Navy eyes all-out summer submarine campaign
The Navy speeds anti submarine efforts as 300 to 400 U boats threaten in summer. 28 Axis subs sunk or presumed sunk so far with 7 in the Pacific. Rochester flier Donald F Mason earns DFC, Silver Star, and commission after two submarine strikes.
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Washington
America
Navy
U. S
Germany
Atlantic
Caribbean
United States
Pacific
Donald Francis Mason
Rochester, Minn
Mason
Senate Passes Loan Program for War Production
Senator Murray said the pending small business loan program and expanded RFC, Army, Navy and Maritime Commission powers would aid the war production effort. The measure authorizes loans totaling 100 million dollars and creates a small plants section to align enterprises, passing the Senate without opposition and moving to the House. Murray noted additional funds might be needed later, but 100 million is sufficient and noninterfering with RFC loans.
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Washington
Murray
D.-Mont
RFC
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Senate
House
Good Friday Easter Services Planned for Army Units
Washington reports that Army Chief of Chaplains William R. Armgold says over 1,000,000 soldiers are expected to attend special Good Friday and Easter services across all units. Soldiers will receive time off to attend where possible.
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Washington
Army
William R. Armgold
Man To Man Advertising Plea For Help
Fragmentary OCR shows an ad pitch urging individuals to use classified paging to rent rooms or sell goods. It mentions Messengers Bop and bargain rates, with three lines of text and a price of 1.44 dollars per hour. The legible content references furniture rentals livestock and produce selling by farmers and business use to gain customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nowendy
Students urged to learn sheep shearing in Ohio
Delaware Ohio high school students are asked to learn sheep shearing to address a shortage of skilled shearers. W L Welsh of Radnor, president of the Ohio Sheep Shearers Association, says Ohio shearers faced labor shortages and are overwhelmed by frantic calls from western raisers seeking help.
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Delaware
Ohio
W. L. Welsh
Radnor
Ohio Sheep Shearers Association
Taft Proposes Board To Fix Profit Ceiling
Senator Taft proposes a board of army, navy and war production experts to set profit margins on military items. President administration leaders seek compromise on a 6 percent profit limit added by the House to the $18.301 billion military appropriations bill, with Nelson and military officials favoring a substitute to replace flat limits.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Army and Navy
Nelson
Army, Navy
Barkley
Kentucky
Stores Close Friday From Noon to 2 P.M.
In observance of Good Friday the Athens Retail Merchants Association reports member stores will close for two hours tomorrow afternoon from 12 to 2 o clock. City ministers requested the action and the association asks all city stores to shut during that period.
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Athens Retail Merchants Association
The
Merchants’ Association
Trailers Subject To Local Regulations
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a Brooklyn village ordinance regulating trailers and trailer camps. It limits parking in camps to 60 days with a 90 day waiting period before return and requires camps to keep daily registrations of occupants' names and addresses.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Brooklyn Village
Owl Face Cat Dies at Age Two in Nelsonville
Nelsonville report says Owl Face, a cat owned by Mr and Mrs Robert Lovett of Monday, died several days ago at the age of two years.
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Nelsonville
Owl Face
Robert Lovett
Bombing Attacks Hit Paris Region and Atlantic Battle Rages
British bombers struck the Matford works at Poissy near Paris as part of night raids on the outskirts of the city and western Germany. The Luftwaffe claimed major Allied shipping losses in March while U S and British submarine actions faced counterclaims amid the Atlantic conflict. In Russia, German forces pressed the Leningrad front as Red Army units reported several effective operations and heavy German bombardment.
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London Air Ministry
Adolf Hitler
High Command
United States
Nazi High Command
Vichy
Dispatches
France
Rueil
Sannois
Air Ministry
Matford
Poissy
Germany
Reich
Belgium
Sweden
England
Stockholm
Skagerrak
Norway
Denmark
Goteborg
Supreme Court
Hitler
Leningrad
Red Army
Bank Head Dies in Waverly Ohio
George C. Jones, president of the First National Bank, died yesterday in Waverly Ohio. He led the bank through its growth phase and was a prominent local figure in finance. The community mourns his loss as plans for the funeral are not yet announced.
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Waverly
George C. Jones
First National Bank
Ohio poised to boost potato crop despite AAA orders
Ohio Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood announced plans to raise potato acreage by 10 percent at state farms, defying Agricultural Adjustment Administration limits to aid the war effort. He cited WPB support and pledged centralized production to benefit war needs and Ohio taxpayers. Wayne County AAA limited Apple Creek Institution to 70 acres this year after 150 acres last year.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
War Production Board
Welfare Department
Ohio
Sherwood
AAA
Efort
Maury Maverick
Texas
Bureau of Governmental Requirements
WPB
Wayne County Aaa Committee
Apple Creek Institution
Senators Warn Poor Planning Delays War Aircraft Production
Washington and UK reports cite a Senate defense committee finding that current planning is inadequate. It urges the War Production Board to appoint a trained aircraft production executive to coordinate bottleneck relief and to create an overall planning section for aviation output.
