Allied Air Forces Launch Coordinated 900 Planes Over Europe
Allied air units attacked Europe in a sweeping offensive. Centred raids targeted rail hubs at Mannheim Saarbrucken and Ludwigshafen while bombers and escorts struck across France and into Germany. The Luftwaffe reported heavy losses with several bombers missing and trains and engine plants hit in multiple sectors.
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Eigsth
Britain
Briale
France
Germany
Italy
Tna
Mime
Avignom
Marseille
Mannen
Saarbrucken
Rhineland
Indus Rip
Munich
Ludwigshafen
Nouthwater- Seyved
Motetal Brasbourg
Farge
Beetle Trapping Program Targets Invasive Insect in Dothan Area
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans a pest survey using about 300 traps to detect an invasive beetle. Traps with an oil attractant are buried in soil and checked twice weekly. The project aims to determine spread and infestation levels, with results sent to authorities once testing concludes.
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Wal
Tong Neile
Japan
War Industries Hampered As 40,000 Strike
About 40,000 U S industrial workers stayed away from jobs while three labor disputes in the Middle East seemed settled. In the Pacific Northwest roughly 30,000 lumber and sawmill workers remained idle after last week’s protests. AFL CIO leaders met in Portland to address War Labor Board demands that walkouts end before wage increases are considered. The walkouts, called wildcat by unions, disrupted lumber production worth an estimated 11 million board feet daily, affecting over 106 mills in Oregon and Washington. In D C region 100 bus drivers and 180 maintenance workers walked out in sympathy with Greyhound workers over a wage contract dispute.
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Middle East
Pacific
AFL Northwestern Council of Lumber
Sewnill
Wildcat
Exava
Oregon
Washington
WLS
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
Greyhound Warage
Servica
Bakmers
Scranton
Union Leader Warns War Plant Strikers Public Fed-Up
Detroit AP report on bread rationing as wartime shortages hit families. UAW CIO President R Thomas warned Highland Park Chrysler plant strikers that public opinion could end the union if strikes hurt war efforts. War Labor Board ordered strikers to return to work. AFL officials failed to sway them.
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Detroit
R. Thomas
Big Cio
United Auto Workers Union
Uaw-Cio
Highland Park
Chrysler
Auto Workers Union
Thomas
War Labor Board
Washington Today
Local Si
AYZ Teamsters Union
WLBE
Samuel Hurst
AFL
Tid Atrikers
Thome
The
Auto
Palad
Gists
Lnes
Thames
UAW
CIO
Cure
District War Bond Leaders Attend Meet
Six counties Barbour Gen neve Coffee Dale Henry and Bourton form the Tenth War Bond District with a combined quota of 4,777,000 and 1,810,000 in E series for the June 12 drive. County committeemen met at the Hogston Hotel to hear state leaders outline plans for the first War Bond loan push.
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Budy Brown
Barbour
Geneve
Coffee, Dale, Henry
Bourton
Hogston
Federal Judge Petitioned to Impound Box in Houston County
Petition seeks impounding of the absentee ballot box in Houston County's Democratic primary until postal inspectors finish a full investigation into alleged ballot manipulation for a federal office. The petitions, circulating mainly outside Dothan though with some local signatures, include J E Reese of Madrid and several Dothan signers.
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Houston County
U. S
Charley B. Kennemer
Dothan
J. E Reese
Ford Urges World Federation for Peace and Prosperity
Detroit AP Henry Ford 61 calls war inevitable without universal currency and world federation to end nations’ greed and religious disunity. He says machines for killing grow faster than humanity can bear and envisions wartime factories repurposed for peacetime work with full employment if freedom to choose exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J. Wise
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford
City responds favorably to new garbage ordinance
A city official reports broad support for a garbage ordinance requiring residents to use covered containers and keep waste off gutters and sidewalks. Critics caution about the initial enforcement severity and processing of the measure, noting concerns over early actions by the sanitation department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
RAF Coast Command cripples feed lines in Biscay area
RAF Coastal Command torpedo and rocket bombers crippled the blockade running feedline in the Bay of Biscay to German war plants while Liberators and Wellingtons from Italy mined the lower Danube. Over six months, 563 enemy vessels attacked, 67 sunk or damaged, with 25 assessments pending. Rockets and torpedoes used. rockets had limited success against merchant ships. Mining operations on the Danube completed by Liberators and Wellingtons.
