Westbrook Pegler on Avery Munich reference and labor rights
Pegler argues against forced second contracts with CIO unions citing Sewell Avery and others who refused to sign under government pressure. He compares government coercion to Munich appeasement, warns of encroaching rights, and portrays Avery as resisting duress while soldiers eject him from office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward
Avery
Munich
Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Hitler
Mr. Avery
Anis
Germans Seek New Marriages Campaign Promotes Civilian Reunions
A nationwide Nazi campaign in Lisbon promotes marriages between war widows and returning disabled soldiers to boost the Reich birth rate. Municipal marriage bureaus advertise without fees to match widows with veterans, while hospitals host talks and newspapers romanticize unions amid wartime food rationing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Germany
Reich
der Angriff
Bern
Sligh Nazi Gain Is Made in Italy
A brief wartime item notes a minor advance by German forces in Italy during the campaign. No further details are provided in the fragmented text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Bennett Quits Flays Blamey in Army Fallout
Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett retires and releases a signed statement claiming forceful ouster by General Sir Thomas Blamey chief of Australian forces. He cites Malaya defeat and his Singapore escape, defends his jungle warfare leadership and argues Blamey refused him front line command citing cited failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Gordon Bennett
Thomas A. Blamey
Bennett
Singapore
New Guinea
Blamey
Malaya
Blameys
Greece
Sol
Pulitzer Prize Awards Chronicle Wartime Writers and Photographers
New York May 2 47 Martin Flavin won the Pulitzer for best American novel 1943 for Journey in the Dark Ais Associated Press reporters Daniel De Luce and Frank Filen took journalism prizes De Luce earned international telegraphic reporting while Filan won war front photography for Tarawa Island Ernie Pyle won distinguished correspondence for his Omaha World Herald column Ned Berle L Bunker captured best home front photography Homecoming Byron Price received a special citation from Columbia School of Journalism board for censorship efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Martin Flavin
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Frank Filen
de Luce
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Anzio
War Front
Filan
Tarawa Island
Flavin
Cat
Mr. Littlejohn
Ernie Pyle
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Berle L. Bunker
Omaha
Ned
World-derald
Price
Byron Price
Office of Censorship
Graduate Sencol of Journalism of
Columbia
War conference ends with officers to be elected at Lafayette
The Lewisigny Peace Officers Association hosts its second and final day of its War conference in Lafayette Louisiana with speakers including Brigadier General Steve Alford Fred LeBlanc and J Emile Vernet. An annual report from J Derbes precedes officer elections and a Paradise Park barbecue closes the session. In Washington the Justice Department says a seated indictment against Schensey Distillers Corp and others for price violation conspiracy has been trimmed by a Newark grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Lewisigny Peace Officers Association
Nnd
Protram
Steve Alford
State of Louisiana
Fred LeBlanc
Senersi Clet
J. Emile Vernet
Franklyn C. Hovhietten
Federal Security Agency
T. M. Callahan
Lafayetts
William J. O'Hara
New Orleans
Washington
Justice Depardment
Schensey Distillers Corporation
New York
Bayonne
N. J
Equor
Newark
Charley Fahy
Georgia
Texas
Louisiana
Wag
Stierly Siamese Twins Still Alive in Phoenixville
In Phoenixville Pennsylvania May 2 the Stierly Siamese twins born to Mrs Mary Stieely remain alive but gravely ill. Doctors say a dewati is inevitable as the two share one digestive tract and are fed alternately by bottle and medicine dropper. The smaller twin is expected to die first, with the other likely to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenixville
Phoenixville Hospital
Mary Stieely
Harold
Gotwals
Roosevelt era test in southern primaries and Pepper leads
May 2 reports from Florida and Alabama show Senator Claude Pepper winning the Democratic nomination contest in Florida as Ollie Edmunds trails, while Senator Lister Hill leads in Alabama as James A. Simpson challenges him. Gubernatorial and Republican primary issues feature President Roosevelt’s New Deal stance shaping votes across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Browns Farm
Florida
Claude Pepper
Ollie Edmunds
Millard Conklin
Pepper
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Roosevelt
Brown
Birmingham
Ala
Lister Hill
James A. Simpson
Hills
Montgomery
Coosa
Lauderdale
Chilton County
Mobile
Hill
Simpson
Alabama
South Dakota
New Deal
Pep
Gurney
Maryland
Tydings
Willis R. Jones
Baltimore
Jones
Mr. Roosevelt
Strangle Hold Put On Japs In Burma
Allied forces tighten grip on Japan's Burma supply line along the Mandalay to Myitkyina railroad. Japanese assaults on the block near Mogaung are repulsed by air supported troops with heavy enemy casualties. Stilwell's overland link aims to cut Ledo to China while Mountbatten reports progress near Mogaung. In China, Japanese push toward Hsu chang and Yingshang as Hollandia mop-up returns 667 Japanese dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Japan
Burma
Mandalay-Myitkyina
Mogaung
Southeast Asia
Burma-India
