Russians Gain Ground In Kuban Delta As Kavieng Masses Warships
Allied air forces pound at least 10 Japanese bases in the Kavieng area while Japan concentrates warships and merchant vessels near Kavieng despite a three day pounding. MacArthur’s air offensive hits Buka and targets across New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea, and nearby islands. RAF reports 60 mile fringe fires from a central Burma railway and heavy bomber activity. Tokyo claims Allied losses and Japanese success in eastern India.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
MacArthur
Buka Island
Solomons
Salamaua
Timika Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Yungen Point
Ubili
Alamana
Cape Gloucester
Madang
Finschhafen
Saidor
New Guinea
Sekar Bay
Burma
Thepenseeonmaties
Rangono
Maungdaw
Imperial Tokyo
India
Committee Bolds Brown for Testimony on Parity Prices
The senate agriculture committee summoned Price Administrator Princiss Brown for testimony under threat of subpoena and then excused him until Thursday. Secretary Wickard and Brown agreed to appear after committee chairman Smith accused their absence of being a refusal. The panel considered adding farm labor costs to parity price calculations amid a looming vote on overriding President Roosevelt's veto of the Bankhead bill on government benefits and parity ceilings.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Princiss Brown
Brown
Agriculture Wickard
Smith
DSC
Senate
Roosevelt
Bankhead
D-Ala
Wickard
Manning Shaw
Agriculture Department
Davis
Nazis Fight To Retain Bridgehead
The Red Army presses its Kuban delta offensive along the Black Sea coast in the North Caucasus with fresh shelling of German positions, claiming 60 plus firing points destroyed. Germans concede losses while defending a shrinking bridgehead as weather and terrain hinder rapid advances.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Kuban
Black Sea
North Caucasus
Novorossisk
High Command
Berlin
Associated Press
Caucasus
Trans-Ocean
Krasnodar
Kerch Strait
Taman
Allied Air Push Sinks 31 Enemies in Tunisian Campaign
Allied Lightnings blasted 31 enemy planes in the Tunisian theater, including 18 Junkers transports likely carrying fuel for Rommel. The battle began with an attack on a sea convoy and destroyed an enemy destroyer while breaking up ships. A major air clash near the Sicilian Straits left 48 German and Italian planes downed, marking the day’s heaviest Allied air‑victory tally.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Junkers
Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nazi Respite After 72 Hours Of Heavy Allied Bombing
London April 6 RAF fighters and Royal Navy planes attacked enemy shipping off the French coast, damaging three merchant vessels and two escorting craft. Germany, occupied Europe appear to be given a respite after 72 hours of pounding by Allied air power. Direct hits reported on the Erla plane engine works at Antwerp and on the Gervaert plant. The Renault factory near Paris had been successfully bombed previously.
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Tunisia
Sicilian Straits
Rommel
Darrell G. Welch
Midland
Tex
Lieut. E. S. FE. Newbury
Bakersfeld
Calif
Friendly
Ant
Trapani
Sicily
Sfax
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Naples
London
French
Ministry
Germany
Europe
Die
le Touquet
RAF
France
U. S. Army
Erla
Antwerp
Gervaert Photographic Products
Renault
Paris
Giant Meat Black Market Smashed in Newark Probe
The OPA announced a nationwide conspiracy moved 10,000,000 pounds of black market beef and veal to the eastern market and collected a $2,000,000 overcharge from consumers, naming individuals and firms involved in the case.
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Office of Price Administration
Newark
N. J
OPA
Allied air raids dramatic blow to war industry
World war coverage describes a massive Allied air operation over Western Europe with 133 Flying Fortresses striking Renault works in France and heavy R A F action on Krupp facilities at Essen. Reports claim thousands of casualties prevented and vast financial costs, alongside calls to expand air power to reduce land fighting casualties. Also notes indictments in New Jersey for black market meat, naming several companies and individuals as defendants in a federal conspiracy case.
