Roosevelt admin tested in Florida and Alabama primaries
The Roosevelt administration faced a proxy test in Florida and Alabama Democratic senatorial primaries with Senator Claude Pepper driving the New Deal banner in a five way race and County Judge Edmunds attacking the administration. In Alabama Senator Hill faced James A. Simpson while South Dakota Republicans weighed an anti war prep argument in Senator Gurney’s reelection bid.
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Jack Bell
Roosevelt
Florida
Alabama
South Dakota
Claude Pepper
New Deal
Edmunds
Jacksonville
Pepper
Hill
James A. Simpson
Birmingham
Gurney
Contry
CIO Group Faces Probe Over Campaign Finance Act
A Senate committee seeks facts on CIO political action committee finances after Attorney General Biddle cleared current activity, while Rep. Smith calls for a grand jury probe into alleged violations of the Corrupt Practices Act regarding a $709,000 CIO union fund, with ongoing questions about influence on national elections.
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Phington
May
Senate Committee
Bridles
CIO
Smif D. Ya
Committee On un-American Affairs
Smith
Ith
Biddle
CIO Group
Fergusson
Ferguson
Model of postwar dream plane gains attention
Fort Worth Texas May 2 1945 Preview of Consolidated Model 37 a 400 passenger liner with a 200 foot wingspan and six pusher engines shown in full scale wooden fuselage at Consolidated Vultee plant Aviation writer attendees noted it will fly New York to London after the war and involve about 416 companies in its design production and development led by Henry Growald
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Fort Worth
Texas
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Consolidated
Henry Growald
Growald
National Advisory Committee
Theatre invites Mrs. Harry White to two 1940s shows tonight
The Grafton Sentinel lists two options tonight at local cinemas. At Strana theatre, Thousands Cheer features Kathryn Grayson Gene Kelly Mary Astor and John Boles. At Dixie theatre Whistling in Brooklyn features Ann Rutherford Rec Skelton and Jean Rogers.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Harry White Blueville
Kathryn Grayson
Gene Kelly
Mary Astor
John Boles
Strana Theatre
Brooklyn
Ann Rutherford
Rec Skelton
Jean Rogers
Dixie Theatre
Swedish Exchange Liner Sails On Another Mission
The Gripsholm sails to exchange seriously sick and wounded war prisoners with Germany under the Geneva convention. The exchange at Barcelona is set for May 17, with American repatriates due in New York early next month.
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Washington
Gripsholm
Germany
Barcelona
New York
West Virginia wartime honors and local appointments
West Virginia brief noting Sgt. Frank Long of Whitmer Randolph county receiving the silver star for aiding a wounded comrade near Gela Sicily on July 13. Also: Dr Irvine Saunders named superintendent of Welch emergency hospital by Governor Neely. J Z Terrell discusses fire loss at the state penitentiary with insurance adjusters. damage estimated at about 26 000. Forty nine fires burned 7194 acres of forest, Pocahontas district worst with 29 fires over 1769 acres.
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Washington
Frank Long
Whitmer Randolph County
W. Va
Gela
Sicily
War Department
Charleston
Irvine Saunders
Grace Hospital
Welch
Welch Emergency Hospital
Neely
Saunders
West
Moundsville
J. Z. Terrell
State Board of Control
Jire
State Penitentiary
M. E. Ketchem
West Virginia
Pocahontas District
D. B. Bonebrake
Pocahontas
Roosevelt backs seizure of Ward plants in wartime power debate
In Chicago on May 2, President Roosevelt is urged to justify federal seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company properties as wartime power. Attorney General Biddle argues the president can place any business under government control to prevent labor trouble, while Ward lawyer Harold Smith calls the seizure illegal and beyond the act's scope. See FDR BACKS Page 3.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Montgomery Ward and Company
Biddle
Army
Navy
Harold Smith
Ward
William H. Holly
Smith
Congress
Spain and United States reach tungsten export compromise with Nazis
The May 2 announcement reports a wartime agreement limiting Spanish tungsten ore shipments to Germany to 20 tons monthly in May and June and 40 tons monthly for rest of 1944. Axis agents to be expelled from Spain, Tangier agencies closed, and five of seven interned Italian merchants freed.
