Westbrook Pegler in Tunisia by Ernie Pyle
In a North Africa dispatch Ernie Pyle writes from Tunisia with light anecdotes from the front. He notes loneliness among lieutenants expecting news from home and shares a comic tale of a jeep crew dodging strafers as a soldier rides backward and shouts directions. He observes sun glare on a German reconnaissance plane and describes trench digging and sand conditions aiding and hindering wartime life.
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Westbrook Pegler
Ernie Pyle
North Africa
Tunisia
Petty
Northfrica
Freddie
Freddie Junior
30nd Salesmen to Pay Visits to Citizens War Bonds
Washington April 19 John Citizen is due for visits by war bonds volunteers as officials report that citizens have bought 904 million dollars in war savings toward a 13 billion dollar goal. Treasury data show over nine billion subscribed by Friday night, with the heavy participation from big investors like banks and insurance funds. The remaining four billion must come from ordinary earners, Morgenthau notes, making the outreach to individuals crucial.
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Washington
John
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Dell
Suse Tin
Morgenthau
Press foe food rationing sparks US editors clash
New York April 19 Roy A Roberts president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors says Roosevelt food conference policy risks dangerous precedents. He cites restricted access to information and delegates and warns of stifled public inquiry in a statement to be discussed by a board meeting. Chicago April 19 National Association of Retail Grocers reports grocers want processed foods removed from point rationing and red stamps limited to meat with other items separated.
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New York
Roy A Roberts
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Roosevelt
Roberts
United States
Chicago
National Association of Retail
Raening
Fritz Spencer Named New Louisiana FSA Director
Alexandria Louisiana April 19 E C McInnis state director of the Farm Security administration in Louisiana for eight years resigns effective April 30. Fritz Spencer project specialist will replace him Spencer is LSU agriculture graduate 1922 who previously led Thomastown project and served in the regional office since last fall.
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Alexandria
E. C. Melsmnis
Farm Security Administration
Louisiana
Fritz Spencer
Mclanis
A. D. Stewart
FSA
McInnis
Stewart
Spencer
Alexandria May
Louisiana State University
Old Resettlement Administration
Civil liberties statute under test in Mississippi lynching case
In Hattiesburg Mississippi April 1914 five Laurel men are on trial under the civil liberties statute for conspiring to use state power to deprive Howard Wash a Black man of due process and equal protection after a mob seized him from Laurel jail and hanged him for murder. Wash was a 49 year old father of eight and had been convicted of killing his white employer. The case, delayed by an unfinished matter before Federal District Judge Sidney Mize, centers on whether officials acted unlawfully to punish Wash because of his color.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Laurel
Sidney Mize
Howard Wash
Clint Wellborn
Germans resist in Kuban region in bold Soviet push
Pravda reports stiff German ground and air defenses in the Kuban Caucasus as Red Army drives to the Black Sea. Twenty five enemy planes shot down, eight crippled, while German infantry regiments and tanks press Soviet trenches amid heavy mortar and rifle fire. Romanian troops fight with mixed results as Soviet forces regain ground on multiple sectors.
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Moscow
Kuban
Caucasus
Red Army
Black Sea
Pravda
Izyum
Donets
Fromt
Kharkov
Commun Que
Leningrad
Stormovik
Jobs Frozen For 27 Million Americans In War Effort
Washington April 19 Twenty seven million Americans in essential work are frozen from changing to higher paying jobs under a War Manpower Commission edict issued by Paul V McNutt on orders from President Roosevelt The ban aims to keep essential labor on war production while 25 million civilian workers in non essential roles may move freely The exception allows higher pay transfers within 30 days after leaving a job and is part of the wartime manpower policy drawing criticism from Senator Austin who calls it coercive and predicts broader draft support
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Washington
McNutt
Japanese Hold Off Chinese Push Near Ichang Hill
Dispatches from Chungking report that 600 Japanese soldiers were killed as Chinese forces repelled a 7 000 strong Japanese assault southeast of Ichang in Hupeh. The clash included a Japanese shelling surge of 3000 rounds before falling back to their initial line, with ongoing fighting around a strategically important hill.
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Chungking
Yangtze River
Ichang
Hupeh
A P Chief Calls Restricted Press Major War Cause
General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press urged militant press leadership to secure world news freedom at the next peace conference. He spoke at the Waldorf Astoria luncheon marking wartime press sacrifice since Pearl Harbor and paid tribute to Frank B. Noyes and others.
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New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Waldorf- Astoria
Cooper
Pearl Harbor
Frank B. Noyes
Washington
D. C
Jap Soldier Surrenders For Jeep Ride Laughs On Guadalcanal
Corporal Ersate J. Johnson of Basile Louisiana details amusing surrenders on Guadalcanal as Japanese soldiers request jeep rides and even inquire about driving. Johnson, wounded last December, is recovering in a naval hospital and recalls a Jap in marine uniform enticing a snipers offer and hidden infiltrations that ended with a concentration camp transfer.
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San Francisco
Ersate J. Johnson
Basile
Marine Corps
Guadalcanal
Johnson
Naval Hospital
Orena Cummins
Italians report great air damage in Sicily raids
Italian high command says four engined American bombers hit Palermo causing 38 dead and 99 injured. Ragusa Port Torres and Spezia damages also reported with casualties. Nine raiding planes reported destroyed over Palermo Catania and Marsala. Spezia attacked by RAF heavy bombers from Britain.
