One Thousand Planes Smash Europe Near Rome
Allied air power presses toward Rome as Fifth Army recon elements reach near Artena close to Valmontone, cutting the last German escape route. A nearby thrust from the beachhead advances 36 miles southeast, forcing German retreat after fierce tank action and leaving behind equipment.
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Naples
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Artena
Valmontone
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Eternal City
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Passport seized by White House spurs Orlemanski Moscow trip
The Washington Merry Go Round reports Father Orlemanski was granted a passport despite church opposition. The State Department offered little comment as the White House sought to align Polish Russian views with Stalin. A Soviet plane carried the priest to Moscow via a secret Arctic route. The piece also hints at a possible GOP running mate for FDR, John Winant, and his swift rise through government posts.
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Russia
Detroit
Alaska
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Wendell Willkie
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John Winant
London
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New Hampshire
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
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Geneva
Social Security Board
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Great Britain
65 Aircraft Carriers Now With Fleet
Washington May 27 Assistant Secretary Gates discloses 69 aircraft carriers are in active service, with a sight echo area equal to 120 football fields and an airstrip seven miles long. He says Navy airplanes of all types will total about 37 700 soon, and 1 000 plane raids on Japan from carriers will be only the beginning.
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Washington
Artemus L. Gates
Secretary of Navy
Air
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Navy
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Warehousemen Join Nostrike Pledge of CIO
San Francisco May 27 seven thousand warehousemen of Harry Bridges CIO union went on record offering an indefinite extension of their no strike pledge beyond the war to help bring closer and secure a constructive peace and jobs for all. The San Francisco unit of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union framed the declaration calling for national unity and cooperative partnership between capital labor the farmers and the Federal government.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
CIO Union
International ’ l Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Unit
SS Ee
Commandos Land on Mijet. Four Reported Dead
British commandos landed on the island of Mijet off the Yugoslav coast on the night of May 23 and withdrew, the DNB reported from London. Four British soldiers were killed in the action. Marian Lang and Esther Abell, Juneau teachers, left today on a vacation trip in the United States.
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DNB
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Marian Lang
Esther Abell
Juneau
States
Rome 10 Be Abandoned by Germans
The Vichy radio quoted a German spokesman saying Rome will be defended by the Nazis and the next stand will be north of the city. Reports from Rome describe confusion and hunger as abandonment is announced, with neutral sources noting no Germans in the city and no new gains in the broader war.
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London
Vichy
Rome
North Burma Town Taken By Chinese
The Chinese captured the north Burma town of Wrong, twelve miles northeast of Kamaung, and seized a supply dump in the Mogaung Valley with heavy enemy casualties. Allied units from Zigyun in the Irrawaddy bend area advanced about a mile and a half toward the Japanese base at Myitkyina.
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Roosevelt expects 10 meet Churchill in near future
President Roosevelt, at a Washington news conference, said he expected to see Winston Churchill this summer, winter or late spring as part of postwar planning. He teased reporters about whether the remark hinted at presidential election timing, noting he did not like stormy weather when pressed about a winter meeting.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt Laughs On Fourth Term And Alaska Project
President Roosevelt dodged the fourth term question with a laughing reply at a news conference. The Federal Works Agency announced more than 2 million dollars for fourteen public works projects including a hydroelectric extension at Ketchikan Alaska for 125 thousand dollars.
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Washington
Federal Works Agency
Alaska
No Bread and Bakery Goods in Detroit This Week
Detroit readers cautioned that bread and bakery items will be unavailable due to store closures for Memorial Day. Meat markets will also be closed on the holiday week with warning of continued shortages and altered shopping days for residents.
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Detroit
Mid
Truman in Defense of Roosevelt Hits Republican Tactics
Senator Harry S. Truman denounces Republicans for exploiting administration mistakes revealed by the Senate War Investigating Committee. He says the goal is to win the war promptly and accuses the party of political gain from disclosed missteps.
