Flashes Of Life Licenses Under Police Scrutiny In Ancastor
In Ancaster Pennsylvania police halted a 1200 mile journey by a merchant seaman driving an unregistered odd vehicle described as a torpedo snout with airplane cockpit features and two exhaust pipes. The owner claimed travel from New York to Detroit and elsewhere without stop, now required to tow or license the vehicle before driving to Philadelphia.
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Ancaster
New York
Detroit
Philadelphia
Allies Drive at Hitler Line as Rome Range Bombed
Allied forces hammer the Hitler Line from the east as the Fifth army assaults the coastal sector near the beachhead and the Eighth army renews pressure in the Liri valley. Bombers-strike near Cisterna and the Appian Way aid the push toward Rome with heavy air and ground attacks.
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Noland Norgaard
Naples
Anzio
Eighth Army
Italy
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Appian Way
Berlin
Pico
Hitler Line
Cisterna
Lake Fogliano
Littoria
United States
Rome
Terracina
Liri
London
Brendan Bracken
Harold) Alexander
Piedimonte
Cassino
Senate backs local option law amid pension plan talks
The Senate discussed a bill by Sen. Wilfred Desmare to let municipalities with 100000 population establish general pension plans for appointive staff. A resolution suspends local option law operations for a year after civil service restoration. Also debated highway widening to support the war effort and material needs north of Baton Rouge.
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Ik Iss
Senate
Wilfred Desmare Orleans
Imilar
Lessiey Gardiner
Opelousas
Baton Oreas
Senion Brumfield
Baton Rouge
Aerial Assaults Hit Dortmund Brunswick and German Targets
About 3 500 Allied planes joined a day long offensive to strike German airfields rail yards and military targets. More than 5 000 tons of bombs fell as 1 700 planes including 1 000 American bombers and fighters faced German defenses. A dawn daylight raid followed heavy British night bombing of Dortmund and Brunswick while several bombers and fighters failed to return.
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Austin Beal
London
Hitler
Europe
Dortmund
Brunswick
Germany
Epinal
Chaumont
Avord
Orleans-Bricy
Bourges
Etampes-Mondesire
Caen
Chateaudun
France
Lew Ayres Plans Pastoral Career After War
Hollywood actor Lew Ayres, serving as a chaplain aide in Hollandia and Dutch New Guinea, plans to pursue Congregational ministry after seminary. Friends note his humanitarian work with the Red Cross and medical service, while Ayres remains reticent about his religious ambitions.
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Hollywood
Film Colony Friends
Lew Ayres
Ayres
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Lew
Bob Duncan
Bowden McCoy
Los Angeles Red Cross
Pearl Harbor
Red Cross
McCoy
Roland Barne
Chrysler Strike Ends Sudden Stop in Detroit
The Chrysler Corporation strike affecting nearly 17,000 war workers was halted by the Local 490 executive board, ordering workers back to duty a day before the union's leaders were to report to the C I O higher councils. International officials urged employees to ignore picket lines and return to plants.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers
C10
R. J. Thomas
Texas Democrats threaten to hold two conventions
Texas Democrats split over Roosevelt support with one faction seeking uninstructed delegates and the other backing a pro Roosevelt group. Delegates and alternates to the Chicago convention and Texas presidential electors will be chosen, while a separate pro Roosevelt caucus plans action, moving the session to Gregory Gymnasium at the University of Texas.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
Roosevelt
Chicago
al Houston
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Oswald D. Heck
New York State Assembly
Thomas E. Dewey
Alvin J. Wirtz
Unferior
Seiate
Wii
Gregory Gymnasium
University of Texas
Tennessee Congressman May Head Dies Group
Washington May 23 A Tennessee congressman with experience as a solicitor and prosecutor may become the next leader of the committee to investigate un-American activities Democrats in control of the house would likely continue the Dies committee's powers. Courtney argues the panel should persist and notes Dies praised its wartime watchdog role. Courtney was elected in 1929 and has held the seat unopposed. his background includes WWI service and criminal law practice.
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Washington
Tennessee
Pidge
Conmmttee
House
Dies
Texas
Wirt Courtney
Courtney
Joe Starnes
Alabanma
Tax Bill Goes to Roosevelt
Washington May 23 Congress sent to the White House the so called streamliner measure to simplify the return process for fifty million income tax payers. The bill passed the House unanimously and the Senate by voice vote. It reworks the tax structure to drop the wartime victory tax and sets new rates while keeping tax burdens largely intact. Beginning January first next year the withholding system will be adjusted to the full tax liability for wage and salary earners up to three thousand dollars, affecting about sixty million taxpayers.
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Washington
Congress
White House
House
Senate
Doughton Democrat
North Carolina
Florida runoff pits two undefeated gubernatorial hopefuls
In Jacksonville a runoff pits Millard Caldwell of Tallahassee and R A Lex Green of Starke, both undefeated for public office, to decide the Democratic gubernatorial nominee after a six candidate primary. Graham led a distant third in a crowded field as polls opened at 6 am.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Fiorida
Millard Caldwell
Tallahassee
R. A .Lex Green
Starke
Caldwell
Florida
Tennessee
Britain Braces as Invasion Threat Mounts Across Britain
May 23 dispatches describe tense Britain facing possible invasion as major train cuts stranded civilians while troops gain priority on remaining services. German air scouting and four planes shot down heighten unease. A Stockholm report in the Daily Express cites alleged mass murder of 47 RAF officers at Stalag Luft 1 with a full inquiry promised.
