Roosevelt Tour Sees Thousands of Troops in Southern Camps
President Roosevelt conducts a second major tour by rail and motor through Virginia to Arkansas inspecting Marine base Parris Island Maxwell Field Fort Benning and other posts. He notes improving troops and morale and hints at more inspections and a potential new front in Europe. He travels with Avila Camacho in Monterey Mexico for war talks and radio addresses.
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Mexico
Roosevelt
Manuel Avila Camacho
Avila Camacho
Roosevelt Train
America
Europe
Marine Corps
WAAC
North Africa
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Washington
Parris Island
S. C
Maxwell Field
Ala
Montgomery
Fort Benning
Warm Springs
Fort Oglethorpe
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Camp Forrest
Tenn
80Th Infantry Division
Joseph T. Robinson
Ark
Little Rock
Russians Get Ham From United States
Moscow residents awoke to a surprise as U S meat appeared in stores with two pound allotments for thousands. The sale bypassed lend lease and coincided with a Tass report that the Relief Committee to the Soviet Union in the War raised four million dollars in the first quarter.
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Moscow
United States
New York
Relief Committee
Soviet Union
Jap Air Bases Fought In Pacific By Allied Airmen
Gen. Douglas MacArthur stated Allied airmen attacked five Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific. United Nations planes hit Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea Gasmata Cape Gloucester Lae Finschhafen N of New Guinea and a small Japanese ship off Tanimbar Island. In Burma, Wavell’s forces ambushed about 200 Japanese at May Ridge Bay of Bengal, with 25 killed. RAF attacked Japanese positions while British defenses held.
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Pacific
United Nations
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Gasmata
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Lae
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Tanimbar Island
Burma
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
May Ridge
Bay of Bengal
Mayu Peninsula
East Ohio Mines Idle After Walkouts In Coal Fields
Miners at the Webb Mine of the George M. Jones Coal Co. walked out today over orders to unload mine posts. About 530 men were involved, says Herman Perzanowski, Local 1840 secretary. Union leaders plan a meeting tonight to discuss the walkout. No company comment available. Separately, 400 miners at the Rail and River Coal No. 3 mine continued a seven day strike begun last week to protest a draft deferment for four workers.
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Bellaire
Webb
George M. Jones Coal Co
Herman Perzanowski
United Mine Workers of America
Rail and River Coal Company
House Fails To Pass Bill To Kill Numbers Racket
COLUMBUS The Ohio House of Representatives rejected an anti gambling bill aimed at ending the numbers racket. The measure would impose a maximum $1,000 fine and seven years in prison for a promoter convicted twice, and $1,000 and three years for an agent convicted twice, but fell eight votes short of passage last night.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Fewer Plants To Use Grain To Make Rubber
Washington AP reported a decision to defer construction of plants in Carrollville Wisconsin Dubuque and Okuk Iowa and Moline and Peoria Illinois for grain alcohol production for the synthetic rubber program. Dr Walter G Whitman WPB assistant director and John W Boyer WPB Alcohol chief testified before an agriculture subcommittee.
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Carrollville
Wis
Dubuque
Eokuk
Iowa
Moline
Peoria
Ill
Senate
Walter G. Whitman
WPB Chemicals Division
John W. Boyer
WPB
Agriculture
British Seize Kerkenna Islands Off Tunis Coast
British special troops seized the Kerkenna Islands, 16 miles east of Sfax, in a raid off the Tunisian coast. The operation carried out April 14 without a life lost or a shot fired.
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Tunisia
Kerkenna Islands
Tunisian
Gallia Men Sentenced for Break and Entering
Gallia County residents George Burns and Clarence Siders pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and were sentenced by Common Pleas Judge John Howell to terms in the Ohio Penitentiary. Both had probation violations. Siders has prior prison terms and received one to five years while Burns faces one to fifteen years.
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Gallipolis
George Burns
Clarence Siders
Gallia County
Common Pleas
John Howell
Ohio
Siders
Burns
Grand Jury
Gallia
Navy reports 20 new casualties and status updates
The Navy announced 20 new Navy force casualties including 5 dead and 15 missing. Seven previously listed as missing are reported safe. One formerly listed as wounded and two as missing are reported dead, bringing total casualties to 24,859 since Dec 7 1941.
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Washington
Navy
Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard
Egg Production Hits New High in March
The Department of Agriculture reported March egg output per hen on farms reached 15.74 eggs, higher than the 15.51 last year and the 10 year average of 14.18. If feed supplies stay adequate production may continue up.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Sidelights on Roosevelt war inspection trip
President Roosevelt’s war inspection trip included guards on rail bridges and crossings. His amphibious jeep skimmed the Tennessee River under a bridge as two dogs, Fala and Sister, joined the journey. WAACs at Fort Oglethorpe hurried to glimpse the President with curlers, while Grace Tully slipped through MPs. A weather mixup troubled 11600 soldiers awaiting church, moved to a 3400 seat hall, then back. Rationing on the presidential train required coupons as the diner carried only five days of supplies.
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Tennessee River
Fort Oglethorpe
Eenie” Nash
E. M. Watson
Grace Tully
Mr. Roosevelt
Camp
Joseph T. Robinson
Ark
Baltimore and Ohio
Carrier named Shangri La linked to Doolittle raid
Mrs. Julia Radulovich says her Lakewood son George Radulovich 20 served on the carrier used for the April 18 1942 Tokyo raid. He told her the attackers flew from a carrier 250 miles from Japan while escorted by task force ships sinking two Japanese fishing boats and an enemy destroyer.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
Shangri la
Jimmie Doolittle
Tokyo
Tibet
James Hilton
Roosevelt
Julia Radulovich
Aviation
George Radulovich
Radulovich
Japan
Easter Cruise Fatal for Ten Scouts in East
ISLIP N Y Easter cruise tragedy claims ten Sea Scouts as a 36 foot converted cabin cruiser foundered in Great South Bay. Skipper Fred Mayer 30 of North Bellmore L I survived after being rescued by a passing ship. Seven bodies were recovered with three still missing as Coast Guard and police searched the bay for the remainder.