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English Channel
Paris
Ira Eaker
Britain
Renault Works
Hitler
Buihe
Europe
R.A.F
Essen
Uch
Columbia State Publisher 71 Dies in Columbia Hospital
William Elliott 71 longtime president and publisher of the Columbia State died shortly before 3 a m at Columbia Hospital after a week of illness. He led the state company as chief legal officer and executive since October 1937, succeeding William G Gonzales. He served as vice chairman of the state council of defense and federal food administration during WWI and leaves wife Leila Sams and children William Elliott Jr Mrs A L Wardlaw and Mrs Adger Manning plus sister Mrs Sumter Moore.
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Columbia
S. C
William Elliott
State Company
Columbia Hospital
William G. Gonzales
South Carolina
Beaufort
William and
Sallie Stuart Elliott
Confederate States Army
Congress
Elliott
Episco High School
Alexandria
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
State Council of Defense
Federal Food Administration
South Carolina Bar Association
American Bar Association
Leila Sams
William Elliott, Jr
A. L. Wardlaw
Adger Manning
Cobia
Sumter Moore
Russians List Series of Nazi Atrocities
London reports a Soviet commission on German crimes in Russia charging the Nazis with acts of violence torture and murder against peaceful citizens and Soviet prisoners. The Moscow broadcast says Hitler's army torments and kills nonessential people and ships able workers to slave markets in Germany.
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London
Russia
Moscow Radio
Soviet Monitor
Hitler
Germany
German Subs Score Heavily During March
Secretary Knox said Allied ship losses in the Atlantic were worse in March than February due to intensified German submarine activity. He noted more subs are at sea and the Middle Atlantic is the focus, while U S destroyer escorts are being rushed into service and launchings are progressing well despite engine shortages. Air raids against submarine pens may have embarrassed the enemy, though results are unclear.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
the Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
United States
England
Mediterranean
Britain
English Channel
Congress Cuts Funds For Legislative Establishment
The House Appropriations Committee recommends a smaller fiscal year next July 1 budget for Congress. The Senate would receive 3,985,528 and the House 9,527,595, totaling 217,374 less than the current year and 113,000 below estimates. A clerk of court office at Shelby North Carolina would be repealed and the deputy court clerk position in Statesville North Carolina would be abolished.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Legislative Establishment
Judiciary
Senate
House
Shelby
N. C
Statesville
Twenty Six Years Ago Army Day War Reminder
Army Day marks a 1917 declaration of war on Germany, signed by President Wilson in the White House. The piece traces how the holiday shifted from open houses at camps to a global wartime reality, with America fighting Axis powers around the world.
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U.S
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Wilson
Germany
Times
United States
Warstricken
Africa
Solomons
Italy
Japan
Former French President Mille rand Dies at Versailles
Alexandre Millerand, who led France from 1920 to 1924, died in Versailles at age 84. once a wary elder statesman, he warned against German power after Hitler’s rise and pushed for a two year army conscription. He held roles in Alsace and Lorraine and served in the French Senate.
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London
Berlin
Associated Press
Alexandre Millerand
Versailles
Millerand
Germany
Adolf Hitler
France
Albert le Brun
Strasbourg
Alsace and
Lorraine
Italians Stand Against Nazi Orders in Unoccupied France
Bern dispatch says Italians in the former unoccupied zone of France resisted Nazi demands and halted transfers of about 100 American and British citizens to Germany at Grenoble. They forced French guards to withdraw, backed by machine guns, and released the captives. The dispatch notes Italians protect foreign Jews and shelter many in Italian-controlled areas.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
Gazette de Lausanne
Gazette
Grenoble
Lyon
Lausanne
United States
Great Britain
Goldesberg
U. S
Legation
Gestapo
Free French Asking For Explanation
London reports that the Fighting French may request official clarification of General Eisenhower's reasons for asking General De Gaulle to delay a North Africa trip to confer with General Giraud. De Gaulle's National Committee met in special session as observers cite surprise at Eisenhower's note delivered via the British Foreign Office.
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London
D. Eisenhower
Charles DeGaulle
North Africa
Henry Giraud
DeGaulle
Eisenhower
Foreign Office
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