Allies in absolute unity amid wartime notes of resolve
Churchill stated the three major Allied nations remain absolutely united despite Soviet press stories. He warned of intensified Allied bombing on Germany and predicted victory with American and British invasion forces, while signaling cautious optimism about postwar cooperation and the Polish question remains delicate.
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London
Churchill
World Today
Germany
Moscow
Teheran
Sian
Russia
Yanks Lash Japanese on Entire Front in Pacific Drive
Allied forces pressed a 3,000 mile front from Para mushiro to Rabaul bombarding Japanese positions. Eniwetok Island fell to U S Marines and air and surface units hit Parry Island. MacArthur reported sinking enemy freighters near Rabaul as patrols damaged ships. Navy fliers attacked Paramushiro and Shumushu with no planes lost.
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Rabaul
Pacific
U. S
Eniwetok Island
Parry Island
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshalls
Douglas MacArthur
Chine
New Britain
We*ak
New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago
Kuriles
Shumushu
Marshall Atolls
Marshalls Atolls
Coral Islands
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Associated Press
William L. Worden
Netherlands East Indies
Laha
Amboina Island
Saidor
Arawe
Postwar Debt Payments Rise as Americans Plan Fresh Start
Washington reports show millions prepare for a postwar financial reset by accelerating debt payments. Representative George Bender notes private debt reductions, with mortgage indebtedness down by four million dollars this year, four times the 1939 pace.
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Washington
George Bender
Ohio
Bender
Ohio Valley Memorial Proposed by Gold Star Mothers
The Ohio Valley Chapter of the Gold Star Mothers seeks 4000 to erect a memorial in Wheeling for service members who died in the war. The campaign opened yesterday in Wheeling and the Ohio Valley towns Martins Ferry Bellaire and Bridgeport.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio Valley
The
Gold Star Mothers
Martins Ferry
Bellaire
Bridgeport
Four Year Old Texas Boy Deteriorating in Hospital
Billy Meers, four year old from Texas, with chronic nephritis, is steadily losing ground at Baylor Hospital. Doctor Charles B. Shuey reports he has gained ten pounds of unhealthy weight despite continued plasma injections and aero injections.
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Dallas
Tex
Billy Meers
Charles B. Shuey
Baylor Hospital
Senator Overton Pokes Fun Over Name Changes
Washington Senator Overton mocked efforts to rename skim milk to dried milk solids and spinach to health and strength greens. He suggested calling castor oil elixir of life and oleomargarine vegetable butter. The Senate rejected his broad proposal but skim milk name modernization passed 46 to 4.
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Washington
Senator Overton
D.-La
Congress
Senate
Overton
Capital Attorney Held In Triangle Murder
Robert I. Miller, 67, dean of Washington municipal court attorneys, was held on an open charge in connection with the fatal shooting of Dr. John E. Lind, 57, a senior medical officer at St. Elizabeths Hospital. Mrs. Miller, described as part of a love triangle, was near collapse.
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Washington
Robert I. Miller
Soviet Drive Threatens Krivoi Rog and Northern Axis Posts
Red Army forces penetrated toward Krivoi Rog, threatening to topple a key iron ore and communications hub and trapping German units west of the Dnieper Bend. In the north, Soviet offensives seized Kholm, pushed toward Loknya, and cleared coastlines from Narva to Lake Peipus, while in Italy the Rome beachhead held after renewed German pressure faltered.
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Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
Nikopel
Red
Leningrad
Cherkasy
Kholm
Lake Ilmen
Novosokolniki
Loknya
Lovat
Pskov
Gulf of Finland
Narva
Lake Peipus
18Th Army
Italy
Rome
Fifth Army
Carreceto
Cassino
Cherbourg
Civilian Draft Seen As Campaign Issue This Year
National service legislation moves toward campaign framing with no imminent Senate showdown. War and Navy pressure suggests a delayed test vote. Stimson backs the draft while Knox faces possible favorable review. Debate splits along party lines as potential candidates hesitate to commit before the election.
