Chinese Open Offensive To Join Stilwell In Burma
Chinese forces crossed the Salween River on a front of over 100 miles beginning May 10 11 linking with Stilwell’s troops in Burma. Wei Li huang commanded the 100 Victory Wei drive with Sky Dragons support as casualties mounted on both sides and small scale combats followed near Ping Ka Hongmoshu Tatang Tzu and Kaoli mountain barrier.
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Salween
Salween River
56Th
Ping Ka
Lungling
Burma Road
Hongmoshu
Tengchung
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Claire L. Chennault
Guanpeiete
Eoene Som
Yunnan
Lift Restrictions On Rice Shipments
War food administration announces lifting all rice shipment restrictions to states and set aside rice for services and lend-lease effective July 31. Production available to civilians and for U S shipments to Cuba through the 1944 harvest, with sufficient stocks accumulated to meet government needs.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
War Production Board Sets Iron Quotas Across Firms
The War Production Action Board announces four production quotas totaling 376 768 irons for eight manufacturers raising the annual authorized output to 768 irons a day. The program aims for two million irons this year.
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Washington
War Prod Action Board
Nazis Admit Defenses Penetration in War News
A wartime briefing reports West Wall defenses may be penetrated as Allied invasion looms. Germany strengthens air and parachute forces for defense while Tojo claims German armed forces are confident. The BBC urges civilians near rail hubs to evacuate as plans for a possible Nazi landing are warned.
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West Wall
Germany
London
Britain
Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Teave
Europe
BBC
Tojo Tojo
British Isles
Anti-Poll Tax Bill Shelved in Senate Work
London report notes Don Juan predicting the collapse of Franco's regime as lines of Spain circulate, while the Senate moves on to other business and shelves the anti poll tax bill.
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Senate
London
Don Juan
Francisco Franco
Vic
de Orleans
Spain
Near Flood Level Forecast For City
Heavy rains last week push Chippewa and Black rivers up, boosting the Mississippi near flood levels. Warnings issued for the river area between Alma and Genoa. Chippewa near flood stage at Dur and Tuesday, lower Black river may stay in banks. Mississippi crest reached Lake Pepin. La Crosse tributaries receding except Black. Sunday highs reached 86 degrees. light morning rain. Tuesday partly cloudy with mild temperatures.
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Sanial
Alma
Genoa
Durand
Mississippi
Lake Pepin
Samal
la Crosse
Stassen Forecasts 50 to 60 Delegates in East
Victor H. Johnston predicts that Harold E. Stassen will secure about 50 to 60 delegates as the party moves toward the presidential nomination. Johnston, heading Stassen for eastern offices, analyzes delegate potential.
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Stassen
New York
Victor H. Johnston
Harold E. Stassen
Lawyer Prepares for Murder Trial in Lind Slaying
Jury selection for Robert I. Miller a 67 year old Washington lawyer accused of first degree murder in the slaying of Dr. John E. Lind stalled Monday as attorneys clashed over a long list of voir dire questions. The morning session ended without a panel.
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Washington
Robert I. Miller
John E. Lind
Senate rejects cloture to limit debate on poll tax bill
The Senate voted 44 to 36 to lay aside a petition to end debate on the anti poll tax measure. A 41 to 35 vote allowed Senator Clark to proceed with artificial limbs for veterans, sidelining the poll tax issue debated since last Tuesday. Senator Pepper condemned Dewey's stance as too little and too late.
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Washington
Senate
Clark
D-Mo
House
Pepper
D-Fla
Thomas E. Dewey
State to File Suit Over $24 Million Taxes
Pennsylvania Attorney General James H. Duff said the state will file suit soon to collect $24 million in taxes tied to the $30 million Philadelphia snuff fortune of Henrietta Schafer Garrett. If no heirs are proved the balance escheats. action relies on 1943 laws allowing 80 percent estate taxes on unsettled estates after seven years. Over 26 000 claimants from all states and 29 foreign countries sought the estate, which had a $62,000 will bequest anonymous or unknown.
