Germany Faces Lost Generation After Allied Raids
Allied forces conducted a mass raid across 200 towns capturing nearly 1 000 suspected Hitlerists from Germany and Austria. The effort targeted remnants of the Hitler Youth movement as Dewitt Mackenzie warned the young 14 to 35 cohort appears deeply indoctrinated, with Axmann and werewolf plans central to the sabotage network.
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Hitler
Dewitt Mackenzie
Europe
Mackenzie
Arthur Axmann
Axmann
UN Iran Crisis Eases as Russia Funds, Troop Pullback Afoot
Russia commits 1 723 000 to UN fund and pledges troop withdrawal within six weeks, moving Tehran Iran toward easing the oil concession issue. Soviet ambassador Gromyko defends the move while the Security Council eyes a temporary shelving with a May 6 troop withdrawal assurance.
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Russia
U.S
Britain
Security Council
Iran
Andrei Gromyko
Council
Red
Aerial tests amid postwar science and Nazi remnants
The piece describes next month’s Army test of 25 reassembled German V-2 rockets in the New Mexico desert with an atomic warhead, plus a robot P-80 Shooting Star trial in California. It notes radar tracking, range reductions, and pilotless drone testing under Maj. Gen. W. Chidlaw, alongside broader postwar German resistance and hunger-driven unrest, Goebbels propaganda influence, and Allied occupation tensions in Germany.
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New Mexico
California
W. Chidlaw
Air Material Command
Wright Field
Library of Congress Begins Bold Film Preservation Project
The Library of Congress is importing German and Japanese motion pictures to study Axis propaganda and mass mind control. Psychologists and MI will examine newsreels and shorts to chart techniques used to regiment thoughts and actions. They also unveil a preservation process that can keep film for 300 to 500 years in fireproof vaults.
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Library of Congress
Timeline of forthcoming events and anniversaries
Wednesday April 10 features Japanese elections. Friday April 12 marks the dedication of Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate to the federal government on the first anniversary of F D R's death. Broadcasts set for 2 36 p m on ABC CBS and NBC. Sunday April 14 observes Palm Sunday and Pan American Day.
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ABC
CBS
NBC
Coal's Central Role in American Industry Through Times
The article stresses coal as a cornerstone of U S prosperity and industry, noting its impact on steel, utilities, and transit. It cites major mining states led by West Virginia and Pennsylvania, with the United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis pressing for better wages and conditions as reconversion looms.
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George Washington
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
Alabama
Virginia
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
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Lewis and Coal Strike Talks Face April Deadline
John L. Lewis pushes for a union health and welfare fund funded by a royalty on coal tonnage as a key contract demand. With the April 1 deadline looming, Lewis urges restraint and warns of no picketing, while Labor Secretary Schwellenbach names Paul Fuller as mediator. Utilities seek relief for coal dependent operations. Separately, vehicle output climbs with GM, Ford, and Chrysler boosting weekly totals toward 50,000 units.
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Schwellenbach
Paul Fuller
Akron
Fuller
Washington
Question on Draft Act Extension and Navy Expansion
The House Military Affairs Committee held closed sessions after hearings as a one year extension of the Draft Act remains undecided. The administration campaigns publicly while Republicans seek bipartisanship. The House also passed a permanent peacetime Navy bill for 500000 enlisted and a Marine Corps of 100000, conflicting with Senate limits. The War Department also announced disbandment of the U S Army in China by May 1 and a reduced Marine presence in north China aligning with Russian plans.
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Patterson
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Senate
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China Theater
North
China
Navy Command
Manchuria
Japan silk shipment tops one million dollars in Seattle
That amount equals five freight cars or about 2 500 000 pairs of stockings. Bronx Zoo warns of prank calls with a new 24 hour number to curb mischief after 2 000 callers last year. Tokyo issues a second DDT dusting to curb a typhus outbreak with 1 092 cases since March. In Corning a fire victim sleeps in his car while police clear a displaced tenant. Two teens fall into Leon River dam. one saved by line casting, the other revived after being hooked and pulled ashore. Maurice Lindblad elected Whiteside Township supervisor, breaking the Johnson succession pattern. other officers unknown.
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Seattle
War fears loom while nations drift, Rockefeller era quotes
Norman Thomas voices fear for the future yet believes the U.S. is not headed for war with the USSR. Clinton T. Anderson poses a stark question about humanity’s fate, urging action from America to decide if millions will live or die.
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American Socialist Party
U.S.S.R
Clinton T. Anderson
America
Tidal Waves Lash Two Continents
An offshore submarine landslide off Alaska produced massive tsunami waves comparable to the 1923 Tokyo quake. Ring patterns formed as waves grew, reaching high speeds and far distances. Unimak Island lighthouse crew of 10 perished, and California shores saw 10 to 15 foot waves damaging harbors.
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Tokyo
Unimak Island
Aleutians
Scotch Cap
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Santa Cruz
Police 'They Drive You Crazy' Tokyo mission by Valentine
Former New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine reports from Tokyo on modernizing Japan's police system. He cites language barriers harsh conditions, few cars, no radios, armed with swords, jail cruelty, and tyrrant police. plus natural disasters from Hawaii to Chile causing widespread damage.
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Lewis J. Valentine
New York
Gen. MacArthur
Japan
Police Academy
Valentine
World News Highlights From The Era
Short appointed James M Landis as chairman of the Civilian Aeronautic Bureau. Died Noah Beery 63 veteran movie villain after heart attack in Hollywood. World food conference planned in Washington May 20 to strengthen famine relief and long range farming programs. Goering planned attack on New York with V3 rocket. 633 Germans indicted as war criminals by UN War Crimes Commission. Lt Gen Masaharu Homma executed in Manila. UNRRA LaGuardia negotiating with Argentina for wheat. The tsunami and flood account details: Hawaiis sugar and port damage, food rationing, and refugee movements on Oahu and Hawaii. Pearl Harbor fleet reported no major Navy losses. several missing rescued at sea.
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Noah Beery
Hollywood
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Hermann Goering
New York
London
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Masaharu Homma
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Manila
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Argentina
Hilo
Honolulu
Hawaii Red Cross
Oahu
Hawaii Islands
Pearl Harbor
Navy
mid-Pacific
Palmyra
Canton
Johnston Islands
Hawaii
False tidal wave scare in Kodiak wakens town
Residents of Kodiak Alaska dashed into the snow at midnight after a false alarm that a tidal wave was coming within 10 minutes. The Navy radio corrected the report and refugees returning from Pillar Mountain carried bedding and trudged through the night.
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Alaska
Navy
Pillar Mountain
Kodiakers
GOP Names B Carroll Reece New National Chairman
B Carroll Reece 56 of Tennessee chosen as GOP national chair will give up his Congressional seat sought by no challenger since 1934. A WWI veteran with awards including the Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart he hails from east Tennessee and has long defended Republican ranks.
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Reece
Cumberland University
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