Allied Push Deepens in Tunisia Front Strikes at Rommel
Allied ground forces and air power press the Tunisian front as Patton and Montgomery link to drive Rommel’s rearguards from Gabes to Medjez El Bab. Prisoners and guns captured. Rommel withdraws under cover of darkness amid continued air assaults on Naples Messina and Palermo.
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Middle East
Cairo
Naples
Messina
Sicily
U. SS. Liberators
Palermo
Malta
U. S
George S. Patton
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Rommel
Wadi el Akwarit
Gabes
Gafsa Gabes
Patton
el Guetar
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Alexander
Alexander
Eisenhower
Sfax
U. S. Army
Star and Arrow
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Cardinia
Italy
Reds Batter Tired Nazis
The Red Army gained the initiative south of Izyum and seized several favorable positions to widen the Soviet bridgehead on the Donets River’s south bank as German forces appeared exhausted.
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Moscow
Red Army
Izyum
Donets
Farm Labor Bill Faces Senate Test on 40 Million Aid
A House approved bill seeks 40 million dollars to recruit train and place 3.5 million farm workers this year while extending benefits for old age assistance recipients who work in agriculture. The measure would fund state agricultural extension services for recruitment and housing and cover administration and transportation costs. Senate members fear a permanent class of transient workers may form, but support emphasizes boosting farm production.
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House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Farm State
State Agriculture Extension Services
Civilian Conservation Corps
United States
Thomas
Oklaoma
Borger Cadet Is Killed in Crash
SAN ANTONIO April 8 The crash of a training plane north of Leakey yesterday killed two Army officers and three cadets from the Honda Navigation School The dead include Second Lieut Robert Lee Mc Reynolds 24 Mangum Okla the pilot Second Lieut John H Edgvean 23 Baltimore Md the navigator Cadet Don E Lantz 21 Bradner Ohio Cadet Rollie H Lesher 24 Borger and Cadet Daniel E McGurren 24 Sedalia Mo
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San Antonio
Leakey
Army
Honda Navigation School
Robert
Lee McReynolds
Mangum
Okla
John H. Edgvean
Baltimore
Don E. Lantz
Bradner
Ohio
Rollie H. Lesher
Borger
Daniel E. McGurren
Sedalia
British Repel Japanese Assault in Burma
British forces repelled a fresh Japanese infantry attack in Burma as artillery and air support from New Delhi backed ground troops. British positions on the Mayu Peninsula remained unchanged over 24 hours with plans to pull back before the rains.
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Burma
United Press
New Delhi
Mayu
Panhandle Weather Brings Welcome Rain and Frost Talk
Panhandle observers report rain eased drought for wheat, row crops, gardens, and fruit prospects. April frost risks loom as J W Moreman notes a spring blizzard pending and Amarillo records show only three Aprils since 1912 without freezing temperatures.
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H. C. Winburn
Panhandle
J. W. Moreman, Sr
Dalhart
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Cooler today with little change in temperature tonight and gentle to moderate winds. No major temperature change tonight in West Texas while New Mexico expects warmer northern areas by Friday morning. Precipitation totals 0.70 inch with high 68 and low 44 as of 6 30 AM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Plains Editors Dine at Army Mess for Panhandle Meeting
Panhandle editors and their ladies attend the 34th Panhandle Press Association convention at Amarillo Field. They tour Flying Fortress hangars, dine in Mess Hall No 3 with B 17 trainee style meals provided by the officers club, and attend the Col Ernest on Thompson banquet at Herring Hotel. Transportation is via buses arranged by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce with sessions at 10 am and talks by Pampa Army Air Field officers and Boyce House.
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Panhandle
Amarillo Army Air Field
the Panhandle Press Association
Flying Fortress
Amarillo
Sky Battle Over Solomons Destroys Four-Engine Seaplane
A four engined enemy seaplane was destroyed in the Solomon Islands blunting a major air raid on American forces. The day’s Japanese aircraft losses rose to 943 as the enemy armada descended from bases to the northwest in a large, coordinated attack. The action aimed at a coastal target near the Solomon Islands.
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Chekiang
Hupeh
Yangtze
Central China
Solomons
Italian General Messe Named Commander in Tunisia
A CBS broadcast reported that General Giovanni Messe is the new commander in chief in Tunisia. The Berlin spokesman said Rommel and Von Arnim now serve under Messe, who also commands the Italian expeditionary force in the Russian front.
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New York
London
CBS
Giovanni Messe
Tunisia
Berlin
Rommel
von Arnim
Messe
Allied drive from Medjez El Bab yields prisoners and gains
Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson opened First Army assault from the Medjez El Bab region at dawn reaching the first objective and 150 prisoners by noon. Axis losses included an Allied plane downed and three more destroyed by northern sector anti air batteries with Germans and Italians among prisoners, Rommel forced to alter his southern defense plan as Axis armor fought among high ground and mines.
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First Army
Medjez-El-Bab
U. 8S. Army Corps
George S. Patton, Jr
Gafsa
Eighth Army
Rommel
Tunisia
Junker
Sfax
Sousse
Tunis
High Command
Berlin
Ated
Axis
Red Army
Izyum
Donets
Smolensk
Volkhov
Leningrad
Sevsk
Kursk
Red
Belgorod
Kharkov
K. A. N. Anderson
Wadi el Akarit
Second Corps
New Pennies In Circulation In Amarillo
Amarillo banks receive a batch of 120 009 new pennies that look like dimes and may confuse cashiers. Police test showed the coins work in parking meters and hundreds have already been tested in the city.
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Amarillo
Sergi
Frank
Rosy” King
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WAAC
Virginia Brouk
Chicago
Robert Brouk
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Cornelia Greenveld
Philadelphia
Med- Jez-El-Bab
Erwin Rommel
Allied
North Africa
Wad Akarit
Ers
Gafsa-Gabes Road
8Th Army Group
Navy
Air Force
Africa
Reds
Washington
Senate
Prentiss Brown
Senate Agriculture Committee
Arvell Meador
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Kavieng
New Ireland
MacArthur
New Guinea
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Wheat Belt
Spearman
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Plains
John Maynard Lor. Co
5Th
Sassari
Sardinia
Cagliari
Tyrrhenian Sea
Palermos
Mediterranean Sea
Syracuse
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