughout the world.
In every camp and on every naval vessel soldiers, sailors, and marines are inspired by the gallant struggle of their comrades in the Philippines. The workmen in our shipyards and munitions plants redouble their efforts because of your example. You and your devoted followers have become the living symbols of our war aims and the guarantee of victory.