Allied Air Pounds Ploesti and Rail Hubs in Romania Drive toward Rome
From Britain and Italy, up to 3 500 invading planes bombed the Ploesti refinery near Bucharest and rail yards at Hamm Osnabruck Schwerte Soest as Allied forces press toward Rome. 1 200 fighters supported by 500 750 bombers hit Ploesti amid flames, with Mosquito raids on Leverkusen and ongoing heavy action along the French coast. No losses reported.
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London
Britain
Italy
Ploesti
Mulhouse
Switzerland
Hamm
Osnabruck
Schwerte
Dortmund
Soest
U. S
Bucharest
Rus
Eighth Airforce
Germany
Luftwaffe
RAF
Leverkusen
Boulogne
Dunkerque
English
Lee
Channel
Dessau
Obersleben
Halberstadt
Handorf
Diepholz
Death comes swiftly for Winchester doctor on fishing trip
Dr John Edward Harris prominent Winchester physician died at his West Boscawen Street home after an illness aboard a Riverton fishing trip. Cause of death engina pectoris. He had joined friend Charles H. Smith for a morning outing and fell ill en route home.
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John Edward Harris
Winchester
West Boscawen Street
Riverton
Warren County
Harris
Mr. Smith
Dr. Harris
New Day Dawns as Tax Law Overhauls Returns
President Roosevelt signed a sweeping tax reform that reshapes income tax structure, ending complex computations for about 30 million Americans and simplifying filings for 20 million others. Corporate taxes also receive streamlined treatment, while overall tax burdens stay near current levels for most taxpayers.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Congress
Japs Fight Desperate For Key Biak Airfield In New Guinea
Allied dispatches describe a brutal five day struggle on Biak island as Japanese forces defend Mokmer airfield. American tanks and air power pressed the assault amid heavy resistance, with more than 100 Japanese dead reported and fierce fighting continuing.
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New Guinea
Schouten Islands
Biakfast
Dutch New Guinea
Schoutens
Phillippines
Mokmer
Biak
Davis
Maffin Bay
Hollandia
Tanahmerah Bay
Demta
New York
Biak Island
United States
Tokyo
North America
A Pew
Pacific
U. S
Rouss Fire Co. Monthly Meeting Notice
The Charlie Rouss Fire Co will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening June 1 at 8 00. All members are urged to attend. David F. Hottle president.
Friendship Fire Company Monthly Meeting Notice
The Friendship Fire Company announces its regular monthly meeting at 1 o'clock in the afternoon at the firehouse. All members are asked to attend. Captain Marion Anderson leads.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
Marion Anderson
German U-Boat Sunk in North Atlantic
The Admiralty announced that a German submarine was sunk in the north Atlantic by Canadian escort vessels after depth charge attacks forced it to surface. The Icarus engaged the raider in a surface gun duel and destroyed it. several crew members were captured.
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London
North Atlantic
Admiralty
Icarus
Memorial Day Rites At National Cemetery Cast Devotion to Postwar Unity
The Rev T J Hawkins pastor Braddock Street Methodist Church delivered the keynote at National Cemetery Memorial Day services under Robert Y Conrad Post 21 American Legion. A parade by Handley High School preceded the program urging dedication to building a postwar world free from race creed or clan-based division.
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T. J. Hawkins
Braddock Street Methodist Church
National Cemetery
Robert Y. Conrad
American Legion
Handley High School
Strikes Hit Parke Davis and Local Union action in Detroit
Detroit May 31 Leaders of two local unions with striking members disrupting medical supplies at Parke Davis and Company and delaying leaked goods deliveries in Detroit plan show cause hearings before the National and Regional War Labor Boards. A third strike involves United Gas and Chemical Workers Local 176 and a mass meeting to back a return to work.
