Aerial Battle Looms Over Europe With 1000 U.S. Bombers
U S air task forces totaling 1000 to 1500 bombers and fighters hit plane factories and air fields in Belgium and France after RAF raids on Lille and Paris outskirts. Operations followed daylight assaults in Poland East Prussia and northeast Germany. One report notes 31 heavy bombers and eight fighters missing with 10 American bombers forced down in Sweden.
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London
U. S
Belgium
France
Lille
Paris
Poland
East Prussia
Germany
Brunswic
Ce Ao
Frankfort
North Sea
Evere
Vivorde
Melsbroek
Brussels
Bourges
Pas-De-Calais
RAF
Villeneuve-St. Georges
Poznan
Posen
Gdynia
Marienburg
Warnemunde J
Tutow
Sweden
Thunderbolt
Lighting
Mustang
England
Fives-Lille Steel and Engineering
Hull Pleads For Foreign Policy Unity
Secretary of State Hull urges home front unity on international issues and frames a campaign to keep United States foreign policy out of election year controversy. He warns the nation is moving toward a critical hour of decision as the United Nations approach decisive moments.
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Washington
Hull
United Nations
President Roosevelt Takes Vacation Down South
President Roosevelt travels for a two week vacation with departure from Washington not disclosed. Hull outlines bipartisan planning for postwar world organization and keeps foreign policy decisions from becoming partisan. He discusses immediate issues with France and Italy and stresses allied supervision of liberated areas after invasion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hall
State Department
Department
France
Hull
United States
French Committee of National Liberation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italy
New Ohio Citizens To Be Honored May 21
Gov Bricker designates May 21 as I Am An American Day to honor new Ohio citizens who have turned 21 and naturalized immigrants. Also proclaims May 7 14 as National Music Week and April 10 15 as National Negro Health Week.
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Ohio
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Tito's Partisans Repel Nazi Attack in Bosnia
Marshal Tito's partisans report smashing renewed German thrusts toward Mrkonjigrad and Banjatuka northwest of Jajce. The communique says forces loyal to the Army of Liberation halted the Nazi assault in western Bosnia.
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Tito
Partisans
Bosnia
London
Mrkonjicgrad
Army of Liberation
Jajce
Western
Josip Broz
Banjatuka
Richen Becomes Acting Sheriff of Ashland County
M. F. Richen brod is acting sheriff of Ashland County succeeding Sheriff L. D. Hammond, who has entered military service. Hammond was inducted into the armed forces prompting the succession.
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Ashland
M. F. Richenbrod
Ashland County
L. D. Hammond
De Gaulle Faces Challenge as Giraud Refuses Dismissal
General Henri Giraud rejects removal from command of the French armed forces, signaling a power struggle with Charles de Gaulle. Giraud accuses the action of violating republican law and committee ordinances, while pledging to defend his post amid reports of resignations among Liberation Committee members.
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Algieps
Charles de Gaulle
Committee of National Liberation
Henri Giraud
Giraud
de Gaulle
Liberation Committee
France
National Committee
Draft MacArthur Dominates Illinois Primary Speculation
In Chicago a heated Illinois primary runs on the Draft MacArthur sentiment with General MacArthur already on the ballot without authorization. Wisconsin yielded three of 24 delegates, while Illinois voters see rivals Riley Bender and MacArthur in a nonbinding preliminary for the 50 delegates and party convention on April 28. Dewey Bricker and Dewey supporters also appear among district entrants.
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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 Gentile
Piqua city officials telegrammed President Roosevelt and Gen. H H Arnold asking that Capt Don Gentile America's ace of aces be returned home soon for a deserved rest as a tribute to an outstanding flier.
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PIQUA
Miami County
Roosevelt
Don. S. Gentile
America
H. H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Gentile
Cleveland Pilot Killed in Experimental Fighter Crash
J. Hamilton Wagner, 37, a civilian test pilot, died Saturday when an experimental military fighter aircraft crashed and burned in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
J. Hamilton Wagner
Steel Plate Shipments Show More Promise
Steel predicts plate shipments will improve by August with six month deliveries averaging, aided by steady shipyard demand and new plate making capacity expected midyear.
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Cleveland
Easter services unite troops across theaters
The Associated Press reports Easter observed by American doughboys in mud and blood on multiple fronts from Italy to Anzio and Guadalcanal. Soldiers joined in sunrise services in Hyde Park London and at Garigliano with Allied and German troops. Communions and prayer books were dropped behind enemy lines in Burma and Palestine and even San Tomas internment camp in Manila reported Easter services.
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Associated Press
Italy
London
Hyde Park
WACS
Garigliano
Anzio
Burma
Palestine
Golgotha
Holy Sepulchre
Guadalcanal
Tenaru River
Southwest Pacific
Tokyo
San Tomas
Manila
Soviet Troops Massed Along Czech Border
Berlin announced evacuation of Odessa, a major Black Sea base and city of 600000, with battle reports claiming a break into rail yards near the city. Moscow disputed the claim of fall and noted large German casualties in two months of fighting. Allied reports spoke of renewed attacks near Cassino and on the Garigliano front as German forces moved in the Italian theater.
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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 rabies caused the deaths of at least 33 people and 7,348 animals in 1943. Most animal deaths were dogs, with cattle sheep swine horses goats wolves and foxes also affected. No figures on lives saved from pasteur treatment after bites are provided.
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Washington
Falls From Bridge Kill Man. Shock Fatal for Brother-in-Law
BELLAIRE Cleveland man John Lewis Pratt aged 52 died after falling 60 feet from a railroad bridge while trying to board a passenger train. About 90 minutes later his brother-in-law Arthur Bennett aged 4 died, presumably from shock. Pratt had been visiting over the weekend.
