Allied air landings tighten grip on Burma border
Allied troops landed 60 miles from Mandalay to seal control of the Imphal Plain and threaten the Bengal Assam Railroad as the Southeast Asia Command reported progress from Ceylon. Admiral Mountbatten said the counter-offensive against Japan in North Burma and surrounding areas was making satisfactory progress, easing earlier vagueness from New Delhi.
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Associated Press
Mandalay
Japan
Burma
Imphal
Bengal- Assam
India
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Ceylon
Southeast Asia
New Delhi
Claude Auchinleck
Mountbatten
Auchinleck
Ace of Pacific Bong denied liquor tribute in MacArthur salute
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific report Maj Richard Bong the top World War II ace with 27 confirmed kills will not receive a Scotch whiskey gift from Eddie Rickenbacker. MacArthur confirms Bong’s promotion to major and credits his record to proper recognition by Allied leadership. Japanese forces face pressure across Imphal and Burma while Allied air and naval operations strike targets from Aitape to the Kuriles and Marshalls.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Richard I. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Eddie Rickenbacker
MacArthur
Bong
U S Army Sergeant Marries WAAF Officer in London
An American Army sergeant wed a British WAAF sergeant in London today with four generals present. The couple were Sgt. Isabel of Earl,Ark., and Sgt. Joyce Millicent Kelley. Attending generals included Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, Brig. Gen. Theodore Curtis and Brig. Gen. George McDonald.
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London
WAAF
Isabel of
Earl, Ark
Joyce Millicent Kelley
Carl A. Spaeatz
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Isabel
Frederick L. Anderson
Theodore Curtis
George McDonald
Ammunition blasts near Bombay cause widespread casualties
A fire aboard a docked ship ignited two ammunition explosions in Bombay, lasting over 36 hours and estimated to have caused about 1,000 casualties. Military, police, air raid services, and volunteers mobilized to aid the injured and shelter hundreds made homeless.
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Bombay
Lonergan Sentenced To 35 Years In Pen
Wayne Lonergan received a 35 year life sentence for the bludgeon strangulation of his 23 year old heiress wife Patricia Burton Lonergan on October 24 last year in New York.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Georgia Tornado Death Toll Rises to Thirty Eight
Rescue workers counted 38 dead and more than 300 injured after a tornado tore through 190 miles of Northeastern Georgia and Western South Carolina. Twenty one deaths in Georgia, including Hart County communities Nuburg and Royston, and seventeen in South Carolina.
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Georgia
Atlanta
South Carolina
Royston
Nuburg
Hart County
American Red Cross
Deaths of Nazi official Wagner and Wooster fire chief
London reports the death of Adolf Wagner 54 gauleiter of Munich as announced by Berlin radio. In Wooster Maynard Smith 40 fire chief and his mother Frances E. Smith 68 died Saturday night within three hours.
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London
Adolf Wagner
Munich
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Wooster
Maynard Smith
Frances E. Smith
GOP Studies Tax Problem
Senator Robert A. Taft chairing the Republican advisory committee on finance and money said postwar budget balance requires realistically high taxes. He noted preliminary proposals exist and may be heavily revised, with taxes staying high after the war though corporate levies might be adjusted to spur private enterprise and reconversion.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Taft
Australian Paper Wins Fight for Injunction
The Commonwealth High Court granted an interim injunction to restrain censorship authorities from suspending the Sydney Daily Telegraph after two Saturday articles. Sydney residents statewide were left newspaperless and radio reports were censored, obscuring the dispute.
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Sydney
Australia
Commonwealth High Court
Sydney Daily Telegraph
New South Wales
Survivor recalls Burma crash ordeal of air transport crew
Pfc. James Vaffis, lone survivor of a flaming Burma crash, recounts the 24 000 foot spin and rapid descent that wrecked his plane. Critically burned, he crawled from the wreck and survived twelve days with two cucumber slices and bamboo moisture. Burmese headHunters moved him two days later to safety, where he weighed 80 pounds upon discovery after hiding with an American surgeon from Japanese lines.
