Daylight Raid on Western Germany Follows Mosquito Blasting
London reports Allied air observers see tangible dividends from attacks on German aircraft production. Since November strikes have likely stalled up to five front line fighters per day and reduced German output, despite higher battle losses. Observers warn Germans use window dressing to hide reserves while draining factories and replacement pools.
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Germany
Cologne
London
Lan Air Force
Balkan supply lines under attack in 72 hour air offensive
Allied air forces pounded Balkan supply routes for 72 hours as Wellington and Liberator bombers hit Plovdiv railyards near Sofia, while British Mosquitos targeted Cologne. Berlin reports battles as German raids strike from the north into central Germany. The siege of Sevastopol tightens with Red Army movements and heavy fighting around the port.
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Rhineland
Cologne
Germany
Air Ministry
Berlin
Luftwaffe
Reich
Balkan
Plovdiv
Sofia
Hitler
Europe
Jance
Britain
Belgrade
Stockholm
Switzerland
Bucharest
Ploesti
Red Air Force
Galati
Italy
Cassino
Anzio
Sangro River
Garigliano
Bosnia
Montenegro
Josip Broz (Tito
Zvornik
Kuriles Invasion Threat Warned By Knox
Navy Secretary Frank Knox warned Japan to expect an American invasion of the Kurile Islands but said timing remains unknown. Japanese Kuriles bases have been bombed and shelled, while Allied forces report advances in Burma and near Kohima. MacArthur reports heavy air strikes on Hollandia and Truk as Formosa begins Mary conscription in September.
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Navy
Frank Knox
Japan
Kurile Islands
North Pacific
Kuriles
Matsuwa Island
Knox
Tokyo
India
Bengal-Assam
Louis Mountbatten
Burma
Dinapur
Joseph Stilwell
Ledo
Kohima
Mountbatten
Douglas MacArthur
Bogadjim
Madang
New Guinea
Southwest
Central Pacific
Truk
Carolines
Eleanor Travels Far But on No Extra Gas
The White House denies that Mrs. Roosevelt owns four cars and a 2000 gallon monthly ration. It states she has one car and a basic A gas card. The official reading shows 168 miles driven in February on the White House car.
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Eleanor
Washington
White House
W. R. Hubbard
Arrow Rock
Coast to Coast Record Set by Constellation Flight
The Lock Constellation, a 57 passenger transport plane, landed at Washington airport at 1 54 p m Eastern War Time after departing Burbank California on its maiden long distance flight. It beat the Los Angeles to Washington coast to coast record for a transport plane by 3 hours 24 minutes and surpassed the 1937 Hughes speed by 30 minutes with Howard Hughes aboard.
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Washington
Aasport
Burbank
Calif
Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Bricker urges women to recapture founding spirit
Mrs. John W. Bricker told a National Committee of Republican Women gathering that women must recapture the spirit of the founding fathers. She urged patience and a long view to regain the independent freedoms that she said defined America.
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Los Angeles
National Committee of Republican Women
John W. Bricker
America
Bricker
Ohie
Curtiss-Wright Offers Limited Hearings for 119 Discharged Workers
Officials of Curtiss-Wright Corp. await reply to an offer to conduct hearings for 119 men discharged after leaving their jobs on Saturday in Columbus. A spokesman said a mass hearing was rejected and cases could be heard four or five at a time. Plant Manager J. P. Davey cited demands for more smoking periods and objections to guards patrolling restrooms.
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Columbus
Curtiss-Wright Corp
J. P. Davey
Miners Deny Guilt in Federal Strike Hearing
In Columbus eight Belmont County miners pleaded innocent in federal court to charges under the Smith Connally Labor Dispute Act. They were freed on $1000 bond each after being accused of urging inducing or coercing a strike in mines under U.S. possession.
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Columbus
Belmont County
Bricker Defends Postwar Bases and National Defense
Ohio Governor John W Bricker, seeking the Republican nomination, told 4,000 in Los Angeles that the United States has no territorial ambitions but should retain strategic bases including Pacific islands airfields and radio stations. He warned against the New Deal philosophy of scarcity and dole and urged a mature economy.
