Yanks Raid German Coastal Positions Captures 61 Prisoners
American tanks and infantry struck German positions east of the Mussolini canal on the Anzio beachhead, taking 61 prisoners including 16 Italians with no Allied casualties. The two pronged assault near Fogliano Lagona and Cerreto Alto faced mines and artillery but returned intact. Lieutenant Lawrence Piette of Appleton Wisconsin recounted engaging a German truck convoy and an ambulance that fled after U.S. fire.
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Anzio
Italy
Mussolini Canal
Kesselring
Albert Kesselring
Fogliano Lagona
Cerreto Alto
Littoria
Lawrence Piette
Appleton
Wis
Piette
G. O. P. to Name 55 Delegates
The G O P plans to name 55 delegates as the Republican convention opens with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey leading the race at 168 delegates. Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen holds 34, Gov. Dwight Griswold 6, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur 3. Dewey’s support spans 10 states plus Alaska and internal party organizers prepare in Chicago for the June 26 opening.
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Associated Press
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Harold E. Stassen
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Douglas MacArthur
Dewey
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Arkansas
Arizona
Maine
Missouri
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Virginia
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
House
Mackinac
Delaware
Hawaii
Willow Run Plant Produces Liberator At Rate Of One Hour
Detroit April 26 The Willow Run bomber plant operated by Ford is producing about one B 24 Liberator per hour including knock-down and fly away stages. Sub assemblies are shipped to other plants for final assembly. War department had earlier announced that more than 3000 Liberator aircraft had been produced at Willow Run, about two thirds in the last eight months.
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Willow Run
War Department
Lorraine Thomsen Wins Bishop Willging Trophy in Apologetics
Lorraine Thomsen, a junior at Girls Central high school in Butte, won the Bishop Willging trophy at the ninth annual Helena Catholic conference apologetics contest. About 200 delegates and clergy attended with Most Rev. J M Gilmore present.
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Lorraine Thomsen
Girls Central High School of
Butte
Bishop Willging
Helena
Josephine McGinley
Anaconda
Rose Mary Schwab
Bozeman
Hugh McMahon
Patricia Sullivan
Joyce Degenhart
J. M. Gilmore
Licenses to Export Chrome to Reich Suspended by Turkey
The Daily Mail dispatch from Istanbul reports Turkey has suspended chrome export licenses to Germany pending official talks this week after pressure from Britain and the United States to quit dealing with the Axis.
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Turkey
London
The
Daily Mail
Istanbul
Britain
America
Germany
Ponape Islands Heavily Blasted Amid Pacific Air Attacks
United States forces report major air offensive across the central Pacific with Ponape and surrounding targets taking heavy damage. Seventh Army Air Force bombers hit Ponape air fields while Navy planes bombed Pykin Oroluk Ulul and attacked Nauru Matsuwa and Paramushiro in ongoing strike campaign across the Kurile chain.
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Kurile Islands
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Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape
Air Marshal Predicts Tough Choices for Japanese in India
Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, deputy chief of staff of the southeast Asia command, said Allied planners expect Japanese forces in Imphal to retreat as monsoon rains flood supply routes. He described a successful winter air supply strategy and warned many Japanese may be drowned or starved if they are not shot. He spoke from London on a CBS broadcast.
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New York
Philip Joubert
Southeast Asia
Admiral Mountbatten
General Stilwell
Arakan
London
Yanks Raid Belgrade First Allied Strike On Yugoslavia
American bombers from the Mediterranean attacked Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, for the first time, also striking Brasov in Romania and other southeastern cities. The German agency said heavy damage and casualties followed the raid as German and Romanian fighters opposed the attacks. The Belgrade assault marked the first Allied action in the area since Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941.
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Mediterranean
Belgrade
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Romania
Kronstadt
Transylvania
Bucharest
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Middle East
Balkans
Sava
Danube
Britain
Hitler
Italy
Turin-Severin
Hopes Fade for Gas Increase
A high Office of Price Administration official said a consumption survey shows no increase in gasoline rations for B card motorists. He noted March demand aligned with quotas in the East and Midwest, and a several thousand barrel per day saving would be needed for any boost, with no increase possible on the West Coast.Final decision rests with OPA rationing chief Col. Bryan Houston who is returning to Washington.
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Office of Price Administration
Midwest
West Coast
OPA
Col
Bryan Houston
Benito Mussolini Awaiting Death as Illness Ends Record
Fascist press in Bern reports Benito Mussolini gravely ill and awaiting death. The Corriere Della Sera says the former leader devotes himself to reflection in solitude and is detached from the world. Geneva Tribune adds a possible duodenal operation deemed too risky.
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Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Corriere Della Sera
Geneva Tribune
Corriere
Mussolini
Weather Forecast For Butte And Surrounding Areas
Butte forecast calls for cloudy skies with little temperature change. Sunday highs near 43 and lows around 23. West of the continental divide expect cloudy conditions with light snow in the south. East of the divide, partly cloudy north and south with light snow in the southwest and light rain in the southeast. No major temperature shifts expected.
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Continental Divide
Germans Prepare to Withdraw From South Greece
Istanbul April 16 reports say German troops are destroying airdromes military installations and munitions dumps in the Peloponnese as they plan a withdrawal into northern Greece. Installations in less defensible areas are wrecked while defenses remain for a brief delaying action. About 10 divisions reportedly remain in Greece though quality is noted as indifferent.
