Roosevelt Back in Capital After South Carolina Vacation
President Roosevelt returns to Washington from a month at Bernard M Baruch's plantation in Georgetown County South Carolina and meets congressional leaders to review the legislative outlook. He shows improved health with no new legislation planned and plans a partial check up this week.
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WASHINGTON
South Carolina
Roosevelt
Senate
Barkley
Montgomery Ward and company
Chicago
Bernard M. Baruch
Georgetown
S.C
White House
Wallace
Rayburn
House
McCormack
Mr. Roos
China
HULL
Stettimus
London
Hall
Ross T. McIntire
Winyah bay
Hobcaw
Atlantic
coast guard
Russian Bombers Lash At Sevastopol
London reports Soviet bombers and fighters struck Sevastopol in a weekend assault as Red Army forces press the siege. German communique notes a fluctuating battle with a salient reached in the southern sector while attacks on the north were repulsed.
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LONDON
Sevastopol
Moscow
Red army
Crimean
Debt Ceiling Request Cut
Washington May 8 The administration agreed to reduce the debt limit request from 260 billion to 240 billion dollars amid Republican opposition. Treasury undersecretary Daniel Bell told the House Ways and Means Committee he would accept the cut with a pledge to seek a higher ceiling early next year. Rep. Knutson criticized waste and urged restraint while noting the Roosevelt administration would likely reach even a higher limit with time.
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WASHINGTON
U.21
Daniel W. Bell
congress
treasury
Knutson
Minn
Roosevelt
Opposition Seen To Tax Bill Plan
Washington May 8 The Senate finance committee faced protests from Sen Butler JR Neb against the tax simplification bill including a charity deduction proviso. Butler says the house passed measure allows deductions without evidence of charity and will fight it in committee. The plan would let taxpayers claim a flat ten percent deduction for contributions interest and other taxes.
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WASHINGTON
senate finance committee
congress
Butler JR-Neb
Butler
house
Danes killed in clash at Horsroed camp
STOCKHOLM Sweden May 8 Four Danes were killed and 13 wounded in a fight between German guards and Danish prisoners at a Danish concentration camp at Horsroed Sunday night. The Goteborg Posten reported the uprising began after rumors inmates including prominent Danes would be transferred to Germany.
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STOCKHOLM
Sweden
nns dred
Horsroed
Goteborg Posten
Germany
Six States Name Delegates To Conventions
Six states name delegates to conventions as Democrats move to secure enough pledged and claimed votes for Roosevelt. Missouri and Wyoming delegations, plus others, push toward the 530 threshold. Ohio voting next with Bricker's tally and Dewey sentiment noted. West Virginia and Washington also factor in, while Tennessee and North Dakota set key delegate totals.
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JACK BELL
Rivett
FDR
Roosevelt
Missouri
Wyoming
QGhio
West Virginia
OHIO
Wyomme
North Dakota
Washington state
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Mississippi
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Tennessee
Revenge Slaying Puzzles Police in Philly
Philadelphia police pursued fresh leads in a brutal murder case of William H. Harten, a 13 year veteran retiree stabbed at least thirty times in his hotel room. Capt. William Engle labeled it one of the citys most vicious killings, with motives of revenge likely since little was missing from the victims belongings.
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PHILADELPHIA
William Engle
William H. Harten
Engle
Harten
Allied patrols land at Bougainville bay New Guinea
Allied patrols have landed at Bougainville bay about 20 miles east of Hollandia in New Guinea according to a British radio report issued on May 8.
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NEW YORK
Bougainville bay
Hollandia
New Guinea
City Officials Repair Police Station Doors Embarrassed
Hartford officials divert 3700 dollars to repair inward opening doors at the police station after violators of a public building exit rule drew attention by paying fines.
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HARTFORD, Conn
board of finance
Air Ace Breaks Combat Record in England Flight
Captain Robert Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma Thunderbolt pilot shot down two enemy planes over Germany May 8 raising his total to 27. He becomes the first American ace in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War I combat record of 26. Johnson ties Major Richard Bong’s record in the Southwest Pacific with 23 official air kills. Bong leads European theater with 30 confirmed enemy planes destroyed, seven on the ground, as Johnson and Bong are the only Americans to surpass the Rickenbacker mark in air combat. Bong also has nine probables not tallied as destroyed.
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U. S
ENGLAND
Robert §. Johnson
Lawton
Okla
Germany
Edward Rickenbacker
Johnson
Richard 3. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Don Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Bong
Rickenbacker
Enemy Patrols Attack In Italy Reported Near Cassino
Allied Headquarters Naples says German patrols attacked upper Garigliano valley positions on Saturday night three miles south of Sant' Andrea and eight miles southeast of Cassino. The Germans were driven off after heavy shelling. harassing fire and transport movements were noted west and south of Cassino. Anzio beach head reported extremely quiet except for heavy shelling near Carano.
