U S Bombers Resume Raids On Kurile Island Bases
Allied air forces renewed attacks on Kurile islands and surrounding Pacific targets. Liberators bombed Matsuwa Omekotan and Truk while Navy Ventura search planes hit Paramushiro Shimushu Ponape Ululul and Orokul. Casualties rise with 26 000 Japanese killed reported in recent months.
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U. S
Japa
Kurile Island
Navy
Kurile
Japan
Tokyo
Matsuwa
Omekotan
Paramushiroe
Shimushu
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Washington
Southwest
Central Pacific
Stimson
Carolines
Marshalls
Truk
Dublin
Moon
Ponape
Ululul
Orokul
Bengal-Assam
India
Joseph Stilwell
Burma
Louis Mountbatten
Kohima
Imphal
Mogaung River
Pumsin
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Planes From England and Italy Raid Germany
Allied air operations target Germany from England and Italy while Budapest endures a heavy bombardment. The Russians push toward Sevastopol and Simferopol as Romania is swept toward the Danube region. U S bombers hit targets in Northern France and Belgium, and Osnabruck is attacked by Mosquito night flyers. Mines disrupt German shipping and Sweden‑ Reich coal and iron traffic.
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Budapest
England
Italy
Europe
Crimea
Sevastopol
Simferopol
Tiraspol
Dniester
Romania
Galtican
U. S
France
Belgium
Namur
Osnabruck
Bremen
British
Air Ministry
Sweden
Reich
Wisconsin Ace Richard Bong Tops Allied Aerial Scores
Capt. Richard I. Bong of Poplar Wisconsin has shot down 27 enemy aircraft in the Southwest Pacific to become the highest ranking American ace in this and any war. Reports note Don Gentile of Piqua Ohio may hold 30 after including seven ground kills, but Pacific theater rules credit only air victories.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Richard I. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Don Gentile
Piqua
Former Ironton Gridder Wounded by Deputies
Charles Chad Norris 24, former Ironton High School football star, was shot while fleeing arrest. Deputies said Norris opened a car door as he was being transported to the Ironton jail from a Coal Grove residence and fell to the pavement after being shot twice, leaving him in fair condition.
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Ironton
Charles
Chad) Norris
Fred Sanders
Coal Grove
Norris
Bricker Nomination Forecast By Washington GOP Leader
Ralph R. Knapp of Seattle, former Washington House speaker, predicts Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio will be nominated on an early ballot at the Republican convention after three days of campaigning in Washington. Bricker criticizes the national administration for a costly propaganda bureau and urges prioritizing American needs, citing Ohio hospital material delays and overseas hospital construction.
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Seattle
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Ralph R. Knapp
House of Representatives
Knapp
Bricker
Washington State
United States
Washington
War Production Board
South America
High Water in Ohio Kills Two
Clear skies and rising temperatures forecast for today as floodwaters slowly recede in Central Ohio. Two youths drowned in separate incidents: three-year-old James Yarmond White found in Cauley Creek at Waterloo and twelve-year-old Carl Holman who fell into a water-filled oil tank near a bridge over the Ottawa River.
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Columbus
Ohio
James Yarmond White
Cauley Creek
Waterloo
Ironton
Carl Holman
Limauth
Ottawa River
Peace Treaty Vote Discussed by House and State Dept
Washington plans consider how Congress will write and enforce a peace. Chairman Bloom proposes amending the constitution to let House and Senate ratify by simple majority. State Department готов plan to drop international police forces and rely on six major nations maintaining forces to handle troublemakers.
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Washington
House
State Department
Congress
Bloom
D-Ny
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
Ohio prepaid sales tax receipts rise week over year
Columbus Ohio reports prepaid sales tax receipts for the week ended April 1 totaling 1,246,167 up from 1,140,712 in the prior year. State Treasurer Don H. Ebright released the figures today.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
Columbus Taxis Urged To Return To Work
Ohio capital taxi service was paralyzed as drivers strike over a city ordinance banning double loading. Dana Edge, secretary treasurer of Taxicab Local 260, Columbus Federation of Labor, urged drivers to return and negotiate. He called the strike not only against the city but against the nation for transporting workers to war plants.
