Soviets Recognize Badoglio Regime Amid Naples Talks
Naples reports confirm Soviet Union and Italy exchange ambassadors marking the first Allied recognition of Marshal Badoglio's government. The move surprised British officials and drew statements from Italian Communist leader Eugenio Reale asserting continued opposition to Badoglio.
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Naples
Russia
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
United Nations
Badoglio
Leadre
Hussia
Eugenio Reale
Communist Party
Badogna
Vittorio Emanuele
Socialist
Action Parties
Reale
Russia-Italy ambassador swap sparks Washington debate
Washington officials and diplomats weigh the impact of Russia exchanging ambassadors with Italy under Premier Badoglio. Questions focus on portrayal of Italy as a full ally, equal representation by the U S and Britain, and potential Balkan repercussions amid Rome's capture uncertainties.
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Washington
Russia
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
United States
Britain
Italy
Rome
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Lovett Resigns Post At Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie, V I. VP Robert Morss Lovett, former government secretary for the Virgin Islands, resigns as executive assistant to the governor at the request of Secretary Ickes. His departure ends a clash over his retention after Congress barred payment of his wages. He faces a Supreme Court case to recover salary withheld since last November.
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Charlotte Amalie
V. I
Robert Morss Lovett
The
Virgin Islands
Interior Ickes
Roosevelt
Congress
Lovett
Supreme Court
Act of Congress
Nazi Prisoner Found Hanged at Camp Phoenix Arizona
Col. A H Means commandant of Papago Park interment camp said German POW Werner Dreschler was found hanged in an empty building inside the POW enclosure. No details were released. Two other internees escaped Sunday night but were captured shortly after.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Col
A. H. Means
Papago Park
Werner Dreschler
Derailment Blocks Main D. and H. Tracks
A northbound Delaware and Hudson freight train derailed late yesterday, blocking the main tracks for about two hours. The southbound line was cleared and traffic routed over it. the northbound line remained blocked with cause under investigation. Nine cars were derailed and the dispatcher reported no confirmed cause yet.
Reds Crush Nazi Troops At Kherson
Soviet dispatches say Malinovsky’s forces crushed German garrisons at Kherson, seizing the Black Sea base at the Dnieper mouth. The bulletin reports 206,000 German dead and 2,500 captured in a week, with Galganovka taken and Nikoleav threatened, as Stalin lauded the operation as a strategic rail and water junction.
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London
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Stalingrad
Kherson
Black Sea
Dnieper River
Moscow
Dnieper
Third Ukraine
Monitor
Malinovsky
Galganovka
Ingulets
Nikolaev
Old Doland
Tarnopol
Red Army
Joseph Stalin
Spirit of Darrow Mum Again on bridge vigil
Clarence Darrow’s spirit failed to manifest as Claude P. Noble, Detroit magician, displayed a copy of Clarence Darrow for the Defense at Jackson Park. Noble recited the Lord’s Prayer and renewed a six year pact with the deceased attorney.
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Chicago
Clarence Darrow
Darrow
Claude P. Noble
Detroit
Jackson Park
Irving Stone
It Was Inevitable Sumner Meat Token Incident
A Sumner Washington woman dumped over 200 red plastic tokens used as Meat point change on a butcher shop counter. She said they were from a little poker game and used as chips, shocking the market keeper.
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Sumner, Wash. U
Slavs Led By Yank Take Brac Island From Germans
An unidentified American officer led a Yugoslav Partisan force to seize Brac Island in the Adriatic, taking the Pacisco port on the northeast coast. The operation, announced by the Yugoslav Army of Liberation, could aim to protect the Adriatic supply route to Marshal Tito and may presage an attack on Split, or disrupt German coastal shipping after Italy's surrender.
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London
Brac
Adriatic
Split
Rome Safety Up To Nazis In Rome Warning
Secretary Hull warned that if Rome becomes a battle ground or sacred Christian relics are destroyed the blame will rest with German forces. He said Allied authorities act on military necessity and seek to spare churches shrines and lives "to the extent humanly possible" while confirming Rome may face bombardment if needed. He answered questions at a press briefing following Pope Pius XII's appeal to spare Rome.
