Three Way Invasion of North Coast in New Guinea
Allied forces led a three pronged landing in Dutch New Guinea capturing Hollandia and airstrips at Tenahmerah and Tadji. MacArthur announced the operation isolated the Japanese Eighteenth army, with 140000 troops encircled and plans to seize air bases to project toward the Philippines. A naval task force supported the landings and no American ships were lost.
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Allied Headquarters
New Guinea
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Humboldt Bay
Tenahmeran Bay
Tenahmeran
Tadji
Aitape
Royal Australian Air Force
MacArthur
Tanahmerah
Madang
Wewak
Bataan
British New Guinea
Australia
Solomons
Bismarck Archipelago
Bogadjim
Palau Islands
Davao
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
Central
Ford and Lindbergh Called Up in Sedition Trial
In the large sedition case, prosecutors and defense moved to summon 100 jurors as Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford were named. James J. Laughlin sought to subpoena the pair and claimed anti Semitic utterances by Ford and Lindbergh against Jewish influence influenced public policy and should be tested in court. He accused the administration of politicizing the trial and pursuing a smear campaign against MacArthur and certain Republicans.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Henry Ford
Edward C. Eicher
O. John Rogge
James J. Laughlin
Edward James Smythe
Ford
Lindbergh
Roosevelt
Laughlin
Douglas MacArthur
Chenghsien May Be in Jap Hands
Chinese town Chenghsien at the Lunghai and Peiping Hankow rail junction possibly captured by Japanese forces. More than 60,000 Japanese troops pressed a three pronged advance through central Henan as the garrison faltered and the situation grew obscure per a wartime communique.
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Chungking
Henan
Chenghsien
Lunghai
Peiping- Hankow
Allies Break Jap Siege of Kohima Base
Allied troops breached the Kohima siege after clearing the 30 mile road between the city and Dimapur on the Assam Bengal railroad. The Kohima garrison was relieved and Dimapur road access restored, with Japanese drives against supplies reportedly repelled by Dimapur reinforcements.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Kohima
Dimapur
Southeast Asia Command
Imphal
London Daily Mail
Assam
Burma
W. D. Lentaigne
Jade
Lonkin
Iowa Firms Win Army Navy E for War Production
Three organizations earned the Army Navy E award for excellence in war production. The honors were announced by Undersecretaries Patterson and Forrestal. Recipients include American Red Cross blood donor centers in Minneapolis and St Paul, Iowa Manufacturing Co in Cedar Rapids, and Milwaukee Forge and Machine Co in Milwaukee.
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Washington
Army Navy
Robert P. Patterson
Navy
James V. Forrestal
American Red Cross
Minneapolis and
St. Paul
Allies Forecast Early Knockout of Luftwaffe
London AP reports a confident Allied forecast to destroy the Nazi air force as a prelude to forcing Germany to its knees. A 2000 word British and US statement said the assault on the German aircraft industry is climaxing in a battle to the finish and that fighter production has been driven back below 1942 monthly levels.
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London
Germany
Berlin
British
Air Ministry
United States Strategic Air Forces
Holland
England
Britain
Europe
Transocean Agency
Dispatch
United States
Focke-Wulf
Bremen
Cedar Rapids Weather Highlights and Flood Warnings
The Cedar Rapids area posted a new yearly high of 75 degrees Sunday before a drop to 44 by Monday afternoon. Forecasts call for partly cloudy and colder conditions with lows around 25 to 35 degrees and warmer trend expected tomorrow. Heavy statewide rains raised flood threats with Iowa localities reporting over half an inch of rain in the past 24 hours.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Inwood
Sioux City
Onawa
Spencer
Ames
Decorah
Forest City
Iowa Falls
Mason City
Davenport
van Meter
Des Moines Area Faces Ongoing Des Moines River Flood Threat
Des Moines area lowlands along the Des Moines river valley were flooded Monday with thousands of acres submerged. The Weather Bureau warned weekend rains would push the river higher Monday night and Tuesday, predicting up to 16 feet at Tracy and 20 feet at Eddyville by Tuesday morning and night respectively, with Ottumwa at about 11.5 feet. Flood stages are 14 feet at Tracy 15 feet at Eddyville and 9.7 feet at Ottumwa.
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DES
Tracy
Eddyville
Ottumwa
Wrigley Gum To Go to Army for Servicemen Overseas
The William Wrigley Jr Company informed distributors that starting May 1 all chewing gum produced will be sent to the army and navy for servicemen overseas. Only existing stock will remain for civilians and military consumers in the United States.
