Marshall Says Americans Will Raid Continent
General George C. Marshall declares the time for action is near and American troops will join the British Commandos in raiding the German held continent. He predicts air bases all over the British Isles and cites long US training for joint operations with Mountbatten Churchill and British chiefs during a quick Ulster tour.
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U. S Army
Northern Ireland
George C. Marshall
United States Army
United States
British Isles
Ulster
Marshall
London
Louis Mountbetien
Winston Churchill
St. Nazaire
Fieitany
France
Norway
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkine
W. Averell Harriman
Bombings May Force Japanese To Return Forces Nearer Home
Wide World War Analysts discuss how American bombings of Tokyo and other cities raise whether carrier or land based planes attacked. If land based, bases likely Philippines. if carrier based, a fleet task force may have penetrated near Japanese coastline, prompting strategic reevaluation by Tokyo and possible fleet redeployments.
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Tokyo
Yoko
Washington
China Sea
Indian Ocean
Min- Winaten Churchill
Bay of Bengal
United Nations
McKenzie Quits as Coordinator in State Department
M McKenzie a former Noe ally resigns as coordinator of planning housing and public works in Louisiana with blame on DeWitt Pyburn for an untenable situation. He notes Noe support shifted to Jones after Noe’s defeat and says he returns to private business in Monroe.
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Baton Rouge
Charles McKenzie
James A. Noe
D Telay
Uticn
McKenzie
DeWitt Pyburn
A. Noe
Ed Pyburn
Noe
Uncle Sam Wants Your Dont Wants Week Ad
National Want Ad Week invites readers to sell their unwanted items through ready made ads. From washing machines to bicycles, defense material goods are among those sought by buyers. Advertise with a well worded Want Ad in News Star and World.
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Sam
Don’t Wants
Fire breaks out again on Normandie lower hold
Fire erupted in the lower hold of the Normandie lying on its port side at the pier after flames spread from insulation and a welder torch. Investigators blamed a spark and noted no sabotage, as salvors work to control the blaze three hours after alarms.
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Pire
Normandie
West Mth Street
Congressional Investigation Committee
Oil man drowns in lake near Campti
Vernon E. Howze 52 of Tyler Texas drowned when his small fishing craft overturned in rough water on Black Lake seven miles from Campti Louisiana. A negro guide and Mrs Howze escaped by clinging to the boat and trees. other fishermen rescued the trio. Artificial respiration failed after over an hour. Services arranged by a Shreveport funeral home.
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Campti
Vernon E. Howze
Tyler
Tex
Black Lake
Howze
Shreveport
War Manpower Board forms nine member commission
President Roosevelt established a nine member war manpower commission led by Paul V. McNutt to mobilize national manpower for war. Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board is named a member, with others drawn from war, navy, agriculture, labor, Selective Service, civil service, and a new WPS labor section. Sidney Hillman becomes special assistant on labor, with WPB labor division functions moved to the commission and FSA.
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War Manpower Commission
Federal Security
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevelt
Isbor Joba
Boeceere
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
War, Navy, Agriculture, and Labor Departments
Selective Service System
Civil Service
WPS
McNutt
White House
Sidney Hillman
Commission
Federal Security Agency
Hillman
Administration
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The
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Governors Meet Opens In Hot Springs For War Efforts
Southern Governors conference begins a three day session in Hot Springs Arkansas to discuss freight rates taxation labor and education amid war. At least seven state chiefs arrive by tomorrow to register before a tour of war installations and the Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Georgia Tennessee North Carolina and Oklahoma governors are listed among attendees with Oklahoma's Leon Phillipe possibly present. The theme is all out for victory and the formal sessions start Monday with a welcome by Mayor Leo Mc Laughlin after introduction by Governor Adkins.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Southern Governors’ Conference
Little Rock
Frank Dixon
Alabama
Paul Johnson
Mississippi
Sam H. Jones
Louisiana
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Prentice Cooper
Tennessee
J. Melville Broughton
North Carolina
Homer M. Adkins
Arkansas
Leon Phillipe
Oklahoma
Leo P. McLaughlin
Adkins
Japan Hit By Major Allied Air Raid On Key Ports
Associated Press reports Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe were bombed by planes showing the American flag symbols. Alarms covered most of Japan from Hokkaido to Shikoku, over 1000 miles, as Tokyo claims the assault marks a daring, decisive strike. Officials debate origin of planes and potential Washington disclosure.
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Associated Press
Japan
United States Air Force
Tokyo
Yokohama
Nagoya
Kobe
High Command
Hokkaido
Shikoku
Jonehu
Washington
Stimson
Chungking
China
Hitler Faces Manpower Shortage Slowing 1942 Gamble
London dispatch reports Hitler struggles with manpower as his spring 1942 plan slows. Axis tensions rise due to Russian winter counterattack, morale strain, and reliance on 17 and 18 year old or elderly replacements. Germany may fall short of its 1.5 million reserve goal, with frictions across occupied Europe.
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London
Hitler
Axis
Germany
Russia
France
Low Countries
Injured boy apologizes after lab explosion in apartment
Residents of 75 West End Avenue recall Sergio Bevery, 12, as the politest boy in the building. An experiment in his home chemical laboratory exploded, leaving him with a severely torn left hand, a lacerated face, and a possible broken right arm. Mrs Harvey Kohnheim found him and he expressed remorse for the disturbance.
