American Bombers Rain 37 000 Tons on German Targets
London dispatch reports American Flying Fortresses and Liberators deep into central Germany and Pas de Calais as part of a new monthly record air offensive. General Doolittle notes over the last eight weeks more than 2 100 German planes destroyed by U S airmen from Britain amid heavy anti aircraft and fighter action.
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London
Germany
Pas-De-Calais
France
United States
James H. Doolittle
Britain
Berlin
Eenmy
Reich
Teutoburg Forest
Westphalia
Muenster
Osnabrueck
Bielefeld
House of Commons
Archibald Sinclair
Air
Europe
Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Anzio and Nettuno Rise as Modern Coastal Resorts
Allied beachhead reporters note Anzio and Nettuno form a single coastal city with a main waterfront street. The towns stretch about three miles, with five-story stone buildings, apartment blocks, and villas built in the modern style, now empty of civilians as German forces fled.
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Italy
Ireless
Anzio
Nettuno
Nero
Rome
Easide
Cerin
Anzio-Nettuno
Left Wing Wins New York ALP After Bitter Fight
In New York on March 29 the left wing of the American Labor Party claimed control after a fierce intra party struggle with the right wing. The battle raised questions about Roosevelt’s grip on New York’s 47 electoral votes and the party’s presidential nomination process. Sidney Hillman and the CIO political action committee supported the left, which claimed to have elected 625 of 7 members to the state committees. The right wing warned of Communist influence as Earl Browder was named a potential controlling force.
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New York
American Labor Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democrats
Tammany
Sidney Hillman
Communist Party
Roosevelt
George S. Counts
Alex Rose
Earl Browder
Hillman
Youth questioned in death of Joyce Raulston
Detroit detectives questioned 20 year old war worker Russell Gregory about Joyce Raulston a 14 year old girl found dead from stab wounds on a city dump near a west side trailer camp. Coroner Albert A Hughes said death was from internal hemorrhages and head injuries.
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Detroit
Joyce Raulston
Russell Gregory
Albert A. Hughes
Thomas Davey
Hughes
T. Walter Raulston
California
Raulston
Joyce
Russians Reach Toward Odessa As Front Advances North of Czernowitz
Soviet forces push toward Odessa 75 miles west after capturing Nikolaev and advancing along a 175 mile front. Konev’s Second Ukrainian army nears the Odessa Tiraspol Iasi railway as Domanevka and 40 other towns fall.
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London
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Nikolaev
Great Black Sea
Odessa
Bessarabia
Ivan S. Konev
Berlin
Konev
Prut River
Rumania
Tasi
Tsyra
Koshen
Moscow
Linkovtsy
Kamenats-Podolsk
Proskurov
Czernoewitz
Bucovina
Red Army
Gregory K. Zhuckov
Gvozdets
Kolaemea
Czernowitz-Lwow
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Stalin
Black Sea
Slobodki
Three Officials Qualify Again in Monroe City Elections
Mayor Harvey H Benoit and Commissioners C R Tidwell and W D H Rodriguez qualified for reelection after the Monroe Democratic Executive Committee met at City Hall The May 9 city primary set deadlines for filing by April 8 and a potential second primary on June 13 Herbert Dickard urged a finance and public utilities candidacy The reelection announcement from Tidwell cited seven years of service and commitment to public cooperation and better performance of duties
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Harvey H. Benoit
C. R. Tidwell
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Democratic Executive Committee of
Monroe
Herbert Dickard
Finance
Tidwell
Father of 30 Children Reveals Family Ties During Insurance Interview
Ira Knapp, applying for a group policy at Brown Shipbuilding in Houston, declared he has 30 children, 19 living, with 18 boys and 12 girls. He notes six sons in the army, four married sons classified 1-A, oldest child 39, youngest 3, three marriages, 21 grandchildren, and that he is an ordained minister turned war worker in his fifties.
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Houston
Tex
Brown Shipbuilding Company
Ira Knapp
Knapp
Lonergan Defense Rested After Three Witnesses
The Wayne Lonergan murder defense rested after calling three witnesses in the Patricia Lonergan case. Witness Mario Gabellini, interior decorator, testified about the couple’s nightlife and whether she was intoxicated, while Dr. Isidore Michel supported Lonergan’s side. The defense did not call Lonergan to testify.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
R. C. A. F. Aircraftman
Edward V. Broderick
Mario Gabeillini
Shorty
James G. Wallace
Gabellini
Stork Club
Eden denies Britain is dictated by United States
In the Commons Anthony Eden rejects claims Britain’s foreign policy is controlled by the United States. He says Britain and the US work in absolute cooperation, with neither subordinate to the other. The remarks come amid questions from Emanuel Shinwell on Europe policy.
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London
Anthony Eden
Britain
United States
Allies quit two Italian sites in Cassino area
Allied HQ in Naples reports Gurkha troops withdraw from Hangman hill near Cassino after two weeks of stalemate. New Zealanders depart Hill 202 on Monastery slopes. Artillery pounded German positions near Continen tal hotel as heavy air activity and bomber sorties continued.