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Naples
May
Garignano
Sant’ Andrea
Cassino
Garigliano
Anzio
Carano
Secretary Dies in Missouri Capital
Dwight H. Brown, secretary of state of Missouri, died early today in Poplar Bluff after more than a year of declining health.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo
Dwight H. Brown
Missouri
Japanese Resume Offensive in India Fronts
Allied communique reports Japanese forces going on the offensive along the Manipur hill front in northeastern India while suffering heavy losses. Allied patrols push toward Imphal along the Kohima road, with two villages near Palel captured. British and Chinese units press gains in Burma as Buthedaung is evacuated for strategic repositioning.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
Kandy
Ceylon
Manipur
India
Kohima
Imphal
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Palel
Buthedaung
Arakan
Kalapanzin
Keladan
Burma
New Advances Made In China
Misgivings over the military situation in northwestern Henan grew as Chinese dispatches said Japanese troops advanced another three and a half miles toward Loyang and are six miles south of the ancient city. Fighting was reported across the Henan front with danger rising as the Japanese push to clear the north south railway from Pieping to Hankow and reduce Chinese control for a 40 to 50 mile stretch below Chengsi en.
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CHUNGKING
Henan province
Loyang
China
Henan
Pieping- Hankow
Chenghsien
Siping
Churmnatien
Yengdi
Chengsien
Submarines to be Launched at Cramp Yards Sunday
Philadelphia May 8 Two submarines will be launched at the Cramp shipbuilding company yards Sunday the fourth naval district announced today.
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PHILADELPHIA
Cramp shipbuilding company
naval district
Bombings Cut Nazi Oil Output in Italy
Naples report states that Romanian oil production was reduced to a quarter of normal due to Allied bombings. General Eaker announced that American and RAF bombers disrupted vital war materials to the eastern front by targeting all major German supply routes. Since November 8, 1942, Allied bomb tonnage in the Mediterranean surpassed 200,000 tons.
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ALLIED
Naples
Iran
Eaker
Mediterranean
15th airforce
Nathan F. Twining
Germans Face Fateful Choice
Washington on May 8 reports German strategy makers face a critical hour as Allied invasion of western Europe approaches. Officials expect Nazis to gamble for victory by throwing all forces at the beaches or try to stabilize lines for a stalemate. Reserve strengths behind the western coast are cited at 54 to 67 divisions, with Luftwaffe likely to fight fiercely. The decision hinges on whether to decisively strike the invasion front or preserve strength as a threat.
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WASHINGTON
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
beadhead
London
Japs to Transport Food to Prisoners
The Tokyo radio reports Japan will dispatch a vessel to Vladivostok to collect U S relief supplies for American war prisoners and civilian internees in Japanese hands. A definite plan was communicated to the United States via the Swiss minister. Supplies have piled up at Vladivostok for months due to transportation issues to Japanese ports.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo radio
Vladivostok
United States
Colonel's Silent Partner Waits Three Years in Iowa Office
In Council Bluffs Colonel Folsom Everest's dog Pete the silent partner waits three years for his master. Pete makes daily trips to the private office, keeping a corner spot in peacetime as Everest led the 168th Iowa infantry before leaving three years ago.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS
Col. Folsom Everest
Pete
Everest
168th Iowa infantry
Pre Invasion Air Offensive Mounts in Fury
Nearly 2060 U. S. bombers and fighters blasted Berlin and Brunswick as part of a 24 day offensive. Liberators and Fortresses dropped about 2000 tons on Berlin while Bucharest was hit for the third time in 24 hours. RAF night raids targeted Rennes and other Normandy area installations as Allied air power aimed to cripple German defenses before the invasion.
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LONDON
UPi
U. S
Berlin
Brunswick
BUCHAREST
France
Germany
Britain
Mediterranean
Balkans
Romania
Rouen
Italy
Hitler
RAF
Rennes
Nantes
Tours
Salbris
Orleans
Normandy
Leverkusen
Cologne
Brittany
channel
Atlantic
Germans Most Numerous Prisoners Held in U S
Washington May 8 The War Department disclosed that 183 618 war prisoners are interned in the United States with 133 135 Germans 50 136 Italians and 347 Japanese They are housed in camps nationwide The department notes the prisoners aid labor shortages and an educational program aims to de Nazi them by exposing them to democracy.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Nazi Germany
war department
army
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Manpin
Kamaing
Reuters
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