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Detroit
Parke, Davis and Company
National
War Labor Boards
Federal Mi Company
Field & Mass
United Automobile Workers
CIO
National Wlb
Washington
United Gas and Chemical Workers
Parkea
Chester
J. Adamczyk
National Labor Relations Board
California Has Radio Silence
Aircraft offshore identified as friendly caused southern California radio silence for 33 minutes under army orders. Broadcasting from San Diego to San Luis Obispo went off air from 7 05 to 7 38 p m yesterday as civilian warning service prepared for scheduled abandonment tomorrow. Army officials said units at strategic control centers would absorb the operation.
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Los Angeles
California
San Diego
San Luis Obispo
Army
Nazis Break Through Russian L ine Near Iasi
London report says German forces pierced Russian lines north of Iasi Romania with a large tank and infantry assault but gained only a small wedge amid heavy losses. Moscow noted fighting northwest of Vitebsk with 400 German casualties and renewed air and sea attacks on Norwegian shipping.
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London
Iasi
Romania
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Gilmore
Ploesti
Red Army
Vitebesk
White Russia
Norway
Europe
Tasi
Lichliter Sentenced Two Years For Clover Seed Theft
Clarence Lichliter was found guilty in Clarke County Circuit Court of larceny of clover seed from E Blackburn Moore’s Berryville warehouse. Judge Burr P Harrison sentenced him to two years in the state penitentiary after a May session verdict. Henry 8 Jenkins led the jury. Wilbur Alger awaits jury trial Friday after an earlier hung jury.
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Clarke County
Clarence Lichliter
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Burr P. Harrison
Clarke
Henry 8. Jenkins
Wilbur Alger
Present Ceilings On Old Apples
The Office of Price Administration said sales of the 1943 apples after July 1 will continue under existing ceiling prices.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Lynching Report Shocks Stockholm As U S Flier Allegedly Die
A Stockholm dispatch from Aftonbladet cites an eye witness account of a U S airman lynched near a German village after civilians on their way to church were strafed. Berlin reports differ and no confirmation exists. The broadcast claimed five airmen were involved in one tale, but details remain unverified.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Helje Granberg
Germany
Envckee
Sedition trial hears claims of forged exhibits
Defense lawyers object to prosecution exhibits from the McCormack-Dickstein committee files claiming they are forged and stolen and tied to Nazi propaganda. Lawrence Dennis argues the case is built on a forged historical record as the mass sedition conspiracy trial enters its seventh week and defense motions for a mistrial continue.
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Washington
McCormack-Dickstein
Congressional Committee
Joseph E. McWilliams
Anti-Defamation League
Lawrence Dennis
New York
House Committee
Congressman Robertson To Deliver Memorial Address Here On June 6
Hon. A Willis Robertson, congressman from Virginia's 7th District, will deliver the Memorial Day address at Stonewall Cemetery on June 6. The war emergency cancels the usual parade and the program proceeds with Band, Virginia State Guard, Minute Men, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and fire companies marching to the cemetery.
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A. Willis Robertson
Virginia
Stonewall Cemetery
Handley Band
Virginia State Guard
The
Minute Men
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rouss Fire Hall
Turner Ashby
iStonewall Memorial Association
Mewall Cemetery
R. O. Bryant
Nelson Page
A. Willis
S. Street
Lucy F. Kurtz
G. Miller O’rear
Robertson
Corporation Court Room
World War II Highlights Across The Fronts
British advance through minefields toward Rome while Americans push toward Valmontone on highway 6. Nazi resistance signals strong will to hold. U S bombers raid Europe for fifth day as coast reels. German infantry and tanks strike near Tasi Romania. Japanese breach Changsha area defenses and threaten Chungking. Battles flare on Biak Island with U S casualties and first tank clash.