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Washington
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
War Production Board
West
WPA
Home Made Cuffs on Trousers Out Under War Curb
The War Production Board warns that prisoners may not buy garments at retail, receive unfinished trousers, or have cuffs added at home or by a local tailor. The rule, effective yesterday, prohibits such home made alterations and deliveries with unfinished cuffs.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lifeboat Birth Brave Tale From Atlantic Rescue
Mrs De Sanka Mohorovicic of New York gave birth to Jesse Ro per Mohorovich in a lifeboat during a torpedoed voyage in the Atlantic. The eight-pound boy, born thirteen hours after lifeboat launch, arrived with mother and 87 survivors later reaching Norfolk. The ship's doctor suffered rib fractures but treated patients with improvised tools. The rescue crew raised 210 to aid the mother, described by doctors as brave and lovely.
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Norfolk
Jesse Roper Mohorovich
de- Sanka Mohorovich
New York
Seay
Jesse
L. H. Conly
Brooklyn
Visna
War Production Board Urges Full Easter Day Work
The War Production Board asked production workers who do not plan Easter observance to work a full day on April 5. Chairman Donald M. Nelson said Easter has great religious significance and those wanting devotional time should still work the day.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
U S Recruit Served With Germans in 14
Leonard Mack aged 49 recalls serving as a captain in the German army in World War I and seeking duty in World War II with the United States army. He and his wife honeymooned in 1923 and decided to stay in the United States.
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Chicago
Leonard Mack
United States Army
Mack
United States
Ironton Man Convicted of Manslaughter in Fatal Shooting
Ed Addis, 46, found guilty of manslaughter for the April fatal shooting of John Brannigan, a 28 year old deputy sheriff in Law epee County. The case centers on a confrontation that led to Brannigan’s death.
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Ironton
Ed Addis
John Brannigan
Lawepee County
Japanese land at Akyab 100 miles from frontier fronts India
Japanese sea borne troops reportedly landed at Akyab near the Burma India frontier, 100 miles from the line, threatening British defenses and central Burma oil fields. In the Pacific the threat to Port Moresby grows as Japanese forces mass in Java and Singapore for a possible sea borne assault. Allied air units claim 96 Japanese planes destroyed since March 10 with 12 own losses. Japanese night raids into Darwin indicate continued aggression despite heavy losses.
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India
West Burma
Akyab
Burma-India
United Nations
Chungking
Burma
Australia
Japan
Pacific
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Torres Strait
Mindanao Raids by U S and Filipino Allies Hit Japanese Bases
U S and Philippine forces targeted two Japanese bases in Mindanao Zamboanga and Digos while local fighters harassed Japanese positions and burned stores. Across the region reports say Japanese suffered heavy casualties as bush fighters attacked machine-gun nests and disrupted operations leaving U S troops unscathed. In India Cripps seeks to extend talks on self rule with Congress and Hindu groups divided over proposals.
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Philippines
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Digos
Washington
Bataan Peninsula
U. S
United States
Davao
New Guinea
Australia
Wainwright
Bataan
India
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Sir Stafford
All-India Congress Party
Congress Party
Disney predicts sales tax favored by House
Representative Disney of Oklahoma says a survey shows an overwhelming House majority would approve a sales tax over large increases in corporate and individual taxes proposed by the Treasury. He notes Congress could not raise 7 million dollars from corporations and individuals and warns a sales tax may be necessary.
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Washington
Disney
D.-Okla
House
Treasury
Congress
Ways and Means
What If They All Drop in for Sunday Dinner?
Kansas City AP reports baby Betty Lou Lasister, a two week old sixth generation child, may believe the world is all relatives with 6 aunts and uncles, 27 great aunts and uncles, 70 great great aunts and uncles, and 156 distant cousins.
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Kansas City
Betty Lou Lasister
Betty Lou
Distribution Of New Cars To Be Speeded
Cleveland AP report says Cyrus McCormick III of the Office of Price Administration expects broader rationing board discretion to speed 300000 to 500000 new cars from dealers stocks in about a year. Liberalized trading of used cars for new autos and forthcoming Washington regulations are noted.
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Cleveland
Price Administration
Cyrus McCormick III
Office of Price Administration
Washington
McCormick
CPA
Crude Whiskey To Be Converted Into Alcohol
Twenty five distilleries in Kentucky Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania will ship crude rye and bourbon whisky called high wine to two large distilleries for conversion into industrial alcohol. The War Production Board expands use of grain for high proof alcohol for explosives.
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Washington
Kentucky
Maryland
Pennsylvania
War Production Board
1200 Dutch Jews Die In Nazi Sulphur Mines
The Netherlands government in exile reports 1,200 Dutch Jews sent by the Germans to forced labor in Mauthausen salt and sulfur mines have all died. The Germans allegedly sent them unprotected into the poisonous vapors.
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London
Netherelands
Mauthausen
War Production Board freezes metal office furniture stocks
The War Production Board ordered an immediate curtailment of outputs in metal office furniture and equipment. It froze manufacturers stockpiles and prohibited production of insulated metal filing cabinets safes and metal visible record equipment except to fill top priority orders.
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Washington
War Production Board
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