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Ruth Cowan
London
RAP
Bay of Biscay
Italy
Lower Danube
Coastal Command
HAF
Wth
Cosster Command
Danube River
Strategic Air Force
Naples
Furn
No. Hi
Goebbels Says Luftwaffe Airdropped Airmen Lose Protection
German Propaganda Minister Goebbels in Volkischer Beobachter declares German civilians may harm American airmen who bail out over Germany. Berlin report notes this signals a shift from “eye for eye” policing, amid claims that fighter sweeps target civilians as much as military objectives.
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Robert N. Sturdevant
Stockholm
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Wnazi
Volkischer Beobachter
Germany
Aftonbladet
Berlin
Goebbels
Goebhamn
Garman Civiliang
Sirmen Nfo
Relch
Allied Troops Wipe Out Japs In Imphal Area
Allied forces push into the Imphal plain severing Japanese links. Chinese units seize Werong in Burma and inflict heavy casualties on the 38th division while RAF and TAF strikes hit Manipur river bridges cutting enemy communications.
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Imphal
Grumich Boltheast Asia Headquarters
Kandy
Ceylon
Mogaung Valley
Werong
Ke- Maing
Burma
38Th
Impha Plain
Warong
Joseph W. Stilwell
Wth
Singapore
Frank Merrill
Zizgyun
Irrawaddy
Myitkvins
RAF
TAF
Manpur
Tanzany
Annamy Bard
Edes
Araz
Griten
Biehenpur
Yank invasion of Biak Island faces fierce Japanese opposition
Advanced Allied Headquarters in New Guinea reports American troops landed on Biak Island and push northwest toward three inland airfields as heavy Japanese mortar and automatic fire meet the assault. MacArthur says the operation marks a strategic close to the New Guinea campaign after a heavy naval bombardment prior to landings.
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New Guinea
Biak
Schoutens
Rass
Philippines
Douglas McArthur
Roea
Hollandia
Wakde
MacArthur Elmosthy
Freighter Captain Shot By Naval Crew
The Navy reports Karl Larsen captain of the 8.8. Thomas Waleh was shot to death April 19 in an exchange of shots with naval gun crew aboard his merchant vessel in a South Pacific port. Larsen's home was New York City. The ship returned to a West Coast port as a thorough investigation continues. No reason given for the fatal confrontation was stated.
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Washington
Navy
Karl J. Larsen
Thomas
Waleh
South Pacific
Lararn
Laraen
New York City
Larsen
Houston Library Schedule Change for Summer Hours
The Houston Memorial Library will be open from 4 to 6 30 p m daily except Thursdays and Sundays. The schedule, announced by Mrs John Flowers on the board of directors, becomes effective Monday and will continue through the summer months.
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Houston Memorial Library
John Flowera
Board of
Tims
Story Of Johnnie And His Mother From Minnesota
A whitehaired mother travels from Minnesota to visit her son Johnnie, now a soldier. Her modest blue silk dress shows long wear yet is tidy as she reads her son’s letters with pride and homesickness evident in her eyes. He has never been far from home and longs for the farm and Minnesota’s springtime.
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Milton KR. Wallace
Minnesota
Johnnie
Fourth Term Pledges Hit Record Ballots Across States
The Associated Freas reports Connecticut Democrats back a fourth term, boosting Governor Roosevelt's renomination support to a record. North Carolina voters nominate candidates for Senator and Governor while Utah Democrats back renomination. In Washington, intra committee clashes over a suppression of admin errors surface as Truman clashes with Republicans. Page 2 notes.
