Roosevelt Second War Tour Sees Thousands in Southern Camps
President Roosevelt in a second war tour reviews tens of thousands of fit troops at Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas. He visits Parris Island Maxwell Field Fort Benning Warm Springs Fort Oglethorpe Camp Forrest and Camp Robinson then notes improved morale and better physical condition among service members.
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America
Europe
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North Africa
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
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Maxwell Field
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Montgomery
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Warm Springs
Fort Oglethorpe
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Camp Forrest
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Russians Get Ham From United States
Moscow reports a morning sale where United States ham appeared in stores. Two pound allotments reached thousands of housewives, not via lend-lease. Tass dispatched news from New York noting the Relief Committee to the Soviet Union in the War raised over 4 million dollars in the year's first quarter.
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United States
New York
Relief Committee
Soviet Union
Allied Airmen Strike Five Japanese Bases in Pacific
Gen MacArthur’s HQ says Allied warplanes attacked five Japanese air bases in the Southwest Pacific including Hollandia and Lae in Dutch New Guinea and New Britain’s Cape Gloucester. Separate Burma frontline actions saw 200 Japanese troops ambushed on May Ridge with 25 killed. British forces hold positions after a fallback from Mayu Peninsula.
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Ibianud Avyvet Muplighaa
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Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
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Burma
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Bay of Bengal
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East Ohio Mines Idle In Labor Walkouts
Miners at the Webb Mine of George M. Jones Coal Co walked out after orders to unload mine posts, with about 530 men involved per Local 1840 UMWA secretary Herman Perzanowski. Tonight's meeting planned to discuss the action, while company reaction remained unavailable. Meanwhile at Rail and River Coal Co No 3 mine, 400 miners' strike entered its seventh day over a draft deferment dispute.
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Webb
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Herman Perzanowski
United Mine Workers of America
Rail and River Coal Company
House Fails To Pass Bill to Kill Racket
COLUMBUS The Ohio House of Representatives rejected an anti gambling measure aimed at stopping the numbers racket by imposing stiffer penalties. The bill would punish a promoter with up to 1000 dollars fine and seven years imprisonment on a second conviction and an agent with up to 1000 dollars fine and three years for multiple sales of numbers or policy tickets. It fell eight votes short of approval last night.
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Fewer Plants Delayed for Grain Alcohol Rubber Plan
Washington AP report cites a WPB decision to defer building plants at Carrollville Wisconsin Dubuque Keokuk Iowa Moline Peoria Illinois for grain alcohol production in the synthetic rubber program. Dr Walter G Whitman WPB Chemicals Division and John W Boyer WPB Alcohol Section testified to Senate agriculture subcommittee.
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Carrollville
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British Seize Island Off Tunisian Coast in Raid
Kerkenna Islands, 16 miles east of Sfax, were seized by British special troops in a swift commando style raid. No casualties reported. Operation carried out April 14 with no loss of life or property damage.
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Gallia Men Sent to Pen
Gallia County men George Burns and Clarence Siders were sentenced by Common Pleas Judge John Howell to terms in the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to breaking and entering. Probation for five years was violated. Siders has four prior state prison terms. Burns faces one to 15 years and Siders one to five years.
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George Burns
Clarence Siders
Gallia County
Common Pleas
John Howell
Ohio
Siders
Burns
Grand Jury
Gallia
Navy reports twenty new casualties in war update
The Navy announced twenty new casualties among Navy forces, including five dead and fifteen missing. Seven previously listed as missing are now reported safe. One formerly listed as wounded and two as missing are now reported dead, bringing total Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties to twenty four thousand eight hundred fifty nine since December 7, 1941.
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Washington
Navy
Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard
Egg Production Climbs to New March Record
CHICAGO AP The Department of Agriculture reports March egg production per hen on farms reached a record 15.74 eggs, up from 5.51 a year ago and 14.18 two years ago. If feed remains adequate, the higher output may continue.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Sidelights on Roosevelt war inspection journey
President Roosevelt toured war zones by train with guards watching bridges and crossings on the Tennessee River scene. His Scottie Fala and Miss Laura Delano's Irish setter Sister accompanied the trip along with WAACS at Fort Oglethorpe. Weather and rationing challenges affected the schedule as a Baltimore and Ohio diner carried supplies for five days and ration coupons to restock along the line.
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Tennessee River
Mr. Roosevelt
Laura Delano
Fort Oglethorpe
Eenie” Nash
E. M. Watson
Grace Tully
Geant
Baltimore and Ohio
Carrier Revealed as Bombers Shangri La Base
Mrs. Julia Radulovich, mother of Aviation Machinist Mate George Radulovich, says her son learned the Tokyo raid began from an aircraft carrier named Shangri La. He described the carrier 250 miles from Japan and said the escorting force sank two fishing boats and an enemy destroyer on the approach.
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Shangri la
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Tibet
James Hilton
Roosevelt
Julia Radulovich
Aviation
George Radulovich
Radulovich
Japan
Easter Cruise Disaster Claims Ten Sea Scouts
ISLIP, N Y Easter cruise tragedy ends with ten Sea Scouts dead or missing after their 36 foot cruiser foundered in Great South Bay. Skipper Fred Mayer thirty of North Bellmore L I was the sole survivor. Seven bodies were recovered, others missing or presumed dead from exposure as Coast Guard and police search the waters. Mayer was rescued by a passing ship.
