Congress Debates Parity Veto and Farm Price Powers
Washington April 5 A farm policy note says the Roosevelt veto of the Bankhead parity bill might be sustained by up to 30 Senate votes while House support lags. Senate action begins tomorrow with strong party divides and warnings of inflation from critics.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Bankhead
Dala
Aiken
R-V1
Taft
Ohio
Congress
National Grange
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation
Senate Agriculture Committee
Smith
D-S.c
Prentiss Brown
Chester Davis
Agriculture Wickard
Brown
James F. Byrnes
Chester C. Davis
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Invasion Rumors Rise as Axis Moves French Leaders
In London and across Europe, invasion fever grows as the Axis ships five imprisoned French leaders to Germany. British and French warnings urge citizens to ignore rumors of Allied landings and await official announcements.
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Rommel
Italy
London
Europe
Axis
Germany
Balkans
Holland
Byron Karapanyiotis
Cairo
Greece
England
Herbert Morrison
Tunisia
Algiers
Edouard Daladier
Leon Blum
Paul Reynaud
Maurice Gamelin
French
Inter
Ior
Georges Mandel
France
Radio Moscow
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean
Albert Kesselring
Canaris
Paris
Boris
Bulgaria
Adolf Hitler
Johann von Kallay
Benito Mussolini
DNB
Pierre Laval
Wisconsin Returns Civil War Flags to Southern States
Wisconsin lawmakers ordered six of 13 battle flags captured by state troops returned to the Confederate states. Most other flags were too tattered to identify. The flags had been housed in Madison at the state historical museum after Dr. Edward P. Alexander arranged releases with state groups and governors.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Badger
State Historical Museum
Edward P. Alexander
Historical Society
Historical Societies
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Dr. Alexander
Industrialist Stricken In Midtown Hotel Heart Attack
New York April 5. Al Fred L. Kuehn 60 president of the American Creosote Corporation was stricken with a heart attack at a midtown Manhattan hotel. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. Police said Kuehn resided at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.
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New York
INS
Alfred L. Kuehn
American Creosote Corporation
Midtown Manhattan
Bellevue Hospital
Kuehn
Copley Plaza Hotel
Boston
Morale and deception in Nazi Germany warned by observer
A wartime observer explains how civilian morale is a key weak point in Germany as Goebbels prosecutes propaganda. He recalls past wartime morale collapses, German deception about casualties, and Allied relief efforts in devastated areas, arguing truth will crack morale and reveal Germany’s lack of victory. He notes bombings of Reich cities continuing over the weekend.
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Lord Halifax
Germany
Hitler
Fuehrer
Reich
Cologne
Revolutionary Socialist Committee
Spa
Belgium
Goebbels
Chief Rapp Wins $10 From Overtime Parking Violator
Police Chief William E Rapp sent a letter to a motorist who altered an overtime parking summons and placed it on another car. Patrolman William Delaney notified the case and the chief, tracing the driver from Romulus to Groton Conn, received a $10 payment today.
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Rapp
William E. Rapp
William Delaney
Romulus
Groton
Army Food Hoarding Probe Moves Ahead
The Senate War Investigating Committee will hear Army Quartermaster Corps officials behind closed doors on reports of hoarding canned goods and supplies that could aid civilians. Senator Truman disclosed details as other panels prepare to address postwar monetary issues and a tax on federal workers in high salaries.
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Washington
Truman
D-Mo
Senate
Army Quartermaster Corps
Secretary of the Treasury
Morienthau
Finance, Foreign Relations
Banking and Currency
Morgenthau
McKellar
Senate Appropriations Committee
Agricultural Extension Service
Newburgh Leads in 100 Percent Diphtheria Immunization
Albany reports Newburgh at the top of communities with all children under five immunized against diphtheria. The statewide tally shows Middletown at 98 percent and Johnson City at 92 percent, with 52 upstate towns above 35 percent, amid war labor influx.
