Bombers Hit Bremen Factory as Allies Suffer Heavy Losses
American heavy bombers struck the Focke Wulf fighter plant at Bremen in a daylight raid, shooting down over 50 enemy planes en route while suffering 16 four engine bombers lost. The action comes amid Allied attacks on U boat bases at Brest and Lorient and a wider push on German industry.
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E. C. Daniel
London
Focke- Wulf
Bremen
United States
Germany
Great
Skoda
Czechoslovakia
Mannheim
Ludwigshaven
Rhine
Berlin
Associated Press
RAF
U. S. Air Force
Brest
Lorient
Russian Troops Renew Fight To Oust Germans Near Novorossisk
Russian forces renew drive to wipe out German foothold near Novorossisk and report heavy losses for the enemy. Moscow says 4,000 Germans killed and 17 tanks destroyed in two days, plus 39 guns, 31 mortars, and 100 machine guns. Local actions also reported on Smolensk front and the Donets River as spring thaw nears.
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Novorossisk
Associated Press
London
Moscow
Soviet Monitor
Abinskaya
Black Sea
Anastasevskaya
Smolensk
Donets
Kharkov
Caucasus
Allied Troops Attack Axis in Tunisian Mountain War
Allied forces press through shelled Tunisian highlands near Tunis and Bizerte as British and French units push toward Djebel Ang and Djebel Tanngoucha. Eisenhower warns future advances will be difficult and costly amid mined, machine gun defended approaches.
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North Africa
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Genwight D. Eisenhower
Tanngoucha
Medjez-ei-Bab
Liberators Raid Former Big Dutch Naval Base
A small formation of Liberators bombed Amboina in the Indies Archipelago at dusk. They met spirited opposition and shot down four of 12 interceptors, damaged another, and caused numerous fires in the dock waterfront areas of the port big Dutch naval base. The raid followed by explosions and a broader battle near Amboina Island in the Banda Sea.
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Allied
Inustralia
Amboina
Indies Archipelago
Nes
Fort Big Dutch Naval Base
Res
Banda Sea
Darwin
Austra
Joy
New Ireland
Bismarck Sea
Kavieng
Duty to Buy War Bonds Calls for Broad Sacrifice
The treasury secretary urges a second 18 billion dollar war loan drive. Communities must recognize their duty on the home front and buy bonds as a crucial act of national sacrifice. The government challenges the people and expects broad support in this crucial hour.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Refugee Conference Opens With Plans For Quick Care Of Expatriates
American delegates to the refugee conference begin two weeks of fact finding to locate refuges for Nazi persecuted Europeans. They meet with three British delegates and weigh placements in Palestine Europe and the Americas. Jewish appeals surge as Zionist groups urge Palestine and criticize British limits on Jewish settlement.
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Richard G. Maslock Hamilton
Bermuda
Scott Lucas
D-Ii
Sol Bloom
United States
Organiz
Europe
Palestine
North
South America
Zionist Organizat of
America
New Zionist Organization
Committee For
House Opposes Farm Subsidies and Bans Incentive Payments
The House, opposing farm subsidies as a substitute for higher crop prices, added a provision to the Agriculture Department appropriation bill barring use of funds for incentive payments to farmers. Chairman Cannon said the move counters a proposed $100 million incentive program and supports higher grower prices through market mechanisms.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Department
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
Secertary Wickard
Congress
The
Missourian
Roosevelt signs bill expanding women in military medical corps
President Roosevelt signed legislation creating the appointment of women physicians and surgeons in both the army and navy medical corps. The move expands the role of women in military medicine and opens new career paths within wartime service. The measure authorizes qualified female medical professionals to serve in official capacities, marking a milestone in gender inclusion within the armed forces.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army and Navy Medical Corps
Second War Loan Drive Rolls Up 9 Billion Subscriptions
Secretary Morgenthau warns the 9 billion dollar total for the Second War Loan drive reflects large institutional purchases that mask the need for more small investor support. He says individual small denomination bonds must come in as the drive nears completion and the full 13 billion dollar goal awaits ordinary citizens.