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Bellaire
John Lewis Pratt
Cleveland
Arthur Evan Bennett
Pratt
Gentile Becomes America's Ace of Aces With 30 Kills
England based fighter pilot Capt. Dominic Salvatore Gentile, 23, from Piqua Ohio, officially credited with 30 kills in the European theater cements his status as America's top ace, surpassing Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 planes shot down.
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England
Dominic, Salvatore
Don) Gentile
Piqua, O
America
Eddie Rickenbacker
NEA
200 Casualties Arrive at New Ohio Hospital
More than 200 casualties arrived at Crile General Hospital in Parma Heights after being transported from an east coast port. First Sgt. Paul B. Brown of Mason City Indiana recalled a near fatal shell blast in Italy. The group, veterans of Italian Sicilian and North African campaigns, are the hospital's first assigned patients.
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New Ohio Hospital
Cleveland
Paul B. Brown
Mason City
Army
Crime General Hospital
Parma Heights
Crile Hospital
Czechs Reach Frontline in Red Army Advance
A Czech brigade with the Red Army has moved to the front to be among the first units to enter old Czechoslovakia. Entry of Soviet forces into Ruthenia will split German northern armies from Balkans units and threaten Romanian rear. Gen Heliodor Pika said the Czech mission headquarters asked Moscow to allow the unit to be among the first liberators.
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Moscow
Red Army
Czechoslovakia
Ruthenia
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungary
Balkans
Heliodor Pika
Dalrymple Expelled From Local CIO Union
Sherman H. Dalrymple international president of the CIO United Rubber Workers has been expelled from his local union announced by George Bass local president of B. F. Goodrich Co. Local 5.
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Akron
Sherman H. 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, 35 jungle miles from the Bengal Assam border.
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India
Imphal
Kohima
Bengal - Assam
Australia to Supply Labor for War Industries
Australia plans to pull about 90 000 soldiers from its 800 000 strong army to address a manpower shortage in war industries The move drew concern in Washington as Allied forces face intensified pressure around Imphal Kohima and surrounding fronts while monsoons threaten Burma India operations Allied air and sea actions continue with raids on Truk and other targets and British Eastern Fleet reports sinking two large enemy supply ships in the Indian Ocean.
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Washington
Australia
Francis Forde
China
Burma
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Imphal
Kohima
Tokyo
Southeast Asia Command
Bishenpur
Burma- India
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
Lausche Campaign Ready To Cut Sales Tax
Cleveland Mayor Frank J. Lausche launched his bid for the gubernatorial nomination proposing a half cent reduction in the sales tax and a prudent distribution of the state treasury surplus.
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Springfield
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Bricker Seeks Limited Government in Campaign Tour
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker touring the Pacific Northwest rejects world government over U S military forces and urges keeping government in the hands of the people. He criticizes agricultural controls as political and favors state and university agencies for production issues.
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Spokane
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Pacific Northwest
Bricker
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Two Men Admit Bank Robbery at Mt. Vernon
FBI agents report William E. Spencer and Elwood B. McClure admitted robbing the Akron branch of the Mount Vernon First Federal Savings and Loan Association of 1640 dollars on December 2, 1943. A third man was captured and sent to Youngstown as arrangements for federal court proceeded in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Youngstown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hi. B. Fletcher
FBI
William E. Spencer
Elwood B. McClure
Akron
Mount Vernon First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Alaska Delegates Back Dewey On First Ballot
Republican delegates from Alaska 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 committee members.
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Juneau
Alaska
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Elton Engstrom
Alaska Republican Central Committee
Sandusky Man Dies in Car Crash Near Pole
A 37 year old Sandusky resident Elmer Jay Hemmer died when his automobile struck a telephone pole near here yesterday.
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Sandusky
Elmer Jay Hemmer
Kentucky farm youth survives 19000 foot fall from Flying Fortress
Sgt James A Raley of Henderson Kentucky told how his tail gun position survived a 19000 foot plunge when the bomber disintegrated and crashed into a treetop He remained conscious through the impact and escaped from the wreck with a chin cut and other minor injuries while the aircraft burned nearby
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U. S. Isth Air Force Headquarters
Italy
Kentucky
Airee
James A. Raley
Henderson
Debate over national service draft values rages in Congress
Senator Austin argues for a worker-draft plan citing Britain's wartime experience shows the issue reduces strikes and boosts labor solidarity. Chairman Thomas counters that Britain's law is not an anti-strike measure and still fails to curb strikes, urging caution on national service legislation.
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Washington
Congress
Austin
Thomas
Utah
Senate Labor Committee
Great Britain
Britain
March Merchant Ship Losses Show Increase
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill report merchant shipping losses in March were a little higher than February while anti submarine warfare remains successful. German submarine attacks against Russia’s northern supply lines were stalled by Allies, but underwater warfare spread from the Barents Sea toward Murmansk to the Indian Ocean.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Snowslide Traps Cars All Occupants Rescued
Georgetown Colo 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 and taken to the shelter to wait for snowplows to clear the road. No serious injuries reported amid three feet of snow in one of the worst storms in years.
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Georgetown
Colo
Berthoud Pass
Cantonist Lt Delia in Easter Day raid deep into Europe
Lt Ernest J. Delia of Canton Ohio served as a bombardier in a major Easter Sunday assault fleet. The operation achieved one of the war’s deepest penetrations into occupied Europe.
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London
Ernest J. Delia
Canton
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