Little Action ruler Can Buy Time In Russ War By W Gilmore
Soviet and German fronts show no major shifts as air activity persists. In the Balakieya area Germans press bridgeheads but miss objectives. Russians report 200 enemy killed in 24 hours. Volkhov sector sees Russian artillery bombardments and 25 dugouts destroyed. Leningrad front offers no fresh updates.
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EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Russia
Balakieya
Volkhov front
Volkhov
Leningrad
Red Star
Britain's New P N G Captain Crookshank Named Postmaster General
The Left Hand Corner reports Britain's new Postmaster General by biography of Captain Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank. A World War veteran, he served with the Hamp shires Grenadier Guards and in Western Front Salonika Tunisia earning wounds and honors. MP for Gainsborough since 1924 he holds Financial Secretary to the Treasury since 1939. He is the sole British male descendant of American Quaker John Woolman.
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APTAIN HARRY FREDERICK COMFORT CROOKSHANK
Britain
Eton
Magdalen
Hampshires
Tunisia
Grenadier Guards
Salonika
London
Ottawa Journal
Order of the White Eagle
Gainsborough
Treasury
Carlton
the Guards
Pratt
John Woolman
Charles Lamb
Captain Crookshank
Woolman
England
cave alry
No Holds Barred War in Pacific Warned by MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned Allied forces that Japan planned a no holds barred aerial war in the southwest Pacific to threaten Australia. He stressed airpower as the decisive element and said victory would hinge on proper air and ground force use amid a Japanese offensive along the New Britain coast.
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Pacific
MacArthur
MARLIN SPENCER
Associated Press
AUSTRALIA
Douglas MacArthur
southwest Pacific
western Pacific
Hansa bay
New
Parliamentary News Bulletins from Ottawa April 14
Prime Minister Mackenzie King says budget resolutions may not be disposed of by Easter adjournment and warns he will keep Parliament open next week if progress stalls. Howe notes oil price increases since the war exceed U S gains and discusses Turner Valley crude and Alberta sands development with federal inquiries and company talks.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
house of commons
Howe
Turner Valley
Alta
United States
George R. Cottrelle
Western
Canada
Alberta
oan
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Abasands, Ltd
Jattar company
Alortta natural resources
NO WASTE IN WORDS OR AMMUNITION FO
FO Gordon Lisle May 23 of Lethbridge Alberta and Sgt Fred Whitworth 21 the British observer in Mays Beaufighter brought back a log entry from a flight off Sardinia detailing an enemy JU-52 sighting a shoot down and resumed course May promoted overseas after Yorkton graduation and is son of H B May of Lethbridge Hoyts Hardware staff member.
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GORDON MAY
Associated Press
North Africa
Gordon Lisle May
Lethbridge
Alta
Fred Whitworth
Sardinia
May
Yorkton
H. B. May
istaff
Hoyt’s Hardware
RAF Bombs Spezia Base and Sicily Harbor Raids
Britain based bombers attacked Spezia naval base in Northern Italy. SAS raiders in the Middle East struck Palermo and Messina harbors in Sicily. The operations aim to disrupt supplies to Rommel's forces in Tunisia and hinder North African air support.
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LONDON
CP.1
Spezia
Italy
SAS
Middle East
Palermo
Messina
Sicily
Spezans
Lixurian Sea
Genos
RAF
Middle East command
North African strategic air force
Rommel
fortes
Tunisia
Japs Raid Milne Bay Hit by Japanese Aerial Assault
Allied headquarters in Australia reported a daylight Japanese air raid on Milne Bay, the heaviest there since January. The force, part of a broader Pacific offensive, involved multiple waves and ranged about 100 planes targeting Port Moresby Oro Bay and Tulagi. Details on Allied interception were not immediately available.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Milne Bay
Oro Bay
Tulagi
Port Moresby
MacArthur
Pacific
Papua
New Guinea
Wild Jap Claims in Burma War Report
Tokyo radio cites Imperial Headquarters saying western Burma campaign results include 469 enemy planes destroyed 4200 British troops killed 518 prisoners taken before April 10 34 ships sunk or damaged and large war material captured. Allied confirmation is lacking RAP New Delhi reports British aerial attacks with limited Japanese counter and minor activity.
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NEW YORK
Tokyo
Imperial headquarters
Burma
RAP
New Delhi
Push for Alberta oil expansion in wartime drive
Ottawa April 14 Munitions Minister Howe outlined a campaign to maximize Canadian oil. A new crown company will drill Turner Valley sites this summer and a statement on Alberta tar sands development was promised. Debates touched on budget tax changes and alleged favoritism to large oil interests as MPs criticized the concessions.
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R. BLACKBURN
OTTAWA
house of commons
Howe
crown
Turner Valley
Alberta
house
Ilsley asid
George Ross
Calgary East
Manley Edwards
Calgary West
A. H. Bence
Saskatoon City
No Troops Yet Sent To Arvida
Ottawa April 14 The munitions minister says no troops have been sent to Arvida Quebec despite reports of 3000 troops. He notes troops are kept there for security and that government will take unusual precautions to protect aluminum production amid a threatened strike at the Aluminum Company of Canada plant.
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OTTAWA
Howe
Fiesh
Arvida
Que
Aluminum Company of Canada
King Receives Gen Vanier in London Audience
The King today received Maj Gen George P Vanier in audience in London. Vanier serves as Canadian minister to governments in London of the occupied countries and representative to the Fighting French national committee.
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LONDON
ICP
George P. Vanier
natinal committee
British envoy to Vatican returns to London
Francis Osborne, British minister to the Vatican, arrived in London for his first visit since the Vatican City was confined during Britain’s war declaration.
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VATICAN
LONDON
Francis Osborne
Haly
Vatican City
Sergeant Montgomery Talks Back to Cameraman
Cairo April 1 Sgt Worden F Lovell US Army photographer recalls a tense moment in a sand filled camp. He asked a group of soldiers for directions and received a barrage of personal remarks from a sergeant. A British photographer later identified the sergeant as Montgomery.
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MONTGOMERY
CAIRO
British 8th Army Attacks New Line
Allied forces in Tunisia push toward Rommel’s mountain defences between Enfidaville and Djebel Bou Hadjar as British and American aircraft destroy 84 Axis planes. French and British forces advance around Medjez El Bab and Sousse while raids on Sicily ground more than 200 enemy planes.
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LLLIED
NORTH AFRICA
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Tunis
Bizerte
United States
8th Army
Sousse
Rommel
Enfidaville
Djebel Bou Hadjar
Dijebel Hou Hadjar
Kairouan
Algiers
Hitler
Castelvetrano
Milo
Sicily
Medjez-El-Bab
Reuters
Switzerland
Rome
Marseille
Britain approves largest budget in history
London reports the House of Commons approved the 1343 44 budget after three days of debate totaling expenditure of £5,156,009,000. The move comes as Britain begins its biggest fiscal plan to date amid global war pressures.
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BRITAIN
LONDON
iC.P. Cabill
house of commons
ARVIDA
MONTREAL
the
Aluminem Company of Canada
AFL
Trades and Labor Council
American Federation of Labor
Que
EISENHOWER
Dwight Eisenhower
North Africa
KISKA
MUNDA
WASHINGTON
Japanes
Risks Island
navy department
South Pacific
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HITLER
C.Pi
Berlin
Fuehrers
Marallon Antonescu
Ramank
Ritter
RAY
IGP. RLF
Brittany
Bruges
Belgium
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