Allied Armies Launch Major Push In Italy
American artillery pounded German lines in Italy as doughboys advanced toward Gustav and Hitler defenses. Lt Col Windy Miller directed much of the bombardment while units Mata reach initial objectives within 90 minutes. Hundreds of Allied planes provided massive support and aimed to isolate dug-in German positions along the Gustav and Hitler Lines.
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Italy
Franklin Miller
Gaulden M. Watkins
San Francisco
Carl Nelson
Pittsburg
Kansas
Albert Carlstone
Chicago
Raymond E
Gustav Line
Hitler
Rome
Gustav
Indefinite Deferment for 30 to 37 Year Olds Ordered
The National Selective Service ordered indefinite deferment for men ages 30 through 37 in essential work, part of a sweeping draft policy overhaul. Local boards were instructed to begin reviews to clarify registrants' status for extended periods and to restore morale after threats to resign.
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Washington
National Selective Service
Ohio draft calls will be lighter for the foreseeable future
Ohio draft policy shifts to lighter calls with 26 through 29 year olds deemed essential workers. Local boards may grant broader deferments in fields supporting national health or safety. New rules stress that older men may still be drafted if they fail to contribute fully while in essential occupations.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Carl G. Wahl
State Selective Service Headquarters
Wahl
Cuyahoga County
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Navy
Tydings
Indoor helicopter flight showcased at Buffalo armory
Under a 60 foot ceiling the Bell Air craft helicopter performed indoors at the 65th Regiment Armory in Buffalo. Experiential test pilot Floyd W. Carlson piloted the craft for five minutes, with Lawrence D. Bell claiming it marked the first indoor helicopter flight in America as one wheel touched Bell’s outstretched hand. In a separate notice, Piqua school head George C. Dietrich resigns after 35 years as superintendent effective August 1.
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Buffalo
N. Y
65Th Regiment
Bell
Lawrence D. Bell
America
Floyd W. Carlson
Carlson
Piqua Il
George C. Dietrich
Japs Capture Vital Railroad in China
Japanese forces hold complete control of the Peiping Hankow railway in northern China and press Loyang as Allied air power strikes across India and the Pacific. In the Central Pacific Truk bases suffer heavy bombing while Wake Island and the Caroline Islands face coordinated raids. MacArthur air forces unleash multiple strikes across New Guinea trapping Japanese troops near WewakHansa Bay.
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China
Peiping
Hankow
Loyang
India
Central Pacific
Japan
Truk
Pacific
Chungking
Peiping- Hankow
India-Burma
Imphal
Central
Southwest Pacific
Wake Island
Schouten Islands
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Ponape
Oroluk
Carolines
Woleai
Douglas MacArthur
Wewak-Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Would Assure Court Martial Be Held For Pearl Harbor Officers
Rep. Dewey Short proposes extending the court martial window for Maj. Gen. Walter S. Short and Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel for dereliction of duty at Pearl Harbor. He says impeachment could follow if trials are not completed by December 7, 1944, and he drafted a six month extension beyond June 7.
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Washington
Dewey Short
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Short
Walter S. Short
FE. Kimmel
Congress
Folden Funeral Rites Will Be Held Sunday
Funeral services for Howard Folden age 64 who died Thursday at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis follow an operation will be held Sunday at 2 p m EWT at Dyesville Church with burial in School Lot Cemetery He is survived by his wife Leona Cline Folden one daughter Myrtle Queen Gallipolis two sons T Sgt Loyal H Folden Patterson Field Dayton the Carol of the home at Dyesville
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Howard Folden
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Dyesville Church
School Lot
Leona Cline Folden
Myrtle Queen
T. Sgt
Loyal H. Folden
Patterson Field
Dayton
Carol
Dyesville
Funeral services for band leader Herbie Kay Saturday
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning in Dallas for Herbie Kay 40 nationally known band leader who died in a Dallas hospital last night after an illness of several months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Herbie Kay
Bricker Campaign Opens Washington Headquarters in D C
Bricker supporters gathered in Washington for the first formal Bricker for President headquarters meeting. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton described the event as a prelude to heightened activity for Bricker in the national campaign.
