Mandalay Falls to Japanese Forces in Burma Battle
Allied reports confirm Japanese troops occupy Mandalay after a 410 mile advance from Rangoon ending a key Burma road link. British retreat explosives destroyed Ava Bridge and other spans while Stilwell's Chinese army fights near Lashio and Hsenwi as Chiang Kai-shek rushes reinforcements.
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India
Chungking
Chiang Kai -Shek
Cedar Rapids Named Among Nation's Best Business Spots
Forbes Magazine lists Cedar Rapids as one of the top places in the United States for concentrating sales activities collections and other promotion operations. The city anchors the fifth best high spot territory with 23 nearby cities. The territory is singled out because business activity is ahead of last year in large populations with a median gain around 20.5 percent.
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Cedar Rapids
Forbes Magazine
United States
Forbes
Quickie Army Navy Commissions Under Fire in Congress
Congressman Charles I. Faddis urged stopping rapid civilian commissions in the military. An amendment to the army pay bill would limit future commissions to graduates of officers training schools, National Guard and ROTC officers, or those who completed military courses at approved schools. He noted about 100 civilian boards had been set up to recommend commissions but operated quietly and many appointees lacked military training.
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Navy
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Full House
Military Committee
National Guard
R.o't.c
Air Corps
Soldier Letter Calls for Public Casualty Lists
A letter from an American soldier in Australia criticizing the delay in publishing casualty lists was made public by the Ninth Naval District press office. He argues that publishing names would boost morale and honor those who died, citing the desire to know comrades who fell alongside leaders like MacArthur. The note coincides with the first Navy casualty lists. next of kin notices have been the only casualty news, and even Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.’s death had not been officially released.
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INS
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Ninth Naval District
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MacArthur
Red Hill
Georgia
Washington
America
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Navy reports 5486 dead and missing in first four months
The Navy released casualty figures for Dec 7 to Apr 15 showing 5486 dead and missing, 907 wounded, and 6393 total casualties across navy, marines, and coast guard in world war battles. Most losses came from direct enemy action, with additional deaths from accidents and duties at sea and in the air.
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Roosevelt
Cavite Naval Base
Manila Bay
Big Blow in Aussie Zone Signals Major Japanese Drive
Allied and Japanese naval air actions sharpen as Tokyo massing forces north of Australia, with two Japanese reconnaissance planes over Townsville signaling a possible coastal invasion attempt. In the Philippines, Corregidor and Mindanao battles continue as Japanese efforts meet firm resistance.
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Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Gasmata
Port Moresby
Australia
MacArthur
America
New Zealand
Townsville
Caledonia
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Pacific
Japan
Philippines
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Mindanao
Cotabato
Davao
Rio Grande
Herring Attacks Baseball Races and Actors Benefits
Washington Senator Clyde L. Herring announced plans to protest rail use for transporting men to race tracks and to actor benefits. He argued soldiers deserve reliable transport and criticized high baseball player salaries and draft exemptions. He cited the Victory Caravan as wasteful theatrics that drain war resources and urged focus on supporting troops.
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Washington
Clyde L. Herring
D-Ia
Joseph B. Eastman
Iowan
Herring
Middlewest
Hallswood
American service troops boost Middle East war effort
Cairo reports that American troops are stationed in the eastern Mediterranean under May Gen Russell L Maxwell who says a US technical school for maintenance personnel is being turned over to RAF control. Eritrean projects are under way and operations are expected to start soon as US aircraft and support expand in the region.
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Cairo
Middle East
Russell L. Maxwell
Maxwell
Royal Air Force
Eritrea
United States
Mediterranean
Roosevelt
RAF
USA
British Scorn Aerial Truce as RAF Strikes Continue
British reports condemned a German bid for a ceasefire in the war as RAF bombers attacked airfields in Nazi-occupied France and hit a German destroyer off Norway. Berlin warned of reprisal while London pressed the attack coastward. Soviet dispatches claim heavy losses for Germany on the Leningrad front with thousands killed and dozens of planes destroyed in April. US Britain seek to dissuade de Gaulle from seizing future political leadership of France, urging him to stay as military leader.
