MacArthur Leads Illinois GOP Primary Amid Light Voter Turnout
General Douglas MacArthur led early Illinois Republican returns in a lightly attended primary amid rain and apathy. Vote totals showed the general ahead of rivals while Green and Lyons posted strong state race numbers. Nebraska echoed the light turnout with Stassen as the lone entrant and two delegate slates competing.
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D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Illinois
Nebraska
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Dwight Griswold
MacArthur
Riley Bender
Chicago
GOP
Green
Dwight H. Green
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Richard J. Lyons
Deneen Watson
William J. Baker
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Wendell Willkie
Dewey
Roosevelt
New York State Republican Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Rolland B. Marvin
Onondaga County
Willkie
Wisconsin
Roosevelt Edward V. Louglin
Tammany
Washington
Loughlin
Cornhusker
Ralph H. Cake
Oregon
Scott W. Lucas
Griswold
Ball
Rminn
1 362 Farm Folks Dine In Somerset
The annual Somerset Farm Bureau Cooperative banquet drew 1 362 farmers and guests to four churches a hotel a fire hall and the high school cafeteria. I H Hull of Indianapolis urged cooperation as the foundation of business and farming progress. R W Benjamin outlined six cooperative principles and urged farmers to vote their own views. I Marcelus Shaulis reported steady growth and rising sales across Somerset County with notably large totals in Somerset borough Meyersdale and Windber. Continued on Page Two.
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I. H. Hull
Indiana Ferm Bureau Cooperative
Indianapolis
United States
Myr. Hull
Indiana
R. W. Benjamin
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Association
Benjamin
Shaulis
I. Marcellus Shaulis
Jenner Township
Somerset County Farm Cooperative
Somerset Borough
Meyersdale
Windber
Erset County
Used Gas by Mistake Sets House Afire
Mrs S F Weidner of Somerset R D 5 poured gasoline mistaken for kerosene onto live coals in the kitchen causing a flash and minor blaze. The Somerset volunteer fire company quickly responded, saving the dwelling from destruction. Damages were estimated at about 25 dollars to the kitchen.
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S. F. Weidner
Somerset
R. D
Somerset Volunteer Fire Company
Weidner
Pinchot Road
Plank Road
Richard Pile
Luce Blames Third Term For War Struggles
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce argues Roosevelt's third term and talk of a fourth harmed wartime unity. She says Congress battled the president over power, delaying war aims and postwar plans. She warns extra aid and lend-lease terms favor Russia, weaponizing food in occupied nations.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Bridgeport
Conn
R- Conn
Roosevelt
Congress
78Th Congress
Carnegie-Illinois workers set 23 monthly production records
Pittsburgh April 11. Twenty three March production records were established by Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation workers, including one record lasting over 27 years, the company announced today.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Tornadoes and floods sweep South causing heavy deaths
Massive storms across the southern central states kill at least 46 people including 34 in Arkansas and injure over 150. Tornadoes, wind and floods disrupt utilities, highways and farms from Oklahoma to Kentucky with rains in Nebraska and snow in Iowa impacting voting.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas City
Omaha
Iowa
Arkansas River
California
Snow plows reach Berthoud Pass to rescue stranded motorists
A snowplow breached Berthoud Pass opening a rescue route for 32 people stranded since Sunday by snowslides and a storm. Motorists cheered as plows moved toward the summit and began freeing and refueling 12 motor vehicles on the west side. Lt. Helen Barr Durfee, a WAVE from Los Angeles, suffered a back injury and was hospitalized in Denver.
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John R. Ward
Berthoud Pass
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Continental Divide
U. S
Idaho Springs
Denver
Helen Barr Durfee
Los Angeles
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Ration Tokens Found in Parking Meters
Six red meat tokens were found in several parking meters after they were emptied on Tuesday. The tokens did not work, costing each person one red point. Since ration tokens began circulating, they have been used as poker chips and in juke boxes.
Poultry Stores in Philadelphia to Close Indefinitely
The Philadelphia Retail Live Poultry Dealer Association says 150 member stores will shut Saturday because retailers can no longer buy live poultry at ceiling prices. David N. Feldman, counsel for the association, announced the move.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Retail Live’ Poultry Dealer Association
David N. Feldman
Japanese push toward Kohima raises fear of isolation
Allied base at Kohima in eastern India faces intensified Japanese assaults from jungles north of the town. Snipers along the Kohima Dimapur supply highway threaten the Bengal Assam railway feeding Stilwell's forces in northern Burma. Imphal fighting continues as 17th Indian division claims 1,800 Japanese casualties during Tiddim withdrawal.
