Allies Fight Within Sight of Rome In Night Bombings
RAF bombers hit German rail centers along a 200 mile French front as allied forces prize momentum for an impending invasion. Weather hampered daylight raids though heavy bombers flew last week, while German radio claimed air superiority at 9 to 10 a.m. local time. Vichy network briefly went off air as stations in Lyon Marseille Limoges and Vichy reported.
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Gladwin Hill
London
RAF
French Channel
France
English Channel
Britain
Reich
Vichy
Lyon
Marseille
Limoges
Rome Road to Deliverance As Allies Advance On Rome
Allied forces near Rome break the Cassino stalemate and push along multiple routes to reach the Appian and Casilina Ways. A map shows approaches and a chart outlines how U S troops and Allies will enter the city as highways converge near the Circus Maximus.
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Rome
Cassino
Eternal City
U. S
Seven Hills
RUMORED THAT FOR GREETS WALLACE IN CAMPAIGN
Reports in Washington state Vice President Wallace has received presidential best wishes for a second-place renomination on a Roosevelt backed ticket. Senators note Wallaces pleased reaction after a conference with the president before his trip. Indiana moves to select 29 delegates for the June 26 Republican nominating convention, Nevada to follow.
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Jack Bell
Associated Press
Washington Today
Wallace
Roosevelt
Siberia
China
Senate
South
Indiana
Nevada
Baje On My Knee at Strand or Girl in Case at Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. J. A. Sinclair to tonight's theatre offerings. At the Strand theatre Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea star in Baje On My Knee, while at the Dixie theatre Raymond Lowe and Charles Starrett appear in Girl in Case and Sundown Valley respectively.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
J. A. Sinclair
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
Strand Theatre
All Street Cars And Buses Idle In St. Louis Strike
Street cars and buses idle in St. Louis as 3,500 operators strike over overtime pay. Elsewhere, AFL and CIO actions ease with some workers returning to duty while others remain out in Detroit and Michigan bakeries.
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St. Louis
Associated Press
AFL
Pacific Northwest
CIO
Columbia River District Council
Detroit
Parke Davis and Company
War Labor Board
Michigan
ALL Street
Bad Weather Delays Biak Invasion Air Support
Allied HQ in New Guinea says bad weather kept vital air support from Yank invaders of Biak, who momentarily paused their drive on three airfields. They report 679 Japanese killed, control of eastern Schouten Island, and ongoing mop up of snipers near Mokmer. Casualties among Americans noted. Birling note on Mafik Bay junction.
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New Guinea
Biak
Schouten
Mokmer
Dutch New Guinea
Geelvink Bay
Bosnek
Oiter
Mokmer Field
Maffin Bay
What Will Sweater Girls Do Without Sweaters
Atlanta June 1 The annual exhibit of 215 traveling ready to wear exhibitors drew 6000 retail buyers from the southeast. W E Oettinger says 6,000,000 sweaters are ordered for the armed services with 25 percent of yarn for lend lease. Fewer sweater girls next year, but more woolen coats and suits are forecast. Maternity dresses shift to straight youthful lines and graceful designs.
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Ruth Brigham
Atlanta
W. E. Oettinger
Armed Services
Oettinger
Pre invasion units give Hitler Europe terrific pounding
James M. Long reports from London that June began with a ferocious air attack on German channel defenses shaking the coast while Marshal Tito urged a decisive Yugoslav offensive. Allied moves pressed along the Adriatic and toward Rome as Kesselring retreated with reserves dwindling.
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London
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Marshal Tito
Turkey
Red Army
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Adriatic
Towers
Rome
Albert
Kesselring
West Virginia Open Golf Championship Dates Set
West Virginia golfers will compete in the 12th state open at Preston County Country Club August 4-6. The pro-am match starts, followed by a 72-hole medal championship over the final two days, per Porter George, association president.
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Associated Press
Kingwood
W. Va
West Virginia
Preston County Country Club
Porter George
Mercer County Country Club
West Virginia Professional Golfers Association
German Sub Stops Neutral Portuguese Ship Off Bermuda
A German submarine stopped the neutral Portuguese refugee ship Serpa off Bermuda on a dark night last Friday, took two prisoners, and warned the 385 crew and passengers it would be sunk. Three people died, including a sixteen month old Beatrice Trapunski, as lifeboats rushed away. One escapee, Tony Ribeiro of Gloucester, Mass., recounted the ordeal before the U S Navy disclosed the incident.
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Serpa
Bermuda
Beatrice ‘Trapunski
Tony Ribeiro
U. S
David
Gloucester Mass
Philadelphia
Rome Feared Battleground as Allies Haze Over City
War Analyst notes fighting within fifteen miles of Rome. Allies pledge to spare the eternal city, with leaders Hull Roosevelt and Churchill voicing hopes Rome remains unscathed. Reader advised to see Page 2.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Rome
Old St. Peter's
Eternal City
Holy See
Pope Pius
Maron
Hull
Roosevelt
Dé Valera
Eire
Churchill
Invasion Weather Dover Report
Dover Strait lay under a misty sky with a very low ceiling and poor visibility. Light variable southwesterly winds and cooler air kept temperatures down as the 9 a.m. reading registered 55 degrees. Barometer continued to fall with unsettled outlook and high tides forecast for Dover and Calais later tonight and early Friday.
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Dover
Dover Strait
Calais
War deployment nearing completion says Stimson
Secretary of War Stimson announced that 3,657,000 U.S. Army troops are overseas and the deployment of air and service forces is nearly finished. He added that the period of decisive action is at hand.
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Washington
Stimson
Government will be free of coal business shortly
Government will end its coal operations soon as Interior Secretary Ickes withdraws control from 60 percent of soft coal mines. The shift follows wartime measures and aims to demonstrate that management and labor can meet wartime needs independently. Anthracite releases await ratification by a tri district union convention in Pennsylvania.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
Pris
Interior
Ickes
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
K. C. Adams
Union
UMW
Adams
Gover
Americans Break German Defense Near Rome in June Advance
Allied headquarters report American doughboys drive a deep wedge into the Valmontone ring after hard fighting between Valmontone and Velitre, seize high points in Alban hills and near Velletri, advancing toward Rome. The Eighth Army moves up the Via Casilina, capturing no provincial capital, but nearing key communications centers. German radio indicates Velletri left to the Americans after street fighting.
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Naples
Via Casilina
Froanone
Valmontone
Velletes
Rome
Egic
Alban Hills
Velletria
Velletri
Eighth Army
Casilina
Prt
Removal of Jews From Budapest Looms in Hungary
Lisbon dispatch reports Hungary groping through terror and apathy as Premier Sztojay's regime imposes a final deadline for Jews to leave Budapest for designated ghettos. Interior Minister Jarvas vows seizure of valuables, declaring Jewish wealth now Hungarian property, amid widespread arrests and confiscations.
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Wade Werner
Lisbon
Portugal
Hungary
Doeme Sztojay
Cca
Carpathians
Budapest
Andor Jarvas
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