Allied air raids pound Balkans and Romania targets
Allied bomber forces hurled 500 plus planes into five Romanian targets including Brasov Campina Ploesti Turnu Severin Pitesti and Craiova in a nonstop Balkans strike. RAF Halifax Wellington and US planes attacked Campina Ploesti and Pescara dam amid river flood and heavy losses on both sides.
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Apres
Ioes
Balkans
Brasov
Bucharest
Campina
Pioesti
Turnu-Se
Italy
Turin-Severin
Ploesti
Balkan
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pescara River
Mediterranean Airforce
Mediterranean
Pescara
Gandhi Freed From Internment Amid Illness
The government of India frees Mahatma Gandhi from detention due to serious illness. Observers flag that the move may suppress the martyrdom wish of his death in prison, noting his spiritual and political sway over India’s 400 million people. Gandhi, famed for hunger strikes, is described as untroubled by the prospect of death.
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Mahatma Gandhi
India
Gandhi
Indas
Mahatma
All India Congress
Rommel predicts invasion surprises for Allies
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel warned in a German broadcast that the Allied invasion would face many surprises and new German weapons. He cited possible airborne and glider landings behind the coast and claimed interior measures as a novel system. He linked the El Alamein crackdown to orders he says violate military honor. Meanwhile Allied air power claimed about 138,000 airmen engaged in the invasion.
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London
Erwin Rommel
Ministry of Information
Saeubvete
Rommel
Mediterranean
Africa
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
el Alamein
Montgomery
H. H. Balfour
Air
Europe
Berlin
London Daily Herald
European Advisory Commission
Germany
Stockholm
Denmark
Norway
Derby Day Opens With Bright Sun After Rain
Louisville crowds greeted Derby Day under a bright sun after 36 hours of rain. Weather officials forecast fair skies for the 70th Kentucky Derby with temperatures warming through the day. At 8 a.m. the temperature stood at 44 degrees.
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Louisville
Stierly Siamese Twins Succumb in Pennsylvania Birth
The 6 day old Stierly twins dovee and Sandra died within hours of each other in Phoenixville Pennsylvania. Doctors cited pneumonia as a factor and their joined bodies were described as nearly unique. The mother Mary, widowed two months ago, was not told of the deaths until later.
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Phoenixville
Doyee
Sandra Stierly
Dovee
Sandra
Pennsylvania
Mary
Harold
J. Elmer Gotwall
Federation Would Take Lewis Back
The American Federation of Labor remains willing to readmit John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers but only if jurisdictional disputes are resolved. The AFL executive council reaffirmed its January decision, maintaining that UMW return with the previous AFL jurisdiction and rejecting Hutcheson’s amendment on recognizing chemical workers.
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Philadelphia
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
William Greene
Executive Council
UMW
AFL
District 50
William L. Hutcheson
The
Carpenters
Hutcheson
Trunk Murder Probe Expands With 12 Questioned
Police questioned more than a dozen people as they pursued clues in a woman’s death shipped from Chicago to Los Angeles in a trunk. Authorities study possible poisoning, blows, or smothering and identify the victim as 30 to 40 years old.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Railway Express
Philip Brietzke
Brietzke
Charles R. Heniff
Railway Express
John Lopez
Loop
Allied Drives Press Japanese From New Guinea Area
Advanced Allied forces in Southwest Pacific push toward surrender as raids by land and sea hit 140,000 Japanese in New Guinea New Britain and New Ireland. PT boats and bombers target Hollandia Wewak Sarmi Wake Island Rabaul while 97 tons of bombs fall on Rabaul and drome airfields. Surrender numbers rise at Hollandia with 155 prisoners held and reports of changing enemy morale.
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Southwest Pacific
Guinea
New Britain
Ireland
Os Mac. Cougar
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Schouten Islands
Wake Island
Sarmi
Wewak
Hansa Bay
British New Guinea
Rabaul
Kavieng
New Ire
Wakde-Sarmi
MacArthur
Hollandia Stockades
Hollandia Stockades Held 155 Prisoners. ‘Aneta
Netherlands
Gandhi Freed in India After 21 Months Detention
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 74, released from Poona detention on medical grounds after 21 months. He faced confinement for political activity seen as hindering India's stance toward Japan. reports say he will seek full freedom to consult colleagues for a new situation in India.