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Washington
Congress
Navy Department
Senate Military Committee
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Austin
Roosevelt vetoes new revenue bill amid tax clash
President Roosevelt rejected the $2.315 billion tax measure calling it wholly ineffective and a relief plan for the greedy. He blamed Congress for drafting opaque tax language and warned of dangerous precedents while noting the bill would net under a billion dollars annually. The veto sparks talk of an override as the debate continues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Treasury
Wendell L. Willkie
Allied Bombers Continue Heavy Attacks on Reich
Allied air forces pounded Germany with about 5 000 planes dropping nearly 8 000 tons of bombs in two days. Attacks targeted Brunswick aircraft plants and Hannover air facilities while Gilze Rijen in the Netherlands was hit. U S and British bombers suffered 15 losses as 33 German planes were shot down by Mustangs Thunderbolts and Lightnings. Major General Anderson said Leipzig factories making single engined fighters were knocked out in the Sunday raid.
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London
U. S
Brunswick
Targest
Netherlands
France
Ninth Airforce
Gilze-Rijen
England
Channel
Germany
The
Reich
Stuttgart
Hannover
Frederick L. Anderson
Britain
Leipzig
Ohio Veterans Are Assured Postwar Jobs
The Ohio Development and Publicity Commission says postwar jobs for Buckeye veterans will be insured under a plan to convert federally financed Ohio war plants to peacetime private operation. Commission Chairman H. H. Hampton said a cross section of industrial labor leaders from Ohio and nearby states will work to keep plants from closing and to identify the five best private uses before war end to ease new occupant searches. The program aims to secure postwar jobs for returning servicemen and other workers.
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Columbus
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Ohio
H. H. Hampton
Hampton
Nickel Plate Railroad
More Workers To Be Needed In War Effort
Canton report shows E L Kennan, Ohio director of the War Manpower Commission, says 900000 additional war workers will be required by July 1. He warns of ongoing male labor shortages as the nation fights on two fronts and notes cutbacks release workers quickly into other plants.
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Canton
E. L. Kennan
Ohio
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Keenan
Ohio debt cuts total over 366 million since 1930
Ohio's political subdivisions reduced their debts by more than 366 million dollars from 1930 to 1942, per state Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson. Counties likely led the decline, with eight counties such as Gallia and Highland owing nothing in 1942, while Champaign, Fairfield, and Fayette had none in 1930.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Gallia
Highland
Champaign, Faires and Fayette
Willkie Returns From Enjoyable West Trip
Wendell Willkie came back from a cross country tour announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He described the journey as enjoyable as he left the Chicago train.
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Willkie
New York
Wendell Willkie
Chicago
Kennedy Offered Post in FDs Cabinet
Boston news reports Joseph P Kennedy former ambassador to the Court of St James invited by President Roosevelt to be secretary of commerce A reliable authority cited by the Boston Herald says Jesse Jones would replace Henry Morgenthau Jr as secretary of the treasury in the Roosevelt cabinet
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Boston
Joseph P. Kennedy
Court of St. James
Roosevelt
Commerce
Boston Herald
the Herald
Jesse Jones
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
the Treasury
Ohio congressmen announce bid for re nomination
Congressmen J Harry McGregor of West Lafayette and John M Vorys of Columbus announced their candidacies for renomination yesterday in a Columbus event. Their moves reflect ongoing party race dynamics and signal continued legislative ambitions.
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Columbus
J. Harry McGregor
West Lafayette
John M. Vorys
Japanese Navy Leaders Replaced After Truk Bombardment
Osami Nagano was dismissed as head of the Japanese naval general staff and Admiral Shigetaro Shimada was appointed to his post by Emperor Hirohito after the Truk bombardment.
