Allied air blitz pounds France and Germany with 3500 planes
Up to 3,500 invading American planes strike from Britain and Italy for the third straight day. RAF and US bomber formations target the French invasion coast and German rail yards at Hamm Osnabruck Schwerte Soest while Ploesti and Leverkusen are also attacked. No planes reported lost and night operations included mine laying in enemy waters.
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London
Britain
Italy
Mulhouse
Switzerland
Hamm
Osnabruck
Schwerte
Dortmund
Soest
Ploesti
Bucharest
RAF
Germany
Leverkusen
Bou and
Dunkerque
Channel
Germans Strike East in Balkans Amid Bulgarian Pressures
The German assault dents the Russian line north of Iasi as Hitler presses Bulgaria for full war aid and severed ties with Moscow. Moscow questions the aim while Bulgaria faces a hard choice amid Balkan turmoil and rising anti Nazi sentiment among its people. Continued notes indicate possible wider regional consequences.
Nimitz foresees American planes and ships moving on Japanese targets
At Pearl Harbor Admiral Chester W. Nimitz predicts future bold moves of U S planes and ships into Japanese areas now only raided by submarines. He cites Liberators reaching Saipan on the Marianas front and reports engagements with enemy interceptors and anti aircraft fire as bombers return.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean
Marshalls
Saipan
Marianas
Tokyo
Truk
Government Moves to Protect Workers in Contract Termination
Washington May 31 A joint contract termination board was ordered by War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes to develop or reinforce procedures ensuring adequate advance notice before terminating contracts. The aim is to help firms find other work and enable employees to seek new jobs by canvassing procurement agency requirements prior to plant closures.
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Washington
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Jones Asked Not To Seek Second Democratic Primary
Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte, runner up in the tenth district race for the Democratic nomination for congressman, was asked by seven Catawba county leaders to refrain from pursuing a second primary. John Stroupe of Hickory who ran third backs Jones in a runoff. Joe Ervin of Charlotte led the ballot Saturday.
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Hickory
Hamilton C. Jones
Charlotte
Catawba County
Jones
John Stroupe
Joe Ervin
Flour firms cited in Chicago price fixing case
Sixteen teen flour milling corporations and eleven executives plus their national trade association were summoned into federal court in Chicago for trial on charges of conspiring to fix prices on packaged flour for home use.
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Chicago
National Trade Association
Students Want Graham to Keep WLB Position
The Tar Heel reports 95 percent of UNC students and faculty favor President Frank Graham remaining with the War Labor Board in Washington. A visiting committee urged full-time university duties. Graham has split time, planning to resign but now to devote half his time to UNC after July 1 in an agreement with Gov. Broughton.
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Chapel Hill
the Tar Heel
University of North Carolina
Frank F. Graham
War Labor Board
Washington
Board of Trustees
Graham
Montgomery Ward
Germans Plan Scorching Of Earth Policy
London reports from May 31 state German propaganda claims the Nazis will apply scorched earth tactics before Eisenhower's invasion. An Allied radio broadcast urged patriots to ready fire control units as fire danger rises in battle zones.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Japanese Hold Biak Against Allied Assaults In New Bombardment
Allied dispatches report heavy fighting as Japanese defenses collapse terrain near Mokmer air field on Biak island. American Sherman tanks engage in the first tank clash of the campaign with Japanese losses and air battles overhead. Separately Chinese sources note Japanese pressure along the Hankow Canton railroad and Henan Hunan fronts. U S airmen strike Saipan in a second land based raid in the central Pacific.
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Associated Press
Biak Island
New Guinea
China
Nion
Philippines
MacArthur
Sixth Army
Spencer Davis
Biak
Pacific
David
Bosaek Village
Tokyo Radio
Changsa
Hankow-Canton
Chungking
Henan
Hunan
Central Pacific
U. S
Saipan
Mariana Islands
Rommel Narrowly Escapes Death in France
A Geneva La Suisse report from Annecy notes Field Marshal Rommel narrowly escaped death on May 28 by arriving minutes late at a German post in France. Allied planes destroyed the château serving as headquarters at the planned time. The exact château location was not specified.
