Westbrook Pegler’s vacation notes from North Africa
Ernie Pyle reports from Sidi-bel-Abbes Algeria describing Sergeant John Whiteway, an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion. Whiteway, a former Paris representative for American appliance firms, serves in administration, aids American HQ, and has earned warm welcomes from Legionnaires and French residents during his return visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westbrook Pegler
Ernie Pyle
North Africa
Sidi-Eel-Abbes
Algeria
French Foreign Legion
John Whiteway
Whiteway
Paris
Foreign Legion
France
Legion
Whitewry
lJiawon Mean
Sidi-bel- Abbes
Rls
Delay asked of De Gaulle in North Africa trip
London reports a potential approach by General de Gaulle to seek details from General Eisenhower on why his North Africa visit is delayed. Eisenhower reportedly cited military reasons, fueling speculation about preserving the political status quo until the military situation improves. Observers note Sympathy for de Gaulle and a public demonstration abroad as the matter unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
Henry Giraud
de Gaulle
Eisenhower
Foreign Office
de Gailiec
Chicago voters cast ballots in mayoral race today
Chicago voters marked ballots in a mayoral election between Edward J. Kelly and George B. McKibbin with 2,500 observers at polling places and heavy police presence. Officials expected 1 to 1.2 million voters to decide on taxes traction and gangsterism issues. Kelly aimed for a third term amid party forecasts of victory.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
George B. McKibbin
Kelly
Green
McKibbin
Louisiana Democratic group denounces Governor Jones
New Orleans April 6. The Louisiana Democratic organization formed about a month ago at Alex ardyin was unveiled as a party defender. State Senator A A Fredericks said the Jones administration pursues a totalitarian strategy and attacked Earl Long, who spoke against Jones at the first meeting. Fredericks condemned a possible third party and outlined aims to preserve the party, promote honest government, empower voters, attract capable candidates, and demand fiscal economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana Democratic Organization
Alexardyin
Democratic Party
A. A. Fredericks
Natchitoches
Sam Jones
Amon
Fredericks
Jones
Earl Long
Long
Hitler
Frederick
South
Loumiana Democratic Organization
Award of Service Crosses Declared by Allied Headquarters
General MacArthur has awarded the distinguished service cross to Brigadier General Clarance Martin for heroism in New Guinea from December to January 1943. Also honored are Captain Powell Frazer First Lieutenant Claude Clark and Corporal Delos Leland for actions near Buna and related engagements with Clark leading attacks and Leland wounded twice while suppressing enemy positions and locating a machine gun nest.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Clarance Martin
Lowendes Drive
Columbia
D. C
New Guiana
Powell Frazer
Norwich Street
Brunswick
Claude Clark
College Place
Raleigh
N. C
Delos Leland
Fordon Avenue
Alexandria
Clark
Leland
Herdom
Buna
Missing in action names from Louisiana and beyond
The War Department announced the loans of Captain William Shaw of Marks Mississippi and Private Milburn McCann of Alexandria Louisiana as missing in action in the South Pacific and North American areas respectively. Also named were William H. Adams Jr., son of Louis J. Adams, in a list of 165 United States soldiers rising in action.
