Allied Bombing Rains on Budapest Amid Balkan Advances
Waves of British bombers hit Budapest in daylight operations supporting Soviet advances into Romania and Hungary. Soviet forces push toward the Danube region as Zhukov reports vast German losses and captured troops, while radio dispatches note Romanian capitulations and Italian forces reposition around Anzio.
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Balkans
Rumania
Carpathians
U. S
Hungary
Italy
Yugoslavia
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Drnis
Prut
Iasi
Jassy
Danube
Strikes in England Declared Critical Crisis for War Effort
London labor minister Ernest Bevin called the Yorkshire coal miners strike a great crisis in industrial relations and said drastic action would be taken at once to prevent war disruption. More than 80,000 Yorkshire miners remain idle as government and union leaders seek a resolution.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Yorkshire
Cut in Coal Supply For Households Seen
Washington announces a drastic cut in household use of domestic size bituminous coal mined in Southern Appalachian regions. Consumers in Southern West Virginia Eastern Kentucky and parts of Virginia and Tennessee must meet at least 25 percent of annual needs from alternative fuels where available.
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Washington
Ickes
Appalachian
West Virginia
Kentucky
Virginia
Tennessee
Soldier's Medal Honors for Two Soldiers Named
The War Department announced two Soldier's Medal recipients including Elmer Thomas of Roseville. His citation accompanies the listing and the other honoree is named in the release.
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Washington
War Department
Elmer Thomas
Roseville
Three Children Die In Home Fire Explosion
In Xenia a kerosene stove exploded burning the Terrell home. Helen eight and Dharma three died smothered under bedcovers in a back room. James eighteen months died of burns at the hospital. Eldora four months old was hospitalized with serious burns after rescue. Two other children were away.
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Xenia
William Terrell
Terrell
Helen
Dharma
James
Eldora
Ohioan Freed by Nazis After Hour as Prisoner
Private Lawrence D. Kendle of Canton Ohio was captured by German forces at the Fifth Army Anzio Nettuno beachhead and released an hour later. He served as a medical aide and quipped he may have been freed due to being too little or their limit was reached.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Lawrence D. Kendle
Canton
Ohio
Anzio-Nettuno
Kendle
Child of Seaman Dies in Hospital
Robert Dale Ritchason aged one year nine months died at Children's Hospital in Columbus from acute tracheobronchitis. He is the child of Seaman and Mrs Walter Ritchason of Carbon Hill. Surviving are brothers Jimmie and Briley Keith and sister Connie Beth. Grandparents Mr and Lester Briley. Father serves in the Navy in California. Body taken to Logan by Leonard Funeral Home for arrangements.
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Robert Dale Ritchason
Children's Hospital
Columbus
Seaman
Walter Ritchason
Jimmie
Briley Keith
Connie Beth
Lester Briley
Navy
California
Logan
Leonard Funeral Home
Company trims workers to 60 hours starting May first
Cleveland shoes firm announces a reduction in the work week for Jack and Heintz Company employees from 84 hours to 60 hours beginning May 1 due to cutbacks in schedules, as stated by President William S and Son.
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Cleveland
Jack and Heintz Company
William S&s. Jack
German Naval Defense Only 12 Destroyers
Allied naval authorities say Germany has roughly 12 destroyers along the European coast from Norway to France to counter the British home fleet as the continent invasion looms. The Tirpitz, reportedly damaged in Alten Fjord, is no longer a primary threat, while German defenses claimed carrier planes were repelled in a Norwegian attack.
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London
Germany
Norway
France
Alten Fjord
Admiralty
Tirpitz
High Command
North Sea
Promise Reparations For Bombed Swiss City
The United States government will make reparations for the damage from the bombing of Schaffhausen Switzerland on April 1, as announced by Secretary Hull.
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Washington
United States
Schaffhausen
Switzerland
Hull
Dixie Solons Favor Limiting Negro Vote in Primaries
Southern legislators criticized the Supreme Court ruling that Negroes may vote in Texas Democratic primaries and pledged steps to bar Negro participation. Other items note Rep. Peterson on public lands and Senator Nye on lend-lease oversight, plus Navy reports 4 316 Japanese planes shot down since the war began.