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Kohima
India
Dimapur
Tokio
Kohima-Dimapur
Imphal
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Palel
Navy
Knox
Washington
Tiddim
Stilwell
Mogaung
Wakawng
Shadurup
Myitkyina
Arakan
Dawn to Dusk Flying Says Eisenhower
General Eisenhower addressed American fighter pilots at a U S base in England noting their role in the coming invasion would be dawn to dusk fighting the German air force. He warned they would endure little sleep or food as they pursue air superiority in the threeway Allied assault.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Allied Expeditionary Air Forces
Lewis H. Brereton
U. S. Ninth Air Force
U. S
England
Franklin L. Banker
European
Eisenhower
Carl A. Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
James H. Doolittle
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Land Army
Rockwood Man Held for Arson
Burdette Schrock a 30 year old Rockwood man was arrested by Fire Marshal George Wasconis and Rockwood Chief Lawrence Vetterly after citizen Azine Flowers alleged he set fire to her four room home. The blaze caused minor damage and the suspect faced a Justice of the Peace hearing before being committed to the county jail.
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Rockwood
Burdette Schrock
George Wasconis
Pennsylvania State Police
Greensburg
Lawrence Vetterly
Schrock
Alzine Flowers
Justice of the Peace
Josiah Swank
700 Return to Work After Aluminum Plant Strike
About 700 CIO United Steel workers at the Aluminum Company of America plant in Canonsburg will return to work tomorrow after an agreement was reached. Terms of the settlement were released by the union.
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Canonsburg
Cio-United Steelworkers
Aluminum Company of America
Daylight Attack Dims Germany Aircraft Industry
US air forces hit German plant targets at Oschersleben Bernburg Rostock and Arnimswalde part of a daylight raid with nearly 2000 bombers and fighters. The attack destroyed 126 Nazi planes and left U S losses at 64 bombers and 16 fighters as the battle raged over the Baltic coast and German targets.
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W. W. Hercher
London
U. S
Germany
Berlin
Oschersleben
Bernburg
Rostock
Arnimswalde
Stettin
Sweden
Baltic Sea
Hannover
RAF
Frankfurt
Air Ministry
Marienburg
East Prussia
Tours
France
Aschersleben
Charleroi
Brussels
U S Pacific Fleet reports new Marshall Islands gains
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced four atolls and Meju island in the northern Marshalls were reconnoitered and added to American holdings. Mejit is noted as possibly an atoll. Bombs were dropped on four Japanese positions in the Marshalls Easter Sunday, while Ulul island near Truk faced a first reported raid and Ponape was bombed and strafed.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Ailuk
Rongelap
Likiep
Utirik
Meju Island
Marshalls
Wotje
Mejit
Nimitz
Navy
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Wotho
Majuro
Seventh Army Air Force
Merive
Ulul Island
Truk
Ulul
Ponape
New Britain Casualties Hit 1514 As Campaign Advances
Allied headquarters announced 1514 American casualties in the New Britain campaign with enemy losses far higher. MacArthur said Japanese retreat toward Rabaul followed Dec 15 invasion, Americans holding most of New Britain after capturing Gasmata and Cape Hoskins.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain Island
MacArthur
New Britain
Rabaul
Gasmata
Midway
Cape Hoskins
New Guinea
Hansa Bay
Madang
South Pacific
Rabatsi
Bougainville
Pedimeter
Torokina
Caroline Islands
Central
Navy
Hitler summons axis powers to Berchtesgaden
Der Bund reports Hitler calls a conference with Axis leaders in Berchtesgaden. Topics include mobilizing human and material reserves, possible withdrawal of troops from occupied nations, and Japan’s potential immediate aid to Germany. Attendees may include Mussolini and puppet premiers from Europe.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Japan
Germany
Bern
der Bund
Reuters
France
Norway
Italy
Croatia
Holland
Denmark
Berchtesgaden
Benito Mussolini
Berlin
Hitler
Antonescu
Romania
Laval
Quisline
Pavelic
Hacha
Bohemia and
Moravia
Kerch Falls as Red Army Presses in Crimea
Soviet reports say a new amphibious force under Gen Andrei Yeremenko joined the Crimea assault, capturing Kerch fortress and pushing toward Sevastopol as Axis forces retreat. Moscow notes heavy German and Romanian casualties and large enemy routs from Odessa to the Dniester.
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Yeremenko
Kerch
Ukraine Army Union
London
Stalingrad
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Crimea
Fourth Ukraine
Dzhankai
Sevastopol
Stalin
Black Sea
Odessa
Dniester
Moscow
Ovidopol
Red Army
Romania
Red
Prut River
Pascani
Cristesti
Ploesti
Crimean
Stormovik
Russian Independent Maritime Army
Conference Owens Today Complete Central Pennsylvania Meeting
The Methodist church opens its Central Pennsylvania annual conference in Altoona with Edwin H. Hughes presiding. Pastoral appointments will be announced Sunday.
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Owens
Altoona
The
Methodist Church
Central Pennsylvania
Edwin H. Hughes
Washington Area
Somerset Weather Reported Daily Summary
Temperature for the 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Monday to 5 30 p m Tuesday. Reading shows 60 as the minimum while the previous year recorded a lower value. Weather observer David Grove notes no significant anomalies in the data.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
RRO
Maryland Pennsylvania Weather Update
Maryland faces Wednesday rain and cool conditions. Eastern and Western Pennsylvania expect cloudy skies and a cool, wet Wednesday. West Virginia looks for occasional rain with colder air on Wednesday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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