Infantry Still Queen In War On Normandy Front
The article argues infantry remains the decisive force in modern warfare while German forces hold the Normandy bridgehead without heavy use of reserves. It notes limited use of secret weapons and questions whether German troops will risk a last stand or retreat to interior fronts as Allied forces push ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
Italy
Poland
Romania
Europe
Germany
France
Russia
Missis
Webster
Britain fights Nazi guided missiles over Normandy skies
British anti aircraft defenses reorganize to halt derided Nazi bomber robots. Rockets and rockets’ trail, gunfire and searchlights flood night skies as crews report casualties and rescues amid the channel straits bombardment.
Radio Schedule Highlights War Time Programs
A detailed listings page shows Eastern War Time and Pacific adjustments with hourly programs. The lineup includes The Paul Lavalie Concert, Moylan Sisters, Voice of the Dairy Farmer, Bach and Choral segments, Upton Close’s Commentary, Ed Murrow News Roundups, Sammy Kaye Serenade, NBC Symphony, and late-night dramas and news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Lavalie
Josephine Houston
Biu Les Huff
Moylan
Biu
Nashville
Mbs 1:00--Voice of the Dairy Farmer
Nbc
Church of the Air
Dbs
Joan B. Kennedy
Stanley Dixon
Mbs
Labor For Victory
Josef Marais
Mary
U. of Chicago
Ed Murrow
Sammy Kaye
Cbs
Nbe
Jim
U.S.A
Cbs National
Dr. Vedick
Lands of the Free News
Percy Faith
Eleanor Steber
NBC Symphony
Black—abe
Eileen Farrell
Mary Small
Green Valley
Dranatic
Bill Shirer
Catholic Radio Service
CBS Sunday Theater
Cbs Radio Hall of Fame
Bill Roosty
The
RAF
Great Gildersleeve
America
Cbs Upton Close
Dancing Music Orchestra
Lula Bates
Corliss Archer
Drew Pearson
Wkly
Bdin
We the People
Ebs Basiing Kide
Joe Kelly
M. C
Bdiu
Narle McCarthy
Bergen
Nbec Walter
Walter Winchell
Walter Hampden
Leonidas
Basin Street
Ite
Fred Allen
Jimmy Fidler
Hollywood
Pai Spittiny
Girl Orch
Phil Baker
Cedric Foster
Bob Crosby
MacARTHUR'S wake of the barrage and war in Asia
The report details Pacific and Asian theater activity with American advances toward Sai pan and Aslito airfield. Japanese forces encircle Changsha and advance toward Lu Kow while Chinese Burma road fighters seize Kamaing. Allied air bases in China and Burma form a critical supply link as Nimitz eyes a China coast drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saipan
Aslito
Tarianas
China
Changsha
Hankow-Canton
Lukow
Burma
United Air Fields
Kamaing
Mogaung Valley
Ieee
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Sokyina
Salween River
Nimitz
Aleutian Islands
Paramushiro
Matsuwa
Shimushiri
Shumushu
Midwest Plans Equal Freight Rate Program
The Interstate Commerce Commission heard proposals for a uniform class rate system for rail freight between the Atlantic Coast and the Rocky Mountains. Southwestern interests pressed parity with northern and eastern rates for manufactured goods. Oklahoma Governor Kerr backed freight rate equality, arguing it would enable agricultural and industrial development. J. C. Murray testified that southwestern rates on manufactured products are about 60 percent higher. Florida's F C Hillyer sought extension of uniform rates to lines in their state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southwestern
Atlantic Coast
Rocky Mountains
Deep South
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Kerr
South
Southwest
J. C. Murray
Southwestern Cere
Louisiana
Texas
Kansas
F. C. Hillyer
Jacksonville
Florida
TVA Leader Predicts Material Expansion
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, told graduates the postwar era would see national material expansion. He argued expansion should be real and practical, stressing land, factories, streams, electricity, forests, jobs and minerals while noting disputes may divert progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
America
Lilienthal
College of the City of
Allied gains widen front as Fifth Army advances in Italy
British and American forces pushed north from Orvieto and Todi toward Perugia and Foligno, with Montefalco reported fallen. East of the Adriatic coast, partisans near Teramo linking with Allied lines as air and ground strikes disrupt Florence Pisa Bologna infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grosseto
Fifth Army
Rome
Orvieto
Monteleone
Todi
Perugia
Spoleto
Trevi
Foligno
Montefalco
Adriatic
Teramo
Pescara
Pisa
Florence
Rimini
Florence-Pisa-Bologna
Insurance Officials Seek Supreme Court Rehearing
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners urged state insurance chiefs to ask their attorney general to pursue a rehearing before the U S Supreme Court. The case concerns whether insurance is commerce subject to interstate regulation. New York City was chosen for the association midwinter meeting and the incoming president will set the time and place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
New York City
Association
Laws and Legislation
Grass and War Shift My Lawn Duty and Mirth
A humor piece by Central Press correspondent recounts a long idle mower season as the narrator blames the war for yard help shortages. His wife takes over cutting the grass, buys a rubber tired mower, and he resorts to self mowing with comic misadventures around a cluttered garage and cluttered porch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Press
Old Solomon
Fibber McGee's
FDR Attack on Elk Hills Oil Contract Sparks Naval Committee Clash
