Dewey Urges Solid Foreign Policy
New York governor Thomas E. Dewey urged a solid, cooperative foreign policy among the United States Great Britain China and Russia to solve postwar issues. He warned against drastic initial measures against Germany and Japan unless tied to lasting cohesion with Britain and allies. He cited three objectives including total victory and durable economic stability worldwide.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Great Britain
China
Russia
Germany
Japan
Dewey
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Bureau of Advertising
Eric A. Johnson
United States Chamber of Commerce
Aaron 8. Merrill
Pacific
Navy
Flooded Rivers Still Rising Across Missouri and Illinois
Floodwaters from the Mississippi and Missouri rise toward crest with 98,000 acres at risk in Missouri and 2 states totaling 759,000 flooded. Evacuations proceed near St Louis with 350,000 acres crops already destroyed. Chester area levee weaknesses and sandbagging efforts noted amid record Arkansas River crest in Tulsa.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Jefferson City
Cairo
Ill
U. S. District Engineer’s Office
Coast Guard
St. Louis
St. Charles
R. A. Langenbacher
The
Red Cross
Illinois
Mississippi River
Chester
Tulsa
Okla
Britain Isolated as Regulated Exit Ban Enforced
London imposes midnight Thursday restrictions barring civilians from leaving the island except for urgent national business. Berlin watchers say isolation turns Britain into a large military base while Germans gauge invasion chances across channels. A Paris analyst questions Allied western eastern and southern offensives due to weather.
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London
Britain
United Kingdom
Paris
Jean Paquis
Halting of Chrome Shipments Strains German Turkish Ties
German foreign office spokesman called Turkey’s chrome shipment suspension a breach of contract. Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen left Istanbul for Berlin and will not return for the time being. Berlin radio described the move as evidence of Allied diplomatic leverage and rising German Turkish tension.
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Berlin
Turkey
Franz von Papen
Ankara
von Papen
Istanbul
Germany
Paul Schmidt
Foreign Office
Ickes Attacks Race Bias on Japanese Re Settlement
Interior Secretary Ickes accuses Mayor LaGuardia and governors Bricker and Edge of racial discrimination regarding Japanese American resettlement. He calls their views out of step with democracy and warns Bricker pursues presidential aims. Continued on Page 6.
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Washington
Ickes
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
John W.W. Bricker
Ohio
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Oiffer
War Relocation Authority
Bricker
Los Angeles
Montana Legislator Dies After Illness in Spokane
William Castles 65 a Mineral county representative and Superior merchant died Thursday noon in a Spokane hospital after medical treatment trips. Born in Liverpool England in 1878 he came to the United States as a youth and lived in Missoula before moving to Superior. A Republican civic leader Castles served two terms in the Montana House and is survived by his wife five sons in the service and two daughters. his body will be brought to Superior for funeral services.
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Missoula
William Castles
Mineral County
Superior
Spokane
Representative Castles
Liverpool
England
House of Representatives
Montgomery Ward Leader Ejected by Troops in Chicago
Federal Judge issues injunction to prevent interference with government operation of Ward stores. Sewell Avery, chairman, carried from eighth floor by soldiers, then driven away, signaling a court battle over war labor board orders and union contracts.
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Chicago
William H. Holly
Montgomery Ward and Company
Sewell Avery
Avery
Mammoth Mail Order
Gold Coast
Supreme Court
Francis Biddle
Federal Court
Ward
District Court
National Capital
War Labor Board
Lull on Eastern Front Persists as Attacks Continue
London reports a sixth day of lull on the eastern front while Moscow says no major changes. Soviet dispatches note continued heavy shelling of German Romanian positions around Sevastopol with enemy in last shelters. German communique mentions only local attacks as Sevastopol defense is deemed complete.
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London
Moscow
Thunsday
Romania
Carpathian
Sevastopol
Red Star
Bomber Crash At Kirtland Field Kills One Airman
An Army airman died and two others were injured in a four engine B 24 crash at Kirtland Field on Thursday. The injuries include one critical case and the others less severe.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Army
Kirtland Field
Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Targets in Hollandia Campaign
General Douglas MacArthur announced that in a five day push Allied forces captured Hollandia's three air fields Cyclops Senta i and Hollandia leaving about 60 000 Japanese stranded. Enemy resistance ceased and demoralized troops fled inland as Americans and Australians pressed on with further advances in New Guinea.
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Southwest Pacific
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Hollandia
Cyclops
Sentani
Philippines
MacArthur
Alexishafen
New Guinea
Madang
Air Offensive Reaches Record Pace
Allied air forces pounded Nazi targets in a record 18 hour window, with 4 000 bombers dropping about 8 500 tons on factories and rail yards in France Belgium and Germany. The missions included a 1 000 plane early attack on Essen and Schweinfurt and 750 plane blows on strategic targets in France. The U S Eighth Air Force logged a record 1 500 heavy bomber flights as part of the same offensive day. The invasion was described as imminent by German radio reports.
