Heavy Bombers Strike German Targets in Aerial Assault
Up to 750 American heavy bombers struck Tutow aircraft plant and Osnabruck rail yards as Allied forces continued a round the clock air campaign into the fifth week. RAF and US air fleets aimed at rail centers and defense hubs along the Baltic coast and Belgian routes with substantial losses reported.
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London
Germany
Tutow
Osnaabruck
Berlin
Baltic Sea
Osnabruck
RAF
Louvain
Hasselt
France
Belgium
Hitler
Baltic Re
U. S
Baltic
Schleswig-Holstein
North Sea
Brandenburg
Thunderbolt
Hasselt's
Air Ministry
Lou
Leipzig
Czechoslovakia
Lay
Brussels
U. S. 9Th Air Force
An Ish
U. S. Strategic Air Force
City Awards Asphalt Contract Amid Traffic and Budget Talks
The council approved purchasing 120000 gallons of asphalt from the lowest bidder at $0.605 per gallon to repave streets, after a federal rule change. The board of education sought more funds, now $12566, for projects. A plan to address Milwaukee railroad crossings to ease traffic near school routes was sent back to committee, with potential PSC hearing. Appointments by Mayor Vercohta filled several city posts and a lease of a 50 foot site to the U S coast guard was approved near the WPA warehouse at Hayear. The planning commission urged engineering prep for filling eroded areas between town sides.
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Board of Public Works
S. Minn
Board of Education
Public Utilities Committee
Milwaukee Railroad
Liberty
Fred Steele
Public Service Commission
Steele
J. J. Vercohta
John Y
Cameron Avenue
Ice and Tire Commission
W. E. Banet
South 17Th Street
Board of Health
Charles B. Varco
22Nd Street
Leon C
Division Street
Kramer
Wisconsin Municipality Fund
U.S. Coast Guard
King
Front Street
Hayear
City Planning Commission
City Engi Department
Marauder Bombers Shift to Unpainted Finish in England
American Marauder bombers bases in England will switch to unpainted aluminum with silver sides and bellies to speed up flights by about 10 miles per hour. Top surfaces will retain paint to blend with terrain and shield pilots from glare.
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England
New Flood Crest Forecast For City
A flood crest of about 11.3 feet is forecast for the Mississippi Wing in Minn with Prescott Wis at a stationary level. Samal notes three days of rain in Chippewa Valley and Durand Wis where the river rose 1.4 feet Saturday morning. Heavy rains hit the Black River area at Neillsville as river flow increased. Under ordinary conditions a flow of 92 100 cubic feet per second would imply 11.7 feet.
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Mississippi Wing
Minn
Prescott
Wis
Samal
Chippewa Valley
Durand
Black River
Neillsville
Explosion Claims 17 Sailors Aboard Lighter Hiter
A naval court of inquiry opens to investigate an explosion and fire aboard the lighter Hiter on Thursday afternoon. The incident is believed to have killed 17 United States sailors, with the First Naval District reporting an enlisted man also dying.
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Boston
Naval Court of Inquiry
Hiter
United States
First Naval District Headquarters
Hike Ceiling Prices Set for Pulp Wood Logs
The Office of Price Administration ordered higher ceiling prices, raising pulp wood logs by 50 cents per cord for peeled popular and white birch and peeled poplar insulation logs, and 75 cents per cord for peeled basswood. The move affects Wisconsin and Minnesota markets.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Oxgan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Japan pushes in China threatening Chungking and Hankow rail links
Japanese offensives around Loyang and Lunghai rail lines risk isolating Chungking as Tokyo pushes toward Hankow and Sunghsien. Chinese forces advance in Burma while Allied air forces widen strikes on Truk Palau and other Japanese positions in the Pacific.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Chungking
Loyang
Lunghai
Henan
Reds and Nazis clash as bridgehead battles rage
London reports fierce fighting near a bridgehead with 4000 German soldiers and 100 tanks knocked out by Soviet troops. The Soviet information bureau claims 111,687 Axis troops killed or captured in five weeks on the Crimean campaign, with 191 Axis ships sunk by Soviet forces.
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London
Sam
Axis
Crimean
Sevastopol
Soviet Information Bureau
Monitor
Black Sea
Plead Innocent in Sherman Trust Case in Danville
All but two defendants pleaded innocent in a criminal information charging the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company its officers and subsidiaries with Sherman Act violations. Judge Walter C. Lindsay presided.
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Danville, Ill
New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Walter C. Lindy
How You Can Help Protect Our Security
Washington censorship chief Ron Price urges five measures to protect military security during wartime. He advises Americans to guard military information, avoid careless letters or messages, not rely on media to forecast strikes, heed censorship penalties, and accept delays in international communications.
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Washington
Byron Price
Congress
London Talk Keeps Invasion Plans Quiet
In London the security minded Allied officers and troops avoid revealing invasion timing. The common refrain shifts from I can’t answer to you didn’t tell me, as even casual questions about schedules are avoided. Conversations become guarded with code words and wary glances.
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London
Boys In Brass
Cardinals
Allies and Germans ready for prisoner exchange at Barcelona
Spanish authorities announced readiness for a May 17 prisoner swap at Barcelona. About 919 Allied prisoners to be exchanged for a roughly equal number of Germans. Allied group includes 814 British and 18 American soldiers along with 20 British civilians and 67 Latin American civilians.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Axis shipping blows in eastern Med hit by RAF RaF squadrons
Six Axis ships were destroyed and two more damaged in April actions in the eastern Mediterranean. RAF planes from South African and Beaufighter squadrons carried out the attacks as Wellington bombers targeted merchant vessels, leaving one listing.
