West Virginia and Ohio GOP nominees win in early primaries
In West Virginia Judge Clarence W. Meadows beats Rush Holt for the GOP governorship, and Mayor Frank Lausche wins Ohio GOP nods. Meadows leads Holt as two thirds of West Virginia votes counted. Lausche says veterans’ era demands experienced command. Cincinnati Mayor Stewart likely tops Ohio GOP for governor while Taft secures renomination.
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D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Ohio
Clarence W. Meadows
Beckley
Mountain State
Frank J. Latsuke
Cleveland
D. Boonc Oe
Charleston
Jame Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
Sidney Hillman
CIO Political Action Committee
Steelworkers Convention
American Federation of Labor
Independent Railroad Brotherhoods
Hillman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Meadows
Holt
Judge Meadows
Rush D. Holt
Washington
Lausche
Dawson
GOP
United Mine Workers
Raymond J. Funkhouser
Charles Town
Stewart
William G. Pickrel
Dayton
Taft
Norristown Bribery Conviction Seeks New Trial for Chief Bausewine
George Bausewine former Norristown police chief and ex big league player and umpire seeks a new trial after a April 3 bribery conviction in Montgomery county court. His lawyer contends the verdict was unjust and not supported by the alibi witnesses he called. The three judges hear the plea and reserve decision.
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Norristown
George Bausewine
Montgomery County
Commonwealth
Bauswine
Bausewine
Thomas D. McBride
Chicken Thieves Must Help On Farm At Lehigh
Two 19 year old youths from Breinigsville and Slatington were sentenced to six months in jail for stealing chickens. Judge James F. Henninger set November 1 as the start date for William Hein to report to jail, with his draft deferment as a farmer potentially voided if he enters the army. Leonard Sterling will stay in custody until he secures a farm job, allowed to retain it until the November 1 date. Both pleaded guilty to chicken theft.
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Allentown
Lehigh County
James F. Henninger
William Hein
Breinigsville
Leonard Sterling
Slatington
Hein
Sterling
Wet Weather Halts Work Of Farmers In County
Heavy rains over two weeks keep fields waterlogged and hard to plow, delaying planting across Somerset, Meyersdale, and surrounding areas. County Farm Agent C. C. McDowell notes oats and potatoes behind schedule, pastures loyal but hay prospects spotty, with demonstrations planned to test potato and corn fertilizer and germination under varying conditions.
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C. C. McDowell
Somerset
McDowell
Lloyd Peck
Meyersdale
Somerset Cannery
Gladen Walker
Shanksville
Fred Ross
Bruce Miller
Lowe Moore
Rockwood
R. D
George Kirsh
Lavansville
Walter Hay
Ber
Roosevelt trims Army budget by three billion dollars
President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a total Army budget of 49.2839 billion for the next fiscal year, with 15.6767 billion in new appropriations and 33.6073 billion available from unobligated 1944 balances. The White House cited reduced Army strength, lower unit costs from mass production, and fewer shipping losses as key causes for the reduction from prior estimates.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Basic Issues Undecided Says Avery
Chicago May 10. Board Chairman Sewell Avery returned to Montgomery Ward headquarters and said the basic issues in the controversy that led to government seizure of Ward properties must be decided by the courts. He charged the war labor board has blocked judicial determination and that Ward's was denied a court decision when forced to surrender its plants. Avery asserted the attorney general delayed a ruling and that the case was dismissed after surrender, showing a lack of respect for the Constitution and fundamental rights. The fundamental issues, he said, must still be determined in court.
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Chicago
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Avery
War Labor Board
Ward
Ward’s
United States
Ward's
WLB
Liberalized deferments proposed for men over thirty
Washington May 10 A liberalized deferment policy for men over 30 was reported. Deferments would depend on employment in essential industries. For ages 26 to 29, current deferment rules for essential work likely continue. Inductions after this year may focus on replacements as quotas adjust to casualties.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Navy
Licenses Suspended By State Liquor Board
Harrisburg reports licenses suspended today by the state liquor control board effective July 2 including Monessen Choral and Literary Club and Greene County licenses for 45 days each.
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Harrisburg
State Liquor Control Board
Monessen Choral and Literary Club
Greene County
Approved Loans for 11 Counties by State Farm Official
Harrisburg May 10 Eleven counties were approved as eligible for tenant purchase loans by Carson F. Mertz state farm security director.
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Harrisburg
Carson F. Mertz
State Farm Security
Allied Forces Push German Retreat Along Italian Front
Allied HQ reports German withdrawal across the Aventino river on the Eighth army front, with British and allied troops occupying Palena Fallascoso and San Angelo and advancing toward Sulmona. Forces also seized high ground near Gamberale and pressed operations along the Rapido as Cassino defenses strengthen. An Anzio patrol with tanks hit four enemy tanks west of Cisterna, one burning.
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Naples
Aventino
Eighth Army
Palena
Fallascoso
San Angelo
Sulmona
Adriatic
Gamberale
Italy
Rapido River
Cassino
Cisterna
Anzio
General's Boy On Job for Long Period
Anzio front report on Major Henry H Arnold Jr. son of Gen Henry H Arnold, serving with the long endpoint light anti aircraft battalion since 1942. He details battles, morale, and the unit's credit for 62 enemy planes, plus anecdotes of Luftwaffe encounters and GI camaraderie.
