Doubtful Japan Has Strategy To Hold Rich Areas
Allied observers question Japan's plan to defend key empire holdings as Allied air and naval forces push toward the Philippines and central Pacific bases. MacArthur's air arm operates from Wake, Nimitz's crews hold Eniwetok, with potential fast moves westward threatening Burma and Sumatra as Mountbatten eyes an amphibious strike.
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Japan
John Hightower
Pacific
High Command
Douglas MacArthur
Wake
Chester W. Nimitz
Eniwetok
Central Pacific
Philippines
Burma
Tokyo
Bonin Islands
Saipan
Guam
Carolines
Truk
Palau Group
Halmahera
Dutch Indies
Louis Mountbatten
Aerial War Fury Strikes Berlin Vienna Paris In One Day
Allied air forces led a massive assault using hundreds of bombers and fighters. Berlin and Paris areas faced heavy bombing while targets across Vienna Graz Zagreb and northern Italy and the Brenner Pass line were hit.
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London
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
French
Atlantic Wall
U.S
Italy
Alps
Armbersdorf Aircraft Factory
Avssia
Trento
Brenner Pass
Germany
Flaming
Graz
Austria
Zagreb
Croatia
Hitler
European
Europe
U. S
Mediterranean Command
Hammer Austria
Churchill Sees Balkan Victory Path and World Order Plan
Churchill tells the Commons the Allies will decide territorial changes and that victory in the Balkans could unfold without Turkey. He envisions a world council and a powerful world organization to keep peace, with emphasis on unity of the empire and a strong postwar order.
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William Smith White
London
Winston Churchill
Balkans
Commons
Germany
Rome
Turkey
Europe
Churchill
Spain
French Patriots Are Summoned To Get Prepared
Allies order French patriots to prepare for D-Day as BBC warns underground fighters to expect instructions and keep out of German hands. Gunfire flares across the Dover Strait as British and German guns exchange salvos while Balkan and Bulgarian maneuvers signal Axis tensions weeks before the invasion.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
City to end student scrap collection next fall
Winchester urges residents to place salvage on curbs tomorrow or Friday as the city ends student scrap collection next fall and war effort hinges on tin cans fats and newspapers.
Hopkins Resting at Army Hospital in White Sulphur
Army spokesman explains Harry L Hopkins, confidential adviser to President Roosevelt and chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, was admitted to Ashford General Hospital White Sulphur Springs West Virginia under a War Department policy. He is resting after an operation in Rochester Minnesota and pays for his own meals and transport.
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Washington
Army
Harry L. Hopkins
Ashford General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Munitions Assignment Board
War Department
Army General Hospital
Secretary of War
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Ashford Institution
Rochester
Minn
President's Aide Blasts Disclosure Of Cruiser Transfer
President's Secretary Stephen Early condemned Senator Bridges for his Senate speech about a reported transfer of U S naval units to Russia. Early said the remarks amount to leaking information that would be military value to other nations and could not be obtained from the executive branch. He cited the dissemination through Congress as a privileged channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stephen Early
Senate
Bridges
U. S
Russia
Court Accepts Private Offer for Hollingsworth Furniture
Attorney H K Benham announced that a private bid of 6000 by agent Harold Brown for all Hollingsworth home furnishings was deemed acceptable and the public sale scheduled for tomorrow was cancelled. Appraisers pegged fair market value between 5000 and 5500, while groups eyeed the items for restoration as a Winchester museum with potential 20 year lease interest from Irvan O Connell.
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H. K. Benham
Harold Brown
Hollingsworth
Benham
Ada Bliss Hollingsworth
E. C. Stuart
A. S. Randall
Brown
Winchester
Harris Case Goes To Jury In Frederick Court
The Commonwealth accuses Edward Harris of Front Royal of larceny for stealing four tires from a Packard owned by A C Boyer near Stephens Guy. Harris is represented by Harry Kern with State's Attorney J Sloan Kendall presenting the case to a Frederick Circuit Court jury.
