Nazis Retreat Along Entire Italian Front
Allied dispatch from Naples reports Fifth Army troops occupying Sezze 13 miles northwest of Terracina as part of a broader drive to widen a deep salient from the Anzio beachhead. Sezze, population 20,000, is the largest town seized in the current offensive and the move narrows the Via Casilina, the main escape route for German 10th Army armor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Fifth Army
Sezze
Terracina
Anzio
Noland Norgaard
Via
Casilina
Artena
Valmontone
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Council Holds Secret Session Before Meeting
City council began with a back room session lasting about one hour and 35 minutes. It then hired Duff & Phelps of Chicago for 13000 to survey Tucson Gas Electric Light Power, appointed a new city attorney, leased cattle pens at the city farm, and approved a liquor license transfer with little public discussion. Edward Van der Vries alone questioned contract wording about fair value under municipal ownership versus private ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Darnell
Tucson
Electric Light & Power Company
Little
Duff & Phelps
Chicago
Edward van der Vries
Munici
Council
Pacific raids hit Kuriles and Marshalls bases
U S planes bombed Japanese positions in the Pacific destroying airfields at Shumushu and Ponape while attacking Kusaie and the Marshalls garrison. Navy Ventura search planes and Mitchell bombers reported results with several aircraft damaged but no major resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Tyree
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Kusaie
Ponape
Shumushu
Kuriles
Marshalls
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Navy Ventura
Mitchell
Army
Navy
Allied air raid hits Manokwari and Mokmer in New Guinea
Allied Fifth Air Force bombers blasted Japanese installations at Manokwari and Mokmer airfield in western New Guinea in a pre dawn raid. The strike began explosions and fires as planes roared over Mokmer, while Japanese forces defended Maffin field nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Caswell
Southwest Pacific
Fifth Air Force
Manokwari
Biak Island
Mokmer
New Guinea
Iran
Maffin Field
Maffin
Germans plan Rome fall defense shift Vichy radio reports
London reports a German propaganda push ahead of Rome's fall with Vichy radio claiming a coastal defense line would be held north of the city. Allies note Rome’s siege risk and speculate Germans may retreat to mountains after losing the last lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. King
London
Rome
Vichy
Hitler
Fifth
Transocean Agency
Albert Kesselring
Ward Company Case Sparks Capital Debate In Washington
In Washington the Montgomery Ward seizure becomes a political flashpoint as a senate judiciary subcommittee faults federal departments. Attorney General Biddle denounces the findings as absurd while Roosevelt questions court review of war labor board decisions. Administration allies push for a full public hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Ward
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Federal Department
Biddle
Senate
Star Chamber
Roosevelt
Congress
War War Labor Board
Supreme Courts
Convair Union Presses WLB Over Delayed Aero Nautical Case
The Aero Nautical Mechanics lodge of AFL criticizes the War Labor Board for delaying a decision at Consolidated-Vultee in San Diego. WLB inaction prompts a Sunday mass meeting and potential strike threat after earlier notices and requests, including maintenance of membership and wage rates dating to 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Labor Board
Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge
AFL
Consolidated- Vultee
W. D. Lewis
WLB
Lewis
Washington
Southern California
Ingenious Yanks Use Bills For Ear Drums
On the Solomons front a 75 mm howitzer crew used money as ear protection during a barrage. Sgt. James J. Boyd of Nashville Pfc Grover C. Fouts of Atlanta and Pvt John McCabe of Norwood stuffed paper money into their ears to muffle concussion on pay day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bougainville
Solomons
James J. Boyd
Nashville, Tenn
Grover C. Fouts
Atlanta
John McCabe
Norwood, C
North Carolina Dem primary tests New Deal sentiment
Two veterans Clyde Hoey and Cameron Morrison vie for the Democratic senatorial nomination in North Carolina as Marvin L. Ritch competes for active campaign. Reynolds declines to run. Governorship race features R Gregg eee and Ralph W hig Consid. Salem educn Boyd campaigns with a hill billy band while unknowns rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Associated Press
North Carolina
Clyde R. Hoey
Cameron Morrison
Congress
Marvin L. Ritch
Charlotte
Reynolds
Hoey
Morrison
Sen
Robert R. Reynolds
R. Gregg Eee
Gastonia
Ralph Whig
Salem Educn
Olla Ray Boyd
Pinetown
Arthur Walsh
Warren Barbour
Rufus Holman
R-Ore
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Tydings
Maryland
Hill
Alabama
Pepper
Florida
Downey
California
Davis
Pennsylvania
Gurney
South Dakota
Taft
Ohio
Guy Gillette
Iowa
Barkley
Dky
Gerald P. Nye
R-Nd
Bennett C. Clark
D-Mo
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Roosevelt
New City Attorney To Get Some Pay
Lightning restores hearing to Mrs. Ignatz Spogis after a house strike in Hammond Indiana. Deaf since February due to an ear infection she regained hearing following the bolt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
U.P
Ignatz Spogis