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Associated Press
Sicilian
Palermo
Italian High Command
Ragusa
Sicily
Porto Torres
Sassari
Spezia
Rome
Alps
Britain
Paermo
Port Torres
Catania
Marsala
Easter holidays set for state employees in Louisiana
Governor Sam Jones declares next Friday and Saturday as holidays for state employees. The capitol will close at close of business Thursday and reopen Monday after Easter Sunday.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Gunshot Fatal to J. T. Roye Jr in West Monroe
J. T. Roye Jr., 33, of 206 Cryer Avenue West Monroe, died from a self inflicted gunshot wound after the weapon discharged while he handled it. Coroner J. T. French released the report. Roye, a timber contractor and local figure, leaves a widow, two children, a sister, his mother, and a grandfather. He was a Downsville native and former Kiwanis member. The funeral was at First Methodist Church with interment at Hasley Cemetery.
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J. T. Rove, Jr
Cryer Avenue
West Monroe
J. T. French
First Methodist Church
C. Karles Smith
D. C. Harper
Jeff Caldwell
Jesse Heard
D. C. Golson
W. R. Hatchel
W. C. Fisher
Hasley
Mulhearn
Roye
J. T. Roye
Downsville
Americans Hit Jap Positions In Solomons And Kiska
Washington reports American air and naval forces battering Japanese positions in the Solomons and at Kiska. Bombers strike Munda and Kahili, damaging cargo vessels and starting fires while fighters and torpedo planes hit runways, dispersal areas, and hangars.
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Washington
Navy
South Pacific
Dauntless
Douglas
Wildcat
Grumman
Avengers
Wessel
Rescue Effort For Swedish Submarine Crew
Rescue workers battled rough seas and drifting mines off Sweden to reach 33 crewmen trapped in the submarine Ulven. The sub lay on the bottom in 120 to 180 feet of water with signals reportedly heard from inside and air and food supplies expected to last about a week.
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Stockholm
Sweden
British Bomber Sweep Hits Spezia Then Attacks Lorient
British bombers roared over the Alps to strike Spezia in Italy for a second time in six nights, with heavy attacks described as successful. Meanwhile Fighter Command planes targeted Lorient on the French coast as Italian defenses faced pressure. One bomber did not return from Spezia. another fighter plane was listed missing.
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London
Alps
Spezia
Ter
Lorient
French
France
Skoda
Pilsen
Mannheim
Germany
Dover Straits
May Not Adopt Cotton Ceiling
Washington reports government considers withholding cotton price ceilings and allows CCC to stabilize prices by selling government stocks. CCC can sell up to 305000 bales monthly, 1.5 million yearly, at parity. Officials worry ceilings hinder war needs and may deter long staple cotton production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
Chester C. Davis
CCC
Office of Price Administration
Davis
Search for more refugee havens opens talks in Bermuda
Hamilton Bermuda April 19 Representatives of the United States and Great Britain began a wide scale program to rescue more Europeans from Nazi persecution by finding refugee havens. Delegates from Washington and London planned to brief on asylum desire, immigration law, and related problems. The conference may last two weeks as experts join the talks.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
United States
Great Britain
Washington
London
Harold W. Dodds
Pcm
Princeton University
Sol Obeyeds
Scott W. Lucks
Air victory greatest yet in that area
Allied air and ground crews hammered Axis forces from Enfidaville to Palermo in support of General Sir Harold Alexander. They destroyed 74 enemy aircraft off the Tunisian coast, amid heavy attacks on Sardinian Sicilian and Tunisian targets. US RAF and South Africa pilots of the Western Desert Air Force joined in the strike, with strength of transport craft and fighters reported as heavy. The Cairo communique noted nine American planes lost, with one pilot safe.
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North Africa
Enfidaville
Palermo
Sir Harold Alexander
18Th Army Group
Junkers
Tunisian
Sicily
Cairo
United States
South Africa
Western Desert Air Force
Sicilian
Unt
Erwin Rommel
Ninth United States Air Force
Allied
Ninth Air Force
Postwar Senate poll on international police force discussed
Washington April 19 Proponents of postwar cooperation called an Associated Press poll on the Senate course satisfactory while others saw the issue unsettled The poll covered most members with 32 opposed 24 favorable and 32 uncommitted on committing the Senate to a postwar international police force The discussion ties to resolutions before the foreign relations committee led by Senator Hill and coauthors seeking Senate backing for leading United Nations cooperation on wartime and postwar problems
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Associated Press
Foreign Relations Committee
Hill
Alabama
United Nations
Two Marines Lost At Sea On Training Flight
Jacksonville naval air station officials announced two United States Marines are lost at sea after a training flight failed to return last Friday. Lieutenant Commander Archis land W. Greenlee, 32, and Private First Class Douglas N. Blodgett, 21, were aboard the aircraft. Greenlee, a United States Naval Academy graduate, resided at 449 Woodmere Avenue since arriving in Jacksonville on March 21, and was the son of Captain Halford R. Greenlee, retired US Navy, and Mrs. Greenlee of New Orleans. Blodgett was the son of Mrs. Metelle E. Blodgett of Sunapee, New Hampshire.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Archisland W. Greenlee
Douglas N. Blodgett
United States Marine Corps
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Greenlee
Woodmere Avenue
Jacksonville
United States Naval Academy
Halford R. Greenlee
United States Navy
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Paul Roye
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