Twenty U S Transport Planes Shot Down By Allied Fire
San Francisco report cites Sgt Jack Foiste of Stars and Stripes detailing Allied anti-aircraft fire downing twenty C-47 transports after a German bombing raid in Sicily. Foiste calls the Sicilian invasion nearly flawless aside from this incident and notes a Washington announce ment during Casablanca landings as they neared shore.
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Vvyv Ceovoy
San Francisco
Mar
U. 5
Sicily
Jack Fossie
Stars and Stripes
Commonwealth Club
Foisie
Washington
Casablanca
Russian Advance Deepens Front Collapse Near Break
Soviet forces cut toward Romania driving on Nikolaev and Odessa with German lines in retreat. Red Army near the Dniester and border areas as units push from Kherson toward Nikolaev and Vinnytsia, threatening key rail links and the Bessarabian boundary.
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Asary
Red Army
Nikolaev
Odessa
Black Sea
Bug Lake
Thhe
Bessarabia
Slobodzeva
Odessa-Lwow
Red Star
Stormovik
Konev
Bug River
Dniester
Dnieper
Kherson
Vinstitsa
Truk Attacked By U S Planes
Army bombers hit Truk airfields and ammunition stores on Eten and Dublion Islands before dawn. Explosions and fires followed amid heavy anti aircraft fire. one bomber was damaged and all returned to base. Additional strikes targeted Ponape Oroluk and eastern Marshall Islands bases with ships and aircraft involved.
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Washington
Truk
Navy
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
Pacific Fleet
Eten
Dublion Islands
Ponape
Oroluk
Marine Dauntless
Fleet Wing 2
Pirgrlap Atoll
Tax Exempt Bodies Must File May 15
The treasury announced that labor unions and other tax exempt groups must file financial statements with the government. First information returns are due by May 35, affecting about 180,000 of 280,000 groups, including farm and cooperative bodies, building and loan associations, and mutual savings banks. Most religious charitable and educational organizations remain exempt. Forms on gross income receipts and disbursements will be available at Internal Revenue Collectors’ offices.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Internal Revenue Collectors
Japs Puppet Chief In China Near Death
Chungking dispatch reports Wang Ching Wei Japan's puppet premier at Nanking is critically ill with only a fifty fifty chance of recovery after recent bullet extraction. He has been unconscious several days and a death could spur Wang Keh Men to bid for North China leadership.
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Chungking
Wang Ching-Wei
Japan
Nanking
Wang
China
Wang Keh-Men
North
Mundt to Help Define What Is an Indian
Rep Mundt of South Dakota and Rep Gilchrist of Iowa were named the first two members of the House Indian Affairs Committee to determine what constitutes an Indian. The inquiry will explore the liquor situation as it relates to the Indian lands funds and laws affecting the First American.
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Mundt
Washington
Mar
Rep
D-Sd
House
Indian Affairs Committee
Gilchrist
Iowa
President Governors on GI Absentee Ballot Poll
The bill to standardize service ballots heads to the White House as Roosevelt weighs a presidential governor poll. States weigh whether supplementary federal ballots align with their laws, with July 15 certification deadlines and a Sept. 1/ Oct. 1 application window for overseas servicemen.
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Washington
Mar
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Associated Press
Warren
California
Boosters To Root For Huron Cagers
Huron High School boosters and band will board the Chicago & North Western Railway train at 8 AM Friday to back the Huron Tiger basketball team in the state A tournament opener against Sioux Falls. The band, led by Arthur Engel, will be joined by students and followers at the station. The Huron-Sioux Falls game is slated for 3 15 PM and will be broadcast on KSOO. The boosters return on the 4 55 PM Sioux Falls train, expected to arrive about 3 45 PM. Superintendent J Lang and Principal O D Dunbar accompany the group.
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Huron High School
Chicago & North Western Railway
Huron Tiger
Sioux Falls
Arthur Engel
Orange
Black Cagers
KSOO
Huron
Sioux
Supt . J. Lang
Prin. O
Dd. Dunbar
Hines Seeks Another Term as Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pierre report notes petitions filed with the secretary of state to nominate J F Hines for another term as superintendent of public instruction. He has held the office since July 1 1935, was reelected as a Democrat in 1936, and has appeared on the state's non political ballot since then.
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Hines
Pierre
J. F. Hines
Red And Blue Stamp Dates For Rationed Food Set
Washington announces official dates for 10 point ration stamps. Red stamps G8 H8 and J8 valid March 26 to June 18 for meats and fats. Blue stamps F8 G8 B8 J8 and K8 valid April 1 to June 20 for processed foods.
