Axis declares unity after Tokyo war council at Tojo home
In Tokyo a joint German Japanese council of war pledged firm Axis unity and renewed commitment to fight the Allies. Tojo and German Ambassador Stahmer praised cohesion with Italy, Germany, and Japan, and warned against Allied advances as plans for a western invasion were described as propaganda.
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London
Axis
Tojo
Tokyo
Henrich Stahmer
Italy
Berlin
Shigemitsu
Shimada
Japan
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Aussies Push Toward Madang Base in New Guinea Campaign
Allied forces report Australian jungle fighters pressing north along Astrolabe bay toward Madang from Bogadjim while patrols clear coast, sink three enemy coastal vessels and bombard Wewak and Kavieng airfields. Solomons aircraft strike Rabaul area, bombs hit installations and damaged ships. PT boats destroy and damage several enemy barges near Wide Bay.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Australia
New Guinea
Madang
Bogadjim
Rabaul
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Astrolabe Bay
Cori River
Prittwitz Point
Aitape
Wewak
But
Dagua
Wide Bay
Nazi Sub Sighting Claims Stir Ulster Politician
London Evening Standard quoted Sir Hugh ONeill of the Ulster Unionist Party saying German submarines had been slipping into western Ireland harbors and receiving Axis messages. He warned the activity had occurred many times and would continue.
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London
The
London Evening Standard
Belfast
Hugh O'Neill
Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party
Western
Ireland
O'Neill
Rickenbacker Whisky Offer Urges Controversy
WilkesBarre opposition leader B E Ewing called Captain Eddie Rickenbacker inconsistent for offering a case of scotch to Major Richard Bong after Bong downed 27 Japanese planes. Iowa anti saloon leader O G Christgau urged a repudiation over quoted endorsement and its implications for flyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes-Barre
B. E. Ewing
Pennsylvania Arts ~ Saloon League
Eddie Rickenbacker
Richard I. Bong
Ewing
Methodist Church
Kingston
Rickenbacker
Pacific
Heaven
Des Moines
Iowa l Anti-Saloon League
O. G. Christgau
Christgau
Hughes Cold To G. O. P. Keynoting
A group of Republicans discussed offering Charles Evans Hughes the keynote at the Republican national convention in Chicago on June 26 but Hughes indicated he is not interested. The arrangements committee will choose the keynote, permanent chairman, and temporary officers, with familiar names like Joseph W. Martin Jr. and Clare Boothe Luce in circulation as possibilities. The committee meeting in Chicago will set the convention leadership lineup this week.
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G.O. P
Hughes
Supreme Court
G.O.P
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler
G.O.P. National Committee
German Error on Dnepr May Weaken West Wall
Military sources say the German high command erred by assuming the Russian advance could be held on the Dnepr despite a strong push. The lapse threatens their eastern empire and could force use of anti invasion reserves in western Europe as summer campaigns begin. The Crimea falls, and the Red Army nears Romania, reshaping the balance before the push toward Berlin.
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West Wall
Edward W. Beattie
London
Dnepr
Europe
Wehrmacht
France
Germany
Crimea
Red Army
Poland
Russia
Axis
Romania
Balkans
Ukraine
Berlin
Baltic
Yank Couple Finally Wed In Little Naples Church
Mary Chandler daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Chandler of Malden Massachusetts wed Captain Max Marple son of Mr and Mrs Guy Marple of Pawhuska Oklahoma in a small Neapolitan Presbyterian church after a tangle of permissions from U S government army Red Cross Italian and local authorities A dual ceremony with an army chaplain and a Neapolitan pastor plus an interpreter preceded a Capri honeymoon The couple met in Algiers and resolved legal hurdles to marry while overseas during World War II.
