Yanks Halt Jap Admiralty Attack
Allied forces repelled a Japanese counterattack on Los Negros Island within a day of landing. General MacArthur said the assault was bloodily repulsed as First Cavalry Division troops consolidated a foothold at a 000 foot airstrip, with near 100 enemy dead and negligible American losses. The airfield is set to be used by U.S. air forces soon.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Momote
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Douglas MacArthur
First Cavalry
MacArthur
Los Negros
Manus Island
Manus
Luftwaffe and RAF Launch Night Air War Over Britain
British and German air forces fought night raids with coastal observers noting large RAF sorties toward the continent and a German raid on London causing some casualties and property damage. The London assault followed the pattern of prior raids with flares searchlights and heavy anti aircraft fire lighting the sky as defenses largely held.
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London
Continent
R. A.F
Augsburg
Britain
Second Attempt Made to Wreck B and A Train
Boston police in Natick report a second wrecking attempt on the Boston and Albany line near Natick last night. Two 14 year old boys confessed to placing a tie on the tracks to see what would happen following an earlier derailment attempt near St. Louis bound service. Federal and rail officials declined to comment on the incidents.
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Boston
B.L
St. Louis
Natick
Boston & Albany
E. A. Soucy
B.1
F B.I
London Faces Second Consecutive Night Alert
London UPI reports a second successive night alert with early air raid warnings. Anti aircraft guns fired as planes were heard over various sections of the capital. Searchlights swept the sky while raiders dodged responses, marking the first midnight to dawn alert since Feb. 22.
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London
UPI
Strawberries Urged as Luxury Pay Price Says Producers
Washington CP reports berry producers across a dozen states protest price selling and inflation impact. They argue strawberries for breakfast are a luxury and should command a luxury price amid normal fluctuations.
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Washington
MacArthur Headed for Philippines
Washington reports MacArthur's forces have landed to outflank and isolate Rabaul, shifting the Pacific war toward the Philippines. The maneuver isolates the New Britain base, with about 50,000 enemy troops cut off at Rabaul and more trapped in the Solomons, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok.
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Washington
Admiralty Islands
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
Admiralties
Southwest Pacific
America
Pacific
Japan
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
New Britain
MacArthur
Solomons
Central Pacific
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Marshall Islands
Judge considers dismissal in Berry Chaplin paternity suit
A motion to dismiss Joan Berry's paternity suit against Charles Chaplin was taken under advisement by Superior Judge Stanley Mosk after several hours of argument yesterday.
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Los Angeles
Abuse Of Negro Will Be Probed
Legislative leaders promised a full inquiry into abuses of Negroes amid Albany County crime probes. Mayor Erastus Corning and two Negro Assemblymen urged Governor Dewey to appoint an investigator not connected with the current Albany inquiry. The charge stems from Sonny Jones alleging assault by state troopers on the 29th floor of the State Office Building.
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Albany County
Erastus Corning
Dewey
Corning
Albany
Sonny Jones
Assembly
Morris Zuckman
American Labor Party
Jones
George P. Monaghan
Trial of Former Governor Ends In Hung Jury
Oklahoma City report says former Governor Leon C. Phillips trial on a parole conspiracy charge ended with a hung jury after two days and three nights of deliberations. Jury foreman W A Day notified Judge A P Van Meter that the panel could not reach a verdict, with a 9 to 3 split in favor of acquittal. The judge dismissed the jury and Phillips faces another trial on a separate charge involving a payoff connected to clemency efforts for his life sentence in an abortion death case.
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Oklahoma City
Leon C. Phillips
W. A. Day
A. P. van Meter
van Meter
Phillips
Marie Eissminger
Substandard Risk May End Lepke's Life Insurance Payout
Federal judge rejects habeas corpus bid delaying Lepke Buchalter’s execution set for tonight. Insurance firms reportedly insured him for 1.6 million dollars, with an expert labeling him a substandard risk. Co-defendants Louis Capone and Emanuel Weiss await the same fate for the 1936 Rosen murder.
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New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalier
Lepke
Thomas E. Dewey
Emanuel
Mendy) Weiss
Joseph Rosen
Buchalter
Duco's Dilemma in Argentine Revolt Fails in Uruguay
A bloodless coup attempt by Army colonel Trent Cal Tamas Duco against acting President Edelmiro Farrell fizzled as Duco and about 1000 troops surrendered after marching from Buenos Aires to a suburb. Ramirez had resigned in favor of Farrell. naval leaders signaled acceptance of Farrell, and the regime faced continued domestic and foreign pressures.
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UPA
Edelmiro Farrell
Farrell
Trent Cal Tamas
Pedro Ramirez
Ramirez
Duco
Buenos Aires
Alberto!wats
Teisaire
Supreme Court
Lemas de Zamora
Red Army Cuts Nazi Escape From Narva and Pskov Fronts
Moscow said Soviet forces punched a Narva bridgehead and cut the Narva to Reval railway while also seizing several localities near Pskov and Idritsa. Troops in White Russia moved on Vitebsk front, reaching Auvere rail station and penetrating nine miles beyond.
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London
Moscow
Red
Estonia
Narova
Narva
Pskov
Pskov- Idritsa-Polotsk
White Russia
Vitebsk
Skulovichi
Auvere
Reval
Allied halt German drive on Anzio beachhead
Allied forces blocked a German lunge at Anzio amid a renewed heavy artillery duel. Reports from the sector described continued Nazi pressure along the 25 mile perimeter with infantry and tanks probing between Carroceto and Cisterna and heavy shelling of the beachhead.