Vinson labels the Elk Hills oil contract illegal and accuses the administration of departing from the 30 year policy of keeping oil reserves in the ground. The President objects to Congress setting oil extraction limits and to Navy contracts without Naval Committee consultation, arguing for independent executive authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Congress
Elk Hills
Attys Meet in Asheville for Regional Conference
The third of four regional conferences of United States attorneys will be held in Asheville next Wednesday through Friday. Twenty six U S attorneys from southeastern states the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico attend with speakers including Chief Justice Harlan F Stone Attorney General Francis Biddle Judge Manley C Hudson and Governor J M Broughton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
United States
Judicial Conference of the
Fourth Circuit
Columbia
Puerto Rco
Harlan F. Stone
Supreme Court
Howard M. Doyle
Springfield
Ill
U. S. Attorneys Conference Association
Francis Biddle
Manley C. Hudson
The
Permanent Court of International Justice
Tom C. Clark
James P. McGranery
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
Point Free Rationing Extends to Most Cheeses
The Office of Price Administration with War Food Administration approval announces that all rationed cheese except American cheddar and group one cheddar products will be point-free for two weeks starting 12:01 am June 18. Cheddar and group one cheddar remain ten red points per pound. The Port of New York reports 650 smiling waterfronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration Today
OPA
War Food Administration
Americans Break Through to Ridge Overlooking the Sea
American forces push past Douve river into high ground north of St Sauveur as German resistance weakens. Ninth Division, with origins in New York and Pennsylvania, advances from St Sauveur toward Cherbourg amid pockets of organized German opposition. The unit, now an all American force, previously fought in North Africa and Sicily before joining the beachhead assault.
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St. Colombe
St. Sauveur
Douve River
Orglandes
Cherbourg
Carentan
Vire-Taute Rivers
New York
Pennsylvania
New England
Union
District of Columbia
Algiers
North Africa
Port Lyautey
French Morocco
Tunisia
Sicily
Troina
82Nd Division
Officers Hunt For Woman's Assailant
Investigators led by State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey search West Cornwall Connecticut for the assailant who severely beat Mrs. Francis Higginson 31 at her home. She is unconscious with a fractured skull and 23 head wounds in a Torrington hospital. no rape evidence. Her husband, a navy lieutenant commander, traveled from Key West as detectives probe motive and suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Cornwall
Conn
Edward J. Hickey
Francis Lee Higginson
Hickey
Boston
London
James Thurber
Higginson
Tomato Cans First Bombs Used By B 29s in CBI
U S Superfortress base in Eastern India reports the first bombs dropped in theater two empty tomato juice cans from Col Leonard Harman's plane. Harman landed after 49 4 flying hours from the United States. Capt William Stewart flew the first B 29 from the States but faced long routs and illness delaying arrival with 70 flying hours. Co pilot Capt John Erwin quips about their world tour with little sightseeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
India
China-Burma-India
Col
Leonard
Jake) Harman
Boise
Idaho
United States
Harman
William Stewart
North Hollywood
Calif
Porto Rico
Stewart
England
Eighth Air Force
RAF
John Erwin
Cleveland
Miss
American Forces Break German Lines Near Cherbourg
Allied air power harassed German columns as Americans pressed toward Cherbourg with direct fire on crossroads northeast of St. Le D Ourville. Civilians flee Cherbourg toward Les Pieux and Bricquebec while Germans mass in a last stand near Valognes. Streetcars retreat in Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Le-D’ourville
St. Sauveur
Cherbourg
Cherhbourg
Les Pieux
Bricquebec
Valognes
Montebourg
British English Confusion Astonishes American Soldiers
A group of U S soldiers in London recount linguistic mix ups with British speech and daily life. Tales include misinterpreting British words for tickets suspenders garters and floors confusingly named first ground and second, revealing cultural gaps and humor during wartime.
Miners Agree to Annual Vacation Take July 1 11
In Hazelton Pennsylvania 71 000 miners agreed to annual vacations from July 1 to 11 in a wartime wage accord with 250 operators after a United Mine Workers contract tied to a 1943 war labor agreement. John L Lewis and UMW officials signed the pact, detailing vacation pay in addition to regular wages during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazelton
Pennsylvania
Solid Fuels
L. Ickes
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
UMW Press
Lewis
John L
Thomas
Kosik
Mart Brennan
Kershetsky
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Chuck Wagon Gang
Jergens Journal
Chamber Music Society
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Daily War Journal
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Terry and the Pirates
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George Crook
the Baptist Hour
News of the World
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Esso
the Art of Living
Gardens For Victory
Richard Maxwell
University of Chicago
the Church In Action
John Charles Thomas
World News Parade
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Gracie Fields
Manhattan
Frob Crosby & Company
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TVA
By K. F. Hewins
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Victor Hugo
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