U S Aviators Deliver Supplies to Chiang Kai-shek Airlift routes India to China grow
New Delhi April 25 An American air service using private and U S Army facilities is delivering essential military goods to China from India. By next autumn thousands of tons monthly are expected, routed along the Lashio Kunming corridor as ground links remain cut by Jap Rangoon occupation.
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New Delhi
India
China
Lashio
Kunming
Rangoon
Burma
Chungking
United States
Earl L. Naiden
Lewis H. Brereton
U.S
Chiang Kai-shek
Prisoner Suffers Heart Attack During Police Questioning
Robert L. Kaylor, 27, of 611 Montgomery Street, in custody over a $240 theft, collapsed with a heart attack as police prepared to question him on a burglary at an East Jefferson Street restaurant. He was rushed to St Joseph's Hospital, later reported much better after two hours. Warrant issued charging third degree burglary.
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Robert L. Kaylor
Montgomery Street
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Kaylor
Hor- Mellt
East Jefferson Street
William MacDonald
Thomas Leach
Ragan Koury killings inquiry stalled police say
Police said the investigation into the murders of Denis Ragan a liquor store proprietor James Street and Joseph Koury a Midland Avenue grocer was almost at a standstill. A man arrested after a chase near Newark Central right of way Erie Boulevard East and Beech Street was being questioned but yielded no clear progress. An Oak Street shopkeeper identified the prisoner as one of two men seen near his store on the night of the murders.
Japanese Report Raids Chinese Bases Near Tokyo
Japanese communiques say naval and army bombers struck Chinese air bases near Tokyo in three daytime attacks. Planes and hangars were destroyed at Chuhsien in western Kweiching Province, Lishui in Sichuan Chekiang, and Yushan in Kern Kiangsi as U.S. raids against Japan continued.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Chuhsien
Grekiang Province
Lishui
Sou- Chekiang
Yushan
Kern Kiangsi
Rostock Raids Pound Heinkel Works and Shipsyards
RAF night raids on Rostock targeted the Heinkel aircraft works and Neptune shipyards with heavy bombs, setting large fires and destroying surrounding areas. Docks at Dunkerque and air fields in France, Belgium, and Holland were also attacked, with two bombers and one fighter reported missing. Public communiques praised low losses and highlighted Rostock as a key war industry and Baltic port.
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Rostock
Heinkel Aircraft Works
Heinkel Works
Neptune
Air Ministry
Dunkerque
France
Belgium
Holland
Royal Air Force
Low Countries
Hudson
Norwegian
Berlin
Norway
Britain
Flushing
Luebeck
Scandinavia
Finland
German Raid Kills 12 in South England Exeton Bombed
News reports say a German dive bombing raid struck a south coast city after midnight, killing at least 12 and leaving hundreds homeless. Exeter is identified in the High Command communique as the target, with damage to a famed grammar school and casualties including a 19 month old twin in debris, among others.
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London
High Command
England
Exeter
Plymouth
Bristol
Exeter bombed in reprisal raids by German bombers
German High Command says Exeter, a historic cathedral town in Devon, faced heavy explosives in reprisal for RAF raids. The briefing reports civilian casualties and widespread damage to homes and cultural institutions as the latest offensive comes amid renewed attacks on Rostock.
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Berlin
High Command
Devonshire
Exeter
England
R.A.F
Plymouth
Bristol
Baltic
Rostock
Anzac Day Observances Mark Solemn Allied Remembrance
Dawn services on a grassy hill overlook slit trenches at Lae as MacArthur reports No combat activity on New Britain while Port Moresby air raids meet interception. Lae airfield bombs and Corregidor artillery dueling continue as Mindanao and Panay show no change.
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MacArthur
Britain
Port Moresby
Lae
Philippines
Panay
Mindanao
Malta Raids Cause Large Civilian Damage and Casualties
In Valetta Malta German bombers struck four times yesterday concentrating on the harbor area and RAF landing fields. An official communique reported one German plane shot down and twelve others damaged by anti aircraft fire and RAF fighters.
Labor Urges Lund as Head of New Board
Washington April 25. Wen dell Lund a 35 year old minister son and director of the Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission is the reported choice of an A F L C J O committee to head the new labor production section of the War Production Board. If appointed Lund would direct a revamped labor division not taking in old duties of labor supply and training now shifted to Paul McNutt. Lund an attorney formerly secretary of the Michigan State Administrative Board has served in Washington in the Agriculture and Interior Departments. He is a graduate of Augustana College and Columbia and holds a doctor of philosophy degree. he is married with two children.
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Washington
Wendell Lund
Michigan Unemployment Compensation Compensation Commission
A. F
War Production Board
Labor Organization
Escanaba
Mich
Roosevelt
White House
Lund
Sidney Hillman
Manpower Mobilization Commission
Birmingham
Paul McNutt
Manpower Mobilization
William H. Harrison
Michigan State Administrative Board
Murray D. van Wagoner
Agriculture Department
Interior Department
Augustana College
Rock Island
Columbia
Upsala College
East Orange
N. J
Princeton
Japs Drive Pincer Threat Collects Chinese Forces
Japanese forces push north toward Ho Pong near Taunggyi and drive along the Pin River below Yenangguang forming a wide pincer against Chinese units on the Irrawaddy front. The Chinese division commander and officers trained in the United States are reported in the line of battle as Tatkon and Sittang front risks entrapment.
