Pierre Officials Say C N W Bridge Unwatched Sparks City State Duty Debate
Pierre officials confirm the C N W Railroad bridge over the Missouri River has been unguarded since March 29. Governor Bushfield warned the company to reconsider guard withdrawals, while city leaders state they will not be responsible for highway or bridge protection. The dispute highlights funding limits and emergency powers amid defense needs and ongoing inspections of state bridges.
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Rapid City
Frank L. Bane
Council of State Governments
Bane
Bushfield
Chicago
Jetiers
Pierre
Joan Griffin
Oldaker
Noblic
Dex
Griffin
State
Imen
Highway Department
Emanei
Missouri River
Dakota Division
Alcumbrac
W. S. Alcumbrac
Alcambrac
Ahambrac
Dakota
H. S. Smith
Madison, Ws
M. E. Risinger
South Dakota
Huronite
Huron
B. A. Beckwith
National Guard
Ion
Fenas
Norbeck
Hamilton Urges Cities To Apply For Vets Hospital
SIOUX FALLS April 9 Claude A Hamilton state commander of the American Legion urged eastern South Dakota cities to prepare and submit applications to designate their locality as a prospective veterans hospital site. He said allocations will be sent to the hospital site board in Washington and each locality will have ample opportunity to advocate its approach.
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Sioux Falls
Claude A. Hamilton
South Dakota
American Legion
Hamilton
Washington
Jap And British Sea Forces Move In For Big Clash
London naval reporters forecast the Bay of Bengal clash as Japanese and British fleets converge. British forces reportedly sail from the Cape of Good Hope toward the Indian Ocean while Tokyo claims heavy air strikes near Colombo and Tulagi as the war widens in the Indian Ocean and on the Burma front.
Severe Earthquake Shakes Yellow Sea region
A powerful earthquake centered in the Yellow Sea between Japan and China's coast was recorded last night at 9:19 p.m. local time. Two aftershocks followed today at 1:08 a.m. and 5:35 a.m. The epicenter was calculated about 3,160 miles from Bombay at latitude 35 north, longitude 122 east.
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Bombay
Yellow Sea
Japan
China
War message honors brave Bataan defenders in global war effort
A wartime tribute praises American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula for delaying the Japanese offensive in the southwest Pacific. The piece notes their sacrifice will be remembered by the homeland and underscores the impact of Allied coordination in London with Marshall and Hopkins on major offensives.
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Bataan
Luzon
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Marshall
Harry, Hopkins
London
Employment Up In United States
The Works Projects Administration reports that employment rose by 1.6 million from 48.6 million in February to 50.4 million in March. The labor force grew to 54.0 million with 3.6 million unemployed, down from 4.0 million, while 1.4 million more people entered the labor market and unemployment fell by 0.4 million.
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United States
Washington
Works Projects Administration
Britain Loses Powerful Ships in Pacific Air Attack
British naval losses include the Cornwall and Dorsetshire sunk by Japanese bombers in the Bay of Bengal, with Allied merchant ships also sunk and ships damaged across the Indian Ocean. A separate admiralty note reported a British submarine sinking an Italian cruiser in the central Mediterranean.
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London
Cornwall
Dor
Setshire
Bismarck
Bay of Bengal
India
Admiralty
New Delhi
Indian ‘Ocean
Mary Ware
Orissa
Mediterranean
Calcutta
Burma
Imperial Headquarters
Berlin
Tokyo
Bengal
Ban Is Placed On Construction
Washington April 9 A government order by the war production board blocks nearly all new construction work private and public except for the war effort. It limits residential work to maintenance and repairs under $500, bans new agricultural construction over $1,000 and prohibits any new commercial industrial recreational institutional highway or utilities projects over $5,000 unless government permission is granted.
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Washington
War Production Board
Capes
Huron Woman Mary Laughlin Receives Burma Bomb Aid
Miss Laughlin, a Huron missionary and head of the Kern Mendine Girls School in Burma, aided wounded at a Mandalay hospital after a Japanese bombing. The dispatch notes her second front line act in little more than a month, delivering medicine and bandages to victims among Indians, Burmans, and Chinese.
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Burma
Mary Laughlin
Huron
South Dakota
Daniel Douce
Associated Press
Mandalay
de Luce
American Baptist Mission
Little Memorial Hospital
Miss
Kermmendine Girls
American First Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
C. S. Laughlin
Kansas Avenue
Marshall Confers With Britain's Chief of Staff
London April 9 General George C Marshall army chief of staff conferred with Lieut General Sir Alan Brooke chief of the imperial general staff on grave eastern Mediterranean developments and the Burma front. Hopkins, chairman of the British American munitions assignments boards, conferred with Harriman and spoke with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
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London
George C. Mars U
Ss. Army
Alan Francis Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Mediterranean
Burma
Harry, Hopkins
Wil. Harriman
Britain
Anthony
Nine Draftees Leave Huron for Aberdeen Examinations
Nine draftees left Huron this morning marking the fourth straight day that Selective Service inductees travel to Aberdeen for physical examinations prior to U S Army induction. Names read include Paul Fete Wipfard Joseph Hines Donald Uberta Hultman Alva Edward Stiner Carl Benedict Nelson David Lucius Thompson Donald Chester Hutchinson Clifford Dow Ashby and Harry Roy Barthelman.
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Huron
Aberdeen
Paul Fete Wipfard
Joseph Hines
Donald Uberta
Hultman
Alva Edward, Stiner
Carl
Benedict Nelson
David Lucius Thompson
Donald Chester Hutchinson
Clifford Dow Ashby
Harry Roy
Barthelman
Wainwright Armistice Report Sparks Rumor on Bataan
A Shanghai dispatch claimed Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander of American Filipino forces on Bataan, asked for an armistice and to meet for capitulation talks at Ramao. The report, unconfirmed by other sources, echoed a possible but unverified axis rumor.
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Shanghai
Wainwright
Berlin
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan
Taiika Shimpo
Ramao
Lamao
Manila Bay
Washington
Feningula
Dutch Indies
Britain
Singapore
Malaya
Stimson
Roosevelt
Corregidor
United States
Philippines
Patrick J. Hariey
New Zealand
Australia
Corredigor
Luzon
Senator Proposes War Profit Tax Change
Senator George of Georgia urges a new levy on income from military production contracts to curb war profits. He argues a tax on nonmilitary orders would be unfair and favors a discretionary profit limit overseen by war program officials. The House previously set a 6 percent cap and Senate sought renegotiation powers.
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George
Washington
Chainan George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Senate House Conference Committee
Nye
North Dakota
Donald M. Nelson
Conference
Senate
House
British press initiative in Libya Reds say 545 Nazi planes downed
A fragmentary AP led report claims Axis air power was blunted in Libya as British sea commands faced a new threat. The text references 125,000 troops and Axis positions, mentioning Mars al Erwin Rommel and desert warfare, with a London admiralty communique about a British submarine torpedo action.
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Libya
Marsal
Erwin
Roromel
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Dakota Division Rail
George Miner
Weslington
Dia
Huron Hospital
Axcis
Cape of Good Hope
Inaian Ocean
Trincomalee
Ceylon
Colombo
United Nations
All-India Congress Party
Voices of India
Stafford-Cipps
Chines
Toungso
Manchi
Indian Ocean
Imperial Tokyo Headquarters
London Admiralty Communiqtie
Tulagi
Solomon Islands
Buka
Solomon Chain
Coral Sea
America
Dewitt MacKenzie
Wide World
Hatta
Baptist Mission
Hitler
London Admiralty
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