Westbrook Pegler Describes The Foreign Legion Life
Ernie le reports from Sidi-Bel-Abbes Algeria on the Foreign Legion in North Africa. The unit remains a fighting force with harsh discipline and loneliness shaping daily life. A Russian carpenter drinks heavily on payday, while others face penalties for infractions. After five years only half earn the Good Conduct Certificate. others reenlist or are expelled from the French Empire.
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Westbrook Pegler
Ernie le
North Africa
Sidi-Bel-Abbes
Algeria
Foreign Legion
Legion
Bel-Abbes
Inmate Drowns in Pit Near Ouachita River
J. W. Vaughn, 15, inmate at Louisiana Training Institute, drowned in a bar pit beside the Ouachita River Sunday about 7:30 p.m. while fleeing with two companions, Gorden Renaud, 16, and Billy, 16. The boys swam free but Vaughn died. bodies recovered by firemen with the Legion truck. The coroner plans an inquest Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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J. W. Vaughn
Louisiana Training Institute
Ouachita River
American Legion
Vaughn
Institute
Legion
Mulhearn Funeral Home
C. L. Vaughn
Bernice
J. T. French
Four Killed at Barksdale Field
Shreveport La April 54 Two officers and two enlisted men were killed Saturday night in a bomber crash on a routine flight at Barksdale field. Dead are First Lieutenant Roy F. Wanamaker 22 pilot Baton Rouge La Second Lieutenant Dwight W Corr ier 24 co-pilot Wenatchee Washington Staff Sergeant Edward E Long 19 engineer Shamokin Pennsylvania Staff Sergeant Robert H Frey 22 engineer Old Hickory Tennessee.
Army Hoarding Hall Asks For Probe Start
Washington April 5 An inquiry into what Chairman Truman described as army hoarding of foodstuffs and supplies that could reach civilians was projected today by the senate war investigating committee. Officials of the army quartermaster corps were called for closed door testimony as other committees planned hearings on postwar monetary issues and a plan to require Senate confirmation for federal workers earning over 40 000 yearly.
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Washington
Truman
Missouri
Senate War Investigating Committee
Army Quartermaster Corps
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Finance, Foreign Relations, Banking and Currency
Morgentheu
Treasury
McKellar
Tennessee
Senate Judiciary Committee
TVA
Older men 38 to 45 face wartime draft rule
Washington reports that men aged 38 to 45 must join war production or risk induction after May 1. Selective Service Director Major General Hershey released a letter to draft boards extending the non deferable job rule to this older group. April draft quotas were administratively reduced to steady month to month inductions, with some regions seeing up to twenty percent cuts.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Winning War Policy in Africa Stated by Hull
Washington April 5. Secretary Hull testified before the House Appropriations Committee that the State Department’s North Africa policy aimed solely at winning the war. He said diplomacy there centers on fighting the Axis and aiding all forces opposing it, including De Gaulle, with military support and lend-lease recognition when appropriate.
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Pearl Harbor
Hull
Bolivia
Iran
State Department
Justice Department
Commerce Department
Budget Bureau
House
Washington
Congress
North Africa
House Appropriations Committee
de Gaulle
Allied air action sinks and damages 12 Japanese vessels at Kavieng
Allied headquarters report a three day attack on a concentration of Japanese war and merchant ships in Kavieng New Ireland resulting in 12 enemy ships sunk or damaged with no allied aircraft losses. The final strike by Flying Fortresses damaged a light cruiser or destroyer and possibly three other vessels. MacArthur says the Japanese naval concentration at Kavieng has been destroyed or dispersed.
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Allied
Australia
Kavieng
New Ireland
Kavienz
MacArthur
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Eight-Girls-to-Every-Man Club In Washington
Washington sketches a playful campaign by Peggy Keshlear to balance the capital’s gender gap. The Eight-to-One club urges servicemen to stagger leaves so more meetings occur, ending the solitaire nights as women seek dates. The plan spreads beyond Washington as interest grows.
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Washington
Peggy Keshlear
Osceola
Iowa
Peggy
Nazi Attacks Near Kharkov Repulsed
Moscow reports heavy German assaults supported by tanks and air power northeast and southeast of Kharkov were beaten back by Soviet defenses. Front dispatches count about 200 more German dead, with 1,000 slain in the region south of Izyum. Red Army units reportedly eliminated roughly one third of attacking ground forces in recent assaults while preserving bridgeheads on the Donets.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Ixyum
Donets
Red Army
Open Fight to Override Veto in Bankhead Bill Showdown
Washington April 5 A farm bloc counted on about 30 votes to sustain Roosevelt's veto of the Bankhead bill while sponsors predicted a Senate override. House chances looked dim as administration leaders sought city support if the Senate falls short. Bankhead declined to forecast. Aiken estimated no more than 30 votes. The measure would block deduction of government benefits from parity in setting farm price ceilings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Bankhead
Alabama
Aiken
Vermont
Taft
Republican
Ohio
Congress
Bequest to Red Cross From Edison Worker
William Oswald, 89, a blind electrical engineer who died last month, left about $150,000 to the American Red Cross. Oswald, who once worked for Thomas Edison and installed the first incandescent lighting plant in New Orleans, left an estate of over $200,000 with three fourths designated to the Red Cross, executors said.
