Invasion Talk as Allied Plans Move Forward
The article discusses Ernie Pyle in England and Italy, predicting a near Channel crossing by American and British forces with other nationalities joining. It notes expected high casualties, calls for restraint in home regions, and criticizes De Gaulle for linking liberation terms to French civil administration and reprisals against collaborators.
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Ernie Pyle
England
Italy
United States
Omar Bradley
General de Valle
Rica
de Gaulle
Louisiana Legislature Opens Amid Davis Cooperation Pledge
Baton Rouge Louisiana May 8 1944 lawmakers opened a session with hopes of harmony and Davis administration cooperation Speakers and presidents pro tem were chosen by acclamation as Norman Bauer and Grove Stafford with Le Laycock and Robert Gilbert filling key posts Angelle withdrew from speaker race urging legislative independence Davis outlined a program including reinstating taxes tax changes and state department reorganizations ahead of inauguration ceremonies set for Tuesday with expected turnout near 25000 officials noted wartime travel limits and continued arrivals
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
James H. Davis
House
Norman Bauer
Davis
Senate
Sen
Grove Stafford
Lee Laycock
Robert Gilbert
Robert Angelle
Conservation Department
Department of Minerals
Department of Wildlife
Sam H. Jones
Roosevelt Returns to Work After Illness Break
President Roosevelt resumes duties after a week long rest at Bernard Baruch's 254100 acre South Carolina estate. He invites Congress to the White House to review the legislative outlook while ministers discuss foreign affairs with Secretary Hull en route to Washington.
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Washington, May
Roosevelt
South Carolina
White House
Law
Bernard M. Baruch
Thetown
S. C
Chicago
Ontgomery Ward and Company
Washington
Edward R. Stellinius
Don
Stalemate on Poll Tax Bill Looms in Senate
Washington May 8 A Senate clash over a proposed state poll tax ban shows both sides ready for stalemate. Democratic NY Senator says he will push the measure to bar poll tax collection as a voting eligibility test and seek a vote amid opposition fears.
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Ashington
Senate
Johnson tops Rickenbacker in air combat record surge
U S fighter ace Capt Robert S Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma shot down two enemy planes over Germany to raise his total to 16 21 and become the first American in the European theater to surpass Captain Edward Rickenbackers 25 aircraft tally Johnson ties Maj Richard J Bong's European total and trails only Bong and Don Gentile among American aces in air combat histories Johnson Maj Bong Gregory Boyington and Joe Foss are noted as the top U S scorers in various theaters with Bong already breaking the Rickenbacker mark and Gentile holding the current European record with 28 planes destroyed
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U. S
England
Robert S. Johnson
Lawton
Okla
Germany
Edward Rickenbacker
Johnson
Richard J. Beng
Poplar
Wis
Don Gentile
Piqua
Chis
Major Bong
Rickenbacker
Bong
Gregory Bovingtoyn
Okanagan
Wash
Joe Foss
Sisnx Falls
S. 10
Rickerbacker
Pacific
De Gaulle Seeks Permanent Alliance With Russia in Tunis Speech
Gen Charles de Gaulle declares France desires a direct practical alliance with Russia while urging the United States and Britain to recognize French realities. He spoke in Tunis on the anniversary of the city’s liberation, claiming overwhelming French support for his committee of national liberation and casting Allied doubts as unfounded.
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Algiers
May
Charles de Gaulle
France
Russia
Tunis
de Gaulle
United States
Britain
Governor Davis Receives Milk Goat Gift in Baton Rouge
Governor elect Jimmie H. Davis who drinks milk like Gandhi received the gubernatorial campaign goat as a gift at a Saturday night barbecue at Sheriff Newman Debretton’s lodge in East Baton Rouge Parish. State Senator Alva Brumfield helped present the goat from Mrs. W. P. Chisholm and Davis milked it at the event.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana
Davis
Newman Debretton
East Baton Rouge Parish
W. P. Chisholm
Debretton
Alva Brumfield
Local press leaders urge focus on community news nationwide
Louisiana Mississippi AP Association elected Ralph Nicholson of the New Orleans Item as chairman and Paul Tibber of the Clarion Ledger as vice chairman. Milo M. Thompson led the meeting and resolutions praised war coverage while urging expanded local reporting across Louisiana and Mississippi.
