Völkischer Beobachter (June 4, 1944)
Neuyork sagt: ‚Der Krieg ein Geschäft‘
Groteske US-Spekulation auf die Bolschewisierung Europas
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U.S. Navy Department (June 4, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 432
For Immediate Release
June 4, 1944
Shumushu and Paramushiru Islands in the Kurils were bombed by Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four before dawn on June 2 (West Longitude Date). Two large fires were started on Shumushu. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate. Matsuwa Island was bombed by Liberators of the 11th Army Air Force before dawn on June 2. No opposition was encountered. All of our planes returned.
Truk Atoll was bombed by 7th Army Air Force Liberators before dawn on June 3. Forty-one tons of bombs were dropped on storage areas and on runways. Several fires and explosions were observed. Anti-aircraft fire was meager. Two enemy fighters attempted to attack our force but did no damage.
Nauru Island was bombed by 7th Army Air Force Mitchell bombers and search Venturas of Fleet Air Wing Two on June 2. Anti-aircraft batteries were hit and fires started. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate. Ponape Island was bombed by 7th Army Air Force Mitchells on June 1. An airfield, hangars, and adjacent buildings were hit. No anti-aircraft fire was encountered.
Remaining enemy objectives in the Marshalls were attacked by Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Navy Hellcat fighters on May 31 and on June 1 and 2. In these raids, anti-aircraft batteries, coastal defense guns, runways and barracks were strafed and bombed. Anti-aircraft fire was generally meager.
The Brooklyn Eagle (June 4, 1944)
Allies: Fall of Rome imminent
People are urged to bar Nazis from using the torch
By Robert Vermillion
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Allies agree to spare Rome, if foe leaves
Gen. Wilson reassures Pope but warns Nazi activity will bring stern measures
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False invasion flash thrills the world
Radio report of Allied landing, made in error, startles millions
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4,000 planes batter Nazis’ Atlantic Wall
Roads and rail lines in France, Belgium get terrific blasting
By Walter Cronkite
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WLB imposes backpay ban on machinists
Exacts financial penalty first time in San Franscisco strike
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Manuel Quezon resting
Saranac Lake, New York (UP) – (June 3)
Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines, was reported “adjusting himself nicely” today at McMartin Camp here, where he is to remain for an indefinite stay.
U.S. Paris Embassy seized
Madrid, Spain (UP) – (June 3)
Reports from Vichy said tonight French Chief of Government Pierre Laval has ordered confiscation of the U.S. Embassy building in Paris to provide shelter for bombed-out French families.
Chindits seal off Japs’ last escape route from Myitkyina
Chinese recapture rail station
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Chinese check drive on Changsha
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Americans smash counterattack of Biak Island Japs
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Jap-flown U.S. plane shot down by Yank freighter
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Nolan, Rooney press fight for Congress seat
By Joseph H. Schmalacker
An all-out fight with the fourth term, the New Deal and so-called “communistic tie-ups” as the principal issues, developed in the special election in Brooklyn’s 4th Congressional district last night as the campaign approached a climax and political party organizations and organized labor groups mobilized to bring their supporters to the polls Tuesday.
The importance rival forces have attached to the special election as a political laboratory test in advance of the November campaign became clear from the eleventh-hour activities of the opposing camps.
The Republican campaign headquarters, backing William G. Nolan, GOP nominee, and gunning for a political upset in a district long controlled by the Democrats, flooded the mails with 25,000 letters to the voters, began the distribution of 15,000 cards by hand and prepared to throw a force of 250 workers into the district for direct calls to the homes of voters.
Nolan said in the letter to the voters:
I am opposed to communistic tie-ups, to the New Deal, to the fourth term and to the government’s “kicking” of labor and small business around to suit its political convenience.
Rooney backers announced
The headquarters for John J. Rooney, Democratic nominee (also endorsed by the American Labor Party), struck back by announcing Rooney’s endorsement by the Central and Labor Council of the American Federation of Labor acting through its Brooklyn Nonpartisan Committee.
Meanwhile, the Greater New York CIO Council, headed by Councilman Michael J. Quill, reiterated its support of Rooney and called on CIO members to vote for him.
Mr. Quill, declaring Rooney had pledged himself without qualification to support President Roosevelt and his war and peace policies, asserted the special election was important, not only to help determine the makeup of Congress, “but also as demonstrating labor and the people’s support for President Roosevelt’s Victory program.”
Nolan restates position
Nolan’s letter reiterated his platform of the freedoms of enterprise on which he has been campaigning.
His letter told the voters:
It is imperative that every voter go to the polls and vote, not only to elect a new Congressman, due to the untimely death of our friend and neighbor, Congressman Thomas Cullen, but to oppose the New Deal and a fourth term. I believe in the democratic principles of Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Murtha, president of Central Trades and Labor Council, and James C. Quinn, secretary, told Rooney in a letter that the council after an analysis of the records of the candidates had reported favorably on Rooney’s candidacy.
Other Rooney supporters
Rooney’s headquarters said he had also received expressions of support from Vincent Kane, president of the Uniformed Firemen’s Association; Vincent J. Ferris, former secretary of the Allied Printing Trades Council; James Barry of the Plasterers Council; Jacob Rosenberg, president of the Musicians Union, Local 802, and John Owens, secretary and treasurer of the International Longshoremen’s Union. Nolan, a superintendent of stevedores, is a member of this union. The Rooney headquarters listed about ten other union locals said to have endorsed him.
Meanwhile, William A. Root, chairman of the Nolan campaign committee, and Raymond Schmidt, vice chairman, said they believed the election would be close. The voting on Tuesday will be from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET.
Bricker to carry fight to convention
Washington (UP) – (June 3)
Roy D. Moore, Ohio publisher who is managing Governor John W. Bricker’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, said tonight that “our man is still in the fight and will stay there until the GOP Convention acts.”
He said in an interview that the Bricker forces do not anticipate or concede possible first-ballot nomination of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. He also challenged accuracy of newspaper polls and surveys by private organizations indicating that Dewey has enough pledged and claimed delegates to win on the first ballot.
Moore said:
Governor Bricker would not have entered this contest unless he and his friends thought he could win. The fact that we are still in this fight should prove that we haven’t changed our minds.
Bricker’s aides, he asserted, have made no claim to delegates except those from Ohio.