Churchill flags world order and Balkans aims amid Turkey talks
London May 24 Winston Churchill says Allies may win the war in the Balkans without Turkey though Turkish aid would help. He urges a world council armed to keep peace after the war and hints at a League of Nations style structure bristling with power.
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Germany
Rome
Turkey
Balkans
Europe
Churchill
Spain
Bonnie
World Council of Great States
World Assembly
World Organization
League of Nations
John A Johns Pioneer Arizona Public Servant Dies
Prescott May 24 A A Tony Johns longtime Arizona public figure and former speaker of the house and president of the senate died after a brief illness He would have been 80 June 10 Johns served 62 years in Arizona public life led the Arizona Wool Growers association for 14 years and held many political civic posts He was born in Cornwall England in 1864 came to the United States as a youth and worked in mines before returning to Prescott He was married to Cora Weaver the daughter of pioneer B H Weaver and had no children
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Prescott
A. A
Tony) Johns
Arizona
House
Senate
University of Arizona
Arizona Wool Growers Association
Johns
House of Representatives
Cornwall
England
United States
Yavapai County
British Columbia
California
Cora Weaver
B. H. Weaver
Territory
Pioneer
Allied Planes Bomb Berlin Vienna Paris In Major Raid
Washington reports new tires and possible fuel rations for 1945 as Allied air forces mount a massive assault. London dispatches describe 6 500 Allied aircraft targeting Berlin Vienna Paris and French coast in what may be the war's largest aerial onslaught to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
U. S
Britain
Yanks Extend Bridgehead In New Guinea
Allied forces reinforced and expanded a bridgehead across the Tor river on Dutch New Guinea. Objective is the Maffin airfield near Sarmi, after repelling Japanese mortar and machine gun fire. Talks of securing Sawar airfield and Wakde area to support a drive toward the Philippines.
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Don Caswell
Southwest Pacific
Tor River
Dutch New Guinea
Speesman
Douglas MacArthur
Maffin
Sarmi
Tor
Wakde Sarmi
Wakde Islands
Insoemoar Island
Sawar
Philippines
MacArthur
New Guinea
Fourth Term Issue Splits Texas Party
Texas Democrats divided into pro Roosevelt and uninstructed camps at the state convention over the fourth term issue. A split led to rival delegations to the national convention with Mrs. Clara Driscoll chairing the pro Roosevelt slate. Governor Coke Stevenson headed the main delegation, while Dan Moody chaired the rival group. Credentials and seating at Chicago will determine which delegation casts Texas 48 votes. Moody won temporary chair but Allred refused to join the bell.
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Gordon K. Shearer
Austin
Tex
U.P
Chicago
Preshocaagels
A. J. Wirtz
Interior
FDR
Bolts
Clara Driscoll
Corpus Christi
Stevenson
Coke R. Stevenson
Dan Moody
George A. Butler
Houston
Texas
Moody
James V. Allred
Roosevelt
Allred
Col
War Housing Group Seeks Understanding
A war housing committee formed by James Grant’s Chamber of Commerce appoints members to clarify OPA rent control. The group and Lloyd Meenan discuss improving public understanding amid stalled rental solutions and potential emergency city action. Public indignation over conversions earlier last fall is noted.
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OPA
Tucson
War Housing Committee
James Grant
Chamber of Commerce
Lloyd Meenan
Justice Court
Worker Christens Ship at Calship yard in Wilmington
Mary J. Vukov, a native Yugoslavian and senior supervisory clerk at California Shipbuilding, will christen the S S Greenville Victory at Calship yards. She was chosen sponsor for the yard 354th vessel after never missing a day’s work since being hired May 5 1941.
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Wilmington
Cal
Mary J. Vukov
California Shipbuilding Corporation
S.S. Greenville
Calship Yards
Miss Vukov
Allies Launch New Drive to Crush Nazis in Italy
Allied forces push from the Anzio beachhead under General Clark in a two front battle to sever German supply lines and trap Field Marshal Kesselring's army. The operation aims to quicken the fall of Rome and the Italian peninsula, with goals to cut communications and tighten the German vise.
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Italy
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Anzio
Rome
Italian
Harold Alexander
Mark Clark
Kesselring
Fifth Army
Clark
Hitler
Warn Frenchmen To Be Prepared For D-Day
Allies urge French patriots to train for action as invasion plans advance. BBC tells underground to expect orders and to avoid German capture while British guns and German fire duel along the Channel coast.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
Underground
Strait of Dover
Calais
Cap Griz Nez
Boulogne
Paris
Robert de Beauplan
France
Hitler
Balkan
Moscow
Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
Sofia
Bulgaria
Mass air evacuation of wounded soldiers underway
In San Francisco on May 24, 12 C47 air transports of the Air Transport Command carried 375 wounded soldiers home. By nightfall the group, including 32 litter cases and the rest ambulatory, would be within 300 miles of their homes, avoiding days of train travel. The first plane, with 18 patients, left Mills Field at 8 am, followed by 11 planes every six minutes.
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San Francisco
United States
C47 Air Transport Command
ATC
Mills Field
Chinese Clear Jap Outposts In Myitkyina
Chinese infantrymen cleared Japanese forces from the railway and road junction on the western edge of Myitkyina as six days of fierce street fighting continued. The communique said Japanese troops counterattacked from western and southern outskirts while heavy rains hindered air support and slow ground actions. Allied forces held about one third of the city and advanced toward the Irrawaddy River despite heavy resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Logan
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
U.P
Myitkyina
Irrawaddy River
Mvitkvina
Senate blocks Patton promotion over Sicilian incident
The Senate Military Affairs Committee withheld approval of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. for a permanent promotion from colonel of cavalry to major general amid ongoing scrutiny of a hospital slapping incident in Sicily. The panel favored other generals, including Sommervell, McNarney, Wainwright, and Stiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Cavalry
Chandler
D-Ky
Brehon B. Sommervell
Army Services Forces
Joseph T. McNarney
George C. Marshall
Johnathan M. Wainwright
Joseph W. Stil
Canadians Break Through Hitler Line in Liri Valley
Allied forces drive deep into the Liri valley, with Canadian armor punching to the Melfa and toward Arce and Ceprano. American troops seize river routes near Cisterna and Terracina while bombers hit German convoys. The bag of prisoners rises to about 7,500 as front lines breach several sectors.
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Noland Norgaard
Naples
Terracina
Liri Valley
Melfa
Anzio
U. S
Appian Way
Cisterna
Liri
Rome
Cassino
Arce
Ceprano
Sacco
Pontecorvo
Fifth Army
Pontine Marsh
Sid Feder
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Velletri
de Luce
Moletta
Priverno
Hitler
Pico
Monte Alto
Casilina
Italy
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William Smith White
Winston Churchill
Commons
Romania
Russia
Finland
Mediterranean
East
Midwest
Charles F. Phillips
Office of
Price Administration
Phillips
Gladwin Hill
Dortmund
French
Baltic
Joseph Saal
I. G. Farben
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Standard Oil
I. G. Farbenindustrie, A. G
German Chemical and Dye Trust
James E. Markham
Standard Catalytic Company
Jasco, Inc
Hydrocarbon Synthesis Corporation
L. G. Farben
Markham
Maffin Airdrome
War Housing Group
Gen. Patton
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