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May 15, 1944

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ORLEMANSKI BOWS TO BISHOP'S ORDER; HIS MISSION AIDED; As Priest Accepts Seclusion, Diocese Opens Way to Send Stalin's Note to Vatican WASHINGTON CAN CALL HIM Parishioners Voice Sympathy in Springfield for Pastor Going to a Monastery Orlemanski Accepts Suspension; Stalin's Note Can Go to Vatican

By Lawrence Resnerspecial To the New York Times

Orlemanski will be permitted to send documents to him for transmission to Vatican

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KEY BASES BLASTED; Mantua, Padua, Venice Among Targets Hit -- Airfields Attacked VIADUCT IS SHATTERED Brenner Pass Feeder Struck in 3 Places -- Army Tells of 'Strangling' Efforts KEY BASES BLASTED BY AIRMEN IN ITALY

By A.c. Sedgwickby Wireless To the New York Times

US 15th Air Force heavy bombers strike strategic Po Valley ry points

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RUSSIAN BOMBERS HIT 3 RAIL DEPOTS; Nazi Supply Concentrations Set Afire at Brest-Litovsk, Polotsk and Narva RUSSIAN BOMBERS HIT 3 RAIL DEPOTS

By the United Press

USSR bombers hit mil targets at Brest-Litovsk, Polotsk and Narva; fires reptd; Moscow repts Ger attacks repulsed in Tiraspol and Stanislav areas; USSR naval planes and warships sink 12 Axis ships in Black Sea, Narva Bay and Finnish port of Kotka; prisoners and booty, including Ger 5th Army Corps comdr, captured on Cape Chersonese

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Poles Held Unamenable to Puppet; Premier Hits Meddling in U.S. Vote; Poles Held Unamenable to Puppet; Premier Hits Meddling in U.S. Vote

By Raymond Daniellby Wireless To the New York Times

Mikolajczyk not worried over USSR reptd plans to create rival regime on Polish soil; denies intention to inject dispute into US Pres campaign; believes USSR insincere in demand for strategic frontier up to Curzon Line; discusses USSR aims

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Notable Births

1944Bill Alter, American police officer and politician^[†]

Bill Alter was a former Missouri Republican politician who served in the Missouri Senate. He lived in High Ridge, Missouri, with his wife Merijo.

1944Ulrich Beck, German sociologist and academic (died 2015)^[†]

Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization". He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. He was a professor at the University of Munich and also held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.