DIARY OF
NEWSY 1944
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bound with 711 Americans . . .
Argentina’s anti-Axis status in
doubt . . . Irvin S. Cobb dies in
New York at 67 . . . Hendrik Wil
lem van Loon dies at 62 . . . Jos_
eph C. Lincoln dies at 74 . . . All
three literary deaths within a
week . . . Red army reaches
• Dniester . . . Churchill broad
cast: ‘‘Hour of greatest effort ap
proaching” . . . Romania entered
by First Ukrainian army . . .
Gen. MacArthur receives the
Knight’s Cross of the Order of
the Bath, military division, first
class . . . Where is the Japanese
fleet? . . . Eire refuses U. S. re
» quest to oust German and Japan
ese diplomats . . . Clues to butch
ery of 25 women unearthed in
the Rue Le Sueur in Paris . . .
Application of Pvt. Louis F. Nie
stepski to enlist in the WAC re
jected . . . Republicans want
change in tax basis . . . Cruiser
New Orleans rams herself when
bow, broken off by torpedo,
swings and hits stem . . . Allies
stalled on Anzio beachhead and
in ruins of Cassino . . . Supreme
Court upholds rent and price
control . . . Willkie says European
invasion will come before Fall
election.
American Navy ranges through j
Pacific, shells Palau, gateway to j
the Philippines . . . Wayne Lon
ergan convicted of wife’s slaying j
. . . Charlie Chaplin acquitted of
Mann Act charge . . . More than
60,000 German deserters reported
at large in Berlin . . . Wendell
Willkie loses Wisconsin primary;
withdraws from contest for
Presidential nomination . . -El
eanor Roosevelt tells press con
ference she hopes women will j
sit officially at the peace table j
. . . An Allied invasion of Eu_
rope ‘‘will not be long delayed”
Nazis believe . . . Moscow
claims more than 500,000 Axis \
troops killed or captured in less
than two months on lower Rus
sian front • . • William Cardinal
O’Connell archbishop of Boston,
dies . . . Former Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes is 82 . . .
Charlie Chaplin is 55 . . . Adolf
Hitler is 55 . . . Capt. Don S.
Gentile and Capt. Richard I.
Bong both hailed as aces, hav
ing beaten Capt. Eddie Ricken
backer’s record of destroying 26
enemy aircraft . . . Russians roll
over Crimean steppe in drive on
Sevastopol . . . Princess Eliza
beth, heiress presumptive to the
British throne, is 18 . . . Col.
Elliott Roosevelt becomes a
bachelor again . . . Constellation,
largest land plane, sets new
transcontinental speed rceord, six
hours, 58 minutes . . . Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox dies
at 70 . . . Government seizes
Chicago plant of Montgomery
Ward & Co., physically evicting
Sewell L. Avery, company head.
| MAY 1944 |
Everyone has pre-invasion
jitters . . . Allied air forces con
centrate on targets in cross
channel defense system . . .
Sevastopol falls to the Russians
Ghandi, British political prison
er, released because of ill health
. . . ‘‘Pensive” wins the Preak
ness at Pimlico . . . Lillian
Smiths “Strange Fruit’ barred
from mails and then reinstated
‘‘at the publisher’s risk’ . . .
Roosevelt bandwagon rolls on,
bringing pledged and claimed
delegates to 667—only 589 need
ed for nomination . . . Invasion
portents: Allies break Gustav
line and lunge toward Rome;
Red mobile forces mass for
summer offensive; RAF and AAF
pass 30th straight day of attacks
on European targets; Tito prom,
ises Partisans will strike at
German rear . . . Alfred E.
Smith’s wife dies at 65 . . .
Anti-Nazi film, ‘‘Watch on the
Rhine”, passed by Swedish cen
sors . . . Fifteen male ‘‘Funda
mentalists” accused of main
taining a total of 55 wives, are
convicted of unlawful cohabita
tion in Salt Lake City . . . For
the first time in 25 years there’ll
: be no Communist presidential
[ nominee . . . New York fire de
[ partment extinguishes fire in of
; fices of Fire Extinguisher Ser
vice Corp. . . . London Times
says: “Mr Sinatra is unknown in
this country and is likely to con
tinue to remain so” . . . Cassino
falls, outflanked by America**,
French, British and Poles . . ,
Rome at stake . , . Nazi invasion
coast quakes under almost con
tinuous bombing . . . End of
May weather, day after day the
Channel is smooth as a pond,
! skies clear ... Its perfect fly
ing weather, perfect invasion
weather.
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II JUNE 1944 |
D-Day—June 6—two days aft_
er the fall of Rome . . . The in_
vasion’s along 100-mlle coast of
Seine Bay, between Cherbourg
and Le Havre . . . Vast landings
covered by 11,000 planes . . .
Thousands upon thousands of
troops in 4,000 ships, several
thousand smaller craft . . . 60,
000 to 90,000 airborne troops help
make beachheads secure . . . De
Gaulle arrives in London to con
fer on organization of liberated
France . . . Two Americans make
speeches in Russia: Vice Presi
dent Wallace and Chamber of
Commerce President Eric John
ston . . . National nights of Ku
Klux Klan disbanded . . . Fifth
war loan drive for $16 billion
starts . . . Rudolf Hess sued for
divorce by Frau Hess, charging
‘‘desertion and insanity” . . . Ger
man woman imprisoned for say
ing: ‘‘I had to run faster than
Rommel did in Africa . • • R€<I
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