U S Bomber Raid Strikes Belgium and France Factories
U S air task forces totaling 1000 to 1500 bombers and fighters attacked plane factories and air fields in Belgium and France in a third day of heavy blows against Nazi air power. RAF raids on Lille and Paris followed daylight U S assaults on Poznan Gdynia Marienburg Warnemunde Tutow and other targets. Twenty Nazi planes were shot down by Thunderbolt Lighting and Mustang pilots. 31 bombers and eight fighters failed to return.
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London
U.S
Belgium
France
Lille
Paris
Poland
East Prussia
Germany
Brunswick
Frankfort
North Sea
Evere
Vivorde
Melsbroek
Brussels
Bourges
Pas-De-Calais
Villeneuve-St. Georges
RAF
U. S
Poznan
Posen
Gdynia
Marienburg
Warnemunde
Tutow
Jin
Sweden
Thunderbolt
Lighting
Mustang
England
Fives-Lille Steel and Engineering Works
Tokyo
Southwest Pacific
Hollandia
New Guinea
Wewak
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Central Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Japan
Carolines
Nimitz
Oroluk
Ponape
Ujelang
Marshall Islands
Indian Ocean
Hull Pleads For Foreign Policy Unity
Secretary of State Hull calls for unity on international issues while easing campaign risk by keeping foreign policy principles from election year controversies. He warns of an approaching hour of decision as the United Nations faces pivotal moments.
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Washington
State Hull
United Nations
President Roosevelt Takes Vacation in the South
President Roosevelt has left Washington for a two week vacation and rest, with departure details and destination kept private. Hull outlined plans to craft postwar world organization with a bipartisan congressional group, aiming to keep foreign policy out of partisan politics. He criticized critics of the State Department and detailed immediate issues in France and Italy, including supervision of liberated areas by Eisenhower and potential inclusion of anti-fascist parties in Italy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hull
Congress
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Answers
Hall
State Department
Department
France
United States
French Committee of National Liberation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italy
New Ohio Citizens To Be Honored May 21
Gov John W Bricker designated May 21 as I Am An American Day in Ohio honoring new citizens who have turned 21 and naturalized foreigners. He also set May 7 14 as National Music Week and April 10 15 as National Negro Health Week.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Tito's Partisans Smash Nazi Attack in Bosnia
Marshal Tito announces that Yugoslav partisans repelled renewed German thrusts toward the stronghold of Mrkonjigrad in western Bosnia and drove back attacks on Banjatuka to the northwest. The Army of Liberation recently seized the Jajce sector.
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London
Mrkonjigrad
Army of Liberation
Jajce
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Tito
Banjatuka
Sheriff Inducts Ashland Acting Leader Amid Hammond’s Departure
M. F. Richen brod becomes acting sheriff of Ashland County as Sheriff L. D. Hammond enters the armed forces. Richen brod succeeds Hammond in the interim posting.
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Ashland
M. F. Richenbrod
Ashland County
L. D. Hammond
De Gaulle Faces Challenge as Giraud Refuses Dismissal
Gen. Henri Giraud stands firm against removal as commander in chief of French armed forces. He declares the action violated republican law and committee ordinances. De Gaulle must decide next move as tensions rise and some allies threaten to resign in protest.
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Algieps
Charles de Gaulle
Committee of National Liberation
Henri Giraud
Giraud
de Gaulle
Liberation Committee
France
French National Committee
Illinois primary stirs Draft MacArthur sentiment in Midwest
National focus on Illinois election as MacArthur unapproved entry competes with Riley Bender. Delegates selected Tuesday in Wisconsin show MacArthur winning three of 24. Republican delegates to be chosen later and convention on April 28 loom over Dewey Bricker and MacArthur support.
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Chicago
Illinois
MacArthur
Midwest
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin
Riley Bender
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Piqua Officials Seek Leave for No 1 Flier
Piqua city commissioners telegrammed President Roosevelt and Gen. Arnold asking that Capt. Con. 8 S. Gentile, America's ace of aces, be sent home soon as a deserved tribute to an outstanding flier.
