Gigantic Air Blitz On Nazis Is Continued
Allied air forces pressed a major campaign against German targets in northern Europe with hundreds of American light bombers striking northern France. RAF bombers dropped about 4 480 tons on rail centers in Germany Belgium and France and night raids by 1 100 bombers aimed at Cologne Paris Berlin and Brussels. The sustained air offensive involved thousands of planes over four days, with Cologne fires visible for miles and raids deep into Berlin.
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London
France
Germany
Belgium
Cologne
RAF
West Wall
Paris
Berlin
Brussels
Royal Air Force
Europe
Folkestone
Washington Roundup reinforces wartime policy shifts
Congress and industry resist renewed national service calls as the House military affairs committee urges lower draft standards and 4-F exemptions for nonwar work. Roosevelt to run in 1944 remains undecided on a running mate. OPA cuts lamb values by 50 percent April 30 while butter and pork shifts spark debate. Fats removal from ration list leaves fats salvage unchanged. Coal buying habits head toward ration-like tightening. Mass sedition trial unrest grows as a defense lawyer seeks a mandamus stay. Laurence Duggan to resign. Morgenthau to outline monetary stabilization plan to Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Armed Forces
House Military Affairs Committee
War Department
OPA
Fires Burn Across Lawrence County Fields As Spring Preparations Begin
Reported last night across Lawrence County fires burned in fields while farmers cleared land for spring work. A tractor plowed a large field near dusk on a county farm, and the scene at the rce homestead yard on East Washington street and Croton avenue showed thousands of hyacinths in bloom.
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Lawrence County
Rce
East Washington Street
Croton Avenue
Thousands Die As German Counter-Offensive Fails At Narva Front
Moscow reports massive German losses on the Narva front as the second counter-offensive within a week meets heavy Soviet resistance. Russian artillery and air power halt advances near Sevastopol and Narva, with estimates running into thousands of enemy deaths and heavy equipment losses.
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Moscow
Sevastopol
Russian Leader Explains Nazi Failures in Ukraine War
Odessan dispatch reports Gen. A S Rogov of the Third Ukrainian army argues Hitler’s insistence on holding ground bred encirclements and material losses. He says Nazi tactics lacked originality and the steadfast order backfired, aiding Soviet advances into southern Ukraine and Romania.
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Odessa
Hitler
Ukraine
Rumania
A. S. Rogov
Third Ukrainian Army
Rogov
Daily Weather Report Summary
Daily Weather Report shows today’s high 71 and low 46 with 0.18 inches of precipitation. River stage stands at 6.7 feet. A year ago metrics recorded a high of 55 and low of 36 with 0.14 inches rainfall.
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United States
Shipping Blast at Bergen Harbor Kills 43
Oslo reporter for Swedish news agency cites 43 killed and many injured after a ship blasting incident in Bergen harbor in Norway. The blast occurred in LONDON time on April 21. Authorities investigate cause and scope of damage.
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Bergen
London
IMNS
Oslo
Jittery German Propaganda Flares About Invasion Plans
The piece reports German propagandists pushing invasion headlines as Allied bombers target pre invasion sites in Europe. Berlin cites a crowding of ships in British home waters as a key claim while London faces mounting pressure and uncertainty amid a night of Allied air assaults.
Primary Election Quiet in Pennsylvania Amid Low Voter Interest
Next Tuesday, April 25, Pennsylvania holds its primary for national and state officers and delegates to party conventions. The campaign has been unusually quiet with limited competition and little local campaigning as voters prepare to choose U S Senate and Congressional candidates, state court judges, and party officials.
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Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Congress
State Supreme Court
State Superior Court
State Feace
General Assembly
Princess Elizabeth Feels Birthday Cheer With Regimental Gift
Princess Elizabeth, 18, watched the Grenadier Guards change the guard at Windsor and received a silk replica of the king's colors. Messages of congratulation poured in, including one from Eduard Benes. In New York 900,000 Girl Scouts sent birthday wishes through their national president Mrs Alan H Means.
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London
Elizabeth
Grenadier Guards
Eduard Benes
New York
INS
Elizabeth of England
Girl Scouts
United States
Alan H. Means
Salt Lake City
Utah
Means
Sabang Strike Led by Admiral Somerville Aims at Burma
Admiral Sir James F. Somerville commanded a Royal Navy task force that hit the Japanese naval base at Sabang near Sumatra. The veteran commander, recalled from retirement, has led major operations including Dunkirk evacuation and the hunt for the Bismarck, with recent plans signaling renewed focus toward Burma.
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New York
James F. Somerville
Sabang
Sumatra
Sir James
East Indies
Adm
Somerville
Dunkerque
Oran
Badoglio Forms New Government in Coalition Rise
Marshal Badoglio formed a new Italian government uniting six anti fascist groups. Ercoli, Sforza, and Croce received ministerial posts, with others serving without portfolio. The cabinet aims for a broad democratic coalition as King Victor Emmanuel weighs approval.
