Allies Raid Anti Invasion Targets in France and Holland
Allied air forces led by American Liberators and Thunderbolts struck anti invasion targets on the northern French coast and an airfield in Holland after Berlin’s Berlin raid. The Pas de Calais operation marked the month’s thirtieth major attack with nine Allied fighters reported missing and heavy Luftwaffe opposition at Gilze-Rijen, while RAF patrols kept up over northern and western France.
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France
Holland
RAF
Berlin
Pas de Calais
U.S. Army
Air Ministry
Gilze- Rijen
Britain
Germany
Americans Press Marshalls Assault With Air Sea Power
The report notes a tenth raid on Wake and coordinated strikes by carrier planes and land bombs from the Gilbert Islands. Tokyo and London broadcasts indicate American invasion forces potentially landed in the Marshalls and are engaging Japanese shore defenses, with shelling and bombing of Kwajalein Maloelap and Wotje atolls.
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United States
Marshalls
Wake
Mid- Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Marshall Islands
Pacific
London
Pearl Harbor
Kwajalein
Maloelap
Wotje
Marshalls Waters
Imperial Headquarters
Domei
Invasion Forecast for Marshalls Faces Allied Force
A Pearl Harbor dispatch outlined a strong U. S. task force shelled Kwajalein Maloelap and Wotje as 62 Japanese planes fell Friday. Allied air raids and ship movements suggest a possible invasion of the Marshalls, with atolls Kwajalein Maloelap Wotje at risk and strategic positioning near Wake Island Truk and Tokyo.
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Gilberts
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Kwajalein
Wotje
Maloelap
Jaluit
Taroa
Maloelap Atoll
United States
Japan
League of Nations
Makin
Wake Island
Truk
Tokyo
Central Pacific
Gilberta
Rabaul
Southwest Pacific
Tokyo Radio
United Press
New York
Far Eastern
Fourteenth Air Force
China Sea
He Who Hesitates- Stays in the Army in Tennessee
Pvt J W Lyons awaiting medical discharge in an evacuation hospital learned his payday would fall before release. At his request he stayed two extra days to receive his pay envelope. War Department then noted Lyons disabilities no longer justified discharge. He kept his pay and remained in the Army.
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Second Army
Tennessee
Pvt
J. W. Lyons
War Department
Lyons
Army
Mechanicville Marine Wounded in Action
Pfc Dominick J Bruno of the Marine Corps son of Pascoe Bruno of 9 Grove Street Mechanicville was listed as wounded in action in a Navy Department report yesterday.
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Pfc
Dominick J. Bruno
Marine Corps
Pascoe Bruno
Grove Street
Mechanicville
Navy Department
Dewey Maps Budget Shifts For Postwar Era
Governor Dewey outlines a skimmed budget with transfers from the general fund to a postwar reconstruction fund and a series of reforms. He calls for a $2.5 million emergency reserve, education aid cuts, higher salaries for Civil Service Commission members, continued war pay, and large highway and agricultural spending, with a net $954,744 reduction in government operations.
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State Civil Service
Council
Emergency Food Commission
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Conservation Department
The
War Council
Legislature
Judiciary
Dewey
Public Works Planning Commission
Governor urges lump sum funds for health and welfare reform
The governor proposes permanent local control of part of mortgage tax and a one year turnover of utilities tax for cities. He cites cuts to education and aid for dependents, but calls for increases in old age and home relief. He urges lump sum appropriations to health, labor and social welfare to enable reorganizing after years of growth. He stresses efficiency and readiness for postwar needs.
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State Committee On Municipal Finance
Dewey
Department of Health, Labor and Social Welfare
New York Budget Proposals Postwar Economic Plan
Highlights call for re-enacting emergency tax levies for another year while deferring final decisions on permanent taxes. Projected home relief costs rise to about 20 million with a state share near 17.9 million, and 150 thousand earmarked to advertise New York’s recreational and industrial advantages. Emphasis on national recovery, job creation through public works, and confidence in postwar reconstruction.
Deserts, Brussel Sprouts and Service Wages in Britain
Reports from the U S Army subsistence laboratory in Britain describe testing of rations and recipes sent by field mess sergeants. Admiral William Brent Young notes that women workers, particularly WAVES, can replace some male duties, potentially freeing men for combat.
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William Brent Young
U. S. Navy Bureau of Supplies
G. I. Joe
Sergt
Emmett Slater
Cobleskill
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
U. S. Army
Service of Supply
United States
G. I. Foe
Army
Navy
Admiral Young
U. S. Navy
Washington, D. C
Giant Turbine Runner Arrives for Denison Dam
A massive turbine runner for the Denison Dam powerhouse arrived in Denison Texas after a three week journey from York Pennsylvania. The one piece casting weighs 157600 pounds and spans almost 17 feet in diameter. Its size required daytime movement and reduced speeds on local freight lines to clear tunnels bridges and structures along a circuitous route.
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Denison, Tex
Denison Dam
York
Spring Chicken at 9 Percent in Southwest Harbor Me
Samuel Ward Newman, age 90, declares he is still a spring chicken for his family while noting a brother died at 98 and his uncle passed two years after celebrating 107, reflecting long life near Southwest Harbor, Maine.
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Southwest Harbor
Samuel Ward Newman
Soldier Gives Family Clothes To Aid Russians
Milwaukee dispatch reports Frc. Herman Faber of Fort Sheridan donated several boxes of clothing to needy Russians through the Milwaukee Unit of the Russian War Rebels Society. He recalled five years waiting for news of his parents and brother, last heard from in a Czechoslovakian concentration camp, and said they perished under Nazi rule. He described German occupiers as brutal and hoped the garments would aid Russians fighting Hitler.
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Milwaukee
Herman Faber
Fort Sheridan
America
Cologne
Cobienz
Hitler
Chinese troops crush Japanese in Burma forest battle
American trained Chinese forces shouting Sal charge with fixed bayonets to wipe out a Japanese company along the Chindwin River near Taro. A 24 hour fight leaves enemy dead in fox holes and trenches while Chinese casualties are light. Night battle blocks Japanese escape. blood curdling yells fill the fray as Chinese advance under Col. George W. Shney observation.
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Jurgie
Chindwin River
Taro
Chindwin
George W. Shney
Thermopolis
Wyo
American Observer
Victory Gardeners Target Ten Million Ton Goal
H W Hochbaum, chairman of the national Victory Garden committee, announced in Omaha that victory gardeners must raise ten million tons of vegetables in 22 million gardens this year as part of United Nations plans. He said the targets rise by two million gardens and two million tons from last year during a Kansas Missouri Town Nebraska conference.
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Victory Gardeners
United Nations
H W. Hochbaum
Washington
Hochbaum
National Victory Garden Committee
Reedsville Youth Slips Through Window in Sleepwalk
David Hostetler, a Reedsville youth, woke in Lewistown Hospital with lacerations after sleepwalking and breaking through a window. He was treated and sent home to bed. The incident underscores a hazardous night lapse in a quiet town.
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Lewistown, Pa
INS
David Hostetler
Reedsville
Lewistown Hospital
Former Georgia Governor Thomas W Hardwick Dies
Former Georgia governor Thomas W Hardwick 71 died last night in Sandersville Ga from a heart attack after several weeks illness. He served as governor from 1921 to 1923 was a U S senator 1914 to 1919 and served in the U S House 1903 to 1913.
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Sandersville
Thomas W. Hardwick
Hardwick
United States
U. S
House of Representatives
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