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London
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Poona
India
Japan
Gandhi
Parnakuti
Vitani Das Thackersey
Bombay
Aga Khan
V. K. Krishnamenon
The
India League
Ina
Britain
Indian Congress
Japanese Cleared From Important Posts In Burma Front
British and American forces reported progress in Burma with Lt. Gen. Stilwell's Chinese troops advancing south of Inkangahtawng and near the Lahkraw River in the Mogaung Valley. Air strikes by U S fighters destroyed three Japanese planes and damaged two. four enemy planes were destroyed and 12 damaged in a failed raid on a landing strip in Central Burma.
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Quantens
Y. Ce Con Tee
Joseph W. Stilwell
Inkangahtawng
Mogaung Valley
Burma
Lahkraw River
Reuters
Kohima
Assam
VU. S.S
CIO Election For Proximity Ordered In Greensboro
The NLRB ordered a union representation election at Proximity Manufacturing Company in Greens boro North Carolina to decide if workers want the Textile Workers Union of America CIO. Voting must occur by June 4 following a Greensboro hearing March 29 1944. The company refused to recognize the union without NLRB certification and argued a June 25 1943 election showing a majority against the union barred certification.
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Washington
Proximity Manufacturing Company
Greensboro
N. C
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
National Labor Relations
NLRB
Proximity
Complete Explanation Of Simplified Tax Plan Is Given
The House passed a tax simplification bill repealing the victory tax and creating normal and surtaxes. Normal tax is 3 percent of income after a $500 exemption and a 10 percent deduction for contributions, capped at $500. Surtaxes use a graduated table with $500 exemptions per person and per dependent plus a 10 percent deduction. a $3,500 income example yields $409.50 total tax. Surtax rates begin at 20 percent, rising with income brackets.
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Washington
House
Lord Hartington and Kathleen Kennedy Wed in England
Lord Hartington heir to the Duke of Devonshire wed Kathleen Kennedy daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy at the Chelsea registrar office in London. They have been friends since 1938 and Miss Mennedy has assisted at a Red Cross club since last summer.
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London
Lord Hartington
Kathleen Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
U. S
Britain
Chelsea
Duke of Devonshire
Commons
Miss Mennedy
Red Cross
Authority On Manpower Is Optimistic
NEW YORK May 6 The nation's manpower problem has been solved to such an extent that the next step is partial demobilization. Lawrence A Appley deputy chairman and executive director of the War Manpower Commission said partial demobilization will follow victory in Europe and bloom after Japan is defeated. He praised industry and labor for meeting war production goals and warned that unemployment may rise with victory as workers return to civilian life.
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New York
Lawrence A. Appley
War Manpower Commission
Europe
Japan
Appley
Roosevelt Seeks Large Lend Lease Funds From Congress
President Roosevelt asks Congress to appropriate 3 450 570 000 dollars to fund the lend lease program for the year ending June 30. He also says any unspent balances of prior appropriations should be available, boosting the total for the new year to 7. Ellender urged defining a policy on final lend lease settlements, warning the risk of owing allies after the war.
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Washington
Ellender
Allies Bomb German Installations Near Calais in Final Day Blitz
American Liberators and escort craft hit German coastal works in Pas-de-Calais as part of a 22nd day of allied air offensives. The raid, under heavy cloud, involved under 250 bombers with similar escort, dropping near 1 000 tons on targets along the French coast.
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London
Pas-de-Calais
France
English Channel
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Allied Air Force
Ploesti
Turin-Severin
Romania
Pescara Dam
Italy
Campina Ada
U. S
Scotland
Dover Strait
Dover
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Hazenbrouck
Motteville
Cambrai
Pasc de Calais
Howard Helms
Jackson Avenue
Charlotte
N. C
William A. Berry
Bath
Belated Cold Wave Breaks Kansas Seasonal Records
In Kansas City on May 6 bright sun ended a belated cold wave that shattered Midwest records with up to 26 degrees below normal. Overnight low 32.2 degrees set a late season mark, surpassing 34 degrees on May 15, 1907. Forecast calls for fair weather and temperatures rising into the 60s.
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Kansas City
Midwest
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
J. R. Lloyd
Ward Injunction Extended Over Montgomery Ward
Federal Judge William H. Holly extended the restraining order against Montgomery Ward and Company officials from interfering with government control of the Chicago plants. A ruling on dissolving the restrainer and replacing it with a temporary injunction was set for 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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Chicago
William H. Holly
Montgomery Ward and Company
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