Allied Fliers Destroy Axis Transports in Early Strike Tension
Pittsburgh AP report says more than 2 000 miners joined a growing coal strike amid “tremendous unrest” over wages. Joseph Yablonsky of District 5 links stoppages at Republic Steel pits to wage disputes and War Labor Board actions. Isabella line workers walkout follows wage dispute certification, with union leaders warning the strike could spread without a new contract.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Joseph Yablonsky
International Aid
District 5
Pittsigh
Republic Steel Corporation
Pearance
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Beuse
Yabnsky
Isabella
Weirton Coal Comany
National Steel Corporation Bsidiary
West Virginia
William Blizzard
Charleston
Istrict
Cecil J. Urbaniak
Airmont
Arkins
WLB
Yablonsky
UMW
John L. Lewis
New York
Wiliam H. Davis
Soviets Stop New Attacks Amid Caucasus Fighting
Moscow dispatch says Red Star alleges Adolf Hitler pursues new adventures while German assaults in the Caucasus fail to dent Soviet defenses. About 4,000 Nazis were killed in recent fighting as Soviet planes bomb East Prussia and the RAF winds down continent operations with mine-sowing sorties.
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Moscow
Red Star
Adolf Klitler
Caucasus
East Prussia
RAF
Continent
Claims Filed Reflect Rise in Employment in Ohio
Columbus Ohio industrial commission chairman Will T Blake reported 30399 men’s compensation claims, up 4.99 percent from February and 239 higher than July 1942’s previous peak. March compensation payments totaled 1751598 dollars versus 1318902 in the prior year.
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Columbus
Will T. Blake
Ohio Indus Commission
Fach
Removal of Tire Recap Ban Planned for May First
OPA directed ration boards to lift quota restrictions on May 1 for tire recapping. Rubber Director William Jeffers supports prompt recapping to avoid waste and protect essential vehicle use. GOP Women selects Ruth U. S., former New York committee member, as head of the Women’s National Club.
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Washington
OPA
Zeney
William Jeffers
GOP
Ruth U. S
New York Me
Republican Committee
Women’s National Club
Doolittle vows new Japan raids and greater bombings
General Doolittle confirms American fliers will strike Japan again soon with intensified bombing to break the Japanese empire and avenge fallen comrades. He says the attack will target the heart of Japan and endure until Tokyo crumbles. In Washington, officials link Allied air efforts to divert rubber program and discuss broader wartime policy shifts.
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North Africa
Japan
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Oth
Washington
Europe
Patterson
Bremen
Focke- Wulf
William M. Jeffers
Ickes
James F. Byrnes
House
May
D-Ky
Tanisia Weed Ie Dassen
National Legion Commander Roane War ing Warns of Wider Casualties
Roane War ing, national commander of the American Legion, just returned from the Tunisia front, cautions that American casualties are far higher than announced and will rise as the campaign continues.
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NEA Telephoto
Roane Waring
American Legion
Tunisia
Jap Editor Denounces Tokyo Raid as Barbarism
Larry Tajiri, editor of The Pacific Citizen, calls the reported execution of American air raiders in Tokyo barbarism. He states Japanese Americans stand with fellow citizens to condemn the brutal act and pursue victory across the Pacific.
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Tokyo
Larry Tajiri
Pacific Citizen
Negro Slayer Unworried By Verdict of Death
Albany Oregon. Robert E Lee Folkes a 20 year old Negro cook was found guilty in the first degree of murdering Mrs Martha Virginia James 21 on a California bound train passenger car Lower Berth 13. He faced the gas chamber and joked about his gas ration after the verdict.
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Albany
Robert E. Lee Folkes
Oregon
Navy Leasing
Martha Virginia James
Strikers Call for Armed Troops Over Celanese Strike
In Newark New Jersey the National War Labor Board and United Mine Workers District 50 clash over a Celanese plastics plant strike. The WLB ordered the walkout ended and warned of White House intervention with armed forces. UMW Local 12666 leaders say they would work for military help but not for Celanese. The strike began April 10 amid a dispute over representation with the CIO Textile Workers.