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Islip
N. Y
Coast Guard
Great South Bay
Fred Mayer
North Bellmore
L. L
Mayer
City workers threaten strike over wage demands
CANIUN avr City street water and garbage department employees affiliated with the CIO State County and Municipal Workers of America have voted to strike a week from today unless they secure a settlement on wage increases.
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Caniun
Avr
CIO
State, County and Municipal Workers of America
FDR Seeks No Fourth Term Says Democrat
Iowa Democrat Frank Comfort said Roosevelt privately advised friends he would not consider a fourth term If the war continues Comfort adds the President would be the logical choice to stay in office for the duration, though others may push against his wish.
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Washington
Frank Comfort
Iowa
Roosevelt
Hitler Marks 54th Birthday As War Passes Grimly On
Adolf Hitler turned 54 as German forces faced reverses from Stalingrad to Tunisia and Allied air raids. Goebbels and Goering warned of burden and sacrifice while a Berlin radio broadcast was interrupted by a ghost voice predicting the end of the war with Hitler’s downfall. Diplomatic circles forecast a possible peace offer to shore up Nazism’s position.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Berlin
Fuehrer
Hitler
Goebbels
Goering
Stalingrad
Tunisia
Fortress of
Kyp Rera
Russia
Food Conference Open Sessions Sought by Senate
Senate calls for open sessions at the coming international food conference in Hot Springs Virginia. Senator George of Georgia says restricting press access and limiting attendees could hurt American opinion and demands transparency. House moves toward final passage of a 175 million Agriculture Appropriation Bill with FSA funding blocked and other cost cuts amid tax reform talks.
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George
D-Ga
Hot Springs
Farm Security Administration
FSA
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Ohio River Set to Near Flood Stage This Weekend
Cincinnati AP report: the U S Weather Bureau warns the Ohio River from Portsmouth to Dam 37 near Cincinnati will approach and may exceed flood stage before the weekend, cresting just below flood level from Dam 37 to Carrollton. It would be the third flood this year and the first three-flood sequence in Weather Bureau history here. Flood stage is 52 feet. at 10 a m the river was 34.7 feet and rising three tenths of a foot per hour.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Ohio River
Portsmouth
Carrollton
Weather Bureau
Harmon Moved to Army Base After Jungle Crash
Lieut. Thomas Harmon former All American Michigan football star rested today at an Army base in Paramaribo Dutch Guiana after surviving a U S bomber crash in a South American jungle. Five other crew members were missing. Harmon flown to Paramaribo after being found by Indians following days of wandering near the wreckage. the bomber carried the "98" fuselage number.
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San. Juan
Puerto Rico
Thomas Harmon
University of Michigan
Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
U. S
Harmon
Allied Planes Aid in Battling U-Boat Pack
Allied planes helped defend two important convoys in a four day Atlantic running battle with a U boat pack. The Air Ministry news service announced that probably five Axis submarines were destroyed and many others seriously damaged in mid March.
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London
Atlantic
Air Ministry
Civilians Face Tire Shortage Amid Rubber Program Clash
Washington officials and lawmakers convene as Rubber Director William M. Jeffers and OWI Director Elmer Davis clash over progress. Testimony before a Senate subcommittee seeks to avert curtailment of synthetic rubber plant construction while reports indicate most civilians may not get new tires until late 1944. Jeffers had claimed 12 million tires could be distributed this year, including 5 million synthetic tires.
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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
WAAC Education Rules Tighten for Enlistment
The War Department announced new WAAC education and intelligence standards effective April 13. Recruits must have at least two years of high school and a WAAC mental alertness test score of 60, up from no fixed education rule and a minimum score of 50.
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Washington
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
War Department
WAAC
Committee Agrees on Labor Union Controls
Rep. John Cattlett reports the five member judiciary subcommittee is in substantial agreement on major controls for labor unions. Labor leaders are expected to appear before the subcommittee at tonight's meeting in Columbus.
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Columbus
John Cattlett
R.richland
Cattlett
Morgan Countian Wins Commission in Pacific
In the Southwest Pacific area a first officer candidate school graduation awarded commissions to 387 second lieutenants from American forces in New Guinea and Australia. Included was James S. Dearth of McConnelsville Ohio.
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Australia
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
James S. Dearth
McConnelsville
Ohio
Allied Airpower Damns Axis Transports In Tunisia Drive
Allied reports say 112 Axis planes destroyed over two days, including 70 Junkers transports, with 24 more planes shot down near the Tunisian coast. British and Maltese forces claim additional losses, while Rommel’s defenses hold. RAF strikes hit rail and road networks across Western Europe and Tunisia as Soviet reports note heavy German casualties on the Western Caucasus front.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Tunisian
North African
Sicilian
Malta
Valletta
Fortress Isle
London
Africa
North Africa
Spezia
Stockholm
Marshal Rommel
Tunis-Bizerte
Hitler
Luxembourg
Switzerland
RAF
Skoda
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
Caucasus
Europe
Germany
Aid Ministry
Brittany
France
Holland
Tunis
la Sebala
Mediterranean
Rommel
English Church Bells To Ring for Easter
Prime Minister Churchill announced in the House of Commons that the wartime ban on regular Sunday morning bell ringing would be lifted. The bells will peal for Easter, the brightest Briton has seen since the war began, ending a policy that reserved ringing as an invasion signal.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
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