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Hull
Pope Pius XII
Rome
New Soldier Vote Bill Faces Senate Opposition
Washington senators clash over service vote legislation as a states rights compromise provokes charges it will disenfranchise 12 million servicemen. Guffey accuses backers of fear to let soldiers vote for Roosevelt and cites racial and economic voting fears in the debate. Connally supports the compromise as the best possible bill while Green condemns it as worse than no service vote law.
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Washington
Guffey
D.-Pa
Senate
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Senator Connally
Tex
Congress
Connally
House
Green
Jap Hari-Kari Drive Ends on Barbed Wire
Guadalcanal reports show five hundred Japanese soldiers surged to breach the Empress Augusta Bay line on Bougainville in the Solomons. American defenses halted these mass charges using rifles, machine guns, mines, flamethrowers, and grenades. Official tally cites light Allied casualties, while Japanese losses exceed 1,000. 501 bodies were counted on the barbed wire entanglements after the last assault.
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Guadalcanal
Solomons
Bougainville Island
Empress Augusta Bay
Fourteenth Army Corps
First Lady Grows Stronger With Years in Surinam
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Paramaribo Surinam on a Carib bean bases tour. Acting Gov. Brons Col. Culp and U S officials greeted her at the airfield. Asked if she was tired she said you get stronger as you get older.
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Surinam
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dutch Guiana
United States
Caribbean
J. C. Brons
Clarence Culp
U. S
Many Factors Involved Surgery Not Sulfa and Plasma
Army surgeon Lieut Col Stephens Graham reported that World War II battle death rates fell about 50 from World War I due to vast surgical and medical improvements. He cited better troop health, faster transport to care, and frontline medical staffing as key, with more severe leg injuries and fragmentation wounds noted as new trends.
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Rochester
American College of Surgeons
Stephens Graham
Second Service Command
Col
Graham
Africa
Dewey Vote Plan Called A Mess
Washington Mayor LaGuardia criticized Gov. Dewey’s soldier ballot plan as impractical and said only a uniform federal ballot could work. He warned the state plan would require mailing millions of cards and ballots and would never be counted.
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Washington
LaGuardia
New York City
Thomas E. Dewey
Green
Dewey
New York
Armed Services
England Orders Free Civvies for Soldiers
The Ministry of Supply ordered civilian outfits for one million British soldiers. Complete sets from hats to shoes will be issued at no cost to service members when they are demobilized, ensuring full attire upon discharge.
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England
London
Ministry of Supply
OPA May Cut West A Coupons
Washington reports a possible reduction of Western andMidwestern A gasoline coupons to align with Eastern Seaboard limits of two gallons weekly. PAW may announce changes today by extending A coupon validity from two to three months, aiming at nationwide ration equality.
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Washington (P
West
Midwest
Bryan Houston
Office of Price Administration
Petroleum Administration
PAW
Harold L. Ickes
OPA
Winchell Dares Dies To Issue Summons
Walter Winchell, in Miami Beach, challenged Rep. Dies of Texas and Rep. Hoffman of Michigan to subpoena him to Washington for interrogation over his activities. He claimed the Hoffmans, the Dies, and the Rankins could compel him but are afraid to. He ridiculed Hoffman's speech against the Roosevelt administration and accused Hoffman of lacking his gag writer. He also suggested the F B I investigate Winchell and Drew Pearson.
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Winchell
Roosevelt
Rep. Hoffman
Hoffman
Michigan
Troy Record
Drew Pearson
Russians Set Reval Ablaze in Baltic Harbor Fire
Soviet monitor bulletin from Moscow reports Russian bombers set fires in Reval Tallinn Estonian capital visible 154 miles away amid German troop trains fuel dumps chemical factory and ships in harbor. Five Russian planes failed to return to base.
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London
Reval
Tallinn
Iso
Moscow
Dewey Proposes Stabilized State Education Aid
Albany reports Governor Thomas E. Dewey urged the Legislature to stabilize state aid for education for the next two years using 1942-43 school attendance as the base and to add 1.3 million dollars immediately to reach that level for the current fiscal year. Democratic leader Irwin Steingut challenged the plan as a GOP about face while Republican Irving Ives supported it, with the note that further study may affect NYC readiness for next year.
