Roosevelt to press price ceilings in new war economy plan
President Roosevelt prepares a message to Congress detailing a rapid set of actions to shift the nation toward a total war footing. He plans price ceilings on most of the economy, rationing of certain foods, higher taxes, and strengthened voluntary measures while limiting wage increases through mediation with labor unions.
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Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Karsavin Ponte
Sane
Leon Hendersen
Sale of Sugar Halts Tonight
Washington reports the sugar rationing program will start at midnight tomorrow. From May 5 retail sugar sales are prohibited while industrial and institutional users register on Tuesday and Wednesday for allotments. Individual consumers register next week. Sellers urged to stock up to May quota as demand rises. Only beet sugar will be sold initially in the northeast. Restaurants will receive 50 percent of sugar allotments next month.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Estien Bosk
Gay White Way Blackout Planned For Thursday Night
New York will join a citywide blackout drill with the Gay White Way district going dark for 20 minutes from 9:20 p.m. Thursday The drill, announced by Mayor LaGuardia, will blackout central Manhattan from 28th to 12th streets and is one of four citywide tests over the next two weeks.
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New York
Manhattan
Laguardia
Center of
13 Millions Of Oldsters To Register
President Roosevelt and millions of Americans aged 45 to 65 will finalize the nation’s first noncombatant manpower inventory. By nightfall 13 million middle aged and older men will be on draft board rolls for possible mobilization for work behind the front.
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Washington
NSI
Roosevelt
America
Sevelt
Iwadsers
Two Women and a Man Die in Midland Trail Crash
A car driven on the Midland trail near London ran off the road at about 9 20 and landed on New York Central tracks in the path of a westbound freight train. Hussell Higginbotham Pauline Higginbotham and Ethel Gibson were killed. A fourth person James Landers was critically injured and later unconscious. Clyde Groves discovered Gibson’s body about 200 feet from the collision. The bodies were taken to Hooper mortuary in Montgomery.
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London
Hussell Higginbotham
Smithers
Pauline Higginbotham
Ethel Gibson
Laird Memorial Hospital
Montgomery
James Landers
Lanham
Clyde Groves
Charleston
Miss Gibson
London Dam
Hooper Mortuary
Hitler Sets Course for Winter War and Power Over Officers
Adolf Hitler warned Berlin of a decisive eastern battle with Russia and announced a new law giving him power to remove or cashier any officer, soldier, judge, or official without legal due process. He said Germany would press a defensive winter war, resume mass retaliation against Britain, and expand submarine warfare in the Atlantic. Goering read the decree to deputies, signaling total control and the power to silence civilian disturbance fears.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Reichsstag
Gestapo
Hitler
Germany
East
Britain
Atlantic
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Tuehrer
Reich
Kroll Opera House
Reichstag
Iron-Handed Purge of Nazis Predicted in Germany
London reports an iron-handed purge may reach top ranks in Germany after Hitler's speech and Reichstag power claim. The forecast follows Hitler’s address and interpreted signals of a brewing internal surge.
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London
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Hitler
Seaboard to Be Military Area war security plan
New York April 26 Lt Gen Hugh A Drum announced the eastern military area will cover the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida to curb coast lighting and prevent ship silhouettes. Commanders of four corps areas will assume direct control of coastal lights to hinder enemy submarines. No date set, but area to be established soon. Evacuations of enemy aliens not planned, selective steps possible. The move aims to prevent subversive activity and aid to the enemy along the coast.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Florida
Hugh A. Drum
Eastern Defense Command
1St Army
Drum
Japs Blasted In M Arthur Air Defense
United Nations Headquarters reports eleven Japanese planes were destroyed in a failed heavy assault against Port Darwin. The raid included twenty four bombers and six fighters, marking a major setback for Japan's air offensive across Port Darwin Port Moresby and Tulagi.
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Australia
JINS
Port Darwin
Douglas MacArthir
MacArthur
Darwin
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Tulagi
Solomon Islands
Tube Trains Crash Kills Four, Wounds Many at Exchange Place
In Jersey City, two Hudson-Manhattan tub trains collided at Exchange Place station. Authorities reported four or five killed and more than 200 injured. Rescue teams fought dense smoke as firemen and police used gas masks. One eight car train traveled from Newark toward Jersey City and New York.
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N. J
Hudson-Manhattan
Exchange Place
Jersey City Medical Center
Newark
New York City
James Beach
Long Lines Telegraph Division
American Telephone
Planes Over Suez Report Air Activity Sump
British and Axis air forces fought across the Libyan front with losses of five British planes and twelve Axis aircraft confirmed by a British communique. Both sides claimed activity over the Suez canal and the Nile delta reported air raid alarms Saturday night.
