Allies Unleash Record Air Attack on Marianas
Army and Navy bombers struck Truk atoll and Hall Islands in the Marianas on Thursday and Friday. Four small vessels were destroyed and four damaged. Four-engined bombers flew over 2200 miles to Saipan and Tinian, meeting resistance but delivering major bombardment and fire. Concurrent reports note U S flag raises in Marshall Islands and carrier actions in the Indian Ocean alongside broader Allied advances in India and Burma. Two notable local deaths followed a plane crash near Fraley airport, killing S Howard Saunders and Thurman Deviney.
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Washington
Truk Atoll
Halliands
Mariannas
Navy
Moen
Dublon
Ulul Island
Igup
Murilo
Ruo Islands
Hall Islands
Truk
Fleet Air Wing Two
Leonard Milliman
Japan
Marianas Islands
The
Philip
Tokyo
Saipan
Tinian
Marianas
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Indian Ocean
Nippon
Oriental
India
Burma
Henan Province
China
and Tinian
Guam
Eniwetok
Marshalls
Atolls
Aur
Erikub
Hines Opposes New Pension Legislation
World War II veterans on pension rolls exceed 100000, Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines told a Senate subcommittee that action should be deferred until war outcomes are known. He criticized bills to raise World War I and II veterans pensions from 40 to 50 dollars and another plan for a flat 15 percent increase.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Hines
Senate Finance
Frank
Japs Press Attack Near Chenghsien Suburbs
Chinese high command said Japanese forces reached the suburbs of Chenghsien as the city was shelled and bombed. Japanese units from the southern end of the Yellow River bridge moved west to form a road block on a damaged Lunghai railway stretch 25 miles west. Another column crossed the Peiping Han railway 25 miles south of Chenghsien.
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Cchungking
Chenghsien
Yellow River Bridge
Lunghai Railway
Peiping-Han
Ghsien
Two High Point Men Die in Airplane Crash
Howard Saunders 33 and Thurman Deviney 40 were killed when an Aronca S C monoplane crashed near Fraley Field off Asheboro road after a high altitude slip. Coroner ruled accidental death. Saunders, High Point Airport president, survived by a widow Geneva Harvey and two children.
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S. Howard Saunders
Thurman Deviney
Fraley Airport
Asheboro Road
Saunders
WMFR
High Point
Greensboro
Howard Saunders
Fraley Field
Wes
A. W. Greeson
Darrell Albertson
Guilford County
W. W. Harvey
High Point Air Port, Inc
Paul Smith
Civil Air Authority
Lexington
Mercury Athletic Club
Civil Air Patrol
Terrific Rain Hits Kansas and Missouri
Terrific rain turned tropical in Kansas and Missouri, triggering flood fears as many towns ordered evacuations of lowland areas. Weather forecasters abandoned crest predictions, urging residents to move out while torrents continued, though officials expected river levels to fall after rainfall ceased.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi River
Weather Bureau
Nazi Prisoners Demonstrate At Fort Lewis
German prisoners of war at Fort Lewis Washington demonstrated on April 20 in honor of Hitler's birthday. They ceased work and prepared cakes before a Nazi flag was raised and confiscated. Authorities imposed a bread and water diet for one day to restore order. Normal camp operations resumed the next day.
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Fort Lewis
Wash
Fort Prisoner of War
Hitler
Geneva
Max W. Sullivan
League
Stimson Warns War’s Endurance Tied to Unity
Secretary of War Stimson warned that the nation’s defeat would arise from disunity among the armed forces or between the forces and civilians. He cited allied leaders and war priorities while signaling potential German U-boat resurgence and continued Japanese resistance abroad.
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Washington
War Stimson
Stimson
Army
Navy
Japan
Arthur W. Radford
William H. Wilbur
36Th Infantry
Italy
Europe
Atlantic
Francis S. Low
Tenth Fleet
Asia
Netherlands East Indies
Laurence S. Kuter
Army Air Forces
Curacao Calls Inhabitants to Pray for Allied Invasion
Willemstad Curacao April 22 allied troops have invaded Europe from the west news flashed to Curacao. Church bells will ring to summon all inhabitants to gather in prayer for the success of allied arms as announced today.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Europe
Netherlands West Indies
Germans Jittery Aspects Mass For Drive In Poland
London dispatch reports Soviet high command saying nothing major happened on the eastern front. Germans claim Red Army massing west for a big offensive in Poland to align with an Allied invasion from the west. Simultaneous blows are anticipated toward Berlin as preparations continue on both sides.
