Price Office cuts point values on frozen foods and soups
The Office of Price Administration ordered deep cuts in point values for canned and dried soups frozen fruits and vegetables with black eyed peas removed from the ration list. Tomato soup 10 ounce cans drop from six to three points and other soups fall to four. Frozen fruits drop from 13 to 6 points per pound and baked beans from 8 to 4.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
South
Doolittle Raid Repelled by Heroic Carrier Launch
Admiral William Halsey led a bold carrier task force to strike Tokyo with B 25 bombers led by Doolittle. Despite enemy sighting and danger, all planes reached Japan and scored decisive blows on fuel, aviation, and shipyard targets in Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya Kobe Osaka, with no American losses in Japan.
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Japan
William F. Halsey, Jr
South Pacific
Tokio
Doolittle
United States
Elgin
Fla
War Department
Travis Hoover
Arlington
Calif
David M. Jones
Winters
Texas
Edward J. York
Batavia
Tokio Bay
Charles R. Greening
Hoquiam
Wash
Kenegawa
Yokohama
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Nagoya
Osaka
Obe
Greening
20-Center
Kobe
Emperor
Doolittle Raid Details Revealed and Heroism Cited
The war department explains the Tokyo raid details, plane crews and missions. It highlights Corp Leland Faktor’s death, Thatcher’s lifesaving actions, and White’s medical salvage work. It notes secrecy to protect crews and the launch from the Hornet under Doolittle.
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Tokio
York
Siberia
Vladivostok
Ted W. Lawson
Los Angeles
China Sea
Corp
David J. Thatcher
Billings
Mont
Thatcher
War Department
J.R. White
Redlands
Calif
Pete G. Smith
Belle Fourche
Lieut. White
Army Clears Roads of Nails with Magnet
Col. Arthur D. Elliott at Seneca Ordnance depot uses a road magnet to remove nails from government roads. In two days the device collected about 700 pounds of nails from crates, reducing punctures from as high as 90 per day to almost none and saving tires.
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Romulus
N. Y
Arthur D. Elliott
Seneca Ordnance Depot
Col. Elliott
Army board probes crash at Fort Sill in which two lieutenants died
An army board of inquiry met Tuesday night to investigate a Monday crash at Fort Sill Oklahoma. Lieut Hicks R Phillips 26 of Lakeland Florida and Second Lieut Boyd W Darling 22 of Bairoil Wyoming were killed in the accident.
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Fort Sill
Okla
Army Board of
Hicks R. Phillips
Lakeland
Fla
Boyd W. Darling
Bairoil
Wyo
Evacuation of Jews Ordered in Holland
The Dutch News agency Aneta reported German authorities ordered Holland evacuated of all Jews except those in Amsterdam. Jews will be interned in concentration camps beginning April 23.
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London
Aneta
Holland
Amsterdam
Wedding Of Myrtle Batchelor And Samuel Bear in Clinton
Independence reports the wedding of Miss Myrtle Harriet Batchelor and Samuel Lee Bear at the Baptist parsonage in Clinton at noon on April 21. Rev. W. H. Hoag officiated. The couple, both Marion high school graduates, have long careers in education and mail delivery.
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Independence
Myrtle Harriet Batchelor
Samuel Lee Bear
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
W. H. Hoag
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Kappa Delta Pi
Scholastic Fraternity
Mt. Vernon
Hawthorne
Bear
Cornell College
57th Fighter Group Blasts Transports Over Cairo
American forces joined by British and South African fighters to destroy 5 Junkers 52s and 19 other planes Sunday, with the 57th Fighter Group publicly identified as participants in the operation near Cairo Egypt.
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Cairo
Egypt
57Th
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China
Chungking
Towan
Leland D Faktor
Plymouth
Moun
Shangri-La
Pacific
God _Utititian
Joan Kenley
Craemer's
Buster Brown
Louis C. Kaiser
Higley
Victory
United States War
California
Ford
Ouths' Center
Fleer
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