British Beaufighters Hit German Ship in Western Mediterranean
Berlin broadcast says Britons sank a 3,700-ton German refrigerator ship Kirlist off the Spanish coast, with 15 wounded. Allied reports claim two other enemy vessels sunk near Nerstra on the Yugoslav coast. U.S. and Allied air forces conducted about 300 sorties due to poor visibility and rain, while fighter-bombers attacked targets in the western Mediterranean.
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Mediterranean
Basch
Saking
Berlin
Agency
International Bureau
Kirlist
Wetars Yeyterday
Boro
Mungie
Nerstra
Ancio
Attica
Coe
Fie
Cross Officials Drive To Raise War Fund Quota
Doak general chairman warns against overconfidence as a Houston Red Cross War Fund drive lags. Reports from Dethan and Otsde areas show incomplete items, but citizens are responding slowly. Hill, chair of the Gift Committee, says trickling in but urges strong early contributions to reach the quota.
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Houston E Red Cros War Fund
Doak
Dethan
Otsde
Hill
Tames
Allied Air Strikes Hit Western Germany Fortifications
Allied planes in daylight attacks target fortifications in western Germany as artillery lines step up activity amid ongoing World War II combat. Prolonged bombardments and aerial formations indicated pressure on German defenses with recoordinated strikes by Allied forces.
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Associated Press
Plesh
Germany
Step Seen Inevitable as Allies Move to Halt Axis Use
London AP reports that northern Ireland may close its border with Eire to enforce travel suspensions between Britain and Ireland. The Home Office order, prompted by Eisenhower and Irish detente with Evita, halts most travel except urgent cases. Ireland’s Kingstown ferry traffic into Holyhead dwindled as officials warned of tighter security measures.
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William Smith White
London
Northern Ireland
Elra
Britain
Ireland
Belfast
Alles
Eireen
Eire
Home Office
Kemon de Valera
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Asia
Holyhead
Kingstown
Dublin
Partisan capture of Pucisce port off Dalmatian coast
Yugoslav Partisans aided by a United States officer reportedly seized the port of Pucisce on Brac Island near Split. The Free Yugoslav Radio bulletin said Partisans faced German forces on Hvar Island and in the mainland from Ljubljana to Banja Luka, with Allied actions also reported elsewhere in the Dalmatian region.
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London
Pucisce
Brac
Marahal Tito
Josip
Berlin
Churchill
Lisea Ieland
Italy
Kercula
Neretva
Korcula
Lives
Partle
Hvar Taland
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Banja Luka
British Coal Strike Shows Improvement
London AP reports the week-old miners strike involving about 100000 workers shows signs of easing as early returns indicate possibly a third back at work. Yet the overall picture remains confused with some pitheads voting to return then reversing course and others remaining fully shut.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Fuel
Wales
Army Planes Bay 26 Jap Craft At Wewak Base
Allied headquarters reports Fifth Army Air Forces hit the Japanese base at Wewak New Guinea with a 120 ton bombing raid. Liberator bombers Mitchell fighters and others attacked Boram air drome and supply areas destroying ground craft and claiming 26 enemy planes down with many more possibly shot down.
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Wewak
Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Fifth Army Air Forces
New Guinea
Batordeg
Boram
Republicans Move To Place Taft As McNary Successor
AP dispatch from Washington notes Republicans pushed Senator Taft of Ohio for the Senate minority leadership role by chairing the Steering Committee. The move aims to unify strategy after Senator McNary's death, with younger members favoring Taft for floor leader and older leaders seeking to delay reorganization until January. White of Maine acts as interim leader with Van derburgh of Michigan as vice chair.
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Jack Bell Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Thiet
Charles McNary
McNary
White
John Townsend
Del
F Bis
Vanderberg
Mich
Senator Wherry
Neb
Red Equipped Slavs Pledge Aid To Tito
A Yugoslav unit equipped by the Red Army arrived near Tito to pledge support and prepare for battle. The force, experienced from various fronts, includes veterans from Italian and German campaigns and expresses reluctance to fight for King Peter, reflecting shifting loyalties amid wartime upheaval.
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Tito
Eddy Gilmore
Rublia
Red Army
Ruseias
Mtalian Arsey
Mungarias
Peter
Marie
Valemir Viskherk
Enit
Sgt Charley Kelley Decorated in Italy Returns Home
Sgt Charley Kelley, decorated by General Clark with the Congressional Medal of Honor today in Italy, plans to return to Pittsburgh to see his mother and a former girlfriend. His mother mentions May Connelley, now Mrs. Everett, wife of a Merchant Marine sailor. Kelley is credited with 40 German kills and has a history of two AWOL incidents before overseas service.
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NEA
Charley Kelley
Clark
Italy
Pittsburgh
May Connelley
May
Everett
Clair Poole
Kelley
Germany
A.W.O.L
Allies Pound Nazi Objectives In Western Germany
Allied air forces continued pressure on Nazi targets with daylight raids over western Germany and France. US Liberators conducted two heavy bomber missions in months without fighter escort, striking Pas-de-Calais targets while returning with no losses amid cloudy skies.
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London
Monquito Homberg
Germany
Air Ministry
Todey
France
Desuterhlandsender
Bremen
Calale
Pas-de Calais
GOP Tax Program Seen As 44 Plank
A 25 member Republican postwar taxation committee was created as a first step to drafting the 1944 GOP tax plank. House GOP Leader Marlin announced the panel, with Rep Dan A Reed heading it. Leaders consider postwar revenue policy amid wartime uncertainties while discussing corporation tax cuts and tax reforms to spur jobs for veterans.
