U S Bombers Hit Pas De Calais Front in Major Assault
The Associated Press reports the United States Air Force launched a massive daytime and dawn air strike against the Pas De Calais defences, deploying about 750 heavy bombers and hundreds of fighters across 2000 miles from Scandinavia to Crete. A Cairo communique noted German convoy hits in the Aegean, with ships set ablaze. Vichy radio tallies 30 deaths on central France rail lines to Nantes and 42 dead on France's northwest coast.
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United States
West Wall
French
Pas-De-Calais
Scandinavia
France
Hungary
Crete
Channel
England
Eisenhower
Boulogne
Cairo
Aegean Sea
Vichy Radio
Nantes
Bricker Attacks CIO PAC In New Jersey Speech
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker assails the CIO Political Action Committee for trying to dominate the Democratic Party and influence elections with money and intimidation. He warns labor groups lack of voting freedom, cites ties to political machines, and calls for an end to such interference in elections.
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Trenton
N. J
John W. Bricker
Ohio
CIO
CIO Committee
Roosevelt
Bricker
New Jersey
Trenton War Memorial
Raps Hillman
Sidney) Hillman
Tammany
New York
Hague Machine
Kelly Machine
Chicago
New Deal
Allice
Sidney Hillman
Ciolitical Committee
Hagues
Sidney Hillmans
Estabian International
Pearl
More Trucks To Be Allowed Civilians
Maj Gen ay of army service predicts more trucks released for civilian use. Chair rd Harfst of the Detroit Transportation Emergency reported yesterday.
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Maj
Genay
Army Service
Chairrd Harfst
Detroit
Control of workers announced in wartime plan
Washington reports sweeping new controls by the War Manpower Commission to mobilize male labor. By July 1 every job seeking man must apply to the U S Employment Service for assignment to a war plant, with employers limited to hires by USES referrals. Farm workers and small firms with eight or fewer employees are exempt. The WMC cites over optimism about an early war end as a recruitment hurdle.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
America
United States Employment Service
WMC
Schine Theater Circuit Named In Trust Suit
In Buffalo, federal court admitted a manager’s letter from Mount Vernon to the editor of The Mount Vernon News as evidence in the government anti trust case against Schine Chain Theaters Inc. The suit seeks to restrain theater acquisitions and declare the contracts and conspiracies in restraint of trade illegal under the Sherman Act.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Schine Theaters
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon News
Schine Chain Theaters, Inc
Frederick Lorey
the News
James C. Platt
Memorial Theater
Schine
Saul FE. Rogers
New York
Robert L. Wright
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Gloversville
Bulgaria Forms Pro Axis Government Under Bagrianov
Berlin announced a new Sofia regime led by Ivan Bagrianov replacing Premier Dobri Bosilov. The move tightens Bulgaria’s alliance with Germany as Moscow warns of consequences if Bulgaria stays in the war. Bulgaria remains at peace with Russia.
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London
Sofia
Berlin
Bulgaria
Transocean
Ivan Bagrianov
Germany
Bagrianov
Dobri Bosilov
Moscow
Russia
More Troops Landed on Biak Island Amid Pacific Push
Allied forces landed on Biak Island in Dutch New Guinea as part of a broader three day aerial offensive reaching the Kuriles Wake Guam and the Caroline Islands. Meanwhile Chinese forces report 210000 Japanese near Hankow 200000 near Changsha and 70000 at Canton as Japan massed for further strikes along the Hankow Canton line and the Yunnan border.
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Japan
Central Pacific
U. S
Kuriles
Wake
Guam
Caroline Islands
Ponape
Truk
Marshalls
Biak
Schoutens
Seventh Fleet
Dutch New Guinea
Geelvink Bay
Bosnek
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Tekissi River
Empress Augusta Bay
Hankow-Canton
China
Chungking
C. C. Tseng
Changsha
Tseng
Hankow
Canton
Indo-China-Yunnan
Kunming
Burma Road
Claire L. Chennault
Peiping
Hankow-Peiping
Honan
Burma
Myitkyina
Insurance on Liquor Store Stocks Cancelled
Ohio will bear losses from thefts at 216 liquor stores after National Security cancels theft coverage. The state refunded about 43000 of a 60000 premium, with no current insurer due to nine months of losses totaling about 54000. ADT burglar alarm installations may restore rates later this month.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don A. Fisher
National Surety Company
Fisher
American District Telegraph
Pope warns total victory may lengthen war and harms Rome
In a speech to the College of Cardinals, Pope Pius XII urged peace and urged victors to spare the vanquished. He warned that a demand for complete victory could prolong the war and that lifting a hand against Rome would be matricide. He urged restraint, hopeful for Rome’s safety amid advancing armies and air raids.
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London
Prus XII
College of Cardinals
Rome
Pius
Reclassification of Striking Bus and Trolley Men
St Louis suspended transit as 3500 striking street car workers and bus drivers stayed off the job. Eight draft boards ordered immediate reclassification of some strikers to 1-A for refusing to work. In Tampa about 175 street car workers joined the walkout, leaving only nine of 100 street cars in service. Nationwide labor unrest eased with lumber and sawmill strikes winding down in the Pacific Northwest and several hundred other workers idle.
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St. Louis
Tampa
Fla
Pacific Northwest
83 Jobless Veterans Receive Compensation
In Ohio during the first four months of this year eighty three unemployed World War II veterans received six thousand five hundred dollars in unemployment compensation pay ments. Charles H. Jones administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation announced the figures. Eligible veterans had to have worked at least twenty weeks in the fifteen months before entering military service.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles H. Jones
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Jones
Luxuries Rise in Ohio Spending 1939 to 1943
Ohioans spent more on dressing up and eating out than other retail items between 1939 and 1943, according to a survey by Ohio State University. Jewelry stores led with a 113 percent rise, eating and drinking places up 80 percent, and family clothing stores up 78 percent as home food purchases grew 29 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State University
Bureau of Business Research
Marshall's Step Son Killed by Grenade in Italy
A sniper from the Fifth Army ambushed and killed Lt. Allen Tupper Brown, 27, step son of Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, in a grenade attack south of Rome. The death was disclosed in Washington on May 30.
