Sweden warns Germany over mines in Swedish waters
Stockholm reports Sweden found German mines in its territorial waters and issued a formal note to Berlin. The government protests Germany's response to the firing on the Swedish submarine Draken by the merchant ship Altkirch and vows measures against any future mine laying and attacks on Swedish vessels.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Berlin
Germany
Draken
Altkirch
Ulven
Marstrand
Goetborg Archipelago
Rommel Believed Absent From North Africa Front
Allied authorities cited a captured document showing Field Marshal Erwin Rommel signed as commander in chief on March 19. The note implies Rommel left Tunisia with Von Arnim in command of Africa Corps, prompting questions about his fate and leadership in the North African theater.
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North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Jurgen von Arnim
Rommel
Tunisia
Harold Alexander
First Army
von Arnim
Japs Base in Celebes Pounded by Allied Bombers
Far ranging Allied bombers dropped 21 tons of bombs on Kendari in Celebes, destroying five ground planes and damaging repair facilities. Air battles over Wewak and Lae yielded several enemy losses while Liberators attacked targets across New Guinea and nearby seas.
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Jap Air Assembly
Vern Haugland
Australia
Kendari
Celebes
Wewak
New Guinea
Ting
Douglas MacArthur
Ofustralia
Kendall
Theylso
Dillon R
Sidor
New Gui
Madang
Ngor
Gumbi
Biliau
Lae Aire
Mubo
Salaua
Gloucester
New Main Island
Dona
Ai Islands
Aroe Islands
Sermata Islands
Our Duty By Donald Vi. Nelson War Production Board
Our Duty explains the Second Loan drive urging citizens to invest in war bonds as a duty and privilege. It emphasizes marshaling power, materials, and money to support fighting forces and assures bonds are an investment in victory and freedom rather than a payment.
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Donald VI. Nelson
War Production Board
Associated
Earth
Third Escapee Apprehended By Officer
MILWAUKEE April 24. FBI agent in charge Harry O Connor says Joseph Bidwell third member of a trio who escaped from a federal detention prison in New Orleans last Tuesday is in Milwaukee police custody. Bidwell was arrested in a riverfront rooming house during a routine occupant check and held for violation of the federal escape act on an Orleans warrant. Bidwell left his companions days ago. the others were captured today in St Paul. Detective Sergeant Richard Buchletz said Bidwell admitted he was wanted on a federal charge.
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Milwaukee
Harry O' Connor
FBI
Joseph Bidwell
New Orleans
O'Connor
Bidwell
St. Paul
Richard Buchletz
Police Department
Morgenthau Urges Bond Drive To Surpass Margin
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau urged surpassing the 13 billion dollar goal as the second War Loan reached 12.014 billion. He called the minimum target a baseline and said the drive should demonstrate national resolve, urging individual investments totaling 1.629 billion in small bonds. West coast laggards reached 80 percent of quota while Washington Arizona and Utah exceeded theirs, and quotas nationwide were raised after news of captured American airmen.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
West Coast
Arizona
Utah
Celanese Strikers Return to Work Amid Presidential Order
Newark April 24. Howard Gill, president of local 12666 United Mi Workers, announced that members would return to Celanese Corporation plastics plant Monday morning after a presidential order to end the two week strike. The War Labor Board has referred the dispute to the President. About 700 members attended a Polish Falcon Hall meeting.
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Newark
N. J
Howard Gill
United Mi
Celanese Corporation
John L. Lewis
UMW
Roosevelt
Plastics
Gill
Polish Falcon Hall
War Labor Board
Textile Workers of America
CWO
Bus and Army Truck Crash Near Camp Stewart Kills Six
A dawn collision five miles south of Camp Stewart Georgia between a passenger bus bound for Savannah and an army truck killed six people and injured 25. Most victims worked the night laundry shift. four of the dead were Negro workers including R Walter Sellers of Walt hourville and Gladys Vaughn of Cobbtown.
