Bolivia Denied Recognition by United States
The United States rejected Bolivia's revolutionary junta, linking it to a plot against the Allied war effort. State Department said the coup was one act by a general subversive movement hostile to the Allied cause and ordered Ambassador Fierd Boal to return home from La Paz.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Bolivia
Ueluaput O
State Department
Fierd Boal
la Paz
Western Hemisphere
Republicans Still Block Soldier Vote
Senate Democrats moved to consider a revised federal absentee ballot bill for armed service voters, aiming to counter state control concerns. Southern Democrats offered an amendment preserving state election regulations, while backers argued the plan respects states rights. Senate debates cited Army logistics and claims that one ballot type could be transmitted to troops abroad, with officials noting delivery limits.
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Washington
Senate Democrats
Senate
Vandenberg
R. Mich
Army
Navy
Lucas
D.il
Stimson
Knox
Union
New York Central Train Wreck Injures Five Sailors
Five sailors were hurt when the New York to Chicago Water Level Limited derailed after colliding with a derailed eastbound freight near Jordan station. They were taken to Auburn hospital. none seriously hurt. The passenger locomotive tipped, derailed two baggage and nine passenger cars, and toppled freight cars onto a brick building.
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Jordan
Auburn
Jordan Station
Steam Explosion Kills Four at Chicago Steel Plant
A steam turbine explosion at Carnegie-Tinois Steel’s South Chicago plant killed four workers and injured twelve others during Fourth War Loan rally preparations. The plant, the second largest in the world, employs about fifteen thousand people now fully devoted to war production despite the tragedy.
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Chicago
UPI
Carnegie-Tinois Steel Corporation
Brazil withholds Brazil Bolivian ties amid policy shifts
Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stated in writing that Brazil will not establish diplomatic relations with the Bolivian junta after information exchange with American governments. American recognition will be extended immediately. Economic sanctions or other positive measures are not pursued now but remain available if needed. Trade relations with Bolivia, a tin supplier to the U S and Britain, remain normal for the moment.
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Rio de Janeiro
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
United States
Bolivia
Britain
Discharge Pay Bill Sets Ceiling At $300
Washington AP Senate and House conferees drafted a compromise discharge pay bill giving $100 to $300 mustering out pay for service members. Top $300 goes to overseas or Alaska service. Cost estimated at about $3.0 billion, lower than both original House and Senate plans.
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Washington
Senate
House
Alaska
Johnson
D-Col
Continental
United States
Allies Hold Edge In Fifth Army Beachhead Report
Don Whitehead reports from the South of Rome that Italian civilians in a coastal town occupied by American troops say Germans showed little interest in this stretch and left the town last Tuesday. The landing featured precise Allied coordination, catching German forces unprepared, with Field Marshal Kesselring bunched on the inland fortress. A photographist and a doughboy recounted the landing as orderly yet unsettling, reflecting mixed emotions as the mission aimed to speed Allied entry into Rome.
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Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Fifth Army
Rome
Nettuno
Sicily
Salerno
Albert Kesselring
Bertram Brandt
Allies Down 51 Jap Planes Over Wewak Rabaul
Advanced Allied HQ in New Guinea says hundreds of Allied planes attacked Wewak and Rabaul, downing at least 1 and likely 65 Nipponese aircraft over the weekend. The operation boosted enemy losses this month to over 300 in the South and Southwest Pacific. African-based planes contributed, bombing Rabaul for the 27th time in 33 days as Mitchells with Corsairs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings hit Lakunai airfield and revetments.
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New Guinea
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
Rabaul
South
Southwest
Central Pacific
Solomons
New Yollain
Lakunai
New York City Schools Announce Week-Long Break to Save Fuel
John E. Wade, superintendent of schools, announced that NYC school children will receive a one week vacation starting Wednesday to conserve fuel.
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New York
John E. Wade
New York City
Lie Detector May Aid Chicago Hotel Murder Inquiry
Chicago police officials floated polygraph questioning of seven or eight witnesses to resolve contradictions in accounts of the Mrs. Frank Starr Williams slaying at the Drake Hotel. Among those named were the victim’s daughters and several hotel employees. Eva Fritz, a night maid, recalled hearing a woman speaking in Williams’ room at 4 45 p m a little over an hour before the shooting.
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Chicago
Frank Starr Williams
John L. Sullivan
Wilbert Crowley
Sullivan
Patycia Goodbody
Elizabeth
Drake Hotel
A F L Sets Terms of Lewis Return to Union
The American Federation of Labor laid out terms for John L. Lewis to rejoin the AFL, allowing a return as before but not with current leadership. It refused pre-recognition of outside-organizing rights and demanded jurisdictional boundaries be settled later. The unanimous decision surprised supporters and Lewis alike, with leaders like Hutcheson and Bates opposing hard terms.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Executive Council
William L. Hutcheson
The
Carpenters
Harry Bates
Bricklayers
Fourth Term Issue Stirs Senators in Washington
The Senate clash centered on a proposed federal absentee ballot for service members. Taft accused War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Knox of seeking a fourth term through the plan, while Lucas called such charges poppycock. Barkley and Vandenberg weighed in on term and dynastic power concerns.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
R.O
War
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Lucas
D.-Til
Barkley
D.-Ky
War and Navy Departments
Army
Democratic National Committee
Fifth Army Struggles as Allied Beachhead Fights Continue
Allied forces weather renewed German counterattacks along the Salerno beachhead and canal bridges south of Rome. Germans mass heavy units in Italy while Italian patriots cut the Rome Cassino railway, aiding Clark’s Cas ino front as the battle prospects echo Salerno.
