Capture of Cassino Announced By Allied Forces Push
Chinese American troops spearheading the Burma offensive say they captured the southern airdrome at Myitkyina and pounded the Japanese stronghold. Brig Gen Frank Merrill’s forces seized the airdrome after a 211 day drive, with other Allied columns advancing toward the city and rail center. Allied air forces bombed Wakde Sarmi in New Guinea.
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Burma
Myitkyina
Salween
Frank Merrill
Kuman
Mogaung Valley
Mandalay
Tiangzup
Tatangtzu
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Wakde-Sarmi
Salween River
Yunnan
Honan
Loyang
Joseph Stilwell
Kamaing
County Plans War Loan Drive With Increased Quota
Chairman G. K. Mace and Frank Crone led a conference in Burling ton as war loan leaders from southeastern Iowa counties mapped the fifth war loan from June 12 to July 8. The county quota rises to 1 243 900 with EF bonds set at 740 000, about 60 percent of the total.
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G. K. Mace
Washington County War Finance Committee
Frank Crone
Burlington
Iowa
W. L. Clark
State War Loan Committee
State Organization
Cassino Falls to Allied Flanking Drive in Italian Offensive
Allied forces captured Cassino and nearby monastery hill after a six day battle trapping large portions of German paratroopers. A pincers maneuver, with Polish, British and American forces, sealed the fall and opened the route toward Rome along the Gustav line south of the Apennines.
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HDQ
Naples
Cassino
Rome
Monastery Hill
Appenines
Via
Casilina
Adolph Hitler
Iowa banking chief Bates dies at 71 in Iowa City
Des Moines columnist notes the death of David W Bates 71 of Albia Iowa a former state superintendent of banking from 1939 to June 1941. He had been ill since December and retired to join the FDIC liquidation division in Washington D C. A lawyer, Bates practiced in Albia for 28 years before his banking post.
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Des Moines
David W Bates
Albia
Iowa
University Hospital
Iowa City
Bates
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Washington, D. C
Pella Tulip Festival Scaled Back to One Day Festivities
Pella observes its tulip festival in a reduced one day event aimed at Hollanders in the region. Tulips bloom along town gardens and parks while a brief program of Dutch dances, a short parade, town crier calls, and the festival queen crowning proceed in a trimmed celebration.
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Pella
Second Life Claimed By Fire at Waterloo
Mrs. Francis Platt, 25, died Wednesday after a trailer house fire on Highway 20 in Waterloo. Her daughter Joan, 8, perished Monday in the blaze started by a kerosene stove in a camp east of town. Platt was trapped while trying to rescue Joan and was saved by a passing motorist.
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Waterloo
Francis Platt
Joan
St. Francis Hospital
Here
Highway 20
Youth Sentenced for Car Theft in Newton District Court
George Britt aged 19 of Colfax pleaded guilty in Newton district court and was sentenced to up to ten years in Anamosa's men's reformatory for stealing a car.
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Newton
George Britt
Colfax
Anamosa
Elevators Pay OPA Corn Ceiling Fines in Monett Margin
Des Moines OPA reports thirty-one elevators have paid 12050 in assessments for corn ceiling violations tied to the Monett margin. Several paid over 1000 each as enforcement targets about 50 more elevators. Officials believe the fines cover over 690000 bushels of corn with Ho ldoegel noting the Monett method yielded about 2 cents per bushel above selling prices.
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Des Moines
Holdoegel
State Guard Reaches 2001 Ranks in Iowa
DES MOINES Iowa The State Guard now lists 2001 officers and enlisted men reaching 88 percent of its authorized strength Col Arthur T Wallace chief of staff announced Wednesday.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Arthur T. Wallace
Coe College to Get Specialized Unit
Cedar Rapids Coe College will receive 250 air corps enlisted reservists to begin instruction June 12. Dr. Charles A. Anderson, president of the college, announced the plan. Lieut. Col. Roy Branstetter of the seventh service command, Omaha, Neb., provided details.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Air Corp
Charles A. Anderson
Roy Branstetter
Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Neb
Russians Break German Lines on Dnestr Front
Moscow reports heavy Soviet gains on the lower Dnestr in Bessarabia as Red Army troops pierce several German lines and expand a bridgehead west of Firrespol amid ongoing air offensives. In southeastern Poland, ground forces seize trenches and repel German counterattacks as overall German losses rise.
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Moscow
Dnestr
Bessarabia
Firrespol
Stanislawew
Poland
Air Corps to Train Men Under ASTP Program
The air corps announced that service men will be trained under the Army Specialized Training Reserve program ASTP.
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Air Corp
Army Specialized Training Reserve Program
ASTP
Denies Fraud Charge In Marshalltown Case
David Emrick aged 89 of Columbus Ohio pleaded innocent to obtaining money by false pretenses in district court here Wednesday. The trial was continued with no date set. In default of a $4000 bond he was jailed. He was arrested here last week in a scheme to swindle a Marshalltown businesswoman out of nearly $3000 last November by promising drug stock and an auto investment.
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Marshalltown
David Emrick
Columbus
Ohio
Emrick
Brighton Soldier Killed in Action in Mediterranean
Ralph W. Sistern of Brighton was killed in action November 7 while serving in the United States Army in the Mediterranean theater. His parents Mr and Mrs James Sistern received the telegram from the War Department yesterday confirming his death. His brother Raymond was wounded and hospitalized from front lines in Italy.