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New York
West End Avenue
Sergio B. Bevery
Chemical Laboratory
Harvey Kohnheim
Laval reorganizes French government for pro Axis control
In Vichy Paris Laval reconfigures cabinet to back pro German policy while pledging to submit to Marshal Petain. A 21 member government includes 13 Laval backers. Laval keeps foreign affairs interior and information. Petain preserves control of military through Admiral Darian, while Bishop Romier remains minister of state.
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Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
Germany
Marshal Petain
Laval
National Defense Ministry
Jean Darian
Petain
Lucien Romier
Money waits for bomber of Tokyo
Shreveport businessman offers 250 dollars for the name of the first U S flyer to drop a bomb on Tokyo. Portland bank adds 415 dollars from Willamette Iron and Steel workers for the same goal. The donors say the funds will be turned over when the bomber is identified.
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Shreveport
AJ. C. Pittman
United States
Tokyo
Pittman
Pearl Harbor
Shreveport Journal
Portland
Ore
Williamette Iron and Steel Company
H. A. Hamlin
Capital hailed as RAF and US bombers pound Tokyo and Europe
Washington reports American air raids against Tokyo and other Japanese targets plus strong Allied production gains. Robe rt Patterson notes tanks surpass Axis output. London dispatch describes RAF raids along the channel, thinly veiled optimism about wider Allied offensives and early signs of initiative in multiple theaters.
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Washington
Japan
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Philippines
America
White House
Russia
Robert Patterson
Axis
Patterson
Two Die as Auto Plows Into Crowd in Houston
Houston April 18 two killed and a dozen injured when an automobile plowed into a crowd aiding at an earlier collision on the Beaumont highway east of the Wallisville road. H O Liccioni 31 of Wooster and Julius Storey 39 of Houston were struck while helping victims. Gary Neal 19 months old son of Earl C Neal and wife of Baton Rouge La, died in the first crash. The driver, a 20-year-old Ellington field soldier, was arrested. Storey, a passenger in the first car, later died while aiding the baby’s father.
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Tex
H. O. Liccioni
Wooster
Julius Storey
Beaumont Highway
Wallisville Road
Ellington
Gary Neal
Earl C. Neal
Baton Rouge
Luccioni
Storey
Neais
Boy Injured When Bus Strikes Him Near Moonlake
Eleven year old Bill Jones, son of Sam and Mrs Jones, escaped serious injury after being struck by a Stevens Bus Line vehicle on the Sterlington road two miles from the lake. He suffered a slight concussion, contusions, and a scalp laceration, with his brother Frank, 13, stating both boys were en route to Monroe when the incident occurred. The bus stopped in a ditch but did not overturn.
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Bill Jones
Sam Jones
Moonlake
Sterlington Road
St. Francis Sanitarium
Frank Jones
Monroe
Frank
Stevens Bus Line
Allies Shatter Heart of Japan in Bombardment
Richard McMurray reports United States air power struck Tokyo and three other major Japanese cities, signaling a possible offensive aimed at crippling Nippon’s war machine. Additional waves hammered Rangoon as the Allied air campaign expands.
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Channel
United States
Tokyo
Rangoon
Britain
Richard McMurray
Associated Press
Tokyo papers claim US carriers launched raids on Japan
Yomiuri and other Tokyo papers state aircraft were from United States carriers and warn Japan must be ready for more raids as long as the United States holds carriers. They urge resolve to “smash completely Britain and the United States” after their attack on Japanese territory.
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Tokyo
Yomiuri
United States
Japan
Britain
Fragmentary World War II Report Mentions Allied Fronts and Laval
Readable excerpts describe Burma and Rabaul as Japanese bases on Australia’s edge, RAF attacks on German wartime plants, and a second European front. France’s Laval reportedly completes a Vichy cabinet, with unclear implications for the regime.
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Rabaul
Australia
Japan
Europe
Germany
Russia
Finland
Ukraine
Dnieperopetrovsk
France
Pierre Laval
Mexican American commission fixes expropriation value
The joint U.S.-Mexico commission valued American oil properties in Mexico at 23,995,991 dollars, a figure far below the companies’ claims of 150 to 200 million and above Mexico’s 16 to 15 million range. The finding is nonbinding on the oil firms. Morris L. Cook for the United States and Manuel J. Zebada for Mexico led the panel. The allocation split includes Standard Oil New Jersey 18,931,641 and Standard Oil of California 3,589,158 among others.
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Washington
State Department
Mexico
Joint Commission
Sinclair Oil Interests
Morris L. Cook
United States
Manuel J. Zebada
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Standard Oil of
California
Consolidated Oil
Justice O Neill mirrors Joe Louis on retirement
In New Orleans on April 18, Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles A. O Neill stated his retirement plan mirrors boxing great Joe Louis. He said if he feels he is slipping, he will hang up the boxing gloves first and later the robes of justice worn since 1912.
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New Orleans
Charles A. O'Neill
Louisiana Supreme Court
Joe Louis
O'Neill
Louisiana State Law Institute
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