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Washington
Office of Price’ Administration
Allies Lunge Into Cassino But Nazis Resist From Nearby Hills
Allied ground forces pressed into Cassino under heavy German mortar fire as ruins hinder clearing operations. In the hills northwest of Cassino, German defenders fortified positions with concrete emplacements and steel plates. Air forces attacked targets in Albania and Bulgaria, including Durazzo harbor and Sofia, while bombing sorties continued along the Dalmatian coast.
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Cassino
Italy
Fifth Army
Carroceto
Albania
Durazzo
Rome
Sofia
RAF Wellingtons
Dalmatian
Profits Up To 250 Per Cent Made By Labor Hirers
Washington March 16 reports to the House military committee reveal labor-hiring firms charging large markups for skilled workers sent to war plants. Investigators cite cases of profits up to 250 percent and a Chicago New York firm reporting 1943 wages of 1.0 million with 4.24 million in profits for wages billed to defense plants. Burton says firms bill at flat rates per man hour and deduct most pay to workers, while several outfits use misleading names to mask engineering services. The committee aims to curb racketeering while not harming legitimate engineering services.
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House Group
Washington, Mar
House Military Committee
Relph Burton
Burton
Kost
Chicago
New York
Burton Aid
Repatriates Recall Nazi Heli Train Horrors on Gripsholm Ride
Jersey City report details repatriates awaiting to disembark in the Gripsholm voyage from Lisbon after life in Nazi camps and the infamous heli train. It notes 374 non official civilians, 149 diplomatic attaches, and 103 Latin Americans cleared by the panel. First to depart were 36 wounded U S servicemen. A passenger recounted witnessing anti collaborationist Frenchmen shot near Compiegne and the burning Augsburg, while others spoke of being denied water and food for 24 hours aboard the train. One passenger, Mrs Jules Kaufman, 68, of Chicago, died aboard the Gripsholm after a stroke en route March.
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Jersey City
N. J
Reich
Gripsholm
Red Cross
U. S
Mel Most
Associated Press
Vichy
Compiegne
Augsberg
Lisbon
Portugal
Jannette Kaufman
Chicago
Finland Rejection of Soviet Armistice Terms Warns Hitler
Associated Press war analysis from Dewitt Mackenzie notes Helsinki faced a pivotal choice to accept or reject Russia’s armistice terms. Finnish decision to defy could trigger renewed fighting and heighten stakes for the war, with grave consequences for Adolf Hitler and the Axis.
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Hitler
Dewitt
MacKenzie
Associated Press
Helsinki
Russia
Nerilly
Iated
Moscow
Finland
Adolf Hitler
Bee MacKenzie
Stimson Defends Italian Campaign
Secretary of War Stimson defended the Italian campaign noting that all Allied strategic objectives in Italy have been achieved. He cited destroying Italy as an Axis partner, seizure of air bases in southern Italy, Allied control of the Adriatic, aiding the Soviet winter campaign, and inflicting German casualties exceeding Allied losses.
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Washington
Mar
Stimson
Fot Pebevre
Italy
Adriatic
Bombers Press European Invasion With New Night Raid
U S heavy bombers struck southern Germany in a strong follow up to a major RAF night attack on Stuttgart and Munich plus other targets. The sorties involved over 3 360 tons of bombs from more than 1 000 four engined aircraft. The raid marked a second aerial invasion in as many days with heavy losses reported by Britain and German air defenses clashing over eastern France and western German provinces.
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London
Mar
Germany
U. S
RAF
Stuttgert
Munich
U. S. Strategic Air Force
France
Brunswick
Stuttgart
Berlin
Amiens
Brunswick Yesterdy
Union Backs Ford In Job Suspension
In Detroit on May 16, Local 600 of the United Automobile Workers CIO said it would offer no defense for members suspended at Ford Rouge Plant after a blockade at the gates. Fifty employees were suspended, with more suspensions and 10 discharges tied to a week-old demonstration and unauthorised strike in the aircraft engine plant. W T Grant said the union will conform to the no strike pledge and will not support those who violate it.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
United Automobile Workers (Cio
R. J. Thomas
Uaw-Cio
W. T. Grant
Ford
Army Cargo Plane Crash Fatal To 12
Danville Virginia report confirms twelve Army air crewmen died when a four engine cargo plane crashed on Bull Mountain in southwest Virginia. Searchers found twelve bodies scattered along 160 yards of brush as a woodland fire started by the crash guided the responders. The Richmond base indicated the aircraft may have originated from Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Danville
Kay Thompson
Bull Mountain
Virginia
Thompson
Martinsville
Daily Bulletin
Richmond, Va
Richmond, Va. Army Air Base
Greensboro, N. C
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