Oakland to honor war dead with citywide memorial rites
A volunteer coalition from 21 organizations will lead Memorial Day ceremonies at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland at 10 a.m. The service features invocations by the Rev. William Riley, song by the audience, and taps by Bugler Harry Barton. Participating groups include G.A.R. Lyon Post No. 8, U.S.W.V. East Oakland, American Legion posts, Boy Scout troops, and various veterans’ organizations. Additional services occur at Chapel of Chimes and Lake Merritt with speakers, broadcasts, and wreath ceremonies.
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Astor Post
Gil
William,Riley
Ednar, Steele
Anna Jost
Evergreen Cemetery
64th“Avenue
Camber Street
Wendell* Martin
J. Bi.Orr
Mary Liversmore
Daughters Union Veterans of Civil War
East Oakland
U.S.W.V
Port of Oakland
Oakland
Dimond
American Legion
George A. Marshall
Sons of US
W.V
Sons of the American Legion
Canadian Legion
Maxwell Park
Frick School
Daniel Webster
St. Cyril's Church
Sherman School
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
H. Blanchard
Ga.r
R. H. Bennett
George Archibald
United Spanish War Veterans
Lena Moore
Hi Nux- Miary
Kruse
Daniel Mee Carthy
Chapel OF Chimes
Chapel of the Chimes
Piedmont Avenue
Jack McMichael
U.S. Maritime Com
Myese . Tu
Dorothea Dix
Daughters of Union
Holland F. Burr
Piedmont City Community Church
Berkeley Post
W.F
Fleet’, Reserve Association
Alameda Air
L A. M. Brehaut
U.S. Navy
Diana Kirk
Navy
Dorothy Sandberg
Marion Taylor
Mary &. Dupont
Marines
L. L. Bradley
Andrew
Moncham
A. F.7moncham
Marie Westbrook
F.R.A
4. Roark
Bill Irwin
Broadway
Marine Corps Auxiliary
Lillian Gilbertson
Auxiliary
Madge Waples
Eliabeth Stokes
Henry Girard
Grand Army of the Republic
Fruitsvile Congregational Church
Yank Infantry Leapfrogs 200 Miles to Newlanding
Allied infantry and tanks crossed strong surf during a coast landing on a Japanese held shore. By 9 35 the greenslade Yanks had gained ridge overlooking Dosnik village and captured it. Heavy enemy fire caused some casualties as land and sea battles continued along the beach.
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Dosnik
Tres
Planca
Bowles Extends Subpena Power To OPA Aides
Price Administrator Bowles delegated his subpoena power to 11 regional and 91 district OPA officials nationwide. The authority covers sign and issue subpoenas for persons and records in price and rent control matters. Similar rationing powers were granted on July 8, 1942.
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Washington
Cheater Bowles
Pena
OPA
Pine
De Gaulle Visit Seen Vital to Franco Allied Ties
London hopes hinge on Gen Charles de Gaulle's forthcoming visit as Britain and the United States weigh how to govern France after Germany's capitulation. Churchill may mediate between de Gaulle and the American representative to avoid missteps after war.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
France
United States
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Germany
Sicily
Italy
de Gaulle
Churchill
Commons
Roosevelt
Algiers
Lttle
Soneone
Allies Hammer Retreating Axis Across Italian Front Centered On Via Casilina
Allied air forces and ground war machines smashed retreating German columns along the Via Casilina as the Eighth and Fifth Armies advanced. Castrociela Roccascea Postena Mt Rotondo Ceprano Arce Velletri and Monte Ar s tino fell or neared front lines. 2650 enemy vehicles destroyed or damaged in three days.
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Sezze
Valmontone
Via
Casilina
Eighth Army
Liri
Cassino
Arce
Castrociela
Roccascea
Melfa
Ceprano
Lirk
Berins
Rome
Postena
Mt. Rotondo
Frosinone
Fifth Army
Monte Arrestino
Velletri-Guillanel
Cee
Vel-letri
Albano Hills
Velletri
Tmalian
Marshal Kesselring
Adriatic
Cisterna
Russians Sink Four Transports in Gulf of Riga and Finland
London report by Russell Landstrom notes Soviet communique says four enemy transports sunk in the Gulf of Riga and Finland as part of a wider plan to pressure German shipping. Berlin predicted a Baltic offensive amid quiet on the eastern front and a planned large Soviet drive in the South.
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Russell Landstrom
London
Black Sea
Gulf of Riga
Finland
Berlin
Baltic
Moscow
Gulf of Finland
D.N.B
Ernst. von Hammer
Dnesh
Tasi
Romania
Lwow
Europe
Germans Foiled in Drive On Tito
Allied warplanes disrupted a German offensive in Northern Bosnia aimed at Marshal Tito's Partisans. Fortresses escorted by Lightnings hit Nazi troop formations around Bihać, Spitfires strafed a nearby air field destroying several planes on the ground. Lightnings then bombed Zemunik Air Field near Zadar on the Dalmatian coast damaging aircraft and positions.
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Stephen Barker
Naples
Bosnia
Marshal Tito
Strategic Command
Bihoe
Zemunik
Zara
Dalmatian
Biha
Bihac
Gas Quota to Stay Same for Two Years
Washington reports that the average American motorist will use about 43 percent of the gasoline of 1941 for the next two years. Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph Davies notes mileage reduction here is 7 percent from peacetime, while England’s is 88 percent.
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Washington
Ralph KL Dasvies
Davies
Milaage
England
Mrs Doolittle Guards Shangri La Secret for a Year
Mrs Wimmy Doolittle revealed at a women's luncheon that she knew Hor net, the aircraft carrier Hor net, was the Shangri La before it was publicly named. She described a year of secrecy and fear of revealing her husband Maj Gen James H. Doolittle's Tokyo raid leadership.
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Washington
Wimmy” Doolittle
Hornet
British and American Bombers Hit German France Yugoslav Targets
Allied air forces pounded six rail yards in southwestern Germany two aircraft repair plants and a rail yard in France and naval facilities along the invasion coast in Italy. Southern France and Yugoslav port facilities were also attacked. Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators suffered 24 aircraft losses and 49 enemy planes were shot down.
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Germany
France
Yugoslavia
Britain
Europe
Belgium
U.S. 8Th Air Force
Zurich
Switzerland
U.S
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim
Karlsruhe
Saarbrucken
Konz-Karthaus
Neunkirchen
Nazis Draft Housewives New Labor Mobilization Decree
The German government issued a new labor mobilization decree drafting housewives previously exempted for munitions work. The move was reported by the German controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau in a dispatch to the Office of War Information.
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New York
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Office of War Information
Nazi Threat Perils Pilots in Goebbels Message
Berlin reporting Goebbels in the Nazi press warned that Allied airmen who bail out over Germany lose protection from German civilians. He argued civilians may act under eye for eye justice, condemning Allied war methods as barbaric and urging an end to attacks on noncombatants.
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Roblirt N. Studevant
Stockholm
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Volischer Beobachster
Germany
Aftonbladet
Berlin
Goebbel
Goehbel
Reich
Mediterranean Held Vital for Pacific Front Says Admiral
Admiral Sir John Cunningham, Allied Mediterranean commander, said the Mediterranean is a vital artery for the Pacific and the Italian front. He reported 11,500,000 tons of Allied shipping convoyed through in one month this year and a three month 1944 loss rate near 0.28 percent of tonnage. He noted an average of 230 ships at sea daily in the region.
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Mediterranean
John Cunningham
Pacific
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Shangri-La
Jackson
Jackson Furniture Co
Lasy Pua
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