War bond drive aims to fund world fight and curb inflation
In Washington on April 10 James D. White reports the United States launches the largest war financing effort in history. The three week drive seeks 13 billion dollars to finance wartime operations and drain surplus income into war bonds to prevent inflation. Citizens encouraged to buy extra bonds beyond regular purchases as high war earnings and savings flow lift expansion and bank deposits.
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James D. White
Washington
America
John Q
Treasury
Axis
Savings Treasury
Duisburg and Ruhr Valley Targeted in Third Night Raid
British bombers hit Duisburg and other Ruhr Valley sites for a third night, while daylight raids on rail and waterway links from Le Havre to Holland continued. RAF losses totaled five planes in the night attack. Essen's Krupp works were reported mostly idle after 900 to 1,000 tons of explosives fell.
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Duisburg
Ruhr Valley
RAF
Germany
James M. Long
London
Ruhr
le Havre
Holland
Yvetot
Air Ministry
Cologne
France
Krupp
Hitler
Essen
Boston Club President Convicted In 19 Manslaughter Counts
Barnett Welansky, president of the Cocoanut Grove, is convicted on 19 counts of manslaughter after a five hour jury deliberation. James Welansky and Goldfine acquitted on all counts. James and Goldfine released. Judge sets disposition for next Thursday. Bail posted for Barnett. potential maximum 20 years per count.
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Boston
Barnett Welansky
Cocoanut Grove
Suffolk County
James
Goldfine
James Welansky
Barnett
Joseph Hurley
Hurley
Massachusetts
Allies drive Rommel back in Tunisia pursuit near Sfax
Allied forces under Montgomery crush Axis columns in central Tunisia as French and British units advance beyond Pichon and toward Kai rouan Djebel Zela. German and Italian troops retreat amid heavy air and ground assaults with more than 20 000 prisoners taken since Mareth.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Tunis
Eighth Army
Sfax
Marshal Fommel
Africa Corps
Rommel
Tunisia
Enfidaville
Morocco
Algiers
Pichon
Djebel Zela
Kairouan
Sicilian Straits
France
Our Duty to the Readers of the Enter prise Loan Appeal
The message urges every American to lend to the 13 billion Second War Loan during the next weeks. It emphasizes sacrificing luxuries to support armed forces and urges individuals to act now, do their part, and lend to help win the war quickly.
OPA Slashes Point Value Of Sausage Products
The Office of Price Administration cuts point values on sausage items and pork cuts by 14 to 50 percent due to slow retail movement. W worth includes weiners, bologna, pork sausage, chitterlings, and neck and back bones with adjustments from seven to six points per pound or from four to two points for chitterlings. Non meat fillers alter some reductions.
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Washigton
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Roosevelt requests $5.95 million for Civilian Defense
President Roosevelt sent Congress an appropriation estimate of 5,949,550 dollars for the Office of Civilian Defense for the next fiscal year. The current year appropriation stood near 7 million dollars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of Civilian Defense
Lewis attacks Roosevelt inflation order as false and unsound
John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers denounces Roosevelt hold the line order as a false unsound method to curb inflation. He cites belated action and asserts wage price controls target workers while profits to industry reach about 6.25 billion in the first nine months of the fiscal year. UMW will press for a new contract with Northern and Southern Appalachian coal operators, with meetings set for Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Lewis
UMW
Pay-Go Tax Issue Heads For Showdown
The pay as you go tax issue moves toward another Capitol Hill showdown before the Easter recess. Republicans seek a second vote on the Rum Plan to skip an income tax year, while some Democrats consider a simple withholding levy on wages. The Ways and Means Committee meets Monday on reciprocal trade pacts, but a move to revisit current taxation is expected. Disney accuses Republicans of political maneuvering to force a repeat vote.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Rep
Disney
Ways and Means
Martin
Massachusetts
Chack
Kilehoma
Axis Retreat in Tunisia Is Pre-eminent
The article compares Rommel's Tunisian withdrawal to historic retreats by Napoleon from Moscow and Xenophon with the Greeks, noting Rommel's 1,600 mile flight across Africa in six months. It contrasts continuous pursuit by force with the Greek march, which faced local tribes rather than a single pursuing army.