Myitkyina
Joseph W. Stilwell
Ledo
India
China
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Soviets claim 1500 Axis killed in Romania and Poland fighting
A Soviet communique said about 1,500 Axis troops died yesterday in local actions in Romania and old Poland. It cited 60 German deaths near Iasi and a battalion of 800 to 1,000 attackers wiped out southeast of Stanislawow. Simultaneous long-range raids on Brest-Litovsk caused 17 fires at a rail hub as trains burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Romania
Old
Poland
Red
Iasi
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Kowel
Warsaw
Naz
Kowel-Lwow
Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
Murmansk
Arctic
One Man Heroism in German Assault at Naples
Pfc. William J. Johnston, wounded with a chest shell fragment, refused to surrender. He crawled back to American lines after being left for dead, guiding fire on German positions and earning a recommendation for decoration. The tale unfolds as his platoon endured severe enemy pressure near Naples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Naples
William J. Johnston
Sinatehanded
Colchester
Conn
Johnston
Spain Cuts Wolfram Shipments to Nazis Through May and June
The State Department announced a compromise with Spain limiting wolfram exports to Germany to 20 tons monthly in May and June and 40 tons monthly for the rest of 1944. Allied agents to be expelled from Spain, Italian ships released, oil embargo lifted, and Axis operations in Tangier and Spain curtailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Spain
France
United States
Germany
Spanish Morocco
Tangier
Carib
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
London
Reich
Aled
Turkey
Legislature to Convene Monday in Louisiana
Governor elect James H. Davis said he will endorse Grover Stafford of Alexandria as president pro tem of the state senate and Norman S Bauer of St Mary parish for speaker of the house. He noted the legislature opens May and his inauguration follows. He stressed no intent to dictate and expressed support for their election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
James H. Davis
Louisiana
Grove Stafford
Alexandria
State Senate
Norman S Bauer
St. Mary Parish
House of Representatives
Davis
Grover Safford
Rapides Parish
Stafford
Norman S. Bauer
House
Senate
Submarine War Losses Hit Japanese Fleet Totals
The navy reports American submarines sank a Japanese light cruiser and two destroyers and destroyed seven cargo ships one large tanker and a large naval auxiliary in enemy waters. Total vessels sunk or damaged reach 695 with 544 sunk. Warships include 45 sunk 10 probably sunk and 14 damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Johnston urges home basis for postwar public works
President Johnston of the U S Chamber of Commerce calls for states and communities to finance their own public works after the war. He argues for tax reform to sustain financial independence and promote private investment, noting large state reserves and municipal capital for contracts. He cautions gradual relaxation of wartime controls to prevent inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eric A. Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Johnston
House
Johnson
Manship Named to London Post as Censorship Director
Charles P. Manship Sr., veteran Louisiana publisher and former Southern Newspaper Publishers' president, named London director of the Office of Censorship. The Baton Rouge Advocate and States-Times owner will assume duties in London within a month, succeeding John S. Knight who returned to his properties in Akron Miam and Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles P. Manship
Louisiana
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
London
Office of Censorship
Manship
Mississippi
Capital City Press
Baton Rouge
Air Offensive Enters Eighteenth Day With Massive Bombing
American Liberators and Allied bombers intensify preinvation assault across France Italy Belgium and Germany. Thirteen lines detail heavy daytime and nighttime raids from England and Mediterranean bases targeting rail hubs factories and airfields including Le Mans Tergnier Lyon Tours and Ludwigshafen with multiple aircraft losses noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
Belgium
Italy
Germany
England
British
Air Ministry
Tergnier
le Mans
Dwight Eisenhower
Paris
St. Nazaire
Brest
Mediterranean
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Britain
Sky
Lyon
Tours
Toulouse
Chambly
Mechelen
Brussels
St. Ghislain
Mons
Ludwigshafen
Rhineland
la Spezia
Liverno
Leghorn
Genoa
Army camp slot machines rapped by senator in probe
Senator Bridges questioned War Department about slot machines at military posts citing reports that some soldiers lose large parts of their pay to the devices. He asked whether installation is sanctioned and who owns or controls the machines, noting claims of a small clique close to the administration. The War Department said regulations ban gambling devices in post exchanges and service clubs. officers may permit in some officers clubs.
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Washington
Senator Bridges
New Hampshire
Bridges
War Department
Wilton B. Persons
War Departement
Legislative and
Hassen
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Pegler
Utd
Edward H. Alexander
Caribbean
Air Transport Command
Gloria Baker Topping
Morrison Field Post Chapel
West Palm Beach, Fla
A. P
Flays
Stierly
U. S
Phiri
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