Eighth Army Storms Past Enfidaville To Mount Citadel
General lines describe Allied forces driving to seize a strategic mountain citadel while U S bombers continue daylight high altitude strikes on Nazi war industry from British bases. The piece analyzes bomber losses and enemy interceptors in the Bremen raid, noting overall favorable damage to German plant and a favorable comparison with Pacific air campaigns.
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Eighth Army
Enfidaville
Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Patterson
Bremen
Washingon
Allied gains hold in Tunisian front as fierce battle rages
British Eighth Army captures Takrouna and advances toward Bou Ficha while the First Army pushes east of Bou Arada in Tunisia. Air victories include 38 Axis planes shot down and the destruction of large Messerschmitt transports. Ground forces under Lieut. Gen. Anderson grip positions along Goubellat to Bou Arada as Montgomery’s troops secure key roads from Enfidaville.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Eighth Army
Takrouna
Entidaville
Bou Ficha
First Army
Bou Areda
Tunisian
Gulf of Tunnis
Messerschmitt
Erwin Rommel
Gulf
Tunis
K. A. N. Anderson
Goubellat
Bou Arada
Medjez-El Dab
Grand Dorsal
Rommel
U S Forces Occupy Ellice Island Group
United States forces occupied the Ellice Island group in the South Pacific, unopposed, after a Japanese air raid on Fanafuti. The group lies about 1,100 miles east of the Gilbert Islands and serves as a supply line toward Australia. Casualties were minor. exact date of occupation not given.
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Washington
South Pacific
United States
Navy
Ellice
Jomon Islands
Andustralia
Oday
Fanafuti
Prinpal
Idea
Naval
Unitiates
War Savings Bonds as Best Savings for Individuals
The text argues that greater personal income savings provide inflation protection and that war savings bonds are the best form of savings for individuals and the nation, as stated by Jesse H. Jones, Secretary of Commerce.
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Jesse H. Jones
Officials Say Freeze Order Hard To Soften
War Manpower Commission officials say it would be difficult to soften Chairman Paul V. MacNutt's job wage control order without changing President Roosevelt's inflation stance. They note AFL and CIO opposition centers on the President's directives rather than McNutt's actions. The order blocks 27 million workers from taking higher paying jobs unless releases are approved by the WMC, with current releases limited to about 60 stabilized communities.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. MacNutt
Roosevelt
McNutt
AFL
CIO
William Green
United Auto Workers’ Executive Board
WMC
Wall Street Focuses on War Loan Drive Amid Good Friday
New York April 23 AP Wall Street skipped the usual Good Friday holiday observance and centered on the Second War Loan drive. The Stock Exchange and curb markets were closed while brokers offices stayed open with staff ready to maximize war bond orders before day’s end.
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New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Curb Exchange
Rampant Liquor Stills Vice and Revolt Reported at Georgia Prison
A Georgia committee reported Piney Woods State Prison had rampant liquor stills vice gambling and prisoner escapes before eight fugitives remained at large. Wardens since then have begun reforms but investigators noted ongoing issues with intimate ties between inmates and prison staff and illicit activity in the canning plant.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Piney Woods
Marble
Model
Pepsee
Ellis Arnall
Leland Harvey
Forrest Turner
Claude Pittman
H. R DuVall
DuVall
Petitions Move On Intervening in Wilfong Execution
In Raleigh on April 23 petitions for and against delaying the scheduled execution of Harvey Wilfong, a Negro convict from Catawba County on arson charges, were presented to Governor Broughton. The governor ordered a psychiatric evaluation of Wilfong within days amid allegations he broke into a house attempted rape and set a bed afire where the victim slept.
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Raleigh
Harvey Wilfong
Catawba County
Broughton
Wilfong
Unconquered Yugoslavs Wage Full-Scale War On Axis Troops
A Budapest report quotes Magyar Nemzet saying Yugoslav partisans led by Gen. Draja Mihailovic wage full scale war against Axis troops in western Serbia and along the Adriatic frontier. Italian, German and Croatian forces suffer casualties as battles rage on Yan Planina Mountain and Bradina area near Ante Pavelic's birthplace.
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Bern
Switzerland
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Budapest
Zagrob
Magyar Nemzet
Bosnia and
Hercegovina
Serbia
Draja Mihailovic
Yan Planina
Bosnia-Hercegovina
War Crimes Trial Idea Proposed by Allied Leaders
The piece discusses shaping a joint United Nations program to try atrocity crimes after the war. It compares courts martial as a deterrent and recalls the 1919 peace conference recommending a Kaiser trial by a US Britain France Italy Japan tribunal and a blacklist of 900 German leaders. It notes divided sentiment on extradition and mentions German figures like the Crown Prince and Field Marshal.
