Dewey Leads In Wisconsin Early Count
Wisconsin voters gave Gov. Dewey a commanding early lead in the state primary as returns from 573 of 3,076 precincts showed four delegates at large favoring Dewey. Stassen and MacArthur trailed, while Willkie lagged amidst rapid, uneven results across districts including Seventh, First, Second, Third, and Sixth.
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Milwaukee
Thomas E. Dewey
Wisconsin
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Dewey
Harold
Stassen
Minnesota
New York
Douglas A. MacArthur
Fred R. Zimmerman
David I. Hammeregren
Edward F. Dilker
William
Campbell
Francis L. Gullickson
James D. Swan
Gilbert F. Doepke
MacArthur
John P. Koehler
Roland E. Kannenberg
Roy F. Farrand
Arnold H. Frederick
Vernon W. Thomson
William F. Renk
W. J. P. Aberg
George B. Skogmo
Dewey Gains Delegates in Missouri Conventions
Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York, was endorsed as the Republican presidential candidate at two Missouri district meetings in St Louis. The 11th and 13th districts adopted identical resolutions calling him the man of the hour and instructing two delegates to support him. Other districts elected uninstruced delegates, completing Missouri's slate except for four at-large delegates to be named at the April 12 state convention in St Louis.
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ST. Louis
Thomas EB. Dewey
New York
St Louis
Dewey
Monett
Missouri
Chicago
Willkie Hears It At Norfolk Nebs Primary Returns
Wendell Willkie and his party stay in their Norfolk hotel awaiting Wisconsin primary returns. Mrs Willkie and aides monitored results by phone from Wisconsin newspapers and radio reports with no comment from Willkie yet.
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Norfolk
Nebr
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Wisconsin
20 Nazi Shells Hit Anzio Hospital No Casualties
Allied reporters describe heavy shelling of Anzio beachhead hospitals with more than 20 shells landing in the densely packed area over a half hour. Despite 43 killed and 145 wounded overall from hospital bombings, this afternoon saw no injuries among patients or staff as crews took shelter behind sandbags and dugouts.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Fifth Army
Anzio
Chaplin Acquitted on Mann Act Charge in L A Court
Charlie Chaplin was acquitted on the first of two Mann Act charges in Los Angeles. A jury found not guilty of transporting his former protegée Joan Barry to New York in October 1942 for immoral purposes. Chaplin thanked the jury and shook each member’s hand amid a cheering, flashlit scene.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin
Clark Francis Cross
Roscoe Reeder
Hollywood
Chanlin
Miss Barry
Lost Brown Leather Wallet in Business Section
Lost brown leather wallet with driver's license money and car ration books reported in the business section. Reward offered for immediate return to the American office.
Acosta Brothers Reunited Amid Pacific War News
Allied air groups bombed Bucharest from bases in Italy, hitting the Romanian capital within 200 miles of the front as part of a new Allied strike in a 24 hour flare of offensives. The report notes celebrations in Acosta with Petty Officer Joseph Legarski meeting his brother John after long separation.
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Naples
Bucharest
Hitler
Balkan
Italy
Red Army
Romania
Budapest
Hungary
Balkans
Ploesti
Joseph Legarski
Brother John
The
Marshalls
Shipfitter
John Legarski
Legarski
2 C Lewis
Bruno Morrell
Pacific
Navy
Casablanca
Guadalcanal
Alcohol truck fire near Fast Main street incident
Somerset Volunteer Fire Company responded to a 5 30 p m call Tuesday on Fast Main street where a tank truck carrying 4500 gallons of alcohol ignited at the rear axle bearing. Coastal Truck Line of York owned the vehicle hauling from Frantz distillery near Berlin to Pittsburgh. Flames were extinguished saving the alcohol with about $40 damage and repairs at S and A garage. trip to resume Wednesday.
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Somerset Volunteer Fire Company
Communists Join French Liberation Committee and De Gaulle Given Expanded Powers
The French committee of national liberation added two Communists Ferdinand Grenier and Francois Billoux and named General Charles de Gaulle as chief of French armed forces with broad wartime powers. De Gaulle declared the committee a free provisional government and called on French support, outlining a reorganization of army, navy, and air force into a single national defense general staff under his leadership.
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Joseph Dynan
Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
France
Ferdinand Grenier
Francois Billoux
de Gaulle
Washington
Western PA Counties Exceed Red Cross War Fund Goals
Blair County reported its largest drive ever with $220,059.88 raised against an $185,000 quota while Cambria County pledged $258,000 toward a $246,000 goal, with total road pledges reaching $258,000 in the 1944 Red Cross drive.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Blair
Cambria
Red Army advances slice through Tarnopol and Kishinev front
The Red Army reports major gains across Ukraine and Bessarabia. Tarnopol fallen after a 10 day battle. at least 3,000 Germans killed and 309 captured. Russian forces overrun 50 localities toward Odessa and press toward Razdelnaya and Kishinev, cutting routes and threatening the German garrisons along the Dniester.
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London
Red Army
Tarnopol
Polana
Black Sea
Odessa
Bakalovo
Razdelnaya
Germany
Rumania
Tiraspol
Kishinev
Ponyatovka
Veselyi Kut
Odessa-Razdelnaya
Odessa-Akkerman
Alsa
Dniester River
Skalane
Moscow
Lwow
Bug
Buzhanyy
Pis Bug River
Adolf Hitler
Lower
Dniester
Sharkany
Doibany
Osinovka
Razcelnaya
Romania
Ivan S. Konev
Aisi
Ankara
London Daily Mail
Antonescu
Prut River
Lozovoi
Red
Skala
Kamenets-Podolsk
Ukraine
Khotin
Czernowitz
Hollandia Suffered Major 300-Plane Raid Losses
Allied forces hit Hollandia in the largest Fifth Air Force strike of the war. More than 300 planes dropped 400 tons of bombs on three airfields and surrounding areas, destroying runways and supplies. Japanese fighters were downed. 288 planes seen at Hollandia were reported demolished or damaged. Rambutya island also seized after shelling and landing.