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Fifth Army
Rome
Allen Tupper Brown
George C. Marshall
Washington
Motorist Falls Dead After Auto Hits Girl
Washington reports 84 year old James Woodland of Bloomingburg collapsed and died shortly after his car struck 6 year old Janet Steitenberger who was not badly hurt in the incident on a city street.
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Washington
James Woodland
Bloomingburg
Janet Steitenberger
Cochran Returns to Washington After Burma Mission
Col Philip G Cochran commander of the First Air Commandos returns to Washington to report to Gen H H Arnold. He says his air fleet faced daily Japanese attacks in Burma before and during the glider invasion and notes a day when allied fighters claimed 43 Japanese planes on the ground.
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Washington
War Department
Philip G. Cochran
Burma
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Cochran
Draft Board Names Eight Recruits to Army
Preble County draft board lists eight inductees Noah Harvey Herman Daniel Boone Buster Brown David Longworth and others. Official records confirm all eight given names.
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Eaton
Preble County
Solon Demands Gasoline Probe
Rep Michael A. Feighan announces plans to introduce legislation directing the FBI to investigate alleged gasoline frauds at Cleveland’s largest rationing board. He says Hoover has said FBI lacks jurisdiction and calls the scandal a threat to public confidence in the rationing system.
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Washington
Michael A. Feighan
Ohio
Congress
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Feighan
House Judiciary Committee
Legislative Reference Bureau
House
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Ebersbach Funeral Is Set for Sunday
Mrs. Joe Ebersbach 52 died yesterday at her Pomeroy home after a long illness. Funeral services Sunday at two oclock at Federated Church conducted by Rev. R. C. Burton. Burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Survived by husband, son Harry, mother Mrs. Ella Watson of Pomeroy, and several brothers and sisters.
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Pomeroy
Joe Ebersbach
Federated Church
R. C. Burton
Middleport
Beech Grove Cemetery
Battle of Communications highlights German transport strain
British Air Ministry describes heavy damage to bridges and rail, hindering German movements toward the Seine and in occupied Europe. Fifth Army breakthroughs around Valmontone Velletri threaten Rome. Naples bulletin notes hard fighting, with Monte Artemisio penetration. Eighth Army advances along highway 6, while Russians report heavy German losses and Finnish reports of Soviet assaults.
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Seine River
Fifth Army
Valmontone
Tenth Army
Italy
Velletri
Alban
Rome
Naples
Monte Artemisio
Valmontone- Velletri
Eighth Army
Highway 6
Daniel de Luce
The
Lanuvio
Campoleone
Frosinone
Asi
Former Point Pleasant Chief Smith Ends His Life
Charles B. Smith age 81 a former police chief and longtime transfer businessman was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound around 9 30 am in Point Pleasant West Virginia Coroner Roy Eschenaur stated the wound was self inflicted Smith had left his home to go to a barber shop then obtained a pistol at the City Ice and Fuel Co and later shot himself at the LeMasters home after returning from Holzer Hospital where he had been ill for several days
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Charles B. Smith
Roy W. Eschenaur
Ammunition Train Blasts Wreck East Anglia Town
An ammunition train exploded in an East Anglia market town, lifting roofs from nearby houses and turning the station into a ruin. The blast was felt twenty miles away and many shops delayed reopening to clear glass and restock. Several people were injured.
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East Anglia
Window Cleaner Falls to Death in Subway Shaft
New York report says Frank Pereiria, 45, window cleaner, fell eight stories after a safety belt missing from an eighth floor window caused his plunge. Spectators heard his shouts before the fatal fall near a subway station.
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New York
Frank Pereiria
Chlorine Gas Release Over Brooklyn Street Overwhelms 1000
Approximately 150 of an estimated 1,000 people fared in hospital care after chlorine gas escaped from a 220 pound cylinder on a delivery truck in a busy Brooklyn district. No deaths were reported as authorities investigated the accident and responders treated victims at makeshift stations and in hospitals.
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New York
Brooklyn
Red Cross
John G. Golliver
U S Savings Accounts Reach 128 Billion
A Commerce Department official told the House postwar planning committee that total U S savings have risen to 128 billion dollars, up from prewar peaks of 10 billion, but warned this backlog cannot sustain the economy without healthy current income.
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Washington
Commerce Department
House Special
Last of Confederate Officers Succumbs
In Shreveport Louisiana Gen. O. R. Gellette aged 99 died of a heart attack while in the American Legion office at the Caddo Parish courthouse. He was reported as the last surviving commissioned Confederate officer in the parish and the last such veteran in the area.
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Shreveport
O. R. Gellette
Caddo Parish
American Legion Service
Remark About Rommel Puts Woman in Prison
A German woman sentenced to three months in prison in Aachen for commenting I had to run faster than Rommel in Africa. The Belgian Owl Agency reported the remark as the basis for the punishment.
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Rommel
London
Africa
Aachen
Owl Agency
Lima man dies in collision. wife killed in crash
William W. Wait man, 47, of Wapakonete, died yesterday from injuries after an automobile collision Wednesday. His wife was killed instantly in the wreck.
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Lima
William W. Wait
Wapakonete
Wrth
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Marshall
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NEA
Col. Cochran
U.S
Solon
Ebersbach
Air Ministry
C. B. Smith
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