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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1944
Page
5
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Pegler cites an anecdotal view from a labor union spy about the Tobin family's wealth and influence. He mocks economic royalism and contrasts capitalists’ wealth with labor ideals while noting a $10,000 annual Teamsters statistical bureau payment to Frank Tobin. The piece ends with a tease of continuation on page three.
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The Memphis Natural Gas Company gained an indefinite continuance at the Federal Power Commission for a North Lincoln gas field to Chabarne parish pipeline. A hearing date was postponed as the company seeks more supporting data. Louisiana officials opposed delays to protect gas reserves.
In a major wartime air assault, Soviet air fleets from four fronts bomb targets behind German lines while four Red Armies drive along a 250 mile front toward Minsk. Orsha Mogilev and nearby bulge city defenses crumble as Red units reach outskirts, signaling a potential collapse of the German advance.
In Grand Canyon Arizona a second rescue party prepares to descend to the Tonto plateau to reach three airmen who bailed from a bomber and landed 50 feet above the Colorado River. Four rangers and 12 mules lead the effort as planes drop supplies and a harpoon gun with a sectional boat are deployed for the dangerous river crossing. The airmen Charles Goldblum Maurice Cruickshank Jr and Roy Embanks parachuted after engine trouble and are guiding rescuers to their location while delays persist due to rugged terrain and rapid waters.
German rocket bombs hit southern England in a night of heavy attacks as pilotless aircraft, slower and with possible heavier payloads, crossed the sky. London papers Daily Express and Daily Mail urge relaxing blackout rules, arguing pilotless raids negate the blackout purpose.
American marines and infantry press assault on Garapan the capital of Saipan as Japanese defenders mount a strong line from Garapan to Mt Tapotchau and Kagman peninsula. Reports say the city may be in Allied hands soon with heavy bombardment softening defenses and Tokyo acknowledging air raids.
Allied leaders announce the formation of a Far Eastern air force to coordinate operations in New Guinea, with Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney to command. The unit merges the Fifth Army Air Force and the Thirteenth Air Force, signaling reduced Japanese air strength in the Solomons and New Guinea theater.
Treasury reports bond sales in the Fifth War Loan Drive reach 4.591 billion dollars, about 2 percent of the goal. War finance director Ted R. Gairble says sales are slightly above the Fourth Drive’s pace but not yet comfortable as the drive runs toward a July 8 end.
U S heavy bombers strike Budapest and Brod rail yards as part of a wide allied air offensive. British and Russian backed raids target northern France and Polish oil plants while Mosquitos hit Gottingen and Normandy areas amid poor weather.
Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, elected permanent chairman, vows the party will save constitutional government and end the New Deal. He criticizes waste and bureaucratic dictatorship and cites cooperation between Earl Browder and Sidney Hillman’s groups as a challenge to preventing a rubber-stamp Congress. He outlines GOP aims to restore freedom and opportunity.
Allied forces report retaking Chiusi nine miles southwest of Lake Trasimeno and advancing northwest. The Eighth Army also moved into Castiglione del Lago area with 200 prisoners and heavy casualties. Farther west the Fifth Army pushed ten miles beyond Piombino toward Livorno and Pisa as fighting raged along highway 71 near Siena.
Thousands of German prisoners are captured in Cherbourg as American forces clear the last defenses. German commander Von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Hennecke surrender with hundreds of troops, while a field hospital holding about 1,000 wounded is taken. Total prisoners reach about 30,000 since D-day.
The platform committee kept the foreign policy plank endorsing an international security body with peace forces and urged returning armed forces home promptly after hostilities end. In California, Warren urged publicly accepting a possible vice presidency with Dewey as the ticket draws renewed pressure amid Bricker Griswold and Green speculation.
More than 50 members of the Ouachita parish Chamber of Commerce retail merchants division met at Hotel Virginia to plot strategies for boosting Series E bond sales in the Fifth War Loan drive. S. J. Rogers reported total sales barely over two million dollars, with Series E at 270 150, Series F and G at 162 133, and miscellaneous bonds at 1 307 400.
New York June 27 41 Allied intelligence says a bluff fleet operated near Calais Boulogne to mislead German air forces away from Normandy coast. Com Anthony Kimmins notes Germans likely expected an invasion there. Two commanders captured Lt Gen Carl Wilhelm von Schleiben and Konter Admiral Hennecke announced in Allied communiqué No 43.
Allied forces push toward Caen with British troops within three miles of the city as Cherbourg falls to American forces. Casualties for Nazi forces reach not less than 70,000 with 32,000 prisoners. Montgomery’s troops seize La Gaulle Cheux and St ManevieU as Cherbourg becomes a major invasion funnel.
In Baton Rouge on June 27 the Louisiana House nearly fought during debate on a senate bill to regulate the laundry and cleaning business. Rep. J R Fernandez accused Rep. Eric Durbin of lying, Durbin warned of later settlement, and the bill was engrossed after committee opposition and claims of a laundry trust trying to delay it. House committees also reported two tax exemption bills for new manufacturing industries and a study commission to codify state tax laws.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey may entrain for Chicago to deliver the acceptance speech if nominated at the Republican National Convention. The move hinges on Bricker withdrawing and whether nomination is assured. if not tonight, Dewey plans to fly with four family members tomorrow if nominated by afternoon.
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that British casualties in Italy from the landings to the fall of Rome totaled 73,122. The period covers about ten months of fighting ending June 4 with major actions at Cassino and the Anzio beachhead. Included were 14,331 killed, 47,966 wounded and 10,825 missing. Air force and naval losses data were not available.
Louisiana representatives protested U S Employment Service calls for workers to west coast plants. They met War Manpower Commissioner McNutt to object as idle farmland and crop planting drop while farmers migrate to coastal plants.
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