Tokyo Fire Rages After U S Bomber Raid On Capital
Washington reports a large task force of B 29 Superfortress bombers from the Marianas struck central Tokyo causing widespread fires. The Musashina aircraft plant and other industrial targets in northwestern Tokyo were hit as bombs fell from high altitude. Two bombers were reported missing on the mission.
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Jap War Industries
Washington
Tokyo
Japan
Marianas ‘Islands
Washrington
Imperial Palace
20Th
U.S. Army Air Force
Bursley
Amusashina
Musashina
Anite
James H. Doolittle
Honshu
Saipan
20Th Air Force
EWT
Snore Sasaa
Madanas la Lands
List Bomber Command
Heywood S. Hansell, Jr
Jury Commissioners to Refill Clay County Pool After Deadlock
Circuit Judge Jake Fisher ordered a complete new list of eligible Clay County citizens after three days failed to empanel a jury for two mine union organizers on a murder charge. About 4 000 names will be inscribed and copied for the reconstituted panel, as 14 of 130 summoned were qualified for a 20 person panel. A 12 member jury will hear Rawson Kirk and EH Foley in the shooting of Joe Groves and wounding of his son. Court will reconvene as the jury refill proceeds.
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Clay
Jake Fisher
Clay County
Nears
Howard FE. Wilson
Talesmen
Rawson Kirk
EH Foley
Joe Groves
Elx River
Coal and Lumber Co
Elmer
Fisher
Raymona
Fillie Willis by Robert Quillen
A short quip notes a boy breaking a promise and lacking honor while his parents alter their own promises, showing a contrast between youth integrity and adult behavior. The piece uses witty regional voice to comment on promises and accountability.
Jap Convoy Blasted With Loss of 3 500
Gen MacArthur's Headquarters reports American air raids sank three Japanese transports and a destroyer escort near Leyte. About 3,500 of 8,000 troops aboard were killed or drowned. A fourth transport was beached and the destroyer sunk with all hands. The loss raises Japanese reinforcements killed to roughly 15,000.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Mashate Island
Leste
Estort
War Labor Board to Form Panel for Telephone Dispute
The War Labor Board moved to create a three member public industrial labor panel to hear the pay dispute causing a strike among telephone operators. Dayton Ohio sparks the walkout with a weekly $1825 bonus at Ohio Bell, and the panel will report directly to the national board.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Dayton
Ohio
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
National” Board
WLB
Cleveland
WLE
Big 3 Agree On Zoning Plan To Curb Reich
British American and Russian representatives in London have agreed on a postwar military rule for Germany with separate occupation zones under allied administration. The plan, submitted by the European advisory commission, foresees Russian eastern Germany, British northwestern Germany, and American southwestern areas with French participation to be added later. The arrangement covers only the occupation period and keeps Paris out of the initial framework pending full approval.
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Germany
Washington
London
Supreme Allied Council
Stet~ Hnjus
Moscow
European Advisory Commission
France
EAC
Nene Masaigh
Commission
Reich
East Prussia
Austria
Berlin
Supreme Allied
Break at Stateville Penitentiary Ends in Guard's Death
A guard was killed and three convicts wounded as ten inmates attempted to scale the walls with a makeshift ladder at Stateville penitentiary. One escapee was killed, and two other wounded prisoners were in serious condition. The incident involved long-time criminal Roger Touhy associates and followed a failed 1942 prison escape.
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Will Yam Stewart
Matthew Nelson
Hoger the Terribles Tauhy
Det
Mining Institute Speakers Predict Little Tax Relief
Two Washington forecasters told the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute that American business especially the coal industry should expect little tax relief during the next four years under the Roosevelt administration. They cited uncertain taxation and fiber relations as factors slowing private investment and said high taxes will persist.
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Mining Institute
Washington
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Assoc
West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
Ralph C. Mulligan
The
National Coal Assou
L. Mekiroy
Fairmont
Spladiee
Moregantown
Joseph Pursglove, Jr
Morgantown
J. J. Foster
Holden
RH. Morris
Ansted
State Mines
Jesse Redyard
Charleston
George R. Higgstotham
C. W. Canner
Montcoal
W. G.crich
Allied Drive Through Strasbourg Amid Rhine Crossing Signals
German defenses along the western front crumble as French and American forces push toward Strasbourg and a Rhine crossing, with 2,000 prisoners taken and the city largely evacuated. Allies report fighting from the Rhine to the Roer as German counterattacks intensify and tanks are knocked out.