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Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Ercole Ercoli
Carlo Sforza
Benito Mussolini
Benedetto Croce
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Umberto
Rome
Badoglio
Vitaly
Action Party
Ercoli
Count Sforza
Guillo Rodini
Christian Democrats
Pietro Mancini
Socialists
Truk Bastion Hit in Heaviest Night Attack Yet
Allied air forces and naval aircraft pounded Truk bas tion in the Carolines with 46 tons of bombs on key islands. A navy search plane hit a Jap merchant vessel in the lagoon and fires spread on Moen and Dublin islands. Wake was hit by a Liberator. Ponape and other Jap bases in the eastern Carolines were bombed.
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Pearl Harbor
Truk
Carolines
Vmn
Truk Lagoon
Seventh Army Air Force
Dublin Island
Moen Island
Wake Island
Wake
Ponape
Marshalls
British Drive Against Japs In Imphal Sector
British and Indian forces press northeast of Imphal with a heavy infantry drive after smashing the Kohima siege. Tanks, air and artillery barrages loosen Japanese positions as snipers and defenders fall back, with sappers trapping squads and lighting oil to drive retreat. Other allied legions advance in northern Burma.
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Imphal
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
14Th Army
Kohima
Burma
Artillery Fire Is Increased In Cassino Area
In the Cassino sector on the Fifth Army front German batteries intensified their fire south of Cassino while northern positions saw very active bombing by Fifth Army guns. Allied artillery hit an enemy observation post near Biagio and inflicted casualties. off Anzio, an American destroyer provided offshore protection as the invasion force moved in. The U.S. warships intercepted four German F-boats.
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Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Baltic
Stanislawow
Narva
Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Terelle
United Nations Artilleries
Biagio
Anzio
U. S
Bombers Hit Rail Lines and Ports North of Rome
Mediterranean Air Force bombers conducted more than 2,000 sorties against Italian targets, crippling railway yards and bridges. Official reports cite damage at Fano and Ancona and attacks on bridges over the Tagliamento at Casarsa.
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Naples
INS
Mediterranean Air Force
Italy
Rome
Fano
Ancona
Tagliamento
Casarsa
Paper Collection Drive Aids War Effort In New Castle
Residents urged to gather waste paper this Saturday April 22 from 1 PM until finished. Households asked to bundle newspapers magazines and cardboard no more than 15 pounds each and place on curb for pickup to support war production and conserve wood pulp.
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New Castle
Huge Massing Of Ships In British Waters Reported
British waters saw the greatest concentration of ships since Dunkerque, including British American and French vessels, German radio reported. The broadcast claimed London is increasingly deserted as troop trains depart for channel ports and eastern and southern coasts.
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Berlin
Dunkerque
London
United States
Reuters
New Problem Is Faced By Reich
London dispatch reports Nazi Germany confronting the need to sustain full war production with only half of its chrome supply after Turkey halted exports. The Reich must rely on Yugoslavia and Greece mines, but saboteurs and guerrillas reduce even normal shipments.
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London
Nazi Germany
Reich
Yugoslavia
Greece
Believe Armistice Would Be Accepted
London dispatch reports confident belief that Romania will accept armistice terms described as definite and very good offered by the Soviets to Bucharest. Copies of the conditions were sent to the United States and Britain and are believed to have the approval of both allied governments.
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London
Romania
Bucharest
United States
Bombers Pummel Rabaul and Truk In Pacific Raids
American airmen pounded Rabaul with over 175 bombers and struck a Truk outpost for the third straight day. Main targets included Tobera and Keravat runways and Vunapope, Kulon, and Bulung supply areas. Heavy anti aircraft fire and three planes were reported lost.
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MacArthur
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
Truk
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Tobera
Vunapope
New York
CBS
Big guns wage duel over channel
German shipping in the Dover strait was believed to have been the target of British coastal guns which opened fire during the night, precipitating a 40 minute duel between allied and enemy long range artillery.
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London
Dover Strait
Deaths and Ages of Local Residents
Death records list Thomas Orlen Welker aged 19 months of R. D. 2 Lowellville State Line road. John Colnor 88 of Los Angeles California. Mrs Mary Emma Sharpe 86 of 717 Butler avenue. James Shearer Cline 73 of Portersville Pennsylvania. Thomas James Buxton 83 of 31 Crescent avenue.
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Thomas Orlen Welker
R. D
Lowellville
State Line Road
John Colnor
Los Angeles
Calif
Mary Emma Sharpe
Butler Avenue
James Shearer Cline
Portersville
Thomas James Buxton
Crescent Avenue
Man Killed by Truck Near Girard Pa
James Malone a 40 year old Chicago resident was struck and killed by a truck while walking along a road near Girard Pennsylvania. Driver Joseph Mogush 25 Conneautville was released pending a full investigation of the accident.
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North Springfield
James Malone
W. Monroe St
Chicago
Girard
New York Central Railroad
Joseph Mogush
Conneautville
Drifting Along a Sunny Stream Dream
The narrator likens leisure to canoeing on a shaded stream with a birchwood craft and a dock. They dream of smooth running water and sunny days, drifting with the current and enjoying a relaxing, carefree time. Weather is described as seventy-one.
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Eal Service
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Eloise English
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Mr. Roosevelt
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Laurence Duggan
State Department
Treasury
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Black Sea Fleet
Red Air
Daily Weather Report
By J. C. Oestreicher
I. N.S
Princess Elizabeth
Paul C. Raborg
By Michael Chinigo
M. S
Truk Bastion
Clinton Green
By Vincent DE Silva
INOS
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George Lait
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