Allied push in Normandy faces tougher German resistance
Allied forces press along a 10 mile front from Cherbourg toward St Lo as American units seize Quineville and advance west of Carentan. Rommel deploys about 700 tanks in the eastern sector while Stimson warns of fiercer counter blows before France is liberated. Meanwhile England endures waves of pilotless Nazi bombs as Hitler’s secret weapon strikes the island.
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Normandy
U. S
Cherbourg
Montebourg
Quineville
Theeninsula
Anks
Eisenhower
Carentan
Elle
Vire
St. Lo
Key Junction
Fourth Division
Erwin Rommel
Stimwon
France
Germany
England
Hitler
Dewey Favored. Bricker Fights At Chicago Convention
Delegates arrive in Chicago as Dewey leads on pledge counts but Bricker supporters insist the battle will be decided on the convention floor. Bricker and Dewey head to a tense fight for the nomination while Kerr is named by Democrats to keynote their July convention.
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Chicago
Gepesters
W Thomas E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Whey
Bricker
Dewey
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Pacific action and Allied drive push toward Saipan and Rome
American forces blasted Saipan defenses after a sea and air assault as B‑29s hit Japan from China. a new 20th air force roves globally in support. In Italy, Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies advanced 50 to 80 miles north of Rome, forcing German retreats and trapping reinforcements in a three day clash.
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U. S
Japan
Navy Sea
Saipan
Marianas
Tokyo
Tarawa
Guadalcanal
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
China
Tokyo Radio
Moji
Shimonoseki
China-Burma-India
United Nations
Italy
Rome
Tyrrhenian
Lake Bolsena
Terni
Adriatic
Eighth Army
14Th Army
Pain detector rivals in medical devices and wages rise
A device claimed to detect diseased organs in unconscious patients was shown at a Gastro Enterological Association meeting in Chicago. Dr. Lester Morrison of Philadelphia described the machine and its viscrogalvanic reaction. Factory wages rose to 1.057 dollars per hour in April, while total earnings fell 0.7 percent due to a shorter work week. average weekly hours were 45.2.
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Gastro-enterogical Association
Chiago
Lester Morrison
Philadelphia
National Industrial Conference
Parity for Farmers Under New Price Control Plan
The House extended OPA price control thus allowing processors to charge only 20 of the OPA ceiling if they fail to pay parity for any farm commodity. Parity aims to restore farm prices to 1909–14 levels. Cotton adjustments were dropped. conflict with the Senate lingered over possible veto and court challenges to OPA rules.
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House
Senate
Wounded Yanks Show Dramatic Death-Rate Decline
Maj. Gen. Norman Kirk reports 87 of 100 wounded American soldiers saved. WWI death rate 8 percent, now under 3. Abdominal injuries kill 25 percent, a drop from 50 percent 25 years ago. Penetrating chest wounds fatal under 25 percent, head wounds mortality down from 14 to 4 percent.
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Norman Kirk
U. S. Army
Navy
Progress in Bond Drive Raises Early Purchases
Treasury officials report that in the first two days of the Fifth War Loan drive individual buyers purchased nearly 500 million dollars in bonds. The goal is six billion dollars in individual purchases. Bond sales are translated into equipment for the army and navy, with discounts shown for heavy bombers and fighter planes, now 250000 and 50000 dollars respectively compared with last year.
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Treasury
Army
Navy
Second Pearl Harbor scandal linked to Wyman and Rohl
A House subcommittee report accuses Col. Theodore Wyman Jr and contractor Hans Wilhelm Rohl of delaying a permanent aircraft warning system at Honolulu. The critique cites biased contract awards totaling 125 million dollars and incomplete work a year after the 1940 letting date. The panel notes Wyman and Rohl were often seen at drinking parties.
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Pearl Harbor
Congress
House
Theodore Wyman Jr
Honolulu
Hans Wilhelm Rohl
California
U. S
Germany
Wyman
Rohl
Census survey shows high demand for alarm clocks and varied needs
The census bureau for the War Production Board surveyed 4,500 representative families in April to guide WPB. The study covered 56 household articles and found satisfied buyer demand from 98 percent for sewing thread to 5 percent for wash boilers and lawn mowers, with over 12 million households seeking alarm clocks.
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Census Bureau
War Production Board
WPB
Marshall shaped the D-Day plan beyond the front lines
The piece credits Eisenhower and Marshall while detailing Marshall's behind the scenes role in planning the invasion. It recalls his 1918 Meuse Argonne maneuver and notes his cooperation with Eisenhower. It adds anecdotes about G-2 moving day and Roosevelt's Irish sea security policy.
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Marshall
Pershing
St. Mihiel
Meuse- Argonne
Eisenhower
General Marshall
Tasker Bliss
U. S
Peyton March
Bliss
Walter Reed Hospital
Roosevelt
Cherbourg
Irish Sea
Four Freedoms and Ideologies Shape Postwar Debate
Opinion piece contrasts Four Freedoms with radical ideologies, arguing for liberty and democracy for individuals. It cautions against economic or religious domination by the state, calls for democratic cooperation internationally and domestically, and warns collectivism undermines freedom.
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Four Freedoms
Washington
Britain
Congress
Lemon and water wake up the bowels and energy
A reader advises drinking juice of one Sunkist Lemon in a glass of water first thing each morning to stimulate normal bowel action and combat fatigue. Lemons provide vitamin C, help resist colds, aid digestion, and offer a fresh tang to clear the mouth. Use California Sunkist lemons.
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Sunkist
California Sunkistons
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Pentagon
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