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Cairo
Mediterranean
Allies Launch Large Scale Tank Attacks Across Italian Front
Berlin reports widening attacks from east of the Gulf of Gaeta to northwest of Cassino with tanks and heavy artillery as both sides pour in fresh forces. A new Allied landing is anticipated on the Italian west coast while German broadcasts warn of possible diversionary actions and Corsican airfield strikes.
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London
Berlin
Gulf of Gaeta
Cassino
Italy
Sth
Anzio
Corsica
Local Gunner Moulis Reported Prisoner of War in Germany
S. Sgt. Ralph E. Moulis of 1616 South 10th Street is listed as a prisoner of war in Germany per International Red Cross updates to his parents. The gunner on a bomber had been missing over Europe since March 29, promoted last January, and had served in the Wisconsin National Guard since 1939 with federal service starting in 1940. He trained at Seymour Johnson Field North Carolina and Fort Myers Florida, and earned a cluster toward the Air Medal shortly before being reported missing.
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Camp Livingston
Seymour Johnson Field
N. C
Fort Meyers
Fla
Priest Fr. Stanislaus Orlemanski Loses Priestly Privileges
Springfield mass bishop O Leary imposed canonical penalties on Fr Stanislaus Orlemanski after his Moscow visit with Marshal Stalin. He is barred from celebrations sacraments and public appearances indefinitely and must leave his parish or appeal to Rome. Orlemanski plans to retire or appeal. letter to the bishop asserts jurisdiction rests with the apostolic delegate in Washington.
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Springfield
Mass
Stanislaus Orlemanski
Thomas H. O'Leary
Josef Stalin
Moscow
George J. Shea
O'Leary
Orlemanski
Fr. Shea
Fr. Orlemanski
Marshal Stalin
Poland
Holy See
Rome
Amleto Cicognani
Washington
Congregation of the Council
Francesco Cardinal Ma
Shea
Tasio
Timothy Champoux
Apostolic Delegate
Washington, D. C
Christ
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church
Invasion Tension Mounts In Moscow
Tension over the western front opening runs high in Moscow as editorials create a zero hour mood. Public interest focuses on when US Britain land troops in Hitler’s occupied Europe while Italy gains front page coverage in a Moscow paper.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
Hitler
Europe
Italy
Meeting Of F R Clark And Roosevelt In Italy War Planning
Washington reports that Lt Gen Mark Clark visited the United States for secret talks with President Roosevelt and Gen George C Marshall signaling Italy campaign importance. Allied leaders weigh Rome capture versus Gustav and Adolf Hitler lines as strategic hurdles remain before Rome. In Bern a Basler Nachichten dispatch claims Germany moved to enforce stricter neutrality of Rome with a guarded central zone.
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Washington
Italy
Rome
Mark Clark
Sth
Roosevelt
Clark
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
South Carolina
Gen
George C. Marshall
Bern
Basler Nachrichten
Sweden Reports Ballbearing Exports to Germany Rise
Sweden says exports of ballbearings to Germany reached up to three percent of German production before Allied bombings, now up slightly but by an inconsiderable proportion. The foreign office notes exports to Britain rose in value over the last two years, while airplane bearings claims of 70 percent German dependence are unreasonable.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Nazi Veterans Youths In Fierce Rapido Front Clash
Nazi veterans and younger fighters from the Italian outposts of the Reich faced Allied forces on the Rapido as the battle for the Gustav line intensified near San Angelo. Prisoners, exhausted and hot, were grouped behind barbed wire after a heavy Allied sledgehammer and river crossing. Mortar fire and gun positions along the river caused casualties as German resistance stiffened.
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Cassino
Hitler
Rapido
Riv
Gustav Line
8Th Army
Sicily
San Angelo
Nazis Slain Like Rabbits In Cemetery In Italy
Fifth Army troops push into the ausente valley near Castelforte and San Damiano, chasing German forces to a cemetery where about 200 enemy soldiers are trapped. An American captain recalls gunning down fleeing Germans and capturing prisoners amid a ruined town and nearby shelling.
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Sid Feder
Fifth Army
Cosmo San Damiano
Italy
5Th Army
Ausente
Castelforte
Little Cassino
San Damiano
Shell Fragments Wound Two In Dining Car
A dining car on the Southern Pacific daylight limited near an army camp was struck by mortar shell fragments. Two kitchen workers, Verti B. of Los Angeles and Mrs. Alice Jones, were injured with Arm amputation deemed necessary for Verti B. facial injuries for Mrs. Jones.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Southern Pacific Daylight Limited
Verti B
Los Angeles
Alice Jones
Third blast victim dies at Detroit plant
An explosion at the United States Feather and Down company plant claimed its third victim, 39 year old Mrs. Ella Rhodes, who died from burns sustained in the blast.
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Detroit
United States Feather and Down Company
Ella Rhodes
Unprecedented Fire Power In Italian Battle
Allied and Axis forces clash along the Cassino front in Italy as the German 5th Army evacuates Castelforte to permit counter offensives. Reuters reports Sant Angello near the Rapido captured, while American and French troops push on at Gustav Line and forge a Rapido bridgehead south of Cassino.
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8Th Army
5Th Army
Gustav Line
Italy
Adriatic
Berlin
Sant'Angelo
Cassino
Rome
Transocean
Walter Seidlitz
London
Castelforte
Reuters
Rapido River
Noland Norgaard
Naples
Ventosa
Cercobi
San Sebsatiano
Cosmo San Damiano
Allied Forces Break Through at Cassino Front in Italy
American and French units press the offensive along the Garigliano and Rapido fronts driving German outposts from Damiano hill and hill 316. Monte Faito falls to French troops while Cercobi and San Sebastiano change hands as the drive advances toward Castelforte and Cassino.
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Gain
Ventosa
Garigliano
Damiano Hill
Hill 316
Castelforte
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