Germany Tense As Invasion Nears Allies Rule Airways In Pacific And Orient
Allied air forces continued heavy attacks along 700 miles of northern New Guinea coast from Hansa Bay to Sarmi. Fifth Army Air Force fighters and bombers hit an estimated 60 000 Japanese troops by while targeting air dromes supply areas and troop concentrations. MacArthur's planes pressed assaults Thursday and Friday to neutralize key bases and routes in New Guinea theater.
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New Guinea
Fifth Army Air Force
Hansa Bay
Sarmi
Douglas MacArthur
Allies Blitz German Positions on French Coast and Romania
Royal air forces and American bombers pressed invasion support with heavy strikes on Brașov Pitesti Craiova Campina and Turnu-Severin in Romania. Liberators Marauders and Mosquitos attacked Pas de Calais and the Die Calais coast with Australian and New Zealand crews. In Italy civilians were moved as Germans demolished ahead of a potential land push while Sevastopol faced renewed assaults and headlines noted invasion planning nearing occupation of Germany.
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Len Strong
Romania
Oette Ain
Britain
Pas-De-Calais
Die
Calais
Paris
Allied air and ground successes push toward Loyang and Kohima
Allied air forces claim seven to one victories over Burma as Chinese forces breach toward Loyang near Chungking. American and allied planes attack Tokyo outposts and strike along a 1400 mile Pacific front. British Indian troops gain ground around Kohima as monsoon operations aim to expel invaders near Imphal and Kohima.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Allied
Pacific
India
Burma
Loyang
China
Chungking
Tokyo
Non- Pacific
South Pacific
Kahili
Solomons
Scheouten Islands
New Guinea
Kohima
War Today Prospects of May Battle Across Europe and Asia
The piece surveys growing war jitters as Nazi momentum in western Europe and the Atlantic theater suggests a possible allied invasion in mid May. It notes weather and monsoon patterns could influence operations from Britain to the Bay of Bengal and the Himalayas as events unfold.
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Norway
North Sea
English Channel
Europe
Britain
Himalayas
India
Burma
Japan
Bay of Bengal
Himalay
Aged Man Confesses To 39 Year Murder
In St Helens Oregon a 73 year old man confessed to a 39 year old murder of Walter Smith a crippled school teacher slain in November 1905 in Houldt West Virginia. Sheriff M R Shoun said A J Pritchard a farm laborer since 1908 came to the sheriff's office to clear up a long troubled matter. West Virginia authorities have verified the slaying but he has not been taken into custody.
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ST. Helens
Ore
M. R. Shoun
Walter ©. Smith
Houldt
W. Va
A. J. Pritchard
Calhoun
West Virginia
Pritchard
Trunk Murder Case Traced To Chicago Hotel
Chicago police traced the trunk murder to a hotel scene and released a suspect tied to a woman living with a man named in Chicago. They seek Louise Villegas and are tracking a man and a boy seen with the trunk. Further forensic tests in Los Angeles awaited.
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Chicago
John Lopez
Los Angeles
Railway Express Agency
Johnniy
Philip Breitzke
Homicide Division
Hamdian
Louise Villegas
California
Detective Bureau
West Side
Arthur McCord
Charles R. Heniff
C.O.D
South State Street
Breitzke
Heniff
Frank Webb
A Knta
Methodists Seek Wartime Whisky Ban
Kansas City May 6 The fastest general conference in Methodist history adjourned in ten days. It passed wartime prohibition and called for hospital and social service work for conscientious objectors. It refused to rule on civilian labor conscription and settled 198 of 900 memorials in six and a half days of work.
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Kansas City
Lotis Wright
Baldwin-Wallace College
Berea
Ohio
Church of the Brothers
Gandhi's Release Welcomed Amid Mixed Fears in India
News reports from New Delhi say Mo Handas K. Gandhi the 74 year old Indian nationalist leader was released unconditionally after 21 months as a political prisoner. Officials cited failing health and confinement since 1942 while intimates warned the move could signal a new crisis in Gandhi's frail condition and spiritual dependence.