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United Nations
Kaiser
United States
Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Holland
Government Will Seize Wheat If Loans Not Repaid
The Commodity Credit Corporation said loans on about 180 million bushels of wheat will mature April 30. If lenders do not redeem by then the government will take over the grain as full payment of the loans, affecting 160 million bushels from 1942 crop and 20 million from 1941 stored in warehouses and on farms. About $225 million in loans are due from farmer borrowers.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Red Armies Smash New Nazi Assaults
Soviet reports claim German reinforcements and heavy airpower were thrown into the Kuban and North Caucasus stalemate. Red Star says about 4,000 Axis dead since the Kuban campaign began as German waves failed to break Russian lines near Novorossiysk and the Sea of Azov.
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Moscow
Kuban
Star
Black Sea
Poti
Chuguev
Donets
The
Novorossisk
Sea of Azov
Red Star
Congress Debates Gasoline Rubber War Dispute
AP reports a Senate probe into a clash between military aims to bomb Nazi Europe and Rubber Director William M Jeffers who seeks to sustain both military and civilian tire production. Patterson and Ickes cited diverted materials harming aviation fuel. Gillette vows full fact finding.
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Washington
Congress
Nazi
Europe
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
Patterson
Gillette
D-lown
Senate Agriculture Sub-Committee
Ickes
James F. Byrnes
OPA Imposes Ceiling Prices on Meals and Alcohol in Southeast
The Office of Price Administration set ceiling prices effective April 26 for all meals and drinks in eating and drinking places across the southeastern states plus North and South Carolina Georgia Florida Mississippi Tennessee Virginia and Alabama. Prices capped at the highest level charged for each item during April 4–10.
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Atlanta
Office of Price Administration
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
Virginia
Alabama
James C. Derieux
OPA
Unrest Blamed For Walkout Of 2000 Soft Coal Miners
Two thousand soft coal miners walk out over wage deadlock as officials blame unrest and protest at operators. The stoppage affects three Republic Steel pits and comes as WLB wage talks loom after May 1. Union leaders warn a broader coal strike if no new agreement is reached.
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Marren Graham
Pittsburgh
Warbusy Steel Mills
United Mine Workers
Joseph Yablonsky
International Board
District 5
Republic Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Yablonsky
Isabella
Wirton Coal Company
National Steel Corporation
West Virginia
William Blizzard
Charleston
Cecil J. Urbaniak
Fairmont
Labor
Perkins
WLB
UMW
John L. Lewis
New York
William H. Davis
Doolittle Forecasts More Bombing of Japan
The report notes Maj Gen James Doolittle predicting another strike on Tokyo soon as Allied air forces hit Japanese bases across the Southwest Pacific and Burma. MacArthur's HQ says U N airmen bombed bases near Nassau Bay in northern New Guinea, damaging depleted supplies and troops. British and Allied forces renewed attacks on Rangoon and northern Burma, targeting airfields and Japanese troops.
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James H. Doolittle
Japan
Southwest
Pacific
Burma
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Australia
Nassau Bay
New Guinea
North Africa
Doolittle
U. S
Tokyo
Washington
War Department
Rangoon
Upper Chindwin
Japs Broaden Scope Of Threats To Captured American Fliers
Berlin radio reported Tokyo notes to Washington threaten severe punishment for captured American airmen who allegedly committed cruel acts. Tokyo officials denied mistreatment claims and criticized protest as unfounded, asserting Japan’s stance was already stated by imperial headquarters in 1942.
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Berlin
Tokyo
United States
Manchkuo
Tokyo Radio Iself
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Tomokazu Hori
Cabinet
Japan
Hori
Imperial Headquarters
Africa May Be European Refugee Haven
Hamilton Bermuda April 23 British and American delegates at the Bermuda conference discussed Africa as a major possible haven for European refugees but final decisions may wait for a later meeting. No details were announced and military factors limit negotiations with Germany for Jewish populations.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Africa
Europe
Releif
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Focke-Wulf
MacArthur
America
Mexico
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manuel Avila Camacho
Monterrey
President Camacho
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Ene Fidaville
Staratgic Zaghouan
New Island Group
Atlon
By Frank Brutto
Hitler
Senate
Panama
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