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Asahel Bush
Allied
Southwest Pacific
George C. Kenney
Hollandia
New Guinea
Southwest
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Rambutya Island
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
Wewak
Madang
Solomons
Philippines
Fifth Airforce
Navy hits Palau Woleai Yap bases in Pacific push
Secretary Knox reports a Pacific sea victory sweep noting enemy ships at Palau Woleai and Yap were sunk or damaged. Fourteen Japanese supply ships were sunk by submarines since the last report, bringing total Nipponese craft sunk to 667. American losses appear limited to aircraft with no confirmed ship losses.
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Washington
U. S. Navy
Palau
Woleai
Yap
Knox
Secretary of Navy
Caroline Island
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Carolines
Pacific Fleet
Philippine Islands
Manila
United States
Truk Attacks Continue In Pacific Offensive
U S Pacific Fleet reports seventh air force Liberators striking Dublin and Eten islands in Truk on Sunday night. Simultaneous actions hit Ponape airfields in the eastern Carolines while three enemy positions in the eastern Marshall islands were attacked by army Mitchell bombers marine dive bombers and fighter aircraft. Runways were damaged a small ship and a dock set afire at one objective. This marks the eleventh central and south Pacific air strike on Truk since last Tuesday.
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Rembert James
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Air Force Liberators
Dublin
Eten Islands
Truk
U.S
Caroline Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Ponape
Carolines
Detective Veteran Fired in Pittsburgh Case
Anthony Ferrero, a 17 year veteran of the county detective force, was dismissed for the good of service, announced by Chief County Detective Joseph M. Stack in Pittsburgh on April 4.
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Pittsburgh
Anthony Ferrero
Joseph M. Stack
Assignments in Italy Reorganized by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt reorganized American diplomatic postings in Italy with no shift toward recognizing Badoglio. Alexander C. Kirk becomes ambassador and joins the allied advisory council for Italy. Robert D. Murphy leaves the council to focus on allied political programs and Balkan matters. The Badoglio government remains under allied military command and armistice limits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Italy
Badoglio
Badocho
United States
Britain
White House
Alexander C. Kirk
Egypt
Allied Advisory Council
Russia
Robert D. Murphy
Mediterranean
Henry Maitland Wilson
Allied Command
Hull
Murphy
Balkan
Wilson
Kirk
Japanese push in India and Burma faces stiff resistance
Forces in eastern India withdraw toward the Manipur plain after heavy fighting near Imphal as Japanese fires rout allied troops. Across Burma, Stilwell's 22nd division presses toward Myitkyina while Arakan forces seize three villages in hand to hand combat and allied air support disrupts supply lines.
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New Delhi
Imphal
India
Manipur
Sangshak
India-Burma
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Arakan
Lower
Kaladan
Buthedaung
Monessen Man Arraigned On Failure To Report for National Work
Pittsburgh April 4. Charles Zitko of Monessen was arraigned before a US commissioner for failure to report for work of national import. He was held for final hearing and posted a $1000 bond.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Zitko
Monessen
Yanks Down 1 081 Planes
American air forces in Europe claim 30 172 tons of bombs and 1 081 Nazi planes destroyed in March across 26 raiding days. Losses included 369 bombers and 178 fighters. They bombed Germany 15 times and Berlin five times, debut over Berlin on March 4, and on March 30 dispatched the largest force yet to strike targets in Sofia and eastern front rail and industry.
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Bucharest
U. S
Budapest
Hungary
Romania
Russia
Sofia
Bulgaria
Steyr
Austria
Mediterranean
London
Germany
Europe
Strategic Air
Berlin
Hitler
Need More Poultry in Philadelphia April Protest
Wholesalers protested in Philadelphia that to meet pre Easter demand they needed 200000 more pounds of live fowl than the 95443 pounds reported shipped yesterday by the War Food Administration. They blamed the shortage on a one cent price differential allowed New York and Baltimore over Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
War Food Administration
New York
Baltimore
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove VU Observer
Daily weather report from Somerset notes a 24 hour period ending 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with a high of 42 and a low of 19 degrees. Snowfall recorded as .06 inches. Unclear sections appear as garbled text but the main figures are temperature range and light snowfall.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
VU. S. Weather Observer
DEA
Wea
U. S. Weather Bureau
Boston
Weather Outlook Washington area and nearby states
Maryland and nearby states forecast mostly partly cloudy and very cold Wednesday with strong winds in the east. Eastern Pennsylvania sees snow flurries in the mountains. West Virginia reports partly cloudy skies with mountain snow flurries and lingering cold. Western Pennsylvania has snow flurries in the mountains.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Anzio Beach
de Anzio
Red Cross
U. S. Signal Corps
Neb
Sipe
Gene Handsaker
Acosta
Lynn Heinzerling
Mary Hause
Marshall Islands
Philadelphia Navy Yard
States
South West Pacific
Nimitz
Kiska
Attu
Tom Yarbrough
Fifth Air Force
Hamilton W. Faron
John M. Hightower
Mainpur
Charles A. Grumich
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