Fifth Army Captures Velletri and Valmontone Near Rome
The Fifth Army seized both fortress towns of Velletri and Valmontone on the Via Casilina, threatening to sever German forces retreating toward Rome. Allied forces, advancing from Naples, crushed a major line guarding the Eternal City and split the nine German divisions on the lower front.
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Sid Feder
Naples
Rome
Fifth Army
Velletri
Valmontone
Via Casilina
Allies Receive 338 Planes A Week In Early 1943 Production
President Roosevelt announced the United States produced over 175000 aircraft in about three years and that 4400 planes were sent to Allies in the first 91 days of the year at an average of 338 weekly. He noted >33000 planes sent since Lend-Lease act passed. He highlighted cash payments for 7000 planes and remaining under lend-lease. Frontline action near Rome described with advances toward Valmontone Ferentino Veroli and Velletri, signaling a tightening Allied ring on retreating Germans. Fierce fighting continued in Velletri streets as U S troops encircle the fortress on the Appian Way.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Foreign Economic Administration
Thomases
Congress
United Nations
Velletri
Rome
Albany Hills
Valmontone
Via Casilina
Eighth Army
Ferentino
Veroli
Frosinone
Salerno
U. S
Appian Way
Monte Artemision
Italy
Invasion Area Struck Heavily By U S Planes
United States air force delivered the heaviest single blow yet against German west wall installations along the Pas de Calais coast. Over 750 loads and Liberators and several hundred fighters targeted rail yards and coastal defenses from Scandinavia to Crete. The raid marked a major pre invasion aerial offensive as daylight forces attacked Boulogne Calais and surrounding areas.
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London
United States Air Force
West Wall
Eon
Pas-de-Calais
Scandinavia
France
Hungary
Crete
Channel
England
Eisenhower
Department
Calais
Boulogne
le Touquet
Cape Griz Nez
RAF
Saumur
Paris
Budapest
Szolnok
Denmark
West Oan
Middle East
Bom
Cairo
Aegean Sea
The
Reich
Russians Halt Nazi Attempts To Crack Lines
London June 2 Soviet and German reports say Red Army forces repelled three German thrusts north of Iasi Romania and launched counterattacks. Soviet communique reports 800 German casualties and 17 tanks knocked out amid heavy fighting near Moldavia. Berlin acknowledged stiff resistance as Red forces counterattacked to regain ground.
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London
Red Army
Iasi
Romania
Moscow
Moldavian
Berlin
Finland
Karelian
Leninnow
Old Poland
Vitebsk
White Russia
City Conversion Program Halted
Fort Worth officials deny reports that Ford would be sole B 24 bomber producer by year end and that Convair would switch to B 29 production. Roland Mayer says Convair Lib erator contracts extend into next year and that Convair plans other production but not B 29s.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ford Motor Company
Convair
Consolidated Vultee
Roland G. Mayer
San Diego
Hull Restates U S Ideal Of World Liberty
Secretary of State Hull outlined postwar world security aims centered on liberty for aspiring peoples and equality for small nations. He contrasted his views with Churchill's and stressed U S policy to encourage universal liberty and cooperation while maintaining a strong record of defending freedom. His remarks reaffirmed keeping nations, especially small ones, on an equal footing and championing liberty worldwide.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Hull
Churchill
United States
Spain
Roosevelt
Iene
White House Reporters Donate $1000 to FDR
The White House Correspondents Association gave President Roosevelt a $1000 check for the infantile paralysis fund of the President's birthday committee. Merriman Smith of United Press presented the gift, raised at the March 4 dinner. The President suggested the annual dinner be held at Warm Springs, then joked about politics.
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Washington
White House
Warm Springs
Cancellation of Tucson housing program for defense workers announced
Local housing officials said the government conversion program in Tucson is effectively cancelled due to a surplus of converted apartments. Since December 1942, 257 units approved, 68 short of the original 325 quota, with 20 to 25 still to be completed and occupancy near 90 percent. If employment rises, re programming could start, but authorities expect a six month lead time for new units.
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Tucson
Homer D. Lininger
NHA
War Housing Committee
Lininger
Jap Columns Close In On Chinese Cities
Four strong Japanese columns were reported closing in for a direct assault on Changsha and Changteh as 90,000 additional enemy troops mass around Canton for a northward drive. Japan moves 350 tanks. 16 Manchuria divisions withdrawn. 20,000 reinforcements landed at Hong Kong. Chinese forces press west of the Salween in Burma.
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George Wang Chunkging
Changsha
Changteh
Chungking
Canton
China
Tung Ting Lake
Hankow
Hong Kong
Manchuria
Pacific
Japan
South Seas
Indo-China
Burma
Salween River
Maryland Democrats Seek Unpledged Delegates for VP Pick
A Maryland party meeting urged an 18 vote unpledged delegation to aid the selection of a vice presidential candidate at the national convention. Rayburn was asked to press for harmony among factions to prevent anti Roosevelt sentiment while one faction preferred unpledged delegates for greater influence.
