Massed Japanese Fleet Threat to New Guinea and Australia
Allied spokesman said seven great Japanese ships massed in the Truk area threaten New Guinea and Australia. The warning noted the fleet’s proximity within three days’ sail, as MacArthur’s command issued its third alert in as many days. Milne Bay raid cost the Japanese 30 planes.
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Truk
New Guinea
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Milne Bay
Rabaul
Arc
Palau
Manila
Soerab- Raja
Planes to Pacific: Stimson vows build up for MacArthur forces
Secretary of War Stimson announced a steady flow of aircraft and supplies for General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific. He cited Australian pleas for more planes to counter Japanese air activity, noting recent raids on Milne Bay and Oro Bay with heavy losses to the Japanese and ongoing Allied reinforcement efforts.
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Washington
Stimson
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Australia
Three Day War Bond Sale Passes Five Billion Mark
The three week wartime bond drive has raised over five billion in three days. Treasury reports 50 million buyers since sale began, with 26 million purchasing via payroll deduction averaging 9 percent of earnings. Morgenthau urges 15 to 20 percent investment. Two billion dollar CD subscriptions opened for banks but closed last night as final totals near.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Morgenthau
Are You Doing All You Can Hull War Bonds Message
Secretary of State Cordell Hull urges war bond support to back U S efforts against enemies and to fund postwar aims with a sound, sufficient economy. The message emphasizes unity with the United Nations and a peaceful world built on strong finances.
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Hull
Cordell Hull
Associated Press
Athens Messenger
United Nations
Le Havre to be evacuated as city plans mass evacuation
London reporting the Paris radio said Le Havre the second largest French port will be evacuated. Children aged six to thirteen and others lacking a special reason to stay will be sent away first. The city counts about 165000 residents.
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London
Paris
le Havre
France
Wessel Rites Scheduled Friday Afternoon
Funeral services for Julia Nease Wessel, who died earlier this week in Iowa, will be held Friday at two o'clock at the home of Vernon Nease in Minersville R C with burial in Gilmore Cemetery. Friends may visit the Nease home tonight.
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Pomeroy
Julia Nease Wessel
Iowa
Vernon Nease
Minersville
R. C
Gilmore Cemetery
Nease
Stand Put in Mine Dispute
New York report says southern Appalachian soft coal mine operators joined northern producers in rejecting the government six day work week plan. John L. Lewis accepted the proposal in principle, which would give a six day work week with time and a half for the sixth day, while the union pursues portal to portal pay and removal of certain charges.
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New York
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
German Confidence in Hitler Has Disappeared
Ankara dispatch reports German travelers describing Berlin after the RAF raids as a city of fires homeless residents and widespread destruction. They cite time fuses, war prisoners used for removal work, and deteriorating civilian morale with food clothing and shop closures, noting confidence in Hitler has vanished.
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Hitler
Ankara
Turkey
Germany
Berlin
Easter Fashions Bring War Style To Athens Shops
The Messenger reports 1943 spring fashions with war time practicality for women and men. Athens shops display new 1943 outfits designed for service and daily wear as Easter approaches on April 25, eight shopping days away.
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Southeastern Ohio
the Messenger
Messenger
Athens
Stuttgart Bomb Raid by RAF Hits Nazi Industrial Hub
London AP reports Britain's RAF four engine bombers flew 400 miles to Stuttgart, hitting a major German engineering center with a heavy raid that left 23 aircraft missing. Royal air attacks also targeted Northern France rail lines while German raids caused alerts in London. Stuttgart housed factories for aircraft and armor components.
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London
Britain
Europe
Stuttgart
Air Ministry
Berlin
East Prussia
Germany
France
le Treport
East Anglia
Thames Estuary
Fifteen OWI Members Resign Over Truth Versus Promotion
Fifteen former Office of War Information staffers resign claiming it is impossible to tell the full truth under current management. They fault high pressure promotion and slick salesmanship while affirming the public deserves factual information. The signatories include Harold K. Gainsburg and Henry F. Pringle.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Elmer Davis
Harold K. Gainsburg
New York
Henry F. Pringle
United States
Glacier Priest predicts U S bases in Siberia to bomb Japan
Reverend Bernard R. Hubbard of Alaska says the United States will obtain use of Siberian air bases to attack Japan either with Russia’s consent or by force. He offered no timing but asserted America is ready to “get tough” about the bases.
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Chicago
United States
Russia
Siberian
Japan
Bernard R. Hubbard
Alaska
Hubbard
America
Nazi Food Supply Adequate For Winter 1943 44
London report says Hitler’s food front is as strong as last year and may feed the Continent through the coming winter unless new battles sap manpower. It notes better distribution after a previous winter of frozen canals and free traffic this season.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Wage boost for Ohio Belle Telephone workers expands
The National War Labor Board grants Ohio Belle Telephone Co. authority to raise wages for 1,401 plant department employees extending Dec 11 directive to include members of Southwestern Ohio Telephone Workers Inc, an independent union. Bulgarian official shot in Sofia as he left home, city report says.