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Piqua
Miami
Roosevelt
Con
S. Gentile
America
H. H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Gentile
Cleveland Pilot Killed in Experimental Fighter Crash
J. Hamilton Wagner, 37, civilian test pilot, died Saturday when an experimental military fighter plane crashed and burned in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
J. Hamilton Wagner
Steel Plate Shipments Seen Improving By August
Cleveland reports steel plate deliveries show promise with average lead times around six months but expectations point to better prospects by August. Demand easing for shipyards and no new ship programs, plus a new plate making capacity coming online midyear, are cited.
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Cleveland
Easter service across fronts unites GI troops worldwide
The Associated Press reports Easter observances on multiple World War II fronts. American soldiers held sunrise services in Hyde Park London and at Anzio, Guadalcanal, and Burma, with Germans in Italy and Japanese transmissions noting religious observances as troops prayed amid mud and combat.
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Associated Press
Italy
London
Hyde Park
WACS
Garignano
Anzio
Burma
Palestine
Golgotha
Holy Sepulchre
Guadalcanal
Tenaru River
Southwest Pacific
Tokyo Radio
San Tomas
Manila
Soviet Troops Massed Along Czech Border
Soviet forces regroup along the Czechoslovak border as battles rage near Odessa and the Black Sea base. Moscow confirms a siege of the city, with conflicting claims on its fall and heavy German losses reported, while New Zealand troops clash near Cassino and Minturno amid the Italian front.
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Czech
Berlin
Odessa
Black Sea
Russia
Red Army
Moscow
Carpathian
Iasi
Jassy
Ploesti
Crimea
Hitler
Skala
Tatar Pass
Crimean Peninsula
Odessia
New Zealand
Sant-Angelo
Cassino
Garigliano
Rabies Deaths Reach Five Year High in 1943
Washington reports 1943 rabies toll may be the worst in five years with at least 33 human deaths and 7,348 animals killed by the disease. Most animals were dogs while cattle sheep swine horses goats wolves and foxes also succumbed. No figures on lives saved through pasteur treatment after bites are available.
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Washington
Falls on rail bridge kill Pratt then Bennett in shock
John Lewis Pratt aged 52 of Cleveland died after falling 60 feet from a railroad bridge while attempting to board a passenger train in Bellaire. An hour and a half later his brother in law Arthur Evan Bennett aged 64 collapsed and died, presumably from shock, after the tragedy.
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Bellaire
John Lewis Pratt
Cleveland
Arthur Evan Bennett
Pratt
Gentile Becomes America's Ace of Aces in Europe
England based fighter pilot Capt. Dominic Salvatore Gentile of Piqua Ohio officially credited with 30 kills in the European theater, surpassing Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War I record of 26 planes shot down. NEA Telephoto caption notes the historic achievement.
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England
Dominic Salvatore
Don) Gentile
Piqua, O
America
Eddie Rickenbacker
Casualties Arrive at New Ohio Hospital on Special Train
More than 200 wounded soldiers arrive at Crile Hospital in Parma Heights after transfer from an east coast port. First Sgt. Paul B. Brown of Mason City Iowa recalls heavy shell fire at Volturno and his thigh wound suffered in combat.
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New Ohio Hospital
Cleveland
Paul B. Brown
Mason City
Army
Crime General Hospital
Parma Heights
Brown
Sicily
Italy
Volturno
Crile Hospital
Czechs Move With Red Army Toward Czech Lands
A Czech brigade with the Red Army is advancing to the front and among the first units to enter old Czechoslovakia. Entry into Ruthenia could split German northern forces from those in the Balkans and threaten the Romanian rear. Gen Heliodor Pika said the Czech mission requested permission for early liberation entry.