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London
Britain
Stockholm
Daily Express
Stala
the Express
Germany
Eng
Insanity Defense Raised in Swancutt Court Martial
In California May 3, the defense for Second Lt. Beaufort Swancutt seeks to spare him from capital punishment for a March 5 shooting that killed four and wounded others. The accused faces a general court martial where death is optional upon conviction. The counsel claims epilepsy and memory lapses at the time of the shooting, while Lt. Harry J. Light testified Swancutt appeared in control as the event unfolded at the Officers Club.
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Campanza
Calif
Beaufort Swancutt
Suaneuit
la Crosse
Wis
Dorothy Downglay
Louraine Livermore
Aubrey G. Serfling
Preston
Mina
Arthur B. Simpson
Riverside
Delphine D. Kasco
Swancutt
Whek
Harry J. Light
Bridgeport
Swancuti
Light
Barrage Balloon Drifts From New York Harbor Out to Sea
Army and Navy and Air Force personnel race to locate a 50 foot barrage balloon that broke moorings near New York Harbor and drifted seaward at about 300 feet. Authorities warned they may shoot it down if sighted as it ascends toward the stratosphere. The balloon could stay aloft for up to two months.
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New York
Army
Navy Air Force
Horbor
Navy
J. A Cameron
Sedition Trial Defense Asserts Communist Control Of Government
A defense attorney in the mass sedition conspiracy trial told the jury that Communists control the government and the US risks becoming a Communist country. He claimed Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter and other leaders are instruments of Communism, calling the trial part of covering government crimes.
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Washington
United States
Henry H. Klein
Eugene N. Sanctuary
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Sidney Hillman
Harold Laski
London
Klein
Roosevelt
O. John Rogge
Edward C Eicher
Stalin
Russia
Churchill
Great Britain
United
Monsoon Slows Burma Drive Toward Myitkyina
Monsoon rains slow the Allied push to capture Myitkyina in northern Burma as Lt. Gen. Stilwell’s forces press the fight against Japanese pockets. In the Pacific, Marcus Island raid continues with carrier planes striking seven times, while British forces fix Japanese attempts along the Brahmaputra valley and Assam Bengal railway.
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Associated Press
Burma
Myitkyina
Marcus Island
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Lnk
Ledoroaasy
China
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Marcus
Tokyo
India
Brahmaputra
Assam- Bengal
Southeast Asia
Kohima
Assam
Jonesville Ferriday Highway Closed Heavy Traffic Prohibited
Highways between Jonesville and Ferriday are closed to heavy traffic due to flooding. Light traffic can use an old road and bridge bypassing the flooded section. the old bridge is condemned for heavy use. Detours via Clayton and Frogmore or Harrisonburg advised. River gauges show slight rises at Riverton and Jonesville with Monroe readings near 45.32.
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Riverton
Jonesville
Ferriday
Red Cross Public Information Committee
Clayton and
Frogmore
Harrisonburg
State Department of Highways
Monroe
U.S. Engineers’ Office
Sales tax bill advances amid education measures in Louisiana
Baton Rouge authorities report three major measures advancing in the Louisiana House committees including a re enacted one percent sales tax, and two education bills funding school salary adjustments and retirement aid. The tax plan would run without a time limit and previously brings in about 8.7 million annually. oil lubrication exemptions were rejected while natural gas remains taxable under another measure. A constitutional amendment would push general elections to November and extend terms seven months, with 1949 sessions starting mid January.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House
Ways and Means Committee
J. Thomas Jewell
Pointe Coupee
Sv Wge
Louisiana Senate
Sam Jones
Alao
Davis says budget is out of balance in Louisiana
Gov James H Davis said the proposed executive budget prepared before his term was out of balance and he urged the legislature to cut appropriations to provide an economical and balanced budget The budget office said proposed appropriations exceeded revenue by 42000000 for the biennium State budget officer J Harvey Rester noted potential offsets from a treasury surplus reenactment of taxes and highway cuts that could raise the total to about 435 million but these factors were not in the report Davis urged careful scrutiny of expenditures and cuts in appropriations as policy for the current legislature.
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Baton Rouge
James H. Davis
Budget Department
Biennum J. Harvey Rester
Treasury
Davis
Intruder Allegedly Fires Upon Self in Brownville Incident
Robert H. Thompson, 22, a recent Marine Corps honorably discharged resident of Brownville, was accidentally shot in the shoulder by a 22 rifle at his home Monday night. He hurried to the scene after hearing a noise in the hen house, slipped in mud on the return trip, and the rifle discharged, not penetrating the lung cavity. Thompson was treated by Riverside Sanita and reported rapidly improving Tuesday noon.
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Robert H. Thompson
Brownville
Marine Corps
Dixie Funeral Home
Riverside Sanita
Thompson
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Anton Reel Jr
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