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Cleveland
National War Labor Board
Ohio Belle Telephone Co
WLB
National Board
Southwestern Ohio Telephone Workers, Inc
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
New York
Berlin
Satyr Janoff
Sofia
Jap-Yank Soldiers Training at Camp Shelby
About 2,500 Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii arrived at Camp Shelby Mississippi to join a similar number from the mainland forming a combat unit. The force, dubbed Go For Broke, embodies loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry answering the War Department call for service against U.S. enemies.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Hawaii
United States
War Department
GOP Pressing Right To Recall Ruml Measure
Seven Republicans on the finance committee push to dynamite the Ruml Plan from Ways and Means, endorsing a pay as you go skip a year tax scheme and seeking recall of the measure. The Agriculture department budget faces fights over farm programs and potential procedural blocks that could trim or delay passage.
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Washington
Finance Committee
House
Ways and Jeans Committee
Knutson
R-Minn
Agriculture Department
Appropriations
Agriculture Committees
Agriculture Committee
Rules Committee
Anti-Nazi Sentiment Rising in Reich Coverage
In Die Nation a Swiss Socialist Weekly reports growing fear of foreign workers and resentment toward the government in Germany. It notes anti government inscriptions on buildings after Ulm Munich and Stuttgart bombings and claims rumors that cities were spared for Communist centers.
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Bern
Switzerland
Germany
Die Nation
Ulm
Munich
Suttgart
More Cattle for Market Reported in Illinois States
Washington reports the Agriculture Department estimates a 1 percent rise in cattle fed for market across 11 states as of April 1, with Illinois mentioned. Columbus taxes show repaid collections for the week ending April 3 at $1,140,712, a net loss of $186,468 versus the 1942 week.
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IL States
Washington
Agriculture Department
Columbus
Allied Push In North Africa Presses Rommel Near Enfidaville
Allied headquarters report Montgomery's Eighth Army storming the Enfidaville position 50 miles from Tunis as RAF bombers hit airfields across Tunisia. British and American forces push on Medjez el Bab and other Tunisian fronts while Axis air strength dwindles and Rommel faces growing losses.
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Sir Bernard le Montgomery
Eighth Army
Enfidaville
Tunis
Ofaa
W Wyally
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Mareth Line
K. A. N. Anderson
Medjez-el-Bab
Erwin Rommel
Marshal Rommel
Bizerte
Front
Rommel
North African
Tunisia
el Aouina
Sardinia
Ohio Unemployment Payments Fall to Record Lows
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reported March payments to jobless residents at a record low of 209 779, down 91 percent from March. In the first quarter 1949 the bureau paid 769 616 to claimants, 88 percent under 1942. If the trend continues administrator Herschel Atkinson warned total 1943 payments may not exceed 4 000 000, well below the fund’s annual needs.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of
Herschel Atkinson
Five Inches of Snow Blankets Northern Ohio
Snow blankets Northern Ohio as Cleveland records a twenty three degree low for April. Icy pavements delay thousands of war workers and U S meteorologist George Andrus predicts warmer weather but more snow tonight.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Mercury
U.S
George Andrus
Markup System Aims to Cut Retail Garden Produce Costs
Washington announces a new OPA markup plan to lower vegetable prices as part of Roosevelt’s price relief push. The rule sets maximum retail marks above wholesale for seven vegetables, with cabbage at 50–65 percent depending on store size and other greens at 39 percent. Retail prices may adjust only on Thursdays and may lead to further wholesale cuts later.
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Washington
OPA
Roosevelt
Bricker presses repeal of food sales tax in Ohio
Gov. John W. Bricker escalates pressure to repeal the food sales tax as the Ohio State Restaurant Association circulates cards naming lawmakers who opposed the repeal. The bill, approved in the Senate, was dropped in the House but a Bricker aide says it is not dead and opponents remain skeptical.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Ohio State Restaurant Association
House of Representatives
Senate
Grocer Barred From Sale Of Bread Lard Prunes Tomatoes
Cleveland report states George Giles a Youngstown grocer is barred for one month from selling bread lard prunes and canned tomatoes. Judge Emerick B. Freed says he violated OPA ceiling rules in an open deliberate manner and enjoins him from selling other ceiling priced items without filed price schedules. The article notes War Production Board actions restricting coffee purchases until July 10 due to excess quota.
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Cleveland
George Giles
Youngstown
Emerick B. Freed
OPA
Oles
War Production Board
Would Protect Driver In Share Ride Program
COLUMBUS 49 Sen John Stephenson said he would press for action on a bill to exempt motorists from liability for injuries or death of passengers in share the ride programs. He cited Ohio Supreme Court ruling that drivers are responsible for passengers safety and warned it could disrupt transportation for thousands of workers.
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Columbus
John Stephenson
Columbiana
Stephenson
Ohio Supreme Court
Refrigerator sales to highest bidder banned by OPA
Cleveland report states the Office of Price Administration prohibited selling used refrigerators to the highest bidder and extended ceiling prices to private owners and firms. Local rationing boards will provide model ceilings and further guidance.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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