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Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Irwin Steingut
Assembly
New York City
Steingut
Irving M. Ives
Republican Assembly
Supreme Court rules Oklahoma seizure of interstate liquor illegal
The Supreme Court orated a 7 to 2 decision finding Oklahoma’s seizure of a wine and whisky shipment from outside the state to Fort Sill unlawful. The ruling ordered return of the liquor to Fellow Cab Transit Company, which had been transporting it from East St Louis to the Fort Sill officers’ club. Justice Black led the majority, stating no Oklahoma law restricted interstate liquor shipments through the state to another state or U S territory.
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Washington
Supreme ‘Court
Oklahoma
Fort Sill Military Reservation
Cab Transit Company
East St. Louis
Fort Sill
Justice Black
Allies Refuse Sanctions on Eire Amid Border Clampdown
A high authority said Ireland will see border closure with Northern Ireland but no immediate Allied sanctions. The move, tied to a broader UK Irish travel ban, comes with fuel and supply strains across the country.
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Dublin 2
Eire
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Ulster
St. George's Channel
Wales
Roosevelt
Eamon de Valera
United States
Eire-Ulster
Crisis deepens as Finland faces Moscow armistice terms
Finland fights to end the war as Moscow presses for intergen forces, border reversion, and repatriation of prisoners. A poised Parliament session looms amid reports of a stark Russian reply and growing pressure on Helsinki to accept conditions or risk severe consequences.
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Stockholm
Russia
Finland
Edwin Shapire
Associated Press
Helsinki
Moscow
Sweden
Germans Fail To Defend French Coast
London reports U S air forces struck German forward positions in northern France in small numbers. The raid followed a record level of Allied sorties in the last three months. German fighter defenses were absent in this sector, near Britain, where rocket guns and robot planes are known to be deployed.
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London
U. S
France
Britain
Army Mine School Explosion Kills Ten at Camp Robinson
An explosion at a surface mine school demonstration on Camp Robinson's northern reservation killed ten enlisted men and injured sixteen. Soldiers were installing and removing various mine types. cause not determined at the time of the publicity office release.
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Camp Robinson Ark. P
Publicelations Office
Ten Minute Cobb Funeral Observed In Simple NY Service
Simple ten minute funeral for Irvin S. Cobb author and humorist held in a New York funeral home. Relatives and friends attended despite Cobb's request for no flowers and cheerful call. Rev Bonnet led prayers as tunes and readings closed with memorials planned for Paducah service weeks hence. Notables at service included Grantland Rice Harry Hershfield Rube Goldberg Fred Stone Roland Young Jannie Hurst Maj Edward Graves Cavey Tot Thomas J Watson and Edward Johnson.
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New York
Irvin S. Cobb
John Sutherland Bonnet
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Cobb
Robert Ta
Stevenson
Harry Gilbert
Paducah
Coabb
Laura Spencer Baker Cobb
Hewitt Howland
Betty Blun
Grantland Rice
Harry Hershfield
Ruben Goldbers
Fred Stone
Roland Young
Jannie Hurst
Maj
Edward Graves Cavey Tot
The
Chemical National Bank
Thomas J Watson
International Business Machines Corporation
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Opera Company
Clerks Nearly Dead as Tax Deadline Nears
New York report shows collectors strained by heavy rush at the customs house as two agents were sent home for medical treatment amid peak tax payments. Cashiers processed payments rapidly as the deadline loomed.
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New York (P
Customs House
Crowd at federal building causes fainting in tax day crush
About 7,500 income tax payers jammed Philadelphia's federal building yesterday and several women fainted in the crush. A clerk quipped that they would find less confusion in form 1048 than they found there.
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Philadelphia
Federal
Tax Refunds Ahead As Pay As You Go Backlog Clears
Americans face tax deadline with refunds reaching an estimated 400 million dollars. Union officials note overpayments under pay as you go and a provision allowing servicemen to adjust 1942 tax bills. Refunds distributed as early checks reach Philadelphia and Washington.
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Segi
Stanley Ay Sweet
Shamokim
Toeeneck
Sid
Morgenthau
Bolling Field
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