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Ralph Sistern
Brighton
Ralph W. Sistern
United States Arty
War Department
James Iisternp
Raymond
Italy
Bombers Bomb Ploesti Oil Field in Balkans Skirmish
London report says weather halted air war over western Europe for a month while Mediterranean based American bombers resumed daylight raids on the Balkans. The brief field activity centers on Ploesti oil operations and German broadcasts confirm ongoing actions.
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London
Western
Europe
Balkans
Allied Air Assault Hits Ploesti and Balkans Rail Hubs
A large Italy-based American air fleet around 1500 strong struck the Ploesti oil fields in Romania and Belgrade and Nis rail yards in Yugoslavia. The raid featured about 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters. Few enemy fighters engaged. cloud cover limited post strike observations.
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Allied
HDQ
Naples
Balkans
Pioesti
Romania
Belgrade
Nis
Jugoslavia
Italy
Man Traced Across Nine States Returned to Marshalltown
Local officers followed a fugitive through nine states before he vanished again and was finally found in Marshalltown where he was arrested.
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Marshalltown
120 Americans to Be Repatriated
In Barcelona on May 13 1943 more than 1000 repatriated soldiers and civilians including 26 Americans waited aboard the Gripsholm for return home after exchange with German prisoners. The ships Gradisca and Gripsholm docked and the exchange began at 1 45 p m in drizzle and finished within three hours.
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Barcelona
Gripsholm
Gripshorn
New York
Gradisea
Marseilles
Ottumwa Social Security Office to hold May 24 meeting
Ottumwa residents with questions about old age and survivors insurance may meet Frans H. Daly at the post office building Washington at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday May 24 1944. Daly urges prompt applications for monthly or lump sum benefits and notes the Ottumwa field office at 108 East Third Street remains the main contact.
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Ottumwa
Eli-Age and Survivors
Frans H. Daly
Ottumwa Serial Security
Washington
Wedneyday
Mr. Daly
Daly
East Third Street
Towa
Diplomas Awarded at Iowa State College Commencement
William W. Chilcote received a certificate of honor for high scholarship as one of 30 students honored in the class. Edith M. (last name not shown) also earned a diploma during the commencement exercises at Iowa State College.
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Iowa State College
William W. Chilcote
Edith M
Stimson Warns on Nazi Propaganda Ahead of D-Day
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson warned Americans to beware of spurious invasion news from German radio and Nazi sources in neutral countries aimed at sowing confusion and hampering the war effort. He noted no proven damage so far and urged secrecy until the invasion begins, promising full coverage once major operations start.
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Washington, D.C
Henry L. Stimson
Europe
Stimson
War Department
Larger Surgical Dressing Group Needs More Workers
Mrs. R. A. Frink, chair of the Red Cross surgical dressings department, urges more volunteers at the city hall rooms as Allied invasion buildup promises more wounded. Only 17 workers attended Wednesday. the unit can run with 39, and full quotas require Tuesday Thursday sessions and Tuesday night. Supplies for May and June may run short without local help, as gauze shipments to Washington begin for July and August.
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Europe
United States
R. A. Frink
Red Cross Surgical
Red Cross
City Hall
Washington
Frink
Refugees Killed Aboard Jap Ship Off New Guinea
An American hospital report from Australia describes a rescue of missionaries from Jap imprisonment at Hollandia. Allied airmen attacked an armed refugee ship off New Guinea and killed 70 refugees before recognizing the target and turning away. Sister Ottonia, formerly Mary Ruhall of Essingham Illinois, provided details.
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Australia
Hollandia
New Guinea
Ottonia
Mary Ruhall
Essingham, Illinois
Sleichter Receives Lane-Wells Scholarship
Sleichter was awarded one of the Lane-Wells scholarships in recognition of academic achievement and potential contributions to the field.
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Sleichter
Lane-Wells
Missionaries aboard lugger attacked en route to Hollandia
A woman recounts how she and 105 missionaries, halfeastes and children were aboard a small lugger in a convoy to Hollandia when allied aircraft struck. She notes the ship resembled a Japanese coastal boat and carried Japanese troops and machine guns, yet the attackers did not destroy them.
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Halfeastes
Hollandia
Riverside pair obtain marriage license today
Clement Leo Dautremont and Lorena Louisa Kern of Riverside secured a marriage license here today.
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Clement Leo Dautremont
Lorena Louisa Kern
Riverside
Saturday Straw Hat Day Prompts Washington Throwaway Fee
The Journal invites men to embrace straw hats by tossing the old fee and adopting a cool new straw accessory, with advertisements urging readers to participate in straw hat day festivities today in Washington.
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Washington
The
Journal
Weather Record Shows Unseasonable Temperature Flip
A temp pattern yesterday matched the year's high wet reading while the day cooled to a 6a degree minimum last night. This afternoon the thermometer marked 72 degrees as cool, dry conditions persisted into the day.
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Impor
United Press
Jaly
U. S
Signal Corps
Imphal
India
Stilwell
Miles
Mace
China
Formia
15Th Panzergrenadier Division
805Th
8Th Army
State Guard
Ploesti Oil Field
Tance
Ploesti
Ames
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