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New Orleans
Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Association
Ralph Nicholson
New Orleans Item
Nicholson
Paul Tibber
Jackson, Miss
Clarion Ledger
Louisiana
Mississippi
Milo M. Thompson
Associated Press
Louisiana-Mississippi Association
Charles P. Manship
Baton Rouge State Times
Morning Advocate
American Office of Censorship
London
George W. Healy Jr
New Orleans Times Picayune
OWI
Washington
Leonard K. Nicholson
The
Times Picayune
E. P. Wilkes
Biloxi-Gulfport Herald
Thompson
C. P. Liter
Baton Rouge
Andrews Harmon
Hattiesburg
Ralph Brewer
Alexandria
Town Talk
William J. Davis
Daily News
Charles Hazen
Shreveport
Times
Hunter Parreau
Doug Attaway
Otis Harris
Shreveport Journal
Margaret Dixon
Edythe Abbott
A. Alleman
Ernest A. Gueymard
Churchgoing pensioner found slain in hotel room
Philadelphia police traced leads in the brutal murder of 73 year old William H. Harten a churchgoing former gas works worker found stabbed multiple times in his hotel room. Neighbors said he lived frugally donated to charity and attended services daily. Investigators deem revenge likely given the vicious wounds and theft none of his belongings missing.
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Philadelphia
William Engle
William H. Harten
Sone
Engle
Harten
Marien
Heavy Planes Hit Bucharest Third Time In 24 Hours
Allied heavy and medium bombers struck Bucharest for the third time in 24 hours guided by fires from yesterday’s daylight attack. Bombers hit rail yards and industrial targets while Belgrade to Pancevo bridge targets aimed to sever the Orient express line. German fighters engaged, with Allied airmen claiming several enemy aircraft destroyed.
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Naples
Bucharest
United States
Belgrade- Pahcevo
Yugoslavia
Six Selman airmen killed in Elmira crash
Six officers and enlisted men died when a Selman field plane crashed on a hill near Elmira New York late Saturday night Col F E Galloway announced the victims Maj John J Kiyak director of training at the instructors school navigation at fecal field and his wife Jeanette Kiyak are among the deceased Also listed are First Lt Hollie M Cummings Second Lt Frances E Brinker Second Lt Wallace N Carlstrom Sgt Leon P Maciarowski and Pie Frank Heuer A board of investigators will determine the cause Sheriff George H Jenkins said deputies were dispatched to the scene but failed to reach it.
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Selman Field
Elmira
N. Y
F. E. Galloway
John J. Kiyak
Fecal Field
Jeanette
Frances E. Brinker
Ira H. Brinker
Park Avenue
New Brunswick
N. J
Wallace N. Carlstrom
DeSiard Street
Jamestown
Leon P. Maciarowsku
Anna Maciarowski
Sayreville
Pie
Frank
Heuer
New York City
George H. Jenkins
Chemung County
Roosevelt Near Sufficient Delegates for Fourth Term Nomination
The Associated Press reports Roosevelt may clinch the Democratic nomination this week as delegates pledged or claimed reach 531 if Missouri Wyoming and Ohio align with him and North Dakota and Washington add their votes. Bricker dominates Ohio GOP totals as the primary results list 50 GOP votes for him.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Missouri
Wyoming
Ohio
West Virginia
North Dakota
Washington State
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Renewed Assault on Sevastopol Triggers World War II News
London reports Soviet bombers and fighters renewed weekend strikes on Sevastopol as Red Army launches major drive to overwhelm the German Romanian garrison. Berlin says Russians cracked Axis lines in a fluctuating battle around the fortress. Moscow silent on land operations.
