GOP Youth Push to Put Younger Men in National Posts
Washington May 5 Republicans unveiled a campaign line to counter Democratic claims of experience by proposing younger fresher men for national offices from the presidency on down. Party leaders tie the idea to potential contrasts with Roosevelt and Dewey, noting Dewey's April speech touched foreign policy and peace. Page 4.
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Jack Bell
Washington
National Committee
Oiuchais
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Ind York
Are
Hannegan
Invasion of nerves being fought with allies in lead
An American announcement of battle equipment advances and a German claim of hidden preparations framed the invasion war of nerves. Gen Henry Sayler said American arms would outperform enemy weapons, while Paul Goebbels asserted numerous unknown defense measures exist. Sayler’s remarks appeared in Stars and Stripes as Allied forces press into Europe.
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London
Hitler
European West Wall
Tris
Henry Sayler
U. S. Army
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Das Reich
Berlin
Saylor -Gaid
Europe
Army
Stars and Stripes
Sayler
Page
Crossroads and Crime School showings at Strand and Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Ada Graham to attend tonight's screenings at Strand theatre featuring Crossroads with William Powell and Hedy Lamarr, plus Ridin' the Trail with Fred Scott and Crime School with the Dead End Boys and Humphrey Bogart at the Dixie theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Ada Graham
High Street
William Powell
Hedy Lamarr
Strand Theatre
New rocket gun eyed in wartime appropriation plan
In Washington on May 5, CLAIR JOHNSON reports the army will spend 35 million dollars to refine and mass produce a new rocket weapon. The House Naval Affairs Committee recommends a 65 million dollar ordinance manufacture appropriation with 15 million earmarked for propellant development.
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Clair Johnson
Washington
Armei
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Partment
Exn Vinson
D.-Ga
Fight for Passi in Honan Fierce Chinese Jap clashes
Savage fighting rages in Honan west of Chengchow as Chinese defend Passi, with enemy fortifying positions outside Mibsien and Yinshang where Japs see greater success. Japanese attempts to seize the Peiping Hankow railroad meet stiff Chinese resistance as maps show action zones across China.
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Honan
Chengchow
Mibsien
Yinshang
Peiping- Hankow
China
YANK INVADERS OF NEW GUINEA TOLD OF ENEMY MOVES
Dutch New Guinea alert as Japan’s navy air power feared. US forces deny amphibious landings past Hollandia, with small landings at Demta and Torare Bay signaling ongoing operations. Japanese reinforcement reports center on Geelvink Bay and Halmahera.
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New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea
Japan
Hollandia
Sapanese
New Gunea
Philippines
Aneta
Netherlands
Geelvins Bay
Halmahera Islands
Idanao
dia-Aitape
Tanahmerah
Humboldt Bays
Senate balks at work or draft plan for 4 F war jobs
Washington May 5 strong opposition forms in the Senate Military Committee to a Bailey Brewster bill to force at least a million 4 F draft registrants into war jobs. Kilgore Johnson and Reynolds voiced caution while House leaders push work or fight measures to curb labor turnover, with a 30 day committee vote promised.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
House
Kilgore
D.W. Vay
Senate
Johnson
D.cole
Simplified Income Tax Bill Clears House Pace
The House approved a tax simplification plan aiming to end annual returns for about 30 million of 50 million taxpayers and ease payment for the remaining 20 million. Beginning next January 1 wage withholding would be revised, with most earners up to 5000 facing full liability by year end. Government would compute 1944 taxes for those with wages.
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Senate
House
Ways and Means
Haerma
Fues
Mtii
Service Overseas To TM Get Better V Mail Service
Representative Sundstrom announced on May 5 that after May 15 V Mail from servicemen overseas will be shipped entirely by air. The change follows his push to speed up V Mail, prompted by his brother-in-law Lieutenant Will B. Johnstone Jr.