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Istanbul
Peloponnesus
Greece
South Pacific Flyers Hit Truk in New Raid
Allied Liberator bombers on a 2,000 mile round trip struck Truk atoll for the 10th time before dawn Friday. In Aitape New Guinea General Kenney's Fifth air force bombed with Liberator Mitchell and Boston planes in the heaviest attack on that target, totaling 284 tons of bombs.
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Fifth Air Force
New Guinea
Associated Press
Fifth U. S. Air Force
Allied
Southwest Pacific
U.P
South Pacific
Caroline Islands
Truk Atoll
Aitape
Japan
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Kenney
Liberator
Mitchell
Boston
Wewak
Melbourne Papers Defy Censorship
Melbourne reports that the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph defied censorship orders by publishing a controversial story. Police seized Sunday copies, and both papers released Monday editions explaining the incident and the dispute over the reporting.
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Melbourne
Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
The
Daily Telegraph
Sydney Sunday Telegraph
Gandhi Suffers From Malaria In Prison
Gandhi, the 75 year old imprisoned Indian leader, has malaria for three days. The Bombay government communique said he feels weak but his general condition is reasonably satisfactory. He is confined at the Aga Khan palace in Poona.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sundal
Gandhi
Aga Khan
Poona
Nazi party head in Portugal killed on Russian front
Lisbon report says Dr Lueble, head of the Nazi party in Portugal who volunteered to fight with Germany in Russia, was killed in action on the Russian front. The notice was received from Sunday sources confirming his death.
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Portugal
Lueble
Russia
Tornado Kills 38 In Georgia And South Carolina
A night tornado carved a 100 mile path through northeast Georgia and western South Carolina killing at least 38 and injuring more than 500. The hardest hit areas included Royston Hart county Greenwood Abbeville and Iva with multiple deaths and extensive property damage.
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Atlanta
Georgia
South Carolina
Associated Press
Red Cross
Royston
Hart County
Nuburg
Gainesville
Greenwood
S. C
Abbeville
S.C
Iva
Prosperity
Sligh’s
Newberry County
Franklin Springs
Athens
Elberton
Anderson
Italian Educator Slain by Terrorists in Florence
Italian philosopher and educator Professor Giovanni Gentile, 69, longtime minister of public instruction in 1922 to 1924, was slain by terrorists in Florence on Saturday night. He taught at Palermo Pisa and Rome universities and promoted reforms known by his name.
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London
Giovanni Gentile
Florence
Berlin
Palermo
Pisa
Rome
Yugoslavs Report 11 Ships Sunk by Torpedo Boats
New York dispatch says Marshal Tito’s headquarters claimed Allied motor torpedo boats sunk 11 ships in eight days. The report notes stubborn Partisan resistance against reinforced German units in western Bosnia with heavy reinforcements of men tanks and planes in the Bihac Knin corridor and three days of fierce combat in Hercegovina.
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New York
Josip Broz (Tito
Bosnia
U. S
Bihac-Knin
Hercegovina
Allies Penetrate Near Mandalay In Deep Glider Advance
Allied glider troops operate about 60 miles northwest of Mandalay near Shwebo and Yeu as Mountbatten moves HQ closer to the front. The communique claims Imphal is secure and notes Chindits have penetrated far south, severing Japanese supply links and inflicting heavy casualties as operations widen toward India and rail lifelines.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Mandalay
India-Burma
Louis Mountbatten
Imphal
India
Shwebo
Mandalay-Myitkyina
Yeu
Orde C. Wingate
Helena Captain Recovers After Escape From Germans
Helena Mont. Captain Taylor M. Radcliffe is reported in hospital after a German capture during a recon patrol near Anzio. He was beaten with a rubber hose, tied and gagged before escaping. He later found a gunshot wound in his foot.
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Helena
London
Anzio
Taylor M. Radcliffe
Mont
Radcliffe
MacArthur Silent on Accepting Gop Nomination
General Douglas MacArthur avoided stating whether he would accept the Republican presidential nomination if offered. He denied letters to Rep. Miller were criticisms of any political philosophy and said he has not sought the office, remaining focused on the war.
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MacArthur
Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
A. L. Miller
Nebraska
Miller
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Red Artillery Strikes Yalta and Sevastopol Fronts
Soviet forces push through Crimea driving Axis troops back with heavy shelling around Sevastopol and Yalta. News tallies report thousands captured or killed as Konev’s Second Ukraine army advances and lower Dniester bridgeheads expand.
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Dniester
Tiraspol
Tighina
Chisinau
Bessarabia
Ivan
Konev
Ukraine
Moscow
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Yalta
Sevastopol
Sedition Trial Opens Today in Biggest War Prosecution
Thirty sedition defendants including Elizabeth Dilling George Vereck and William Pelley face federal court Monday in the largest wartime sedition case. Conviction penalties reach up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The indictment alleges a Nazi linked plot to undermine U S armed forces and replace democracy with fascist rule. The conspiracy seeks insubordination and disloyalty among military personnel and a campaign of anti war material distribution.
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Washington
United States
Elizabeth Dilling
Chicago
George Sylvester Vereck
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
Deendants
U. S
Bombers Destroy Railroad Section Near Hanoi Indo China
American Mitchell bombers on a Vietry raid northwest of Hanoi in Indo China destroyed one bridge span and the approaches to another, and tore up considerable railroad trackage according to a U S communique issued Sunday.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
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