Allies Press Through Rain in Coastal and Mountain Advances
Allied forces under Clark breach into Sparanise area amid heavy rain and brief three mile gain as Rome approach lines tighten around Mt Massico. Fifth and Eighth armies push toward Montefalcone and Molise, with German positions yielding new mountain ground near Isernia and Torella Del Sannio.
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Rive
Sparanise
Teano
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Rome
Fifth Army
Regia Canal
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Venafro
Rom‘mel Line
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
San Salvo
Trigno
Montgomery
Montefalcone
Castelmauro
Molise
New Coal Crisis Faces Roosevelt As Strikes Grow
By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS in Washington the note on the coal crisis shows 77,000 idle mine workers across 11 states as President Roosevelt keeps silent on plans to address the fourth coal dispute in six months.
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Roosevelt
Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
War Analysis on Europe and Coal Crisis Rumors
DeWitt MacKenzie discusses Europe’s postwar reshaping focusing on Yugoslavia and self determination while warning against outside interference. The piece shifts to labor turmoil as Roosevelt weighs coal seizing power and the War Labor Board’s decision in Pennsylvania anthracite cases amid idle mines and threatened industry shutdowns.
Prisoners Will Get Some Freedom
The War department announced a gradual program allowing Italian war prisoners held at least six months to work outside prison camps without guards under military supervision. Paroles to private custody are not allowed. employers must report misbehavior. Each prisoner must pledge to obey rules, wear identified clothing, carry a POW ID, and perform assigned tasks honestly to reduce guard numbers.
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America
Britain
Russia
Glo
Gerent
All
Eighth Army News
Italy
Yugoslavia
Washington
War Department
Cleee
Tobacco Markets Reopen For Weed Sales Monday
Governors Broughton and Darden announce tobacco markets on the eastern middle and old belts will resume sales Monday after a three day suspension. They credit improved prices, Washington assurances, and continued CCC support for high prices within ceilings.
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Raleigh
Broughton
Darden
Virginia
Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Iits
Yugoslavs Cut German Rail Line
Tito loyalists blew up the Zagreb Belgrade railway along a 40 mile stretch east of Zagreb, destroying trains and bridges while felling telegraph poles. The Yugoslav communique claimed over 270 German dead and multiple bridges damaged amid internal clashes with General Mihailovic’s faction.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Germany
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Belgrade
Anal Army
Free Yugoslav Radio
Associated Press
Draja Mihailjovic
Fruit Spreads Assigned Values Most Meat Cut Points Reduced
Jam and jelly values set at four and six points per pound with Sunday rationing. Fruit efforts see berry and pineapple costs rise up to five points, while beets squash and grapefruit juice see cuts. Meats see pork veal lamb and mutton cuts drop one to two points. beef unchanged. Butter steadies at sixteen points.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Sunburn Theory Brought Forward in Oakes Case
Bahamas trial heard defense hint sun exposure could explain singed hair found on yachtsman Alfred de Marigny after Sir Harry Oakes murder. Capt. Barker testified he examined de Marigny's arms, hands, face, and head about 12 hours after the body was found, while defense lawyer Higgs pressed whether sunburn could cause the hair anomaly.
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Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
de Marigny
Bahamas Supreme Court
Godfrey S. Higg
James O. Barker
Miami Police
Barker
Sir Harry
Westbourne
Oakes
Higgs
de Ma‘rigny
Attacks OPA Ruling In Federal Court
Counsel for J E Sims of Woodruff owner of a Star Filling Station attacked the OPA ruling in federal district court as unconstitutional. The Star station operated by William Mabry was accused by the OPA on seven counts of gasoline rationing violations extending from Dec 1, 1942 through Mar 31, 1943.
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Columbia
S.C
J.E. Sims
Woodruff
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Federal District Court
Star
Sims
William Mabry
Mare
Army Planes Crash in Formation Flight Near Raleigh
Two army single seat planes crashed in a formation flight near Raleigh three miles south of the city. Witnesses said the bottom plane caught fire and collided with the plane above it, burning the pilots to death in the wreckage.
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ARMY
Raleigh
Here
Allies Storm Treasury Islands Near Bougainville
Allied forces under Admiral Halsey and Rear Admiral Wilkinson stormed the Treasury Islands 30 miles south of Bougainville. Landing troops and naval guns supported by air cover, the operation aimed to disrupt Japanese bases and approach Bougainville, with light Allied casualties and several enemy planes shot down.
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Adm
William F. Halsey
Treasury Islands
Bougainville
Ente
Solomons
Rabaul
Toda
Rts
Naval
Theodore S. Wilkinson
Mono
Stirling
Treasury
New Zealand
Wilkinson
Admiral Halsey
Shortlands
Halsey
Finschhafen
New Guinea
New Britain-New Ireland
Cadet Lonergan Charged With Homicide in New York
Wayne Thomas Lonergan a 25 year old former Royal Canadian Air Force cadet awaiting arraignment on a homicide charge confessed to strangling and bludgeoning his wife Patricia 22 in their Beekman Hill apartment. He cited her refusal to let him see their 18 month old son as motive. He broke down during questioning after 24 hours of police custody and was booked with fingerprints taken.
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New York
Beekman
Wayne William Lonergan
East River
Hogan
Lonergan
U S Senate Defends Semi Circle Seating In Debate
U S senators defend the semi circular chamber and desk banging as emphasis in debate amid Churchill's push for a rectangular commons. Sen Hill notes desk slams aid emphasis while Sen Connally backs a semi circular setup for foreign relations work.
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Washington
Churchill
United States Senate
Senator Hill
D-Ala
Hill
U. S
Red Army Opens Drive Toward Crimea Through Nizhne Saragozhy
Soviet forces push from Krivoi Rog toward the Crimean door as they seize Nizhne Saragozhy and advance 12 to 18 miles daily. German losses climb with 1,500 killed and a captured company of the 46th Division.
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Associated Press
London
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Dnieper Loop
Eee
High Command
Red Army
Ukraine
Perekop
Moscow
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Melitopol
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Marianova
Snamenka-Nikolaev
Bug River
Dnepropetrovsk
Balki
Nikopol
Crimea
Feodor Tolbukhin
Desert Army
FDR Hails Moscow Conference as Great Success
President Roosevelt announced the Moscow talks among Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin were a great success. He said the conference neared final phase with documents of agreement being drafted and endorsed a senate declaration for postwar peace collaboration. He declined to judge Connally resolution and expressed continued confidence in Russia’s cooperation.
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Roosevelt
Moscow
Senate
Connally
Russia
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
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