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Fremont
Burma
James Vaffis
Coral Gables
Fila
Peter Vaffis
Pfc
Vaffis
Air Transport Command
China
Himalaya
Waffis
India
Nazi Snipers Brought Down By Cigarette Smell In Italy
With the Fifth Army in Italy two German snipers were discovered after Lt. Stanton D. Richart of Reynoldsburg Ohio followed a trail of cigarette smoke described as the stinkingest by the officer. The snipers were captured after they were exposed at close range and forced to surrender amid mortar fire and gun positions.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Stanton D. Richart
Reynoldsburg
Ohio State University
Richart
MacArthur denies seeking presidency amid draft campaign
Gen Douglas MacArthur issued a written statement saying he has not sought the office and his sole ambition is to help win the war. He said letters to Nebraska Rep A L Miller were not intended for publication and rejected any political motive. Miller urged a national draft of MacArthur, predicting broad support and noting fear of a New Deal collapse.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Rep
A. L. Miller
Agre
Solon
Miller
United States
Union
Solid South
New Deal
Roosevelt
Gas Supply Picture Shifts With Tire Boost Anticipation
Washington reports mixed gasoline supply signals with March consumption figures showing no need for B ration increases. A spokesman from the Office of Price Administration states the B ration rise is unwarranted, while May tires allocations may rise about 15 percent above the 759000 quota this month.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
30 Alleged Fascists Charged With Sedition
Washington report says 28 men and 2 women faced federal charges for attempting to establish a fascist government in the United States and violating peace time sedition laws. DOJ attorneys expect at least two days to select a jury for trial.
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Washington
United States
Federal District Court
Department of Justice
Army cargo plane makes forced landing near Cincinnati
Representative Viec tor Wickersham and six other people escaped serious injury when an Army cargo plane made a forced landing in a field ten miles east of Cincinnati. The incident occurred Saturday and involved no injuries of note beyond minor concerns.
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Cincinnati
Viector Wickersham
D-Okla
e@ field
Collapse of German Sevastopol Defense Amid Russian Advance
Russian forces tightened the siege of Sevastopol as the city burned and German and Romanian troops faced near collapse. Yalta fell to the Soviet maritime army, while the Fourth Ukrainian Army advanced toward Sevastopol. mass German troop withdrawals were reported. Allied air operations against Budapest Belgrade and Danube crossings continued as long-range American fighters probed Germany from Britain.
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Sevastopol
Crimea
Yalta
Kerch
Dnestr
Tiraspol
Chisinau
Tighina
Bessarabia
Tass
Eisenhower
Black Sea
Balkans
Italy
Budapest
Carpathians
Belgrade
Barsov
Berlin-Istanbul
Turnu-Severin
Brasov
Transylvania Alps
Romania
Nis
Britain
Germany
Berlin
Anzio
Rome
Bricker Outlines Ten Articles of Faith for U S Future
In San Jose Gov John W Bricker of Ohio outlined ten articles of faith to California Republicans. He urged support for a strong postwar America emphasizing veterans dignity free speech economic strength and American opportunity. He rejected defeatist views and predicted a new era of growth.
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San Jose
Calif
California
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Republican Assembly
America
Britt Medal of Honor story from Mignano victory
Captain Maurice Britt of Ft Smith Arkansas receives the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism near Mignano Italy last November. He and eight companions were taken by Germans and used as a shield for a German assault but Britt killed five enemies, saved his men, was wounded in the side and chest and lost an arm. He is pictured with Mrs Britt at Lawson Hospital in Atlanta Georgia.
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Maurice Britt
Ft Smith Ark
Mignano
Italy
Britt
U. S
Arkansas University
Detroit Lions
Lawson Hospital
Atlanta
Open Soldier's Treason Trial
Pvt. Dale H. Maple, a 23 year old Harvard graduate, goes on trial at Fort Leavenworth Kansas accused of aiding two German prisoners of war to escape from Camp Hale Colorado last February. He faces charges under Article 58 for desertion and Article 81 for aiding escape, with the death penalty possible under either. The proceeding is held under strict secrecy with press and radio barred.