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Columbus
Ohio
Dana Edge
Columbus Federation of Labor
Edge
United States
Four Children and Mother Die in Beaver Falls Fire
BEAVER FALLS Pa Four small children and their mother perished in a blaze that started at the Franklin McMasters residence in the Brady's Run district.
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Beaver Falls
Franklin McMaster
May Experiment With Airports on Post Offices
Public Buildings Administration officials propose rooftop airports on post offices as a postwar air mail test in Ohio Michigan and Indiana. The plan aims to provide swift mail service with helicopter links between major cities and regional hubs, using new or retrofitted post office properties.
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Washington
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Public Buildings ‘Administration
Philadelphia
30Th Street
Camden, NJ
Central
W. E. Reynolds
PBA
House Public Buildings Committee
Reynolds
Rival Camps Alarmed by Dewey Vote
Washington AP reports rivals to Dewey react to his strong delegate showing as they tighten lines against a possible presidential draft. The piece notes Dewey’s appeal to convention delegates and his broad public support.
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Washington
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
MacArthur cautions against internal peril in GOP race
General Douglas MacArthur replied to a congressional request about entering the Republican presidential race with a warning that the United States must avoid internal collapse as it fights external foes. He urged presenting real facts to the people, signaling no candidacy but fueling debate among Bricker Stassen and Dewey backers about the path to a contested convention. Bricker supporters show no signs of quitting while Dewey widens a delegate lead with pledged and unpledged votes from several states.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Rep
A. L. Miller
Neb
MacArthur
Abraham Lincoln
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Illinois
Stassen J
Nebraska
Southwest Pacific
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Joe Savage
Chicago
Bricker
Kansas
Iowa
Florida
Virginia
Connecticut
Sen
Danaher
Maine
Farmers urged to seek new customers at conference
Chicago report quotes D Howard Doane of Doane Agricultural Service urging farmers to pursue a new type of customer and to self process products to stay profitable. The statement was prepared for a speech at the American Country Life Conference. In Ohio, Elyria reports the death of Clarence Earl Cooper, 56, former mayor of Amherst.
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Chicago
D. Howard Doane
Doane Agricultural Service, Inc
St. Louis
American Country Life Conference
Doane
Amherst
Elyria
Clarence Earl Cooper
Amsheim
Huge Naval Appropriation Bill Foremost in Congress
Congress opened a drive to pass major bills after Easter recess led by a record 32 billion dollar Navy appropriations bill. Navy funds cover thousands of vessels planes and over three million sailors Marines and Coast Guardsmen, with admiral King warning of a difficult path to victory in the Pacific.
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Washington
Congress
Pacific
Appropriations Committee
Ernest J. King
United States
Tokyo
F. J. Horne
King
Germany
Europe
Donahey Returns to Back Huffman for Governor
Former U. S. Senator and three term Ohio governor Donahey publicly backs his son-in-law James W. Huffman for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The Franklin County Democratic Committee endorsed Cleveland Mayor Frank J. Lausche, who won a 37 to 1 vote over Huffman.
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Columbus
Vic Donahey
U. S
Ohio
James W. Huffman
Democratic Central Committee
Franklin County
Huffman
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Lausche
Frazier Reams
Toledo
Reams
White House
National Democratic Committee
Jackson Man In Organizer's Slaying Sentence
Noah Kelten back fined $100 and costs and sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to carrying concealed weapons in the slaying of union organizer Victor Delano on February 14. Judge Fred Everett suspended the sentence.
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Jackson
Noah _ Keltenback
Victor Delano
Fred Everett
Finland Rejects Russia Peace Terms Again
Finnish parliament again rejects Russia peace terms after reports that Premier Edvin Linkomies’ government won a vote of confidence in Helsinki. The Stockholm report confirms continued stalemate and unresolved terms affecting Nordic diplomacy.