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Los Angeles
United States
John W., Bricker
Ohio
Shrine Auditorium
California
Republican State Central Committee
America
Bricker
Pacific
Accident Rise Blamed on Labor Turnover in Ohio
Columbus officials say increases in employment and labor turnover raised occupational accidents in Ohio since Pearl Harbor. Harry L. Sain, head of the State Division of Safety and Hygiene, cites 2,148 Ohioans killed in accidents over the past two years 1 044 in 1942 and 1 104 last year. The toll also means nearly 20 000 000 lost work days.
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Columbus
Harry L. Sain
State Division of Safety and Hygiene
Pearl Harbor
Ohio
Sam
General Motors Announces Best Fighter Wildcat Plane
Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey praised GM produced Wildcat fighter as the best fighter aircraft available amid a New York announcement detailing production and capabilities.
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New York
Adm
D. C. Ramsey
General Motors Corp
Broader Soil Program Proposed in Midwest
Rep. George Bender of Cleveland promotes a nationwide soil conservation drive aimed at making all Americans soil conscious. He cites soil misuses as a bigger threat than floods or wars, but notes recent Ohio trials increased fertility by up to five percent through new techniques and careful land use.
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Middlewest
George Bender
Cleveland
Bender
Ohio
Snowstorms Halt Mid-West Farmers
A severe unseasonal snowstorm swept the Great Plains causing heavy snowfall across western Nebraska and Kansas. McCook reports 19 inches of snow, Kearney sees stalled cars in 10 inches, Hays Center five inches, North Platte two, Grand Island three, with sub-freezing temperatures threatening livestock. An Oklahoma Panhandle dust storm reduced visibility. Kansas City predicts rising temperatures but no melt for 48 hours.
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Great Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
McCook
Nebr
Kearney
Hays Center
North Platte
Grand Island
Oklahoma Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
No New Autos in Spite of Threat of Unemployment
Unemployment may hit Detroit before year end as nine prewar auto makers plan partial or complete plant demobilization. WPB asks for individual company reports to draft a industry wide reconversion plan. civilian production to resume after major enemy falls, based on a practical minimum profitable output.
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Washington
Detroit
Germany
Japan
War Production Board
WPB
Automobile Industry Advisory Committee
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Shoes in Greece cost 200000 drachmas in inflation tale
A report from a German newspaper notes Greece sees runaway inflation with a 200000 drachma price for shoes. It recalls that in the early 1930s drachma was about one cent in U S terms, meaning 600 drachmas equaled six dollars. The piece asks readers to imagine paying 200000 dollars for shoes.
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Lisbon
Greece
United States
Rains Delay Ohio Planting Slows Sowing Across State
Columbus reports abnormally heavy March and April rainfall delaying oats sowing and early planting across Ohio. Meteorologist George W. Mindling notes March rainfall at 4.91 inches versus a 61 year average of 3.39, with 2.80 inches fell in first 17 days of April, above normal 1.52. Farmers expect no lasting damage if weather improves soon.
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Columbus
Ohio
George W. Mindling
Mindling
Cincinnati Real Estate Man Fined for Rent Ceiling Violation
Cincinnati real estate man and apartment operator J. Julian Bowman pleaded guilty in federal court to violating rent ceiling regulations. He was fined 25 000 dollars with 20 000 suspended and five suspended sentences of a year and a day each imposed as part of the plea.
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Cincinnati
J. Julian Bowman
Akron Man Killed by Train Freeing Stalled Car
Thomas Thomas of Akron was killed last night when a Nickel Plate Railroad freight engine struck his auto after it became stuck between the tracks at the W. 116th Street crossing in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Thomas Thomas
Akron
W. 116Th St. Crossing
Many Problems in Figuring Army Needs
Washington says there are many problems in estimating how many fighting men the nation needs. It can take a month to get a correct figure on troop numbers, the army must call on selective service two months ahead, and it must estimate losses for four months after each draft call.
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Washington
Stimson
Australian Newspapers Resume Publication After Suspension
Sydney papers, aided by a high court injunction, returned to publication after a one day halt caused by censorship authorities. The Daily Telegraph ran four and a half pages on the dispute’s timeline as crowds in the street voiced calls for freedom to read think and write.