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Commonwealth
Edward Harris
Front Royal
Frederick
Harris
Packard
A. C. Boyer
Stephens Guy
Harry Kern
J. Sloan Kendall
Harry Smithey
E. G. Ambrose
Harry Carper
J. W. MclIlwee
H. H. Omps
Levi
McClure Denied Bail in Corporation Court Hearing
Ralph Earl McClure, recently indicted for a felony, was refused release on bond in Corporation Court. Attorney Harry Kern sought bail. Judge Burr Harrison denied it. Also before the court James McCoy pled guilty on two counts assault and battery and public drunkenness with six months on the convict road and probation. Bolton pleaded guilty to bad check law with six months on the road and two thirds to be served before suspension, plus a four dollar check repayment and probation. Nicholson had violated a March 16 1942 parole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Earl McClure
Corporation Court
Harry Kern
McClure
Burr P. Harrison
James McCoy
Harrison
E. L. Bolton
Bolton
Nicholson
Hollingsworth Sale Not Held Announced in Winchester
The Committee for Ada Bliss Hollingsworth announces that the furniture and other property advertised for sale at 627 South Loudoun Street Winchester Virginia on the 25th day of June 1944 will not be sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Benham
Ada Bliss Hollingsworth
South Loudoun Street
Winchester
Virginia
Enetian Blinds Ad From E W Armstrong Co Winchester
An advertisement from E W Armstrong Co at 39 E Piccadilly St Winchester lists Enetian blinds and provides phone contact 4643.
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E.W. Armstrong CO
E. Piccadilly St
Winchester
Lumber Strike Sways Pacific Northwest Mills and Booms
Thousands more lumber and logging workers were to join an 18,000 idle today as wildcat walkouts swept 60 to 75 mills and related plants across 20 Oregon and Washington towns. Puget Sound area operations near Seattle Tacoma Olympia faced a predicted complex shutdown by nightfall as boom workers halted water shipments and key camps closed.
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Seattle
Dillion Dollar
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Washington
Puget Sound
Tacoma
Olympia
Hilding Lineber
Girl Scout Rally Postponed Until Monday
Weather forces postponement of the Girl Scout Spring rally. The event will be held Monday night at the same time and location as originally planned for tonight.
Death of Mrs. Sallie G. Robinson Advanced Age
Mrs Sallie G Robinson widow of James L Robinson pioneer Frederick county fruit grower died at 235 am in Winchester Memorial Hospital of a heart ailment She would have been 83 on June 16 She was a daughter of Josiah and Mary Jane Robinson an active Friends member survived by four grandchildren and three great grandchildren funeral at Gainesboro road home at 11 Saturday with pallbearers Llwellyn Jackson Howell Allen Bond Albert Robinson J H Yost and Joseph Jolliffe
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Sallie G. Robinson
James L. Robinson
Frederick County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Josiah and
Mary Jane Robinson
Religious Society of Friends
Ray Robinson
Winchester
Mabel R. Cather
Gainesboro Road
Clarence J. Robinson
Opal R. Solenberger
Llwellyn Jackson
Howell
Allen Bond
Albert Robinson
Joseph Jolliffe
Careless Ways Cause Painful Days Wins Slogan Contest
In a city safety slogan contest by the Junior Board of Trade under Smash the Seventh Column, Nancy Kaine won first prize for grades nine to twelve with Careless Ways Cause Painful Days. Kenneth Wingfield earned honorable mention for The Seventh Column Will Be Missin If You Stop Look and Listen. Sara Sencindiver won in grades five to eight for Make Safe the Home Front While They Fight on the Battle Front with honorable mention going to James Whiting. John Kerr third graders Johnnie Arnold will receive 2.50 for Think ee You Act. Judy Miller earned honorable mention for Crack the Attack of the Seventh Column in the same class. Judges were W. Erle Edwards and John Rice. JST plans a formal awards presentation.
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Junior Board of Trade
Nancy Kaine
Kenneth Wingfield
Pris
Sara Sencindiver
Shirley Street
James Whiting
Johnnie Arnold
John Kerr
Judy Miller
W. Erle Edwards
John Rice
JST
Woman Is Found Slain In Church
DETROIT May 24 Mrs Jean Long 40 secretary of the pastor at Twelfth Street Evangelical Church was found murdered in the nave at 9 am. Police said she suffered stab wounds to the chest and head and her watch stopped at 8 35 indicating time of attack. The Rev Newell Liesemer 38 next door found the body after relatives reported she had not returned home. Detectives noted a months long estrangement from her husband Kenneth and no robbery was evident despite rings and some cash in her purse.