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Teeny Pa
Armcy
James H. Duff
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Henrietta Schafer Garrett
A For Sons
Duff
Union
Garrett
Elk Hills Oil Output Quadrupled in War Demands
The Joint Chiefs urged the Navy to more than quadruple oil output from the Elk Hills California reserve to meet rising Pacific war requirements. Ralph A. Bard assistant secretary of the Navy told the House Naval Affairs Committee while discussing a plan to redefine Navy Standard Oil joint workings.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Navy
Elk Hills
Calif
Congress
Ralph A. Bard
House Naval Affairs Committee
First Violence Reported In Strike Of Detroit War Plant Foremen
Alfred F. Jackson president of Aeronautical Products told police he was chased in the plant yard and a window on his car broken by pickets. At Murray Corporation of America police broke up a demonstration after foremen surrounded a scout car taking two for questioning. About 3,300 foremen refused to work across 13 Detroit war plants despite a war labor board directive to return.
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Detroit
Alfred F. Jackson
Aeronautical Products Company
Murray Corporation of America
Detroit Area
War Labor Board
Tito prepares Yugoslav Partisans for postwar drive
Marshal Josip Broz Tito said in interviews released today that the Partisan army would launch a general counter offensive timed with the western front opener. He claimed 600,000 men ready to strike, that half of Yugoslavia is already freed, and that a truly democratic Yugoslavia with equal federation of nationalities is his postwar aim.
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Associated Press
Josip Broz
Tito
Germany
Yugoslavia
Cort
Europe
City Ice Dealers to Appeal 1944 WLB Ruling
Chicago regional war labor board responds to Mayor Verdota about ice delivery woes. La Crosse ice and coal dealers, health officials, and natives plan to send a delegation to Chicago on May 23. Local dealers and union leaders meet Horace Gray at 10 a m to seek a 10 cent hourly raise for ice and coal drivers, with options to file new evidence or reopen the decision.
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Chicago
National War Labor Board
J. J. Verdota
Health Department
la Crosse
Horace Gray
WLB
Sixth Regional War Labor Board
Appeals Committee
Soldier Stabs Woman In City After Dance
Mrs. Abner Houge of Caledonia Minn was stabbed in a city hotel area early Sunday. She suffered a severe arm wound after an argument with two soldiers. Her husband Abner Houge and Pvt Roy L Smith were detained for questioning and later released.
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Abner Houge
Caledonia
Minn
St. Francis Hospital
Roy L. Smith
Field Artillery
Soldiers Not To Return As Killers Says Chaplain
Maj Aryeh Lev Jewish chaplain told delegates of the army and navy committee of the national Jewish welfare board that Allied soldiers will return not as killers but as men with honor and dignity. He said a tour of war theaters found no anti semitism among troops as they coordinate USO efforts in Chicago.
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Chicago
Aryeh Lev
Lev
Army and Navy Committee
National Jewish Welfare Board
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
USO
Emil Blatz Dies At 86 Milwaukee Benefactor Of Park
Emil Blatz 86 retired businessman and donor of Milwaukee Washington Park bandshell and amphitheater died Monday. He was a son of Valentine Blatz early Milwaukee brewer.
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Emil Blatz
Milwaukee
Washington Park
Valentine Blatz
Appleton Lawyer Krugmeier Dies at 68 in Wisconsin
Albert H. Krugmeier, a longtime Appleton attorney since 1899, died Sunday at age 68. Funeral services are planned for Tuesday.
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Appleton
Wis
Albert H. Krugmeier
Aerial Offense Extends Into Pas de Calais Reach
Allied air forces in the Pas de Calais area strike for the 31st day as American Flying Fortresses and Liberators join raids on Cologne and northern France while German raids hit Britain. The Brenner Pass is sealed by Italy-based bombers in a major operation with 1,000 planes targeting airfields and rail yards.
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London
Pas de Calais
Britain
U. S
Brenner Pass
Cologne
Italy
France
Creil
Paris
Berlin
Bristol
England
Baa
Fortress Europe
Committee Approves Forrestal For Office
The Senate Naval Affairs Committee unanimously recommended confirmation of James V. Forrestal as secretary of the Navy and gave him an ovation when he appeared before the panel. Forrestal would succeed the late Frank Knox, with committee action occurring shortly before Knox’s arrival.