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Relman Morin
New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Aga Khan
Poona
Gandhi
Japan
Devadas Gandhi
U.S. Blacklists 38 Irish Firms For Aiding Enemy
The United States blacklisted 38 Irish firms and business men for aiding the Axis. The action follows Ireland’s February decision not to eject Axis officials. sanctions include denial of facilities and postwar penalties, aiming to disadvantage those firms in early postwar reconstruction. The State Department declined to discuss specifics of individual firms or their activities.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Eire
State Department
Madry Honored by National Group
Chicago May 6 The American College Publicity Association awarded Robert W Madry UNC news bureau manager for selfish devotion over many years and for his conscientious presentation of higher education facts He is a former president of the association.
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Chicago
American College Publicity Association
Robert W. Madry
University of North Carolina
Association
Madry
Young Democrats Endorse Chatham For Knox's Post
Winston Salem May 6 Young Democratic Clubs leaders urged unity in wartime rally. They pledged support for Franklin D Roosevelt for a fourth term and endorsed Thurmond Chatham of Winston Salem and Elkin for secretary of the navy.
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Winston-Salem
Joe C. Carr
Young Democratic Clubs
Young Democrats
North Carolina
Carr
Tennessee
Y.D.C
Chatham
YDC
Roosevelt
Thurmond Chatham
Winston- Salem
Elkin
Navy
Frank Knox
Henrietta Price
Asheville
UDC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
United States
Naples Seethes As Miracle Of Liquefaction Fails Again
Devout Neapolitans watch two phials of dried blood of St. Januarius under Naples cathedral altar for a liquid transformation said to signal good tidings. No change appears as Cardinal Ascalesi leads prayers and curfew ends. several scientists offer natural explanations while American officers witness the vigil.
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Edward Kennedy
Naples
Januarius
Ascalesi
Edgar E. Hume
John F. Laboon
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
Laboon
Holy Name Society
Maj
Robert Martino
Washington, D. C
Mathias Correa
U. S
New York
Sgt
Bernard Peebles
St. John's College
Annapolis
St. Henry Tasca
USNR
University of California At Los Angeles
Soviets Claim Eight More Axis Ships Sunk Near Sevastopol
The Soviet high command reported that naval air units sunk eight Axis ships near Sevastopol, bringing two day total to 19, with 200 Germans killed southwest of Stanislawow. Moscow said April saw about 200 ships sunk, mostly Black Sea transports, as Soviet forces press to reduce Sevastopol without large frontal assaults.
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London
High Command
Sevastopol
Crimea
Red Army
Poland
Stanislawow
Dnestr River
Carpathian Mountains
Moscow
Tass
Black Sea
Romania
Murray Blames Rankin For Compensation Cut
CIO President Philip Murray accuses House leaders led by Rep. Rankin of slashing unemployment benefits in the Senate backed GI bill. He says cuts from 52 to 26 weeks and a flat 20 dollar weekly rate insult servicemen and reflect Rankin’s objection to encouraging idleness.
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Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
House
Rommel Predicts Imminent Allied Invasion In Europe
Field Marshal Rommel told Germans in bombed homeland that allied invasion must be reckoned as imminent. A Berlin commentator predicted 2,000,000 Allied troops and 100,000 landing craft this month with landings across the English Channel and southern France. He warned of glider and parachute operations behind Atlantic Wall and said aerial umbrellas would help establish bridgeheads amid strong German reserves.
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Russell Sandstrom
London
Erwin Rommel
Europe
Erich Widdecke
Westfaelische Landeszeitung
Berlin
English Channel
France
Denmark
Norway
Atlantic Wall
Widdecke
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Britain
Iceland
Ireland
Faroes
Scotland
North
Africa
Rommel
Air
Harold Balfour
Balfour
U. S
Chinese Admit Reverses In Loyang Sector
The Chinese command said Japanese tank and armored car forces broke through 30 miles and reached within nine miles of Loyang gateway to an invasion route to interior China. Japanese advances also reduced gaps along the Peiping Hankow railway and converged on Paofeng as Loyang’s fall would threaten eastern Chinese forces.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Loyang
China
Lunghai
Lunju
Yi River
Chengsien
Yencheng
Paofeng
Szechwan Province
Fromening
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Orient
Truk
Jimmie Stewart
James Stewart
Ramsey Potts
Memphis
Tenn
England
Stewart
Brunswick
French Coast
Italy
Fifth Army
European Advisory Commission
Arkansas
Everett L. Dodd
Poplar Bluff
Sgt. Dodd
Ridearaat
Dodd
Dodds
Walnutidge
Imphal
Sec
R. W. Madry
Knox
Murray
Rankin
P.i
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