War explodes into Bombay
Two munitions blasts set big fires in the Empire’s third biggest city
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Death of the Hangman
An American student was sole eyewitness at killing of Reinhard Heydrich
By Harold Kirkpatrick as told to Gerald Frank and James D. Horan
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The Gilberts & Marshalls
A distinguished historian recalls the past of two recently captured Pacific groups
By Samuel Eliot Morison
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U.S. Navy Department (May 23, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 412
For Immediate Release
May 23, 1944
Army, Navy, and Marine shore‑based aircraft dropped 230 tons of bombs on Wotje Atoll on May 21 (West Longitude Date). Liberator and Mitchell bombers of the 7th Army Air Force, Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Navy Hellcat fighters flew 207 sorties in the coordinated attack. Specific targets were strafed by Mitchell bombers and Corsair fighters. Antiaircraft fire was meager. All of our planes returned, although ten suffered minor damage.
Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing bombed Mille Atoll on May 21.
The Brooklyn Eagle (May 23, 1944)
Anzio Allies attack in pincer offensive
U.S. battleships shell enemy in support of drive
By Reynolds Packard
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1,750 U.S. planes blast Dortmund, Brunswick
‘Largest air fleet ever assembled’ reported bombing targets in Reich
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OK, Sgt. Rosila, season pass is yours
Branch Rickey earmarks precious ducat for G.I. who says that’s what he fights for
By James C. McGlincy
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Tennis star margin is awarded DFC for heroism in air
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Sedition jury is told ‘Stalin controls FDR’
Attorney says he will prove U.S. is on verge of going Communist
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Simplified tax bill goes to Roosevelt
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ALP names union chief for Congress
Municipal workers head chosen to make race in new 14th
James V. King, president of the CIO-affiliated State, County and Municipal Workers, has become the first member of the American Labor Party to be entered as a candidate in Brooklyn’s 1944 Congressional race, it was learned today.
Petitions designating him to run in the new 14th Congressional district, as established under the State Reapportionment Act, have been placed in circulation with the leaders setting 10,000 signatures as their goal. The district is one of several in Brooklyn, where the ALP outranks the Republicans as the runner-up to the Democrats in strength.
The new district has no Representative in Washington now and must elect one for the first time in November. This has produced a wide and open field to the Democratic, Republican and Labor parties, with the latter becoming the first to reach a definite agreement on its candidate. The district consists of the new 2nd and 16th ADs and includes Coney Island, much of the area which touches Gravesend Bay south of 16th Avenue and a large part of the Kings Highway section.
Ready to fight
The ALP’s selection of King is regarded as the first confirmation of the party’s determination to fight both the Democrats and Republicans, in certain districts, if necessary, in order to win a share of Brooklyn’s legislative offices. Although the party in recent years endorsed numerous Democratic and a more limited number of Republicans, no ALP member now holds an elective office from Brooklyn.
The only Democrats who have been assured to date of ALP endorsements for reelection are Irwin Steingut, the Democratic minority leader in the Assembly at Albany, and Rep. Emanuel Celler. A “limited number” of others will be endorsed, according to ALP leaders, with such backing being based on the candidates’ support of President Roosevelt’s fourth term and his New Deal administration policies.
Rayfiel mentioned
The Democratic leaders controlling their party’s slate in the 14th Congressional district have reached no decision on their choice. They are Kenneth F. Sutherland, the Coney Island leader, and Joseph B. Whitty of the 2nd AD. However, the name of Assemblyman Leo F. Rayfiel has been prominently mentioned.
King is one of the ALP’s most experienced members in legislative procedure. He has gone frequently to Albany, where he has appeared at legislative hearings in support of progressive legislation. As legislative spokesman for the State, County and Municipal Workers, he has been active to obtain an adjustment in the wage standards of thousands of low-paid state hospital workers.
Detroit truckers call off strike
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Wakde Japs find odds 20–1 in death gamble
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No Nips, so Joe Foss shoots jungle pigeons
By Charles P. Arnot
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Battle for Myitkyina rages 5th straight day
Storms and fierce Jap resistance prevent Yanks, Chinese from extending grip on city
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Browder seeks to extend basis of Communism
Communists, by dissolving their political party and reorganizing under the name of the Communist Political Association, hope to gain collaboration with “broader circles” of American life, Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party of America since 1930 and president of the newly-formed association, said at the close of the Communist convention yesterday in the Riverside Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
Browder, elected to head the new association by acclamation, explained that the political party has been an obstacle to such collaboration. He added that other obstacles remain such as “the Red scare and anti-Communist ideology fostered by Hitler’s propaganda organization.”
In placing Browder’s name in nomination, William Z. Foster, veteran lender, described the first president of the new association as “one of the finest agitators and educators” America has produced.
Commenting on German criticism of the Communists’ reorganization, Browder said he was happy the Communists had “displeased Berlin.”
“It was as I expected and predicted,” he said, referring to a Nazi DNB broadcast that assailed the new setup as a move to stop criticism of United States and Russian collaboration.
The broadcast stated that Berlin political circles viewed dissolution of the party as a “technical maneuver” to stifle attacks by President Roosevelt’s enemies against the “Roosevelt-Bolshevist coalition.”
‘Comrades’ no longer
In his closing address to the convention, Browder addressed his audience as “Ladies and Gentlemen,” dispensing with the customary Communist greeting “Comrades.”
A national committee of 40 members and 20 alternates will govern the new association. Among those elected as members of the committee, which includes all 27 members of the governing body of the dissolved party, were City Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Benjamin J. Davis Jr.