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U. S
Truk
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Osami Nagano
Shigetaro Shimada
Hirohito
Gas Boom Talk After 1.1 Million Cu Ft Well Struck on Taylor Ridge
In Moundsville West Virginia indications of a regional gas boom emerged after Dinsmore and Tedrow of western Pennsylvania reported a strike of a 1 100 000 cubic feet gas well on Taylor Ridge. The company announced plans to drill a second well on the same holdings at Taylor Ridge and commence work immediately.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Marshall County
Taylor Ridge
Pennsylvania
Dinsmore
Tedrow
Goodyear Develops Anti Ice Boot for Aircraft Blades
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co reported a new anti ice boot for airplane propeller blades. The announcement notes potential improvements in performance and safety for aviation engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Churchill’s First War Review Highlights 1943’s Global Fight
Churchill outlines a growing U S bomber force and an air offensive surpassing previous scales with long range missions from Italy. He notes German threats on Britain, Allied air power balance, and Italy’s bridgehead strength. He praises Yugoslav partisans and Tito, condemns Greece’s internecine strife, and cites Royal Navy losses and merchant shipping sinks.
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Cairo
Britain
Germany
Italy
Japan
Royal Navy
Commons
Mediterranean
Yugoslavia
Marshal Josip Broa
Tito
Balkans
Col
Deaking
Greece
Administration Seeks Federal Ballot to Break Vote Deadlock
Washington reports the administration drafted a state controlled federal ballot bill to end congressional stalemate over military voting rules. Rep Worley proposes trading a federal poll tax waiver for a uniform absentee ballot for overseas service members in exchange for broad state control over ballot validity. Rep Rankin favors state discretion on ballot acceptance.
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Washington
Worley
D.-Tex
Rep
Rankin
D.-Miss
Allies reject Axis stolen gold from neutral nations
Washington reports that Allied authorities will not accept gold seized by Germany and its allies. Berlin is said to be using gold to sustain foreign supply lines, with increasing amounts of so called German gold entering neutral markets in Turkey Switzerland Spain and Portugal.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
Berlin
Turkey
Switzerland
Spain
Portugal
Gandhi's Wife Mohandas Gandhi's Wife Dies
New Delhi radio reports the death of Mrs Mohandas K Gandhi wife of the Indian leader. The announcement specifies her passing in London.
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Gandhi
London
Mohandas K. Gandhi
New Delhi
Knox reports 92 Jap ships sunk in three weeks
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that American forces destroyed 92 Japanese vessels in three weeks, including two light cruisers and seven other combat ships, while warning an early Pacific peace is unlikely and urging realism about Japanese strength. He compared Japan’s early war moves to Port Arthur and Pearl Harbor and said the fleet will not extend too far.
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Knox
Washington
Navy
Pacific
Truk
Empire
Chester W.W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Saouheap
Italy
China
Japan
Russia
Port Arthur
Pearl Harbor
Woman Indicted in Theft of Roosevelt Fund Mail
A Washington postal clerk, Mrs. P. Elaine Pond, was indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing money from three letters addressed to President Roosevelt. The letters reportedly contained a total of $5 for the Infantile Paralysis Fund.
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Washington
P. Elaine Pond
Roosevelt
Tojo Explains Shake Up In Jap High Command
Tokyo radio reported Premier Hideki Tojo addressed his cabinet to explain the military and ministerial changes he instituted over the weekend. He expressed firm determination to carry on the war to its conclusion. Also noted a U S S Pittsburgh launch in Quincy Massachusetts a heavy cruiser of the navy.
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Tojo
Jap High Command
New York
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Storm Sweeps Coast as Wind Knocks Down Trees
A storm hit the Los Angeles area with a lashing wind and continued rain. Power lines and trees were knocked down as the two day rainfall reached 5.67 inches.
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Los Angeles
Man Killed in Truck Train Collision at Bear Creek Crossing
Clarence Newkirk, 53, of Peebles, died when his pickup collided with a train at Bear Creek crossing. Investigation ongoing. highway patrol noted no immediate detours.
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Xenia
Clarence Newkirk
Peebles
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