RAF Bombs Budapest and Bucharest In Major Allied Raid
Allied air forces hammered Budapest and Bucharest in a major coordinated raid. Fortresses Liberators and Lightnings bombed rail yards refineries and armament factories while Wellington and Liberator crews reported multiple fires and explosions. Over Budapest 24 enemy planes were shot down and 60 to 60 more engaged with heavy losses for the Axis.
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Hhavquansters
Naples
15Th Pirforre
Bucharest
U.S
Budapest
Hungary
Europe
Tokol
Taree
A. King
Bexar
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Brod
Bnin
Dinis
Itai
S A T B Job Turned Down In Health Board Shuffle
Dr Homer L Herbert, director of tuberculosis control for Kansas, notified city health director Dr Lewis C Robbins that he cannot take the job offered him by San Antonio Headquarters. The report also notes Allied air attacks and radio blackouts as part of wartime updates.
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Homer L. Herbert
Repers
Tuberculosis Control
Kansas
Lewis C. Robbins
San Antonio
Steyr
Austria
City Health Board
Medi-Jof
Tuerculosis
Agu
London
Nazis Use Italians Tangle On Rome Beachhead Front
Allied headquarters in Naples reported Italian Fusiliers now mixed with German troops along the Rome beachhead as fighting across the Italian front eased. Italians reportedly wore German uniforms at times and some parachute units were observed in German dress. Cassino area quiet after days of activity with shelling on the railway station and mortar fire around Des Roses hotel.
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Naples
Rome
Theine
Cassino
Des Roses Hotel
Mexican Editor Shot to Death in Mexico City
Ignacio Herrerias 93 publisher of Novedades one of Mexico largest newspapers was shot and killed yesterday after a bitter strike at the paper ended a strike a young reporter for the newspaper was arrested in connection with the incident and authorities reported the event occurred after 4 PM local time
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Mexico City
Ignacio Herrerias
Novedades
Mexico
Alrike
Russians Reach Eight Miles North of Iasi in Romania Front
Soviet forces push 11 miles beyond the Soivet frontier to eight miles north of Iasi, a key Romanian railway hub. Zhukov’s First Army encircles remnants of Axis divisions near the Dniester. Reported war booty includes tanks, vehicles, and ordnance. combat warns Romanians to abandon Germans or face a ruined homeland.
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Moscow
Rumania
Prut
Red
Iasi
Ruments
Jasl
Dorohal
Czernowsky
Marshal Konev
Second Ukraine
Ruemania
Marshal Zhukov
Skala
Dniester
Zhukov
Konev
Ploesti
Bucharest
Odessa
Malinovsky
Ukraine
Shovten
Berezova
Tsezarevka
London Daily Mail
Weather forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
Partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. Lowest temperature Wednesday morning about 48 degrees. East Texas near the east one-hundredth meridian also partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. Additional weather on page.
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San Antonio
East Texas
Jap prisoner urges surrender as loudspeaker broadcast spreads
On Bougainville a captured Japanese private from the Sixth Division delivered a dramatic plea over loudspeakers to his former comrades. He urged them to give up the futile fight, claimed good treatment if they surrender, and suggested he would relay the message. Two days after capture he was escorted to a pillbox for the broadcast as fighting raged nearby.
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Hilde
Bougainville
Sulo- Mon Islands
Marvel
Sixth
Imperial Division
Signal Corps
Rae Gali
Iga
Hants
Itoken
Central Pacific Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Oscar W. Griswold
World War II Casualty Totals Reported by Prime Minister
Prime Minister Chasehill stated in the Commons that four years of war have yielded British Empire casualties totaling 667,159, with 158,741 killed, 159,211 wounded, 78,204 missing, and 270,995 prisoners of war. U.S. army and naval casualties tally 173,238 through March. Civilian UK casualties reached 109,101, including 43,730 medical cases and 59,371 wounded. Merchant seamen losses numbered 30,314, with 26,317 dead or missing.
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Pondon
Chasehill
Navy
Coca
U.S
Churchill
United Kingdom
Associated Press
Taylor Henry
Baden-Baden
Germany
Wraserborne
Cntflict
Moscow
United Nations
Berlin
Trajan
Move Made to Buy Surplus Eggs
Royury and egg producers wish ing to sell surplus eggs should con tact county agents or the war fond administration. Dennis Poe, arez supervisor, said Tuesday his office has contracted with 14 producers to buy surplus for army and fend lease needs, awaiting reply from a crate maker contacted by the WPA for crates to move surplus from this territory.
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Royury
War Fond Administration
Dennis Poe
Arez
Poe
WPA
Japs India Drive Deemed Serious By London War Desk
London dispatch reports observers view the Japanese push into India as a serious threat aimed at breaking air supply routes to China. Analysts note possible forward bases, potential raids on ports and rail hubs, and amphibious options toward Malaya and Burma, with British and American fleets massed in Singapore to counter.
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Odai International
Gery
London
Miliay
India
Frondon
Washington
China
Suecessful
Malaya
Burma
Admiral Mountbatten
Bay of Bengal
Rangoon
Singapore
Andaman Islands
Niinita
Marshalls
Lnp
K Lee Fee
Imphal
Orde Charles
Wingate
Pacific
Nimitz
General MacArthur
U S Subs Hit 14 More Jap Vessels At Palau Bases
Washington reports American submarines sank or damaged 14 Japanese ships in raids on Palau, Woleal, and Yap. Two medium tankers, 11 cargo vessels, and one small warship were among those sunk or damaged. total ships sunk likely 62% of Jap craft. Navy Secretary Knox noted air losses and radio silence hindered full details, with propaganda claims of larger Japanese losses dismissed.
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Washington
Palau
Navy
Knox
Palau Pool
Woleal
Gorolinesland
Woileal
Yap
Anther Jap
New Bay
Pacific
Philippine Islands
Task Force
Manila
Tire inspections replaced by tire replacement rule
The OPA is dropping its passenger car fire inspection program. Beginning April 20 only applicants seeking replacement tires must present inspection certificates. All other inspections are eliminated because the average driver now maintains tires well.
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Washington
OPA
MacArthur Airmen Strike Nine Targets in Southwest Pacific
General MacArthur announces airmen hit nine targets across a 1000 mile arc destroying enemy positions on Bougainville and elsewhere. Truk and Dublon in the Truk fortress complex were bombed. Timor and Rambutyo Island were targeted as Bougainville defense weakens. Allied command reports 7000 enemy dead on Bougainville since March 8 and continued advances toward Bogadjim near Madang.
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Tarters
Southwest
Pacific
Gpi
MacArthur
Bougainville
Palau
Truk
Solomons
Dublon
Timor
Dutch East, Indies
Darwin
Australia
Empress Augusta Bay
South Pacific
Southwest Pacific Command
Rambutyo Island
Los Négrng
Admiralties
Miralty Islands
Koruniat
Narilo
Bogadjim
Madang
Roosevelt's condition after exam described as satisfactory
President Roosevelt, recently troubled by bronchitis and a head cold, underwent a thorough annual physical. Dr. Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire said the checkup was satisfactory and noted progress in clearing influenza and a respiratory condition, with routine weight and vitamin boosts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fross T. McIntire
McIntire
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Sion
D. Baptista Mascarenhas
Valenti Beutely
Mario A. P. Guedes
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U. S
Mecca
White House
McIntyre
Mhess
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