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Camp Stewart
Here
Allenhurst
Savannah
Post Hospital
R. Walter Sellers
Walthourville, Ga
Gladys Vaughn
Cobbtown
Bucharest Radio Off Air Amid Suspected Raids
British radio reported from New York that Bucharest radio went off air in the evening. The broadcast suggested air raids may be in progress, a note recorded by the Federal Communications Commission and CBS.
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Bucharest
New York
Alest
Inucharest
Romania
Federal Communications Commission
CBS
Soviet Airmen Hit 18 in Donets Basin and Caucasus
Soviet air forces claimed 18 German planes destroyed in the northwestern Caucasus and 18 more hit at Stalino airdrome in the Donets basin. Reports also said heavy losses halted Kuban bridgehead expansion, with several blockhouses downed, a battalion dispersed, and a hangar fuel dump and fires caused at Stalino.
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Donets Basin
London
Caucasus
Stalino
Donets
Moscow
Kuban
Monitor
Balakleya
Kharkov
Ukraine
Red Army
Sevsk
Bryansk
Volkhov
Leningrad
Caucasian
Khaki Navy Blue Vie In Easter Finery
In New York Easter parade preparations, khaki and navy blue dominate as thousands of servicemen and civilians converge on Fifth Avenue. Soldiers sailors WAACS WAVES SPARS fill railroad stations and terminals while hotels fill, theaters and circuses run full, and last minute millinery rushes swell hat shops amid packed tickets and holiday crowds.
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New York
Uncle Sam's
Fifth Avenue
New Retail Ceiling Prices On Beef and Lamb Set Lower
OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced new retail ceiling prices for beef and lamb will be 1 to 3 cents per pound lower than recently published schedules and take effect May 17. Compared with February prices, the cuts will average about 0.1 percent lower, with sharper reductions against newer levels. Specific cuts in northeastern small stores show 61 cent porterhouse instead of 63, rib steak 38 instead of 40, sirloin 47 instead of 48, and lamb cuts also reduced.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Muscovites Fill Churches For Easter
Thousands of Muscovites packed Moscow’s 26 churches from before midnight until dawn for Easter. The city’s military commandant announced the lifting of the midnight curfew at believers’ request, prompting crowds to surge to churches. By 11 p.m. entry was nearly impossible as masses stood shoulder to shoulder while the Internationale played from loudspeakers.
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Moscow
New Tax Bill Proposes 41 Rates On Incomes
A pay-as-you-go bill from the House Ways and Means Committee would cancel about 44 percent of 1942 tax obligations and shift to 1941 rates. It calls for a 20 percent withholding on wages, applying lower 1941 rates, spreading last year’s taxes over three years, and offering small discounts for early full payment. The plan faces a House floor fight with Republican opposition and alternative measures from Robertson and Ruml.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
House
McCormack
Mass
Rep
Robertson
D-Va
Allied Advance Begins Close-in For Final Kill
American troops sped from Southern Tunisia and French forces along the northern coast press toward Bizerts from three directions as British forces overrun Long Stop Hill on the western defense line. Rommel reportedly disappeared according to a March 19 document signed by Jurgen Von Arnim. Cap Serrat and Long Stop Hill moves bring Allied reach closer to Tunis and the great naval base.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Tunisia
Bizerts
Tunis
Africa
Erwin Rommel
Harold Alexander
18Th Army Group
Rommel
Hitler
Germany
Bizerte
London
Cap Serrat
First Army
Verdun
Long Stop Hill
Tunisian
Long Stop
Medijez-El-Bab
Moravians Hold 17th Easter Sunrise Service At W-S
Winston-Salem Easter crowd expected to range from 10 000 to 20 000 as Moravians stage the 171st sunrise service led by Bishop J Kenneth Pfohl at 6 am tomorrow A daytime band tour will awaken worshipers on foot due to a charter bus ban Illness keeps B J Pfohl from participating in the music portion of the service tonight the cantata The Seven Last Words Of Christ was performed at the Home Church under James Christian Pfohl
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J. Kenneth Pfohl
Winston-Salem
Office of Defense Transportation
B. J. Pfohl
Christ
Duboise
James Christian Pfohl
Davidson College
Bishop Pfohl
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