Allies Press Through Italian Front Near Rome
Allied forces advance toward Rome as Eighth Army nears the Alban Hills and Via Casilina, with heavy German resistance and counterattacks. In the Rome line German troops retreat along the coast while air forces strike Germany, Austria, and occupied regions.
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Pescarella Nuova
Rome
Fifth 77
Valmontone
Naples
Eighth Army
Liri
Alfedena
Fontana
Strangolagalli
Pofi
Ceccano
Arpino
Alban Hills
German Tenth Army
Ardea
Campo Iemini
L’'Americano
Tiber
Villa Crocetta
Lanuvia
Alban Hill
Via Casilina
Frosinone
Europe
Berlin
Hanover
Brunswick
Escort Vessel Will Honor Father, Son
A destroyer escort vessel will be launched at Orange on June 4 bearing the name of Ohio father and son who died together in action with the Marines on Guadalcanal. The ship honors Lt Commander Malcolm Lewis Pratt USNR and his son First Lt John Lester Pratt USMCR of Bellefontaine. The widow Mrs John L Pratt of Bellefontaine will sponsor the vessel.
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Houston
Tex
Orange
Ohio
Guadilea
Malcolm Lewis Pratt
USNR
John Lester Pratt
USMCR
Bellfontaine
Lolm L. Pratt
Bellefontaine
Germans Threaten Scorched Earth Ahead of Invasion
Allied broadcasts warned of German scorched earth plans as Eisenhower urged readiness for invasion. The piece also notes reports of German civilian rage after Allied bombings and two German planes shot down over Britain. Senate inquiry demand targets CIO Political Action Committee amid corruption charges, with lawmakers citing violations of the Hatch Act.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Leipzig
Britain
CIO
Political Action Committee
Butler
Neb
Harrison E. Spangler
Republican National
Senate Elections Committee
Spangler
Alabama
John Newsome
Carter Manasco
Bricker Urges Stable Postwar Tax Structure
Gov. John W. Bricker ahead of a 36th governors conference calls for a balanced federal budget and a stable tax system with no overlapping. He argues prewar policy of spend borrow and tax harms the economy and urges local taxation of federal property. He opposes federal subsidies for schools and warns against Washington dictates on education.
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Harrisburg
John W. Bricker
United States
Ohio
Governors Conference
Congress
Bricker
Hitler
Germany
Washington
Prisoners to Aid Food for Victory Effort This Summer
German prisoners of war will be available in the Fifth Service Command this summer to help with gardening and food processing for the nation’s food for victory program. Most are held at Camp Perry Ohio and Camp Atterbury Indiana and will work within a 60 mile radius of their camps during August September and October. Major Donald M. McLeod notes they cannot be absent from the stockade more than 12 hours at a time.
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Columbus
Fifth Service Command
America
Camp Perry
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Donald M. McLeod
Rev. Chester Quear Granted Bond In Indecency Case
NEW PHILADELPHIA The Rev. Chester Quear 45 of Gnadenhutten was released today on a $1000 bond after being arrested yesterday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a 17 year old girl.
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New Philadelphia
Chester Quear
Gnadenhutten
Memorial Day Toll Reveals 323 Violent Deaths Across Nation
An Associated Press survey shows 323 violent deaths in four days over Memorial Day. Traffic fatalities reached 98 with drownings similar. plane crashes totaled 25 in California and 10 in Tennessee. California led with 42 violent deaths, New York reported 24, Illinois 21, and 12 states reported no violent deaths.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
California
Tennessee
The
Safety Council
New York
Illinois
Ohio
Planes Build Surge Outpaces Axis With 171000+ Since Pearl Harbor
Washington reports the United States has produced 171,257 planes since Pearl Harbor and will build 100,000 more this year. In the first four months of the year the nation averaged one plane every five minutes around the clock excluding Sundays, with output four to one ahead of Germany’s and seven to one ahead of Japan’s.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Hitler
Germany
Japan
War Production Board
Aircraft Production Board Today
Pearl Harbor
Feighan Joins Push for FBI Aid in Local Probe
U S Representative Michael A Feighan D Ohio adds his name to officials urging the FBI to join the investigation into gasoline and food rationing irregularities at Cuyahoga County s largest ration board Other supporters include Birkett L Williams Frank Lausche Robert D Thomas and Thomas Emerson The FBI declined saying OPA has an investigative unit and the matter concerns personnel and administration with no FBI jurisdiction.
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Cleveland
Michael A. Feighan
Ohio
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cuyahoga County
FBI
Birkett L. Williams
Office of Price Administration
Frank J. Lausche
Robert D. Thomas
Office of Defense Transportation
Thomas Emerson
OPA
Washington
Cotton Amendment Denounced as Simple Justice for Farmers
Senator Bankhead speaks in defense of a controversial cotton price amendment calling it simple justice for farmers. He argues it will raise cotton prices to parity, countering claims it mainly benefits textile mills as it heads to a Senate floor clash next week after approval by Alabama's banking committee.
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Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate
Bread supply dwindles as Cincinnati drivers strike
Bread stocks in Cincinnati grocers fell further as 400 bakery drivers salesmen and supervisors kept a work stoppage in protest of wage increase actions by 12 Cincinnati bakeries and one in Hamilton. The War Labor Board told the union that no action could be taken until the stoppage ends.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
War Labor Board
WLB
Teamsters
Patriotism at Home Urged by Ace in Memorial Day Address
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker urged greater domestic patriotism in a Memorial Day address. He warned the war will be long and urged citizens to buy war bonds in multiple forthcoming loan drives. In Naples, the largest WAC contingent to date arrived from the United States.
