Roosevelt silent on future plans fuels fourth term push
Roosevelt’s news conference left questions about a prospective draft nomination unresolved as Democrats agitate for acclamation at the Chicago convention. Oklahoma’s 22 votes were pledged to a fourth term while South Carolina and Arkansas strategize for their delegates. Dewey gains fresh momentum with Montana and New Jersey boosts, California leaning to Warren. Downey renominated in California for the Democrats, while Houser seeks GOP support.
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Oklahoma
White House
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Arkansas
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Dewey
Montana
New Jersey
California
Earl Warren
Delaware
Sheridan Downey
GOP
Frederick F. Houser
U. S. Senate
H. Alexander Smith
Princeton University
Andrew O. Wittreich
Elmer H. Wene
Allied Drive to Reopen Burma Road Hits Japanese Wall
Allied forces and air units push to reopen the Burma Road from Burma to China with coordinated land and air attacks. In northern China Chinese troops recapture a third position on the Peiping-Hankow Railroad and Loyang faces renewed Japanese assault.
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Burma
China
Salween River
Peiping-Hankow
Central
Loyang
Claire Chennault
U. S
Yunnan Province
Yangtze River Basin
Thailand
Joseph W. Stillwell
Kamaung
Gustav Line breached as Allied drive advances toward Rome
Allied forces breached the Gustav Line's 13 mile southern end and captured Pignataro near Cassino. Americans pressed toward Castellonorato and Formia as German counterattacks failed, while French and American units pushed from the Fifth Army toward the Adolf Hitler Line. South of the Liri River all Gustav Line positions were overrun and the Anzio beachhead remained quiet.
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Cassino
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Formia
Scauri
Liri
Anzio
Naples
Italy
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Fifth Army
Quickie Divorces Stir California Lawmakers
Representative Poulson of California proposed a constitutional amendment to ban quickie divorces for the rich and Hollywood crowd. The measure would require home state proceedings and aims to do away with Reno style quickies.
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Washington
Poulson
Calif
Herbert names subcommittee on state conservation program
Lieut. Gov. Paul M. Herbert as chairman of the Ohio Post War Program Commission appointed a special sub committee to draft an overall conservation and natural resources program. The panel includes Dr. Charles Holzer of Gallipolis and L. P. Mooney, Hocking County representative.
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Columbus
Paul M. Herbert
Ohio
Mrs. Clara Sayre Dies After Operation at 70
Mrs. Clara Sayre aged 70, a native of Letart Falls, died Monday in a New Brighton Pennsylvania hospital after an operation. She leaves five children and several grandchildren. Burial will be Thursday at 2 30 PM in Letart Falls Cemetery beside her husband Wilbur Sayre.
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Clara Sayre
New Brighton
J. D. Roush
Letart
Letart Fall
Wilbur Sayre
Charleston Hotel Shooting Leaves Two Women Dead
Corbin Fields, 43, a Spencer house painter, shot Bertha Kinder of Charleston and Audrey Dennis of Marietta, then killed himself with a small caliber gun. Witnesses say the trio sat in a lobby booth before three rapid shots. Kinder died on impact. Dennis died shortly after. Fields died later at a Charleston hospital from a brain bullet.
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Charleston
Ten Perish in Airship Crash at Naval Station
The 4 A Navy training airship crashed into a Lakehurst hangar killing six officers and four enlisted men and injuring a further crew member. The envelope ripped as student pilots failed to clear the west end during a practice take-off, sending the control car 258 feet to a concrete runway. No fire occurred due to non inflammable helium. The site mirrors the Hindenburg field where a hydrogen filled airship exploded in 1937, killing 31.
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Navy
Lakehurst
N. J
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Foremen Faces War Labor Board Showdown in Detroit
The Foremen's Association of America presses to be recognized as bargaining agent for supervisory plant workers as War Labor Board demands show cause in Washington. About 3,300 strikers disrupted production, causing idle work for many, with a 10 to 1 ratio of idle to active workers. President Robert H. Keys and the executive board were summoned to explain why sanctions under the War Labor Disputes act should not be invoked.
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Foreman's Association of America
War Labor Board
Robert H. Keys
Foremen's Union
WLB
Washington
Michigan Mother Admits She Is Ohio Fugitive
Mrs. Martha Lucinda Motter, 44, of Kalamazoo, confessed she escaped from the Ohio Reform atory for women at Marysville 14 years ago while serving a bank robbery sentence. Police Chief Ralph Chapman said she kept her prison record secret from her husband Myron and her 24 year old daughter.
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Martha Lucinda Motter
Ohio Reformatory For Women At
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Ralph Chapman
Motter
Myron
Chapman
Ration Board Clerk Held for Coupon Theft
Robert A. Dissauer, clerk at Cuyahoga County’s largest ration board, faces a federal warrant charging felonious purloining of 5 000 T gasoline ration coupons and a ration bank certificate for 538 000 gallons. The case, linked to irregularities in ration stamp distribution, follows FBI and police investigation and involvement of OPA officials. Dissauer remains in custody as authorities probe potential broader thefts of fuel quotas.
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Cuyahoga County
Lee Howley
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Rollin Childs
OPA
U.S
Common Pleas
Alva R. Corlett
Frank W. Story
Office of Defense Transportation
Third Ranking Nazi Ace Is Shot Down
Berlin radio reported that Germany's third ranking fighter ace, Commodore Col. Walter Oseau credited with 116 Allied planes, was killed by an American Thunderbolt fighter during a daylight raid over Germany.