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Washington
State Department
Spain
France
United States
Germany
Spanish Morocco
Tangier
Brown urges two point plan to curb gasoline black market
Rep. Brown of Ohio proposes a two point gasoline black market curb. First, OPA should focus on counterfeiters and major criminal operators and prosecute them. Second, OPA should cooperate with dealers and distributors to self police filling stations under a cooperative control plan.
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Washington
Brown
Ohio
OPA
British ships and trade threat to U S living says Halifax
Lord Halifax warned at the Charleston Chamber of Commerce dinner that Britain must revive shipping and overseas trade to avoid lowering the living standards for both nations. He stressed the interconnected fate of the United States and Britain, noting enemy attacks harmed mercant ship losses and a vast rehabilitation program is needed.
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Charleston
Great Britain
United States
Lord Halifax
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Halifax
Community of Nations
Britain
Pulitzer Prize Winners Highlight Wartime Works
Author Martin Flavin receives the 1943 Pulitzer for Journey in the Dark while Daniel De Luce and Frank Filan of the Associated Press take two journalism prizes. De Luce earns international telegraphic reporting for Tito’s Yugoslavia coverage. Filan wins war front photography for Tarawa Island. Ernie Pyle wins distinguished correspondence. Earle L. Bunker wins best home front photograph for Homecoming. Byron Price heads the Office of Censorship.
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New York
Martin Flavin
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Frank Filan
de Luce
Yugo-Slavia
Marshal Tito
Anzio Beachnena
War Front
Filan
Tarawa Island
Ernie Pyle
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Earle L. Bunker
Omaha
Neb
World-Herald
Byron Price
Office of Censorship
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Mississippi Levee Breach Expands Flooding at Preston Illinois
The Mississippi River ruptured a main levee at Preston Illinois flooding 51000 acres behind the breach as the river crest reached a century high. The Trinols tributary worsened flooding downstream while army officials described the break as explosive in effect.
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Associated Press
Preston
Ill
Beards
U. S. Army
St. Louis
War Today Preview Signals Allied Move to Finish Off Germany
Marshal Stalin calls for united action to pursue the wounded German beast as Soviet air raids pound Brest-Litovsk and Sevastopol. British and American forces prepare a large amphibi ous push while Red armies gird for fresh onslaughts, with a pause only in Crimea before a likely broad offensive.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Marshal Stalin
Red Air Force
Brest-Litivsk
Germany
Moscow
Crimea
Sevastopol
Mayor Dawson Attacks Funkhouser In West Virginia Fight
Harleton May 2 Mayor D Boone Dawson of Charleston accuses Raymond Funkhouser his GOP governor nominee rival of seeking to become the undisputed boss in West Virginia. He likens Funkhouser to Wendell Willkie and says both are political opportunists who switched parties as tide turned to Republicanism.
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Harleston
D. Boone Dawson
Charleston
Raymond J. Funkhouser
West Virginia
Dawson
Mr. Punkhouser
Wendell Willkie
Philadelphia
Willkie
Funkhouser
Pre Invasion Air Offensive Expands In Allied Attacks
Allied air forces across France Belgium Italy and Germany press the pre invasion phase as American Liberators and fighters plus British Canadian and Italian planes strike German targets. About 500 American aircraft participated with heavy bombers and fighters engaging Luftwaffe and rail targets.
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Gladwin Hill
London
France
Belgium
Italy
Germany
England
British Air Ministry
Death of G W Bitzer Renowned Cameraman in Obscurity
Hollywood May 2 Funeral details surface for G W Bitzer a pioneering cinematographer who with D W Griffith helped invent key film techniques. In a career spanning over 30 years he contributed to early motion pictures including the 1899 Jim Jeffries versus Tom Sharkey fight scene filmed at Coney Island. Bitzer died last Saturday around age 70 and his death was noted only in a trade paper.
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Hollywood
G. W
Billy) Bitzer
Indus
Try
Bitker
Inters
Dr W. Griffith
Bitzer
Griffith
Jim Jeffries
Tom Sharkey
Coney Island
Jeffries
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Anzio
U. S. Navy
International Soundphoto
Atlantic
Strand
Swedish Exchange
U. S
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Mr. Littlejohn
Mississippi
Ince
Camerman
Opern Sea
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