Mighty Offensive Pounds Against The Hitler Line
Allied forces on the Anzio beachhead launched a major offensive while the Eighth Army attacked the Hitler line from the east. Fifth Army coastal sector actions and heavy bomber support accompanied the move as General Clark directed operations from the beachhead.
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Naples
Anzio
Eighth Army
Italy
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Cisterna
Appian Way
Alban Hills
Rome
Dispatch
Liri
Bii
Pontecorvo
Acquino
Piedimonte
Pontine
Berlin
Hitler Line
Fifth
Aprilia
Cisterna-Littorio
Draining Lake Sought in Search for Missing Woman
Durham police consider draining Eastwood lake after two weeks without a clue to 67 year old Mrs Edward M Jewett of Boonville Missouri. Grandson Edward Jewett Martin 24 a Charlotte chemist held on open charge. authorities note vehicle tracks and a cut rowboat near the water.
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Durham
Edward M. Jewett
Boonville
Edward Jewett Martin
Charlotte
Victor S. Bryant
Eastwood Lake
Jewett
Martin
C. W. Gates
Gates
R. Lewis Patton
University of Missouri
Radford
Florida
Battle of Italy Intensifies As German Reinforcements Arrive
The battle in Italy grows fiercer as German units reinforce threatened sectors. DNB compares the fighting to Somme Verdun and Flanders, while Bracken calls the struggle one of the greatest thrashings to Germans. Allied high command contemplates possible retreat toward northern Italy if enemy positions shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Hitler
DNB
Somme
Verdun
Flanders
Brenden Bracken
Britain
Harold Alexander
Four Catawba draftees persuaded to board Navy bus
Newton May 3. David Lawrance said four selectees from Startown refused to board a bus taking 22 men to Camp Croft for Navy induction. They questioned why others had not been called. Sheriff Ray Pitts intervened, convincing them to join the trip.
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Lowrance
U.S
Ray Pitts
Britain Faces Invasion Threat as Trains Cancelled
Britain braces for invasion with drastic train cuts leaving civilians stranded. German air scouts spotted over the country as Nazi warnings escalate, while reports in Stockholm claim the Stalag Luft II killings were mass murder. Berlin heralds strong armored countermeasures after a contested Allied landing.
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London
Britain
Stockholm
Daily Express
Stalag Luft II
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Legation
England
Berlin
Ritter von Schramm
Bersen Zeitung
Service leaders confer in Australia during WWII talks
General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William F. Halsey met in Australia last week to discuss future operations against Japan. Admiral Halsey was hosted by Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, commander of the 7th U. S. Fleet, which supported the Hollandia-Aitape landings in the southwest Pacific.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
William F. Halsey
Admiral Halsey
Thomas Kinkaid
U. S
Southwest Pacific
MacArthur
Hol‘landia-Aitape
Japan Publishes Demands to Seize U S Navy and Fleets
From San Francisco May 23 The Nippon home periodical Meiho reported by Berlin radio outlines terms for peace that call for transferring the entire United States navy and all large American merchant ships to Japan. Observers note such propaganda claims aim to force American capitulation and erase Western influence in Asia and the Pacific.
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Japan-proper
Japan
Nippon
U. S
Asia
Central
Western Pacific
America
Britain
Allied air offensive battering German rail centers and targets
Approximately 3,500 Allied bombers and fighters attacked German rail yards and airfields in a day long assault. targets included Epinal Chaumont Avord Orleans Bourges Etampes Caen Chateaudun and lines in France with over 5 100 tons of bombs.
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London
Hitler
Dortmund
Brunswick
Germany
Epinal
Chaumont
Avord
Orleans-Bricy
Bourges
Etampes - Mondesire
Caen
Chateaudun
France
Continental
Britain
Italy
RAF
Old Burma Road Slashed by Chinese Counter Drive
Chinese forces report the Burma road cut at Chefang 28 miles from the frontier isolating Luniing, encircling Japanese garrison, and advancing toward Myitkyina. Still, heavy rains slow operations. Chinese counter offensives claim gains in Honan as Japan advances toward Tungkyuan.
