RAF Keeps Offensive Running In Europe
American Liberator bombers renewed the attack on Hitler's western rail network by bombing three yards in France after Marauders and Havocs struck air fields near Paris and coastal installations. The strikes, aided by fighters, marked the return of heavy bombers to pre invasion operations on a 27th straight day of around the clock assaults across Europe.
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Austin Bealmear Lonton
Hitler
France
Paris
Germany
Tandoners
Europe
Budapest
Italy
London
Returns For Congress in Charleston May 11
Official returns show multiple districts in Charleston with party tallies. Democrat and Republican candidates listed for districts including third and fourth, with precinct counts and vote totals, indicating a close multi district race as results continue to come in.
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Charleston
Congress
Campion
Adolph
Ypublican
Bolton
Dotson
Muntzing
Smocrat
Bailey
Jackson
Dhrbough
Yoak
Imocrat
Heisman
Pennyicker
Markle
Sanders
Scott
Mocrat
Combs
Crichton
Veva Finley to Present Whistler at Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Veva Finley of West Boyd Street to tonight's showings. At the Strand theatre, Whistler with Richard Dix or Paris Dark with George Sander Jip Dorn and Brenda Marshall. At the Dixie, Northwest Rangers with Craig Patricia Dane Wil Lundigan.
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Ire
Grafton Sentinel
Veva Finley
West Boyd Street
Whistler
Richard Dixi
Strand Theatre
Paris
George Sander
Jip Dorn
Brenda Marshall
Northwest Rangers
Es Craig
Patricia Dane
Wil Lundigan
the Dixie
D-Day Preparations Peak Across Allied Forces
The War Today outlines rapidly rising Allied bombing and prep efforts for D-Day, stressing all out support from every unit and the wide impact beyond the invasion zone. It notes Sevastopol’s capture as illustrative of broader European theater mobilization and references Churchill’s “triphibian” concept.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Berlin
Trah
Winston Churchill
Sevastopol
Public optimism over nation food supply gets jolted
Washington May 11 Official and public optimism over the nations food situation received a setback from an agriculture department crop report. It says spring planting is three to four weeks behind normal due to excessive rains floods and cold weather. Labor shortages and machinery repairs hinder farmers from making up lost time. The report notes current food distribution programs will be little affected since supplies exceed demand.
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Ovid
A. Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Europe clocks fast as Allies plan invasion strike
Bulletin from London notes clocks in most of Europe are six hours ahead of eastern U S time due to daylight saving. The difference now applies in Britain France Germany Holland Belgium Norway Denmark Luxembourg Bulgaria Hungary Yugoslavia Romania and Czecho Slovakia. Midnight eastern war time equals 6 a m in those areas. Britain began summer time in April.
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Europe
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Norway
Denmark
Luxembourg
Bulgaria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Romania
Forrestal nominated Navy secretary by Roosevelt
Senate expected to approve Undersecretary James V. Forrestal for secretary of the navy. He would push production and delivery of ships, guns, and supplies while serving as navy spokesman, aiming to avoid scrapping the fleet at war’s end.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
James V. Forrestal
Navy
Navy Department
Forrestal
Frank Knox
Major Bong, Wisconsin Farm Boy, In Washington
In Washington on May 11 Major Richard I Bong the famed American ace from Wisconsin visited the capital. He is credited with downing 27 enemy planes in the Southwest Pacific surpassing Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War I record by shooting down his 27th plane over Hollandia New Guinea. The war department did not disclose the purpose of his trip.
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Washington
Richard I Bong
Polar
Wisconsin
Southwest Pacific
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hollandia
New Guinea
War Department
Allies warn French to aid invasion by keeping roads clear
London reports on May 11 that Allied and German broadcasts urge France to keep highways open for invasion forces. BBC instruction directs civilians to yield right of way for troop movements as Vichy radio notes reduced passenger train service starting Monday. German broadcasts hint at rail cuts to support Atlantic wall and invasion timing, with Monday seen as the strike window.
