Entire Soviet Front Surges With Activity
Moscow AP reports the Soviet line surged with new activity from Leningrad to Novorossisk. Over 1,000 German troops were killed in the last 24 hours as Red forces claim air attacks and heavy artillery against German positions along the front.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Red Army
Izvestia
Hitlemto
Germany
Itelf
Kuban
Donets
Lishchansk
Voroshilovgrad
Voelkhov
Rostov
Sevsk
Kursk
Red Flyers
Bryansk
Orel
Berlin
Survey Hopes Hits Miners Complaints
Washington AP report notes miners say wages can't buy enough food at current prices. Operators cite a survey showing weekly earnings rising nearly 60 percent from Jan 1 1941 to Feb 1943 while living costs grew only 2 percent. Findings presented to the War Labor Board panel.
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Washington (Ap
David Friday
Washington
Premos
War Labor Board
Meetings to Stop F R Reelection in Washington
AP reports John P Monroe, host of the big red house on A street, described a coalition of wealthy Republicans and insurgent Democrats meeting to prevent Roosevelt's reelection and oppose a world WPA. Monroe spoke to House military affairs committee about war contracts and said he sought only a modest business role, not jail or improper contracts.
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ST. Louis
The
Post- Dispatch
John P Monroe
Washington
Roosevelt
Edward A Harris
Post-Dispatch
Monroe
Harris
Monyoe
Ers
House Military Affairs Committee
Italian Peace Talks Rumored With U S Reps
A clandestine European radio service claimed an Italian diplomat discussed Italy's separate peace with three United States representatives on Spanish soil. The report named Mario Badoglio, Tangier consul general, as meeting the Americans April 23 at a banker's estate near Tangier.
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London
Italy
United States
Gustave Siegfried Eins
Mario Badoglio
Tangier
Badoglio
Marshal Badoglio Highlighted in Ethiopian Campaign Coverage
The article describes Marshal Badoglio as a hero of the Ethiopian campaign. It notes that American names are not fully given. one man is called the right hand man of former Governor Lehman of New York and another is identified as a United States expert on southeast European politics.
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Marshal Badoglio
Gov. Lehman
New York
United States
Great Spirit Mad Indians Quit Jobs on Railroad
Denver authorities report 26 Navajo section hands abandoned work for the reservation blame the Great Spirit for a death in the mountains. Johnny Lee, 10, was killed by a rock strike, Navajo interpreter Richard Dedshirt said the death signaled the Great Spirit’s displeasure and prompted the quit.
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Denver
Denver and
Salt Lake
Farmington
N. M
Johnny Lee
Richard Dedshirt
Deserters Fly Stolen Army Plane Over California
Two privates Ronald Voyles and Thomas McDonald escaped from Minter Field and flew a stolen Army plane over the Tehachapi mountains. Police captured them after a statewide manhunt as officers called their flying skill impressive though the breach of discipline not condoned.
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Upland
Calif
Minter Field
Techachipi
Ronald Voyles
Baraboo
Wis
Thomas McDonald
Giard
Til
California
Voyles
McDonald
Minterfield
Pomona
Ralph Palmer
Flight cadet and accomplice planned to join RAF in exile
Voyles once a flying cadet claimed he piloted a Vultee basic trainer before being washed out. They planned train travel to Kansas City and enlist in the Royal Air Force. He was jailed after an unauthorized three hour trainer flight ten days earlier. McDonald faced a 713 year sentence for a Bakersfield railroad station robbery a month prior.
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Kansas City
Royal Air Force
Voyles
Vultee
McDonald
Bakersfield
Calif
Six State Floods Threaten Crops
Floods inundated farmlands in six states Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri Kansas Indiana and Illinois. Authorities warned winter wheat could be ruined if waters stayed for more than two days as levees were manned and crests neared record levels. River floods closed highways and stranded residents across three regions including Batesville Coffeyville McAlester and Havana.
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United Press
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Indiana
Illinois
Arkansas River
Little Rock
Ark
White River
Batesville
McAlester
Coffeyville
Kan
Havana
Holluster
Lake Taney Como
Liquor Price Ceilings Move Toward Lower Costs
The Office of Price Administration moved quickly to set ceilings on whiskey gin and other liquors aiming to cut costs. Proposals could trim prices by up to a dollar per quart, though exact consumer savings are not yet known. Officials stress there will be no liquor rationing.
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Westinghouse
Silex
Corey
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Naquor
War Production Board
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets For Regular Bowel Action
An old advertorial urges taking Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate bile flow and improve digestion. It claims they help daily bowel movements and cure constipation with gentle action. The notice lists prices 15¢ 3 Ad 60¢ and notes availability at drugstores.
Blood drives surge for infant with rare infection
In Chicago at Children's Memorial Hospital, donors across the country offered blood to save Tommie James, a dying infant with a rare streptococcus viridans infection. Doctors prepared a pint from a recovered donor and another standby donor, as father Thomas W. James praised national humanitarian response. Between donors and case checks, physicians verify recoveries before transfusion.
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Chicago
Tommy James
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Thomas W. James
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