Yanks Take Heights 15 Miles From Rome In Four-Front Japanese Offensive
Allied dispatches report Japan massing across Indo China Henan and near Chungking to expand a four front attack on China and Southeast Asia. Chinese air forces under CACW claimed air superiority between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers aided by P-40s and B-25s. MacArthur reported operations around Mokmer Airfield on Biak Island paused as forces regroup for a renewed push toward the Philippines. Central Pacific bombers struck Kurile Islands within range of Tokyo.
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Japan
Changsha
Hankow-Canton
China
Chungking
Yellow River
Henan
Claire L. Chennault
Associated Press
Clyde A. Farnsworth
14Th Airforce
CACW
Chester W. Nimitz
Burma
Mogaung
Malakawng
Kurile Islands
Chester W Nimitz
Tokyo
Massive Aerial Blow Invasion Coast Opens June War
June began with a massive air attack on German coastal defenses that shook the English coast and signaled a bold shift in the war. Far to the southeast, partisan forces intensified activity in Yugoslavia as the conflict widened across fronts.
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London
Channel
Hitler
St Louis Transit Idle as 3500 Strikers Walk Out
In St Louis all street cars and buses were idle today as about 3,500 workers from the Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees union AFL went on strike. The dispute centers on overtime rules and compensation.
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ST. Louis
AFL
Woman Wed 15 Times In 18 Year Period
FBI Agent Robert A. Guerin said Mrs. Marion Stankowich red-haired woman here on a federal fraud charge. She allegedly received servicemen's dependents allowance benefits under the 1942 act in only four of the 15 instances since 1926.
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Detroit
FBI
Robert A. Guerin
Marion Stankowich
Guerin
Order construction of slot machines halted in Columbus
War Production Board officials said slot machines were being built from war metals in Columbus for national shipment and that builders faced prosecution. Don Burgess noted several had been directed to stop construction. A second group of wounded from the Italian front arrived at Crile hospital in Parma.
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Columbus
War Production Board
Warce Metals
Don Burgess
WPB
Cleveland
Criletal
Parma
Herbert Seeks Court Ruling On Halting Vote Recount
Cincinnati Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert seeks a court ruling on whether he can halt a recount of the Republican primary for governor. The dispute centers on his $7,700 effort to recheck votes after the Hamilton County elections board passed the issue to the AG.
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Cincinnati
Thomas J. Herbert
Tom Herbert
James G. Stewart
Herbert
Hamilton County Board of Elections
Stewart
Scioto County
Thomas C. Kilcoyne
Bus hits abutment injures 20 on Dixie Highway
A Greyhound bus struck a bridge abutment on the Dixie Highway north of Sidney. Sheriff Truman Pitts said 20 persons were injured, five seriously, when the southbound Detroit-Cincinnati bus struck a car parked beside the highway for a flat tire and veered into the bridge.
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Sidney
Greyhound
Dixie Highway
Here
Truman Pitts
Pitts
Cincinnati Bakery Strike Continues Into Weekend
In Cincinnati at least two more breadless days are expected as striking bread truck drivers salesmen and supervisors refuse to deliver to grocers hotels and restaurants while awaiting a War Labor Board hearing in Cleveland on Friday.
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Cincinnati
War Labor Board
Cleveland
More Mines Turned Back
Washington reports imply government will exit coal operations within a week or two as Ickes withdraws control from mines yielding about 60 percent of soft coal. He warns management and labor must prove they can meet wartime duties on their own and that the new wage contract ends the prolonged unrest.
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Washington
Interior
Ickes
Fall From Elephant Brings $1500 Damages
Two children who fell from an elephant at Brookside Park Cleveland won $1500 damages. The state supreme court upheld the ruling after the appeals court had reversed a common pleas court decision in a suit against the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, owner of the elephant.
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Columbus
Brookside Park
Cleveland
State Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Common Pleas Court
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Infant Diana Merideth Dies After Clothing Fire
Diana Marie Merideth four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Chester A Merideth died yesterday when her clothing caught fire in Columbus. The tragedy ended a day of quiet family life in the Merideth home.
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Columbus
Diana Marie Merideth
Chester A. Merideth
Refugee Ship Halted by Nazi Sub Off Bermuda
The Portuguese refugee ship Serpa Pinto was halted by a German U-boat off Bermuda on a dark night last Friday. Two prisoners were taken and three people died among the 385 aboard, including Beatrice Trapunski, a sixteen month old child. The submarine then ordered the ship sunk but later abandoned torpedoing after Berlin orders. Passengers and crew reboarded as the U-boat hovered nearby and docked secretly in Philadelphia later.
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Philadelphia
Serpa Pinto
Bermuda
Beatrice Trapunski
Berlin
Navy
Abraham
Eva
Trapunski
Canada
Antonio Ferreira Machado
Hermano Antonio
Manuel Pinto
Waterbury
Conn
Virgilio Magina
New Bedford
Mass
Camilio Grande ‘Perez
Pinto
Portugal
Maria A. Chaves
Fall ‘River
Bricker Urges Free Enterprise to Prevent Demobilization
Gov. John W. Bricker told 400 Brickerville residents that postwar demobilization could lead to a ghastly WPA unless free enterprise expands production. He criticized New Deal policies for stifling small business and urged broader productive energy through new enterprises, while praising American enterprise and divine Providence.