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Norway
Berlin
Germany
London
Switzerland
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
All-India Congress Adopts Non-Violence Policy Victory
The All-India Congress Committee adopts a non-violence policy for resistance to invasion, stating that only non-violent non-cooperation is allowed and Britain must abandon India. Gandhi’s leadership is praised while a rival Moslem League independence resolution is rejected 120 to 15. C. Rajagopalachari resigns in anticipation of defeat.
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Madras
All-India
Moslem League
Rajagopalachari
Efort
Labor Draft Bill in Hands of Congress
Washington AP reports Senator Johnson proposes revisions to a war department bill on draft deferments. The plan would exempt family men from combat but field them into war factories to replace single workers. Debates focus on dependents' payments, costs, and shifting married men into essential war jobs to avoid excessive outlays.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Johnson
Colo
War Department
Ft Johnson
Johnson Satin
Minority Teachers Seek AFL Charter For Local Group
A newly formed Cedar Rapids classroom teachers group applied for an AFL charter via the BooH Rovers of Franklin school. The temporary president said the move aims to unite educators after the war and provide labor support, with a permanent group to elect officers once chartered.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedi Rapids Teachers
American Federation of Towchers
Booh Rovers of Franklin School
Ceounez Atu
Cedi Regie
Terehers
Home Teachers Union
Home Teachers Union Byer Cack Be Did Net Gnaw the Exact Membership Teta
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Classroom Teachers Association
Plane Crash Near Salt Lake City Kills 17
Wreckage of a United Air Lines Mainliner sleeper transport near Ensign Peak, Salt Lake City, left 17 dead including men in uniform and civilians. Victims ranged from a one-year-old infant to veterans like M. Lynn Patterson. Rescue crews struggled through sleet as investigators from the civil aeronautics board went to the scene. Patterson’s widow and two sons, both in the U.S. Army, mourned the loss.
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Salt Lake City
Ensign Peak
United Air Lines
Salt Lake
Chicago
Gearhart
United Airlines
Anoport
San Francisco
Wombige
Civil Aeroautics Board
Washington
M. Lynn Patterson
Eastern Air Lines
United States Army
Charles Patterson
Air Corps
Patterson Field
Fairfield
R. Blair Patterson
Fort Dix
Sperry Gyroscope Company
Brooklyn
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Pittsburgh
United
Escaped Nazi Flyer Captured in Texas
FBI Detroit chief John S Buas reported Nazi flyer Lieut Pete Krug was captured Friday night in San Antonio Texas after arriving in the United States from Canada. Krug registered at a hotel. police were alerted by the suspicious owner and two FBI men plus two detectives detained him without resistance. Krug fled Bowmanville Ontario prison camp on April 16 with Erich Bohle. Bohle was recaptured at Niagara Falls New York. Krug later traveled to Windsor Ontario, stole a boat, crossed the Detroit River, stayed with Marguerita Bertelmann, and was aided by German native Max Stephan before boarding a bus to Chicago.
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John S Bue Fas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pete Krug
United States
San Antonio
Tex Krug
FBI
Bugas
Krug
Bowmanville
Ont
Erich Bohle
Bohle
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Windsor
Detroit River
Marguerita Bertelmann
Max Stephan
Stephan
Chicago
Bettine Field Engagement to Ensign Goodall Announced
New York AP reports the engagement of Miss Bettine Field daughter of Mrs Diego Suarez and Marshall Field publisher to Ensign McChesney Goodall Jr U S N R of Staunton Virginia announced on Saturday
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Bettine Field
Diego Suarez
Marshall Field
Ensien McChesney Goodall, Jr
U.S.N.R
Staunton, Va
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