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Supreme’ Headquarters
AEF
Paris
France
Strasbourg
Germany
Rhine
Cologne
Western Front
Associated Press
Thebun Wiant
The
Reich
Wiant
Ath Army
Courtney H Sex
Ames An II
Hurigen Forest
Aachen
Koya
2D Army
Haven
Beech
Bailletfeld
BBC
Army Signal Corps
Tax Freezing Battle Shapes On Social Security Debate
Backers of freezing social security taxes at current levels seek another year. The Ways and Means Committee planned a brief hearing with Arthur Altmeyer as the first witness. Senate supporters led by Senator Vandenberg push the freeze amid calls the fund holds adequate reserves for old age and survivors.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Capitol Hill
78Th Congress
Cone
FDR
Rep
Knutson
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Sactay Security Board
Sen
Vandeubers
Polish Premier Mikolajczyk resigns amid London government rift
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk announces resignation as Polish government in exile premier after cabinet refusal of his terms for resolving the London Warsaw dispute. Jan Kwapinski named to form a new government as President Raczynski asks current ministers to stay.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Fee Sile
Rawla
Mikolajczyk
Miunique
Wladyslaw Ruczklewicr
Mikulajczyk
Kine
Calanet
Mikulajczyke
Moscow
Trussia
Polish National Committee of Liberation
Lublin
Poland
Soviet Union
Mikalajczyk
Polish Peasant Party
Lane Jdon
Bomber Models Trophies Spur War Bond Drive
State War Finance Chairman A. C. Spurr announced inter county contests awarding scale bomber models to top over readers who oversubscribe E bond quotas. Winners must display trophies publicly and can receive B 29 certificate plaques inscribed with sponsor names. State totals show $3.69 million in E bond sales and $5.71 million in individual sales toward goals.
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State War Finance
A. C. Spure
Tokyo
Army Air Forces
Gece
Chaireman Spirr
Qaht
Hancock County
Erand
West Virginia
Kanawha
Wayne
Gilmer
Jackson
Canada tests conscription policy amid Quebec unrest
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King will seek a parliamentary vote on partial overseas conscription as protests flare in Quebec. Premier Maurice Duplessis appeals for calm while youths storm media offices and a newspaper staffer loses a Union Jack.
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Ottawa
Minster
Mackenzie King
Quebec
Maurice Duplessin
Quebec City
Chronele Telegraph
Chicoutimi
Mort Loft
King
Leas
Rio de Janeiro Quintuplets Reported Dying at Hospital
Physicians at Vitor Anvaral maternity hospital in Curtibia said the quintuplet girls born Wednesday night were dying. The fifth infant died at birth. The mother Felicia Zachesco from San Mateus was reported to be well. The infants weighed about one pound each.
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Rio de Janeiro
Tho DE Janeiro
Vitor Anvaral Maternity Hospital
Curtibia
Felicia Zachesco
San Mateus
General Giraud Reaches Home After France Fall News
Gen Henri Giraud returns to his hometown of Benet after the fall of France. The veteran commander had sworn off medals and ribbons and declined to wear them again. Metz was liberated.
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Giraud
Max
U.S
Henri Girwid
Hla
Bete
Imines
France
Hte
Agaly
Metz
Stalin Approves Yugoslav Pact Between Tito and Subasic
Moscow reports Stalin approves agreement between Marshal Tito and Premier Ivan Subasic for a new democratic federated Yugoslavia. The statement says the Soviet Union can help unite royal Yugoslav government with Tito's National Liberation Committee as a positive factor in victory and European peace. A Yugoslav source says Tito may become premier with Subasic and most ministers to receive key posts.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Marshal Tito
Ivan Subasic
Yugoslavia
Tito
National Liberation Committee
Subash
Reds Smash 4 Nazi Warships in Baltic Action
London reports Russian army and naval units cleared the Estonian island of Saure dominating the Gulf of Riga. Red airmen sank four Nazi warships and damaged four others including a heavy cruiser. The drive aimed to support amphibious operations in Latvia and strike near Liepaja as Berlin notes heavy fighting across Latvia with reinforcements deployed and gains reported in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. A Estonian corps aided the southern Saare operation. Separate item: launch of the Fairmont at Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards with Ensign James S. Maddox honored as sponsor. Maddox was a Fairmont resident killed in war after a South Atlantic raft ordeal.
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Saure
Gulf of Riga
London
Moscow
Aland
Riga
Germany
Axia
Latvia
ygUl
Saare
Berlin
Lielance
Baltic
Liepaja
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Beriin
East Prussia
Peningsula
Sawre
Fairmont’s
Baltimore
Fairmont
Marion
W. Va
Svill
Bethlehem-Fairfield
G. B. Maddox
Marlen
James S. Maddox
Pure Due University
Lorhedoed
South Atlantic Ocean
Maddox
Wells Declares Britons Stand Up to V-2 Attack
Richard H. Wells of Potatello Idaho told Rotary International at a Los Angeles luncheon that Britons endure daily V-2 bombings with resilience. He cited London housing losses exceeding 20 percent but noted England’s Rotary organization remains active rather than disbanding despite wartime hardships.
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Wells
England
Richard H. Wells
Potatello
Ida
Notary Club
Huiter Hotel
British Isles
Hotary International
London
Rotary International
Idaho Lumber
Rotary
Death Camp Found on East Prussian Border Report
The Russian navy newspaper claims a death camp was uncovered on the East Prussian border with 3000 Lithuanian men women and children killed and buried in common graves by retreating Germans. About 400 bodies were found at the Tubln forest camp site.
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Privaian
Moscow
Red Fleet
Russian Navy
Tubln Forest
War Production Board to double small arms ammunition output
The War Production Board announced a plan to roughly double small arms ammunition output to meet Gen. Eisenhower's request. 77,000 more workers will be needed. 53,400 employed now, with 62,200 more in plants and 15,000 in materiel parks. Production will rise from about 30 million pounds a month to the doubled rate across 13 plants nationwide.
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Washington
War Production Board
Eisenhower
Law F
J. A. Krug
Krag
Krug
Planta
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Leyte River
Limon
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Roer River
Julich
Flease
Pole
Canada
Stalin
Subasic
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