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Vol. 4 No. 183 – Monday, June 5, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: … Yanks Battle Way Into Rome – City’s Fate Uncertain; Nazis May Pull Out Or Fight for Capital – U.S. Tanks, Infantry Advance; Resistance May Be Rearguard Action; Fifth And Eighth Armies Link Up ….. Cisterna – What’s Left of It ….. False Report of Invasion Turns U.S. Into Bedlam ….. 2 New Landings In New Guinea ….. Boulogne Is Hit 4 Times In Two Days – Libs, Forts, Other Craft Lash West Wall in Big Pre-Invasion Blitz ….. The War Today ….. All Hitlerland Now in Range – Shuttle-Forts Refuel at Soviet Bases ….. Shuttle Raid Panicking Reich, Stockholm Says ….. Text of Rome Statement by Allied Chiefs ….. Japs Say B29s in China, Warn Raids Imminent ….. Italian Prisoners ‘Join’ U.S. Army ….. To Shift Labor Far From Home If Need Arises – Manpower Board Adopts Rigid Rules to Control War Workers ….. U.S. Bombs Hit China Junction – Six Zeros and Transports Downed Over Chengchow; None of Ours Lost ….. A Saga of the Past for Your Future – If and When You Leave U.K., Here’s What You’ll Remember / By James F. McGlincy ….. 2 Engines Out, Lib Landed on 1 Wheel ( ‘Zeus’ Piloted by 2/Lt. Lester J. Baer ) ….. Reds Stand Off Nazis at Jassy – Moscow Denies Nazis Win Dominating Hill; Enemy Claims Gain in North ….. Shoe Rationing To Stay in U.S. ….. 27,273 Aircraft Built by British Plants In 1943 – Major Repairs Effected On 18,000 More, Report On Industry Reveals ….. Invasion Fireboats ….. Nazis Miss Tito, In Raid on HQ – Partisan Leader Reported To Have Escaped Into Bosnia’s Mountains ….. 5 Who Aided Gunner Trapped by a Live Bomb Are Honored ( Capts. Robert Major, St. Paul, Minn., and Emory Kinder, Kingston, N.C.; T/Sgts. Charles James, Douglasville, Ga., and John Erp, Tecumseh, Okla., and Pvt. Willis Copeland, Edentown, N.C. ) ….. AFN Radio Program ….. Fund Started for Britain’s Dr. Fleming – U.S. Campaign Is Begun To Reward Discoverer Of Famed Penicillin ….. Empress of Canada Sank in 1943 with Loss of 400 ….. Citizens’ Group Assails Yank Behavior in U.K. ….. Details of U.K. Blast Radioed As Tip to Saboteurs in Europe ….. Nazi Oil Plants Badly Damaged – U.S. Photos Tell a Story Of Crippling Blows to Synthetic Production ….. Indiana’s GOP – Dewey, Bricker Camps Both Interpret Move As ‘Favorable’ ….. 2 Air Officers Given Awards ( Brig. Gen. Robert F. Travis, of Savannah, Ga., and Lt. Col. Richard W. Weitzenfeld, of Chicago ) ….. ‘Cigar-Box’ Nerve Tester A Boon to Station Dentist ….. Browns Swat A’s. 3-0, 18-8, to Widen AL Lead – Redbirds Trounce Phillies Twice., 9-3, 5-3 ….. Cards Increase Lead Over Bucs To Five Games – Pirates Work Triple-Play Against Giants; Tobin Blanks Reds ….. Cricket Here to Stay – Clowns Blank Ninth AF, 9-0, But Game Bewilders Fans / By George Maskin ….. Yankees Split With Cleveland To Lose Ground – Chisox Climb from Cellar By Trouncing Nats, 5-2 and 5-3 ….. Service Pitcher Hurls No-Hitter ….. Larkin TKOs Archer in Eighth ….. Scott’s Pilot Claims Buddy, Nova Drew ….. Syracuse to Resume Grid ….. Lippy Spouts Off At $$$ Per Word ….. Major League Results ….. Henry’s Comeback String Snapped by Willie Joyce ….. AAU Approves Pro Relations – Navy Athletes to Compete In Mixed Tourneys Without Slap ….. Penn Eleven Schedules 8 Games at Franklin Field ….. Majors’ Mound Crop Yielding Its Share of Strikeout Kings ….. ETO SPORTS MIRROR ….. Young Snares 3 Titles as Illini Take CC Crown – Negro Freshman Victor In Dashes, Broad Jump; Sailors Second ….. One-Armed Star Bids for Majors – Memphis’ Pete Gray Seeks Chance to Play In Big Time ….. Minor League Results ….. Al Javery Rejected ….. ‘Nimitz Bowl’ Dedicated ….. Bounding Home Nips Pensive in Belmont – Wright’s Derby Winner Beaten By Half-Length – Bull Dandy Finishes Third; Platter Pulls Up Lame In Fifth Slot ….. Army Captures Heptagon Title – Cadets Register 82 Points To Shade Dartmouth; Cornell Third ….. West Point Cadets to Play 9-Game Football Schedule ….. Shuttle Bombing ….. Britain’s Plane Output ….. GI Housing ….. Battle of Words ….. Cubs Will Be There on D-Day, Too – Flying Jeeps Go Up Any Time, In Any Weather – Cracker-Box Air Force Will Play A Big Role / By Robert F. Blake ….. Public-Relations School Pays Off for a Division / By Tom Hoge ….. Notes from the Air Force ….. Joan Fontaine Wins Divorce With Plaint Brian Made Her Cry ….. Unhurt in 31 Missions, Cracks Up at Home ….. News From Home – House Refuses To Withhold Aid From S. America – Plan to Keep Lend-Lease From Any Nation Not Fighting Rejected ….. 15 Seized in Baltimore In Draft-Dodger Ring ….. German-Americans Jailed For Acting as Nazi Agents ….. Lack of Manpower Perils Midwest Wheat Harvest ….. Cuba Elects San Martin to Succeed Col. Batista ….. Wallace Hails Soviet Amity – Vice President, Speaking In Russian, Gets Warm Welcome in Siberia ….. “Tyrants’ War” Born in Tenn. ….. Enemy Boasts Disclose Atlantic Wall Features – Nazis Claim German Coastal Defenses Form Network from Spain to Norway