Raids on Balkans Hit Nazi Supplies
Allied air action over the Balkans and central Italy resulted in losses for the Axis with Liberator gunners credited with 10 kills and Lightning escort pilots with three. A grand total of 14 enemy aircraft fell that day. Britain based raids covered Germany, shooting down 18 planes and destroying about 40 on the ground, while Dalmatian coast shipping faced fighter attacks. Vichy radio stations were reported to abruptly go off air, hinting at possible British raider activity.
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Balkan
Balkans
Italy
Caaste
Boy's Smoking Burns Down Home
A four year old reportedly started a fire at a Mission home by smoking in bed, igniting the bed clothing. The blaze burned the dwelling to the total loss. The boy and two other preschool children were uninjured.
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Bern Ising
Rush Relief To Sufferers From Rheumatism Pain
Thousands suffer torturing rheumatic pains and related ailments but NORITO promises fast relief with a guaranteed trial. Buy from your druggist today and if not satisfied within three days, your money is refunded.
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Acretica
Norito
Tod Akeep
Rooney
Constellation Maiden Flight Sets Transcontinental Test
The Constellation, the world’s largest transport plane, began its maiden coast to coast flight from Burbank to Washington piloted by Howard Hughes and Jack Frye. The craft aims to carry up to 100 paratroopers and travel above 30,000 feet, with observers from Army, Lockheed, and TWA aboard. The project follows a wartime redesign and a complex Kaiser-Hughes cargo plan under war production directives.
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Galli
Constellation
Washington
Howard AK
Hughes
American
Jack Frye
Transcontinental and
Western Air, Inc
Army
Jockheed Corporation
TWA
T.W.A
Army Air Transport Com Com
Scvyen
INO Paras
Hughes and
War Production Board
Kaiser-Hughes
WEB
Donald M. Nelson
Defense Plants] Corporation
General's Daughter Inducted in WAC at Sweet Briar
Susan Somerville, 21, daughter of Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somerville, and six Sweet Briar seniors were sworn in as privates of the WAC at a ceremony in Sweet Briar Virginia. Maj. Gen. Joe N. Dallon praised the WACs serving worldwide as the seven enter basic training in 120 days and plan to graduate May 29.
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Sweet Briar, Va
Susan Somervell
Brehon Somerville
Army Service Forces
Sweet Briar College
WAC
Joe N. Dallon
WACS
Sweet Briar
Dairy Student Learns Dairy Craft at Penn State
STATE COLLEGE Pa Miss Odette Hector a Costa Rican dairy student at Pennsylvania State College gained first hand knowledge of dairy products in her first week. While picking up English she focused on ice cream and cake as she learned the trade.
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State College
Odette Hector
Pennsylvania State College
WAC Unit Among First to Land in North Africa
Newton, Pa. Capt. Jane A. Stretch commanded one of the first WAC companies to land in North Africa. She and her unit were flown to their base to begin work immediately.
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Newton, Pa
1Na
Jane A. Stretch
Newton
North
Africa
Twain Old Friend Jesse Lasky Remembers Mark Twain
Producer Jesse Lasky once knew Mark Twain in New York, sharing a personal link between Warner Bros projects and the legendary American author and humorist. The reminiscence highlights Twain’s influence on American letters and entertainment.
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Twain
Jesse L. Lasky
Warner Rns
Mark Twhin
Farmels
New Yorks
Tornado Death Toll Reported At 38 In Georgia And South Carolina
Rescue crews counted 28 deaths in Georgia with 21 in Hall and 9 in Hert County and 17 dead in South Carolina. More than 300 injured, 247 homes destroyed, 103 damaged. The storm tore through Gatesville and Rayston, leveling houses and damaging Greenwood Hospital.
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Atlanta
UPI
Georgia
South Carolina
Royston
Nuburg
Hert County
American Red Cross
Gatesville
Hall County
Georgiaine
Rayston
Franklin County
Alvin Dove
Greenwood
Bound to Have Their Souvenirs
Shipping firm Pusey and Jores saved the top of each champagne bottle for ship christenings until a vessel named Christina Flyer shattered a bottle during launch. President Andred Spiegelhalter announced river dredging plans for a trophy site near Wilmington, Delaware, as the event was reported in terse, partial text.
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Venir-Loving
Pusey and Jores Shipbuilding Corporation
WAC Flies With Marine General
Salt Lake City dispatch reports Lt. Belen Kautz of the WAC ordered to Port Oglethorpe Ga for national training. She indicated concern a marine officer would depart aboard a plane toward that general area. The officer cited the name Lieut Gen Alexander A. Vandergrif.
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Salt Lake City
Belen Kautz
WAC
Port Oglethorpe
Liebo Gen
Alevander A. Vandegefi
Ieee
Found Her Purse But Lost Coat Card
Kallean Bouton stepped off a streetcar and realized her purse was left aboard. A motorist gave her a lift and followed the streetcar, allowing her to reclaim the purse. She reportedly tested her fur coat in a stranger’s car, then left.
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Ugs Angeles
Kallean Bouton
Gestapo Raids Danish Toyland
In a daylight assault the Gestapo destroyed numerous British and American aircraft on display in a Danish toyshop. A Stockholm paper quoted the Gestapo as promising further devastating raids, signaling a bold wartime action.
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New York
INS
Gestapo
Stockholm
Nya Dagligts Alehanda
Fiji Islanders Help Kill Japs War Report Details Beaganville Action
Fiji islanders aided by New Zealand officers with modern arms including automatic weapons joined Allied forces in the South Pacific. In a continuing session they penetrated Beaganville area, killed 178 Japanese, and returned with one dead and three wounded, according to the war department.
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Washington
South Pacific
War Department
New Zealand
Begainville
Ford Plant in Britain Praised for Cooperative Labor Effort
London April 17. The Ford Motor Company which has operated for three years in Britain reached an agreement with the trade union movement to cooperate in maintaining favorable conditions for workers. Trade union leaders and the company praised Ford for its example and said working conditions are good.
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London
INL
Ford Motor Company
Britain
Ford
Mussolini Reported Near Death
A Milan newspaper report published in Geneva claims Benito Mussolini is gravely ill and awaiting death in solitude. The story, attributed to Corriere della Sera and circulated with German occupation consent, says he may need an intestinal operation and shows him thinner and older in images.
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Bern
Switzerland
Milan
Benito Mussolini
Geneve Tritone
Cororitre Della Gera
Mussolini
Italy
the Tribune
Corriere
Badoglio
Japs Entrenched On Tulagi in 1912
Mrs. Osa Johnson, a world traveler, reports that ten Japanese soldiers were well entrenched on Tulagi in 1912. She recounts that General Ishimo, later killed on Guadalcanal, posed as a tailor during a Southwest Pacific inland visit and even made clothes for the Johnsons.
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INS
Tulagi
Osa Johnson
Johnson
Ishimoto
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
British Fighters Sink Nazi Ships Off Koronot Harbor
The Middle East air command announced British fighters sank one enemy supply ship with cannon fire in Koront harbor in southern Greece and heavily damaged another vessel, leaving it to heel over. Attacks on Axis shipping continued.
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uPi R. A. 3
Beauehters
Koront
Greece
Middle East Air Command
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