RAF Planes Scatter Ruin in Paris
RAF planes hit the Goodrich rubber factory and Gnome-Rhone works near Paris in a night raid, with daylight attacks on Le Havre Calais and ships. US built Douglas bombers joined raids on Flushing and Abbeville. Six German planes were reported destroyed. one destroyer damaged. four British planes missing.
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London
R.A.F
Goodrich Rubber
Gnome-Rhone Aero Works
Paris
Dover Strait
Norwich
Britain
Russia
Folkestone
le Havre
Calais
Channel
Flushing
Netherlands
Abbeville
France
Air Ministry
Brittany
Gennevilliers
Goodrich
Vichy
Treasury to Begin New Financing Policy on Monday
Secretary Morgenthau announced a new financing plan to run through May aiming to raise about 2 billion dollars. It includes a 1.25 billion dollar 2 percent bond sale with medium 10 year maturity, a long term 214 percent registered bond for large investors, and a boost to weekly short term bills to around 100 million dollars per week.
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Treasury
Washington
Morgenthau
The
Federal Parity Payments Revised for Wheat and Corn
The Agriculture Department announced new parity payments for 1949 with corn at 11.1 cents per bushel and wheat at 18.5 cents per bushel. It also revised 1942 conservation payments downward from last November, covering wheat 10.5 cents per bushel corn 8 cents per bushel peanuts 1.45 per ton and potatoes two cents per bushel under the 1938 act.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Allied Defenses in Burma Totter under Japanese Strike
Allied Burma defenses crumble as Lashio falls to Japan after a fierce battle at the crucial junction. Chinese and British forces, led by General Stillwell, fight on near Lashio though supply lines are disrupted. Casualties mount on both sides as Japanese forces push toward central Burma and the Burma road is cut.
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China
Lashio Junction
Chungking
Lashio
Burma
Joseph W. Stillwell
Lashig
Sashio
Nineteen Die As Tornadoes Hit Small Kansas Town
In Oberlin Kansas April 30 a second tornado spree kills nineteen and injures many, vanishing the Lein wetter and Paddock households. Among the dead are seven year old Mardell Leipner and Naomi Leinwetter with Gus and Mrs Leinwetter, and 12 year old Stanley Leinwetter. Seven more victims include Leon Railsback and sister Gail, frequent visitors to the Paddock home, which was destroyed along with the Leinwetter residence.
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Oberlin
Kan
Sappa Creek
Mardell Leipner
Naomi Leinwetter
Naomi
Gus Leinwetter
Stanley
Leinwetter
Leon Railsback
Gail
Dale Paddock
Paddock
Red Brigade Destroys 168 Tanks in Fierce Front Fight
A Moscow radio report says a Russian tank brigade destroyed 368 Axis tanks and killed or captured more than 14,900 officers and men in heavy combat. The broadcast also notes 29 planes, trucks, machine guns, mortars, and armored cars were eliminated with no major changes on the Jong battle line.
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London
Tin Front
Moscow
Jong Battle
Two Tankers Sunk After Gunfight With U Boats Off Cuba
Tavana reports Cuban broadcasts say two armed US tankers of medium size fought two enemy U boats off northeast Cuba, were torpedoed and sunk. Seven survivors, including a captain wounded, were rescued to Gibata. seven more, two wounded, landed on a beach. Each tanker crew reportedly 53.
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Tavana
United States
Cuba
Ginera
Gibata
Nazi-Policed Shoot 18 Norwegians Near Home
Stockholm reports German firing squads killed 18 Norwegians who had reentered from England with explosives and weapons and killed two German security police on a coastal island last Sunday. Oslo advices say the 18 intended to return to England.
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Stockholm
England
Oslo
House Group Kills War Profits Bill
Washington April 30 AP Legislation to limit war profits raise the standard work week to 48 hours and freeze shop status for the war was killed today in the house naval committee by 13 to 12. The move, blocking reconsideration, suggests Roosevelt has halted new labor legislation for now. Senate action was deferred as Senator Connally declined to press his labor bill. The president said no labor action was needed at present and strikes were minimal. The committee left profits limits to the wars and means committee while considering a $25000 income cap after taxes and higher corporate levies. Chairman Vinson urged America to curb racketeering in war plants and unions ahead of the November elections. Several members argued the bill could be improved with amendments.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Connally
Texas
Mohdas
Wars and Means Committee
Treasury
Vinson D. Ga
America
General George Dead in Australia Air Crash
Allied Headquarters announces the death of Brig. Gen. Harold H. George and Time correspondent Melville Jacoby in a suspected airliner accident en route to north Australia. No details released. the missing Lockheed with 12 military passengers had been presumed lost. General George was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for courage, devotion to duty, and leadership.
