Allied Air Forces Strike Romania and Enter Russia
Strong formations of American bombers and Mustang fighters landed at secretly prepared bases in Russia after bombing Romanian targets. The operation linked Allied air power with the Red Air Force in a long range plan to bring Nazi targets under precision bombing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Russia
Hitler
Red Air Force
Italy
Ecussa
Eastern Command
Mediterranean Air Command
Associated Press
Joseph Morton
Bari
Supreme Allied Command
Mediterranean
Romania
Red
Budapest
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Kathleen
John R. Deane
An.siasti
American Legion of Merit
Alexander R. Perminov
Allied invasion pressure builds as D-Day nears
War analyst DeWitt MacKenzie reports Allied forces poised on eastern and western fronts while invasion bets and airborne preparations intensify. He notes Nazi resistance, forthcoming offensives in the Balkans and Rhone valley, and keen focus on securing Italy as Kesselring fights to avert a total retreat from the Alban Hills south of Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Romania
Poland
Germany
Balkans
Rica
Rhone
France
Europe
Italy
Kesselring
Casilina
Alban Hills
Rome
Alban
Rommel Leads Effort to Seize Tito in Bosnia
German forces under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved into Tito’s Bosnian headquarters near Drvar on May 25 in a bid to capture the Partisan leader. Tito escaped with Maj Randolph Churchill and other officers, while two Time Life correspondents and two Reuters photographers were captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bari
Italy
Erwin Rommel
Marshal Tito
Tito
Randolph Churchill
Stoyan Pribichevich
Time
Life
Fortune
John Talbot
Reuters
Pribichevich
Drvar
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Split
Congress likely to recess in two weeks after price control vote
The House banking committee unanimously backed a year long extension of wartime price controls while preserving subsidies on meat butter and flour but blocking aid for other foods. A separate Bankhead textile price standards proposal was moved to a separate extension measure. Cotton remains below parity as Senate and House plan to debate bills next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joe
Congress
House Banking Committee
Bankhead
Ala
Senate Banking Committee
Rep. Brown
D-Ga
Senate
House
Allies Pledge to Spare Rome If Germans Do Not Fight
Allied command in Italy vows to protect Rome and its monuments while continuing operations against German forces. Pope Pius XII urged sparing the city, stressing Rome as a historic religious center and seat of the pope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Italy
Rome
Pius XII
Vatican City
Stor Home
Velletri
Valmontone
Paratrooper Survives Unusual Upward Flight
A young paratrooper leaped from a plane shouted Geronimo and instead rose on a thermal wind for about thirty minutes. He watched his unit fight a mock battle below before the thermal released him and he rejoined his battalion as a fresh recruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Geronimo’ Li’ke
Air Force
Indiana GOP convention reshapes Dewey battle for nomination
Indiana Republicans rejected pledging 29 votes to Dewey at the state convention. Bricker backers proclaimed a sweeping win with 64 pledged, plus 2 more delegates and 6 supporters, while Dewey and anti Bricker factions eye unpledged delegates likely to extend the nomination fight. Capehart won the U S Senate long-term race, Tucker withdrew, Jenner chosen for short term, and Gates secured the gubernatorial nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Dewey
Republican Party
Indiana
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Homer E. Capehart
Indianapolis
U. S. Senate
Capehart
Washington
Ind
James M. Tucker
Paoli
William E. Jenner
Bedford
E. J. Hancock
Greensburg
Ralph F. Gates
GOP
Nazi Coastal Installations Under Attack
London dispatch reports heavy bombing of Pas de Calais and Boulogne coast defenses by 250 bombers from Britain in morning and afternoon missions. Allied air raids with RAF and U S aircraft total about 4 500 tons in 24 hours targeting Atlantic Wall fortifications and German rail facilities as part of a three way aerial campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Bealmear
London
U. S
Pas- De-Calais
Boulogne
France
Europe
Britain
West Wall
Atlantic Wall
Continent
Mediterranean
Rus
Weather Report for Georgia and Northwest Florida
Partly cloudy and unseasonably warm today and Sunday with scattered afternoon thunder showers in Georgia. Fair and warm tonight. Northwest Florida also partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Sunday with a few widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Florida
Wallace Speaks in Russian to Siberian Audience
Vice President Wallace spoke in Russian in Irkutsk urging full collaboration between the United States and Soviet Union for world peace and development. Moscow radio said he was warmly greeted en route to China and noted his Siberian tour of Komsomolsk and local factories and farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Siberian
Irkutsk
Wallace
Moscow
China
American Northwest
Canada
Alaska
Soviet Siberia
United States
Russia
Siberia
Komsomolsk
Allied Gains in Burma and India Sectors
Allied forces press in Burma and India as American troops push on Biak Island. In Burma’s Myitkyina area a northern thrust reaches the city edge and the southern rail station is seized in close combat. British Chindit units claim 700 Japanese killed en route to 3,700 in the campaign. Chinese and American trained troops advance toward Myitkyina through rain and mud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Schedler
Associated Press
Burma
India
Biak
Pacific
Myitky Ia
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Salween
Breakthroughs South of Rome Threaten Capital
Allied forces report breaking through Nazi defenses south of Rome and advancing toward the capital. In the Alban hills and Sacco valley, U S and Fifth Army troops seize Anagni Labico Lanuvio and Monte Castellacio while aiming to link with advancing units toward Rome along the via Casilina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Army
Sacco
Anagni
Ferentino
Via Casilina
Fifth Army
Labico
Valmontone
Lanuvia
Velletri
Rome
U. S
Via Cassina
Alban Hills
Monte Castellacio
Seacoast
Americana
Albanills
Alban
Lanuvio
Rocca di Papa
Palestrina
United States
Sacco River
Labor Troubles Cause Limited Strikes Across 11 Industries
Labor disputes affecting 11 industries according to the Associated Press involved about 11 000 workers idle. The largest action was at American Steel and Wire in Worcester with 3 600 idle amid a dispute over union grievance procedures. Other stoppages included 2 500 textile workers in Danville Virginia and protests at Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills over race and garnishment issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Sou Ern
American Steel and Wire Company
Worcester, Mass
CIO
Danville
Riverside
Dan River
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Hull
Cordell Hull
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
L. C. Arends
R-Ill
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
R-Mass
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Charles A. Eaton
R-N.j
Sol Bloom
D-N.y
Robert Ramspeck
REICH
England
Africa
Deane
Rommel
Pas-de- Calais
Biak Island
Southwest
Breakthru
Eternal City
American Fifth
Allied
Henry Bergh
Golden Gate
San Francisco
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