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Washington
War Department
Williams, Shaw
Marks
Miss
Milburn McCann
Allie McCann
Alexandria
Serpe
Pacific
William H. Adams
Louis J. Adams
United States
Bolivia May Declare War as Wallace Tours Latin America
Bolivian defense council urged the president toward a state of war with the axis powers. Foreign Minister says a declaration and mobilization could come within days. Vice-President Wallace was greeted by large crowds in La Paz as he continued his Latin American tour toward Peru. Brazil remains at war with Germany and Italy, while Bolivia broke relations after last year’s Pan American talks.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Axia
Henry A. Wallace
Central and
South America
Bolivian Defense Council
Enrique Pevaranda
Tomas Manuel
Congress
Wallace
Andes
Cochamabama
Peru
United Nations
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Japan
Rio de Janeiro
Japanese Pilot Shot Down by Own Leader in China
In Kwangsi province Free China an American investigator reports a Japanese Zero was shot down by its squadron leader to avoid capture. The plane faltered during a six‑air reconnaissance formation, crashed into a rice paddy, and parts of the wreckage and the pilot’s gear were recovered. Witnesses say the leader fired to prevent interrogation by Chinese observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Kwangsi
Free China
Politicians Address LFL Convention in Shreveport
In Shreveport Louisiana on April 6 army officials shipbuilder Andrew Higgins and political figures spoke at the Louisiana Federation of Labor's first annual convention. Major Nelson from Washington Barksdale Field officers and Higgins Shipbuilding president Higgins spoke on absenteeism in shipyards. Former Governor Earl K Long and State Senator Joe Cawthorn were slated to speak, with Noe and Senator Clements addressing the afternoon session and Clements later perceived as labor ally notes while Noe urged labor support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Army
Louisiana
Louisiana Federation of Labor
Nelson
Washington, D. C
Barksdale Field
Federation
Andrew J. Higgins
Higgins Shipbuilding Corporation of
New Orleans
Clements
Noe
Sam H. Jones
Jones
Daily Papers
Allies Lose More Vessels In March
Secretary Knox said Allied ship losses in the Atlantic worsened in March due to intensified German submarine operations. He noted February had been relatively good for the war but emphasized the sector’s deterioration. The U boats focus on the mid Atlantic shipping lane from the U S to England and the Mediterranean. Washington reports rapid continue construction of destroyer escorts and an improving launch rate despite engine shortages.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
the Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
United States
England
Mediterranean
Kuban Delta Drives Advancing Russians Reported
Moscow reports ongoing Red army offensives in the Kuban delta with shelling of German positions. Telegrams say Russians penetrated fortified strips, reducing the German hold to 17,500 square miles as terrain and floods hinder rapid progress along the Black Sea coast northeast of Novorossisk.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kuban
Black Sea
North Caucasus
Novorossisk
Capitol Hill cut in house and senate budgets urged
Washington April 6 the house appropriations committee recommended smaller next year budgets for Congress and the legislative establishment. total bill 19 757 803 directly chargeable to law making branch includes salaries secretaries clerks and Capitol Hill building maintenance and police.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Congressional
Legislative Establishment
Judiciary
Senate
House
Architect of the Capitol
Library of Congress
Government Printing Office
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
United States Court Administration
Capitol Dome
Woman and Six Children Die in Farmhouse Fire in Mississippi
A mother Mrs Ernest R Peyton aged 26 and her six children aged 1 to 9 perished in a four room Sharkey county farm home near Catchings Mississippi. Neighbor Otis Woods and passerby J W Kent were burned trying to reach the structure. The father was away at Camp McCain. Bodies found in ruins, burned beyond recognition. The family had lived near Catchings for only a month. Prior to that they resided in Greenwood where the father worked on air base construction.
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Greenville
Miss
Sharkey County
Catchings
Ernest R. Peyton
Lenora
Myra Jean
Alvin Ray
Thomas Floyd
James Arnold
Richard Earl
Otis Woods
J. W. Kent
Woods
McCain
Grenada
Greenwood
SUSTAINING OF VETO IS LIKELY
Washington April 6 The Senate Agriculture Committee heard Price Administrator Prentiss Brown and then excused them until Thursday morning amid possible subpoenas. Chair Smith said their prior absence suggested refusal. The panel weighed the Pace bill adding farm labor costs to parity calculations as the Senate neared a vote to override Roosevelt’s veto of the Bankhead bill limiting government benefits before parity ceilings. Senator Bankhead said the override outcome was in doubt. Manning Shaw, executive assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Prentiss Brown
Brown
Wickard
Smith
South Carolina
Pace
Senate
Roosevelt
Bankhead
Alabama
Manning Shaw
Indicted for Black Market in New Jersey and New York
The Office of Price Administration in Newark announces seven mid west and New Jersey corporations and eleven individuals indicted on conspiracy to violate federal meat price and quota regulations. The grand jury listed Enkay Packing, Superb Packing, Nathan Krupnick, and George Moran of Paterson among the defendants for alleged black market beef and veal shipments totaling over 10 million pounds and about two million dollars in overcharges to consumers.