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Washington
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Senate
James V. Forrestal
Frank Knox
Indict Rail Conductor For Threatening F R
A federal grand jury indicted Harold R. Mason a 37 year old former railroad passenger conductor for making threats against President Roosevelt Mason who had often served on Roosevelt special train crews was arrested May 6 in Philadelphia and allegedly said I and 19 others have a tommy gun waiting to get a crack at the president The maximum penalty is five years imprisonment and a $1000 fine per U S Attorney Sylvan Schwartz.
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Washington
Harold R. Mason
Roosevelt
U. S
Sylvan Schwartz
Mason
Philadelphia
Schwartz
Polish Force In Thick Of It As Allies Batter Gustav Line
Stockholm Tidningen reports Norwegian and Russian partisans land near northern Norway from Soviet submarines. They are said to conduct small scale guerrilla warfare against German forces along fjord lined coast.
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Gustav Line
Stockholm
Norway
Stockholm Tidningen
Reject Dismissal of Chaplin Suit
The state supreme court upheld lower courts and denied Chaplin a hearing keeping the paternity suit against Charlie Chaplin alive for trial. The action, brought by Joan Berry, proceeds on its merits. In a separate case, a federal indictment accusing Chaplin and three others of conspiring to deprive Berry of civil rights was dismissed at the request of the U S attorney following department instructions.
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San Francisco
State Supreme Court
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Berry
Supreme Court
Chaplin
Los Angeles
U. S
J. F. T. O'Connor
Charles H. Carr
Justice Department
Washington
Polish Troops Face Green Devil In Gustav Line Clash
Polish units broke into action near Cassino and Monastery hill as the Gustav line opened. They met the Green Devil parachute division and faced fresh German troops being moved into position, advancing toward the Liri valley and Cassino stronghold amid brutal mountain terrain. American, British, and Indian casualties lay among rocky ledges as tanks were moved up the slopes.
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Cassino
Liri
Donofrino
Italy
Blood Plasma Saving Scores Of Lives In Army Hospitals
George Tucker reports from the 8th Evacuation Hospital on the shock ward in Italy where blood plasma is used to revive wounded infantry. He describes 10-unit transfusions saving lives, nurses and surgeons at work, and the quiet courage of soldiers bearing injuries from combat around Santa Maria Infante.
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George Tucker
5Th Army Front
Italy
Santa Maria Infante
Ohio
Allied Drive Breaches Gustav Line In Italy Push
Allied forces report seven mile advance on the 5th army right wing with Ausonia seized and Santa Maria Infante and San Pietro cleared. Americans press on Spigno while French reach hills near San Giorgio as RAF and US airpower fly 2,500 sorties supporting the offensive along the Garigliano and Liri fronts.
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Naples
5Th Army
Ausonia
Gustav Line
Italy
Santa Maria Infante
San Pietro
Garigliano
Ausente
San Giorgio
Spigno
Minturno
San Gregorio
Cassino
Liri River
Rapido River
Liri
Rome
Held For Theft Freed As Confession Emerges in Chicago
John Dispensa, 24, freed after serving time in county jail since Wednesday for a robbery he denied. Prosecutor Freedman said Robert Burtch, 19, of Rockford confessed in Janesville to the same offense, leaving Harrington’s $100 loss linked to a downtown garage loot.
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Chicago
John Dispensa
Samuel Freedman
Benjamin P. Epstein
Criminal Court
Robert R. Burtch
Rockford, Ao
Janesville
Dispensa
Richard Harrington
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MacArthur
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Rabaul
Marshall Islands
Struk
Phosphate Island
Nauru
Ted
Franco
Congressional
City Ice
W. W. Hercher
Blast
Avision
Brenner Gap
Alps
Mediterranean Air Force Headquarters
RAF
Forrestal
F. R
Itri
California High Court
By Edward Kennedy
Lares
U.S
By Noland Norgaard
Mtist
Stalingrad
U. S. Army
Cassino-Formia
Arunei
Arunei Range
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