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Newark
N. J
National War Labor Board
District 50
United Mine Workers
Celanese Corporation For America
WLB
White House
Howard Gill
UMW
Army
Navy
Celanese
Textile Workers of America, Cio
Mother of Four Sons In Service Honored in 1943
New York report notes Mrs Mary Moore Thompson 55 of Glen Dale Ohio is named Golden Rule Foundation's mother of 1943. The widow and Western College for Women Oxford Ohio president was nominated by college alumnae associations reflecting four sons serving in wartime.
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New York
Ohio
Golden Rule Foundation
Foundation
Mary Moore Thompson
Glendale
Western College For Women
Oxford
War Production Board Expands Carriage Quotas
Washington reports the War Production Board will raise child carriage quotas for 1942 to meet demand. The agency increases one baby unit to 316,620 and two baby units to 5,827, after 800,000 carriages fell short last year.
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Washington
War Production Board
Government Seizes Wheat Unless Farmers Pay Loans
The Commodity Credit Corporation warns that about 180 million bushels of wheat will be taken by the government next week unless farmers repay 225 million dollars of loans on 1942 and 1941 crop grain. Loans on 160 million bushels stored in commercial elevators and 20 million stored on farms mature April 30, with no extensions anticipated. Some farmers may redeem and sell now, while others wait for potential higher prices amid a smaller 1943 crop and higher loan rates. Also, about 150 million bushels stored on farms may be redeemed by June 30 or extended for another year.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Thousands of Ohio Speeders Given Warning
Ohio State Highway Patrol reports 1,256 arrests for excessive speed and 2,108 warnings for exceeding the 35 mph limit on state roads in the first quarter. In February, Trumbull County recorded 52 arrests and Richland 32, the state’s highest totals, with offenders named and license numbers sent to the Office of Price Administration.
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Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Lynn Black
Trumbull
Richland County
Black
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Navy Fighters to wear campaign clasps and bronze stars
The Navy Department authorized wearing special insignia on uniforms to show participation in major campaigns. Bronze stars will indicate action in principal engagements, while small bronze numerals on the center of the area ribbon mark the number of campaigns served.
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Washington
Navy Department
Claim Filed for Man Killed at Lake Zaleski
A claims bill totaling 262279.55 was introduced in the House. It includes 7305 for Mrs. Margaret E Monroe of Columbus whose husband Robert H Monroe was killed while training with the Ohio State Guard at Camp Zaleski last summer.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Margaret E. Monroe
Robert H. Monroe
Ohio State Guard
Camp Zaleski
Cincinnati Council Adopts War Time Retention Ordinance
Cincinnati city council votes to keep Eastern War Time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September, effectively aligning with Ohio daylight saving practice during fall and winter.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Health official plans quarantine near Weirton Steubenville
Charleston Health Commissioner C F McClintie announced tentative steps for a quarantine in the Weirton Steubenville area to halt river boat crews from coming ashore amid a smallpox threat.
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Charleston
W. Va
C. F. McClintie
Weirton-Steubenville
Ohio Reserve Authorized for State Defense
Gov. Bricker may sign a bill creating an Ohio Military Reserve to defend the state. The force would include male citizens not in the U S or Ohio armed forces and operate under guardsmen rules. They could not act as peace officers in labor disputes. Senate gave final approval yesterday.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
General Assembly
Ohio State Guard
The
United States
Senate
Yankee Pilots Focused On Military Targets in Tokyo Raid
Capt. Ted Lawson of Los Angeles told reporters Ameri can raiders in Tokyo passed up civilian targets and focused on military aims. He recalled flying low over a Japanese carrier in Tokyo harbor while the crew urged to drop an egg, then hitting two machine works and a steel smelter south of Tokyo.
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Washington
Tokyo
Flers
Ted Lawson
Los Angeles
Tokyo Harbor
Civil Air Patrolman Finds Wrecked Plane
Civil Air Patrol inspector William Hoge located wreckage from the Army plane crash in Giles County Virginia on Pond Mountain as searchers continued the three month old case seeking new clues. At least three soldiers died in the crash.
