Cassino Fighting Amid Ruins and Dense German Resistance
Allied reports say 5th Army forces and tanks pushed into Cassino under heavy German mortar fire and continued rubble fighting after a record air assault. Despite delays from destruction, progress was noted in Cassino and the northwest hills as German defenses stubbornly held key points and underground shelters remained amid continuous bombardment and counterattacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Naples
5Th Army
Cassino
Germany
Devastatod
Italy
Roilway
Sofia
Bulgaria
Rome
Tra C. Eaker
Mediterranean
Hitler
Sth
Carraceto
America asks Finland to quit war with Nazi Germany
President Roosevelt joined Great Britain in urging Finland to sever its war alliance with Germany. The White House issued the appeal after Finland’s parliament rejected Soviet armistice terms, urging Finns to disassociate from Germany to avoid greater sorrow and suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
England
Finland
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Roosevelt
White House
Britain
Soviet Russia
Theyratay
Germany
Stockholm
Stephen Early
Helsinki
Draft boards urged to draft fathers and deferables
Washington report notes manpower shortages require boards to induct more fathers and to seek workers from industry and agriculture. Hershey cites five months of unmet quotas as he urges boards to secure men from deferred categories while maintaining essentiality in critical occupations. Weather portion reports near term cold, small precipitation totals for Nebraska area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Senate
Hershey
Russell
D.-Ga
Focal Boards
Army
Navy
Strikers Refuse Union Defense Over Ford Rouge Blockade
Detroit leaders warned of more suspensions at Ford Motor Co Rouge plant as local 600 of the UAW CIO announced it would offer no defense for workers linked to Wednesday’s blockade. Fifty were suspended with 10 more under review after a series of actions tied to engine plant disruptions and a no-strike pledge controversy. Police patrols stepped up around Dearborn gates as shifts began without incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Harry F. Kelly
Dearborn
R. J. Thomas
Uaw-Cio
Ford Company
Orville Hubbard
Grant
Ford
War Salvage Collection Dates and Fats Recycling Notice
No paper collection this week. Tin collection is the third Thursday for pickup on the third Friday. If your block’s commanto does not collect tin, call the district school principal for pickup. Fats: take waste cooking fats to your grocery store. dealers pay 4 cents per pound and two teal stamps per pound for waste fats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deslers
Service Vote Measure in Hands of FDR
The service vote bill heads to the White House with passage by Congress seen as likely but final approval resting on a presidential poll of governors. The measure blends federal and state ballot rules for servicemen, with governors required to certify by July 14 that federal ballots are valid under state law, and an Aug. 1 or Sept. 1 deadline for abroad voting. Governors' reactions vary. some report no message yet, others indicate existing or satisfactory state provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Warren
California
Iowa Soldiers Amply Protected Vote Rights Claimed
DES MOINES Iowa Governor B B Hickenlooper said soldiers are amply provided for under state law with ample time to vote in both state primaries and the general election. He stated the absent voters law covers voting for all offices from township trustee to federal posts and noted he had not yet received the president's message on the federal ballot bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
B. B. Hickenlooper
Roosevelt
Conspiracy Alleged in Global Restraint of Trade
The justice department accused two American export associations, 13 American manufacturers, and a British firm with its agent of forming international cartel agreements to restrain trade in alkalis, violating the Sherman Act. AG Biddle said the suit claims the defendants allocated exclusive marketing areas and export quotas worldwide to eliminate competition via illegal contracts and understandings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, UP
Justice Department
Biddle
U. S. District Court
New York
Creston Girl Killed in Collision at Intersection
Wynette Shade, 16, died Thursday when cars driven by Robert Farlin, 18, and Robert Harpin, 17, collided at a Creston intersection. Misa Shade, 14, riding with Farlin, was thrown out and crushed beneath a vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
Wynette Shade
Robert Farlin
Robert Harpin
Misa Shade
Ferlin
Exposes Labor Renting Traffic Profits in War Labor
Washington reports says investigations by the House Military Committee reveal profits up to 250 percent on labor hired to war contractors. Commitee counsel H Ralph Burton cites at least 25 cases nationwide, with one Chicago and New York operator earning 4.24 million in 1943 from wages and billing, while paying workers much less. He notes firms bill per man hour or flat rates, sometimes 101 to 548 for a skilled worker Sunday work, under misleading names and racketeering practices, and stresses move to break up these schemes to aid the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
H. Ralph Burton
Counsiel
Burton
Chicago
New York
Byhigs Company
Asgumea
Twelve Men Killed in Cargo Plane Crash near Bull Mountain