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London
Sevastopol
Moscow
Red Army
Crimean
Pacific war outlook sharpens as Japan shown weak
Richard Tompkins reports from New York that Eugene Burns, AP correspondent, says Japan’s Pacific perimeter is a bluff. U S forces press a narrow sea and air path, planning early invasion of the Philippines with bases to push toward China and Japan. Burns cites rapid central Pacific gains and reduced Japanese mobility, noting carriers and new landings while warning of continued deception about Truk.
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New York
America
Pacific
Japan
Europe
Eugene Burns
Associated Press
Pacific Islands
Burns
Kandy
Ceylon
Sabang
Sumatra
Southeast Asia
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Guadalcanal
Eastern Solomons
Attu
Kwajalein
Wotje
Eniwetok
Majuro
Wake Island
Philippines
China
Central Pacific
Tof
United States
Truk
Noted organist Albert Fletcher found dead in Monroe
Albert Fletcher, 70, organist of the Christian Science Church, was found dead in his Monroe apartment likely from natural causes after failing to appear for services. He had a long musical career in Britain and the United States, with earlier posts in Wisconsin and Mississippi. The funeral was held Monday at 4 30 p.m. at Mualhearn Funeral Home. Interment followed at Riverview Burial Park. He lived alone and was preparing supper when the fatal attack occurred.
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Albert Fletcher
Christian Science Church
North Second Street
C. H. Mosley
Mosely
Mualhearn Funeral Home
Riverview
Mr. Fletcher
B. Braun
Sheffield
England
London Conservatory of Music
102000 Murders in Poland Reported by Soviet Commission
A Soviet commission reports more than 102 000 civilians and POWs murdered by Nazis in the Rovno region of Poland. It cites 49 000 bodies in a timber column on Byeli Street in Rovno, 32 500 in vegetable gardens, and 500 at Rovno prison. Witnesses describe forced graves and executions as part of a Nazi extermination plan. The commission names the Nazi officials and vows punishment.
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London
Rowneo
Poland
Moscow
Byeli Street
Rovno
Bill to simplify taxes hits snag.
Senate finance committee faces protest from Senator Burley Nebraska over charity deduction proviso in the tax simplification bill. House passed version allows deductions for charity with little evidence of charity. Butler says he will fight in committee. Also: German Vichy radio reports curtailment of passenger train services in France from May 15 to aid military movements.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Burley
Republican
Nebraska
Butler
House
London
Vichy Radio
France
Massive Allied Air Raids Hammer Berlin and German Targets
Nearly 2,000 U S bombers and fighters hit Berlin and Brunswick while Liberators struck parts of Germany and Romania. The daylight attack followed a 24 hour period with about 6,000 Allied planes dropping around 10,000 tons of bombs on targets across Germany, France, and Bucharest as the invasion builds.
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London
United States
Berlin
Brunswick
Brunswic
France
Germany
Bucharest
Britain
Italy
Hitler
Balkans
Rennes
Nantes
Tours
Salbris
Orleans
Normandy
Leverskusen
Cologne
Brittany
Channel
Atlantic
Asia
England
Monroians to vote Tuesday in quiet city election
Monroe voters head to the polls Tuesday for a city election with little suspense. Mayor H. H. Benoit and Streets and Parks head C. R. Tidewell face no opposition, while finance and utilities race pairs incumbent W. D. H. Rodriguez and Herbert Dickerd. Four incumbents seek reelection to the school board alongside Dr. He H. Baur.
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Monroe
H. H. Benoit
C. R. Tidewell
Dickard
Navy announces additional casualties in the war
The Navy Department released its latest casualty list totaling 20 names: 10 dead, 5 wounded, 5 missing. Included are Seaman First Class Donald Hester and Seaman First Class Henry Kiamann Farrell Jr among others, with next of kin notified. The total published casualties to date stands at 44,133.
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Washington
Navy Department
Department
Willian
Donald Hester
Odell Hester Benjamin
Pontotoc
Henry Kiamann Farrell Jr
Henry Kiamane Farrell
Upperline Street
New Orleans
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