Bricker Sees U S as Central to Postwar Peace
Milwaukee Bricker speech outlines three aims economy regulation and self government amid push for global cooperation. He attacks New Deal bureaucracies and warns that central western states will decide the 1944 election. An aviation cadet cheers as Bricker calls for joint responsibility among nations.
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South
Central West
Gov. Bricker
James R. Wilson
Milwaukee
Bricker
United States
Limit On Sugar Buying For 2 Periods
Washington announces a two period sugar rationing plan to evenly distribute home canning sugar. The 25 pound per person allotment remains, with 5 pounds via Stamp 40 from book 4 and 20 pounds through local boards. First period grants may be 10 pounds and second 10 pounds for those not using the full Stamp 40 allotment.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Apt
OPA Sa
Priest decries church suspension after Moscow trip
Springfield priest Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski says he is being crucified by his diocese after returning from a Moscow conference with Premier Stalin and announces an appeal. Bishop O Leary confirms suspension forbidding sacraments and mass while higher authority weighs the case.
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Springfield
Mass
Stanislaus Orlemanski
Moscow
Stalin
Thomas M. O'Leary
Orlemanski
Apostolic Te
Washington
Cicognania
Russia
Poland
Ukraine
Fr. Orlemanski
Apostolic Delegate
Tage TF
Foremen Strike Persists in Detroit War Plants
About 3,300 foremen across six Detroit manufacturers remain on strike after failed assurances of non retaliation if they return to work. William H. Davis of the War Labor Board says dis discrimination should not occur and that five firms Briggs Hudson Murray Packard Gar Wood must comply. Packard has idled 30,000 workers.
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Detroit
Robert H. Keys
Foreman’s Association of America
Independent
William H. Davis
War Labor Board
Packard Motor Co
Murray Corp. of America
Packard
Keys
FAA
National Labor Relations Board
Detest Democracy Give Up Citizenship
A Bronx couple who stated they detested American democracy and remained loyal to Hitler had their U.S. citizenship cancelled at their own request. William Siebert, Meta Siebert, and their daughter Enna, formerly in the Hitler Youth, were restored as German nationals in U.S. district court and may face internment or deportation when hostilities end. No steps for internment have been taken yet. The family, born or raised in Germany, came to the United States in 1926 and naturalized in 1933.
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New York
Bronx
Hitler
U. S
William
Meta Siebert
Enna
Hitler Youth Organization
Siebert
Germany
Indiana
United States
Allies Down 63 Nazis In Sky Battles
Two thousand U S bomber and Allied fighters hit three major targets in northern Germany on Saturday. The air war cost the Americans 12 bombers and 10 fighters, with 63 Nazi planes shot down in the duels.
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Austin Bealmear
London
U. S
Germany
Bombers Land in Sweden After raid on Germany
Four American bombers and a Mustang fighter landed at Malmoe and Kristianstad respectively after raids on northern Germany. All crewmen were unharmed. The fighter was the first to reach neutral Sweden safely. two weeks earlier a crash had killed its pilot.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Malmoe
Kristianstad
Germany
Allied air offensives pound Europe mass raids expand
RAF Mustangs attack at Tutow and Osnabruck targets while Stettin area refineries fall under Allied bombardment. In two days 213 Axis aircraft were shot down as 5 000 Allied planes drop 8 000 tons of bombs. Italy based bombers hit rail hubs in northern Italy including Brenner pass area.
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Adolf
Europe
Nebraska
Omaha
Combat Area
Dreds
Focke-Wulf
Tutow
Osnabruck
Stettin
Britain
Italy
Germany
Eighth
U. S. Airforce
U. S
Brenner Pass
Hitler
Algiers
New York
FCC
France
Belgium
Bers
Japs Lose Ground As Allied Drive Opens In Burma China
Allied offensives push Japanese forces back from strategic fronts in Burma and Henan China. Stilwell’s units storm Kamaung and Kinwa fronts while Chinese troops tighten around Loyang and Malakawag as the Kohima Imphal area endures heavy fighting. Japanese concentrations threaten a large trap near Loyang.
