AEF to Hold Easter Dawn Services Worldwide
American armed forces will worship at sunrise Easter services from Italy to London and Belfast as troops observe their second Easter overseas. The Hyde Park gathering is expected largest with the Bishop of London delivering the sermon at 7 50 A M. A 100 voice Negro choir will sing in a British port city and Handel’s Messiah will be performed at a U S air base Easter night. Catholic masses and combined Christian Jewish services occur across the Mediterranean and North Africa.
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London
Italy
Battle Ground
Hyde Park
Warlume
Fifth Army
Ropeland C. Adams
Lisbon
N.H
Willman N. Trumoull
Worcester
Mass
Mark W. Clark
Mediterranean
North Africa
Britain
Piccadilly
New Soviet Steel Workers Raise Output
Soviet iron and steel production surged in the first quarter due to East construction and repairs in Ukraine. Pig iron up 34 percent, steel smelting 38 percent, rolled steel 86 percent, coke 39 percent. ore up 19 percent. Gains attributed to Magnitogorsk furnaces Chusov Chelyabinsk Altai projects plus new power and rail developments. In formerly occupied areas Enakievo furnace restart and Stalino first pig iron. Stalingrad mills first rolled steel since Nazi defeat.
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Xene, Inc
Moscow
Ukraine
Labor Union
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Chusov
Chelyabinsk
Altai
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Stalino
Stalingrad
Willkie Silent on GOP Support and Future Plans
Washington reports Willkie, silent on whether he will back the Republican convention ticket. Aides say he may rest in Rushville Indiana, with no plans announced in coming weeks. Taft suggests Willkie will press for liberal postwar foreign policy at the convention as party figures weigh his stance.
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Washington
Wenslell L. Willkie
Aids
Willkie
Rushville
Ind
Wisconsin
Taft
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Roosevelt
Stimson
Knox
Girls Preferred as Farm Workers say Cornell Report
A Cornell University rural sociology study finds New York agriculturists favor girls as farm workers due to cheerfulness endurance and steadiness, with older girls preferred for seriousness. The report references 35 youth camps and notes regional acceptability from Long Island to the northeast.
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Cornell
New York
Cornell University
Army Nurse Foresees Return To Retake Bataan
Maj Juanita Redmond of the Army Nurse Corps recalls Bataan's fall on April 9, 1942. She says she hopes American forces retake Bataan soon and wants to be with the troops, aiding and bringing home captured soldiers if possible. Redmond served as an Army air surgeon and endured the four months on Bataan before the march to Corregidor.
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Army
Bataan
Washington
Juanita Redmond
Army Nurse Corps
United States
Setifis
Oil and oil fields drive Nazi peril in war report
The War Today notes that Allied air campaigns target Romanian and Galician oil as a decisive factor. It argues Hitler relies on Ploesti and Galicia for his war machine, with Soviet advances threatening Danubian routes and Odessa, while Western invasion looms.
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Romania
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Ickes to release anthracite mines after WLB approval
Coal Administrator Harold Ickes expected to act to release anthracite mines to private operators after the War Labor Board approved the wage contract with the United Mine Workers. The decision ups daily pay by 70 cents over the 1941 45 scale, aligning miners with government terms negotiated last November.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
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John N. Lewis
Little Steel
Ickes and Lewis
Saltonstall Calls Victory Gardeners A Key Team
Gov. Leverett Saltonstall in a farm forum radio address links home gardens with national defense. He cites shortages in manpower machinery and transport and urges harder work planning and regional cooperation to reach Massachusetts goal of 500 000 victory gardens this year, up from 350 000 last year.
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Schenectady
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
A. Farm’ Forum
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Francis E Forde Announces Army Reduction Plan
Francis Forde said the government faced a manpower problem and chose to reduce the military establishment by significant discharges. The minister noted no alternative but to downsize forces and provide for regular discharges due to unfitness and other causes.
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Murder car hand and foot found in Rogers Park trunk
Police describe a grisly sight after Mildred Roloff and Anna Gerber reported seeing a murder car with a hand and a foot protruding from its trunk. Officers traced a license and questioned a Halved couple tied to the case as investigations continue.
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William Drury
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Mildred’. Roloff
Anna Gerber
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Absentee Mining Labor Hit Easter Week in Eastern Pa
Post-Good Friday absenteeism in eastern Pennsylvania mines could reach 40,000 workers, with production estimates for yesterday near 198,000 tons versus a normal 220,000. Last year April average was 225,000 tons. Holy Week three-day total about 300,000. Southern field losses from Shamokin to Tamaqua noted.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
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Bureaus of Mines
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Shamokins
Summoned in Kellems Case Relay of Intercept Controversy
Senator Reed accused the Office of Censorship of mishandling intercepted letters and leaks to expose a Nazi agent claim. He said confidential excerpts from Vivien Kellems letters to Count von Zedlitz were improperly distributed. Price offered cooperation while questioning officials.
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Ione
Allied forces strike in Pacific island campaigns to avenge
The report details air and naval actions across the Pacific as American forces hit Palau Woleai Yap Angaur Babelthuap and other positions. It notes ships destroyed damaged and planes shot down, with emphasis on carrier based air power and anti aircraft defenses. Also mentioned are a New York case of a chambermaid Kate Galligan who died and left substantial money.
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Fathers decline Easter furlough to avoid goodbyes
In East Orange New Jersey a Selective Service board offered a three day Easter furlough to seven single or childless men and one father who spoke against taking leave to spare his wife and baby the farewells.
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Mountbatten notes Kohima area pressure and shifting lines
Allied reports from Delhi dated April 8 indicate Japanese activity in the Kohima region with no major engagements. Mountbatten says Allied forces hold key hills overlooking Imphal, have driven the enemy from important features, and improved positions. A lull is noted on the Tiddim Imphal Road as the 17th Indian Division clears the last roadblock to join the plain defense.
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Air battles over Central Germany and Allied raids
Reports describe heavy air combat over Central Germany as Allied fighters focus on German defenses. RAF and USAAF bomber formations attacked targets in Belgium and Norway while naval escorts and merchant ships face torpedo strikes. in New York, labor leader Rose reelected amid accusations of Communist influence.
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Georgia Negroes seek participation in Southern primaries
A group of 30 African American students and a teacher toured a county tax office to exercise rights under Georgia’s new election law allowing 18 year olds to vote in primaries. Reports note Negro registration and early poll-closing trends across the South amid states’ white voter bylaw preferences and poll tax era deadlines.
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Georgia
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Soviet and Axis Forces Clash as Odessa Escape Route Shrinks
Troops under Marshal SiKovińs Second Ukrainian Army push toward Akkerman after capturing Kishinev district center and forcing a river bridgehead. Soviet command reports intense fighting along the Dniester as Romanian and Polish alignments shift with British support, while German troops retreat in panic along the front near Iasi and Bot.
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Kishinev
Ivan SiKonov
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