British Commandos Raid Off Bologne Sparks Invasion Fears
The raid on the coast near Bologne shows minimal Nazi resistance, suggesting German troops are stretched for the Russian front. The operation boosts Allied morale, pressures Hitler to defend multiple fronts, and may aid French resistance while signaling potential Western invasion readiness by Britain and America.
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France
Bologne
White Cliffs
England
Britain
Norway
Hitler
Red Army
Royal Air Force
Germany
Europe
Western
Houston May Get Foreign Trade Zone
Commerce department officials said the Houston application for a foreign trade zone would likely be approved if port facilities prove adequate. Harris County ship channel district seeks 450000 square feet of warehousing and transit sheds. New Orleans Galveston and Tampa also plan to apply, with hopes three gulf zones are created. Small craft warnings front the Texas coast per weather forecast from New Orleans.
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Washington
U.R
Commerce Department
Houston
Tex
Harris County Ship Channel Navigation District
New Orleans
Galveston
Tampa
Fla
Gulf Ports
McLean Again Heads AP as New VPs Appointed
New York April 23 AP President Robert McLean of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin began a fifth term as AP president. Two new vice presidents were named Houston Harte of the San Angelo Standard and Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times. Harte and Sulzberger succeeded E Lansing Ray and Stuart H Perry.
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New York
Robert McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Associated Press Today
McLean
Houston Harte
San Angelo
Guerilla Bands Hunt Germans in Norway
Four guerrilla bands active in northern Norway harass German units. Over the past three months they killed more than 400 Nazi officers and men, using captured weapons. Report aired by Khabarovsk radio via Stockholm sources and heard on CBS shortwave.
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San Francisco
Norway
Khabarovsk
Siberia
CBS
Stockholm
Antelope To Be Shot By Select Hunters In California
California conducted its first antelope lottery with nearly 3,000 applicants. Five hundred winners may kill one adult buck apiece as the hunting ban eases due to food supply constraints. Also in Los Angeles, actor Fred MacMurray and wife Lillian adopt a daughter, Susan Carol, aged nearly two.
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Sacramento
Calif
Modoc
Lasseh County
California
Los Angeles
Fred MacMurray
Lillian
Susan Carol
Fight Opens To Kill Dies Committee Appropriation
Foes of the Dies committee pressed a bid to cut its funding as a $110,000 appropriation to run the panel until January faced House votes. Critics urged curtailment over Dies charges linking Economic Warfare Board staff to Communist fronts, while supporters argued the panel remains essential and adequately funded. Meanwhile two merchant ships sunk off Brunswick port, with 21 dead, were to be towed for reconditioning, bodies recovered, and Axis wartime propaganda noted.
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Washington
Dies
House
Martin Dies
Texas
Accounts Committee
Dies Group
Cochran
Marcantonio
American Labor
New York
Dies Committee
Board of Economic Warfare
Brunswick
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