ALLIED ‘CRUSADE’ WILL FREE POPE PIUS
Fate of Rome depends upon enemy action
President doubts reports Nazis will make next stand near city
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ALLIED ‘CRUSADE’ WILL FREE POPE PIUS
Fortresses, Nazis battle over Switzerland
Berne, Switzerland (UP) –
U.S. bombers and German fighter planes fought a battle over eastern Switzerland, and a Flying Fortress was shot down by Swiss anti-aircraft batteries which joined in the action, it was announced officially today.
A communiqué said several bombs were dropped on Swiss soil, causing material damage but no casualties.
Air alarms were sounded over a considerable area of eastern Switzerland, the announcement said. Additional details were promised later.
The Hungarian news agency quoted official sources that “Anglo-Saxon planes in several waves penetrated into the southwestern airspace of the country” around noon CET (6:00 a.m. ET). A Hungarian broadcast said the raiders flew along the “westerly frontier to the north.”
Technique of swains –
Australian men too aloof? First Lady becomes target
Mrs. Roosevelt’s remarks threaten to divide country into two letter-writing camps
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Jap Zero downed
Washington –
A U.S. search plane was attacked by five Jap Zeros while on a reconnaissance mission over enemy-held Nauru Island in the Gilbert group and shot down one and probably two of the attackers, the Navy announced today.
Food message near
Washington –
President Roosevelt said today he would decide this weekend when to send a food message to Congress where the controversial subject of farm subsidies is already being considered in committees.
Critics of FCC demand probe be continued
There’s job to be done despite chairman’s resignation, one says
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Army, Navy authorities blamed for war news gag
Any complacency by public laid to lack of adequate understanding of developments
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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Enemy trapped at Guinea base of Finschhafen
Australians complete arc about Jap troops on Huon Peninsula
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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In Washington –
Roosevelt acts to speed Senate post-war action
Move also stimulated by return of Senators from battlefronts with reports that taking of stand is needed
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Merchant Marine trainees drawn into union after one trip
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Nazis speed work on secret tools to stop bombers
Many questions yet unanswered in war to destroy German manufacture; and where are their planes?
By Blair Moody, North American Newspaper Alliance
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