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Dixie Solons
Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Dixie
Peterson
D-Fla
United States
Congress
House Public Lands Committee
Florida
Agriculture Department
Forest Service
Soil Conservation
Farm Security Administration
Agriculture Research
Gas cars derail and explode near Springfield
Twenty five cars loaded with gasoline and oil derailed on the Erie Railroad a mile west of Springfield today. The center cars jumped the rails and exploded burning. no injuries reported. A 75 car train was headed north. traffic halted on the single track line.
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Springfield
Erie
Here
Migration of Negroes Told to Aggravate Trouble
Industrial College Georgia report quotes Louis Bromfield amid Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life. Bromfield, new board member, warns that migration to industrial centers worsens a major problem and without a solution trouble of many kinds may follow.
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Industrial College
Louis Bromfield
Association For the Advancement of Negro Country Life
Bromfield
Urge GOP To Pledge Fewer Farm Controls
Chicago report of a Republican campaign push to curtail government participation in the economy following farm group recommendations. A party committee with governors and congressmen opened a two day program with American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange and National Association of Commissioners Secretaries and Directors of Agriculture on record for less government action. The National Farmers Union urged continued government planning and funds to create an economy of abundance.
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Chicago
Republican Party
Congress
American Farm Bureau Federation
The
National Grange
National Association of Commissioners
National Farmers’ Union
Steel Workers Wage Formula Attacked Again
Washington AFL charged the Little Steel wage formula harms workers as costs rise far above the 15 percent ceiling. George Meany urged a real modification before a War Labor Board panel, noting costs since 1941 have jumped well beyond the limit. A CIO United Steel Workers panel had criticized the same formula two weeks earlier.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor Today
America
George Meany
AFL
War Labor Board
Meany
Bureau of Labor Statistics
CIO
United Steel Workers
Court Rules Negroes Vote Rights in Texas Primaries
The Supreme Court reversed a nine year old position in an 8 1 ruling stating that Negroes have the right to vote in Texas Democratic party primaries. Justice Reed delivered the decision with a sharp dissent from Justice Roberts noted. The ruling carries wide implications for Southern states where Democratic primaries function as de facto elections.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roberts
Texas
Reed
Legislature Sets April 26 Special Session on Soldier Vote
Columbus Ohio lawmakers were convened for a special session on Wednesday April 26 to revise the state's absentee voting laws for soldiers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Apple Syrup From Apples Shown by U S Department of Agriculture
The U S Department of Agriculture unveiled a new amber apple syrup at the Eastern Regional Research Laboratory in Philadelphia. It is 65 percent sugar and made from ordinary apple juice with all flavors and jelly making ingredients removed.
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Cleveland
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia
American Chemical Society
R. BE. Buck
J. J. Willaman
H. H. Mottern
British War Casualties Declared by Churchill in Commons
Churchill announced in Parliament total empire casualties in four years: 667,159 with 158,741 killed, 159,219 wounded, 78,204 missing, 270,995 prisoners. UK civilian toll 109,101 with 49,730 killed and 59,371 wounded needing hospitalization.
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London
British Empire
Churchhill
Commons
Churchill
United Kingdom
Revolutionists Seize Salvador Palace in Revolt
Ultimas Noticias quoted Radio Salvador reporting a revolt against President Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador. Rebels seized the government palace and several other buildings Sunday morning.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Ultimas Noticias
Radio Salvador Today
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
Republic of
el Salvador
Size of Garden Will Determine Gas Right
Columbus reports the Office of Price Administration will grant extra gasoline only to Victory gardeners who cultivate a vegetable area of at least 1,500 square feet and keep it near their home for biweekly access under the basic fuel allotment.
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Columbus
Office of Price Administration
Rent Ceiling Violator Stung by Heavy Penalties
J. F. Jungelass 45 of Wyoming pleaded guilty in U S District Court to violating rent ceiling rules. A $10000 fine and five six month jail terms were imposed but suspended except for $2000 of the fine.