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Arnold
Anzio
Coronado
Calif
Air Corps
West Point
Bill
Camp Haan
States
Eisenhower
Algiers
England
Ike
Henry H
New York
Africa
Cpl
Sammy Burns
Springfield
Luftwaffe
August Koenig
Washington, D. C
Koenig
Paul Eckstein
Cincinnati
Germany
Eckstein
Allied forces free 707 prisoners in New Guinea area atrocities revealed
Report from advanced allied quarters details Japanese brutalities including Sikhs and Chinese prisoners nailed to trees with iron spikes. 707 enemies freed by the 24th division at Hollandia and Aitape, among them 462 Sikhs from India. Sikhs recount harsh transport, beatings, and forced labor. Also notes continued allied air raids on Schouten island Wewak Rabaul and bases on New Ireland.
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Marlin Spencer
New Guinea
Hollandia
Aitape
Douglas
MacArthur
India
Department of Information
Department
Singapore
Kuala Laumpur
Malaya
Rabaul
New Britain
Admiralty Islands
Manus
Spencer
Jemadar Shingara Singh
Manus Island
Japan
Fifth Airforce
Schouten Island
Wewak
Thirteenth Airforce
Solomons
New Ireland
Japanese Forces Clash Near Loyang in Honan Campaign
Chinese dispatches report a Japanese force from Shansi crossed the Yellow River Tuesday night and pressed a siege on Loyang, while another unit attacked from the southeast. Fighting rages at Yuanchu and near Tengfeng as U.S. air force under Maj. Gen. Chennault strafed across Chungking during an air raid.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Shansi
Yellow River
Loyang
Honan Province
Yi River
Yuanchu
Ptoesos
Tengfeng
Lushan
U. S. Air Force
Claire L. Chennault
Heads Arts Academy Elected Harvard Dean President
Boston May 10. Prof Howard Mumford Jones dean of the Harvard graduate school of arts and sciences has been elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the society announced today.
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Arts Academy
Boston
Howard Mumford Jones
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts
Chindits close trap in northern Burma in war report
May 10 dispatch from Southeast Asia HQ reports Stilwell's land invasion forces and allied Chindits tightening on the 18th division in northern Burma. American British Indian units control territory south of Mogaung and Myitkyina, disrupting Japanese supply lines toward Mandalay and Bhamo with heavy casualties noted around Mawlu. Northern thrusts from Mogaung down the Mogaung and Ft Hertz valleys press Japanese positions as fighting continues near Palel and Bishenpur south of Imphal.
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Charles A. Grumich
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Singapore
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Mandalay
Bhamo
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Mawlu
Stilwell
Ft. Hertz
Imphal
Kohima
Bulletin
Palel
Bishenpur
Britain abandons postwar air planning for four freedoms
Lord Beaverbrook announced in the House of Lords that Britain has shifted from a Canada backed plan for central international control of postwar civil aviation to the American proposed four freedoms of the air. He said the Canadian draft, with its quotas, was too rigid for talks at an upcoming international conference likely in Washington later this year.
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James M. Long
London
Great Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
House of Lords
Beaverbrook
Privy Seal
Churchill
British Empire
Britain
U. S
Adolf Berle, Jr
Washington
Ministers at Half Way Spot
London reports secret sessions of British commonwealth prime ministers at the halfway conference. They focus on armistice terms for Germany including surrender and disarmament, plus de-industrialization. A new league of nations framework is planned with the United Nations at its core and broader participation.
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London
Germany
League of Nations
Reich
United Nations
Allied Bombers Pound Hitler's Europe in Mass Aerial Assault
More than 3,500 allied bombers dropped over 4,500 tons of explosives on Wiener Neustadt and Knin plus rail centers and airfields across France Belgium and Yugoslavia. American and British air units from Italy and Britain led the day in the 26th straight raid sequence with 4 000 planes officially announced as engaged.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Britain
Italy
Hitler
Europe
Wiener Neustadt
Austria
Knin
Yugoslavia
France
Belgium
Channel
Paris
Berlin
Messerschmitt
Vienna
Split
Sibenik
British
Air Ministry
RAF
French
Dover
Gennevilliers
Annecy
Criel
Tournai
Lillie
Mons
Brussels
Poix
Amiens
Mantes-Gassicourt
Valenciennes
R. R
Rouen
Douai
Yourcoing
Pas de Calais
Mustang
Thunderbolt
Emergency Units Ready For Invasion
London dispatch reports Allied emergency units poised to evacuate and care for non-combatants in British coastal towns ahead of D-Day. Units assigned to invasion bases, civilians moved from threatened coasts, as exiled governments and Nazi propaganda speculate on timing amid four years of occupation.
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William Smith White
London
Hitler
Low Countries
Nazi Europe
Europe
DNB
Bombs Drop On Ponape In New Raids
U S Pacific Fleet reports Seventh Army Air Force bombers hit Ponape island in the Caroline group, targeting airfields and town areas Monday with only light anti aircraft fire. Other air units also bombed Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands as part of ongoing raids to weaken a major base near Truk.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape Island
Caroline Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Marshall Islands
Ponape
Truk
Carolines
Marshall
Kelly Day for Blood Donors Named in Pittsburgh
The Red Cross announced a Kelly Day at the Pittsburgh blood donor center next Monday inviting all Kellys in the district to donate blood. Special donor cars autographed by Tech. Set. Charles E. Kelly will be present.
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Kelly
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Blood Donor Center
Tech
Charles E
Commando
The
Red Cross
Burns Wife Has Twins in Honolulu Birth
Albany Oregon May 10 Eu gene Burns Associated Press war correspondent reports his wife has twin daughters born in Honolulu yesterday while Burns is in the United States.
Maryland and nearby states see warm Thursday with clouds
Weather forecast notes party cloudy skies and continued warmth for Maryland. Eastern Pennsylvania expects partly cloudy skies with cooler conditions in the north and moderate temperatures Thursday. Western Pennsylvania should clear and turn somewhat cooler with partly cloudy skies. West Virginia shows partly cloudy skies and cooler conditions in the western areas Thursday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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