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Chicago
William Wrigley Jr.Company
Monday J
Army
Navy
United States
MacArthur Visits Hollandia Front at New Guinea Landing
General Douglas MacArthur went ashore at Hollandia to inspect American landings in Dutch New Guinea. He toured positions at Tanah Merah Bay and praised the operation as one of the best executed, urging troops not to let the enemy escape.
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Jack Turcott
MacArthur
U. S
New Guinea
Humboldt Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Philippines
Tanahmerah Bay
Solomon on who votes stirs Dallas county race clash
Dallas county Democrats plan to bar voters from Mongolian Malayan and Ethiopian or Negro races from the May 6 precinct presidential conventions. Texas anthropologists say it will take a Solomon to determine who will vote as Dr. S W Geiser of Southern Methodist University notes that race is not always determinable by appearance.
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Dallas, Texas
Dallas
Texas
Solomon
S. W. Geiser
Southern Methodist University
U S Planes Reported Landing in Switzerland
Swiss communique says many American bombers flew over Switzerland on Monday and at least 10 landed there with several more reported to have crashed. Zurich saw an air flight over the city and anti aircraft batteries at the Dubendorf airdrome fired three bursts.
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Bern
Switzerland
Zurich
Dubendorf
Thousands Routed by High Water in Midwest Floods
International News Service reports midwestern rivers burst banks causing deaths and mass evacuations. Kansas and Missouri endure severe flooding with Wichita isolated by the Little Arkansas River. Army, state guardsmen, and Red Cross rescue efforts continue as thousands seek shelter in public buildings.
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Kansas
Missouri
Wichita
Kan
Little Arkansas
Red Cross
Denies British Get News Preference
Senator W. P. Ashley Australian postmaster general denies Roy Roberts of ASNE that British and Canadian dispatches are transmitted faster than American reports from Australia. He says there is no ground for the complaint about 12 hour delays in American newswire transmissions.
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Sydney
Australia
W. P. Ashley
Roy Roberts
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Ashley
House Group Urges Curbs On Agencies
A special congressional committee in Washington led by Rep. Howard W. Smith called to merge the price control and stabilization acts into one set of rules with tighter limits on the Office of Price Administration and stricter restraints on the War Labor Board. The panel urged that OPA apply controls only to rising prices with specific evidence and require adoption of price bases, while WLB would be barred from forced contracts, retroactive payments beyond 90 days, compulsory arbitration, or overreach in union representation decisions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Labor Board
House Committee
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Congress
OPA
WLB
Union Votes End To Ward Strike
Montgomery Ward and company employees agreed to end their strike and return to work following President Roosevelt's request. The board met in a closed session to decide whether to comply by Tuesday noon, with Roosevelt warning of government seizure if either side refused. The dispute arose after the company rejected a WLB order extending a union contract pending a National Labor Relations Board election.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Roosevelt
White House
WLB
National Labor Relations Board
New Soviet Onslaught Anticipated as Ltill Advances Near Front
Reports from Moscow say after a 500 mile overland push from Kursk the Red Army is massing for a fresh campaign. Front dispatches note a brief lull with rearguard moves as troops re equip and convert from horses to machines. German and Hungarian forces fought near Narva and southwest of Stanislawow but failed to blunt Soviet efforts while Sevastopol holds in place.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Romania
Kursk
Bug
Dnestr
Prut
Narva
Sevastopol
Red
Allied air fleets strike rail yards and plants in Europe
In a two way blow, an American air arm and RAF forces hit Bucharest and Ploesti rail yards and oil centers while Britain based bombers target Friedrichshafen and Munich areas. Italian based crews strike Belgrade and Yugoslav targets as heavy Allied bombers face German defenses.
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London
Britain
Italy
Bucharest
Ploesti
Romania
Friedrichshafen
Munich
Balkan
Hitler
Belgrade
Ikarus
Yugoslavia
Eighth
Andy
Ninth Air Forces
Ninth Air Force
France
Belgium
Vichy
Lille
Air Ministry
Bilvorde
Brussels
Mannheim
Tito Seeks Territory Ahead of Axis Collapse
Marshal Josip Broz Tito announced plans to claim the Koruska region of southwestern Austria and the Primorje sector of Dalmatia. The Yugoslav Partisan radio quoted him stating Koruska must be returned to Yugoslavia as World War II realignments unfold.
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London
Josip “Tito” Broz
Yugoslavia
Koruska
Austria
Partisan
Tito W
Primorje
Dalmatia
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Cedar Rapids News
Wrigley’s
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Paul Mallon
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Eetr Neees
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Walter Winchell
International News Service
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Betty Jo
Elden Rankin
Perry County
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Joseph W. Fisher
Kansas City
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Hamm
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Brunswick
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