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Washington
Sundstrom
War Department
Will B. Johnstone, Jr
The War Today Opens Caution On Postwar Readjustment
War analyst Dewitt MacKenzie warns against excessive emotionalism and fanaticism as nations seek postwar readjustment. He notes territorial claims, self determination, and interests among America Britain and Russia, urging cautious discourse and restraint. See THE WAR TODAY Page 4.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Europe
North
Africa
America
Britain
Russia
Hamburger Made From Steak Taken From Ration List
Charleston May 5 The West Virginia Office of Price Administration announced that beef hamburger remains point free under the new ration ruling for most meat items. Merchants chart beef portions as point free, while other items such as canned meats canned fish pork veal lamb mutton beef flank steaks stews and various meats remain exempt from stamps except beer and roasts.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Office of Price Administration
Merchants Point
West Virginia News Briefs Highlight Rail Fatality and Music Week
A Balti more shopman, Steve W. White, 43, was killed after stepping into the path of an oncoming locomotive. Governor Neely backs May 7 to 14 as National Music Week to boost music during tough times. At Spencer, F F McIntosh and son earned grand champion ribbons in a Hereford Show and Sale where 18 bulls and 10 heifers brought 6200 dollars, bulls averaging 200 and heifers 259.50, with reserves claimed by Nelson Critchfield of Sandyville.
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Associated Press
Bowlesburg
Steve W. White
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Charleston
Neely
National ‘and
inter-American’ Music Committee of
New York
Spencer
F. F. McIntosh
Lee West
Virginia
Boy Or Girl Settlement Ends $500000 Hospital Suit
James Hardwig and Lor raine settled a $500000 damage suit with a hospital after discovering the baby given to Mrs Hardwig was a girl instead of a son. The couple spoke of educating Patricia Lynn and cited the out of court settlement as satisfactory to all.
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Los Angeles
James Hardwig
Lorraine
Hardwig
Patricia Lynn
Hardwigs
Maxine Hardwig
Bus Collision On Tamiami Trail Kills Fisherman
A canal bank fisherman was killed and 28 bus passengers received a docking after a bus and track crash on the Tamiami trail about 25 miles west of Miami. Bus driver David Lewis, Mrs. Everett Eyre of Tampa, and Lt. G. Whitney of Port Everglades were treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The bus veered into a roadside drainage canal. no other lives were lost.
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Miami
Fia
Tamiami Trail
David Lewis
Everett Eyre
Tampa
G. Whitney
Coast Guard
Port Everglades
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Death of Koga Revealed by Tokyo Radio
The Tokyo radio announced Admiral Mineichi Koga, commander of the Japanese combined fleet, was killed in March while directing operations from an airplane. The broadcast also noted posthumous promotions for several officers, including Lt. Gen. Yoshitada Shimokawa and Maj. Gen. Kumoi Oohashi, and appointment of Lt. Gen. Chunkichi Ochiai as commander of the Asahikawa division. Koga, 59, was described as a steady but not brilliant naval officer.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Minechi Koga
Isorotu Yamamoto
U. S
Imperial Headquarters
Koga
Yamamoto
Kumo Oohashi
Yoshitada Shimokawa
Ophashi
Shimokawa
Chunkichi Ochiai
Asahikawa
Pas de Calais Bombing Marks Twenty-First Day Invasion
On the twentyth day of the invasion Allied air forces assault military targets in the Pas de Calais region. Liberators from the United States and escorting Thunderbolt fighters hit rail yards at Valenciennes and Somain as German resistance remains minimal.
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Austin
London
De-Calais
France
Italy
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Thunderbolt
U. 8. Air Force
Valenciennes
Somain
Prange
Retu
Middle East
Aegean Islands
Monemvasia
Quor Committee Debates Industrial Alcohol Import Policy
Washington May 5 A proposal to bring in less rum and more industrial alcohol was advanced by members of the Quor Committee on SES Importation. Senator Murdock urged shifting some alcohol shipments to industrial use to ease pressure on distillers while Senator Ferguson supported diverting WPB shipments. Donald Nelson denied any whisky production holiday for months.
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Cubs
The
Virgin
Puerto Rico
Ferguson
Mike
Murdock
War Production Board
WPB
Donald= Nelson
Taeinety
Tay
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