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Washington
Ohio
Congress
John W. Bricker
Thomas A. Jenkins
Lranton
Ohio House Republicans
Bricker
Women Assigned to TNT Production at Plum Brook Works
Maj. L. K. Kallmyer, commanding officer at the ordnance plant, reports that women soon will be assigned to production of TNT at the Plum Brook Works.
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Sandusky
Plum Brook
L. K. Kallmyer
Ordnance Plant
Army Streamlines Discharge Process at Fort Dix
Secretary Stimson announced a simplified separation procedure to speed discharges and aid civilian reentry. A Fort Dix center tests the model with 48 hour turnaround from arrival to train home, including medical, pay, travel, and veteran rights briefing. Counseling and records aid transition. WACs and officers to be included later.
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Washington
Stimson
Army
Fort Dix
Warehouse Jammed Egg Purchases Halted
The Gray & White Co. an Ohio packing firm, said its warehouse is full after receiving six carloads totaling over 150000 dozen eggs. It stopped purchases under government price support of 26 cents a dozen and failed to obtain government relief to take excess eggs.
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Tiffin
The
Gray & White Co
Ohio
Bricker Proposes Sweeping Redesign of U S Farm Policy
Ohio Governor John W Bricker lays out a plan to reorganize the U S Department of Agriculture to end the New Deal approach. He argues for a constructive farm program focusing on education market data research and selective government loans while reducing subsidy reliance.
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Des Moines
John W. Bricker
Ohio
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bricker
Soldier Bonus Drive Gains Momentum on Capitol Hill
On Capitol Hill the House moved into the second round of debate on the G I Bill of Rights a broad package for veterans care. Rep Lemke announced plans to form a 48 state House committee to push a separate bonus proposal offering veterans up to 7500 dollars in cash loans.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Lemke
D-Nd
Mother of Ten Service Men Will Be Honored
Esther McCabe of Lilly Pennsylvania, mother of ten in the armed forces, will be named the Nation's No 1 war mother for 1944 by the American War Mothers at a ceremony at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon.
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John McFarlane Phillips
New York
Pittsburgh
David Manners
George Wurzer
Phillips
The
Golden Rule Foundation
NEA Telephoto
Indianapolis
Ind
AWM
Esther McCabe
Lilly, Pa
Indiana War Memorial
Ceiling Price on Hogs Cut Sharply by OPA
The Office of Price Administration sharply reduced ceiling prices for live hogs over 240 pounds by 75 cents per hundredweight, effective immediately in Washington. The action lowers farm costs as pork prices adjust to wartime production limits and market needs.
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OPA
Washington
Office of Price Administration
American Casualties Reach 201 454 in World War War Totals
Secretary Stimson reports total American casualties through April 28 across all fronts at 201 454 with 44 778 naval and 156 676 Army losses. Among the Army figures are 27 297 killed 64 321 wounded 33 715 missing and 31 343 reported as prisoners of war. Of the wounded 37 009 have recovered and returned to duty.
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Washington
Stimson
Homecoming for Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski in Seattle
The Polish American priest Rev Stanislaus Orlemanski returned to U S soil in Seattle Washington after his Moscow mission drew controversy He refused to discuss talks with Premier Stalin and Commissar Molotov and angrily questioned photographers asking why they were not out fighting to defend the cause
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Seattle
Wash
Moscow
Stalin
Molotov
Herbert Asks Scioto County Vote Investigation
Columbus an investigation of the Scioto County vote in Tuesday’s primary began after Atty. Gen. Thomas J. Herbert asked the secretary of state to prevent any further irregularities. Ballots poll books and tally sheets were impounded, the county election board told not to count votes, and Hamilton County was mentioned as a possible further impoundment. Stewart led in unofficial returns with a 2,262 plurality.
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Columbus
Scioto County
Thomas J. Herbert
Secretary of State
Edward J. Hummel
Herbert
Hummel
Fred Snyder
Jack Baxter
James Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Stewart
$1000 Bills Found in Two Churches
Centenary Methodist Church reported a $1,000 bill in its collection plate. St. John’s Methodist Church also said they received one. Bishop John C. Brookfield called it an epidemic they would be glad to see continue.
