750 Heavy U. S. Bombers Hit Pas-De-Calais Defenses
Allied air fleets including 750 Fortresses and Liberators and fighter formations struck the Pas-De-Calais coast from Scandanavia to Crete. The Cairo report noted German convoy damage near Crete while Vichy broadcasts claimed rail and coastal deaths in Central France and Brittany.
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United States
West Wall
French
Pas-De-Calais
Aegean Sea
Crete
Vichy
France
Nantes
Vichy Radio
Bricker Attacks CIO PAC Over Election Influence in New Jersey
Gov. John Bricker of Ohio charged the CIO Political Action Committee with trying to dominate the Democratic Party and sway elections through money and intimidation. In Trenton he argued labor groups must not override the will of the people, praising free voting and criticizing New Deal methods and alliances with political machines.
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Trenton
N. J
John W. Bricker
Ohio
CIO
CIO Committee
Roosevelt
Bricker
New Jersey
Trenton War Memorial
Labor
Raps Hillman
Sidney) Hillman
New Deal
Tammany New York
Hague
Kelly Maine
Chicago
Sidney Hillman
Tammany
Hagues
Kellys
Sidney Hillmans
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Congress
Army predicts wider truck use for civilians by year end
Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay forecast more trucks will be released from the army to civilian use. Detroit transportation emergency committee chair Richard Harfst reported the development yesterday, signaling expanded civilian access to military vehicles.
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Washington
Lucius D. Clay
Army Service Headquarters
Richard Harfst
Detroit Or Transportation Emergency Ittee
Control of Workers Is Announced
Washington reports sweeping new controls over the dwindling male labor supply. By July 1 every job seeking man must apply to the United States Employment Service for assignment to a war plant where needed. Employers may hire only men referred by the USES. farm workers and businesses with eight or fewer employees are exempt. The War Manpower Commission cites optimism about an early war end as a recruitment obstacle.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
America
United States Employment Service
WMC
Schine Theater Circuit Named In Trust Suit
A Mount Vernon letter from Schine Theaters manager admitted in evidence in the federal anti trust case against Schine Chain Theaters Inc The suit seeks to halt further theater acquisitions and declare its contracts and conspiracies in restraint of trade illegal under the Sherman Act The chain operates over 150 theaters across New York Maryland Virginia Kentucky and Ohio with headquarters in Gloversville New York
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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 announces a Sofia regime led by Ivan Bagrianov replacing Dobri Bošilov as Bulgaria becomes a German puppet state. The former agriculture minister, who once opposed full state control, heads a cabinet pledged to boost war contribution despite Moscow warnings. 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 Land on Biak Island Amid Pacific Push
Allied forces mass for decisive action in the Central Pacific as Biak Island receives additional landings under Seventh Fleet control. Remnants of Japanese defenses along the coast are challenged while operations extend to Bougainville and Empress Augusta Bay. In China, Japanese concentration around Hankow Canton and Changsha threatens regional rail and air bases as U S and Chinese forces push toward Myitkyina along the Burma Road.
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Japan
Central Pacific
U. S
Kuriles
Wake
Guam
Caroline Islands
Ponape
Truk
Marshalls
Biak
Schoutens
Seventh Fleet
Dutch New Guinea
Geemvink Bay
Bosmek
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Tekissi River
Empress Augusta Bay
Hankow-Canton
China
Chungking
South
C. C. Tseng
Changsha
Tseng
Hankow
Canton
Indo-China-Yunnan
Kunming
Burma Road
Claire L. Chennault
U.S
Peiping
Hankow-Peiping
Honan
Myitkyina
Burma
Seine River
Insurance on Liquor Store Stocks Cancelled
The Ohio State Liquor Department reports the National Security Company cancelled theft insurance for 216 liquor stores after nine months losses totaled about 54000 dollars. The state has received a 43000 dollar refund and may go without coverage until ADT burglary alarms are installed later this month. Insurance quotes have ranged widely before renewal.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don A. Fisher
National Surety Company
Fisher
American District Telegraph
Pope Warns Allied Demands Could Prolong War
In a speech to the College of Cardinals Pope Pius XII urged opponents of Rome to avoid total victory terms arguing such aims risk prolonging the conflict. He warned that anyone who harms Rome would be guilty of matricide and stressed the need for reasonable peace to curb a broader catastrophe.
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London
Prus XII
College of Cardinals
Rome
Pius
Reclassification Push Ties Up St Louis Transit Strike
St Louis faced transit disruption as 3 500 striking bus and street car workers stayed off the job. Eight draft boards ordered rapid reclassification of some strikers to 1 A amid large-scale idle labor nationwide. Tampa also reports heavy service cuts with 175 car workers out, while Pacific Northwest lumber mill strikes ease.
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St. Louis
Tampa
Fla
Pacific Northwest
Eighty Three Jobless Veterans Receive Ohio Compensation
In Ohio during the first four months of this year eighty three unemployed World War II veterans received five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars in unemployment compensation. Charles H. Jones administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reported that an honorably discharged veteran was eligible if he had worked at least twenty weeks in the fifteen months before entering the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Charles H. Jones
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Jones
Luxuries Eating Out Increases By Ohioans 1939 1943
Ohioans boosted spending on jewelry by 113 percent and on eating and drinking places by 80 percent from 1939 to 1943. Family clothing stores rose 78 percent while home food purchases grew only 29 percent. The Bureau of Business Research at Ohio State University reports these shifts in retail patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State University
Bureau of Business Research
Marshall’s Step Son Killed by Grenade in Italy
A sniper killed Lt. Allen Tupper Brown, 27, step-son of Gen. George C. Marshall, with a hand grenade from ambush south of Rome. The death was disclosed in Washington on May 30.
