Duke of Gloucester Escapes Bombing Near French Town
London AP report recalls the Duke of Gloucester narrowly avoiding death in a French town air raid. Two bombs hit the hotel, a third exploded outside, and the prince calmly emerged from a cellar to assist headquarters duties alongside a sergeant amid burning debris.
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Romania Orders Virtual General Mobilization
Romania's general staff ordered a virtual mobilization aboard Wednesday calling 300000 reservists to the colors within 24 hours. The move, aimed at boosting mechanized warfare capacity, would push active service across army navy and air force beyond two million with heavy guards at oil fields rail centers and coastal ports intensified.
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Rumania
Bucharest
Carol
Balkan
Europe
Canadian prize fighter Kehler gets 10 to 20 years
Ernest Kehler 24, a former Canadian prize fighter, is sentenced in New York to 10 to 20 years for the slaying of Dr Walter Enealberds German consular attaché. He was convicted of first degree manslaughter on March 11.
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New York
Ernest Kehler
Walter Enealberds
Nine Americans In Ambulance Unit Missing At Front
Nine drivers from an American volunteer ambulance unit in the northern war zone are missing. New additions to the list include Donald Coster from Montreal and New York City, John Clement of Brookline Massachusetts, George King of New York City, and Gregory Wait of Shelburne Vermont. Also listed missing are Al Raymond Chicago Louis Wehrle Fort Wayne Murray Shipley Cincinnati and John Glowacki Jersey City. officials say some may be dead or captured. Lawrence A Jump of Nantucket previously reported missing after an ambulance was shelled near Sarreguemines.
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Donald Coster
Montreal
New York City
John Clement
Brookline
Mass
George King
Gregory Wait
Shelbourne
Francis Hamlin
al Raymond
Chicago
Louis Wehrle
Fort Wayne
Ind
Murray Shipley
Cincinnatin
John Glowacki
Jersey City
Corps
Lawrence A. Jump
Nantucket
Sarreguemines
Army Quit Buying Plane Devices Now Feverishly Sought
Washington dispatch reports Phillip D. Johnson of Boeing saying the army air corps stopped requiring self sealing gas tanks and armor plating in 1920s plane specs. He notes builders already produced aircraft with both features years earlier as Congress rushes funds to create a new air force.
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Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Phillip D. Johnson
Boeing Aircraft Company
Congress
Army High Command
Johnson
Boeing Bosses Drawn To Washington For 50000 Planes A Year
The Air Corps halted purchase of leak proof tanks and armor plating unless costs dictated it. The Boeing president was summoned to a Washington conference on the government plan to produce 50,000 planes annually. Johnson estimated manufacturers could reach that capacity in about two years.
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Boeing
Washington
Johnson
Willkie Scales Write-In in New Jersey Republican Primary
New Jersey GOP voters added 9137 Willkie write-ins in 1225 districts while Dewey led with 186,908 votes in 1944 districts. Hendrickson won a statewide governor plurality, Dewey virtually clinching the 32 convention votes. Roosevelt and Garner posted sparse Democratic write-ins.
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Newark
N. J
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New Jersey
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Robert C. Hendrickson
Harold G Hoffman
Hull
Garner
Toronto stock market bans short selling on Wednesday
AP reports a ban on short selling in Toronto aiming to curb rapid declines. The notice comes amid market volatility as traders await regulatory guidance and possible temporary measures.
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