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ST. Louis
Centenary Methodist Church
St. John’s
Sales tax receipts near month end total exceed one million
Prepaid sales tax receipts for the week ended April 29 topped one million dollars but were only about half the amount of the 1943 period. State Treasurer Don H. Ebright reported today.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Fifth and Eighth Armies Break Gustav Line Push
Allied forces in Italy advance along a 25 mile front from Cassino to the Tyrrhenian Sea. General Sir Harold Alexander shifts the Eighth Army toward Cassino as the Fifth Army sweeps toward the Garigliano River and the Gaeta area near Anzio.
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Gustav
Berlin
Italy
Cassino
Tyrrhenian Sea
Harold Alexander
Adriatic
Pescara
Gustav Line
Fifth Army
Garigliano
Tyrrhenian
Gaeta
Anzio
Rome
Allied Eighth Army Presses Cassino to Liri Valley Goal
Allied forces comprising Britons Indians and Poles with French and Dutch in line press Cassino and cross the Rapido toward the Liri Valley near Rome. Fifth Army reports units reached objectives as shells rain and air support overwhelms German positions with heavy casualties and stout resistance.
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Eighth
Cassino
Rapido
Liri
Rome
Associated
Sid Feder
Fifth Army
el Alamein
Egypt
Garigliano
Anzio
Aerial Blasting Intensifies Across Europe in World War II
The British led a continued aerial offensive with RAF raids on Boulogne and Louvain rail yards while German reports claimed bomber incursions over Western and Southern Germany. Daylight raids shattered 20 rail centers with 7,000 tons dropped by 4,000 planes. Eisenhower signaled plans for civil administration in occupied territories as Molotov spoke of joint Soviet pressure. Russian forces poised to move through Poland and possibly Romania, with a costly Dnestr bridgehead engagement reported. Radio Algiers noted talks between Romania and Russia for peace.
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Britain
Eisenhower
Germany
Boulogne
Louvain
France
RAF
London
England
Reich
Russia
Poland
Romania
Baltic States
Tiraspol
Moscow
Radio
Algiers
Army Navy E Award Ceremony Set at Point Pleasant WV
A May 16 4 30 p m Army Navy E Award event will be held at General Chemical Defense Corporation West Virginia Ordnance Works Point Pleasant. Col T C Gerber Office Chief of Ordnance will present the E and Harry S Bowen will accept the flag with token pins to staff.
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Point Pleasant
General Chemical Defense Corporation
West Virginia
General Chemical Company
Bowen
General Chemical Defense
Wilson Starbuck
Naval Operating Base
Norfolk
Pfc
James W. Saunders
Cassino
D. O. Mason
Ordnance Works Guard Force
E” Burgee
Parkersburg High School
Army and Navy
L. J. Culbertson
Liquidation of Hitler Seen by Psychologist
Ann Arbor reports University of Michigan psychologist Dr Norman R F Maier predicted Germany will liquidate Hitler after a successful Allied invasion. Maier noted his forecast rests on laboratory behaviorism experiments and cites his AAAS award winning frustration research.
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Hitler
Ann Arbor, Mich
University of Michigan
Munich
Norman R. F. Maier
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Northern Ohio Eateries Overcharging Found by OPA
About 15 percent of Northern Ohio public eating places checked by the Office of Price Administration last month charged prices above their base period. A. H. Anderson, district price executive, announced today.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Office of Price Investigation
A. H. Anderson
OPA
1,887 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Pacific
Washington reports the U S Army Air Forces in the Pacific and Asia have destroyed 4,887 enemy planes since the war began, with 1,414 American planes lost, according to Secretary of War Stimson.
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Pacific
Washington
Asia
Stimson
Clara Gabrilowitsch Marries Jacques Samassoud in Hollywood
In Hollywood yesterday Clara Gabrilowitsch daughter of Mark Twain wed Jacques Samassoud symphony orchestra director in a high profile ceremony attended by notable figures from the arts community.
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Hollywood
Mre
Clara Gabrilowitsch
Mark Twain
Jacques Samassoud
Symphony
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Finland
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Twain
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