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N. Y
Coast Guard
Great South Bay
Fred Mayer
North Bellmore
L. L
Mayer
Canton CIO workers vote to strike in one week if demands unmet
Canton AP reports city street, water and garbage department employees affiliated with the CIO State County and Municipal Workers of America voted to strike a week from today unless they secure wage increases.
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Canton
CIO
State, County and Municipal Workers of America
FDR Seeks No Fourth Term Says Iowa Democrat
Democratic national committeeman Frank Comfort of Iowa said Roosevelt has privately advised friends he will not consider a fourth term. Comfort noted others may push him, but he believes if the war continues the President is the logical man to stay in office.
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Washington
Frank Comfort
Iowa
Roosevelt
Hitler Marks Birthday as War Closes In
Adolf Hitler turned 54 as German forces faced retreat after Stalingrad and setbacks in Tunisia and the air war. Berlin radio heard a ghost voice condemning the Führer, while Goebbels and Goering urged resolve and hinted at a possible anniversary address to rally the nation. Diplomatic observers expect new propaganda citing European fortress defense against Soviet Russia.
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London
Adolf Hitler
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Berlin
Goebbels
Goering
Reich
Stalingrad
Tunisia
Food Conference Open Sessions Demanded in Senate
Senate calls for open sessions at the upcoming international food conference in Hot Springs Virginia to keep deliberations visible to the public. Senator George of Georgia warns sealed talks could shape American opinion poorly. House debates the $175 million Agriculture Appropriation Bill with the Farm Security Administration funds left out and crop insurance set to end after this season. The pay-before-tax stalemate persists as leaders push a mutually acceptable plan amid party tensions.
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D-Ga
Hot Springs
Farm Security Administration
FSA
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Predict Flood Stage on Ohio River Crest Near Record Levels
Cincinnati AP The U S Weather Bureau forecast the Ohio River would near and possibly pass flood stage from Portsmouth to Dam 37 ten miles below Cincinnati before the weekend, cresting slightly below flood level downstream to Carrollton. It would be the third flood this year and the first time in Weather Bureau history three floods occurred in such a short span. Flood stage is 52 feet, with the river at 34.7 feet at 10 a m rising three-tenths of a foot hourly.
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U. S&s. Weather Bureau
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Michigan star pilot rescued after jungle crash in South America
Lieut. Thomas Harmon, former University of Michigan All-American, rested today at an Army base in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, after surviving a bomber crash in a jungle. Five crew members were reported missing. Harmon, one of two pilots, was said to have been picked up by Indians after wandering near the wreck and taken to Paramaribo.
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Puerto Rico
Thomas Harmon
University of Michigan
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Dutch Guiana
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Allied Planes Aid in Battling U-Boat Pack
Allied planes defending two convoys reportedly destroyed five Axis submarines and seriously damaged several others in a four day battle with a U boat pack in the Atlantic in mid March according to the Air Ministry.
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London
Atlantic
Air Ministry
Civilians Face Tire Delays Amid Rubber Program Clash
Senate witnesses from War Production Board discuss the rubber program after a public clash between Rubber Director William M. Jeffers and OWI Director Elmer Davis. Testimony aims to avert curtailment of synthetic rubber plant construction as 27 million civilian car owners await tires. Jeffers has claimed possible distribution of 12 million tires this year, including 5 million synthetic.
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Washington
War Production Board
Senate
William M. Jeffers
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Gillette
Iowa
Agriculture Group
Jeffers
Davis
OWI
Education Requirements Changed for WAAC
The War Department announced new WAAC enrollment rules requiring two years of high school and a WAAC mental alertness test score of at least 60. Previously there was no fixed education standard and the mental test minimum was 50.
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Washington
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
War Department
WAAC
Committee agrees on labor union controls in Ohio
Columbus AP report states Rep. John Cattlett chairman of a judiciary sub committee on a substitute for the French Bill said the five member group was in substantial agreement on major controls. Labor leaders were expected to appear before the sub committee at a meeting tonight.
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Columbus
John Cattlett
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Cattlett
Morgan Countian Wins Commission in Pacific
Three hundred eighty seven second lieutenants drawn from American forces in New Guinea and Australia were graduated from the first officer candidate school in the Southwest Pacific. Included was James S. Dearth of McConnelsville Ohio.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
James S. Dearth
McConnelsville
Ohio
Allied Air Forces Down 70 Junkers Transports in Tunisian Campaign
Allied reports from Eisenhower’s HQ say two days’ air operations destroyed 112 Axis planes, including 70 Junkers transports, with 24 more shot down near Tunisia. Malta and Valletta dispatches add further Junkers losses, while claims of German naval activity and Rommel’s mountain defenses frame a broader North Africa air war.
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Tunisian
North African
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Malta
Valletta
Fortress Isle
London
Africa
North Africa
Spezia
English Church Bells To Ring for Easter
London reports Prime Minister Churchill announced in the House of Commons that the wartime ban on regular Sunday bell peals is lifted to permit Easter bells to ring widely. The ban had restricted bell ringing to signals of invasion during the 1940 peril, and Britain faces its brightest Easter since the war began.
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Churchill
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