Eastern Front Report Quiet With Local German Pushes
The Moscow front notes a generally quiet day with sharp but costly German efforts south of Balakleya and near Izyum. German attacks failed to break Soviet lines, suffering heavy losses, while Berlin claimed two Russian battalions annihilated and several prisoners taken.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Balakleya
Chuguev
Izyum
Donets
Berlin
Associated Press
Middle Ets River
Leningrad
Exactions from Africa loom as war presses on
General Eisenhower signals that the army navy and air force can now exact the full price from the Axis in Africa. Doomed are many of Rommel's troops though some may escape by air. Evacuation rumors persist as Allied pressure builds in Tunisia. French Normandy pilots clash with Germans on the Russian front. Ankara reports a large wounded-prisoner exchange to take place at Smyrna next Wednesday.
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Eisenhower
Rommel
Africa
Harold Alexander
von Arnim
Tunis
Bizerte
Tunisia
Europe
Axis
London
Reliable Re
Ankara
Turkey
Wn Cne
Smyrna
Japs Claim 15 Allied Ships Hit In Guadalcanal Attack
Imperial Tokyo headquarters asserted that strong Japanese naval and air forces sank or damaged 15 Allied ships and shot down planes in a Guadalcanal attack. The claim contrasted with a U S Navy briefing that 37 Japanese planes were shot down and that seven American aircraft were lost. Japanese losses included six planes.
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Guadalcanal
Associated Press
Imperial Tokyo
Guadalcanal Island
Solomons
Tokyo
U. S. Navy
Navy
U. S
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Aroe Islands
Hog Prices Will Be Cut in Roosevelt Plan
President Roosevelt announced possible ceilings on food prices to ease living costs and a plan to roll back live hog prices from near 16 dollars to about 14.50 per hundred pounds with added support payments for producers. Officials said the order will be announced soon with more price controls on other farm commodities as seasonable come into play. Byrnes attended the briefing as the White House moved to curb inflation through tighter price and wage limits alongside new budget actions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Chester C. Davis
Capitol Hill
Brown
Uoher
House
Small Business Committee
Davis
Byrnes
Flying Fortresses Attack Jap Positions Near Solomons
Navy reports Army Flying Fortresses and Avenger bombers attacked Kahili in the Shortland Island area of the Northwestern Solomons but weather prevented result observations. Comunique No 338 also revises down to 34 Japanese planes destroyed from an earlier claim of 37 in the Guadalcanal attack.
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Washington
Navy
Kahili
Shortland Island
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Comunique No. 338
South Pacific
Navy Department
United States
Plant Breaks Up Dice Game Strikes Ford Plant
DETROIT April 9. A dispute that began when plant protection men broke up a dice game halted production on armored war vehicles at Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant. More than 500 men stopped work at 2 45 am after badges were taken from the players and they were told to report to labor relations. By 9 am a total of about 4 000 workers were idle across units. A wage dispute idled 431 men in the Rouge plant transportation division. Workers remained inside, milling about and giving speeches.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Rouge
Junction of Allied Forces Boosts Allied Shipping Efforts
General Sir Harold Alexander said the joining of American and British forces in Southern Tunisia would greatly ease Allied shipping by allowing supply of the British Eighth Army from French North Africa. He praised the U S Second Corps for engaging Rommel's armor and Montgomery's tank units for breaking the Gabes bottleneck, while noting progress in the Tunisian campaign.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Harold Alexander
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Eighth Army
French North Africa
Middle East
Britain
United States
Cape of Good Hope
Alexander
U. S
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Wadi el Akarit
Gabes
Montgomery
War Labor Board Refuses Immediate Coal Wage Jurisdiction
The War Labor Board declined to take immediate jurisdiction in the southern soft coal wage dispute, sending a telegram from the operators’ negotiating committee to Secretary Perkins for consideration. The action leaves to Perkins the decision on whether to certify the dispute to the board, standard procedure though the board can act on its own motion after consulting with the labor secretary.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Perkins
Labor Secretary
Body Of Fully Clothed Woman Found In Grave
Greenville police investigate after the body of 56 year old Mollie Elizabeth Thompson is found in a shallow three foot grave near her home. She was fully clothed and shot in the head. Her son Paul reported her missing March 27. Coroner says no inquest until husband Lee Thompson is found. A neighbor found the grave under a brush heap.
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Greenville
S. C
Mollie Elizabeth Thompson
Paul
W. H. Garret
RAF Resumes Aerial Assaults On Ruhr Valley In Britain Raid
RAF resumes Allied air offensive against Western Europe with a raid on the Ruhr industrial region last night. Twenty one bombers were lost, and targets in Essen and Duisburg were not disclosed. The operation follows a lull of three nights and includes also mining of enemy waters. Continuous air raid warnings occurred in London before noon.
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RAF
Europe
Ruhr
London
Air Ministry
Britain
Germany
Essen
Duisburg
Krupp Armament Works
Berlin
American pilot battles taunting Japanese ace over Assam
April 9 report describes Lieutenant Charley T. Streit of Newburgh engaging a Japanese twin engine flyer nicknamed Photo Joe. The American pilots once mocked from the ground as the enemy flew at high altitude. Streit took off in a streamlined P-40 to confront the taunter over India.
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New Delhi
India
Assam
United States
Charley T. Streit
Newburgh
N. Y
Joe
Two Rommel Mistakes Threaten Africa Corps in Tunisia
Don Whitehead reports from north of Gabes on April 7 that Rommel misjudged Allied direction and pulled tank strength to counter a US flank. The British Eighth Army under Montgomery attacked Fatnassa and Roumana, forcing a bridgehead across the coast plain. Indian Gurkhas and British troops stormed the slopes, seizing key high ground as Rommel’s counterattack failed to close the gap.
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Don Whitehead
Eighth Army
Gabes
Field Marshal
Rommel
Tunisia
Bernard L. Montgomery
Wadi el Agarit
Fatnassa
Roumana
Farnassa
Yanks Capture Height Over Maknassy in North Africa
Allied forces push Axis from Mahares and Mezzouna as Rommel’s troops withdraw toward Sfax. US troops seize Diebel Mazaila peak north of Maknassy, with 500 prisoners taken since attack on Wadi El Akarit and 1,300 more in El Guetar mop up. Patton praised by Alexander for American corps gains on Eighth Army left flank.
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Tunisia
Axis
Eighth Army
Wadi el Akarit
U. S
First Army
Tunis
Bizerte
Churchill
Commons
Rommel
Akarit
Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Mahares
Sfax
Mezzouna
Tunisian
Erwin Rommel
Mezezouna
Western Desert Air Force
Diebel Mazaila
Makinassy
U. S. Second Army
el Guetar
George S. Patton, Jr
Harold L. Alexander
Transocean
Berlin
Associated Press
High Command
CBS
Maknassy
Bernard Montgomery
Mezyouna
Gafsa-Sfax
Gabes
Lewis Attacks FDR's Wage Ceilings In New York
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers denounced President Roosevelt's hold the line wage order as leaving miners hungry and the industry unresolved as coal miners negotiate a new Appalachian field contract covering about 450 000 workers. He presses for a 2 a day wage rise and a minimum 8 a day across bituminous mines, seeking more than the little steel formula allows for cost of living increases through May 1942. Contracts expire April 30 and negotiations resume with the union pressing for bread-raising terms.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Lewis
Little Steel
Coa
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Shwebo
Mareth
Gulf of Gabes
Sousse
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