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Francis M Lemay
Washington
Wmemier
Republican Committee
House
Marlin
Massachusetts
Dan A. Reed
Ruddy
Graying
Bernard M Barnen
Congresa
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Kamnese
Baruchavich
Wendel
Winkle
Beardsley Rumi
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Passage Of Service Vote Compromise Forecast In Senate
Washington AP Senator Connally of Texas urged the Senate to accept the compromise service vote bill from conferees, saying rejection would doom other voting legislation. He claimed the conference report offers the best bill to expand soldiers and sailors voting rights and urged prompt congressional action to let states amend absentee laws before November.
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Coninally
D.-Tex
Senate
House
Connally
Joint Conference Committee
Green
Lucas
Congress
Conference Committee
Rabid Fox Attacks 8 Year Old Girl in Dothan Area
An eight year old girl, granddaughter of R A Peters of Ariton Route Two, was bitten on the leg by a rabid fox while playing in a grove near home. The fox, killed after the attack, tested rabid by examination at a local dormitory. The girl received physician care and began rabies treatment.
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Dais County
R. A. Peters
Ariton
Dothan States
Ozark
Inter
Draft deferments tighten as fathers face stricter rules
The War Manpower Commission signals scarce manpower will end leniency for fathers sought for deferment. Occupational deferments will be based on essentiality, with nonfathers and those under Pearl Harbor standards reclassified. About 8.9 million deferments are noted as pending in war production and civilian needs. Roosevelt had urged focus on those under 2 and essential roles.
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Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Allies Push Across Burma In New Advances
Allied forces report gains across Arakan with the capture of Buthedaung and advances along the Htindaw ridge. Waterborne raids near Maungdaw and Kyauktaw area are noted as British, American, and Chinese units press south toward Mogaung and Kamaing, aiming to cut the Myitkyin railway and trap Japanese units. The 18th Division, famed for Singapore, is cited as largely destroyed in the north Burma operations.
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Arakan
Burma
Buthedaung
Bay of Bengal
Aryah
Lord Louis Bounbhatten
Boutheart Asia Command
Maungdaw
Arsa
Htindaw
Ruthedaune
Razahil Arem
Toca
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Thie
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West Africana
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Chanma
Walawbum
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Hukawny Vally
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Kamaeing
Myitkyinn
China
Singapore
Pope Appeals for Peace as Rome Plea Echoes Worldwide
London AP reports Pope Plog XP addressed a large crowd in St Peter's Square and radio listeners worldwide urging Allied and German leaders to spare Rome and seek a “peace of liberation” on the fifth anniversary of his coronation. He urged mercy and unity, receiving a thunderous ovation from mourned crowds gathered hours before his balcony appearance.
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Pope Plog
St Peter's Square
Radio Iistenere
Rome
Penull
OPA Tightens Reins On Non Highways Gasoline Coupons
The Office of Price Administration tightens non highway use of R gasoline coupons effective April 1 to curb black market leakage. R coupons will be invalid at filling stations except for bulk plant transfers or purchases by buyers with storage tanks, with a 50 percent bulk transfer exception. Farmers and others may use only one gallon L coupons for non highway purchases. mobile rations remain unaffected.
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Washington
Office of Price Adminsstration
OPA
Controla
Florida
Georgia
Gald
OFA
Dies Charges Radio Commentators Err
WASHINGTON AP chair Floyd B. Dies asserts that fully 80 percent of the state menta of radio commentators can be proved utterly false. The House Committee on Un American Activities may soon investigate the matter as distinctly un American. He has been in a dispute with Walter Winchell, the commentator, whom he assailed in a recent speech.
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William F. Arbogast Wabhingon
House
Unig
Waller Winchell
Calumplat
Last Minute Bulletins From War Fronts and Homefront
Last Minute Bulletins report a German leader Adolf Hitler’s memorial day speech described as a struggle for annihilation. Officials consider adjusting basic consumer ratings in the Midwestern and Western regions to match seaboard rationing. A German prisoner is reportedly banished by authorities amid an inquiry into a prior incident.
Russians Drive 11 Miles To Take German Bastion
London AP reports the Red Army captured Kherson on the Lower Dnieper after a 22 mile push from the riverfront. Soviet claims detail advances toward Nikelnay and Odemea while destroying rail links into Romania and Hungary. They say 2,500 Germans were killed in the Dzhulink Galvoron area as remnants were driven into the river.
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Dnieper Bend
Black Sea
Odessa-Lwow
London
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Dnieper
Stalin
Bawe
Tyaginia
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Odemea
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Hungary
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Rumanien
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Russa
Roviet
Taropol
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Army
Red Stur
Garman
Tarmopol
Farmay
Dolinskaya
Nikolaev
Ort
Cusyatin
Proskurov
Tarnopol
Italians Demand Ousting King and Badoglio for Republic
In Naples a mass meeting of Communist Socialist and Action parties called for Vittorio Emanuele III and Premier Badoglio to be ousted to form a true democratic government. Protesters urged replacing the monarchy with a republic while banners denounced the king and vowed to demand work and bread amid war efforts.
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Naples
Ywaders
Petitone
Vittorio Emanuele
Badoglio
Italy
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Socialist
Action Partien
Pascam
Churchill
King
Badogile
Alled
Badozile
Republic
Hewe
Christian Democratic Party
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