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New Orleans
William Oswald
National American Red Cross
Oswald
Thomas Edison
Red Cross
Three Lost In Jungle Rescued After 10 Months
In New Guinea, three American aircrew members rescued after ten months wandering New Britain jungles. They survived on lizards, grubs, rats, cassowaries aided by natives and an Australian soldier who shared his last razor blade. They were rescued by an American plane after signaling with a mirror.
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Tom Yarbrough
New Guinea
New Britain
Rabaul
Eugene D. Wallace
Isabel Drive
Los Angeles
Marvin C. Hughes
Baird
Tex
Dale E. Bordner
Park Street
Chillicothe
Ohio
John Leslie Stokie
Dragons Down 182 Jap Planes In China Fight
America's China air task force has destroyed 182 Japanese planes and possibly 62 more since July. Merged with Claire Chennault's 14th Air Force, it has dominated skies over China Burma and Indo China, with 18 planes lost in combat and 16 missing to mechanical failure.
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China
America
United States
Claire L. Chennault
14Th American Air Force
Burma
Indo-China
Chennault
China Air Task Force
Army Air Forces
Japanese Vessels Sunk Rise to 530 in Week End Losses
New York reports 530 Japanese ships and submarines sunk since December 7, 1941, after a weekend tally. Seven vessels were sunk over the period, four by American submarines and three by Allied bombers. The U S has not confirmed new losses since February 16, with a destroyer, a cruiser and three torpedo boats previously listed.
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New York
Pacific
Far East
Associated Press
Bismarck Sea
United States
LSU Contributes 10,000 Men To War Effort
Baton Rouge April 5 Louisiana State University reports it has contributed more than 10,000 men to the armed forces, with about 3,000 commissioned officers including 10 generals. The campus cadets are training 3400 high school boys in East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana parishes.
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Baton Rouge, la
Louisiana State University
George F. N. Dailey
East Baton Rouge
East Feliciana Parishes
British Bombers Strike Kiel and Paris in Major Allied Raids
Allied daylight and night raids intensify over Europe as United States four motor bombers reach the Continent, following American bombings near Paris and a massive RAF Kiel assault. Observers note heavy tonnage dropped and several Fortresses missing on Kiel mission while Folkestone residents witness the aerial display over the coast.
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London
United States
Strait of Dover
Paris
Kiel
Germany
Renault Works
Folkestone
Air Ministry
House Labor Foes and Hobbs Bill Dominate Week
Washington April 5 Labor legislation will occupy the House agenda this week with the Hobbs anti racketeering bill slated for consideration to curb union interference with interstate commerce. Supporters hope to keep the measure within its original scope but some foresee a broad labor act if strikes threaten the war effort, as miner wage talks with United Mine Workers and coal producers proceed with demands for higher pay.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Hobbs
Democrat
Alabama
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
House Military Committee
OPA Orders Price Cuts When Point Values Fall
Washington April 5 The OPA ruled that reductions in point values of meats and rationed fats must be accompanied by lower retail prices. Retailers lowering point values by up to 25 percent must cut prices at least 25 percent below ceiling. If point cuts exceed 25 percent price reductions scale proportionally up to 50 percent, with good faith retailers exempt.
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Washington
OPA
Fortresses Strike Naples In Major North Africa Raid
United States Flying Fortresses smashed the Italian port of Naples in the greatest raid of the war from French North Africa. Nearly 100 four engined bombers dropped 200 tons of bombs in 15 minutes, hitting ships, submarines, docks, and aircraft. American Second Army Corps repulsed a German counterattack near Gafsa Gabes, advancing toward a junction with Montgomery's Eighth Army while reports noted heavy damage in Naples and Syracuse.
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Daniel de Luce
North Africa
United States
Naples
Tyrrhenian Sea
Second Army
Capodichino
Cagliari
Sardinia
Mediterranean
Erwin Rommel
Italian High Command
Rome
Associated Press
Syracuse
Malta
United States Second Army Corps
Georges. Patton, Jr
Gafsa
Gabes Road
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Girl killed as trains collide in Memphis yard crash
In Memphis a passenger train rear ended by a Missouri Pacific freight in yards near downtown, killing Catherine Whitsell 15 of Sarah Mississippi and injuring several others none seriously. Freight engineer John McClendon of Mee Gehee Arkansas was arrested on manslaughter charges as passengers received little warning before the wreck.
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Memphis
Catherine Whitsell
Sarah
Miss
Missouri Pacific
Yazoo
McGehee
Ark
Greenwood
M. A. Hinds
John McClendon
MeeGehee
Iy Jury
J. O. Chorley
Nellie Cross White
Memephis
Mildred McBride
Fred W. Nash
Earline Brower
Lambeth
Mississippi
Louise Cox
Lacerae
U. S. Court Opens in Monroe Monday
The April term of the United States court for the Western District of Louisiana opened here with the grand jury impaneled before Judge Ben C. Dawkins. U.S. Attorney Malcolm Lafargue led grand jury investigations as a light docket was anticipated. three embezzlement cases involving bank employees will be heard, with arraignments likely this week. Petit jurors are to report Wednesday and trials begin shortly after.
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United States Court For the
Western District of
Louisiana
Ben C. Dawkins
Malcolm Lafargue
United States Attorney
Grand Jury
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