Denies Receiving Money From Brush In Tax Scheme
Mrs. Catharine Doyle testifies in a superior court trial over misappropriation of 56,389.14 in personal tax funds. She denies ever taking cash or property from the Mari copa county assessor's office while admitting she followed instructions from State Treasurer James D. Brush to issue unnumbered receipts and hand cash to him for the plate department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Maricopa
Catherine Doyle
Plate
Cunningham
Speeding B and O Limited Kills Three Persons
Three people, two women and a man, were killed when they stepped onto the Baltimore and Ohio National Limited tracks at a three track location in Parkersburg, West Virginia, last midnight. A telegraph operator warned them with a lantern but the victims moved onto the main line as the eastbound train approached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio National Limited
Bombs Disrupt Travel Across Europe Amid Allied Raids
A Paris letter to a Swiss businessman cites the Gazette de Lausanne reporting railways smashed by Allied air strikes. It says Berlin to Paris journeys once seven days now suffer heavy disruption and France sees a weekly death toll surpassing 2,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Paris
Gazette de Lausanne
France
Elliott Seeks Budget Increase for City Attorney Post
Thomas J. Elliott, newly named city attorney to replace John Lyons Jr on June 1, says he will receive the same salary as the present attorney and urges a July 1 to January 1 1945 budget provision to cover secretary services. He notes no contract exists but would seek $6,600 if appointed January next year. he previously served 1930 to 1934, succeeding Ben Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Elliott
John Lyons, Jr
Elliott
John Lyons
Council
Ben Hill
Chinese Chase Fleeing Japs Caught In Trap
Chinese forces pursuing retreating Japanese report trapping enemy troops at Tatangtzu near Tengchung on the Salween front. Rain and sleet hamper movement as high command claims Japanese losses and ongoing pressure north of the Burma road amid counter-attacks near Kaitou. Allied air forces strafed Loyang area, with many Japanese killed and trucks destroyed, per Stilwell HQ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Tatangtzu
High Command
Tengchung
Burma
Kaitou
14Th Army Air Force
Loyang
Joseph W. Stilwell
Allies Make Rapid Progress In Italy Front Gains Push to Artena
Allied forces press along a 70 mile Italian battle front with a 12 mile push to Artena and 2.5 miles from Valmontone on the Casilina highway toward Rome. British and American bombers resume large scale air raids as German retreat continues in hard fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Italy
Artena
Valmontone
Casilina
Rome
Britain
Vichy
Radio
Berlin
Europe
Alban Hills
Fifth Army
Lepini
Anzio
Fifth Army advances near Artena as German defenses shift
Allied reconnaissance near Artena two and a half miles from Valmontone reports German retreat from the Cisterna Valmontone road. Eighth Army tanks smash west of the Melfa river and Canadian British forces push toward Arce Ceprano, while Kesselring rushes in a battle group to stem the Liri valley thrust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cisterna-Valmontone
Liri
Eighth Army
Melfa
Arce
Sacco
Ceprano
Casesino-Rome
Casilina
Rome
Albert Kesselring
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Italy
Allied air raids batter Karlsruhe and Mannheim in massive strike
London reports 5000 Allied planes hit targets in Germany and France from Britain and Italy. American heavy bombers attacked Karlsruhe and Mannheim with residential areas hit and large explosive and incendiary loads. RAF Mosquito night raids followed with mine laying and a few planes missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
France
Britain
Italy
Hitler
W. W. Hercher
Rhine
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Rothe Erde
Aachen
Basel
Berlin
English Channel
Indi
Chinese Take Warong War Base In Burma
Allied dispatch reports Chinese forces capture Warong, a Japanese stronghold 12 miles northeast of Kamaung in northern Burma. A Japanese battalion in Bishenpur is said to be annihilated with commanders killed. Chinese 38th division took Warong and killed over 100 Japanese, while heavy Japanese casualties were inflicted north of Kamaung and a large enemy supply dump was captured. Sino American forces under Lt. Gen. Stilwell advance a mile and a half toward Myitkyina under mortar and automatic fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Logan
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
U.P
Warong
Kamaung
Burma
Bishenpur
Joseph W. Stilwell
Myitkyina
Small Margin Saves FEPC Omnibus Bill
The FEPC fund of 500000 was saved by a late house margin of 123 to 119 after an earlier 141 to 103 vote. Southern Democrats led opposition arguing FEPC promotes disunity while the omnibus measure funds many war agencies. Senate action expected with similar resistance from southern legislators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Roosevelt
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Senate
FEPC
Teller
Independent Offices Supply
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Marine Corsairs
Dauntless
Moore
Irks
Convair Union
GOP
Bricker
Brush
B & O Limited
Dewitt MacKenzie
Japan
Forrestal
Eugene Burns
Nippon
Burns
Philippines
America
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