Fifth Army Breaks Into Velletri Early Today
Up to 1,500 American heavy bombers and fighters struck the French coast in the heaviest raid yet as 500 to 750 Italian four engine bombers hit five railway yards in Hungary and Transylvania. Mediterranean air forces reported good results against targets in Miskolc Rozl sok Szeged Cluj and Sim eria. Britain based planes struck Pas de Calais as Allied fliers crossed 2000 miles of airways from Scandinavia to France. See NAZIS WEST Page 2.
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Italy
Hungary
Transylvania
Mediterranean Air Force
Miskolc Rzolnok
Szeged
Cluj
Siméria
Germany
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Pas - de - Calais
France
Allied _ fliers
Scandinavia
Former Bund leader questioned in sedition trial in DC
Washington June 2 Peter Gissibl former Chicago Bund leader continued on the witness stand as prosecutors sought to prove that 29 defendants conspired with Nazis in Germany. He testified that an order changing eligibility rules for German nationals came from the German government and that the Bund reorganized as the German American pund in 1936 to appear less aggressive.
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Peter Gissibl
Chicago Bund
Ger AD
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Citizens’ League
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Germany
Storm Troopers
Fritz Kuhn
Gisetl
Friends of the New Germany
Pund
BUND
Theatre ticket notice for Grafton shows tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mr W F Martin of Pearl Street to attend tonight’s Strand Theatre program featuring Edmund and Sundown Valley with Charles Starrett. The listing includes Glo West and Marx Bre st tha.
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Mr&. W
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J. K. Smith
West Main Street
Freddie Slack
Harry Owens
Ted Weems
Leon Errol
Grace McDonald
Opera House
Britain seeks Spain ties as war heats up
The War Today notes Churchill’s ill phrase on Spain and how pro-Nazi Spain aids Hitler. It predicts Spain’s stance could heat up tensions before the invasion of Africa and D-Day. Roosevelt’s view on Spain’s aid to Germany is cited, while American public concern centers on potential American casualties from such shipments. See THE WAR TODAY Page 2.
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Associated Press
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Spain
Hitler
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Gibraltar
Straits
Spanish
Africa
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Mediterranean
America
Roosevelt
Germany
Four Major Ares In Pacific Blasted By Yank Bombers
United States forces conducted large scale bombing across the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the Kuriles and Wake. Central Pacific planes hit Guam and Wake while American bombers from MacArthur’s theater targeted Ponape and Truk. The campaigns, announced by Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz, marked an unprecedented swiftness across both central and southwest Pacific theaters.
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Chester W. Nimitz
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Truk
MacArthur Theater
Invasion Weather Reports Choppy Dover Straits Sea
London reports a fresh southwest wind with stronger morning gales. Seas were choppy in the Dover Strait while skies were cloudy and cool with a 9 am temperature of 36. Visibility improved over yesterday as clouds thinned and the barometer rose slightly. High tides at Calais were forecast for 10:36 pm tonight and 11:09 am tomorrow.
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Dover Strait
Calais
American Allied Assaults On Biak Shaping Up Today
American reinforcements pour into Biak as part of a two pronged push to trap Japanese on Bougainville and along the New Guinea coast. Seventh Fleet ships provide gun support while landings at Biak progress from Rosnex Beachhead and airfields are targeted for neutralization.
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Robert Euson
New Guinea
Biak
Schoutens
Seventh Fleet
Blak
Dutch New Guinea
Geelvink Bay
Rosnex
Mokmer
Boughainville Island
Sdlotttons
Solomons
Tekissi River
Empress Agusta Bay
Bougainville
British New Guinea
Guru Village
West Virginia Briefs From Charleston to Shepherdstown
West Virginia health council licensed six physicians including Elmer W. Baker of Point Pleasant after exams. In New Guinea Tech Sgt Benny W Stephens of Maysel won a second bronze oak leaf for meritorious flight in the Southwest Pacific. Shepherdstown held municipal election day with no candidates on the ballot requiring write ins for mayor recorder and five councilmen. WV highway deaths for May totaled 21, the lowest May toll since 1939, bringing the 1944 total to 95, up two from 1943. See WEST VU Page 6.
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Charleston
West Virginia Public Health Council
Elmer W. Baker
Point Pleasant
New Guinea
Benny W. Stephens
Maysel
Clay County
W. Va
Air Medal
Southwest Pacific
Geo. C. Kenney
Allied Air Forces
Shepherdstown
West Virginia
State Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Hull Seeks Postwar World Security Framework
Secretary of State Hull presses plans for a postwar world security organization centered on liberty and equality for small nations. He contrasts US aims with Prime Minister Churchill’s stance on intervention and government ideology, signaling a policy divergence with Britain as Roosevelt weighs Spain's Axis relations. Hull’s remarks were delivered at a news conference.
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John M. Hightower
Hull
Churchill
Roosevelt
Spain
Maryland Democrats Seek Unpledged Delegation For VP Nominee
Maryland Democrats at the state convention push for an 18 vote unpledged delegation to influence the party’s vice presidential selection. Sam Rayburn, Tex., headlined with a harmony appeal as factions avoid anti Roosevelt sentiment while some favor unpledged delegates to gain a share in the nomination. Indiana Republicans also met to finalize their slate and nominate governor and senator candidates.
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Associated Press
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Maryland
Rayburn
Roosevelt
195 Of 1000 People Felled By Chlorine Gas
About 195 of an estimated 1,000 people felled by escaping chlorine gas from a 220-pound steel cylinder remained in hospitals in Brooklyn. No deaths were reported as authorities investigated the accident. Over 350 were taken to seven hospitals. many others sought first aid at stores, gas stations, and homes. The gas disrupted subway stations and caused mass illness in a busy downtown area.
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New York
Brooklyn
Strikers in St Louis face 1-A draft reclassification today
In St Louis a two day strike by about 3,500 street car operators and bus drivers disrupted service for 600,000 residents. Draft boards ordered immediate reclassification to 1-A for strikers who engage in unauthorized walkouts, with potential induction. Mayor Kaufman urged arbitration as unions resisted and a vote to return to work was interrupted.
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St. Louisans
John J. Griffin
Associated Draft Boards of
Armed Services
Griffin
A. P. Kaufman
AFL Amalgamated Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Union
War Labor Board
Paul Nachtman
Blame Nazi Propaganda For Lynching Of Airmen
Berns Der Bund Berlin correspondent cites six American airmen lynched in Germany and says German propaganda was seen as permission or incitement by the public to ignore international warfare rules and harm Allied pilots.
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Switzerland
Berlin
der Bund Today
Germany
Via Casilina Allied rout presses toward Rome
Allied forces press along the Via Casilina near Rome with Fifth Army troops cutting the road to seal off German routes. U S infantry enter Velletri as Berlin’s fortress on the Appian Way nears encirclement. Fierce street fighting reported as the advance continues toward the Rome vicinity.
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Rom
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Ferentino
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Casilina
U. S
Velletri
Appian Way
Rémy
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Rome
Lend-lease funding debate in house appropriations committee
Washington reports the house appropriations committee reviewing lend-lease and UN relief programs for the coming fiscal year. The panel authorized allocations totaling 24.225 billion dollars for aid to Allies, UNRRA, and related economic agencies, with shifts in transfer authority and budget requests.
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Washington
House
United Nations ‘Relief And’litation Administration
Foreign Economic Administration
FEA
United States
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