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Burma
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Kamaung
Tkyina
Joseph W. Stilwell
Malakawag
Kwelon River
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Stilwell
Tiangzup
Auche
Malakawng
Milwaukee double murder ends with infant fatality
In Milwaukee a 13 month old baby and its mother and grandmother were found dead in an apartment. The infant died at a hospital after a gunshot wound. the mother Lillian Mrugalski age 24 and grandmother Cunegunda Chmelewski age 53 also lay dead. The infant's father Chester Mrugalski 53 suffered facial wounds and was found seeking to stop bleeding.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Martin Fallon
Lillian Mrugalski
Patricia Mrugalski
Mrugalski
Cune
Lillian
Herman Schmidt
Yankee Flame Throwers Incinerate Nazi Troops
Allied flame throwers dislodged German machinegun nests on the Italian front as dawn reports tallied German casualties from molten fire. Private accounts describe plunging rockets of flame and nearby execution of retreating defenders, with soldiers including Isaac High aiding near pillboxes.
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U. S
5Th Army
Italy
Air Strikes in New Guinea Reported by Southwest Pacific HQ
A Southwest Pacific communique says heavy air strikes against Japanese positions in northern New Guinea were conducted by Friday. An American Liberator was lost to anti-aircraft fire during a Mokmer airstrip raid on Biak island. In Hol l andia and Aitape sectors 101 Japanese soldiers were killed and 30 captured, raising total Japanese fatalities in the area to 1,716 and prisoners to a new total.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Mokmer
Biak Island
Schoutens
Hollandia
Aitape
Views On Presidency Unchanged Says Dewey
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York states in a secretary drafted letter that his views on the presidential nomination have not changed. The note was released in Hackensack by Lloyd L. Schroeder to a New Jersey campaign pledged slate and sent to delegate candidate Forster W. Freeman Jr. in the 8th district.
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Hackensack
N. J
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
New Jersey
Lloyd L. Schroeder
Forster W. Freeman, Jr
Gifts Keep Coming Though Son Is Dead
In Mont Clare Pennsylvania Staff Sgt John M Stafly 22 sent a corsage for Mother's Day though killed in Sardinia in March. His mother Mrs Anna OStafly received two plants and a rose bouquet in recent days after learning of his death. The orders were placed before his death.
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Mont Clare
John M. Stafly
Anna O’stafly
O’stafly
Air Force
Sardinia
Pirates Loot Gasoline and Oil in Gulf and Canal
The office of price administration says swindlers using floating camps in St Mary parish have plundered thousands of gallons of gasoline and lubricating oil from barges in the gulf and the canal. Loot reported includes paint rope and other items. three trappers were arrested last March for stealing gasoline from a tugboat near Houston and Destrehan, and a tug captain was forced at gunpoint into a barge cabin during an attempted boarding.
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New Orleans
St. Mary Parish
Gulf Intracoastal Canal
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Louisiana Department of Public Safety
Houston
Tex
Destrehan
Kenneth Wright
Sheriff Witnesses Theft From Benched Victim in Park
Sheriff Holt McDowell in Jefferson County Courthouse eight floors above Woodrow Wilson Park saw a pickpocket steal a billfold from a sleeping man on a bench. He could not arrest the thief. The loss was $40.
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Birmingham
Holt McDowell
Jefferson County
Woodrow Wilson Park
Allied Forces Push Deep Into Gustav Line In Italy
Allied troops break through strong Gustav line positions on a second day of the big Italian offensive. Americans French British and Poles push to seize key villages and hills around Castelforte Garigliano Cassino and the Rapido sector as rail centers and bridges come under air and ground assault.
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Naples
Italy
Gustav Line
Castelorte
Castelforte
Associated Press
Sid Feder
Santi Cosmo E Damiano
5Th Army
Garigliano
Gulf of Gaeta
Feder
Little Cassino
Ger
Mark W. Clark
Alphone Juin
France
Clark
U. S
Hitler
Brenner Pass
Germany
Verona
Bolzano
Bronzolo
Trento
Appenines
Tyrrhenian Sea
Cercobi
Ventosa
Damiano Hill
Cassino
San Sebestiano
Castelfore
Monte Failo
Liri
8Th Army
Rapido
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John W
Ohio
Repub
China
Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Loyang
Honan Pro
Mienchih
Honan Province
Berlin
Shunroku Hata
Henan
Chinshan
Fukien
George Tucker
Newark
Howard D. Sharman
Memphis
Tenn
Portland
Ore
Isaac High
Quarkertown
Sth
Sant’ Angelo
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