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Naples
Italy
Mary Chandler
Ernest L. Chandler
Malden
Mass
Max Marple
Guy Marple
Pawhuska
Okla
Massachusetts
Mary
Max
William P Maxwell
Hartselle
Ala
Isle of
Capri
Air Force
Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital
Red Cross
Algiers
Wallenda Divorce Prompts Change In High Wire Act
New York AP reports a 10 day shift in the World Famous Wallendas lineup after Herman and Elizabeth Wallenda divorced in Florida. Elizabeth withdrew from the hazardous double pinwheel spin and was replaced by Henrietta Wallenda, 24, after a single rehearsal on the ground. The group performed Friday night before 16 000 spectators with Herman on the wire 50 feet above the arena.
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New York
Wallendas
Millison Square Garden
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey
Herman
Elizabeth Wallenda
Florida
Carl
Elizabeth
Helen Wallenda
Helen
Henrietta
Allied air strikes hammer Bucharest and Ploesti from Britain
In a major offensive, 750 to 1,000 Axis bombers and fighters struck targets in Romania while over 600 Allied fighters raided 10 German and occupied airfields. U S Eighth and Ninth air forces fought bad weather, losing 30 aircraft but destroying 18 enemy interceptors.
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London
U. S
Bucharest
Ploesti
Romania
Europe
Britain
Germany
Berlin
Red Army
Luftwaffe
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Balkans
Adolf Hitler
Ivan S. Konev
Tasi
DNB
Belgrade
Nis
Yugoslavia
Eighth
Ninth Air Force
Reich
Naples
Mediterranean
U S Merchant Vessels Vanish Without Trace
Washington reports several American merchant ships have disappeared during the war with no trace of vessels or crews. Officials say the number is between seven and eleven, with details to be released later. The loss may be due to submarines or enemy action.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
J.g
Carl Frederick Zeidler
Milwaukee
Navy
South Atlantic
Zeidler
South America
U. S
Houston
Java
Central Pacific Chiefs Shifted
Army announces Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale will take over as commander of the shorebased air force in the forward Central Pacific on May 1. Brig. Gen. R. W. Douglas will act as commanding general of the Seventh air force, and Rear Adm. John H. Hoover will command all forces in the forward area.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Army
Willis H. Hale
Central Pacific
Hale
R. W. Douglas
Seventh Air Force
John H. Hoover
Stambaugh Files Senate Run as Republican Candidate
Lynn Stambaugh former national commander of the American Legion filed as a Republican candidate for United States senator in Bismarck North Dakota.
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Stambaugh
Bismarck
N. D
Lynn Stambaugh
The
American Legion
United States
Camp Good Health Fund Opens With Bigger Budget
The Camp Good Health Fund opens with a larger budget of 3695 dollars for 1943, up 897.22 from last year. The fund supports a Cedar Rapids health camp for low income, physically handicapped children, operating seven weeks from June 12 to July 27, with donations acknowledged in The Gazette. The total includes 410 dollars from Friday’s waste paper drive and 4565 participating elementary students, though some funds may be delayed pending receipt of checks from Chicago.
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Naomi Doebel
Camp Good Health Fund
South Side Civic Club
Commandos
Fred Henson
Chicago
Camp Good Health
Cedar Rapids
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Gazette
Russians Close On Sevastopol As Tarnopol Falls
Soviet forces surged along three fronts in Ukraine and Crimea. Tarnopol fell after a three week siege, wiping out 16,000 German troops. Odessa and Sevastopol operations widened as 87,000 Crimean troops surrendered over seven days. Moscow reported mass surrenders and heavy Axis losses.
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London
Sevastopol
Crimean
Old Poland
Red
Tarnopol
Berlin
Moscow
Alushta
France
Poland
Red Army
Lyubimovka
Chernaya
Lwow
Europe
Odessa
Third Ukraine
Black Sea
Dnestr
Bessarabia
Crimea
Adzhi-Bulat
Kacha
Malashai
Belbek
Simferopol
Vankoi
Communiqte
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Andrei I
Yeremenko
Maryland
Brody
Stanislawow
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Rick
Clare Luce
Silesia
Terry
Jerry
Willow van Tuyl
Willow
Kenneth L. Dixon
U.S
U. S. Army
U. S. Army Air Force
American Red Cross
Presbyterian Churches
America
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