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Allied Headquarters
Australia
Harold H. George
I’. 8. Air Force
Bataan
Melville Jacoby
Time Anditle Magazine
George
North Australia
Douglas MacArthur
War Department
Pearl Company Hearing Set Over $40,000 Policy Cancellation
The Pearl Assurance company of London was ordered by John J. Holmes to show cause on June 1 why its Montana license should not be revoked. Holmes alleges Pearl withheld about $40,000 when cancelling a reinsurance policy tied to the state insurance fund, and accuses the firm of political activity in 1976 to influence state officials and legislators.
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Pearl Company
Montana
Pearl Assurance Company, Ltd
London
John J. Holmes
Montana Supreme Court
Holmes
The
Eureka Security Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Monarch Fire Insurance Company
Tong
Wit
State
Insmake Fund
Jo-Rata
Atten
John W. Bonner
Tholmes
Earl Company
Harvester Concern to Comply With Labor Board Ruling
The International Harvester Company said it will comply with the War Labor Board order directing maintenance of union membership in its eight Midwest plants. The decision follows a board meeting and comes after a board order dated April 15. About 25,000 employees are affected, and the company cited not wanting to distract from war production. It had already notified the board it would follow wage increase directives.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
War Labor Board
W.L.B
Tthe Board
Germany Ready to Declare Air Truce in City Bombing War
London reports the Geneva Journal quotes a Berlin correspondent saying Germany will halt bombing English towns if the RAF alters its bombing methods on German cities. The claim appears in The Daily Mail citing the Geneva Journal today.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Geneva Journal Today
Germany
Britain
Journal
Berlin
RAF
Manhattan Blackout Shuts Lights Across City At War’s Start
New York on April 30 faced a full central Manhattan blackout from 9 30 p m to 6 50 p m as lights vanished from river to river from Greenwich Village to Harlem. From Times Square to Rockefeller Center, streets and landmarks disappeared behind darkness while policemen and air raid wardens guided residents. Only two lights atop the Empire State Building remained visible as the city endured the first complete blackout in wartime without power for a million people.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Harlem
Manhattan
11Th Street
123Rd Street
Times Annex
Central Park
Valentine
Times Square
Bullets Are Not All Hazards of War
Gowen Field Idaho April 30 P The neat tine Private Arby A Johnson hears a litt se jmvious noise while on guard duty he will be more cautious. Getting no reply from a chal lenge after hearing a disturb ance behind some board near his pot Private Johnson pushed his hand behind a board to investigate. A gopher bit him.
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Gowen Field
Thiho
Arby A. Johnson
Johnson
Australian Forces Destroy 20 More Jap Planes
Allied headquarters report heavy air action in the Pacific. Allied planes destroyed or damaged 20 Japanese aircraft on the ground at Lae and attacked the air base, while Japanese raids on Port Moresby caused minor damage. A light strike hit Koepang Timor as Parang on Mindanao faced reinforcements and renewed bombardment of Corregidor and nearby fortifications.
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Australia
Ann
Lae
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Philippines
Parang
Mindanao
Corregidor
Luzon
Six Nazi Bombers Shot Down in Raid Over Britain
London reported that German bombers attacking Britain during the night were shot down. On the northeast coast towns patrols suffered minor casualties and property damage. A man and wife perished in a shelter, and several houses were damaged.
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London
Britain
Toynl
General Motors Division Charged With Priority Violations
Washington April 30 The War Production Board charged General Motors Detroit division Ternstedt Manufacturing with violating priority orders by using scarce chrome steel and aluminum on decorative auto body parts. A three month suspension on production of replacement parts for passenger cars trucks and buses was ordered except for necessary functional replacements. WPB said complaints cited metal use including copper nickel and zinc though this did not violate existing orders. The panel noted GM is the third major war contractor cited for priority violations.
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Washington
War Production Board
General Motors Corporation
Detroit
Ternstedt Manufacturing
General Motors
Ternstedt
W.P
WDB
W.P.B
Stalin Vows 1942 Victory as Allies Aid Russia
Moscow on May Day Premier Joseph Stalin declares Soviet aims are liberation not conquest and calls for final defeat of the German invaders in 1942. He praises the United States and Great Britain for growing military aid and orders Red Army forces to master new weapons and to wipe out the enemy’s rear, with guerrilla teams to spare no bullets.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Stalin
Red Army
Soviet Union
Lommissar
Britain
Med Army
War Alarm Looms As Burma Front Faces Collapse
The piece warns of a major UN disaster looming in Burma as a Japanese armored spearhead seizes Lashio and may threaten the Burma road. British and Chinese forces must improvise a northern defense to protect India, risking Mandalay evacuation and loss of oil fields. Grave fears are voiced in London and Chungking for the Irrawaddy and Sittang fronts.
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Kirke L. Simpson
United Nations
Burma
Laahio
India
Mandalay
London
Chungking
Irrawaddy
Sittang
Lashio
Stilwell
Thas
Londen Ini
Lashleete
Burme
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