Allied forces strike Japanese in Pacific China and India Burma fronts
Allied air power blasted Wakde and Schouten targets in New Guinea and hit Rabaul and Woleai while Cape Hoskins fell to Marines. Central Pacific bombers hit Guam and Kohima and Loyang defenses stiffened as Chinese troops claimed a pushback near Loyang. Japanese forces reportedly defensive across India Burma and northern China fronts.
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Associated Press
Japan
Pacific
China
Henan
Wakde
Sarmi
Dutch New Guinea
Hollandia
Schouten Islands
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Woleai
Carolines
Truk
Cape Hoskins
Central Pacific
Guam
United States
Philippines
Paramushiro
Kuriles
Navy
Ventura
Southeast Asia
India-Burma
Kohima
India
Imphal
Loyang
Yi River
Chungking
Flashes Of Life and Odd Local Vignettes
A collage of short, quirky news items from across the U S cities. A New York consumer survey tactic with fake pearls, a Louis cab driver tale in a fire call, a California judge’s light sentencing, a curious fishing miss and a field report of a meadow scene with animal antics.
Wartime Captain Held on Multiple Sex and Drug Charges
Army authorities filed seven sex counts and six related charges against Captain Morrison J. Wil m Jr a former combat pilot. Aged 28, Wilkinson faces additional drug and other sexual accusation stemming from allegations involving a 17 year old in Phoenix Arizona and alleged conduct with multiple women near Las Animas and other locations. The case follows investigations by Western Fly Training Command and actions notified to Washington D C.
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Morrison J. Wilm Jr
Washington, D.C
Alter
Eranare Dtain Wilkinson
Rully
Ce Capron
Earl Carancer
Western
Yesyw
Phoenix
Ariz
Renre T. Murphy
Mergaret Gonzales Wilkinson
Lascivius Conquet
Les An
Woman’s death linked to gas in Louisiana case
Police in Baton Rouge investigated a gas related death, identifying a woman later linked to a man who allegedly registered at a Calexico port on May 5. Investigators noted no advance payment for a week’s stay and referenced a semi nude ink back that arrived at a web facility as part of the inquiry.
Ward workers voting today in Chicago labor clash
About 5,000 Montgomery Ward and Company employees vote under NLRB supervision on whether to join a C I O union. Balloting runs 6 30 a m to 7 p m central wartime hours with results to be announced tonight as federal judges consider seizure and injunction actions in the broader government labor dispute.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
William H. Holly
Ward
Reward Offered for Crane on the Lam Near New Orleans
A long legged sarus crane, native to India and Burma, escaped from a private estate near Covington while being prepared for transfer. Audubon Park zoo officials urged hunters to avoid shooting and posted a $50 reward for the capture. Park Superintendent George Douglass described the tame bird with gray body and red cap, likely to be lured to bread or shelter.
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New Orleans
Bayou
Covington
Audubon Park Zoo
India
Upper Burma
George Douglass
Lake Side
Douglass
Americans Hurl 2000 Planes At Europe In 25th Day Of Offense
The American air force based in Britain sent nearly 2,000 planes against 10 targets in France Belgium and Luxembourg on the 25th day of the non stop air offensive. Flying Fortresses Liberators Marauder bombers and A 20s struck rail yards airfields and military objectives.
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Europe
London
Britain
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Channel 1
Ninth
U. S. Air Force
Liege
Thiomville
Metz
Germany
Light vote cast in Monroe election amid wartime removals
By noon three large voting sites reported totals led by Ward 3 Precinct 12 and Northeast Junior College with 431 votes cast. Candidates for commissioner of finance and public utilities include incumbent W. D. Rodriguez and Herbert Dickard. Mayor Benoit and Tidwell were unopposed for re election. School board contenders include W C Oliver Ronald Lee Davis Warren Taylor Daisy Terzia and Dr H H Baur. Voter turnout predicted to be light as many residents are away for the war.
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Precinet
Northeast Junior College
First Presbyterian Church Annex
Sam Cicero Siere
Lee Avenue
Monroe
Wal
Finance and Public Utilities
W. DH. Rodriguez
Herbert Dickard
H. H. Benoit
C. R. Tidwell
Streets and Parks
W C. Oliver
Ronald Lee Davis
Warren Taylor
Daisy Terzia
H. H. Baur
Six Sailors Die in Jacksonville Auto Crash
In Jacksonville Florida six sailors from the naval air station were killed when their speeding car hit a brick building and burned. Firemen removed two occupants from the blaze but all six perished. Police and witnesses describe a frightful crash and a block long blast of noise. Navy ambulances transported victims to the base hospital for identification pending kin notification.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
L. J. Higginbotham
W. J. Tipton
Navy
Neat of Kin
Town Cut Off by Flood Water in Caddo Parish
Trees, an oil field community in northern Caddo parish, is isolated by flood water from Caddo lake. High water covers roads, Hart's Ferry bridge is underwater, and travel is halted since Saturday night. School children cross by motor boats and many oil wells shut down. hundreds of acres of oil and farm lands inundated.
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Shreveport
Germans Pull Back in Italy as Allies Advance
Allied headquarters in Naples reports a German withdrawal in the Palena area near Leith Palena two miles northeast of Palena town. The retreat involved destruction of bridges and tunnels as troops fell back toward the Maiella massif while Allied forces shell positions near Cosino and Minturno and observe increased German activity in the Garigliano valley.