Danville Daily Bulletin reports twelve men died when a four engined army cargo plane crashed Thursday night on Bull Mountain in southwest Virginia. Bodies were found scattered in brush over 100 yards. a woodland fire aided searchers. The Richmond army base suggested the plane may have originated from Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Danville
Bull Mountain
Virginia
Kay Thompson
Martinsville Va
Daily Bulletin
Thomson
Thompson
Richmond
Army Chase
S3reensboro, N. C
More Food Coupons Issued by OPA for Meats and Processed Foods
The Office of Price Administration announced extended stamps for foods. Red stamps G8 H8 and JE cover meats and fats from March 26 to June 18 while blue stamps F8 G8 H8 J8 and KS apply to processed foods from April 1 to June 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA Washington
Datsa
Office of Price Administation
H&s
J&8
Army Relaxes Its Rules On Wedding Gowns For WACs
Washington UPI reports the War Department loosened uniform wedding attire rules for six months. WACs may wear traditional bridal gowns at ceremonies, reversing a prior ban that required brides to be in uniform. The change follows SPARs Marines WAVES already allowed dressy gowns. Bridesmaids may also dress in civilian wedding attire now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Washington
UPI
War Department
WACS
American Fliers Hit Pacific Front in Four Day Raids
Allied air forces pounded a broad swath of the southwest Pacific from Wewak New Guinea to Bougainville and the Carolines. A 500 ton air blast struck a defense line while Oroluk atoll and Ponape Kusaie were targeted. Col Nearl Kearby and Lt Col Thomas Gynch were listed missing and killed respectively. Adm Nimitz and Gen Richardson announced new strikes including an Oroluk hit for the first time in the war. Chinese forces advanced in Burma near Walabur and into the Mogaung valley threatening Japanese lines of communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard ©. Berghols
Associated Press
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Central Pacific
Oroluk Atoll
Carolines
Wewak
New Guinea
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Filera Monjay
Rabaul
New Britain
Empress Augusta Bay
Wevlak
Nearl Kearby
San Antonio
Texas
Thomas Gynch
Catasaqua
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Robert Richardson
Washington
Oroluk
Atoll
Truk
Ponape
Kusaie
Training Australians Save Your Tin Cane
Minister Drakeford said American specialists train Australian air crews in Liberator bomber technique and all RAAF bomber crews soon will see combat in the southwest Pacific against Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
Australia
Drakeford
Southwest
Pacific
Germans Face Grave New Threat Near Romanian Border
Red army troops smashed across the Bug River advancing toward the Dniester frontier with 12 to 18 mile gains and villages swept up as Nikolayev forces closed on the lower Bug. The drive threatens German lines in lower Russia as Odesa rail routes come under pressure and new crossings near Uman and Vinnitsa reshape the southern front.
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London
Red Army
Bug
Moscow
Russia
Ukraine
Black Sea
Nikolaev
Snigerev~ Ka
Khernon
Uman
Ivan & Konev
2Nd Ukraine
Dniester
Bessarabia
Konev
Nemirov
Vinnitsa
Gaiyoron
Olgopal
Odessa-Warsaw
Tarnopol
Snigerevka
Bereznegovatoye
Snikerevka
Ingul
Ingutets
Kopany
Novo Ukrainka
Odessa
Bug River
Plzarevka
Proskurov
Rumania
Cat Black Market Uncovered in Budapest
Budapest reports uncover a thriving cat meat black market with over 100000 stolen household pets in recent months. Catnapers allegedly abduct cats to supply butchers and fur dealers, while hides are disposed of through fur trade channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Munich
Muenchner Neuste Nach
Ichten
Budapest
Orjbe
British Subject Executed as German Spy in London
London born Donald John Job, 59, of German parentage, was executed at Pentonville Prison for espionage. He had attempted to obtain Nazi information using invisible ink, becoming the fourteenth spy and the fourth British subject executed in this war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Pentonville
Donald John Job
RAF Smashes Stuttgart in Heaviest Raid
RAF launches a record night assault on Stuttgart Munich and other targets in southern Germany using over 3 360 tons of bombs by 1 000 heavy four engine bombers. The attack part of a coordinated series that also struck Amiens and Munich amid fierce air battles with German forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladwin Hill
London
Germany
RAF
Stuttgart
Munich
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Fieres
France
Brunswick
Berlin
Amiens
Air Ministry
Sofia
Naples
Italy
Bulgaria
Daimler-Benz
Bosch
United States
the &Th
Cologne
Essen
Bremen
Iowa Faces Renewed Smallpox Threat
Iowa health officials warned of a potential smallpox outbreak after two years of calm. In the first ten weeks this year eleven cases were reported, up from six a year ago and 26 in all of 1943, with past three year averages around 1,181 annually. officials urged vaccination as many remain unprotected for themselves and their children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urs Claines
V—Ine Mate Health Department
Iowa
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Carroceto
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