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Marshal Rommel
Egypt
Africa
Napoleon
Moscow
Xenophon
Vilna
Rommel
Cunaxa
Euphrates River
Trbizond
Black Sea
Press Meet May 2 Greensboro NC Women’s Association
The North Carolina Press Women's Association holds its spring meeting at Woman's College on May 2 in Greensboro. Speakers include Miss Louise Alexander, associate professor of political science, and Miss Elizabeth Speirs, an instructor in voice and soprano, will sing.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Press Women's Association
Woman's College
Louise Alexander
Elizabeth Speirs
Reds Halt Fresh Nazi Attempts To Cross Donets River
Russian troops repelled renewed Nazi crossings near Balakleya on the Donets, taking strategic heights. The Soviet report says 1,200 enemy casualties over two days, with German losses including mortars, artillery, and blockhouses destroyed.
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Reds
Donets River
Bely
London
Donets
Balakleya
Kharkov
Moscow
Caucasus
Red Army
Associated Press
Rostov
Water raid yields Italian water tank in Tunisia
American soldiers in Tunisia raid an enemy outpost in a three quarter ton truck to seize a water tank. Sergeant John B. Jones of Lawrence Indiana leads with two teammates Dominic Lamoglia Riverside California and Phil Lip Nastasi Butler Pennsylvania. They escape artillery fire and find no wine, only water that tastes sweet after days in dusty hills.
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Tunisia
Sergt
John B. Jones
Lawrence
Ind
Jones
Sergi
Dominic Lamoglia
Riverside
Calif
Phillip Nastasi
Butler
Draft reclassification eyed for nearly three million men
Washington reports that about three million childless married men aged 18 to 37 may be moved in the draft reclassification. Sources say 3-B will be eliminated and many in 3-A and 3-B shifted to 1-A or 3-D, with farming dependents exempt or deferred. Inductions expected to average 260,000 monthly this year.
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Washington
National Selective Service
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Bay 27 Axis Planes From Sky Convoy Bay 27 Axis Planes From Sky Convoy
Allied airmen engaged an Italian cruiser pair in the Mediterranean destroying two 10,000 ton ships named Trieste and Gorizia while downing 27 Axis aircraft. U S bombers faced no losses as about 100 Flying Fortresses attacked the Sardinian theater to disrupt enemy supply lines to Tunisia. Ground operations kept pressure on Axis troops as they tried to hold a new line in Northern Tunisia.
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Daniel Deluce
North Africa
Trieste
Gorizia
Tunisia
Algiers Radio Urges German Forces to Surrender in North Africa
London dispatch reports a special Algiers radio broadcast urging German troops in Tunisia to surrender while they still can. The broadcast warns there is no return home from the North African battlefield and cites two choices death or capture.
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London
Algiers
Tunisia
Reuters
Allied air power shatters Axis convoy and desert push
Allied air forces advance under canopy of planes as German air strength in Africa collapses. Junkers 88 crews abandon planes. eight shot down while attempting to bomb Allied troops. Northwest Africa air forces drop over 4,000,000 bombs since Mareth offensive began. Flying Fortresses strike Trieste and Gorizia harbors, hindering Axis evacuation in Tunisia. Twin engined Lightnings score a smashing victory against a 30 to 50 ship convoy.
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Gene Mee
Africa
Western
Desert
Unites
Trieste
Gorizs
la Maddenlena
Sardinia
Tunsia
House Group Files Report on Draft Bill
The House Military Committee released a supplemental report on the Kilday Draft Deferment Bill to address War Department objections. It outlines draft deferment priorities by status and restates that men are called for induction in order, clarifying that deferment does not block subsequent calls until earlier groups are inducted.
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Washington
House Military Committee
War Department
House
Warriment
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