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Omaha
Dale H. Maple
Ft. Leavenworth
Kans
Harvard
Camp Hale
Colo
Milan Report Says Mussolini Near Death
A Milan newspaper report cited by The Geneva Tribune claims Benito Mussolini is gravely ill and awaiting death. The Geneva report suggests the piece had German authorities' knowledge in occupied Northern Italy.
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Milan
Mussolini
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Geneva Tribune
Italy
Huge Air Transport on Cross Country Flight
The Lockheed Constellation, described as the largest land transport plane, took off from Burbank for Washington on its first long distance flight. A TWA spokesman said the four engine giant, built to carry 60 passengers, will be handed to the Army Air Transport Command.
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Burbank
Calif
Washington, D. C
T.W.A
Army Air Transport Command
Warn Against Buying Too Many Onion Sets
Columbus report quotes Victor H. Ries Ohio victory garden program chief urging gardeners to buy only the onion sets needed. He says one pound of sets suffices for one person for both green and winter onions and warns overbuying could cause shortages.
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Columbus
Victor H. Ries
Ohio
Victory Garden
Ries
South Perry Man Killed by Automobile in Logan Ohio
Charles Winland 36 of Laurelville was held in Hocking County jail pending investigation into the death of Pearl Notestone 69 of South Perry. Notestone was struck on Route 180 near the South Perry School about 1 40 am as Winland passed another auto. Notestone lay on the roadside. witnesses said the car slowed and struck him as he lay. He died instantly. Eyewitnesses and other car occupants were not identified by officers.
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LOGAN
Charles Winland
Laurelville
R. D
Hocking County
Pearl Notestone
South Perry
Winland
South Perry School
Notestone
Charles Notestone
Frank St. Clair
Floyd Duffy
Harley Meyer
Jack Waldron
Circleville
St. Clair
Stove Blast Fatal To Six
A kitchen stove explosion at Stewartsville 10 miles west of Bellaire killed six members of the Earley family. Denver Earley 40 his wife Bessie 38 their children James 7 Martha 5 Carl 5 and Denver’s father Howard Earley 63 died after being rushed to Bellaire hospital following the blast while Denver poured kerosene into the stove to start a fire.
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Bellaire
Stewartsville
Here
Clyde Hardesty
Denver Earley
Bessie
James
Martha
Carl
Howard Earley
Denver
Hardesty
Avengers Return to Major Action Off Sevastopol
Vice Admiral Filip S. Oktyabrsky, commander of the Black Sea fleet, hailed the return of wartime action as warships opened fire on German vessels attempting to evacuate troops from Sevastopol, marking a revival of critical naval operations after 1942.
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Sevastopol
Filip S. Oktyabrsky
Russia
Black Sea
Vinton Countian to Receive Honorary Degree at OSU
Ohio State University will award three honorary degrees at the spring convocation on June 3 and another at the September exercises on September 1. Commander George C. Paffenbarger of the Navy Dental Corps will receive the Doctor of Science degree at the September exercises. He is a native of McArthur in Vinton County and a OSU graduate.
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University
Howard L. Bevis
George C. Paffenbarger
Navy Dental Corps
Brooklyn
N. Y
McArthur
Vinton County
Paffenberger
Ohio State
Winter Rides Bomber In Attack on Kuriles
In a bold night raid from an Aleutian base the 11th Air Force Liberator squadron bombed the Kuriles and pushed within 450 miles of Hokkaido. Reported anti aircraft bursts and a tense overcast flight followed as crew members Sgt Sam Smith of Cleveland and Staff Sgt Lawrence Archer of Lima, both in the waist and tail positions, helped steer the mission.
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Norman Bell
Aleutian Island
Japan
11Th Air Force
Aleutian
Kuriles
Tokyo
Matsuwa Island
Matsuwa
Hokkaido
Sam Smith
Cleveland
Ohio
Lawrence
Ox" Archer
Lima
Fire Damages Denison U Building with Library Loss
A part of Lamson Lodge the women’s physical education building on the Denison University Campus was destroyed by fire last night with an estimated loss of 3000 dollars. The blaze wiped out a 500 volume library donated by the family of the late Helen Badenoch an assistant professor of physical education who died months ago.
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Granville
Lamson Lodge
Denison University
Helen Badenoch
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