Bishop Leonard Starts London Tour Visiting U S Troops
Bishop Adna W. Leonard of the Methodist Church begins a three day trip in London representing 31 Protestant denominations. He will meet American soldiers and chaplains in the field after visiting the enlisted men at the London base command to greet Roosevelt. He then calls on Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. to start visits with American and British officials.
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Leonard
Britain
London
Roosevelt
Adna W. Leonard
Methodist Church
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
United States
Bombers Strike Japanese Island Bases From Australia
U S bomber forces under General MacArthur attacked a wide arc from Timor to New Britain Island aiming to curb Japan's air buildup. Medium and heavy bombs caused fires at Penleea and Cape Gloucester, with dusk raids on Timor and New Britain outposts and targets at Finseh Harbor and Saidor area.
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MacArthur
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Ogdiodrome
Timor
New Bettain Island
New Guinea
Penfee
Fimor
Cape Gloucester
New Britain Island
Finseh Harbor
Huon Peninsula
Saidor
Italian General Criticizes Rommel Strategy at Mareth Line
Gen C Giovillini Messe of the first Italian Army in Tunisia told Rome that Rommel's Mareth Line tactics were faulty. The Daily Mail reported the claim, noting Messe could have held Mareth if in command. Curtin urged more aircraft for Australia as Japanese raids strain resources. Allied forays, a Kavieng merchant ship hit, and air actions near Rooke Island and Maikoor were reported.
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Rommel
London
C Giovillini Messe
Tunisia
Rome
Amareth
Daily Mail
Madrid
Messe
Mareth Line
John Curtin
Australia
Pacific
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rooke Island
Vitiaz Strait
Maikoor
Aru Island
Parley on Soft Coal Wage Talks Delayed to Tomorrow
Southern Appalachian operators defer wage conference to allow developments and resume Northern Appalachian talks at 10 A.M. and anthracite at 1 30 P.M. tomorrow. Bituminous and anthracite conferences extend under a 30 day contract. Steelman Perkins may push War Labor Board certification near month end.
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New York
John R. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
Frances Perkins
War Labor Board
Miss Perkins
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Charles O'Neill
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Dr. Steelman
U.S Planning Board May Be Given Funds
The National Resources Planning Board may be funded again after Senate appropriations committee support amid House cuts. The plan covers $650000 for regular work, $725000 for defense, and $25000 for printing and binding, with debates over TVA funds and potential Budget Bureau increases. Democratic Leader Barkley said action looms this week as pay as you go tax decisions await.
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Washington
National Resources Planning Board
Roosevelt
Frederic A. Delano
Senate Appropriations Committee
Housenation
Senate
Administration
Leutenants
Budget Bureau
House
Representative Taber
New York
McKellar
Tenn
TVA
Public Health Service
Board of Economic Warfare
Barkley
Kentucky
Montgomery plan and wage controls tied to war effort
A Syracuse Herald-Journal report quotes Gen. Montgomery advocating a centralized economic plan with an overall planning agency and industry wide wage setting. He argues wages be frozen at the 1941 Little Steel level while cost of living rises. The article notes his request for a personal aircraft and crew from American generals if he captures Sfax by April 15.
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
Montgomery
Reuther
U.S
creaeUlat Chock Ena
Roosevelt
Bernard Montgoma
Erg
The
Daily Express
Sousse
Monty
Sfax
Plan for Government approved furloughs to curb absenteeism
Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers proposes government approved furloughs for industrial workers to reduce illness related absenteeism and maintain wartime production. He urges periodic days off in plants with long hours to restore energy and prevent man hour losses.
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Detroit
Reuther Brothers
Walter
Victor
United Automobile Workers Union
Reuther
Army
Walter Reuther
Five Mississippi Men Face Federal Trial Over 194? Lynching
Five Laurel men stood trial in Hattiesburg in a federal case arising from the October lynching of a Black man convicted of man slaughter for the milk-bucket slaying of white employer Clint Blackwell. Defendants include Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder and jailer Jones County Laurel, plus Nathanial Shotts Allen Pryor William Johnston and Barney Jones, all pleading innocence.
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Mississippi
Hattiesburg
Miss
Laurel
Clint Blackwell
Luther Holder
Jones County
Howard Wash
Nathanial T. Shotts
Allen Pryor
William Johnston
Barney Jones
Navy announces pilot Ensign Thomas J. Kelly dead in South Pacific
John Kelly, town highway superintendent, said the Navy notified him his son Ensign Thomas J. Kelly, a Navy pilot, was killed in the South Pacific. Kelly, a La Crosse Teachers College graduate, taught in Berlin Wisconsin before joining the service in 1941. He has three brothers in service and a son-in-law, Capt. George C. Wale, an Army flier.
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Navy Department
Liberty Liberty
John Kelly
Thomas J. Kelly
Navy
South Pacific
Young Kelly
la Crosse
Wis
Teachers’ College
Berlin
Kelly
George C. Wale
World AAA Food Parley Basis Report Preview at Hot Springs
Private previews will be held for two reneipsciana committees to study President Rosevell’s plan for postwar global agriculture ahead of the United Nations food conference opening May 18 at Hot Springs Virginia. Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson will explain aims to a closed joint House Foreign Affairs and Agriculture Committee meeting.
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Washington
Rosevell
Dean Acheson
House Foreign Affairs and Agriculture Committees
Hot Springs
Fulmer
D-S. C
Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Hope
Kansas
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
United States
Hope Is Held Out For 33 Trapped In Swedish Submarine
Rescue crews battled rough seas and drifting mines to reach 33 Swedish sailors trapped aboard the submarine Ulven off Sweden’s west coast. Signals from inside suggest the crew may endure for about a week on limited air and food.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Exchanged British Prisoners Narrow Escape From Bombing
The hospital ship Newfoundland carried 314 wounded British soldiers home from exchange for 409 wounded Italian prisoners. British trains from Italy avoided raid by entering a Lisbon railway tunnel after R A F bombs targeted Spezia, with Italian guards guiding them to safety aboard the Newfoundland.
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R.A.F
Lisbon
Newfoundland
England
Italy
Spezia
Mail service for troops under government rules
The Herald-Journal and Herald-American can be mailed to a service member overseas or away from South Salina Street if the service member submits a proper request. Editorial page lists applicable rates.
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Tunisia
Salina Street
Herald-Journal
Herald- American
Two Women and a Boy Die in Week End Mishaps
Upstate incidents claim three lives over the week end. Frances Ryan 27 of Ohio town died after an auto truck collision. Mary Dern 79 perished in a house fire at Moravia. John Benedict four drowned in an abandoned Canandaigua raceway.
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Albany
Frances Ryan
Ohio
Mary Dern
Moravia
John Benedict
Canandaigua
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