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Burma
Taungevi
Shwenvatne
Laikaw
Mandalay
Taungdwingyi
Yenangyaung
Maned
Irrawaddy
United States
Ho-Pong
Taunggyi
Pin River
Yenangguang
Tatkon
Sittang River
Pact ends Muskegon bus strike with union recognition
Muskegon Michigan resumed bus service after a two day strike by Peo ple's Transportation Company drivers ended. The dispute with the Teamsters Union over recognition was settled by state and Federal mediators. The company will recognize the union as bargaining agent if it wins a majority in a worker election and the union accepts arbitration by the U.S. Conciliation Service for two discharged drivers.
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Muskegon
Mich
People’s Transportation Company
Teamsters’ Union
A. F. of L
U. S. Conciliation Service
Deaths of Prominent Americans Announce Two Figures
Mrs Florence MacNair of Chicago dies at 64 noted as author and Chinese literature expert. David C Whitney of Detroit, 75, longtime Michigan lumber and mining heir and yacht cruiser, dies in hospital after leading a life tied to vast fortunes and the sea.
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America
Florence Macnair
Chicago
Florence Wheelock Ayscough MacNair
David C. Whitney
Detroit
David Charles Whitney
Wine Nae Ahinnn Fanae
Pioneer
Michigan
David Whitney, Jr
Deaths in Syracuse Area and Dog Bites Reported
A list of deaths in the Syracuse area includes Harrison A Wall 69 Cortland Myron A Crane 91 West Danby Anthony A Louer 48 Utica Mrs Katherine Simmons Waterville Mrs O Delia Schiller Utica Almeron Evans 59 Clinton Mrs M Ella Kinne Utica John F Cassidy 63 Whitesboro Joseph F Boileau 59 Watertown Francis Stahl Geneva Frank D Kelener Geneva Albert Blackburn 82 Gouverneur Norman Hull 77 North Wilna Charles Warner 8 Waterloo Frank M Kahl Auburn Monson C Chapman 6 Penn Yan George H Richards 0 New Woodstock Edward Deyo 73 Lebano John M Mumford 83 Lowville Aaron Manship 81 South Trenton Thomas F Renahan Auburn Two bitten by dogs Homer Baumgartner 62 512 Rich Street treated at Crouse Irving Hospital bitten twice on right leg police order owner to confine dogs 10 days Steve Buzza 656 Burnet Avenue bitten on right ankle police order confinement for 10 days
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Harrison A.’Wall
Cortland
Myron
A. Crane
West Danby
Anthony A. Louer
Utica
Katherine Simmons
Waterville
Geneva
Albert Blackburn
Gouverneur
Norman Hull
North Wilna
Charles Warner
Waterloo
Frank M. Kahl
Auburn
Monson C. Chapman
Penn Yan
George H. Richards
New Woodstock
Edward Deyo
Lebano
John M. Mumford
Lowville
Aaron Manship
South Trenton
Thomas F. Renahan
Homer Baumgartner
Rich Street
Crouse- Irving Hospital
Steve Buzza
Burnet Avenue
Laval Calms Fear Of Further Slash In Bread Ration
Laval French cabinet meets for the second time and says bread rations will not be cut further in May. The communique cites shortages and possible solutions as Secretary Bonnafous reports on bridging the gap until the next harvest.
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Laval
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Bonnafous
Redistricting Bill Controversy Aims At Governor
Lawmakers criticized the rushed reapportionment measure affecting Senate and Assembly lines unchanged since 1917 and blocking immediate Congressional rezoning. Senator Wallace switched to opposing the bill, Assemblyman Costello condemned the closing-hour action, Cortland’s removal from Onondaga’s district noted. The Governor faces several other bills, including contested primaries ban and fiscal provisions, with lingering questions on a 30 day post-session window.
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Senate
Onondaga County
G. Frank Wallace
Syracuse
Wallace
Joint Legislative Investigating Committee
Assemblyman
Costello
Cortland
Onondaga
New York
George B. Parsons
Billy
Lehman
Washington Post
Calre
Spy seized after Merida gun battle exposes fuel cache
Mexico City reports a captivating female spy tied to the German American Bund led authorities to a cache of aviation gasoline and submarine fuel off Isle Mujeres near the Yucatan. The Merida shootout left no injuries as 100 soldiers guarded the site until Mexican tankers drained the cache.
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Mexico City
Novedades
Merida
Isle Mujeres
Yucatan Peninsula
Bund
United States
Author L. M. Montgomery to be buried in Prince Edward Island
The Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, died at her Toronto home yesterday and her body will be transported to her native Prince Edward Island for burial. Her private caregiver Mrs. Ewan MacDonald reported the death.
