Allied RAF raids hit Plovdiv Bulgaria and Zagreb
London April 20 Allied air power expands in Europe with Italy based bombers targeting Plovdiv Bulgaria's railway hub while Marauders sweep northern France. Night bombing causes heavy casualties across Paris Rouen and Zagreb with hundreds dead and many injured.
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Plovdiv
Bulgaria
Hitler
Europe
Sofia
France
RAF
Dominion
Hor
England
Vichy
Paris
Rouen
Mon T
Zagreb
Allies Deliver Air Sea Blow At Sumatra
Allied fleet including carriers battleships cruisers destroyers and submarines struck Sabang and Lhonga airfields in northern Sumatra at dawn. The raid hit docks power station hangars and a radio station while sinking or disabling several Japanese ships and destroying transports. One allied plane was saved by a submarine as shore batteries fired.
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Thorburn Wiant
East Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Dutch East Indies
Lord Louis Mountbatten
New Delhi
Indian Ocean
Sabang
Lhonga
Sumatra
Shonga
Carriers
Germany
Kohima Is Relieved From Siege
Allied troops advancing from Dimapur pierced Japanese roadblocks around Kohima as the relief column closed in to lift the siege. British Indian forces pressed toward Dimapur while Imphal battlefield gains continued and Chinese and Allied units claimed further successes in Burma and northeast India. William B. Murphree, a Tennessee native, gained fame as a Navy Cross recipient after an AWOL Army start, now in Marine custody amid a wartime legal review.
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Ceylon
Dimapur
Bengal-Assam
India
Kohima
Imphal
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Wararup
Kamaing
Mogums
Calcutta
Tokyo
Tan
Sevastopol Seige Continues As Nazi Escape Efforts Falter
Soviet dispatches report intensified German and Romanian attempts to flee by sea and air while minefields and bombardment tighten around Sevastopol. Red Star notes only a small portion of ships escaping, with many sunk, as Soviet forces press the siege and defend key positions including Fedyukhiny Heights and the Inkerman valley.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Sevastopol
Red Star
Romania
Svastopol
Roman
Chersones Cape
Sevaspol
Poland
Fedyukhiny Heights
Sevast
Lwow
Stanislawow
Terday
Nadworna
ATR
Asa
Tle
Red Army
Fedyukh Heights
Chornaya River
Karnya Galovka
Inkerman Valley
Laval warns French against cooperation with invaders
In a broadcast picked up by the Blue Network, Pierre Laval urges French citizens not to aid the advancing Allied forces. Analysts note his fear of civil strife and potential reprisals as loyals and pro-Vichy factions face escalating tensions and planned trials for traitors.
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London
France
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Quisling
Blue Network
America
Laval
Germany
Local Mill Credited With Best Southern Yarn Wage
ATLANTA April 20. Highland Cotton Mills High Point N C testified at a war labor board hearing that it pays the highest wages in the south for yarn workers. Maj L P McLendon said average take home pay is 59.10 cents per hour versus 49.68 cents in south yarn mills and 53.40 in cotton goods. The CIO union seeks a 60 cent minimum and a 10 cent across the board raise. Observers call the case one of the largest wage disputes in the south involving about 20 000 workers in 23 mills. The board will report to the national WL board in Washington.
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Highland Cotton Mills
High Point
N. C
War Labor Board
L. P. McLendon
Southern Cotton Mills
High Point Company
South
McLenden
Solomon Barkin
CIO
Highland Mills
Highland
McLendon
Textile Workers Union of America
Hone
Labor Takes First Step Toward World Charter
The International Labour Organization opens a major meeting in Philadelphia, with 40 nations and two non members attending. Delegates consider linking global finance to labor conditions, addressing child labor and international loans as groundwork for a potential world peace framework.
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Philadelphia
International Labor Organizatin
Turkey to Stop Chrome Exports to Germany
Ankara officials announced that Turkey will halt chrome exports after tomorrow, a move cited by Turkish foreign minister Numan Menemencioglu in the national assembly. Chrome is used to alloy steel for hardening crankshafts and machine parts, affecting Germany's munitions supply.
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London
Reuters
Ankara
Turkey
Germany
Numan Menemencioglu
National Assembly
Bronx Woman Reports Fire Alarm For Help
A Bronx woman quarrelled with her husband and ran to the street to pull a fire alarm. Fire units responded with three engines two ladder companies two battalion chiefs a deputy chief and three police prowlers. She paid a 25 dollar fine in court for a false alarm.
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New York
Bronx
House Revives 4-F Work or Fight Issue
The House military committee urged reclassifying 4-F men into essential work groups and ordering induction for those refusing essential jobs. It called for public lists of eligible occupations and required notices to draft boards before job changes, with immediate noncombat assignment if needed and no impact on combat strength.
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House Military Committee
Costello
D-Calif
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
Army
Navy
U S War Casualties Reach 189 309 Through April 7
Secretary of War Stimson reports army losses from Pearl Harbor to April 7 total 145 082 with 25 018 killed 59 222 wounded 32 048 missing and 38 799 prisoners. Navy marines and coast guard tally 44 227 with 18 795 killed 11 726 wounded 9 282 missing and 4 424 prisoners.
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Washington
Navy
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
Marines
Coast Guard
Odessan partisans reveal catacomb campaign against Nazis
Odessa's 10 000 Soviet partisans lived in catacombs during the Nazi occupation and emerged at night to defend the city. Anatoly Leschenko and Dmitry Gaushin describe arming the guerrillas with supply from the Germans, demining pipes, and saving docking places. They claim about 500 enemy killed for 30 partisan deaths as Red Army approached.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Odessa
Red Army
Anatoly Leschenko
Red
Leschenko
Dneprov
Dmitry Gaushin
Volgin
Parti
Nikolaev
Gestapo
Gaushin
Cassino Quiet After Brief Flare In Italy War Zone
Allied units renewed fighting in Cassino hitting the Continental Hotel and Hotel Des Roses as German fire answered from the railway area. The Western bombers and fighters struck supply points at Livorno Piombina Santo Stefano while RAF Wellingtons targeted supply depots.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Naples
Cassino
Hotel Des Roses
Piombina
Ancona
Florence
Yugoslavia
Metkovic
RAF
Livorno
Leghorn
Santo Stefano
Ahoskie Man Awarded Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
Washington April 204 The War Department announced the award of the first bronze oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross to 1st Lt. Jennings L. Myers of Ahoskie North Carolina. Myers serves with the U Fifth Air Force in the South Pacific.
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Washington
Jennings L. Myers
Ahoskie
N. C
War Department
Myers
U. Fifth Air Force
South Pacific
Charlie Benbow Elected UNC Student Body President
Charlie Benbow of Winston Salem defeats Harvey White of Birmingham to become head of the University of North Carolina student government. University party candidates defeat united party candidates in spring elections.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Charlie Benbow
Winsston-Salem
Harvey White
Birmingham
Ala
University Party
United Party
Finns Still Hopeful Despite Russian Armistice Note
Dagens Nyheter reported Finland’s government sent a negative reply to Moscow through Stockholm. The note reviewed steps in the talks and reiterated Finland’s eagerness to reach peace.
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Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Moscow
Finland
Red Star Boosts U. S. War Production Says Allies Behind
Moscow dispatch cites Red Star claiming increased U S wartime output as Allied operations lag and urging boost to gear up for a second front. Vasily Cherpiakov argues American industry will fully mobilize when action begins, noting 1944 armament goals exceed 1943.
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Moscow
Red Star
United States
Vasily Cherpiakov
Great Britain
Germany
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