Finnish Showdown Near as U S Legation Departs
Washington April 24 The threat of a Nazi takeover in Finland and Hitler’s fear for a European fortress prompted Helsinki to seek a 100 percent pro Axis government. The U S legation departed as diplomatic quarters weighed the crisis.
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Washington
Finland
Hitler
Helsinki
Legation
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
Robert Mills McClintock
State Department
Germany
Russia
Wehrmacht
France
United States
Europe
House Group Approves New Pay-Go Tax Measure
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a Democratic pay-as-you-go tax plan returning 1941 rates and 1942 exemptions to evaluate current taxes, with debate scheduled for May 3. Republicans favored a modified Ruml plan as an alternative.
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House Group
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
S Lence
Robertson
D-Va
Congress
Moravian Sunrise Service to Attract Crowds in 171st Annual Revival
Wartime conditions are expected to greatly cut attendance at the Moravian Sunrise Service in Winston-Salem. The event draws visitors from across the country each year, marking its 171st annual observance, with ceremony broadcast nationwide on the radio.
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Winston-Salem
War Bonds Encouraged for Farm Folks by Wickard
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard urges farm people to invest in War Bonds and government securities during the Second War Loan Drive as the best form of financial reserve. Patriotism and sensible personal planning back the appeal.
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Claude Wickard
War Today Easter response to fighting faith idea
Reader letters flood in from across the country after a column urging a fighting faith to win the war. Except for a Minnesota correspondent who dismisses religion as merely debate, most messages support religious guidance in wartime.
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Harry 8. Truman
Dem Mo
California
Minnesota
Scott
Referees Step Into Gasoline Rubber Fight
A congressional probe heats up over allegations that the rubber program slows 100 octane aviation fuel production. War officials Patterson Ickes Jeffers face calls to resign if charges prove true, with Baruch and Gillette ready to referee. Truman committee to hear WPB chair Nelson and Ickes, then Jeffers, Patterson, and Forrestal.
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Washington
Robert R. Patterson
Harold L. Ickes
William M. Jeffers
United States
Senate War Investigating Committee
Bernard Baruch
Jeffers
Gillette
D- Iown
Truman Committee
War Investigating Committee
War Department
Truman
D-Mo
WPB
Donald Nelson
Ickes
Patterson
Navy
James V. Forrestal
OPA Expands Grade I Tire Eligibility May First
Millions of motorists with more than 240 miles monthly gas rations will gain Grade I tire access starting May 1, as the OPA moves to broaden tire quality options. Simultaneously the Victory tire line from reclaimed rubber is halted, with recaps and retreads to use the material.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Victory
OPA
Toy
Eastern Seaboard
William Jeffer
Jeffers
WLB Extends Wage Pact For Appalachian Coal Dispute
The War Labor Board ordered the nearly expired wage agreement between Appalachian soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers extended while awaiting settlement. A preliminary hearing opened with operator representatives only. no UMW officials attended. Lewis’s press rep indicated no plans for him to travel to Washington.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Appalachian Soft
United Mine Workers
UMW
New York
K. C. Adams
Lewis
New York City
Charles O'Neill
R. L. Ireland
R. E. Jamison
Harry M. Moses
William Findlay
Ezra van Horn
Edward R. Burke
M. L. Garvey
H. A. McAllister
F. M. Medaris
M. L. Scott
Roosevelt Hotel
Adams
Our Duty By Price Administrator
Our Duty urges Americans to buy war bonds as a double victory plan. It notes an estimated 45 billion dollars in extra spending power this year with civilian goods scarce. Purchasing war bonds funds the armed forces, curbs inflation at home, and saves lives, the American way of life, and future purchasing power.
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Prentiss M. Brown
Associated Press
The
Enterprise
Allied forces push six miles toward Mateur in Tunisia
Dispatches from the North Africa front say American troops moved six miles toward Mateur 18 miles southwest of Bizerte after transferring from the southern Tunisian line. The British First Army also captured Long Stop Hill 28 miles west of Tunis as Beja and the Beja-Mateur road saw renewed fighting.
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Long Stop Hill
First Army
North Africa
Mateur
Bizerte
Tunis
British Submarines Sink Ten More Axis Ships
The British admiralty announced that ten Axis ships were destroyed or damaged by submarines in the Mediterranean. A cruiser and a tanker were among the damaged vessels, with breaking noises heard from both after torpedo hits. Four more ships were listed as damaged and believed sunk later.
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London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Rommel Leaves North Africa As Allied Push Near Bizerte
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel reportedly left North Africa while Gen. Harold Alexander's headquarters announced American troops are returning to battle. Americans storm to within 30 miles of Bizerte as Allied air forces fly a record 1500 sorties with minimal losses. British First Army armor pushes the Axis western flank by six to seven miles in the Goubellat Bour Arada sector and the Eighth Army conducts vigorous patrols repelling a local German counterattack on the southern front as the American advance nears Bizerte within 50 miles.
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Hitler
Finland
Germany
Soviet Union
United States
Europe
Axis
Russia
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
Harold Alexander
Bizerte
Tunisia
First Army
Goubellat-Bour Arada
Eighth Army
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Wthin
Bizer
New Britain
Toel
Kai Islands
Dobo
Aroe
Churchill
H. H. Arnold
U. S. Air Forces
Tokyo
Japan
Burma
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Bay of Bengal
Burma-India
Bomber Destroys Japanese Merchant In Avenge Blow
A Liberator bomber destroyed an 8,000 ton Japanese merchantman in New Guinea waters. The mission followed the Tokyo executions and the crew, led by Lieut. John M. Sturgeon of Lexington Kentucky, received air medals from Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney after the sinking.
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New Guinea
Tokyo
Bismarck
Kavieng
Rabaul
John M. Sturgeon
Lexington
Sturgeon
George C. Kenney
Southwest Pacific Air Force
Earl S. Sasser
Mount Olive
Allied Warplanes Pound Five Jap Bases In Pacific Islands
Allied airmen bombed five Japanese bases in the Pacific above Australia and conducted 18 strafing attacks on troops in New Guinea. A transport ship of about 8,000 tons was sunk in the Bismarck Sea with a single 500 pound bomb.
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Pacific Islands
Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Bismarck Sea
Salamaua
Mubo
Mubo-Salamaua
Lae
Finschhafen
Ubili
War Work Strikers Defy FRs Order To Resume Work
Newark April 24 Strikers at Celanese Corporation of America's big plastics plant continued picketing after President Roosevelt ordered their immediate return to work. The War Labor Board said the strike hindered war production at 21 other plants. Police guarded the plant as UMW officials warned they would not work for the Celanese firm. The President cited a no strike pledge and possible Army or Navy action if the order was ignored.
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Newark
N. J
Celenese Corporation of America
Roosevelt
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
War Labor Board
Army
Navy
Howard Gill
Celanese
White House
UMW
Labor Relations Board
CIO
WLB
Stephen Early
Lewis
Tank Employees Stage Walkout At Detroit Chrysler Arsenal
Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal shut down after 500 workers protest a Friday layoff for an employee who left to smoke. Spokesman cites standard penalty for smoking or leaving job. Union leader Leo LaMotte vows to intervene to restore the workers.
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Detroit
Detroit Tank Arsenal
Chrysler Corporation
Corporation
Arsenal
Leo LaMotte
East Side
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Chrysler
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Kuban
Caucasus
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