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Sydney
Australia
Daily Telegraph
Army air forces report most officers ill in Atlantic City recover
Atlantic City officials say nearly 200 officers stricken by suspected food poisoning are mostly recovered with most back on duty. The Army Air Forces reported today that virtually all the officers affected have regained health and strength.
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Atlantic City
Army Air Forces
Seiberling Boss Denounces Strike Halting Army Production
President J P Seiberling blasted a delay in vital Army production after word of a death in action of a former Seiberling Rubber employee and the husband of another worker amid an 82 man strike of truck tire builders. He warned the Army Navy "E" flag would be hauled down and returned with apologies if another walkout occurs.
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Seiberling Rubber Company
J. P. Seiberling
Painless Tax Bill Submitted To Committee
Washington tax simplification proposal aims to relieve 30 million people from filing returns after this year. The bill would shift withholding to cover full tax liability for earners up to 5000 dollars annually beginning January 1 if enacted. Committee Chairman Doughton convened the Ways and Means panel to review the draft.
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Washington
House
Doughton
D-Nc
Ways and Means Committee
Disclose Jap Spy Method
Buenos Aires reports that a Japanese spy ring dispatched to Tokyo used a code based on letters in ordinary books. The announcement says Axis espionage is nearly stamped out and notes the ring led by Shozo Murai sent data from a neighboring nation.
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Buenos Aires
Tokyo
Argentina
Germany
Japan
Shozo Murai
Senator Wiley urges pay for local draft boards
In Washington Senator Wiley of Wisconsin urged congressional legislation to compensate the 6,441 local selective service boards nationwide. He criticized top officials for high pay while local boards and their workers receive nothing, arguing that congress must act.
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Washington
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate
Congress
Labor Shortage and Higher Quotas Threaten 1944 Farms
The Agriculture Department reports April farm employment at 9,080,000, down about 3 percent from a year earlier, as wages rise to record highs. Planted acres for 1944 total 374 million with a government goal of 380 million, while hired farm workers fall about 10 percent to 1,679,000. Unpaid family help remains near 7.4 million, with regions generally showing declines except the Pacific area.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Pacifiac
Diplomatic Restrictions Announced In Axis Tension
The Axis grew anxious over a British invasion timeline with Prussian militarists claiming final action will come within six weeks. Britain barred most diplomats from traveling, leaving only American, Russian and British Commonwealth reps allowed.
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Axis
Britain
Trav
French advised to store food for possible siege
London radio warned the French people that time was short and civilians should store food as much as possible until liberation arrives. The broadcast urged storage to survive through an anticipated pre invasion period.
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London
London Radio
Britain imposes wide wartime censorship and diplomat bans
The Foreign Office announced security rules banning coded telegrams and censoring diplomatic pouches as invasions threaten the year. Washington and Moscow were consulted as diplomats, air and naval attaches are immobilized on British soil with unlikely homeward travel permitted only under unusual circumstances.
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England
British Foreign Office
Washington
Moscow
Britain
Foreign Office
Ireland
Bern
CBS
U. S
Knoxville Home-Seekers Check Hospital Notices
Knoxville renters hunt for housing by watching obituary and hospital notices. Foglesong of a trust firm notes deaths in company properties trigger flood of calls and some bid to rent before death occurs.
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Knoxville
E. E. Foglesong
a_ trust firm
County Farmers Protest AAA in Franklin County Meeting
Ohio wheat marketing quota protest supporters led by H. H. Fackler of Plymouth urged voters to elect officials who will abolish the AAA. About 35 farmers hear Fackler claim government restrictions threaten U S freedom and strength and call for action.
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Columbus
Ohio Wheat Marketing Quota Protest Association
Agricultural Adjustments Administration
Franklin County
H. H. Fackler
Plymouth
AAA
Fackler
United States
Navy to Convert Two Floors for New Office Space
The Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts will occupy two floors of the Dodge-Thirteenth Bullet building to provide extra offices amid growing personnel needs. The move signals expanded administrative capacity as operations expand.
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Cleveland
Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
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