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Hitler
Europe
Essen
Schweinfurt
Paris
France
Belgium
Marvel
Britain
Dover
Channel
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
London
U. S. Eighth Air Force
U. S
Hitler Fortress
Mother and Sons on Leave From Service
The Fitzpatrick family of Butte is reuniting during wartime leaves. Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick, once a Broad way Apartments operator, now welds at Wilmington shipyards in California. Her sons John Edward, 20, Aviation Machinist Mate Third Class, and Patrick Daniel, 18, Seaman Second Class, are on leave from Norfolk and Farragut respectively. Patrick left Boys Central high school to weld on the coast, later enlisting in the Navy last March 10. John entered the Navy in 1942 after leaving a Montana Standard job, with training in Corpus Christi and Norman. The family plans to resume duties after their leaves.
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Fitzpatricks
Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick
Broadway Apartments
Wilmington Shipyards
Calif
John Edward
Norfolk
Navy
Patrick Daniel
Farragut
West Copper Street
Patrick
Butte
Boys Central High School
Portland
Alameda
Oakland
Wilmington
California
John
Montana Standard
Boys’ Central
Butte Business College
Corpus Christi
Texas
Norman
Okla
Butte and Montana Weather Forecast Victory
Butte expected partly cloudy Friday with little temperature change. Thursday highs near 60 and lows around 25. Montana outlook shows partly cloudy conditions for Friday with a few scattered showers in the south and cooler air in the northwest.
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Butte
Montana
Longer Pacific Jumps Seen
Secretary of War Stimson says American forces may execute longer jumps toward the heart of Japan, following General MacArthur's 500 mile advance up the New Guinea coast to Hollandia. He notes Allied air losses decline as more planes are used, with German forces continuing to contest every mission. Casualties through April 15 total 148,425 in the Army, plus overall armed forces deaths and prisoners.
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Washington
Japan
Stimson
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Hollandia
Germany
Italy
Balkan
Russia
Burma-India
Imphal
Office of War Information
Secretary of the Navy Knox Is Ill at Home
Secretary of the Navy Knox who is 70 and a Chicago publisher, is under a physician care at his home with a gastro intestinal upset. He canceled all engagements to rest and was stricken in Manchester New Hampshire while attending the funeral of J A Muehling, his business partner of 40 years. The illness is complicated with dizziness and he recently recovered from influenza.
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Washington
Knox
The
Navy
Chicago
Jap Resistance Appears Broken In Burma Advance
Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s forces push six miles into the Mogaung valley toward Manpin, 10 miles from Kamaing and 45 from Myitkyina, threatening the Japanese base north of Mandalay as Allied reinforcements rush to Kohima to halt a counter invasion.
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Southeast Asia
Kanby
Ceylon
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Uncle Joe
Mogaung Valley
Manpin
Kamaing
Myitkyina
Mandalay
India
China
Stillwell
Kohima
Dimapur
Bengal-Assam
1000 Plane Raids Highlight Pacific Navy Offensive
Hutchinson Kansas April 27 Artemus L Gates assistant secretary of the Navy for air said the Navy has been conducting 1000 plane raids in the Pacific and that coordinated training at a new base supports expanding offensives The Navy is a flying Navy with planes coordinating with surface fleet and Army and the airplane as its most important weapon.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Artemus L. Gates
Secretary of the Navy
Air
Pacific
Navy
Gates
Army
Yugoslav Partisans Land on Korcula Island
The Dalmatian coast reports that Yugoslav partisans with Allied naval protection landed on Korcula island and captured two of three major towns. The operation followed assaults on Mljet Hvar and Brac as a springboard for further actions against German garrisons. American rangers and British commandos were believed to have participated.
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London
U.P
Korcula
Josip (Tito) Broz
Mljet
Hvar
Brac
25Th Partisan
35 Per Cent Drop in War Production After German Defeat
WPB official Charles E. Wilson told the automobile labor advisory committee that a 35 percent drop in war production would free capacity for civilian goods after Germany falls. He cautioned that until Germany collapses only limited civilian output is possible and outlined three postwar plans for arms, civilian, and long term production.
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Germany
WPB
Washington
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Automobile Labor Advisory Committee
Japan
Wilson
Europe
Naval Ship Fire Kills 15 at Navy Yard
Fifteen civilian workers die from suffocation after a fire on a naval vessel at Portsmouth Virginia’s yard. At least 20 others overcome by smoke. Names withheld pending next of kin notification. Fire occurred about 6:30 PM Thursday. court of inquiry to be appointed.
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Portsmouth
Navy Yard
Norfolk Naval Hospital
Edgar B. Johnson
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Johnson
Ate
David J. Kieselbach
Liberty Ship John Straub Sunk After Violent Explosion
The War Shipping Administration said the Liberty ship John Straub was destroyed by a violent explosion of undetermined origin. Her cargo of high octane gasoline and oil was bound for the Alaska theater, and 65 lives were lost according to Navy interviews with 15 survivors.
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Washington
War Shipping Administration
Navy
John Straub
WSA
Alaska
Italy seeks readmission to International Labor Office
Marshal Pietro Badoglio applied for Italy’s readmission to the International Labor Office in a letter received at the ILO conference on Thursday in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
International Labor Office
ILO
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LaGuardia
Edge
Montgomery Ward
Tadji
Signal Corps
Don Caswell
Aitape
Sixth Army
Korako
Air Offensive
Friedrichshafen
Lake Constance
By Gayle Talbot
Secretary of Navy
Stilwell
Thoburn Wiant
Pacific Theater
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Automobile Company
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