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Algiers
Rome
Salerno
Italy
Albert Kesselring
Bari
Rome-Cassino
Mark W. Clark
Cassino
Nettuno
Churchmen condemn racial antagonism in joint statement
Boston leaders Cardinal or Connell and Bishop G Bromely Oxnam issued a joint statement calling racial antagonism offensive to the Almighty and national traditions. Oxnam said recent anti Semitic outbreaks and reports of anti Negro disorders prompted the announcement.
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Boston
William Cardinal Or Connell
United States
G. Bromely Oxnam
Massachusetts
Fines Totaled 767412 in New York Federal Court
United States Attorney James B. M. McNally announced that 767412.54 in fines was collected in New York Federal Court during 1943, the largest yearly total. Uncollected fines stood at 202806.80, and the amount collected more than doubled the 310000 cost of the office’s operations that year.
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New York GP
United States
James B. M. McNally
New York
United States Attorney’s Office
Police Accuse Small Boy of Being Hero
Police accuse 8-year-old Michael Moran of heroism after witnesses saw him dive into the Spuyten Duyvil Yacht Basin to aid a drowning stray dog. Fire units arrived but found him already returning to shore after paddling the collie to safety.
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New York
Michael Moran
Spuyten Duyvil
Mike
Some Legislators Seek Negotiated Peace Is Claim
Peace Now leaders said six months of campaigning had interest Congressmen in an immediate negotiated peace. They argued a compromise could spare heavy losses and avoid unconditional surrender. In Boston, Dr George Hartmann said some senators and representatives are with us but cautious until we grow larger.
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New York
Boston
George Hartmann
Peace Now
Envoy Estimates 900,000 Greeks Dead
New York UPI special envoy Joseph Besso, envoy of the Greek government in exile, estimated that 900,000 Greeks have died from an imposed starvation. Of 8,000,000 remaining, 2,000,000 suffer malaria and more than 1,500,000 have tuberculosis.
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New York
UPI
Joseph Besso
Malari
Russians sever last rail line near Leningrad
Soviet forces breakthrough operations cut the main east west rail line to trap up to 250000 German troops southeast of Leningrad. Govorov and Meretskov's armies fought toward Taetskaya Luga and Batetskaya, killing thousands of Germans and retaking towns around Novgorod and near Pushkin and Pavlovsk. Stalin hailed the breakthrough as victory.
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London
Red Army
Leningrad
Moscow
Fen Leonid A. Govorov
Krasnoy Vardeisk
Narva
K. A. Meretskov
Batetskaya
Luga
Meretskov
Novgorod
Baretskaya
Lake Umen
Shimsk
Staraya Russia
Lake [Imen
Govorov
Pushkin
Tsarkoye Selo
Pavlovsk
Slutsk
Krasnoy Var‘deisk
Russia
Stalin
Allies Slam Invasion Coast Area
American heavy bombers raided western Germany targeting productive industrial districts while hundreds of medium and fighter bombers attacked the French invasion coast for the 23rd day in a row aided by Mustang fighters Thunderbolts and Lightnings. The operations claimed 21 enemy planes down and three more by the RAF over Holland. two heavy bombers a fighter-bomber and ten fighters are missing. 21 shot down credited to U.S. A. F. and allied escorts credited with 19.
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London
Germany
Holland
Clerk Held for Theft for Dime Donations
New York postal clerk Samuel Burkowits, 43, was held in $1,000 bail by a U. S. commissioner after being accused of stealing March of Dimes donations. Assistant U. S. Atty John H. Hilly said he possessed five letters to President Roosevelt, twenty dimes, and other letters when arrested Saturday night.
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New York
Samuel Burkowits
U. S
Atty Jonn H. Hilly
Burkowits
Roosevelt
To Fill Vacancy Dewey May Hold Key To Saratoga Chairmanship
Albany reports Gov. Dewey may influence Saratoga County GOP leadership by appointing a representative to fill the vacancy from the death of George Ostrander. County leaders from the 29th District met to choose delegates for the June National GOP convention in Chicago. Bartholomew tied to Washington County was unofficially slated as a delegate, with a Saratoga County resident to be named otherwise.
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Edward McDonald
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Sara
Atoga County
George N Ostrander
Saratoga Springs
29Th
Rensselaer
Saratoga
Washington
Warren
G.O.P
Chicago
Dean P. Taylor
Earl Sh. Vetter
Chestertown
Rensselaer County
Bartholomew
Saratoga County
Taylor
Briggs Claims Hopkins Letter Is Pawn in Power Politics
Washington aide Briggs testified before a federal grand jury about the Hopkins letter tying Wendell Willkie to Republican presidential hopes. He described Langer as manipulating the matter and said Ickes and Hopkins were central figures. Briggs outlined his career and connections to Sparks and Willkie coverage.
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Washington
George N. Briggs
Ickes
Hopkins
Wailkike
Willkie
Senator Langer
Briggs
C. Nelson
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Philadelphia
Interior Department
Sparks
Frank E. Ganenett
Rochester
Kelly
Anaconda Co Officials Will Serve Sentences
Providence Rhode Island reports that Anaconda Wire and Cable Co and four former officials relinquished right to appeal federal sentences imposed last week for conspiring to defraud the government through substandard Army field wire. Attorneys paid the fines. sentences became final. Morley Eagleson Morrow and another Eagleson face terms from 12 to 15 months in federal custody. The government seeks over $300,000 in a separate civil suit.
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William H. Morley
Jacob Eagleson
Lowell K Morrow
William Eagleson
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