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Lancaster
America
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Lancaster Manufacturers Association
Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Brickerville
Henry PD
Huge Flood Program Proposed for Ohio Valley
Washington proposed a postwar flood control authorization totaling 100 million dollars for the Ohio River Valley. Alan N. Jordan of the Ohio Valley conservation and flood control congress urged adding the program to a house omnibus bill under Senate Commerce subcommittee review. The House authorized 70 million. Jordan called for 90 million to speed postwar development.
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Washington
Ohio River Valley
Alan N. Jordan
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress
Senate Commerce
House
Jordan
Army Engineers
Mother-in-Law of Rollie Hemsley Dies
POMEROY Staff Special Mrs. Mary Ellen Clark age 17 died at her Syracuse home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held Friday at Syracuse Methodist Church at three o'clock with interment at Carleton Cemetery. Visitation at the home until services. Surviving husband David Clark and children Floyd Pomeroy Thomas Syracuse Herman and Harry Monroe Mich Frank Toronto O Mrs Ralston Hemsley Vienna Mo.
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Pomeroy
Mary Ellen Clark
Syracuse
Syracuse Methodist Church
Carleton Cemetery
Politics Delays Pearl Harbor Trials Says Senator Wherry
Senator Wherry accuses the administration of delaying Pearl Harbor accountability trials to avoid election exposure. A second item reports ten year old Charles Cooper of near Oak Hill killed by a horse kick while riding his pony in Portsmouth.
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Washington
Wherry
Pearl Harbor
Portsmouth
Charles Cooper
Oak Hill
Allied forces poised for invasion push in Europe
Berlin dispatch reports 15 Allied divisions including 5 tank units massed in French North Africa to strike southern France in conjunction with Eisenhower's invasion. Tito orders a decisive Yugoslav assault as Turkey edges toward war and the Allied air offensive racks Nazi defenses across the channel and Adriatic.
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London
Berlin
French North Africa
France
DNB
Eisenhower
Europe
Liberty Ship Henry Bergh Aground Off Farralon Islands
The Henry Bergh carrying over 1,000 Navy passengers ran aground in fog and rain at dawn near Farralon Islands west of San Francisco. Rescue boats evacuated all aboard with no casualties reported as the 10,500 ton transport broke up and salvage efforts began. Built in 1942 and operated as a War Shipping Administration transport.
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San Francisco
Henry Bergh
Farralon Islands
Golden Gate
Wat
South Pacific
Navy
Henry Berghweher
Robert Klares
Minneapolis
Henry J. Kaiser
Richmond
Calif
The
War Shipping Administration
Governors Call for Postwar Plan Action
Governors at the 36th annual conference urged immediate federal action on postwar public works and reconversion of war industries. They asked Congress to enact definite plans for human demobilization and rapid contract termination when peace production resumes.
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Hershey
Congress
Shipyard Workers Face Krand Charge in Boston
FBI and U S marshals seized 100 Bethlehem Hingman shipyard workers on charges of defrauding the government. Authorities say welders and counters conspired to record false credits for extra production and kick back portions of salaries. Some counters allegedly received up to 75 dollars weekly.
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Boston
FBI
U.S
Bethlehem- Hingman Shipyard
E. A. Soucy
U. S. Atorney
Edmund J Brandon
Washington
Soucy
Rivers Harbors Bill Shelved Until Autumn
Washington reports the postwar rivers and harbors bill valued at 500.8 million dollars hit price control hurdles and will be shelved until after summer recess, delaying funding for maritime improvements.
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Washington
Congress
Meat ration status extended through July by OPA changes
The Office of Price Administration extended current meat rationing and adjusted point values through July 1. Chuck steaks and roasts drop two points while all Grade D beef is removed from rationing. butter holds at 12 points, cheese at 10, and pineapple juice rises to 15 points for a No. 2 can.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Valmontone Line Pierced By Advance In Italy War Front
War briefing reports Allied progress across Italy as 8.6 million U S troops deployed overseas. Rome nears as valleys and towns including Valmontone Velletri Frosinone and Sora fall or are pressed. German lines weaken under air and ground assaults. British French New Zealand forces push toward strategic targets while RAF and US heavy bombers hit rail centers and oil facilities in Western Europe and Romania.
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Frosinone
Rome
Sora
Avezzano
Carpineto
Lepini
Tyrrhenian
Cassino
Velletri
Valmontone
San Giovanni
Patricia
Ripi
Torrice
Trappes
Tergnier
Saumur
Paris
Italy
Iron Gate
Danube
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Marshal Tito
Turkey
Red Army
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Albert Kesselring
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
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U. S
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Admiralty
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Lisbon
Tito
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Mihailovic
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Nettuno
Polestring
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Littoria
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Eternal City
Fifth Army
Pacific Coast
Krand
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War Stimson
Stimson
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Tiber
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