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Finland
Stockholm
Russia
Helsinki
Edwin Linkomies
Miners Travel Time Exceeds Scale Figure
The White House released a second progress report from the presidents committee on portal to portal time. It shows underground travel time in soft coal mines still exceeds the assumed wage scale figure by 10 to 11 minutes, with a weighted average of 55.82 minutes per man daily for 76.2 percent of underground coal production.
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Washington
White House
President's Committee
84 Year Old Druggist Cles Columbus
Lou E. Ey man of Lancaster died yesterday at age 84 after a 45 year career as a druggist with retirement in 1919. The obituary notes his longtime service and local ties.
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Cles Columbus
Lou E. Eyman
Lancaster
Allied air forces strike Balkans and Vienna plants
U S and allied planes destroyed or damaged German aviation targets near Vienna and along the Balkans. Italian, British, and American raids hit aircraft plants and rail lines north of Rome while German raids touched Southeast England and London as invasion preparations intensified. The Air Ministry reported over a million tons of enemy shipping sunk by mines since 1940.
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Germany
Moscow
Constanta
Crimea
U. S
Britain
Italy
Vienna
Zagreb
Split
Balkans
Rome
England
London
Nnut
Garigliano
Cassino
Adriatic
Crecchio
Anzio
Dover Strait
Europe
Air Ministry
Bay of Biscay
Gulf of Danzig
United States
Spanish
Morocco
Ministry of War Transport For London
Serry Fice
Erie
Will Import Jamaicans To Work in Ohio
The U S Department of Agriculture will bring about 1 000 Jamaican workers to Ohio farms to relieve labor shortages with 825 already allocated. About 400 arrive May 15 and 400 more by mid June if orders continue. Additional help requested includes 5 000 POWs and 5 500 more prison labor for canneries and fields. Allocations list Clark 100 Greene 75 Champaign 60 Logan 60 Defiance 25 Wood 75 Paulding 15 Henry 15 Stark 300 Lake 100 Darke 100 Miami 100.
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Cleveland
Jamaica
West Indies
Ohio
Guy Dowdy
U. S. Dept.of Agriculture
Dowdy
Army
Department of Agriculture
War Manpower Commission
Clark County
Greene
Champaign
Logan
Defiance
Wood
Paulding
Henry
Stark
Lake
Darke
Miami
Ohio unemployment below 1943 figure reported
Columbus Ohio unemployment compensation payments show less jobless activity in March 1944 than March 1943. Charles H Jones administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation said total benefits paid reached 162971 in March 1944 compared with 209779 in the same month last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles H. Jones
Ohio Bureau of
Jones
Earl of Lonsdale Dies at 87 in Rutland
The Earl of Lonsdale a noted sportsman once boxing John L Sullivan under an assumed name died today at Oakham Rutland aged 87.
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London
Earl of Lonsdale
John L. Sullivan
Oakham
Rutland
Permanent Classification of Men 18-38 Proposed by Senator Taft
Senator Taft proposes a four point plan to permanently classify men aged 18 to 38 for wartime service. He argues for a clear long range draft, public announcement with limited changes, and stability so families can plan. He criticizes shifting deferments and calls for decisive, unwavering wartime policy.
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Taft
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
George C. Marshall
Byrnes Seeks Federal Pay System For Demobilized Workers
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes urges creation of a federal payment system to aid demobilized servicemen and war workers as the nation transitions from war. He warned of unavoidable unemployment and called for early plant closures, citing a review that shows large potential cuts in Army and Navy spare parts programs.
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New York
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Academy of Political Science
Byrnes
Army
Navy
Study of Gas Rationing By Congress Is Likely
Washington Rep. Clare N. Brown reports progress in pushing a congressional inquiry into gasoline rationing. He says poor administration left essential workers without enough gas to reach jobs and blocked contractors from delivering to war plants.
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Congress
Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Brown
Congressional Medal Awarded Missing Ace
Washington reports Marine ace Major Gregory Boyington, 31, credited with 26 air victories, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously announced by the Navy. The award recognizes his actions as a flying hero in World War II.
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Washington
Gregory Boyington
Navy
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