FDR Tests Across Alabama Florida and South Dakota Races
The Roosevelt administration faced probing contests in Alabama and Florida senatorial primaries while South Dakota Republicans debated a Stassen Dewey split. Pepper led Florida’s five way field for renomination with Ollie Edmonds among main rivals. in Alabama Hill fought James A. Simpson. Maryland re nominating Tydings in a crowded race. and South Dakota showcased a key test of Stassen against the Dewey faction alongside delegate selections.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Alabama
South Dakota
Claude Pepper
New Deal
Ollie Edmounds
Jacksonville
Pepper
Hill
James A. Simpson
Birmingham
O. P. Verston
A. C. Miller
Wat Gurney
Maryland
Tydings
Willis R. Jones
Baltimore
Republica
Blanchard Randall Jr
Paul Robertson
Robertson
Baltimore G. O. P
Randall
Alste
T. R. McKeldin
Dewey
Florida
Stassen
Alent
Harold A. Stassen
Minnesota
South Dakcota
Byrd
D.va
DEMOS
Tor State
Braniff Chief Outlines Feeder Airline Plan for San Antonio
T E Braniff of Braniff Airways invites Mayor Mauermann and 25 aviation minded businessmen to the St Anthony hotel Tuesday afternoon to hear his plan for organizing a local company to operate feeder airlines serving San Antonio in the post war period.
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T. E. Braniff
Dallas
Braniff Airways, Inc
Mauermann
Hin
St. Anthony
San Antonio
Captain In England
Captain Eugene J. Klein serves as a supply officer with an Eighth Air Force composite command in England. He has spent 19 months in the European theater, with his wife residing at 430 Avant Avenue and parentsMr and Mrs R F Klein at 1002 Burnet Street.
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Eugene J. Klein
Avant Avenue
R. FP. Klein
Burnet Street
Eighth Air Force Composite Command
England
Funeral Rites Set For Mrs Aaron Ruth Aaron 97
Funeral services for Mrs Anna Ruth Aaron 97 of 616 Camden Street were set for 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Rirbe chapel with burial at Rosclaun Burial Park. Survivors include son Frank Apron and daughters Ella Bienner Sadie Herring Fenty Louis and Doris Martin. Also notes bond for Eddie Eng tied to a tire ration case heard before US Commissioners A Y Knight.
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Anna
Ruth Aaron
Camden Street
Rirbe Chapel
Rosclaun Burial Park
Frank Apron
Ella Bienner
Sadie Herring
Fenty Louis
Doris Martin
Eddie Eng
Eas
Houston Street
Operstar
A. Y. Knight
Brothers Reunite At Ninth Air Force Base England
In England a wartime reunion linked two Smith brothers. Sgt George M. Smith of San Antonio joined the Headquarters squadron of the Troop Carrier Wing while his brother First Sgt Frank M. Smith of Houston served as a top-kick. Both born in Bedias and schooled in Huntsville, George previously worked at Kelly Field after Lamar High School in Houston. Their wife, Belly Jay Smith, resides at 1025 West Craig Place.
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Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Command
England
George M. Smith
Sant Antonio
Frank M. Smith
Houston
George Smith
Ninth Air Service Command
Smith
Bedias
Huntsville
George
San Antonio
Lamar High School
Kelly Field
Belly Jay Smith
West Craig Place
Francis Declines To Join WACS
Francis C. McGerity, 28, of Medford Massachusetts refused an invitation to join the WACS arguing he could not pass the required rigid physical examination. After a coast guard medical discharge he learned through a WAC recruiter that he was eligible to join the women’s army, but explained a clerical error misspelled his first name as Prances.
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Medford
Mass
Francis C. McGerity
Banks
WAGS
McGerity
Coast Guard
WAC
Women's Army
Nazis Make Slight Gain At Anzio
Allied dispatch from Naples May 2 reports German forces pushing a slight advance against Fifth Army positions on the Anzio beach head miles southwest of Carroceto. Shelling intensifies near Cassino and enemy patrols renew in the sector while an Allied raid at Cerreto Alta continues. Anti aircraft fire breaks up a German air raid on the beachhead. four of 15 planes are shot down and two likely destroyed. Beachhead casualties for heavy weapon detachments rise to 299 destroyed and 4130 probable.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Anzio
Carroceto
Cassino
Cerreto Alta
Warfront anecdote reports enraged Japanese airman near Eniwetok
Marine Pte. Richard Kyi from Brooklyn says a Japanese fighter fired at his unit during an advance on Eniwetok. The Jap allegedly became furious, shouted, and threw his arms in the air before the Marine shot him in the head.
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Pacific
INS
Central Pacific
Marine
Richard Kyi
Brooklyn
Eniwetok
Fort Worth Man to Join Trinity University Administration
Rev. J Hoytt Boies of Fort Worth will become assistant to the president of Trinity University on June 1. He resigns as pastor of Hemphill Presbyterian Church to assume new duties. Boies chairs Fort Worth Presbytery promotion committee and the Synod of Texas education committee.
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J. Hoytt Boies
Fort Worth
Trinity University
Hemphill Presbyterian Church
Presbytery
Christianeducation
Synod of Texas
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Aaron
Francis
WACS
Bexar
Bexar County
al M. Heck
County War Finance
Greece
Marsland
Yank
Trinity Post
Purrey
Dusty Ross
Ifolff & Marr
Wolff & Marx
Houston ST
Gunter Hotel
Anin
Purrey Neshva
Doreen Dey
Tovee
Walff & Marx
Faurik Floor
Vanity Fair
Houdoir
Jolff & Marx
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