Hershey Announces May 1 Draft Rule for 38-45 Men
Major General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, says from May 1 men aged 38 to 45 must leave non deferable occupations or face possible induction. The policy targets those with skills unused in the war effort and not acceptable for service due to age or disability. Other steps include dairy farming reinforcements and 4-F men with dairy experience returning to work.
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Hershey
Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
County Agricultural War Boards
Red Army Captures Town in Caucasus and Crossings
The Red Army seized Prikubansky in the Caucasus to tighten the circle around Novorossisk and destroyed 250 Germans along with three guns and six mortars. It also reported capturing a crossing over the Donets River and significant Russian gains on multiple fronts with a first official front map released.
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Associated Press
London
Red Army
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Donets
Moscow
Prikubansky
Anastasaevskaya
Leningrad
Ukraine
Izyum
Kharkov
Belgorod
Smolensk
Red
Velizh
Smo
RAF Maintains Aids on Axis Boat Bases Across Channel
Allied air raids continuous across the English Channel target Nazi France. RAF daylight sweeps hit Abbeville docks at Brest and Lorient U-boat bases while Mosquito bombers strike targets in Northern France and Belgium. Spitfires escort bombers and shoot down German fighters. one Mosquito reportedly missing. Night raids cause fires and disarray at Lorient with heavy anti aircraft fire. River reports note explosions south of Boulogne and in Calais area with German raids over East Anglia ending by dusk.
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James M. Long
London
English Channel
RAF
France
Abbeville
Harbor
Brest
Holland
Belgium
Comique
Ventura
Lorient
St.ire
Germany
Boulogne
Calais
England
Hoerby
New York
Ral
Oslo
Norway
Ois
Hitler
Lorenz
Allied Bombers Sink Three Jap Warships
Allied headquarters report heavy pre dawn air strikes near Kavieng New Ireland sinking a light cruiser and a destroyer with direct hits while four other ships damaged. Two additional destroyers hurt. two warships bombed with no observed results. No Allied losses. Brig Gen Patrick J Hurley left Palestine after a two day visit.
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Australia
Kavieng
New Ireland
High Command
Concentraton
Saine
Oving
Jerusalem
Patrick J. Hurley
United States
Palestine
Oil pipeline extensions urged easing next winter shortages
Washington April 3 new facilities for sending oil to the East Coast were announced but Petroleum Administrator Ickes warned there is no guarantee that fuel oil restrictions will end next winter. The Plantation pipeline to Richmond now carries 30 000 barrels a day with an extension Greensboro to Richmond. Westward, unloading facilities worth almost a million dollars will speed tank car shipments. The first 24 inch line Texas to Illinois nears completion.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Ickes
Texas
Indiana
Aece
War Production Board
Greensboro
N. C
Richmond
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Atlantic Seaboard
Greensboro-Richmond
Plantation
Texas Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Virginia
WPB
Illinois
Navy Reports Sub Attacks On Jap Ships
Navy announces successful submarine attacks on eight Japanese vessels including sinks and damages. Aleutians air operations also pound Kiska installations, with heavy bomber sweeps and fighter escort.
Reduction in April U S Draft Quotas Reported
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reports from Washington that April draft quotas drop about 20 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 to 20 percent elsewhere. Not all boards are affected this month. others face reductions in May. Local boards fixed transport, with state quotas to be equalized in May calls.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Selective Service
Washington
United States
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Ape F. Evans
Selective Service For
Evans
Third Service Command
Ters
Louisville
Solon Russell
Kentucky
Selective Service Headquarters
Four Nip Ships Sunk In Pacific By U S Submarines
Navy communique reports American submarines sunk one destroyer and one large transport in the Pacific and two freighters, with another destroyer damaged and a freighter damaged or probably sunk. Total Japanese ships sunk or damaged announced to date reaches 207.
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Washington
Navy
Aleutians Command
Kiska Island
Amercan
Page Toe
Guadalcanal
Villa Lavella Island
Solomons
Kiska
Pacific
Far East
U. S
Dama
Navy Department
GOP Leader Presses Fast Action On Pay As You Earn Plan
Republican Leader Martin urged immediate House Ways and Means action on a current pay as you earn tax plan. He argued Congress must avoid a take this or nothing outcome and blame the Democratic majority if delays harm small and middle income taxpayers.
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GOP
Fast House
Washington
Martin
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
DNC
Down
Dixie
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Rum
Durhams riot wounds two officers and a bus driver
Early tonight a riot in Durham's Negro section left two city policemen and a bus driver wounded and property damaged after a knife fight at an ABC store on Fayetteville Street. Police called for reinforcements from Camp Butner as tear gas and military police arrived to control the scene.
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Durham
Camn Rutnar
Sostict
Spmet Ees
H. R. Wilson
D A. Branton
Watts Hospital
W. L. Jones
ABC
Fayetteville Street
T. L. Bailey, Jr
Bailey
Jones
Wilson
Camp Butner
State Guard
Spitfires Down Eight Enemy Planes
At an advanced U S base in Southern Tunisia on April 2 American piloted Spitfires destroyed eight Axis planes in a fierce encounter. The six in one flaming action raised total Axis aircraft downed since March 21 to 63. Junkers 88 bombers and a Messerschmitt 109 were shot down during the air battle.
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U. S
Tunisia
Messerschmitts
Farm investments rise as prices surge in wartime
Chicago April 3.4 War time investments in farms are increasing with prices about 15 percent higher than a year ago, the National Association of Real Estate Boards said. Based on reports from over 200 farm land experts nationwide, investors form an amazing proportion of buyers, about 38 percent, while farmers average 56 percent and city buyers about 6 percent.
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Chicago
National Association of Real Estate Boards
City PLC
Axis Bristles at Allied Invasion Threats Across Europe
British and German broadcasts argue invincibility and fortifications as Nazi leaders promise defense. Reuters notes German remarks on Dutch coastlines and a potential invasion site amid Allied pressure.
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Axis
Europe
Reuters
Stockholm
Yanks Press Toward Junction With British Forces in Tunisia
American infantry attack Rommel held lines in Tunisia as Patton renewed efforts to link with the British Eighth Army near El Guetar and Fondouk. A tank thrust crossed a mine field toward the coast, then stalled as German counter attacks followed. Allied air forces report 172 Axis planes shot down since March 19 with 76 Allied losses, marking a heavy air campaign in the ongoing battle.
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North Africa
Marshal Rommel
United States Army Corps
Eighth Army
Gulf of Gabes
el Guetar
George S. Patton, Jr
Rommel
Fondouk
Vichy
Reuters
Kairouan
Paris
Faid
Morocco
Associated Press
Tunisia
Vallye
Poht du Fahs
Court Refuses Open Records Order for Newark Newspaper
The U S district court in New Jersey denied a wage and hour bureau bid to compel the Paterson Evening News to reveal records. Judge Meaney said the administrator has authority to enforce the act, but a ruling on coverage to the paper was not yet decided.
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Newark
N. J
Federal District Court For
New Jersey
L. Metcalfe Walling
Paterson Evening News
Harry B. Haines
Congress
Thomas F Meaney
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U.S
Harold V. Boyle
E. C. Daniel
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Berlin
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Channel
Atlantic
Federal Communications Commission
Office of War Information
BBC
Friedrich Christiansen
Christiansen
Bizerte
Tunis
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