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London
France
Europe
Vichy
BBC
Atlantic Wall
Berlin
Japanese Drive in Honan Province Biggest Since 1938
Spencer Moosa reports from Chungking on May 11 that Japanese forces widened their push in northern Honan, crossing the Yellow River near Yuanchu and threatening Loyang. The move appears to threaten a westward advance toward Sian, with Peiping–Hankow rail control in Japanese hands and Chinese efforts focused on defending Loyang and routes to Chungking.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Honan
Shansi
Peiping-Hankow
Yellow River
Yuanchu
Ory
Sian
Shensi
Szechwan
Eight Thousand Japanese Soldiers Die on Imphal Plain
Allied headquarters announced eight thousand Japanese soldiers have died on the Imphal plain and in the Kohima frontier during their two month invasion drive. The communique also notes Lt Gen Stilwell's Chinese forces advanced through two villages east of the Mogaung valley toward Myitkyina in North Burma, with fighting continuing near Palel and on the Palel road.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Kohima
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung
Myikyina
Burma
Palel
Palel Road
Priest Back From Russia After Stalin Talks
The Springfield Polish American priest Father Stanislaus Orlemanski returned to the United States reporting his 12 day Moscow visit with Premier Stalin as very successful. He said Stalin was friendly toward the Roman Catholic Church and that Catholicism would remain Poland’s religion. He described destruction in Ukraine and Russia and indicated further work on his mission. He avoided details, promising a statement later.
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Poland
Ukraine
Kharkov
Russia
Father Criemanski
Congress
Oscar See
Naval skirmishes in English Channel and Med reports
Berlin said light British and German forces clashed in the English Channel and Mediterranean last night with losses on both sides. A German broadcast claimed encounters off the Netherlands coast and Elba, mentioning a channel crash near Walcheren at 3 a.m. with patrol boats attacking motor torpedo boats. No Allied confirmation yet.
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Mediterranean
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Netherlands
Elba
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Walcheren
Liberation of 707 Allied prisoners in New Guinea
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports liberation of 707 Japanese-held prisoners of war in north central New Guinea. Gen Douglas MacArthur notes 462 were Sikhs and Indian soldiers from Malaya, plus 86 Japanese and others including Americans Australians Chinese Dutch Filipinos Poles and Czechs. Victims recount brutal treatment by the Japanese during captivity and march to safety.
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Asahel Bush
New Guinea
Douglas Macarthur
Malaya
Admiralty Islands
Australian Department of Information
Singapore
Ford Workers Vote To Return To Work In Canada
Windsor Ont May 11 Four Ford Motor Co plants in Canada prepared to resume war production after a vote showing only 50 of 14000 striking employees opposed going back. Officials expect some workers may not be recalled until Monday due to the shutdown. About 2000 workers in two feeder plants joined by the second strike since April 20 were to resume work.
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Windsor
Ont
Ford Motor Co
Canada
Germans Claim Small Victory At Lower Dnester
German forces say they wiped out a Russian bridgehead on the Dnester and still fought in Crimea west of Sevastopol while claiming 20 tanks were destroyed in the area. Soviet reports meanwhile claim Sevastopol and Crimea were cleared of Germans and Romanians.
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London
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Crimea
Sevastopol
Grigoroppol
Acis
Galati Gap
Romania
Carpathians
Danube
Moscow
Black Sea
Kenna leads Hoff in tight primary returns
Charleston area results show Clarence W. Meadows leading in a Democratic governor primary with over 100000 votes and D Boone Dawson surpassing 20000 in Republican totals. Final tallies across most precincts favored Meadows 101576 to Holt 40921 and Watts 2232. Dawson led Republican field with 79401 to Funkhouser 59373 and Garrison 4748. White voters await November contest.
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Charleston
Meadows
Holt
J. Blackburn Watts
Kanawha County
Grover G. McPeek
Paden City
Dawson
Funkhouser
William Garrison
Kenna
Mail Order House Case Heads to New Negotiations
Chicago May 11 The Montgomery Ward CIO union dispute moves toward more talks after federal seizure and government involvement. Ward under board chair Sewell L. Avery rejects a maintenance of membership clause and forestalls a closed shop while both sides seek a new contract. Court actions linger as Judge Holly keeps the injunctive questions unresolved after government relinquished control.
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Montgomery Ward- Cio
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Union
Iaiea Ad
Avery
William H. Holly
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Roosevelt
Aia Henry Anderson
United Mail Order
Grafton Sentinel invites Blanche Thompson to opera night
The Grafton Sentinel invites Blanche Thompson of 111 Graham Street to attend tonight's presentation at the Opera House theatre featuring Oklahoma Raiders with Tex Ritter and Puzzy Knight and Sweethearts of the U.S.A. as current attractions.
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Grafton Sentinel
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Graham Street
Oklahoma Raiders
Tex Ritter
Puzzy Knight
U.S.A
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