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Allied
Naples
Anzio
Rome
NBC
Carroceto
Cisterna
State Soldier Ballot Favored By Governors
A PI A poll of governors shows general approval for a federal state servicemen vote compromise while governors push for state ballots. Most support access to state ballots and question using the federal ballot if a state ballot is unavailable by October 1. A Senate-Houses committee change allows federal ballots for service voters only on election day, while state ballot advocates oppose within the United States.
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Washington
Senate Houses
United States
A L P Endorses Wagner For Fourth Term
New York politicians agreed that Robert F Wagner can seek a Democratic American Labor Party nomination for a fourth term in the U S Senate if he desires It. Wagner said health is fine and his nomination would depend on state conventions of the Democratic and American Labor Parties. ALP leaders called him the unquestioned choice and urged him not to retire.
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New York
Robert F. ‘Wagner
U. S
Wagner
Washington
George S. Counts
Alex Rose
The
Wake Islands Raided in Fourteenth Strike of War
Pacific Fleet reports Wake Island about 2 300 miles west of Pearl Harbor faced its fourteenth raid of the war on Monday. Navy Liberator bombers probably destroyed six grounded Japanese planes. Admiral Nimitz also noted attacks on Nauru by a lone search plane and new strikes by Army and Navy units on three enemy bases in the eastern Marshall Islands.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Here
Chester W. Nimitz
Nauru
Navy
Marshall Islands
Meryhalls
Veterans Lecture Lewis on Strikes
Two youths claiming Italian campaign veterans visited John L. Lewis and lectured on strikes and servicemen hardships abroad. An official from the United Mine Workers noted the discussion ended with one youth asking for a union application blank. The visitors were Corp. Henry Kania of Schenectady and Pvt. Jacob Ricotta of Rochester. one cried several times, but no blows occurred.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
K. C. Adams
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Corp
Henry Kania
Schenectady
Jacob Ricotta
Rochester
Adams
Artilleryman Killed In Jeep Car Collision At Point of Pines
U S Army artilleryman Pvt William Thomas 23 of Springfield was killed when an Army jeep collided with a passenger car near Point of Pines Revere Mass At Fort Banks Hospital Sergt Raymond Conwall of Weedsport New York is listed as seriously injured and Sergt Harry Thurnban of West Newton Mass is only less critically injured
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Sergt
Harry Thurnban
Wrest Newton
Noxon Wastebasket Notes Made Evidence
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a murder trial features torn scraps found in a waste basket with notes including would have picked a different time and would not have destroyed cord. State Detective Morgan testifies the pieces likely belong to defendant John F. Noxon Jr. as prosecutors link statements to the child's electrocution death last September. The Commonwealth seeks to prove the notes reflect intent while Noxon denies harming his baby and a later police interview is quoted about mercy and institutionalizing the child.
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Mass
Tray
Cord
John F. Noxon, Jr
John F. Horgan
Abraham E. Pinanski
Noxon
Charles R. Alberti
Commonwealth
George P. Hunt
Draft Needs 1,200,000 By July 1
Biloxi Mississippi Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of Selective Service, told the Biloxi Lions that 1,200,000 more selectees will enter the armed forces by July 1. He outlined quotas from the 3,000,000 deferred and described reclassification into 1-A and other categories, noting about 250,000 soldiers to be secured this year and the ongoing need to find work for discharged service members.
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Biloxi
Miss. CP
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Lonergan Defense Calls Confession A Fake
Wayne Lonergan's counsel branded the purported confession a fake as the murder trial nears a second day. The defense argued the document is not genuine while the prosecution hinges on Lonergan admitting to killing Patricia Lonergan last October 24 in her apartment. Judge Freschi ruled the word fake out and replaced it with alleged.
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Lonergan
New York
Wayne Lonergan
Sion
Young Case Society
Royal Canadian Aircraftman
Patricia
Edward V. Broderick
Jacob Grumet
General Sessions
John J. Freschi
Broderick
Finnish Negotiations Hover Over Moscow Peace Terms
Finnish newspapers attack Moscow peace proposals as unacceptable yet no talks are in progress. Britain reportedly accepts the terms as moderate under the Anglo Soviet pact. A Finnish envoy to Moscow may head an armistice commission led by Juho Paasikivi, with Bulgaria Romania and Hungary under close watch.
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London
Helsinki
Russia
Britain
Moscow
Stockholm
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hungary
M. T
Nicholas van Kallay
Finland
Juho Paasikivi
President Lees Members of Asia High Command
President Roosevelt met with Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer deputy to Mountbatten and a commander in chief candidate in the region during a White House visit. Earlier he talked with Brig. Gen. Layndon L. Boeavier chief of staff of the Chinese army in India. Four days later he conferred with Maj. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler Mountbatten’s chief supply officer.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Southeas
White House
Wedemeyer
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Layndon L. Boeavier
India
Mountbatten
Raymond A. Wheeler
Spanish Veterans Benefit Raised to 75 Pension
President Roosevelt signed legislation increasing from 350 to 375 a month pensions for Spanish American War veterans Philippine Insurrection veterans and China Relief veterans. The law provides pensions for veterans 68 or older and those totally disabled.
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Roosevelt
Spain
China
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