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Mokmer
Bosnek
Biak
Associated Press
Spencer Davis
Southwest Pacific
Ack Ack
Europe
Rome
Valmontone
Frauds Charged To Welders
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced 55 employees of Bethlehem-Hingham shipyards in Boston have been charged with defrauding the government overpayments for welding on Navy ships. The alleged fraud exceeds 500000 dollars as FBI agents begin custody and more defendants are expected to be named.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
Bethlehem-Hingham
Boston
Navy
Biddle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department
Arson Trial Opens in Clarke Court Over Pine Farm Barn
In Berryville Virginia Benjamin Vorous faces arson charges for firing the Pine farm barn last January. State witnesses including insurance adjuster L E Hill and bank official R M Ware testified to losses and mortgages. Vorous rented the farm in 1943 and the trial continues with additional witnesses expected.
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Berryville
George Pine
Commonwealth
Benjamin Vorous
Vorous
Pine
L. E. Hill
L. H. Bell
R. M. Ware
First National Bank
J. Ed Thoma
Clarke
Sallie Pine
Cyrus Pine
Ed Diffenderfer
G. Bryan
By Ashby
Jesse Owens
Jesse Lee Owens
Curtis A. Breeden
W. W. Smallwood, Jr
W. R.thompson
Dorothy Russell
Aubrey J. Bell
Ed McC. Williams
Harry R. Kern
Winchester
O. M. Lloyd
J. W. Heironi
Henry Jenkins
C. E. Grim
Herman Foltz
Allies Reach Outskirts of Frosinone in Italian Front
Allied reports say the Eighth Army reached the outskirts of Frosinone, while British troops moved south of Pescarella Nuova and Velletri held tight against German defenses. Front progress covered 75 miles from Valmontone to Atina as Rome’s line resisted with heavy fortifications and renewed clash near Castel Gandolfo. The Fifth Army pressed the Rome front with continued assault.
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Rome
Velletri
Naples
Eighth Army
Frosinone
Via Casilina
Allied
Pescarella Nuova
Veletri
Alban Hills
Valmontone
Atina
Cassino
Rome Line
Eternal City
Campo Semini
Castel Gandolfo
Fifth
Berlin
Via Casi
Pond
Mdory
Villa Crocetta
Lanuvio
Italy
Alfedena
Fon Ceccano
Labor Committee To Meet Friday
Walker McC Bond, chairman, announced an urgent Frederick County Farm Labor Committee meeting for Friday night at 8 in the County Court House Winchester. With a large fruit crop and farm labor shortages, the group will assess crop production and labor needs and plan to secure workers for peaches apples hay and grain over the next 30 days.
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Walker McC. Bond
Frederick County Farm Labor Committee
County Court House
Winchester
Bond
Germans Hopeful of Holding On to Conquered Europe
An article in the Munich newspaper Munchner Neueste Nachrichten reports that Nazi hopes rest on retaining conquered Europe for a peace that would enable a revived German naval power to challenge Great Britain and the United States. It blames Germany's failure to invade England on insufficient naval strength and argues Allied sea power will remain unimpaired after the war, delaying any Nazi victory.
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London
Munchner Neueste Nachrighten
Europe
Great Britain
United States
Germany
England
America
Allies tighten noose around Fr o sinone as Rome front holds
Allied dispatch reports Fro sinone and Valmontone under pressure as German troops withdraw from difficult mountain positions. Fifth Army battles from Valmontone to the sea while bri gade advances cross the Molotta River and occupy L Americano and Ardea near the German Fortress wall. Eighth Army pushes through central Italy seizing towns as Rome defense remains stubborn.
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Fifth Army
Valmontone
Bri
Moletta
L’americano
Tiber
Ardea
Campo Semini
Velletri
Via Casilina
Rome
Used Electric Appliances Wanted for Cash at Store
Ed Mok runs Electrical Appliance Store at 18 Loudoun seeking used electric appliances for top cash prices. Call 5702 to arrange drop off or sale on Tuesday and Thursday.
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Loudoun
We the undersigned stores close each Wednesday afternoon
The notice states that listed stores will close every Wednesday afternoon during June July and August. It is signed by the undersigned merchants and includes a catalog code 5-29-1p-2t.
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Aus
Bover’s
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Bulletin
Sid Feder
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