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Cincinnati
J. F. Jungelass
Wyoming
U. S
Permit Holders To Get One Case Per Week
Ohio moves to aid 870 small liquor retailers by providing a minimum of one case of whiskey weekly to permit holders. Director Don Fisher announced the policy effective immediately, replacing the previous 50 percent of average weekly sales during the first six months of 1942.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fective
Don Fisher
Russia Orders Equipment for Soviet Steel Mill
An order for 12 million dollars of steel mill equipment was placed with United Engineering and Foundry Co. plant officials disclosed yesterday for Soviet Russia.
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Russia
Youngstown
Soviet
United Engineering & Foundry Co
Yeste
Navy secretary cites undetermined Jap ships sunk in Palau raid
Secretary of the Navy Knox reported American warships penetrated deep into Japanese territory striking Palau in the extreme Western Carolines and hitting Woleai and Yap. He said a single Jap warship was sunk near Palau and two near Woleai, with no reliable estimate of total ships sunk. Air and submarine losses and Japanese claims were noted.
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Washington
Knox
Palau
Carolines
Woleai
Yap
Anchorage
Radio Tokyo
Navy Department
Japanese Private Surrenders Charge Voice Broadcasts
A 24 year old Japanese private from the Sixth Imperial Division broadcast to his troops urging surrender to American forces. The plea was relayed to opposing lines a few hundred yards away via loudspeakers as American naval action destroyed or damaged enemy craft. The report notes a new bay area with tankers and cargo vessels, and mentions Woleai and Yap as anchorage and communications hubs.
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Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Sixth Imperial Division
Woleai
Yap
Manila Alarm Highlights Palau Raid Across Pacific War
Navy secretary notes an interesting slant in the Palau raid as Manila issued an air raid alert. The Manila broadcast claimed the all clear, while Admiral Nimitz reported Marshall Islands retaken and Bougainville combat tapering with 7,000 enemy dead since March 8. Mountbatten pages speak of a lull south of Imphal.
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Timor
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New Britain
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Open Bay
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Wewak
Madang
Bougainville
Empress Augusta Bay
South Pacific
India
Louis Mountbatten
Imphal
Free Man Resigns to Enter Army from Louisiana Congress
James Domengeaux, 37, of Lafayette Louisiana, resigns his House seat in a farewell to fellow congressmen denouncing government regulation of life. He will be inducted as a private, reducing Democratic House seats to 216 against 210.
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James Domengeaux
Lafayette
House of Representatives
Congress
State Troops Patrol Streets In Weirton
West Virginia state troopers patrolled the streets as United Steelworkers prepared to resume handing out union literature near the Weirton Steel plant gates. Governor Nelly had proclaimed that people are being unlawfully deprived of liberty and the right to assemble. Twenty five labor supporters were arrested last Thursday at the gates on unlawful assembly charges.
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Weirton
W. Va
West Virginia
United Steelworkers of America
CSO
Weirton Steel Company
M. M. Nelly
Weirton Gates
Hancock County Sheriff's
Richard Wright
Timken Expands Zanesville Plant to Alleviate Canton Shortage
Timken Roller Bearing Co. will expand operations in Zanesville due to labor shortages at Canton plants and high absenteeism. About 200 workers will be added in a newly leased building for bearing assembly and inspection, announced by factory manager H. M. Richey.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Zanesville
H. M. Richey
Timeken
Richey
Wright Inspectors to Testify in Court Martial
In Cincinnati area a half dozen Wright Aeronautical Corp. inspectors and former inspectors were expected to testify in the public court martial of three Army Air Force officers charged with neglect of duty and conspiracy to deliver faulty engines. Major Henry C. Clausen said witnesses include inspectors who were allegedly transferred or threatened with transfer for insisting on proper engine inspection.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Lockland
Army Air Force
United States
Henry C. Clausen
Army
Lana Turner and Stephen Crane Separate Again
Actress Lana Turner and her husband Stephen Crane announce a second separation in Hollywood. The pair had previously separated, with Turner known for her iconic sweater image.
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Lana Turner
Stephen Crane
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