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Conn
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Aleutian Planes Raid Kuriles Target Shumushu Island
Navy search planes based in the Aleutians raided Shumushu Island in the northern Kuriles on Wednesday. Admiral Nimitz reported several fires started in the target area and ground fire was meager. all units returned safely.
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Pearl Harbor
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Russians begin offensive on Eastern Front report
NBC dispatch quotes Vichy radio claiming a Russian offensive on the Eastern Front. No details or confirmations from sources. Mrs. J. H. Keeney of Fairbanks is in town staying at the Baranof Hotel.
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New York
David Anderson
NBC
London
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J. H. Keeney
Pairbanks
Baranof Hotel
Two Political Feuds to End If Roosevelt Wins Nomination
Washington May 27 Two political feuds loom over Roosevelt if he secures a fourth term. Alfred E. Smith, longtime New York figure, may return to the fold as the party contends with Dewey as Republican nominee. James A. Farley’s role could shift if Roosevelt dominates, with talk of Farley being offered the New York governorship.
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James A. Parley
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John J. Raskob
Jouett Shouse
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Joe Thomas E. Dewey
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Farley
Liberators pound Biak Island as Pacific campaign advances
Allied headquarters report twenty second long range raid on Biak Island in Schouten Islands 260 miles northwest of Hellandia. Liberators dropped heavy tons pushing total over 700 while preinvasion pattern of saturation bombing continues. Other bombers hit by-passed Japanese garrisons at Wewak and Rabaul. Muffin Bay fighting limited as Japanese defenders withdraw.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
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Philippines
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Hellandia
Dutch New Guinea
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Wadke Island
Schoutens
Wewak
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Rabaul
New Britain
Muffin Bay
Alaska Midshipmen Graduate on June 7
Washington May 27 Two Alaska midshipmen are members of the class to graduate from Annapolis on June 7. They are Beverly Stayer of Anchorage and Keith Kimball of Ketchikan.
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Washington
Alaska Midshipmen
Annapolis
Beverly Stayer
Anchorage
Keith Kimball
Ketchikan
Renewal of aerial war on Europe delivers heavy bombing raid
London reported a large force of up to 1000 American Liberators and Flying Fortresses struck rail targets in four German towns including Mannheim Ludwigshafen and Saarbrucken and attacked aircraft plants at Metz and Strasbourg in a renewed Allied air offensive. The raid followed by about 12 hours the Ludwigshafen chemical center hit by RAF Mosquitos with rail yards at Aachen also hit. Weather limited German fighter contact.
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London
Tmarlarhue
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Gaarbruken
Metz
Strasbourg
Ludwigahssen
Aachen
Berlin
Karlar
Hne
Reds Pound Germans In Air On Sea North Of Norway
The Russians report an air attack on a German troopship in the Barents Sea north of Norway. A midnight war bulletin says two transports and a destroyer were sunk and three other ships damaged. Earlier, Germans claimed 69 of 80 planes shot down. Russians say seven bombers were lost. Ten German planes were downed in skirmishes southeast of Stanialawow in Old Poland.
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London
Barents Sea
Norway
North Arctic
Stanialawow
Old Poland
RAF Fliers Mine Danube Waterway Operations Near Balkans
A new mining campaign by the Royal Air Force spans hundreds of miles of the Danube at night and at low altitude. The effort aims to cut German traffic to the eastern front and protect routes to the Balkans, according to RAF announcements.
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Balkans
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Woman Found Weighted Down in Lake Near Durham
Police report a woman's body found weighted down in Eastwood Lake during the search for Mrs. Edward Jewett of Bonneville Missouri who had been missing since May 10. Divers located the body. The suspect, Edward Martin, 24, grandson of Jewett, remains in jail after being indicted on a murder charge last Thursday.
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N. C
H. EB. King
Eastwood Lake
Edward Jewett
Bonneville
Edward Martin
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