Allied Air Power Rains Destructive Assaults Across Europe
London dispatch reports more than 3,000 Allied bombers and fighters striking targets from Friedrichshafen to Munich and Belgrade in the day and night operations. The attack compounds losses for German air power with 100 plus Nazi aircraft downed and major factories and airfields hit.
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London
Karlsruhe
Munich
Hitler
Friedrichshafen
Bucharest
Ploesti
Belgrade
U. S. Air Force
Berlin
Europe
Italy
Western Reich
Germany
United States
15Th Air Force
Atlantic Wall
Belgium
Romania
Ikarus
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Freidrichafen
Life, Property Suffer in Major Midwestern Floods
Floodwaters swamp thousands of acres of farmland from Illinois to Kansas as the Mississippi and Illinois rivers breach barriers and Missouri cities brace for near record levels. Drownings are reported in Wichita and Kansas City. coastguardsmen are among those affected as Jefferson City and Boonville brace for major rises.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Kansas
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Illinois River
Beardstown
Ill
Missouri
Jefferson City
Boonville
Kansas City
Wichita
Kans
Charles H. Lewis
Michael Stane
Riverview Gardens
End of Greek Mutiny Reported in Cairo
Cairo April 24 The end of a mutiny by Greek troops was announced Monday night following a prior settlement on three armed Greek warships at Alexandria. The brigade that had refused orders laid down arms and vacated camp, ending a mutiny led by subversive political elements. The aim is to reorganize reliable elements for Greece’s liberation effort.
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Cairo
Alexandria
Mussolini narrowly escapes bombing near car
Bern dispatch reports Mussolini survived a blast within yards of his vehicle as cited by Der Bund quoting the anti-Fascist Italian journal Resistenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
der Bund
Resistenza
377 Butte Grade School Graduates Named for May Ceremony
The list of 377 eighth grade graduates from Butte public schools was released by City Superintendent Lowell W. Johnson. Graduation will be May 25 at most schools with final report cards issued May 26, marking the end of the 1943-44 term.
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Butte
Lowell W. Johnson
Johnson
Blaine
Betty Lou Bell
Emil Busch
JoAnn Cusick
Wayne Gage
Soviet Airmen Sink 12 Enemy Ships Evacuating Crimea
Soviet Black Sea fleet aircraft sank 12 ships attempting to evacuate German troops from Sevastopol. Seven transports totaling 16 000 tons were sunk by direct bomb hits plus a high speed barge a torpedo cutter and three patrol ships. Other enemy vessels were damaged and many German and Romanian troops perished at sea. Long range Soviet planes hit German trains at Lwow as fresh Russian land pressure rose around Sevastopol.
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London
Sevastopol
Crimea
Moscow
Romania
Lwow
Old Poland
Red Army
Carpathians
Kolomysa
Kuty
Dnestyr
Reinforcements Land in Burma
Allied air borne reinforcements have landed over 200 miles inside Burma with Col. Pilip Cochran's American air command, joining Chindits to disrupt enemy supply lines. The operation mirrors the first air invasion, with no Japanese interference and proximity to Bhamo, Mitkyina, and the China border. Mountbatten reports Kohima–Dimapur road freed and Kohima garrison relieved as Kohima–Imphal highway remains contested.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Pilip Cochran
Bhamo
China
Mitkyina
India
Kohima
Imphal
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Dimapur
Bengal-Assam
U S Break With Finland Reported by Stockholm Dispatch
London April 24 report quoted a Stockholm dispatch saying the American charge d affaires in Helsinki informed the Finnish government that the United States is breaking diplomatic relations with Finland. The dispatch cited it as unconfirmed.
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London
U.P
Stockholm
Helsinki
United States
Finland
Butte Weather Likely Cooler Tuesday With Showers
Montana forecast calls for cooler Tuesday with showers. Monday highs reach 57 and lows near 36. Showers and cooler conditions extend across the state, with partly cloudy southwest and possible afternoon thunderstorms near the Missouri headwaters. East of the continental divide expected fair conditions Tuesday morning.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Missouri
Japanese Navy Says It Cannot Be Provoked
A Berlin radio quoted a Japanese spokesman stating that American naval operations in the Pacific have shown the Japanese navy cannot be provoked. The remark was heard in New York via United Press.
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United Press
Berlin
New York
Pacific
Aerial Wedge Drives Across Pacific In Weekend Raids
The Seventh Army Air Force bombed Japanese island bases along a 900 mile central Pacific front including Truk atoll and Ponape as General MacArthur’s forces moved ashore near Hollandia. Liberators and Mitchells attacked Truk, Ponape, Puluwat, Ulul, and other Marshall positions, starting fires and causing widespread destruction.