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Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal
Alexandria
Nile Delta
Stilwell Gains Burma Victory in Taunggyi Recapture
Chinese forces under U S Lt Gen Joseph W Stilwell recaptured Taunggyi in Burma, a second victory after Ye Nan ygyaung. Japanese had advanced toward Meiktila and Pyawhwe, but Chinese counterattacks around Taunggyi and night assault reportedly annihilated most of the enemy force, altering the tactical balance in the Pyinmana sector.
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Taungegyi
Hopong
Taunggyi
Tatkon
Pyawbwe
Mandalay
Irrawaddy River
Yenangyaung
Chungking
U. S
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Taungeyl
Pyawhwe
Meiktila
Pyinmana
Taungeyi
Rangoon-Mandalay
Pyinamana
Malta Hospital Hit Twice by Axis Bombs
Malta faced nonstop air raids with two Sunday bombardments by German planes. A general hospital suffered roof and ward destruction, six killed in the first strike, then four more killed in a second raid including a child. The assault damaged a red cross marked roof and dining hall.
Jellicoe Loses Ship Southwold in British Destroyer Sinking
London report states the two year old destroyer Southwold commanded by Comdr T Jellicoe nephew of the late Lord Jellicoe was sunk with no details given by the admiralty. Earlier dispatches from Preston Grover described Jellicoe aboard a rescued freighter captain with a photographed encounter. The admiralty did not confirm survival of Jellicoe.
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New York
Preston Grover
Associated Press
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Jellicoe
Comdr
Reds Repel Tanks In Leningrad Sector Battle
In a riverfront wooded sector near Leningrad front lines, Soviet forces repelled German assaults that included tanks planes and flame throwers. The Red Army reported heavy German casualties over two days on the Kalinin front and noted fierce fighting with several regiments involved.
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Russia
Red Star
Siussiang
Moscow
Kalinin
Disused Oil Pipe Line Laid to Aid Fuel Shortage
EL DORADO Ark April 4 An oil and gas commission official said a 120 mile route is being laid using a disused pipe line to help alleviate a fuel shortage on the Atlantic seaboard.
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Ark
Atlantic Seaboard
Oil and Gas Commission
British U Boats Sink Four Axis Supply Ships
British submarines sank four Axis supply ships carrying Rommel's North Africa forces in the central Mediterranean. Lt H S Mackenzie and Comdr J W Linton shared the victories over several days, with torpedoes and deck gunfire damaging enemy vessels and a schooner or lightvessel also hit.
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Marshal Erwin Rommel
North Afrika Korps
Mediterranean
Admiralty
H. 5. Mackenzie
J. W. Linton
Mackenzie
Linton
Malta Applauds Gallant Defenders of Corregidor
A Malta message to General Wainwright praises Corregidor’s defenders for their brave stand under air attack. The exchange, dated April 26, includes Malta’s greeting and Wainwright’s reply noting allied resolve and hope for freedom’s return.
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Corregidor
Washington
INS
Manila Bay
War Department
William George Sheddon Dobbie
Britain
Mediterranean
Bastion
Jonathan Waith
Wright
Philippines
Dobbie
Wainwright
Bombers Launch Major 1500 Mile Raid Across Europe
In a bold RAF offensive, British bombers struck RoStock and the Skoda works at Pilsen, with Boston bombers and escorts crossing the Channel in relays to reach targets across Germany and occupied France. Night raids extended to Hazebrouck and St Omer rail hubs as German air opposition appeared light.
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Rostock
Skoda
Pilsen
Germany
France
RAF
Hitler
Denise
Alent
Channel
French
Hazebrouck
St. Omer
Vichy Protests Caledonia AEF
Vichy sends a protest to the U S state department over American troop landings in New Caledonia. Paris notes claim rebels cannot authorize U S presence and De Gaulle or his representatives have no right to act for France. Washington rebukes the planned troop stationing in the southwest Pacific and pledges cooperation with whichever French authority governs.
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Gaston Henry-Heyn
United States
State Department
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New Caledadonia
de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
France
Washington
INS
Pacific
French National Committee
Gas Cut Saves Lives Despite Shortages
Chicago April 26 Traffic safety council reports a drop in highway deaths. February fatalities fell to 2380, down 210 or 8 percent, amid tire and gasoline shortages. The trend shows a continuing decline in traffic accidents and fatalities nationwide.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
FDR's Son Visits Cairo for Barkfish Middle East Meeting
An unfamiliar Roosevelt son spent ten days at Barkfish Middle East headquarters in Sorammanes, Cairo, from April 28 to May 20, attending events and meetings.
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Aprit
Roosevelt, Son
Oe Pekan
Barkfish Middle
Sorammanes
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