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FIFTH
Rome
Allen Tupper Brown
George C. Marshall
Washington
Motorist Falls Dead After Auto Hits Girl
Washington report states James Woodland, 8 4, died moments after his automobile struck 6-year-old Janet Steitenberger in Bloomingburg. The girl escaped serious injury.
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Washington
James Woodland
Bloomingburg
Janet Steitenberger
Col Cochran Back in U S After Burma Mission
Col. Philip G. Cochran, commanding officer of the First Air Commandos, returned to Washington to report to Gen. H. H. Arnold. He said his fighters pounded Japanese air forces in Burma for six weeks before the glider invasion, with daily engagements and a notable day when 43 Japanese were finished off on the ground.
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Washington
War Department
Philip G. Cochran
Burma
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Cochran
Preble County Draft Board Names Eight Recruits
Official records confirm eight given names listed by the Eaton draft board as Noah Harvey Herman Daniel Boone Buster Brown David Longworth. The document records the eight men connected to the draft action.
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Eaton
Preble County
Solon Demands Gasoline Probe
Rep. Michael A. Feighan of Ohio moves to require FBI involvement in a massive gasoline fraud case at Cleveland’s rationing board. He cites J. Edgar Hoover’s report that the bureau lacks jurisdiction and warns the scandal threatens 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
Funeral services for Mrs. Joe Ebersbach 52 who died yesterday at her Pomeroy home after a long illness will be held Sunday at two oclock at the Federated Church conducted by Rev. R C Burton of Middleport. Friends may call at the home. Interment will be in Beech Grove Cemetery. She is survived by her husband a son Harry her mother Mrs Filla Watson of Pomeroy and several brothers and sisters.
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Pomeroy
Joe Ebersbach
Federated Church
R. C. Burton
Middleport
Beech Grove
Nazi Transport Is Battered Across Front as Allies Advance
Allied communiques report heavy damage to German rail and road networks in occupied Europe. British and American forces press advance along Highway 6 near Valmontone and Velletri, breaking through to Rome’s defenses while in Italy and Russia the Soviets repulse German counterattacks. fighting continues across a 90 to 100 mile front.
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Fifth Army
Valmontone
Tenth Army
Italy
Velletri
Alban
Rome
Naples
Monte Artemisio
Valmontone- Velletri
Eighth Army
Daniel de Luce
The
Lanuvio
Campoleone
Frosinone
Iasi
Former Point Pleasant Police Chief Takes Own Life
Charles B. Smith age 81, longtime transfer dealer and former police chief of Point Pleasant, died this morning from a self inflected gunshot wound. He left home for a barber shop then went to the City Ice and Fuel Co. to obtain a pistol, later shooting himself at the LeMasters home. He had been ill for months and returned from Holzer Hospital the prior night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Charles B. Smith
Roy W. Eschenaur
Ammunition Train Blast Destroys East Anglia Town
An ammunition train exploded in an East Anglia market town injuring several people. The blast lifted roofs from surrounding houses and wrecked the railway station. The explosion was felt twenty miles away and many shops delayed opening to clear broken glass and reassemble stock.
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London
East Anglia
Window Cleaner Falls Eight Floors To Death
New York report details a window cleaner named Frank Pereiria, 45, plunging eight stories from an eighth floor window. Eyewitnesses rescued others as Pereiria shouted and safety belts appeared to be missing a belt attachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Pereiria
Gas Release Fells 1000 on Brooklyn Street
In Brooklyn yesterday approximately 150 of an estimated 1000 people were treated after chlorine gas escaped from a 220 pound cylinder on a delivery truck. No deaths were reported as authorities investigated the accident and hundreds sought help at hospitals and makeshift stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Red Cross
John G. Golliver
Savings Accounts Reach 128 Billion in U.S. Holdings
A Commerce Department official told the House postwar planning committee that total U.S. savings now amount to 128 billion dollars, up from a prewar peak of 10 billion. He warned that despite this vast stash, current income must stay healthy to sustain the economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commerce Department
House Special
Last of Confederate Officers Succumbs
SHREVEPORT La Gen R Gellette age 99 last surviving Confederate veteran in Caddo Parish and said to be the last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate Army died of a heart attack yesterday. He was in the American Legion service office at the parish courthouse when he suddenly slumped back and died without a word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
R. Gellette
Caddo Parish
American Legion Service
Remark About Rommel Puts Woman in Prison
A German woman who said I had to run faster than Rommel in Africa was sentenced to three months imprisonment in Aachen, the Belgian News Agency reported today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rommel
London
Africa
Aachen
Belgianews
Lima Man Dies From Wapakoneta Car Crash Injuries
William W. Wait man 47 of Wapakoneta died yesterday from injuries sustained in a Wednesday automobile collision in Lima. His wife was killed instantly in the crash.
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Lima
William W. Waitman
Wapakoneta
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