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Detroit
Jean Long
Twelfth Street
Newell C. Liesemer
Galls
Lone
Kenneth
Money to Loan on Real Estate Notice
Money to loan on real estate. C T care Star. (5 22 1p 31).
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C. T. Care Star
World At War Highlights From AP Brests Front Across The Globe
Forces burst from Anzio Beach head seizing mile long stretch toward Rome. British to the east breach Hitler lines in Liri Valley. American forces reach Monte Alto near Terracina within 19 miles of the beachhead. Allied air power assaults Berlin Vienna and Paris in a vast strike. Russia demands Bulgaria sever Nazi ties by May 25. China counterattacks, recaptures Lushih, and advances toward Shanhsien Loyang. US Sixth Army expands on New Guinea coast. Biak raids.
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Atzergersdorf
Vienna
Liberators
Munchendorf
Wollensdorf
Wiener Neustadt
Avssio
Graz
Zagreb
Italy
Balkans
U. S
England
Europe
Russia
Bulgaria
London
Three Ball Bearing Works Employees Arrested in Goteborg
Three workers at the S. K. F. ball bearing plant in Goteborg were arrested on charges of providing information to a foreign power about orders and destinations. Two are Swedish. one is described as a foreigner. The arrests follow Allied pressure to curb Sweden's ball bearing exports to Germany.
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Goteborg
Aftonbladet
Sweden
Germany
Stanton Griffis
Russia
United States
Britain
Swedish firms miss on U S Nazi war list
K. F. is not among 426 Swedish firms on the American blacklist for aiding the German war effort. Washington sees this omission as evidence American officials remain hopeful about negotiations with the Stockholm government.
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K. F
Washington
Stockholm
Minute Men To Continue In City
Captain Jack R. Brandon announces the Minute Men will continue operations in the city with reduced personnel.
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Jack R. Brandon
Canadians smash Hitler line in Liri Valley drive
Allied forces report Canadian armor breaking the Hitler line in the Liri Valley to the Melfa river as American troops advance from the Anzio beachhead toward Cisterna and Rome. US armor penetrates the Rome flank, with five miles of Liri defenses breached and multiple prisoners taken.
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Rome
Cisterna
Roente
Liri
Cassino
Arce
Ceprano
Sacco
U. S
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Allied forces breach lines along Appian Way near Rome
U S troops burst from Anzio beach head and seize a mile long section of the Appian Way toward Rome. The eastern pincer breaks through the Hitler line in the Liri Valley while units from the south take Monte Alto, 10 miles north of Terracina, 19 miles from Lottoria near the beachhead.
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Naples
U. S
Anzio
Appian Way
Rome
Liri
Monte Alto
Terracina
Lottoria
Pontine
Terra
Lodges Plan Memorial Service At Mt Hebron Cemetery
Hickory Camp No 34 Woodmen of the World and Madison Lodge of the Odd Fellows plan a joint memorial service Sunday at Mt Hebron Cemetery. Members will march from the lodge hall with McIlwee's Band. O T Powell of Virginia may speak. Dorsey Hottle and Kline lead planning. public invited. meal to follow.
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Hickory Camp No
Woodmen of the World
Madison Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Mt. Hebron
MclIlfwee
Woodmen
O. T. Powsell
Vireginia
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Balkan Sector
House of Commons
Monwealth
Empire
World Council of Great States
World Assembly
World Organization
League of Nations
Dover
Calais
Cap Griz Nez
Boulogne
Robert de Beauplan
France
Moscow
Maximilian von Weichs
Sofia
Istanbul
Army Hospital
Hollingsworth Furniture
Lold
Oilers
AFL
CIO
Willamette River
Chester F. Sor
Mrs. Robinson
Helen Cather Harner
Kenneth Robinson
Camp Blanding
Florida
Mary Gail Cather
James Kenneth Robinson, Jr
Barbara Harner
David Michael Robinson
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Hitler Line
Asia
Henan
Lushih
Chungking
Lunghai
Shanhsien
Loyang
Myitkyina
Noland Norgaard
Melfa
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