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Tom Yarbrough
London
Red Army
Poland
Crimea
Red Fleet
Sevastopol
Monitor
Moscow
Estonia
Narva
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Irge
Black Sea
Berlin
Martin Halensleben
Dnestr
Pripyat
Ukraine
Finns Turn Down Soviet Peace Terms
Moscow reports that Soviet vice commissar Vishinsky announced Finland rejected revised armistice conditions after two months of talks. Finland said the terms would burden the people beyond capacity and some points were technically unworkable, prompting an end to negotiations.
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Moscow
Andrei J. Vishinsky
Finland
Russia
Sweden
Sweden declines deliver to Germany in war era note
Sweden delivered a negative but conciliatory reply to U S Minister Herschel V Johnson regarding the American request to stop supplying ball bearings to Germany. The exchange occurred in Stockholm on April 22.
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Sweden
Stockholm
U. S
Herschel V. Johnson
Germany
Cardinal O'Connell Dies at 84 in Boston
Cardinal William O'Connell longtime Boston archbishop and dean of U S Catholic hierarchy died at 5 45 p m E W T after a severe bronchial attack He rallied briefly and sank again with Bishop Richard J Cushing and Mgr Jeremiah F Minihan at his bedside The death ends a century old era of church leadership in Boston with prayers from clergy and laity and a Vatican blessing note Pope Pius XII sent regrets and De Valera cables mentioned though not fully detailed
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Boston
William Cardinal O'Connell
Africa
E.W.T
Mgr
Jeremiah F. Minihan
Richard J. Cushing
Mgr. Minihan
Bishop Cushing
Rosar
Imes
Cushing
Mer
Richard J. Haberlin
Pius XII
Vatican
Rome
Pius
Joseph D. Brennan
Erie
Washington
Rennan
Eamon de
Situation in India Reported Improved
Southeast Asia Headquarters in Kandy Ceylon reports a favorable development as Allied infantry and tanks press outward from the Manipur plain in eastern India. British forces reportedly pushed the enemy 30 to 35 miles northeast of Imphal with dive bomber support and are mopping up the area, with heavy Japanese casualties claimed.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Manipur
India
Imphal
French Would Welcome Eisenhower as Pro Tem Ruler
Swiss report says French informants expect Eisenhower to govern temporarily with wide powers. They foresee French involvement in postwar government, fear reprisals if De Gaulle returns, and urge a firm Allied guiding hand to prevent chaos while elections are planned.
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Eisenhower
Bern
Switzerland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
de Gaulle
Pierre Pucheu
Argentina Moves to Quit ILO Meet Over Girola Ouster
Argentina threatens to withdraw its delegation after workers vote to oust labor delegate Luis Girola as a fascist, with Latin American members backing the action. Girola defends his credentials as clean, while reports say Argentina faces internal splits and navy influence amid South American protests.
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Philadelphia
Argentina
Cereatione
la Hull
Labor Ae
Luis Girola
Labor
Girola
Workers
Great Britain
United States
Australia
Statent
Latin-American Labor Federation
John Hallsworth
Toledano
Fedgeyan
Montivi
Rankin challenges Legion on GI bill stance
Chairman Rankin of Mississippi says he does not believe a single American Legion post would approve the senate passed GI bill of rights in its present form. He replied to national commander Atherton who warned the delay would affect morale and well being of the armed forces.
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Washington
Rankin
D-Miss
House Veterans Committee
American Legion
Warren H. Atherton
Legion
New York
House Committee
Wewak Neutralized by U S Bombers
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific reports Wewak, the Japanese base on the New Guinea coast, has been neutralized by bombing and strafing raids. The air offensive against Aitape, another coastal base 90 miles west, has been intensified.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
Guinea
Aitape
Invasion Era Air Blitz on Hamm and French Coast
Allied fleets of 4,000 fighters and bombers struck Hamm and northern France Belgium, with heavy air battles over Cologne. About 29,000 tons of explosives dropped in a week as Thunderbolt and Mustang units hit rail hubs, coastal emplacements, and airfields. Bucharest and Genoa also faced nightly Allied air strikes aiding the Western invasion effort.
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London
Hamm
France
Belgium
U. S. Air Force
Thirolt
Mustang
Lightning
Germany
Hitler
Cologne
Alantic Wall
Channel
England
French
Ank
Britain
Malines
Brussels
Saint Ghisla
Ghent
Balkans
Hapital
Bucharest
Turnu-Severin
Red Army
Genoa
Livorno
Essen
Berlin
Dwight D. Eisenhow
Archbishop of York Calls for Postwar European Relief
The Archbishop Cyril Garbett urged the United States and Great Britain to send food clothing and machinery to occupied European nations at the earliest moment after fighting ends. Speaking before 1000 guests at the English Speaking Union luncheon he said Germany seeks domination by enslaving weak states and warned of lasting German advantages if losses continue.
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New York
Cyril Forster Garbett
York
England
Torday
United States
Great Britain
Germany
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