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Bern
Annecy
France
Geneva
la Suisse
Rommel
Girl Drowns While Wading at Blue Spring Lake
Alice Haywood a 15 year old high school girl drowned yesterday while wading with three companions at Blue Spring Lake on Bear Creek The party fell over a ledge into 12 feet of water Dowd Sells saved two of the group Mrs Louise Wood and Vivian Riddley were rescued by Sells
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Albemarle
Alice Haywood
Blue Spring Lake
Bear Creek
Louise Wood
Vivian Riddley
Dowd Sells
Mrs Roosevelt challenges Churchill on Spain views
Mrs Roosevelt contends Churchill's Spain stance reflects sixty years of fixed thinking and a reluctance to change. She said UN positions must align with global views before becoming effective, commenting at a Washington press conference after his Commons speech.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Spain
France
Commons
United Nations
Ruling Clears M Mullan On Defense For Officer Charged
Attorney General Harry McMullan declared that a municipality may hire counsel to defend a police officer charged with a crime related to official duties if the officer is likely to be acquitted. Other rulings cover sales tax on repossessed autos, misdemeanor fees, cattle testing, probation restitution, county clerical funds, double office holding, draft-board eligibility, insurance interest discrimination, and North Carolina interest limits on bonds.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
Howit
Revenue Act
Board of County Commissioners
Highway Patrol
Democratic Executive Committee
House of Representatives
North Carolina
Boston FBI arrests 100 shipyard workers in war fraud case
FBI and U S marshals seized 100 Bethlehem-Bingham shipyard welders and counters in Boston on charges of conspiring to defraud the government. The probe found a large war fraud racket with false credits for extra production and kickbacks. Potential penalties include up to 10 years and fines. The total alleged fraud is believed to exceed $500000.
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FBI
U. S
Bethlehem - Bingham Shipyard
E. A. Soucy
Boston
Edmund J. Brandon
Washington
Soucy
Francis Biddie
Girl, 17, jailed as material witness in murder case
Ruth Yates of Tullahoma is held in Nashville as a material witness in the May 18 shooting death of James Robert Sherrill, a 17 year old high school senior. She and her father Roy Yates and brothers Dennis and Harold are charged in the case. she claims she was abducted and raped four times by the killer and helped move the body. Rewards totaling over 2500 dollars are offered by state and local authorities and citizens.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tullahoma
State Highway Patrol Division
W. C. O'Lee
Ruth Yates
James Robert Sherrill
Roy Yates
Dennis
Harold Yates
Sherri
Coffee County
State of Tennessee
Nashville Banner
Corporal Voices Criticism of Japanese Relocation Policy
Interior Secretary Ickes cited a World War II era corporal from Italy who urged sending anti relocation critics to the 100th Infantry Battalion. Ickes noted the battalion of Japanese descent has 1,000 men with 900 Purple Hearts, 36 Silver Stars, 21 Bronze Stars, and three Distinguished Service Crosses. Ickes thanked the corporal for his letter and defended the policy.
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Washington
Ickes
Italy
J. H. Kety
Kety
German Forces Break Through Russian Line North of Iasi
A Moscow dispatch said German forces opened a major push with tanks and infantry but only created an insignificant wedge in Russian defenses north of Iasi, incurring heavy losses. AP reported the move appeared aimed at disrupting Russian troop concentrations rather than signaling a full offensive.
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London
Romania
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Gilmore
Iasi
Ploesti
Red Army
Axis Offers Resistance In Main Line Near Rome
Allied headquarters report Fifth and Eighth armies pressing toward Rome with fierce street fighting near Velletri and Frosinone. German defenses along the Via Casilina slow the advance as the Allies tighten grip from Valmontone to the Alban Hills, aiming to breach the Rome line.
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Axis
Fifth Army
Rome
Ei In
Frosinone
Casilina
Pescarella Nuova
Velletri
Alban Hills
Eighth Army
Gert
Oliver Leese
Casilina Hhighway
Via
Valmonte
Eighth
Rome Line
Eternal City
Valmonton
Campolemini
Velletr
Cae Gandolfe
Fifth
Via Casilina
Berlin
Valmontone
Illinois Governor Seeks Aid for Farm Interests
Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois tells the National Conference of Governors that postwar agriculture can solve its problems with cooperative government support. He favors a federally directed loan program to stabilize basic farm commodities and stresses home rule and state administration for non policy tasks. Other governors criticized federal water and lumber policies.
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Hershey
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
National Conference of Governors
John C. Vivian
Colorado
Earl Snell
Oregon
Private Hardin Drowns at Camp Mackall Lake
Army Private William Calvin Hardin of the 13th Airborne Division drowned yesterday while swimming in a lake on the Camp Mackall reservation. He was son of Oscar Hardin of Taylorsville Kentucky.
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Camp Mackall
William Calvin Hardin
13Th Airborne Division
Hardin
Oscar Hardin
Taylorsville
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