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Naples
Hangman’'s Hill
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Italy
Hangman's Hill
New
Cisterna
Rome
Bomb Japs At Dozen Points In Pacific Sweep
Allied air and sea forces in the southwest Pacific pounded Japanese positions across 1500 miles from Dutch New Guinea to the northern Solomons. MacArthur reported 292 tons dropped on Bougainville Rabaul Kavieng New Britain New Ireland Wewak and Hansa Bay New Guinea.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Dutch New Guinea
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Bougainville
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Pityilu Island
Admiralty Group
Seadler Harbor
Lorengau
Big Manus Island
Dauntless
Solomon
Dauntress
Avengers
Fifth Air Force
Kaimana
Kai Islands
Empress Augusta Bay
Allied air forces repulse major Japanese bomber thrust
Allied fighter planes smashed a large Japanese bomber assault aiding the invasion of India, downing 24 enemy planes as ground forces faced stiff resistance.
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New Delhi
India
Nomination prospects for Roosevelt on first ballot
Washington reports Roosevelt appears ready to win renomination on the first ballot at the Democratic national convention. Preliminary delegate tallies show at least 604 of 1,176 votes may back him, with 126 already secured from 116 delegates and 10 from New York and other states.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maine
Arizona
New Hampshire
New York
Man With More Than Nine Wives Is Held As Slayer
Roger Lewis Gardner, 25, arrested in New York on the Los Angeles gardenia murder case after two women with marriage proposals led to his capture. He is described as an impersonator and swindler with aliases, charged with grand larceny and bigamy. Gardner, a Lexington, Kentucky resident, had reportedly married more than nine women without divorces and claimed various federal roles. The Los Angeles slaying involved Ora Murray, found nude on a golf course last July 27, with evidence tying a man known as Paul or Grant Wyatt Terry to the case. Gardner’s arrest follows a tip and a forged government official persona. Continued on Sixth Page.
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New York
Roger Lewis Gardner
Los Angeles
Gardenia
E. E. Conroy
Comroy
Gardner
United States
Conroy
Lexington, Ky
OPA
War Department
Ora Murray
Grant Wyatt Terry
War Departments Lands Division
Terry
Churchill seeks confidence vote over education bill amendment
Churchill in the house urged unanimous support for his government and called for a confidence vote over the education bill amendment on equal pay for male and female teachers. He warned that failure to secure a sufficient majority could trigger government resignations and cabinet reshuffling.
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London
Houre of Commons
Churchill
Commons
Germans Flooding Hollands Lowlands as War Prep
The German plan to flood western Dutch lowlands to hinder allied invasion moved forward with inundation already underway south of Helder and in Beemster Polder. Evacuations extended along strips north south of Amsterdam and toward Rotterdam and Zui der Zee, with southern districts Willemstad to Geetruidenburg cleared. The move accompanies Roosevelt signing a bill for US participation in UN Rehabilitation Administration activities with a $1.35 billion funding allotment.
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London
Hollands
Netherlands Information Bureau
Europe
South Holland
Zeeland Island
Helder
North Holland
Amsterdam
Beemster Polder
Holland
Information Bureau
Rotterdam
Zuider Zee
Willemstad
Geetruidenburg
Bill Washington
Roosevelt
United States
United Nations Rehabilitation Administration
Congress
Woman Levels Flames Prevents Wide Fire Spread
In San Francisco a resident woman halt a second floor blaze at 537 Hyde Street early today averting major damage. Police linked the incident to a string of incendiaries that culminated in the New Amsterdam hotel fire killing 22. An alert public urged hotel and apartment operators to stay vigilant.
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San Francisco
New Amsterdam
Arthur Finnegan
Nellie Bury
Lang
Albert J. Sullivan
Favors Labor Draft Of 4 F’s
Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson told the House Military Committee that 3 500 000 men classified 4 F aged 18 to 37 should be assigned to essential industry or inducted into army labor battalions. He proposed national service or extension of selective service with occupational deferments for those in war or essential activity.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
House Military Committee
Patterson
Wounded Louisiana Officers Named by War Department
In Washington on March 29 the War Department listed four Louisiana personnel wounded in action in the Mediterranean. Private Rudolph F. M. Grofenhurst, listed with mother Mrs. Frances Grogenhurst of New Orleans at 538 Nashville Avenue, is named alongside Second Lieutenant Frank V. Reitzell Jr. of Monroe, and Second Lieutenant Leo J. Trahan of New Orleans, with their mothers Mrs. Virgie M. Trahan and addresses included.
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Washington
War Department
Louisiana
Mediterranean
Rudolph F. M. Grofenhurst
Frances Grogenhurst
Nashville Avenue
New Orleans
Frank V. Reitzell
South Third Street
Monroe
Leo J. Trahan
Virgie M. Trahan
Jefferson Avenue
Ploesti Oil Fields Put Under Siege by German Forces
Tass reported a state of siege in the Ploesti oil fields, with oil storage ordered removed and Romanian police ordered to shoot violators. Germans replaced Romanian personnel with German scientists as Russians advanced toward the Carpathians. Reports also said Hungary’s puppet regime dissolved social democratic and peasant parties, with unions liquidated by decree.
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London
Tass
Ploesti
Rumania
Red Army
Carpathian Mountains
Hungary
Social Democratic
NBC
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U. S
Ntinu
Frontier
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Rodriguez
Gordon B. Manley
Memphis
Tenn
Philadelphia
Gela
Sicily
A. P
Lonergan
U.S
Vittorio Emanuele
New Dutch Guinea
Burma
Emerson S. Schwenk
First Universalist Church
Bridgeport
Conn
A. P. Wirephoto
Aun
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Taal Celt Y War Fund
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