American volunteers aid in Burma air battle against Japan
In Burma near Poungoo American Volunteer Group and Royal Air Force pilots destroyed three large Japanese bombers in a noon attack. Chinese and Allied leaders emphasize boosting air power as Japanese forces threaten Mandalay and Western Burma oil routes.
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Chungking
Burma
Poungoo
Central
Royal Air Force
Irrawaddy
Sittang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Burma Front
Japanese Advances Deeper Into Burma Near Key Oil Fields
A Burma front communique reports a Japanese column advancing along the main Sinbaungwe to Prome road, moving toward the Yenan yon oil fields on the Irrawaddy’s east bank. Chinese and Allied forces hold positions along the Sittang River as Stilwell and Alexander confer with Chiang Kai-shek.
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New Delhi
India
Burma Front
Sinbaungwe
Prome
Irrawaddy River
Yenanyaung
Burma
Rangoon
United Nations
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sittang River
Toungoo
United State
Joseph W. Stilwell
Harold Alexander
Taungdwingye
London
Irrawaddy
Allanmyo
APS
Nyaungbintha
Magwe
Yedashe
Bittang
Ewa
Salween River
Thailand
Ship Losses In Atlantic Mount to 127
Twelve sinkings last week raise the Atlantic total to 127 ships since Pearl Harbor. Nine American vessels and one each British Brazilian Norwegian were lost. A medium Norwegian freighter torpedoed off the East Coast left one missing among a 50 crew, with 49 saved at Norfolk.
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New York
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Caribbean
Canada
South America
Norfolk
Wounded crewman tells of shark attack during Caribbean ship loss
New Orleans April 13 A Panamanian ship torpedoed and shelled in the Caribbean on March 8 abandoned its crew but returned to Mobile under power. Eight of fifty crewmen were lost. Watertender Arthur Lauman recounted supporting an injured shipmate in choppy seas for two hours and seeing a shark seize the man’s legs before he was torn away.
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New Orleans
Caribbean
Mobile
Ala
Arthur Lauman
Lauman
Rescue at Sea After Violent Water Threshing Incident
Witnesses describe a violent thrashing of the water preceding a rescue as Satuman was swept from a ship. He was picked up by a lifeboat and later reboarded the vessel with the help of arriving rescue tugs.
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Satuman
Survivors Reach Brazil After Axis Attacks
Survivors of two torpedoed United Nations merchant ships arrived at Brazilian ports on the northern coast as reports stated a third ship went down. Twenty six Eugene Thayer crew landed at Camocim Ceara and twenty four Balkiss survivors reached Fortaleza. The British Empire was said sunk off Piaui.
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Rio de Janiero
United Nations
United States
Eugene Thayler
Camocim
Ceara State
Balkiss
Fortaleza
Empire
Piaui
Daylight raids over France spark fiercest air fights yet
French battlefront activity intensified as Allied daylight raids targeted Hazebrouck and the Calais freight yards. German fighters launched a massive response, with British losses at 13 aircraft while only one bomber fell. Polish and Czech pilots claimed German planes amid a night-long Dover Strait bombardment.
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France
Britain
Hazebrouck
Calais
Germany
United Press
Dover Strait
Dunkirk
German High Command Claims 24 Allied Planes Shot Down
Berlin reports that 24 British bombers were destroyed in RAF raids over Europe, including night attacks on west and northwest Germany. No military or war industry targets were hit, according to the German High Command.
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Berlin
Europe
Raiga
Germany
College head frowns on two year degree
Hamilton College president W H Cowley criticized the University of Chicago for offering the A B degree in two years. He predicted a quick return to the traditional four year program and noted he stayed at Hamilton rather than pursuing Minnesota’s presidency last year.
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Clinton
W. H. Cowley
Hamilton College
University of Chicago
Cowley
University of Minnesota
Hamilton
War leader hails troops and home front resolve
A wartime broadcast quotes a leader praising Bombers strikes on Koepang and Rabaul and urging Australia to surge production in factories and coal mines. He notes camps show confidence in Army, a growing offensive spirit, and ruthlessness against invasion threats.
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Australia
Yugoslav Leader Believed Lost In Sub Raid Near East
The report details Yugoslav leader Djukanovic presumed lost after a submarine raid. It notes his prior roles, escape from Yugoslavia, and wartime duties in Greece and Alexandria, with references to lifeboat survivors and a single confirmed fatality aboard the Norwegian vessel sunk by the torpedo. Survivors include American, Dutch, and Swedish crew alongside Yugoslav officials' families.
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Dington
Djukanovic
Capetown
South Africa
United States
Near East
Jugoslav
Boka Kotorska
Yugoslavia
Greece
Alexandria
Washington
Samuel Etter
New York
John A. McInnis
Duluth
Minn
Navy
Josephine Mohorovich
Emil Hansen
Johan H. Bjerkholt
Dunce Caps Return as New York School Board Marks 100th Anniversary
New York City students revive old classroom customs for the Board of Education centennial celebrations. Across 732 schools pupils don dunce caps use slates and sponges and replay arithmetic on ancient counting tablets with spelling bees planned.
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Dunce
New York
Board of Education
Supreme Court splits on anti-Semitism libel ruling
The Supreme Court in a 4 to 4 decision upholds a circuit court ruling that charging a public official with anti-Semitism can be libelous. The suit by Representative Martin N. Sweeney against Schenectady Union Publishing focused on a 1938 column alleging Sweeney opposed Federal judge Emerick Burt Freed for being Jewish.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Circuit
Martin N. Sweeney
D- Ohio
Schenectady
N. Y
Union Publishing Company
Sweeney
Cleveland
Freed
Washington Daily
New York Federal District Court
Federal Circuit Court
Jackson
Circuit Court
Navy to Train Men in Radio Work at 21 Private Schools
The Navy announced that 21 privately operated schools will train enlisted men in radio work and visual signaling, at a rate exceeding 40,000 annually. Thirteen institutions have begun producing trained men, contracts cover 20 schools with one more pending, all to start classes by June 1. The elementary electricity and radio materials school program is the most advanced of the three training types, with seven schools already in operation.
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Navy
Washington
Three New Soviet Guns Revealed In Stalin Awards
Three inventions received Stalin prizes: a long range field gun with greater range than any other, a naval gun boasting the greatest range known, and an air launched anti-tank gun said to attack tanks from above where armor is lighter. The field piece is in operation but being refined. Four inventors of the naval gun were each awarded 30,000 rubles.
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Kuibyshev
Rickenbacker Sees Five Year War Minimum
Col Eddie Rickenbacker told Mitchell Field combat unit the war will last at least five years and require 300 000 pilots with 100 000 as instructors. He said Americans are superior in men and aircraft and urged confidence in the air force.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
New York
Mitchell Field
Rickenbacker
United States
H. H. Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
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