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Germany
Walter Oseau
Berlin
Roosevelt seeks war budget cuts amid election year worries
President Roosevelt proposed trimming war expenditures for the next fiscal year by 4.8 billion dollars below January estimates. Congress faces high taxes and the mounting national debt as Republicans argue the reductions do not go far enough. Senator Bridges notes the move is a step but calls for tighter planning and elimination of waste to reduce costs further without harming war effort.
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Roosevelt
Ceer
Congress
Bridges
Appropriations Committee
Two CIO Groups Vote To Back Fourth Term
Two CIO labor groups with about five million members urged President Roosevelt to seek a fourth term. The CIO Political Action Committee and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America announced their formal support in meetings held in Chicago yesterday.
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CIO
Roosevelt
CIO Political Action Committee
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Start Moving of War Veterans Further Inland
Newark New Jersey report on the first large scale air evacuation of war wounded inland from receiving hospitals. Twelve C-47 ambulance planes carried 203 patients from Halloran General Army Hospital on Staten Island to inland locations as the War Department prepares for the peak in casualty evacuations.
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Newark
N. J
Halloran General Army Hospital
New York
Staten Island
War Department
Child Drowns in Cistern Near Home
Sheila Kendrick, three, died in a cistern at her residence near here after an accidental drowning. Authorities reported the incident occurred today as rescuers tried to reach the girl.
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Sheila Kendrick
Here
Farm Machinery Output Near 90 Percent of Target
War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson said farm machinery production should reach about 90 percent of the scheduled output by June 30, the end of the current 12 month program. He noted that the shortfall affects major military programs and cited difficulties moving from very low 1943 levels.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Bricker says GOP must reject me too attitude at Chicago convention
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker told 90 of 100 Ohio delegates to the Republican National Convention that adopting a me too attitude toward the New Deal would hurt their November chances. He urged a clear platform opposing the New Deal while supporting internationalism only as it protects national interests. He noted election likely decided in the Mississippi Valley and warned against secret agreements.
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Republican Party
Chicago
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Ohio
GOP
Mississippi Valley
Mid-Western
George Ade Dies at 78 Humorist of Fables in Slang
George Ade famed author and humorist died last night in Brook Ind at age 78 after his third heart attack in a week. He had been comatose since Saturday and was renowned for Fables in Slang first published in 1897. The Ross Ade Stadium at Purdue University honors him. Newark brief: Allen Brugh 47 died from burns at Pharis Tire and Rubber Co after using fluid to clean a machine ignited an electric bulb.
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Ind
George Ade
Ade
Purdue University
Ross- Ade
Newark
Allen Brugh
Pharis Tire and Rubber Co
French and British Advances Across Italy and Yugoslavia Shift War Fronts
The report details French forces capturing Castellonorato area and advancing toward Esperia while holding key elevations and preparing to storm Espera. British control over the Rapido bridgehead extends to three miles as air power strikes German positions. Simultaneously Yugoslav Partisans claim liberation of Starigrad and heavy clashes in Lika Croatia with Allied air support halting German movements.
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Tito
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Zivenica
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Bosnia
Serbia
Istria
WMC Begins Campaign for 1 800 Miners
Ohio War Manpower Commission director E L Keenan launched a drive to recruit 1 800 miners for Eastern Ohio coal mines. The campaign, backed by the Ohio Coal for Victory Committee, centers in Bridgeport Belmont County and targets Belmont Jefferson Noble and Guernsey Counties. Miners not at top skill levels should report to the nearest employment service and state their intent to return to coal mining. Keenan noted about 4 000 Ohio miners moved to larger centers since Pearl Harbor.
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E. L. Keenan
Ohio
War Manpower Commission
Ohio Coal For Victory Committee
Bridgeport
Belmont County
Keenan
Belmont
Jefferson
Noble
Guernsey
United States Employment Service
WMC
Pearl Harbor
Fugitive Miller Returned to Ohio Reformatory
William Miller 38, who escaped from the Ohio State Reformatory in 1929 after six months of a year sentence for illegal automobile transportation, was brought back to Mansfield yesterday without handcuffs amid controversy over restraints raised by a Pittsburgh judge.
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William Miller
Ohio State Reformatory
Pittsburgh
Miller
Ohio
West Virginia Ordnance Workers Earn EF Award at Ceremony
The Army Navy E award went to General Chemical Defense Corporation’s West Virginia unit in a late afternoon ceremony at the plant cafeteria. Col. T. C. Gerber presented the honor as visitors filled chairs and the 100 member Park Band performed.
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Point Pleasant
General Chemical Defense Corporation
George Deitz
D. O. Mason
General Chemical Company
T. C. Gerber
St. Louis
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Harry S. Bowen
The
Chemical Company
West Virginia Man Found Guilty in Slaying Case
HINTON W V A 68 year old Lima Ohio Negro Joe Gore was convicted of second degree murder for the Christmas Eve 32 years ago slaying of Thomas Agee at a party on Cashier's Hill near Beckley Gore fled after the shooting using the name Thomas Mann and worked in Lima before extradition to Hinton following an anonymous tip.
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Hinton
W. Va
Joe Gore
Lima
Thomas Agee
Agee
Cashier's Hill
Beckley
Gore
Thomas Mann
Priest’s Suspension Lifted After Apology
In Springfield Mass Rev Stanislaus Orlemanski had a four day suspension lifted after he apologized and promised to cease activities not in line with Church rules. Bishop Thomas H O Leary reinstated him following the letter of apology aided by support from the American Slav Congress of Connecticut.
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Mass
Stanislaus Orlemanski
American Slav Congress of
Connecticut
Thomas H. O'Leary
Orlemanski
O'Leary
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