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Princeton
W. Va
Pond Mountain
Giles County
Virginia
William Hoge
Civil Air Patrol
Allied Fliers Bomb Japanese Bases in Burma and New Guinea
Allied airmen struck multiple Japanese bases in the Nassau Bay area and Northern New Guinea, concentrating near Nassau Bay. Bombers damaged dwindling Japanese supply lines while troops suffered from hunger and illness. In Burma, raids targeted Rangoon and three airfields as Allied forces renewed the Chindwin push.
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Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Australia
Nassau Bay
New Guinea
Washington
War Department
Tokyo
Burma
Rangoon
Upper
Chindwin
Poultry Prices Fixed by Federal Price Order
The Office of Price Administration issued a new price order to fix uniform poultry prices nationwide effective immediately. It lowers prices for drawn and quick frozen eviscerated poultry by 1 to 10 cents per pound and raises prices for quick frozen eviscerated broilers and fryers by 1 to 2 cents per pound, based on country shipping point costs to curb black market activity. Wholesale and retail prices will align with the new country prices through set markups.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Five youths in coupe collide with freight train at Hobson crossing
A northbound coupe carrying three Meigs County high school girls from Middleport and two Gallipolis men hit a moving freight train at Hobson crossing early today. Injuries were minor except Mary Archer of Middleport with a compound ankle fracture. Names given include Charlotte Brown Mary Archer Bernice Jane Russell Paul Harrison and Thomas Erwin. Dr Edward Smith Parsons former president emeritus of Marietta College dies at 79 in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Middleport
Meigs County High School
Gallipolis
Hobson Railroad Crossing
Here
Holzer Hospital
Charlotte Brown
Hiles Brown
Mary Archer
Margaret Archer
Bernice Jane Russell
Max Russell
Bradbury
Paul Harrison
Thomas Erwin
Archer
Cambridge, Mass
Edward Smith Parsons
Marietta, Ohio
Oklahoma Purchases War Bonds in White City Show
Oklahoma City residents buy 40 million dollars in war bonds in a single day. The spree coincides with the 54th anniversary of the opening of the territory to white settlement and serves as a tribute to American airmen killed by Japanese forces.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Fate of Raiders Known in Washington in February
The Tokyo radio reported a February 17 note to the United States declaring Japan will severely punish airmen captured after attacks on Japanese territory and operations. Tokyo also defended handling as cruel and inhuman to minimize wartime calamities and preserve prisoner treatment.
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Washington
Associated Press
Berlin Radio
Tokyo
United States
Manchukuo
Tokyo Radio
Tomokazu Hori
Info Ion
Miers
Ter
Japan
Hori
Allied air sweep downs transports over Gulf of Tunis
Allied fliers scored 38 to 5 in a battle over the Gulf of Tunis. The communiqué said they shot down an entire formation of six engine German transports and 10 escorting fighters into the sea.
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Gulf of Tunis
Air Force
Rommiel
Gulf
Tunis
Maj
J. E. Parson
East London
U S Diplomats Leave Finland Amid War Developments
U S diplomats departed Helsinki for Stockholm as pressure on Finland increases. Axis air losses rose, with 38 Axis planes shot down and five Allied planes lost. British naval forces warned Rommel of possible large scale moves from North Africa as Takrouna stronghold changes hands and Allied advances press along the Bou Arada sector.
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Merseburg
Eighth Army
Takrouna
Enfidaville
First Army
Bou Arada
Bou Fida
Yugoslav Guerrillas Fight Axis in Rugged Mountains
A Budapest dispatch says Yugoslav partisans, fresh with planes, tanks, and armored trains, are waging full scale battle against Axis forces in the Adriatic uplands. Italian reports list 1,659 killed or wounded and 1,862 missing in that sector last month, with German forces also involved but no official confirmation.
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Bern
Switzerland
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Budapest
Germany
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Hirohito
Roosevelt
Salt Lake City
Marine Corps
NEA
James E. Swett
Usmcr Flyer
Guadalcanal
Lake Zaleski
Ohio ‘Reserve
Civil Air
St. Hedwig's Cathedral
Berlin
Coupe
DR. Parsons
U.S
Finland
Helsinki
Legation
Stockholm
Royal Navy
Rommel
North African
Bizerte
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