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Newburgh
Albany
State Health Department
Upstate
Health Department
Middletown
Johnson City
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Yonkers
Troy
Utica
Niagara Falls
Schenectady
Binghamton
Watertown
Auburn
Rome
Poughkeepsie
Kingston
Jamestown
Batavia
Tonawanda
Dunkirk
Nurse Waiting Navy Call Victim Of Mugging
Miss Mary Ritchie a 27 year old nurse slated for Navy induction in 10 days was robbed on an upper Manhattan street after a birthday party. Two youths attacked her slashing her throat and taking a purse watch and gifts. she received treatment.
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Navy
New York
INS
Mary Ritchie
Upper Manhattan
Buffalo Firms Back War Plant Orphans Care Plan
A committee of Buffalo industrial leaders forms the Buffalo Victory and Child Care Association to fund care for 10 000 to 14 000 war plant orphans. The plan splits costs three ways: one third from New York under a state bill, one third from mothers using the program, and one third from industry and local government. Existing facilities, including schools, will be used and operation is set for June as war plants employ about 100 000 women locally.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Victory and Child Care Association, Inc
Buffalo War Council
New York
Num
Ber
Industries
Lawrence D. Bell
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Burdette S. Wright
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Thomas Robins,Jr
Hewitt Rubber Corporation
Addison F. Vars
Sterling Engine Company
Leston P. Faneuf
Buffalo Board of Education
Niagara Frontier
War-Torn Tunisian Villages Bear Scars of Combat
American forces in Southern Tunisia report widespread damage in French villages due to months of fighting. Roads are crippled, cemeteries mark dead on both sides, and fields slowly recover as Arab farmers tend the land.
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Sbeitla
J. D. Collingsworth
Borger
Tex
Collingsworth
Djebels
Tunisia
Maknassy
Dave Brown
Reuters
New York City
Brown
Messerschmitts
George S. Patton, Jr
Eliot Elisofon
Carolina
Elisofon
Patton
Rommel
Africa
Smashes widen as allies strike Italy from Africa fronts
British and American air forces extend raids from Africa into Italy after Mussolini joins the war. Since June 1940 Naples Catania Comiso and Turin have been repeatedly hit, with Rommel’s retreat halted and Allied bases spreading along the Mediterranean coast. Malta Mosquitoes join the onslaught.
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R.A.F
Naples
Catania
Comiso
Turin
Rome
Cagliari
Sardinia
Italy
Britain
England
Egypt
Mediterranean
Malta
RAF
Genoa
North Africa
Eighth Army
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Libya
Tunisia
Gulf of Gabes
Tunisi
Bizerte
Jurgen von Arnim
Mussolini
Alps
Germans Consider Fake Invasion to Root Out Traitors
London reports fears of a staged Nazi invasion along the French coast to identify Allied fifth columnists. German labor conscription targets occupied countries to purge suspected sympathizers, while sabotage and underground papers persist. An inter Allied broadcast warned France to treat rumors cautiously and that loyal Frenchmen will learn the true invasion time.
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Helen Fitzpatrick
Chicago Daily News, Inc
London
France
Daytime Air Raids Score In Strategy
The article notes growing support in the U S and Royal Air Force for daylight bombing of continental targets. It cites a successful Renault factory attack at Billancourt and claims high bomber accuracy with limited fighter opposition. Crews say the mission demonstrated the Flying Fortresses value and call for more replacements to sustain heavy bombing.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
England
United States Army Air Force
Royal Air Force
Washington
Billancourt
Flying Fortress
U.S. A
Renault
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Abbeville
Turkish Mission Leader Predicts Allied Victory in War
Gen. Salem Oumertak heads a Turkish delegation touring Allied bases in the Mediterranean. He says Allies are stronger than the Axis in armament, production, and morale and that morale is excellent. He tours from Egypt to Western Allied positions and notes forming many friendships with Allied forces.
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Africa
U.S
Tunisia
Salem Oumertak
Mediterranean
Egypt
Oumertak
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Yugoslavia
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Yuel
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