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Burma
Chungking
Salween
Chefang
Luniing
Ae Ee
Mandalay
Yunan
China
Myitkyina
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma Road
Chaikungtang
Tatangtazu
Honan
Lushin
Shensi
Tungkyuan
Potatoes Can Rot Assert Farmers Claim
Farmers and merchants in Norfolk say potatoes may rot if kept under OPA control. A Ledger-Dispatch report cites South Carolina growers preferring to let potatoes rot to avoid current prices, unless ceilings rise. Norfolk producers warn losses of spinach illustrate ongoing market pressures.
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Norfolk
Office of Price Administration
Ledger-Dispatch
South Carolina
OPA
Charles Gibson
Charleston
S. C
Bulgarian Premier Designate Named by Ankara Radio
The Ankara radio said a new Bulgarian government will be informed with Hristo Kalfov, president of parliament, succeeding Dobri Bojilov as premier. The report places Kalfov in line to lead Bulgaria with Bojilov stepping down.
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London
Ankara
Hristo Kalfov
Dobri Bojilov
Northwest Lumber Walkouts Cripple Production in War Era
Walkouts by AFL CIO workers halt lumber mills across the Pacific Northwest. About 13 000 to 15 000 idle in Washington Oregon and Portland as unions protest wage denial. St. Paul Tacoma Lumber Seattle and others shut. U S Plywood runs in Seattle with large closures. A mass meeting scheduled near Spokane and Portland unions call the actions wildcat.
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Seattle
War Production Board
Great
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Spokane
Tacoma
St. Paul- Tacoma Lumber Company
Portland
U.S. Plywood Corporation
AFL
CLO
Everett
Roy
Eatonville
Houquiam
Aberdeen
Wash
Oregon
John Christenson
Presi
Detroit Strike Halts Penicillin Production
Detroit workers walk off the job in labor disputes affecting four Michigan firms. Picketing continues at Chrysler Highland Park amid a War Labor Board dispute with CIO United Auto Workers. Parke Davis plants halt penicillin and plasma output as 1,900 workers strike. Additional idle workers join at Chevrolet transmission division in Saginaw and at Campbell Wyant and Cannon Foundry in Muskegon.
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Detroit
Michigan
Highland Park
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers
CIO) International Union
War Labor Board
Parke Davis & Company
National Labor Relations Board
White House Forwarded New Tax Plan
Congress sent to the White House a tax simplification measure aiming to streamline the return process for 50 million taxpayers. The plan shifts to a two tax system, with withholding adjusted to cover full tax for wage earners up to 5,000 dollars, affecting about 30 million people.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Armed Services
Ward Violations Tied to NLRB Hearing
Gerard Reilly of the National Relations Board told a House committee that Montgomery Ward had a long record of labor law violations at plants in Kansas City Portland Oregon and St Paul. He linked these unfair practices to the Chicago seizure and strike.
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Washington
Gerard Reilly
National Relations Board
Montgomery Ward
House
Chicago
Reilly
Kansas City
Portland
Ore
St. Paul
Strike Ends at Detroit Chrysler Plant After UAW Action
The Chrysler Corp. strike idling about 12,000 war workers ended when the executive board of Local 490 United Automobile Workers CIO called off the stoppage.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Deeper Aerial Inroads on Japs Now Possible
Advancements from Wakde airfield bring New Guinea within fighter escorted bomber reach and signal broader aerial advances toward the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. MacArthur planes operate on Wakde as Japanese force holds back Sixth Army tanks on nearby mainland airfields and mortar fire pins Americans at the Tor river area.
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New Guinea
Jme
Wakde
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Dutch New Guinea
Tor
Toem
Hollandia
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