Churchill Informs Commons U S British Union Is Near
Washington reports a looming clash over funding for wartime agencies as a large omnibus bill schedules hearings. Key agencies include the War Production Board, Office of Price Administration, Office of War Information, and Office of Civilian Defense with requests totaling billions in direct and contract funds. Executive sessions will test support for or against extensive wartime spending and possible retrenchment.
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Washington
Congress
House
Appropriations
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
Office of Civilian Defense
Cannon
D-Mo
Capitol Hill
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Censorship
Inter-American Affairs
Churchill reports new British victory at Akarit Tunisia
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that the British Eighth Army won anew at Awdi El Akarit in Tunisia and that Rommel’s forces were retreating northward under Montgomery. More than 6,000 enemy prisoners were taken, with operations aided by a 500-gun barrage resembling El Alamein. The advance aimed to link with US forces pressing from the west.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Eighth Army
Awdi el Akarit
Tunisia
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
el Alamein
Akarit
Commons
Montgomery
Gabes
Alamein
Britain Proposes Far Reaching World Trade Plan
London reports a white paper by Lord Keynes proposing an international clearing union to finance international trade. The plan uses a new bancor currency, with quotas by country and a genuinely international management, diverging from U S gold emphasis and U S veto power.
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London
Great Britain
Lord Keyes
Exchequer
U. S. Treasury
Keynes
United States
Montgomery Breaks Axis Hold in Tunisia at Wadi El Akarit
General Montgomery’s victory, announced by Churchill in Parliament, drives Rommel from Wadi El Akarit near Gabes. Eighth Army seizes the position after heavy bombardment and hand to hand fighting. Rommel retreats north as Axis prisoners flood British lines.
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Churchill
House of Commons
Rommel
Tunisia
Wadi el Akarit
Gabes
Eighth Army
von Arnim
Sousse
CIO Counsel Attacks Bill To Curb Union Power
Lee Pressman CIO general counsel testifies before the House Military Committee opposing a bill by Rep Smith to ban union activity and outlaw managerial unionization. He says the measure would destroy collective bargaining rather than improve manpower utilization.
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Washington
Sele
Lee Pressman
CIO
Pressman
House Military Committee
Smith
D.-Va
County panel votes beer and wine sale ban hours
The Cumberland County Board of County Commissioners voted to ban sale of beer and wine from 11 30 p m Saturday to 7 p m Monday in Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville
Cumberland County Board of County Commissioners
American Warplanes Batter Kiska Outpost In Aleutians
The Navy reports U S warplanes attacked Kiska Island five times on Monday totaling 51 strikes plus an attack on Attu. In the Solomons dive bombers struck Bila and started fires as battles widen in the Pacific. A separate British setback on the Burma front saw forces fall back on the Mayu peninsula near Akyab while Gen. Wavell reshaped positions. Stockholm sources claim 40 Germans were executed in Berlin for criticizing Nazi leaders.
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Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Mayu
Bay of Bengal
India
Akyab
Mayu River
Kwazoc
Donbaik
Mayu Peninsula
Stockholm
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Bill To Curb Big Profits Approved By House Naval Committee
The House naval committee approved a bill to curb profits earned by commission sales agents on government war contracts. It defines sales agents handling contracts over 25000 as sub contractors and subjects them to renegotiation. Some lawmakers argue profits and salaries must be further restricted.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Little Fellows
Vinson
D-Ga
German labor laws extend to all women in occupied Europe
Allied government sources in London report that Germany has extended compulsory labor to all women in occupied countries. The conscription of French women for German labor service was announced recently.
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London
Farm Bloc Fights Rear Guard Action After Bankhead Bill Rout
The farm bloc fights to delay a Senate test on the Bankhead wage bill veto, seeking to send it to the Senate agriculture committee after wage demands by United Mine Workers are settled. Senator Byrnes leads administration strategy to dispose of the measure now while Barkley warns against using it to alter price stabilization rules.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
James F. Byrnes
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Russians Repel German Donets River Assaults Near Izyum
London April 7 The Red Army repelled new German thrusts south of Izyum on the Donets with heavy losses to German infantry. Soviet artillery trench mortars and machine guns wiped out nearly two German companies, while earlier counterattacks forced Germans from a favorable position.
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London
Izyum
Donets
Red Army
Volkhov
Leningrad
Staraya Russa
Bulgaria Says It Will Resist Allied Balkan Invasion
London dispatch reports a Bulgarian cabinet member Dimiter Vassilev min public works vows Bulgaria would resist any Allied landings in Greece Albania or Dalmatia making the Balkans a theater of war if invaded. Madrid correspondents note German concern over an Allied push through southeastern Europe and cite Paris radio comment on Turkish neutrality.
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Berlin
Bulgaria
Balkans
Associated Press
Dimiter Vassilev
Greece
Albania
Dalmatia
Madrid
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Europe
Paris
Turkey
Steel Workers Strike At Carnegie Thompson Plant
About 2600 Pittsburgh steel workers walk out at the Edgar Thompson plant of Carnegie Illinois Steel on April 7. Company and union spokesmen cite transfer of 16 time-takers to other jobs with pay cuts as the strike cause.
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Pittsburgh
Edgar Thompson
Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corporation
Anti-Trust Judgment Filed Over Standard Oil License Plan
The Justice Department announced a supplemental judgment in an anti trust suit requiring Standard Oil Company of New Jersey to offer licenses for patents used in producing high octane aviation gasoline at a reasonable royalty rate. The move aims to cut costs and is described as potentially revolutionary for the automobile industry.
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Washington
Justice Department
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
U S Bombers Strike Heavy Blow At Subs
United States bombers damaged seven of the 15 submarines in Vegesack construction slips on March 18, the heaviest U S raid against U boats yet. Two subs were near launch, two others near completion, and two more in early stages.
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London
United States
Vegesack
RAF
U. S. Air Force
Renault
Paris
Hamm
Rennes
Wilhelmshaven
Youth Confesses to Killing Neighbor Girl in Cellar
Police quote a 17 year old neighbor who says he choked four year old Theresa Williams after luring her with a penny to buy candy. He buried her in the cellar and later sought flowers for a friend. autopsy to determine death. Theresa Williams was a neighbor of Earl Perr y.
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PI Burgh
Michael Daugherty
Daugherty
Earl Perry
Theresa Williams
Perry
Theresa
Williams
Stabilization Program For U S Will Apparently Cost Nothing
Treasury plans international currency stabilizing fund of five billion dollars with the United States contributing about two billion. Domestic fund of two billion could be moved into the world pool, reducing need for exchange controls. Morgenthau seeks legislative backing while continuing fund operations through June 30 and beyond.
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George Cullen Washington
U. S. Treasury
Morgenthau
United States
Treasury
New World Pool
Congress
Heavy Allied Push Across El Guetar Wadi El Akarit Front
Allied forces launched a heavy attack from El Guetar to link with Montgomery’s Eighth Army driving a wedge into Rommel’s line at Wadi El Akarit. British and American air power bombarded Tunis, Trapani, Ragusa, and Messina as Axis defenses buckled and prisoners flooded in.
Army Bombers Raid Japs On Kiska Again
The Navy reported forces of Army heavy and medium bombers struck Japanese positions on Kiska Island in five attacks on Monday, with one additional attack at Attu. Hits were scored on targets, and a separate strike at Bila in the Solomons started fires. This brought total Kiska attacks to 51 since March 1 in the Aleutians campaign.
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Navy
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Aleutians
Attu Island
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Kiska
Attu
South Pacific
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Solomons
Ue Aleutians
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