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Associated Press
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Maryland
Rayburn
Rosevelt
Indiana
Reading
Washington
John B. Quinn
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
John A. Barr
New Orleans
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Barr
Byrd
Texas
South Carolina
Phoenix CAP Plans Summer Flight Missions
The Phoenix Civil Air Patrol squadron will begin a series of summer flight training missions starting Sunday with a trip to Globe. Additional flights are scheduled to Prescott Flagstaff St Johns Safford Tucson Nogales Douglas and Kingman. Cadet training missions will be conducted with city CAP squadrons.
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Phoenix
Civil Air Patrol
Globe
Prescott
Flagstaff
St. Johns
Safford
Tucson
Nogales
Douglas
Kingman
CAP
Japan Is Struck By Allied Aerial Attacks At Guam Wake Carolines
American air forces from three Pacific corners bombarded Japan’s ring of island defenses. Long range Liberators hit Guam during daylight, while Wake and Carolines targets suffered 26th daylight raid. Allied groups under Nimitz and MacArthur ranged across the Marianas and surrounding isles.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Japan
Guam
Wake
Carolines
Truk
Seventh Army
U. S
Army
Navy
Saipan
Marianas
Peacock Point
Heel Point
Wilkes Island
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Nogales Youths Named Among Soldiers Killed Overseas
War department lists Arizonans killed in action in multiple theaters. In the Mediterranean area Sgt. John A. Aira of Bisbee and Pfc. Antonio G. Rosales of Nogales are named. In the Southwest Pacific area Pfc. Haskell O. Antonio of Coolidge First Lt. James L. Eubanks and Sgt. Talmage E. Farley, both connected to Yuma and Globe, are listed.
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Washington
War Department
Mediterranean Area
John A. Aira
Minnie Aira
Brewery Avenue
Bisbee
Antonio G. Rosales
Luisy G. Rosales
Norley Avenue
Nogales
Southwest Pacific Area
Haskell O. Antonio
Juan C. Antonio
Coolidge
James L. Eubanks
Norma
Yuma
Talmage E. Farley
Glenda M. Farley
Globe
Allied Reinforcements Move Up On Biak Island
Allied headquarters report American reinforcements land unopposed to bolster Sixth Army near Mokmer airfield on Biak. Gen MacArthur says forces continue to build up without enemy interference as Billy Mitchell and Boston bombers strike Mokmer Boroekoe and Sorido airfields from land-based ranges. Berlin radio notes Japanese claim 1,000 U.S. deaths and describe Allied position as critical.
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Southwest Pacific
Biak Island
Enem
Mokmer Airfield
Sixth Army
Mokmer
MacArthur
Biak
Billy Mitchell
Boston
Boroekoe
Sorido
Philippines
Berlin
New York
U. S
Sheppard bill seeks bridge property transfer near Topock
Rep. Sheppard a California Democrat introduces a house bill to authorize conveyance of a railroad bridge across the Colorado river near Topock Arizona to Arizona California ownership for highway use.
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Sheppard
Bill
Washington
California
Colorado River
Topock
Ariz
Core Of German Resistance Appears To Be Breaking
Fifth army forces smashed into the strongest sector of the Alban hills line near Rome and entered Velletri in savage street fighting. The core of German resistance around Valmontone backed by the Hermann Goering division appeared to be breaking as the army pushed along the front toward the capital. Pope Pius XII urged peace in a message to cardinals, while RAF night blows targeted railway centers in France and Hungary as preinvasion air activity increased.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Fifth Army
Alban Hills
Rome
Velletri
Casilina
Valmontone
Hermann Goering
Clima
E Tingy
Pius XII
College of Cardinals
France
RAF
Hungary
Brush Denies Taking Funds From County
State Treasurer James D. Brush testified in his own defense denying guilt in a case accusing him and two aides of misappropriating 563,389.14 in tax funds while at the Maricopa assessor’s office. He denied ordering unnumbered receipts and cash diversion by Catherine Doyle and John D. Rhyne and rejected alleged payments to Haas Baruch affiliate Dettweiler.
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Phoenix
James D. Brush
Maricopa County
Brush
Catherine Doyle
John D. Rhyne
Rhyne
Doyle
B. D. Dettweiler
Haas-Baruch and Company
Maricopa
Beer
House Committee Okays Postwar Road Program
The House roads committee approved a postwar highway program bill by Chairman Robinson. It authorizes 11.5 billion dollars for new construction and halves the earlier 3 billion allocation. The matching formula shifts to a sliding 60-40 in year one and 50-50 thereafter.
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Washington
House Roads Committee
Robinson
Utah
25 Overcome In Ship's Hold In Brooklyn
A Brooklyn pier crew of 25 repairing a United Nations freighter were overtaken by chlorine gas in an unventilated hold. About 195 hospitalizations were reported yesterday across seven Brooklyn hospitals, with eight in serious condition and 403 treated citywide.
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New York
United Nations
Brooklyn
R Epair
Department of Hospitals
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Allies
Pas-de-Calais Department
Gladwin Hill
Phoenix Cap
Yankees
Don Caswell
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Flatbush Area
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