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Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Air Force
Central Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Carolines
Truk Atoll
Hollandia
Philippines
Moen
Eten
Param
Ponape
Puluwat
Ulul
Marshall
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Truk Islands
Truk
Atoll
Caroline Island
Puluwat Island
Ulul Island
Marshalls
First Japanese-Americans to travel home under release permits
Forty five Hawaiian Japanese women and children, evacuated from the Pacific coast after Pearl Harbor, will pass through the western defense command unescorted en route to homes in Hawaii. They are the first Japanese descent civilians allowed to travel since evacuation began.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Pearl Harbor
Western Defense Command
Hawaii
Ceilings Ordered on Strawberries by OPA
The Office of Price Administration ordered producer ceilings on strawberries to take effect next Thursday to keep retail prices near last year’s levels. The regional price schedule, announced earlier, faces no effective date yet and Congress members sought changes without success.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Congress
Work or Be Drafted Measure Introduced in Senate
A work or be drafted bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Brewster and Bailey. It would empower the selective service director to order 4-Fs in essential jobs to take an essential role and induce noncompliant registrants into military duty, with ages 18 to 45 affected and penalties for leaving essential work. The measure calls for an inter agency committee to define essential war production activities.
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Washington
Selective Service
Senate
Brewster
R.-Me
Bailey
D.-N.c
National Selective Service
House Military Affairs Committee
May
Brewster and Bailey
Director of
Japs Lose Heavily in Aerial Action
The Navy reported 101 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged in operations supporting General MacArthur in northern New Guinea. At Hollandia Wakde Sawar air fields ground losses were heavy with 67 planes destroyed on the ground and 13 shot down. Dutch naval action bombed ammunition dumps and ships were sunk including two cargo ships and several small craft.
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Washington
Navy
MacArthur
New Guinea
Hollandia
Wakde Island
Sawar
Holladia
Wakde
Germans Prepare People for Worst After Invasion
From Madrid dispatches reports German nervousness rises as propaganda warns of a different Dieppe like invasion. Claims Allied forces build overwhelming material power to break Atlantic defenses while Nazi leadership says fortifications are strengthened. The neutral post notes six German divisions in Norway.
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Madrid
Germany
Europe
Dieppe
Atlantic
Muncer Neueste Nachrichten
Hitler
Norway
Freezing Order Is Withdrawn by War Production Board
The War Production Board abandoned its plan to freeze civilian production at current levels in key labor areas after Capitol Hill complaints that it would idle small plants while larger ones resume peace-time work. A less drastic order is being prepared to maintain war production without forcing small plants into idleness. WPB officials cited numerous technical and practical difficulties in administration.
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Washington
War Production Board
Capitol Hill
WPB
Wherry
Nebraska
Subcommittee
Stewart
D.-Tenn
Patterson
War Department
Forrestal
Navy
Donald M. Nelson
American Jungle Fighters Close On Hollandia Airfields
Allied forces in Dutch New Guinea push toward Hollandia airfields from Tanahmerah bay and Humboldt bay. Troops seize supplies including trucks rifles and aircraft motors while Japanese resistance remains slight. Island advances near Aitape complete as Tadji airfields show damage.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Dutch New Guinea
Hollandia
Tanahmerah Bay
Humboldt Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Tanahmerah
MacArthur
U. S
Pim Village
Lehill
Cyclops
Altape
Tadji
Aitape
Tumbo
Seleo
Ali
U. S&s
New Guinea
Nazi Thrusts at Anzio Repulsed
Allied headquarters reported two German thrusts in company strength against the Anzio beachhead were repulsed around Carano and southwest of Carroceto. Air raids continued to shape the Italian front with heavy bombers striking Parma Genoa Livorno Piombino and Santo Stefano.
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Naples
Anzio
Carano
Carroceto
Tacks
Cassino
Bucharest
Ploesti
Romania
Ikarus
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Montanans Among First of Yanks to Reach Jap Airfield Near Aitape
Montanan Captain Edward Reams led the first unit to the fighter strip at Tadji airfield near Aitape as Allied troops began converting the captured airfield. Montanans Sgt Glendon Picard and Lt Roy Gilmore were part of the assault and quick sniper actions reduced resistance around the field.
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Aitape
Edward Reams
Buildings
Mont
Glendon Picard
Bainville
Roy Gilmore
Post
Texas
Texas Tech
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