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James D. White
Washington
Morgenthau
America
Treasury
Demos and GOP Push Toward Compromise Tax Bill
Democratic and Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee moved toward a pay as you go tax bill amid talks. Chairman Doughton said the two hour closed door conference had not settled on a plan with no agreement or disagreement. Representative Knutson and Disney expressed cautious optimism about progress and good humor.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Capitol Hill
Rep
Knutson
Rminn
Doughton
D-Nc
Disney
D-Okla
Warden Captures One of 25 State Penitentiary Escapees
Frank Dupree, a 24-year-old life-term convict among 25 who fled the state penitentiary, was captured by a bloodhound flusher and a posseman about 15 miles from the prison. He did not resist. The group included three life-termers led by escape specialists Leland Harvey and Forrest Turner. guards were overpowered, keys stolen, the switchboard dismantled, and four guns taken.
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Reidsville
Frank Dupree
State Penitentiary
Dupree
W. T. Wallace
Georgia
Augusta Chronicle
Sea Men
Dallas Morgan
Augusta
Leland Harvey
Forrest Turner
Luce Denounces Draft Act and Rationing as Botched
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce charges the Selective Service Act was badly botched and the food rationing program a bad joke. The Greenwich congresswoman says America’s conduct of the war has been hard only in spots and predicts the war will take longer than expected.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Clare Boothe Luce
R-Conn
America
Luce
Congress
Greenwich
Jap-Held Kiska Hit 13 Raids In One Day
Navy reports 13 air raids on Kiska with sinking of one large supply ship two medium cargo ships one large mine layer and one small patrol ship plus damage to a destroyer and a medium transport. Total Japanese vessels sunk or damaged detailed in Pacific operations through April 17.
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Kiska
Navy
John M. Hightower
Washington
Pacific
Mussolini Shakes Up Fascist Leadership in Rome
Premier Mussolini reshuffles the Fascist party naming Carlo Scorza secretary and elevating him under the premier. Aldo De Vidasoni is ousted as secretary while De Vidasoni becomes president of a council aiding the armed forces. The changes follow a leaders’ meeting after talks with Hitler. Berlin reports a police shakeup naming Renzo Chierici as chief.
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Associated Press
Mussolini
Carlo Scorza
Aldo de Vidassoni
Rome Radio
de Vidassoni
Scorza
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Renzo Chierici
Carmine Senise
Tokyo Raid Remembered A Year Later By BasSett
A year after American bombers struck Tokyo the public still learns specifics. The raid occurred four months after Pearl Harbor with plans led by Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle. Roosevelt praised Shangri La while Japanese believed Hornet launched the B 25s. The Office of War Information delayed full publication of the full story.
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Ben Bassett
Washington
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Corregidor
Cebu
Panay
Tokyo
United States
Japan
U. S
James H. Doolittle
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Roosevelt
Shangri-La
Order Forbids Job Switching For More Pay
Roosevelt aides impose a modified job wage freeze affecting about 27 million essential workers and 52 million civilians. Violations carry up to a $1000 fine and a year in prison. Shifts to higher pay from nonessential to essential and certain area specific moves are allowed with releases or if work is under full use.
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Washington
Roosevelt
McNutt
War Manpower Commission
U S Newsprint Quota Assured For Third Quarter
Washington reports WPB chairman Donald M Nelson announced Canada will supply its newsprint for United States use for the third quarter of 1943. The amount remains uncertain as quotas depend on wartime conditions and publishers must cut usage to 90 percent of 1941 levels under Order L 240. First quarter consumption fell about five percent from 1941, with March at 83 percent below 1941.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Canada
Nota
United
WPB
Nelson
Donald Gordon
Polish underground kills Nazi chief in Warsaw
The secret Polish radio in Occupied Poland reported that on April 9 Polish underground soldiers killed Kurt Hoffman chief of the German labor office in Warsaw and another official.
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Stockholm
Poland
Kurt Hoffman
Warsaw
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Boston
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Charles P. Manship
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
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Doolittle
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