Andaman Occupied by Japanese. Burma Plight Deepens War
New Delhi reports the Andaman islands have fallen to Japanese forces, a strategic gain aimed at Calcutta and Trincomalee. In Washington, U S Navy officials describe successful raids on Wake and Marcus islands near Japan, with heavy bombardment and limited American losses.
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Burma
New Delhi
Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
Malaya
Sumatra
Rangoon
Calcutta
Trincomalee
Ceylon
Washington
Navy
Wake
Marcus Islands
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Tokio
Pacific War Theater
MacArthur and War Wages Stir Public Debate Across Nation
The piece argues against suspending war time premium pay and urges unity in sacrifice. It critiques Washington officials for misinformation about overtime expectations and highlights the need for civilians to understand wartime aims. It also notes MacArthur’s call for truth to mobilize public resolve and references a Florida court ruling on fashion norms.
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Washington
MacArthur
United States
Southwest Pacific
Florida Supreme Court
Labor Offers To Give Up Double Pay
Washington reports organized labor and management agreed to waive double pay for Sundays and holidays to support a 24 seven war production schedule. CIO and AFL pledged to omit double time for Sunday and holiday work within war industries, while maintaining time and a half past 40 hours and double time only on the seventh consecutive day. President Roosevelt commented on organized labor’s grass roots drive and possible fifth or sixth column activity.
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Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Donald Nelson
House
House Naval Affairs Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
CIO
AFL
William Green
United States
Japanese push near Toungoo threatens Allied front
Chinese headquarters in Burma said 1000 Japanese troops seized an airdrome north of Toungoo and that heavy fighting was under way. Japanese cavalry and infantry in civilian dress reportedly cut the Toungoo Mandalay road 20 miles north, but Chinese forces drove them from the plain.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Toungoo
Mandalay
Flying Tiger pilots claim dawn air raid victory over Chiangmai
American Volunteer Group pilots in Thailand attacked the Chiangmai airfield at dawn. They claimed seven Japanese planes destroyed and many damaged, while their squadron leader Jack Newkirk was killed in the raid. Brigadier General Claire Chennault praised Newkirk as an exceptional flyer.
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Kunming
China
Thailand
Chiengmai
U. S
Jack Newkirk
Newkirk
AVG
Burma
Claire L. Chennault
United States
San Francisco
U. S. Ready to Act Against Bund
Attorney General Francis Biddle said the Justice Department is prepared to begin denaturalization actions against loyal foreign born citizens especially members of the German American Bund.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
Justice Department
Bund
Rev. Sydney Key Evans, Navy chaplain chief, dies at 69
The Rev. Sydney Key Evans, 69, former chief of the chaplain corps of the United States Navy, died Wednesday in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Sydney Key Evans
Chaplain Corps
United States Navy
U S Destroyers Pillsbury and Edsall Missing Near Java
The Navy reports destroyers Pillsbury and Edsall, each about 145 officers and men, missing since early March around Java. Last seen south of Java and Bali Strait, both ships built in 1920 and about 1190 tons, likely aiming for Australia.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Pillsbury
Edsall
Java
Bali Strait
Bali
Dutch East Indies
Java Sea
Australia
Athens Bombed by R A F says Rome
The Italian high command announced that British planes dropped bombs on the Athens area destroying houses in suburbs and killing one Greek civilian. The command also said R A F planes bombed Bengasi in Libya.
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Rome
High Command
Athens
Greece
R.A.F
Bengasi
Cedar Rapids Among 3 Sites Hinted for Army Hospital
Rock Island district army engineers recommend Iowa City Cedar Rapids and Galesburg as favorable sites for a large army hospital. Col Clinton C Ball announced the war department approved a 20 million dollar project to build an airport at Madison Wisconsin, with construction under Milwaukee district supervision.
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Rock Island
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Galesburg
War Department
Rock Island District
Army Engineers
Clinton C. Ball
Ball
Madison
Milwaukee
Lindbergh Takes Engineering Post at Ford Willow Run Plant
Charles A Lindbergh has joined Ford Motor company in the engineering department at the Willow Run bomber plant. Ford Personnel Director Harry T Bennett announced the appointment on Wednesday after a Tuesday offer from Henry Ford during a plant inspection. Lindbergh was in Washington on Wednesday, likely to consult with the war department about the role.
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Detroit
Llp
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ford Motor Company
Willow Run
Ford
Harry T Bennett
Bennett
Lindbergh
Henry Ford
Washington
War Department
WPB Slashes Razor Production Under War Order
The War Production Board ordered curbs on safety razors, straight razors, and blades for 90 days. Electric razors remain excluded but may be addressed later. Manufacturers may run at 70 percent of the 1940 average for safety razors and must limit blades and straight razors to the 1940 monthly average.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Payroll Plan In Cedar Rapids Engages 50 Large Firms
More than fifty major Cedar Rapids firms participate in a payroll allotment plan to buy war bonds. Robert O. Bickel, chairman, says the Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association administers for firms with 25 or more employees, while the Chamber of Commerce bureau handles smaller outfits. Over 4,461 workers are already allotting.
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Cedar Rapids News
Robert O. Bickel
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association
Chamber of Commerce
Japs Resume Bombardment In Philippines
Washington reports the Japanese bombardment of Manila Bay fortifications and Bataan positions resumed on Wednesday. Local skirmishes near Digos and Mindanao indicate Filipino forces inflicting losses on a Japanese motor column. Mines in Philippine waters threaten inter island communications and isolation of Bataan and Manila bay forts.
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Washington
Manila Bay
Bataan
War Department
Digos
Davao Gulf
Mindanao
Philippine
First C. R. School Traffic Patrol Organized at I. C.
The Immaculate Conception school in Cedar Rapids organized the first schoolboy traffic patrol. Officials hope to expand patrols to public schools, but Arthur Deamer, superintendent of schools, warns dismissal from class would disrupt education. Parents may oppose assigning young students to cross streets. The police asked again last September for school patrol installations.
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Cedar Rapids
Immaculate Conception
Arthur Deamer
Links in Jap Chain Of Bases Shattered?
United States planes from a U S aircraft carrier dropped 12 tons of high explosives on Marcus Island and eight days earlier hit Wake Island as part of a sweeping Pacific strike. Navy officials said the raids likely damaged Japan s fortified island chain from Tokyo to the Marshalls, injecting fear into Tokyo and Yokohama and diverting Japanese materiel.
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Admiral Walsey
Southwest Pacific
Wake
Peale
Wilkes Islands
Marcus Island
South Shore
Leader
United States
U. S
Pacific
Japan
Wake Island
Tokio
Marshall Islands
Nippon
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Amboina
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Samoa
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Harry Boyd
U.S
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Rahmaputra
Bengal
Andaman II
Sport Blair
Equator
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