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Toronto
L. M. Montgomery
Profit Tax Scope Brings New Dispute
Washington April 25 a sharp division of opinion rose over taxing excess profits versus normal profits in a new tax program as the House Ways and Means Committee paused for President Roosevelt s budget message. Treasury experts favored heavier normal profits while some urged reverse scales to recover war profits. committee members plan further study when it meets next Tuesday amid draft registrations and budget uncertainties.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Rooosevelt
Treasury
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Doughton
D-N. C
Coughton
Budget Bureau
Congress
Colin Stam
Congressional Experts
Randolph Paul
Morgenthau
Stam
War Spending Sparks Inflation Fears and Rising Costs
The article outlines a sharp rise in wartime spending hitting inflation. It cites figures suggesting total costs near 70 billion dollars, with per family and per person impacts. Officials debate how budget increases and taxes will shape civilian buying power amid shipping and steel shortages.
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Smith
Roosevelt
Emory S. Land
Land
Congress
Budget Bureau
Leon Henderson
Unified Allied Strategy Endorsed by Central News
The Central Daily News declares a unified Allied strategy is a growing imperative and suggests a single council with power to set strategy across war theaters. It notes American troops in Australia Northern Ireland and India boost Allied offensives and stresses permanent centralized planning.
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Chungking
Central Daily News
Australia
Northern Ireland
India
Gas Ration Of 30 Gallons A Month Seen
Senate testimony on gasoline rationing explores needed car repairs and a temporary program. Senator Walsh and Ralph Davies urge fairness and a time-limited plan while discussing alternate transport to ease east coast oil movement and a proposed Florida pipeline to move fuel north through protected waters.
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Walsh
D-Mass
Senate Agriculture
Cone of Ickes
Aids
Ralph K. Davies
Pepper
D-Fla
Florida
Port Inglis
Gulf
Palatka
St. John’s River
Texas
Louisiana
Bailey
D-N. C
Senate Commerce Committee
Donald Nelson
Army
Association
WPB
Special Consideration Is Asked for Farmers
Auburn April 25 The Dairymen's League Cooperative Association seeks fuel equity for farmers in gasoline quotas for passenger cars. President Fred H Sexauer says farmers need fuel to obtain supplies, transport milk, and move produce to plants, alongside trucks and tractors.
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Auburn
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association
Fred H. Sexauer
League
Jap Treachery on Malaya Cost 15000 in Killed
An RAAF officer stated that Japanese treachery on the Malayan Thai border cost 15000 Japanese lives. He claimed five hours earlier Japan had declared war and that the RAAF bombed a large convoy for seven and a half hours while attacking barges full of troops. The Hudson bombers reportedly killed 15000 enemies, with water and beaches black with dead.
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Malaya
Melbourne
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Japan
R. A. AL OF
Malayan
Japanese Envoy Seeks to Heal Rift with Vatican in Rome
Jap envoy to the Vatican Ken Harada said on arrival in Rome that Japan will diffuse its spirit among Catholic nations and oppose Western efforts to wedge Japan Vatican ties. He stated Britain and the United States have used every means to drive a wedge, but Japan’s sincere intentions won over such machinations.
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U. S
Tokyo
Vatican
Ken Harada
Japan
Rome
Domei
Britain
United States
Harada
Co-ops Plan to Use Milk Surplus in New York Area
Representatives of New York milk shed co operatives push a plan to address the surplus with a 12 member committee led by Roy F Hendrickson. Milk for fluid cream in New York City rises from 1.95 to 2.10 per hundredweight this Friday while May fluid milk stays at 2.85. A second committee aims to develop action on milk supply to metropolitan New York with leaders from Upstate New York and neighboring states.
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Utica
New York
Roy F. Hendrickson
New York City
Fred H. Sexauer
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
New Jersey
Vermont
Massachusetts
City Health Department
N. J. Cladakis
Cladakis
Auto Unions and GM Stalemate Over War Contract Demands
The United Automobile Workers and General Motors remain deadlocked over the wartime contract terms. The union seeks time and a half pay for over 40 hours and double time for a seventh consecutive day, while GM offers time and a half for only the sixth and seventh days. A defense bond in lieu of vacations and a 20 minute paid lunch are proposed. the present contract expires next Tuesday. Charles E. Wilson, GM president, joined talks noting the seriousness of the stalemate. The union had suspended extra pay for weekend and holiday work during talks to speed production. GM proposed incentive pay and wage differentials to spur output, with merit governing promotions and a 50 percent reduction in union committeemen.
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WLB
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Wilson
Corporation
Japanese Fleet Seen Off Fukien Coast and Amoy
Chungking radio quoted a Foochoy dispatch reporting a fleet of Japanese warships patrolling the South Fukien coast on Thursday. Chinese coastal batteries fired, forcing them to steam south. Several Japanese warships were also sighted off Amoy but remained inactive. The report also said 22 Japanese planes raided Kiangsi Province yesterday.
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Chungking
China
San Francisco
Chungking Radio
Foochoy
Fukien
CBS
Amoy
Kiangsi
Injuries Fatal in Batavia Truck Crash
William T. Hanley aged 66 died from injuries suffered yesterday in a truck collision near Corfu. The accident occurred in the Batavia area. authorities reported the fatality this afternoon.
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Batavia
William T. Hanley
Corfu
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