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Naples
New Palena
Leith Palena
Palena
Sulmona
Silve Ciiy
Maiells
Fifth Army
Garigliena
Minturno
Anaia
Meaning of D day and related terms explained
The piece defines D-day as the fixed time for a military action and notes its use as wartime jargon. It compares D-day to zero hour from World War I and describes how commanders refer to the day even when everyone knows the target, using secrecy to protect plans.
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Britain
Lewis lashes at New Deal in labor merging dispute
John L. Lewis accuses New Deal politicians of wrecking efforts to unite the United Mine Workers and the American Federation of Labor. Democratic senators respond with skepticism noting no evidence of administration obstruction. Republican and Democratic members weigh political implications of a potential merger and Lewis’s influence.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
New Deal
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Tunnell
Delaware
Lewis
William Green
Senate Labor Committee
Tunnel
Ball
Minnesota
Ellender
Louisiana
F. L
Selective service to clarify status for men over 26
Washington May 9 The selective service system is nearing completion of a program to define the status of men over 26 and likely will announce it by week’s end. The plan aims to tell these men when or if they may be called and to clarify deferment standards.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Servie
Hershey
Hershey Bes
Farley Silent On Roosevelt at New York Dinner
In New York on May 9 4 percent Robert E Hannegan predicts Roosevelt will be renominated for a fourth term while Gov Thomas E Dewey is named likely Republican nominee Farley offers no public stance He speaks at the Jefferson dinner before nearly 1000 attendees Hannegan praises the president while Barkley and Farley caution on terms ahead of the 1940s political shift
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New York
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
James A. Farley
Farley
Hannegan
Failey
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Thomas Jefferson
Commodore
Destiny
Barkley
Dewey
Soviet Russia
United States
Great Britain
Russia
China
Red Army breaches Sevastopol outer defenses in Crimea
Soviet report states air supported forces breached main enemy belt at Sevastopol and occupy hills dominating the port. Four thousand Germans felled in a single sector as Red Army closes the ring from south east and north driving toward Malakhov hill near the besieged port. Axis garrison held at several miles from the city.
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London
Sevastopol
Crimean
Moscow
Red Army
Monitor
Malakhov Hill
California Medical Association Urges Fishbein Dismissal
The CMA house of delegates adopts a resolution urging members to press for the removal of Dr. Morris Fishbein as editor of the AMA journal and Hygeia. The measure argues he is not properly representing American medicine to the public. The convention also named Capt. P. K. Gilman as an officer.
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Los Angeles
California Medical Association
House of Delegates
Morris Fishbein
Chicago
American Medical Association
Fishbein
Ie Ee
P. K. Gilman
N. R
San Francisco
West Virginia primary heats up party fight
A high stakes battle for Republican party control in West Virginia pits Raymond Funkhouser against Walter Hallanan with 19 GOP delegates to be chosen from 49 candidates amid Dewey surges and Bricker interest. Democrats focus on Governor Neely and Rush Holt in a crowded field as Roosevelt looms.
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Associated Press
Republican Party
West Virginia
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Raymond J. Funkhouser
Charlestown
Walter S. Hallanan
National Convention Arrangements Committee
Funkhouser
Denewey
Ungeat Hallanan
Roosevelt
Rush D. Holt
United States
Clarence W. Meadows
Beckley
J. Blackburn Watts
Charleston
Grover G. McPeek
Meadows
M. M. Neely
Halleck
Indiana
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Hannegan
Franklin
Three U S Born Japs Indicted for Treason Help
Three Armenian born sisters of Japanese ancestry are indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on treason and conspiracy charges for aiding two German soldiers to escape from a Trinidad Colorado POW camp on October 16. They allegedly furnished food clothing money and maps and helped transport them to Wagon Mound New Mexico. The case carries potential death or heavy fines and years in prison.
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Washington
Biddle
Trinidad
Colo
Denver
Tsuruka Wallace
Florence Shioze Otani
Billie Shitara Tanigoshi
California
Pearl Harbor
Granada
Heinrich Haider
Herman August Loescher
Wagon Mound
N. M
New Mexico
Justice Department
Haider
Lawa
James Davis Sworn Louisiana Governor Amid War Time Ceremony
James Houston Davis, aged 42, sworn in as Louisiana's 68th governor before thousands at the capitol steps. He vows harmony, cooperation, and wartime support, praising reform efforts and pledging to lead state progress across industry, agriculture, and business.
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Baton Rouge
James Houston Davis
Foremer
Louisiana
Charles A. O'Niell
Louisiana Supreme Court
Lemoyne de Sauville
Louis XIV
France
Davis
Jimmie Davis
Sam Jones Davis
Sam Houston Jones
Jones
J. Emile Verret
W. D. Sandifer
First Baptist Church of
Shreveport
Joe B. Hamiter
Supreme Court
M. B. Dodd
Shreveport First Baptist Church
Walter G
Pineville establishes flood refugee camp near Red River
Alexandria La May 9 Pineville sets up first flood refugee camp in central Louisiana securing ten army tents. The Red River nears a predicted crest of 185 feet by Monday with a rise of six tenths of a foot. Applications for temporary residence are being received by the Red Cross at the former National Youth Administration building and Pineville Kiwanis Club kitchen as the river inundates the public lot between river and levee.
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Alexandria
Pineville
Louisiana
Red River
Red Cross
National Youth Adinistration
Pineville Kiwanis Club
W. C. Hudson
Red River Levee Board
Ime Gairies
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