Violent Air War Mounts On Red Front
Izvestia says a decisive summer land campaign may begin next month as the Soviet Union presses a violent air war along the front. The report notes heavy German losses, Russian air superiority, and intensified operations from Krasnodar to the Kuban valley with significant aerial battles.
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Moscow
Russia
Izvestia
Kuban
Caucasus
Don
Black Sea
Taman
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Krasnodar
Britain
Our Duty to Support War Effort Through Money Drive
A wartime editorial urges readers to fund the war by supporting production of tanks planes and guns. It emphasizes unwavering resolve against Japan and Nazi allies, noting money as essential to victory and to imprint memory of the struggle for posterity. It cites General Sheridan on the costs of war.
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Associated Press
The
Enterprise
Napoleon
Japan
al Goebbels
Soland
Hitler
tXis
Gental Sheraian
Volya Polska Attacks Polish Government in Exile
In Moscow on April 30, Volya Polska, the Polish language newspaper, launched a new editorial assault on the London based Polish government in exile. The piece accuses it of worsening relations with the Soviet Union and alleges Polish authorities aided German propaganda.
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Moscow
Volya Polska
London
Soviet Union
Pravda
Smolensk
International Red Cross
Volva Polska
Volva Iska
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Austria
United States recalls consul from Martinique and abandons ties with French official
Secretary Hull announced the recall of the U S consul general from Martinique and abrogation of all agreements with Admiral Georges Robert the French high commissioner. The note said Robert is a tool of the Hitler regime and that the United States will not recognize Vichy nor negotiate with any French Antilles representative tied to it. Hull said efforts were made to cooperate with Robert and the Martinique people but the Allied cause requires firm action.
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Washington
United States
Martinique
Georges Robert
Hull
Robert
France
Antilles
French Antilles
Japanese Hint at Invasion of Australia in Pacific War
A Japanese army spokesman indicated invasion plans against Australia as bases in Timor New Guinea and the Solomons were described as strengthening. The Tokyo broadcast cited Maj. Gen. Nakao Yahagi. The U S Navy meanwhile reported eliminating a nine man Japanese patrol on Guadalcanal in the Solomons.
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Mindo
Australia
British Commonwealth
Japan
Pacific
Tokyo Radio
Nakao Yahagi
Imperial Headquarters
Timor Island
New Guinea
Solomons
U. S.S. Navy
Guadalcanal
OPA Revises Meat Ration Values Effective Sunday
The OPA cut and raised ration values to shift demand from round steaks and pork chops to spareribs brains tongues and pickled cuts. Round and loin cuts rose to 9 points, spareribs and hocks fell to 3 and 2 points, with liver unchanged at 6 for beef and 8 for veal.
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OPA
Washington
Laval in talks with Hitler over more Frenchmen to be sent
Bern April 30 reports say Pierre Laval French chief of government conferring with Adolf Hitler. The talks follow earlier Axis meetings and Laval has been negotiating since April 14 on further Frenchmen to work for Germany.
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Bern
Switzerland
Pierre Laval
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Laval
Germany
Cotton Mills Told To Plan For Draft Loss
Herman Cone of Greensboro N C president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association urged mills at the annual meeting to prepare replacement schedules for draft liable workers ages 18 to 38. The schedule lists draft status and release month and must be approved by state boards and the War Manpower Commission. He warned the manpower program has grown acute with turnover rising from 16 percent in 1939 to about 100 percent by end of 1942.
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Atlanta
Herman Cone
Greensboro
N. C
American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
State Selective Service Board
Cone
Allied advances press on Tunisian front amid stubborn axis defense
Allied forces push on two Tunisian wings while Lieut. Gen. Anderson’s First Army blocks Nazi counterattacks near Medjez El Bab. U S Second Army Corps advances toward Tunis and Bizerta as French and American detachments reach 20 airline miles from Bizerta.
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North Africa
K. A. N. Anderson
Medjez-El-Bab
Tunis
U. S. Army
Tunisian
Bizerte
United States
Lake Ashkel
Lake Bizerte
Mediterranean
U. S
Sidi N’sir
Diebel Amtra
Jenna
Mateur
Sidi N
Diebel Tahient
Mateur Road
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eighth
Medjez-Fi-Bab
Medjezda
First Army
Djebel Bou Aoukaz
Lewis Calls Policy Group Together To Decide Problem
The Associated Press reports walkouts threaten soft coal mines as John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers resist Roosevelt’s war production order. Miners in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio lean toward a renewal of collective bargaining delaying mine resumption until Lewis acts.
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Lewis
Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
America
Virginia
West Virginia
Mountaineer
White House
Ohio
Wsn
New York
UMW
F. A. Norman
Fayette
Penn
Rooseveltesterday
Army
Navy
Hitler uses Caucasus bridgehead hopes to reach oil
The article describes Nazi efforts to push from the Kuban bridgehead opposite Novorossisk and Crimea into the Caucasus, while Soviet forces aim to repel the advance. Hitler plans a Crimea launch to cross the strait and link with Rostov operations to widen the breach and hold the position.
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Fuhhrer
Hitler
Kuban
Caucasian
Crimea
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Rostov
Berlin Orders Interment Of 400000 Former Dutch Soldiers
London reports Berlin demands 400000 Dutch veterans report for interment in German camps. Netherlands government urges resistance and noncompliance, warning of drastic penalties for those who hide prisoners or fail to report. Dutch resistance grows with Allied invasion looming.
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Berlin
London
Netherlands
Radio Orange
Holland
Adolf Hitler
Friedrich Christiansen
Germany
Fuehrer
U S Airmen Strike Amboina and Timor in Allied Raid
Allied air forces breached Japanese defenses at Amboina 600 miles north of Australia and damaged 15 interceptors. Dutch Mitchells burned Koeapang capital of Timor while strikes hit Tanimbar Islands and New Guinea. Burma front saw sharp local fighting along the Bay of Bengal coast with mixed counterattacks. RAF planes strafed Japanese troops near Akyab and hit rail lines and river traffic.
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Associated Press
Amboina
Australia
Douglas Anna
U. S
Tanimbar Islands
New Guinea
Burma
Bay of Bengal
RAF
Akyab
War Bond Drive Underscores Postwar Peace Aim
Cordell Hull declares that victory requires strong finance through war bond sales to support efforts against enemies who reject peace. He ties bond success to securing a future world guided by the United Nations and a satisfactory peaceful order.
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United Nations
Cordell Hull
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