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Kansas City
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
Naples
WACS
Mediterranean
United States
Flour Price Fixing Conspiracy Charged
Sixteen flour milling firms eleven executives and a national trade association face federal court trial on charges of conspiring to fix prices for packaged flour for home use. The indictment emerged from a lengthy anti trust division inquiry. defendants pleaded innocent on June 15 after the March 24, 1943, filing.
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Chicago
National Trade Association
Anti-Trust
Three Nazis Downed By MV Arthur Airmen
London report credits Lt. Thomas Sharp of McArthur C. with three Nazi planes destroyed yesterday as American airmen battled in dogfights. Sharp shot one plane from the air and claimed two more on the ground.
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Italy
France
Belgium
Austria
Yugoslavia
British Air Ministry
Europe
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Wessun
Oschersleben
Halberstadt
Handorf
Diepholz
Rotenburg
Oldenburg
Badischenahn
Amburg
Pas de Calais
Mediterranean
Linz
Wiener- Neustadt
Romania
Iasi
Eisenhower
England
Istanbul
Bosnia
Marshal Tito
Hercegovina
Gacko
London
Thomas Sharp
McArthur, C
Sharp
Protection for Plants Urged
Government actions move to require advance notice for defense contract terminations. A joint termination board received orders from War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes to protect firms and workers. President Roosevelt asked agencies to examine new contracts for Brewster Aeronautical Corp plants in Long Island City New York where thousands face job losses.
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James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
Long Island City
N. Y
Military government takes power in Ecuador after coup
In Quito General Luis Larrea Alba and the Vanguard Party seized control of the Ecuadorean provisional government after a bloody coup in Guayaquil that forced President Carlos Arroyo Del Rio to resign. The army says it will govern until Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra returns from exile. In Toledo 128 bakery drivers strike over regional War Labor Board delays.
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Quito
Ecuador
Luis Larrea Alba
Army
Revolutionary Vanguard Party
Ecuadorean Provisional Government
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Guayaquil
Carlos Arroyo del Rio
Tanks Clash on Island as Foe's Resistance Stiffens
Allied reports describe fierce fighting on Biak Island near New Guinea as Japanese forces resist American advances toward Mokmer Airdrome. In this first Pacific tank clash, U S Shermans defeated 30 Japanese tanks, with heavy losses on both sides. Chinese defense lines near Hankow Canton are breached as Japan pushes toward partitioning China.
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Biak Island
New Guinea
China
Hankow-Canton
Janan
Douglas MacArthur
Mokmer
Biak
Philippines
MacArthur
Sixth Army
Associated Press
Spencer Davis
Southwest Pacific
Davis
Bosaek Village
Tokyo Radio
Changsha
Chungking
Food Production to Meet Postwar Demand Estimated
Paul S. Willis of the Grocery Manufacturers of America told the National Association of Purchasing Agents that peacetime food output may match wartime levels. He cited full employment, higher farm prices, and strong consumer purchasing power as drivers of sustained after war prosperity and increased civilian consumption by 10 to 15 percent.
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New York
Paul S. Willis
Grocery Manufacturers of America
America
National Association of Purchasing Agents
Europe
Willis
Presbyterians Adopt Social Action Program
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States approves a social action program. It calls for a general world peace organization and endorsement of organized labor and a Christian world economy, urges government participation, opposes the poll tax, and issues a clear warning against anti Semitism.
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Chicago
General World Organization For Peace
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
United States
America
Roosevelt Suggests New War Name The Tyrant’s War
President Roosevelt, who dubbed the conflict the war for survival, proposed another title during a news conference calling it the Tyrant s war. He also floated war of liberation as an alternative name.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Nelsonville Man Survives 1000 Foot Under Train Ride
William Delong 27 of Nelsonville crawled free from a wrecked 1935 coupe wedged under the rear coach of a northbound Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train at Kimberly Crossing. The car rode 1000 feet beneath the train after a braking failure, with Delong escaping uninjured aside from a scratch and a bump. Railroad crews freed the vehicle as the train arrived late at the depot.
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Nelsonville
William Delong
Chesapeake & Ohio ‘Railroad
Kimberly Crossing
Delong
Ace Expresion
Sandy Valley
Stratton
Fayette St
Akron
Logan
Lower Tax on Night Club Checks Advocated
Senators McCaran and Downey propose an amendment to cut the tax on night club checks. They argue the high levies threaten dining and drinking establishments. The move comes alongside a bill to raise the federal debt limit above 250 billion dollars.
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Washington
McCaran
D-Ney
Downey
D-Calif
Streamlined Tax Bill Signed by President
President Roosevelt signed the streamliner tax bill into law after unanimous congressional approval. The measure promises simplified income tax returns for 50 million people and seeks to extend simplification to corporate taxes.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Congress
Lausche namesake dies of heart attack
Frank H. Lausche six year old nephew and namesake of Mayor Frank J. Lausche, Democratic nominee for governor, died yesterday of a heart attack in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Frank H. Lausche
Frank J. Lausche
Nine men bail out before bomber explodes near Coleman
Tex Marian private E A Yazel among nine airmen who bailed out safely Sunday as their bomber exploded and crashed south of Coleman. The incident occurred during a mission over the Southwest region with no injuries reported.
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PYOTF
Tex
E. A. Yazel
Marion
Coleman
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