Chinese Forces Attack Along Peiping Hankow Line
Chinese communique reports counterattacks and advances along the Peiping Hankow railway from Kioshan to an area near Mamien pass. The news agency says Japanese positions at several points were pressed, with a third station captured, despite earlier losses near the ancient city of Yang.
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Ghungking
Henan
Peiping-Hankow
Kioshan
South China
Mamien
Thyina
Burma
Tatangtzu
China and Burma Road drive to restore lifeline amid Japanese pressure
The piece highlights Chinese efforts to reopen the Burma road and secure the Salween route into southwest China. It notes women and children aiding the escape through mountainous areas as Nipponese forces threaten China’s lifeline while Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seeks support before more aid arrives.
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China
India
Burma Road
Ich
American Flyer Beckham Alive as Prisoner of War
Major Walter Carl Beckham 27 a top American ace in Europe is reported alive and a prisoner of war in Germany. The Red Cross informed his mother Mrs Susie Wilkes Beckham that Beckham, credited with 18 enemy planes, was shot down during a March strafing raid on a German air field.
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Defuniak Springs
Fla
Walter Carl Beckham
Germany
International Red Cross
Susie Wilkes Beckham
Two Japanese Women Die With 24th Division in Hollandia Clashes
May 14. In Dutch New Guinea near Hollandia, infantry patrols report at least two Japanese women in uniform armed with forty four caliber pistols were killed in action during clashes on the road from Depapre to the Hollandia air drome.
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Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Depapre
Arnold testimony voices strike threat to war air effort
General H H Arnold told a War Labor Board hearing that a Detroit foremen's strike at 15 plants including Packard and Briggs threatens fighter plane production and bomber protection. He warned strikes could force timetable changes and cost bomber crew lives as 50 000 workers idle.
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Washington
Foreman's Association of America
Detroit War Plants
H. H. Arnold
Detroit
Arnold
United States Army Air Force
War Labor Board
Germany
Packard Motor Car Company
Briggs, Murray, Hudson
Gar Wood
Air Force
U. S
Allies Drive From Two Ways On Japanese Base
Allied forces in North Burma press toward Kamaing and Kamaung as Chinese units threaten Myitkyina from the Salween corridor. Stilwell’s troops push within nine to 15 miles of Kamaung while Chinese columns close in on Myitkyina and a second line nears Kamaing from the east. Japanese counterattacks suffer heavy losses as air forces strike north and west of Myitkyina aiming to eliminate the 18th division.
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Burma
Salween River
Rcef
India-Burma
India
Imphal
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
W. Stilwell
Kamaung
Mogaung
Myitkyina
North Burma
Salween
Stilwell
Kamaing
Mina
Sion
Tkyina
Enk
Malakawng
Eae Yang
Kaladan
Bees Keep Man From Serving As Jury Member
Los Angeles story recounts Paul J. McDonald an engineer excused from jury service after explaining his bees swarmed away while he searched for honey with his head in a hive, prompting the judge to deem the man unfit.
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Man
Los Angeles
Leon R. Yankwich
Veniremen
Paul J. McDonald
McDonald
Dudge
Virginia Tech coach takes leave to help UNC athletics
MacAuley McEver, associate football coach and head coach in basketball and baseball at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, will take a one year leave starting July 1 to help his brother Gene direct athletics at the University of North Carolina, the News Leader reported.
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Richmond
MacAuley McEver
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Gene
University of North Carolina
RAF Mosquito Bombers Blitz Berlin in Fresh Raid
RAF Mosquito bombers launched another heavy raid on Berlin last night without loss, the first since May 9. Weather affected operations but fighters conducted sweeps. a Canadian Mosquito headed seven enemy planes over northern Germany with one Allied plane lost.
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London
Berlin
Air Ministry
Europe
Paris
Britain
Germany
Allies Press Offensives Eyed as Rommel Reviews Atlantic Wall
London dispatches report growing talk of Western and Eastern Allied offensives while Germany clarifies defense plans. Field Marshal Rommel completes a checkup of the Atlantic wall and Rundstedt is named supreme anti invasion commander as German radio hints at decisive action ahead.
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London
United Nations
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Kurt Dittmar
Hitler
Stockholm
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Rommel
Johannes Blaskowitz
Supreme Command
Dittmar
Radio
Actoes
Moscow
California Congressman Favors Elimination of Quick Divorces
Representative Poulson of California urged a constitutional amendment to ban quick divorces for the rich and Hollywood crowd. He argued it targets Mexico based divorces and divorce mills, would enforce home state proceedings, and end temporary divorce residences. He said money should not allow bypassing state laws and criticized Reno as well.
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California
Washington
Poulson
Rcalif
Mexico
Porary
Senate weighs agriculture supply bill for 1945 aid
Senate leaders consider restoring $175 million in cash grants and lending authority cut by the House to the 1945 Agriculture Department Supply Bill. Provisions include $28 million for direct farm aid, $96.71 million for Farm Security Administration lending, $50 million for school lunch programs, and $40 million for REA farm electric extensions. A new $7.25 million line would fund a nationwide agricultural census beginning January 1.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Department
House
Appropriations Committee
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Rural Electrification Administration
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
Census Bureau
Pearl Harbor cited as proof for unified armed forces
Josephus Daniels told the House post war policy committee that Pearl Harbor proves the need to merge Army and Navy commands. He warned that divided command allowed Japan to strike. Daniels recalled past friction between services and urged unity of action under a single defense department.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Roosevelt
Navy
House
Pearl Harbor
Daniels
Army and Navy
Raleigh, N. C
News and Observer
Hawaiian
Department of National Defense
Hawaiian Islands
The
Army
Lindley Garrison
Joe
Russians claim 400 Germans killed in Dnestr sector
Soviet communique reports a tank unit killed 400 Germans in the lower Dnestr area near Tiraspol. It says heavy losses were inflicted on German forces while other sectors saw localized action and continued Allied air bombardment. Polotsk and surrounding targets suffered extensive strikes and fires.
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London
Lwow-Kovel
Moscow
Dnestr
DNR
Tiraspol
Red Army
Polotsk
Rigar
Soviet Monitor
Sevastopol
Berlin
Havnmberg
Norway
Varde
Denmark
April Liquor Sales Totals Reported by NC Board
The North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announced April liquor sales in 25 wet counties reached 1,511,636.20. Four April coupons allowed two pints or a quart of liquor and a quart or a fifth of rum and lesser liquors. The May ration is the same.
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Raleigh
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
North Carolina
Tank Battles Take Place In Central Italy
Allied forces push northward into the Liri Valley behind Ceprano as the fall of Cassino and its strongpoints nears. French units advance from San Giorgio and Ausonia while American Fifth Army men seize Scauri near Formia and the Rapido bridgehead expands.
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Cosma E Damiano
Castelforte
Italy
Cassino
Signal Corps
Naples
Iri
Ceceino
Liri
Mt. Doro
Pignataro
Eighth Army
Rapido
Fifth Army
Scauri
Formia
Gulf of Gaeta
Mediterranean Air Force
Rome
Piombino
Santo Stefano
Portofferrato
Voltri
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Anzio
Haly
Ceprano
Gustav Line
San Giorgio
Ausonia
Esperia
Ration Relaxation Seen to Threaten Next Year’s Food
The War Food Administration warned that easing rationing risks reducing future food output. Officials say public confidence in victory has lowered production drive, hurting home gardening and farm labor efforts critical to meeting future needs.
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Washington
War Food Administration
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