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Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Office of Price Administration
Mid-West
Nathan L. Jacobs
OPA
New York City
Jacobs
New York
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Enkay Packing Company, Inc
Nathan Krupnick
George Moran
Paterson
Superb Packing Company, Inc
Eden Will Report On Trip To U S
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will soon report on his mission to the United States and Canada after returning. The report will be delivered during the third day of the current sittings and will be non controversial in nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
United States
Canada
Eden
House
Labor Party
James Maxton
Protection For Americans British Oppressed People
A front page dispatch reports Italians in the former unoccupied zone of France, now under Italian control, stopped Nazi efforts to transfer 100 American and British citizens to Germany. Earlier, French police rounded up about 3,600 British and American citizens in Vichy France, with 100 gathered at Grenoble awaiting transport to Lyon.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
Gazette de Lausanne
Gazette
Grenoble
Lyon
Lausanne
Allied fighers raid French coast shipping and Antwerp plant hit
RAF and Royal Navy planes damaged three merchant vessels and two escort ships off the French coast after night attacks. U S headquarters said Fortresses and Liberators scored direct hits on the Erie plane engine works at Antwerp, with fires and damage to Gervaert Photographic and nearby plants. Brigadier General Armstrong observed, as the raid included a Fortress group withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Air Ministry
Europe
Dieppe
la Touquet
United States Army
Erie
Antwerp
Gervaert Photographic Products Plant
Erla Works
Erla
Renault
Paris
Minerva Automobiles
Frank A. Armstrong
Milton P. Planchette
Abbeville
3. C
Rangoon Railroad Station Raid and Burma Air Operations
British announces RAF heavy bombers struck Rangoon railway station with 1000 pound and lighter bombs setting fires visible for 60 miles and repelled most Japanese fighters. Blenheims bomb Meiktila runway targets with escort. four Japanese aircraft shot down. Additional raids hit Bongyaung Gorge lines. two British planes missing.
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New Delhi
Rangoon
Burma
Maundaw
R. A. F. Blenheims
Meiktila
Bienheims
Bongyaung
Katha
Massive air battle sinks Nazi destroyer off Tunis
In North Africa on April 6 American Lightnings and allies destroyed 31 enemy planes, with 14 Junkers transports carrying fuel for Rommel. A German destroyer was blown up and several ships hit as 48 German and Italian planes were shot down. The clash lasted 25 minutes north of Tunisia near the Sicilian straits, with heavy losses on both sides. Captain Darrell W. Welch of Mid-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Junkers
Marshal Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisian
Tunisia
Sicilian
Mediterranean
Rommel
Bombing Raid On Buka Island Hits Japanese Bases
Allied medium bombers attacked Buka Island's air field and surrounding areas in a three hour raid, part of a series targeting Japanese bases in the Solomons. MacArthur HQ also noted near misses with 3 pound bombs on a 4,000 ton Japanese cargo ship at Sekar Bay, Dutch New Guinea, with damage uncertain.
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Australia
Buka Island
Solomons
Southwest Pacific
MacArthur
Sekar Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Chinatown
Second War Loan Chairmen Chosen in Louisiana Drive
Parrish Fuller names 32 parish chairmen for the second war loan drive in South Louisiana with local organizers urged to begin April 12. The list includes G. K. Cutter Crowley Acadia and W. E. Bacon Oakdale among others spanning Acadia to St. James and St. Martin parishes.
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New Orleans
Parrish Fuller
Louisiana
Parrish Fulier
Acadia
G. K. Cutter
Crowley
Allen
W. E Bacon
Oakdale
Ascension
Albert Delery
Donaldsonville
Assumption
Brener Thibsut
Napoleonville
Avoyelles
Howard Fore
Bunkie
Beauregard
Claude Ledoux
DeRidder
Calessieu-Canmteron
Harvey Peltier
Thibodaux
Livingston
Ernest E. Easterly
Denham Springs
Pointe Coupee
L. Bouanchaud
New Roads
Rapides
Robert H. Bolton
Alexandria
St. Bernard
J. J. G. Janssen
Arabi
St Charles
C. B. Ferden
Noreo
St. Helena
J. M. Breeden
Greensburg
St. James
S. L
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