Germans Admit Rails Being Crippled In Allied Bombing
London reported German sources admitting Allied air raids crippled Paris transit, destroyed rolling stock and stations, and derailed trains. The day’s aerial offensive involved about 3500 Allied planes against German rail yards, freight facilities, and military targets across France and western Germany.
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Quads Born to RAF Flier and Wife
London report states Mrs Daisy Moxham of Southend, wife of an RAF flying officer, has given birth to quadruplets three boys and a girl. Mother and children are reported well.
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Anzio Shell Hit MP. Soldier Sustains Two Stitches
Bey 23.-7P Militany Policreman R. Gatley of Lima Ohio slept when a 70 milimeter shell struck his Anzio billet. The shell dropped through three floors, grazed Coffey's head and ear, spinning but not exploding. He returned to duty with two stitches in his scalp.
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Chinese Forces Cut Old Burma Road Near Burma Frontier
Chinese high command reported a successful strike from the Salween river, severing the old Burma road at Chefang 28 miles from the frontier and isolating the Burma road base at Tamling. The encircled Japanese garrison at Cheiang was wiped out as heavy rains slowed operations.
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Burma Air Score Hits 213 Japs Destroyed in 10 Weeks
Southeast Asia Headquarters says U S Mustang and Lightning fighters destroyed 212 Japanese aircraft and 135 on the ground in Burma over ten weeks, at a cost of three U S fighters. The review credits new combat methods and notes Japan has yet to counter the new phase of the air war.
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Bellhops Fined For Liquor Sales At Three Plaza Hotel
Three Plaza Hotel bellhops were fined 100 each plus 21 court costs after one pleaded guilty and two were found guilty by Judge McCollum Burnett of County Court at Law No 1 for selling liquor without a license. The case, filed by state liquor board agent Gus Brown, involved alleged sales to William Byrne detective agency employee Rt B Cortez. Vega claimed he was framed and that Cortez sent him to buy two bottles of brandy with a $10 bill, but the detective denied wrongdoing. Willars pleaded not guilty and Sanders pleaded guilty.
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Simplified Tax Bill Goes to FDR
Washington May 23 congress sent to the White House a bill simplifying the return process for 50 million income taxpayers The measure would replace the two year old Victory tax with a streamlined system and adjust withholding for wage earners Beginning January 1 the plan would shift about 30 million taxpayers to pay as they earn while adding 160 000 new taxpayers and moving roughly 9 million from Victory tax to standard income levies It preserves the 1500 exemption for armed services personnel and does not alter this year s withholdings PROVE THEORY Thomas Gainsborough pointed famous Eiie Boy in disprove a statement that blue should not be massed in painting.
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MacArthur and Halsey Hold Conference in Australia
Field reports say General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey met in Australia last week to discuss future operations against Japan. Halsey was hosted by Vice Admiral Thomas Heinkald, commander of the Seventh Fleet, the force involved in earlier Southwest Pacific campaigns.
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Monsoons Slow Allied Drive On Burma Front At Myitkyina
Monsoon rains slowed the Allied push to seize Myitkyina in northern Burma as General Stilwell’s forces battled pockets of Japanese resistance. The fight continued to link the Burma and Ledo roads toward China despite weather. In the Pacific, Marcus Island was reportedly attacked from radio silence, while British forces in India claimed progress against Japanese attempts to disrupt communications in the Brahmaputra valley and the Assam front.
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Dallas Flier's Body En Route Home
The body of Lieut. J. Freeman Cluck Jr. 22, killed in a solo crash near Foster Field, Victoria, was being returned to Dallas. Clark, an instructor and student pilot at the field, also died in the crash. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Freeman Clark of Dallas.
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Partisans Kill 200 Germans on 55-Mile Front
LONDON May 23 Marshal Tito said Yugoslav Partisans killed more than 200 Germans and Chetniks on a 55 mile front from Nevesinje near Mostar to Trebinje. The broadcast said Partisans also killed and wounded 140 Narodnie troops and Chetniks, captured a German ammunition and food column, and blew up two trains on the Zagreb Belgrade line near Velika Gorica.
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Nazi Trials Threatened Allied Pilots
London May 24 German peoples courts may try Allied pilots shot down during fighter attacks on drains and communications in Germany, according to Sveriska Dagbladet. Nazi propaganda claims the raids targeted women and children, and farmers in fields were shot down. The threat echoes last December 33 German pledge to try British and American POWs in Germany as war criminals, though no trials have occurred to date.
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Austin General's Unit Joins 15th Air Force Wing
Allied headquarters in Naples announced Brig. Gen. Dean Strother's Austin wing has operated with the U.S. 15th Air Force for seven weeks. The fighter unit includes Lightning Thunderbolt and Mustang groups and has produced ten aces in seven weeks of combat.
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Elevator death case stirs calls for grand jury inquiry
A Black suspect released by Judge W W McCrory faces lingering questions after Mary Lou Lowery was found dead in an elevator in the Hicks building. Hor ton claimed two women and a young girl were involved in a heavy drinking night, while store worker Howard Raymond Currey testified. Officers considered the case a possible rape. post mortem findings and witness statements raise calls for accountability and further investigation.
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Weather outlook for San Antonio area brief tease
Forecast shows partly cloudy sky in San Antonio and vicinity with Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. Warmer Wednesday with highs near 86 degrees.
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Allies launch major assault on Anzio beachhead in Italy
Allied forces opened a new phase of the Italian battle with a coordinated attack as the Eighth and Fifth Armies struck from Anzio toward Rome and along the coastal sector. Bombers and fighters pounded German positions while Lieut. Gen. Clark established a beachhead command post and U S troops prepared for renewed ground action near Cisterna and Piedimonte.
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Hitler Fury Over Italy Battle Signals High Stakes War
A news analysis notes Hitler mounting fury over Italy battles as German reinforcements surge to hold the front. Allied pressure, Verdun like stakes, and Bracken cites a historic German thrashing while Mussolini aims to slow Allied advance from Anzio toward Rhone.
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