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Freas
Connecticut
Democrats
Roosevelt
North Carolina
Bug A
Dele- Baten Choden
Maloney
D. - Conn
Homer Cummings
Alturpey Cianecal
Wilbur Cram
Robert Huey
Utah
Elbert D. Toomes
Thesons
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Clyda A. Hoty
Cameron Morrison
Robert K. Reynolds
Reynolds
Senate
R. Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
Ralph W. McDonald
Winston-Salem
Dna Ray Boyd
Pinetown
Washington
War Investigation Committee
Truman
D.mo
New Haven
Conn
Senators Ball
R& Mine
Ferguson
R. Mich
Negro Is Jailed For OPA Violation
A federal warrant is issued at Montgomery against Wa rnell Dothan Negro, held in Houston County jail on a charge of salting an automobile fire without a certificate. Deputy Clerk J W Daughtry said yesterday. Shell was arrested Friday by city police on information from A D Wilkerson, chairman of the county War Price and Rationing Board.
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Montgomery
Warnell
Houston County
J. W. Daughtry
Shell
A. D. Wilkerson
County War Price and Rationing Board
Nazis Occupy Last Defenses For Invasion
The Nazis hold final major defensive positions as Allied forces converge for a summer invasion. German leaders fear a decisive blow in the north and expect an overall war turning point this season. Reports from Stockholm describe intensified Nazi terror in Norway and Denmark amid Allied plans to breach fortress Europe through Scandinavia.
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Jamam& Long London
Karl von Runidatedt
West
Italy
Germany
French Channel
Russia
Europe
Scandinavia
Norway
Denmark
Stockholm
Pere
FDR to Discuss Postwar Setup With Churchill in London Visit
President Roosevelt signals a possible London trip to meet Churchill. Mutual talks could include joint wartime planning and postwar security structures under UN influence, with De Gaulle’s London visit noted as a related factor.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Roosevelt
United Nation
Econom & Postwar Security Organization
Churchill
Europe
Pérgone
London
Charies de Gaulle
Mail Clerk Charged With 180000 Theft
In Jacksonville Florida AP reports a veteran post office clerk, J. B. Marshall, 42, is charged with stealing 180000 in currency from the West Bay Station Post Office registry section. The money, sent from the Federal Reserve Park to a Miami bank, remains unrecovered. Bond set at 98000 with preliminary hearing next Friday. Marshall alleged to have acted alone while on duty May 17.
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Jacksonville
Fin
West Bay Station
Post Office
Federal Reserve Park
First National Veak
Miami
J. BD. Marshall
Marsehall J. PD
D. Ragopes
U. S
Noble
Miami Bank
Marshall
Allied advance nears Rome from Artena Near Velletri
Allied forces pushed toward Rome with heavy shelling on the Artens sector as American doughboys battled Germans. Fifth Army tanks and guns pressed along the Castine-Highway corridor, threatening Velletri eighteen miles from the capital while Artena and Sezze fell under rapid attacks.
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SY Edward Bennede
Ma. Ples
Artens
Roma
America
Fifth Army
Rome
Veltetri
Gutakutta
Velletri
Vic Castine
Associated Press
Daniel DelLave
Artene
DeLuca
Artena
Keat
Nasal
Tenth Army
Ponthes
Seexe
Government Employee Propagandizing Hit By House Committee
Washington AP report notes the House Appropriations Committee used a major spending bill to criticize government employees for propagandizing Congress for funds. It urges an end to employees aiding congress in seeking appropriations, with Monday start for committee consideration and large budget cuts across agencies including Labor and Education.
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Washington
Lane
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Children's Bureau
Office of Education
Rad
Children’s Bureau
House
District of Columbia
Sec Erty Agency
Labor Department
Compenastica Commission
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
Balirosd Retirement Board
Wer Menpower Commission
Wer Manpower Commission
Minaet
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Dothan Area
Middle West
Houston
Industralist
RAF Coast Command
Nips
Houston Library
Eisenhower
FDR
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