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Moscow
Red Army
Czechoslovakia
Ruthenia
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungary
Balkans
Heliodor Pika
U. S
International CIO Head Dalrymple Expelled by Local Union
George Bass, local president of B. F. Goodrich Co., Union No. 5, announced the expulsion of Sherman Fr. Dalrymple, international president of the CIO United Rubber Workers of America.
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Akron
Sherman Fr. Dalrymple
CIO
United Rubber Workers of America
B. F. Goodrich Co
George Bass
Allies Admit Setbacks in India Battle
Allied headquarters conceded the Japanese drive into India has put the Imphal plain under siege and reached the outskirts of Kohima, about 35 jungle miles from Bengal Assam.
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India
Imphal
Kohima
Bengal - Assam
Australian Army to Supply Labor Amid War Strain
Australia plans to pull about 90 000 soldiers from an 800 000 strong force to address a manpower shortage in war industries. In Washington the move drew concern as Allied operations in Burma and China face pressure. Monsoon season looms as battles continue near Imphal Kohima and Bishenpur with Japanese attempts to outflank Allied defenses.
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Washington
Australia
Francis Forde
Bricker Advocates People Control in Government
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, campaigning in the Pacific Northwest for the Republican nomination, opposes any world authority over U S forces and says power must stay with the people. He criticizes federal control of agriculture as political and urges state and university channels for farming policy.
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Spokane
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Pacific Northwest
Bricker
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Two Men Admit Bank Robbery at Mt Vernon
In Cleveland two men confessed to bank robbery charges and awaited arraignment in federal court. FBI agents reported William E. Spencer and Elwood B. McClure admitted holding up the Akron branch of the Mount Vernon First Federal Savings and Loan Association for 1640 dollars on December 2, 1943. A third man was arrested and sent to Youngstown.
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Cleveland
Youngstown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
H. B. Fletcher
FBI
William E. Spencer
Elwood B. McClure
Akron
Mount Vernon First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Alaska GOP Delegates Back Dewey on First Ballot
Alaska Republican delegates to the national convention will back Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York on the first ballot regardless of his candidacy, according to Elton Engstrom chairman of the Alaska Republican central committee after a poll of members.
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Juneau
Alaska
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Elton Engstrom
Alaska Republican Central Committee
Automobile Crash Kills Sandusky Man Elmer Hemmer
An automobile crashed into a telephone pole near Sandusky yesterday killing Elmer Jay Hemmer 37 of Sandusky.
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Sandusky
Elmer Jay Hemmer
Landing in Tree Saves Youth After Fall of 19000 Feet
Kentucky farm youth Sgt James A Raley of Henderson endured a 19000 foot fall in a Flying Fortress tail section. He survived the crash when the plane tore apart and the tail wounded him, stopping in a tree top. Air force surgeons report only a chin cut as injury.
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Forts
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Quarters
Italy
Kentucky
Air Force
James A. Raley
Henderson
Debate Over National Service Draft Policy Divides Congress
Washington reports a sharp split on labor draft values as Senator Austin argues national service could curb strikes and bolster no-strike pledges, while Senator Thomas cites Britain's wartime experience to claim such legislation fails and won’t work.
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Washington
Congress
Austin
R-Vt
Thomas
Utah
Senate Labor Committee
Great Britain
Britain
March Merchant Ship Losses Rise in War Report
Washington reports March merchant shipping losses were a little higher than February. Roosevelt and Churchill say anti submarine warfare remains successful. Attacks against Russian supply lines are stalled, while submarine warfare extends from the Barents Sea toward Murmansk to the Indian Ocean.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Prime Minster Churchill
Russia
Barents Sea
Murmansk
Indian Ocean
Snowslide Traps Cars All Occupants Rescued
Reports from the Berthoud Pass shelter indicate all persons trapped when at least three cars were buried by a snow slide last night were rescued. They were being taken to the shelter to wait for snowplows to clear the road. No serious injuries reported.
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Georgetown
Colo
Berthoud Pass
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