Soviets and Czechs reach wartime administration pact
Moscow radio reported that the Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak government agreed on ruling liberated areas with supreme military authority resting with the Red Army commander as long as needed. The two sides had signed a 20 year mutual aid pact last December. Patriots and Czechoslovak guerillas fight with the Russians.
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London
Soviet Union
Red Army
Moscow
Andrei J. Vishinsky
Nips Open Second Spring Drive in Anhwei Province
Japanese troops launch a second spring drive in Anhwei near the Hwai river south of the Lung Hai line as Chinese forces resist. Lt Gen Stilwell’s planes support the Chenghsien area with Liberators escorting strikes on bridges and bombardments along the Yangtze and Yangtze basin.
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Chungking
Anhwei
Chenghsien
Hwai River
Tienetsen-Nanking
Lung-Hai
Shanhsien
Fengtai
Yingshang
Nanking
Showhsien
Joseph W. Stilwell
Yellow River
Hainan Island
China
Yangtze River
Henan- Anhwei
Two youths die in car fire after gasoline spill
In Cullman Alabama on April 30 two youths were burned to death and a third seriously burned when gasoline spilled inside an overturned car was ignited by a match.
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Cullman
Ala
Weather forecast for Butte and eastern regions
Butte expects partly cloudy conditions Monday and Tuesday with showers Monday. Monday’s high around 55 and low near 31. West of the continental divide remains partly cloudy with little temperature change and scattered showers Monday afternoon. East of the divide also partly cloudy with scattered showers Monday afternoon and warmer conditions in the far east.
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Continental Divide
Flash Fire Injures 35 On Miami Sightseeing Boat
A flash fire aboard the Nikko I injures 35 as it prepares to depart a Miami pier on a Biscayne Bay tour. Ten are seriously hurt, many treated for minor burns and immersion shock. The boat does not burn. engines are gas powered. cause unknown. Ticket seller C P Knight recalls explosions and panicked passengers escaping to the water.
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Miami
Fila
Biscayne Bay
Miami River
C. P. Knight
Warns of Farm Labor Shortage in Montana Race for Food
Bozeman April 30 Ralph E Bodley state supervisor of the Emergency Farm Labor program warned that Montana must assume over 90 percent of farm labor needs to meet peak wartime food production. He said shortages persist despite Mexican nationals in agricultural work and urged volunteers, high school youths, town merchants, and the Women's Land Army to assist farmers this year.
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Bozeman
Ralph E. Bodley
Montana
Bodley
Women’s Land Army
Nazis Execute 21 German Deserters
Stockholm dated report says 21 German soldiers and an officer were executed after attempting to flee from Helsingor Denmark to Sweden in a fishing smack. The Helsingor garrison was placed in quarters and disarmed. A German hospital ship was reportedly sabotaged and sunk near Port Aalborg in Jutland by patriots.
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Stockholm
Helsinger
Denmark
Sweden
Helsingor
Port Aalborg
Jutland
Yankees Blast Japanese Bases In New Guinea Campaign
US naval and Fifth Air Force units bombed Wakde island area and Sarmi coast in Dutch New Guinea. Liberators hit Mokmer airfield Biak island, wrecking fifteen planes. air and sea attacks aim to destroy 60,000 Japanese troops along the coast and on nearby islands.
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Southwest Pacific
U.P
U. S. Naval
Fifth Air Force
Wakde
Sarmi
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
George C. Kenney
New Guinea
Hansa Bay
Sorong
Geelvink
Nightingale Bay
Socialists Nominate Steel Worker for President of U. S.
Edward A. Teichert a 40 year old Greensburg Pennsylvania steel worker was nominated for president by the Socialist Labor party at its 21st annual convention. Arla A Albaugh an engraver from Massillon Ohio was chosen as vice president with both nominations approved unanimously by 47 delegates from 21 states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward A. Teichert
Greensburg
United States
Socialist Labor Party
Arla A. Albaugh
Massillon
Ohio
Russian author Novikov-Pribov dies at 67
Alexei Novikov-Pribov, 67, noted Russian author of Tsushima the account of the Russian fleet defeat by Japan during the war, died Sunday in Moscow.
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Moscow
Alexei Novikov-Pribov
Allied Planes Blast Three Italian Ports
Allied Mediterranean air fleets finished 48 hours of strikes on Genoa La Spezia and Livorno after the Toulon raid. Ground actions increased around the Anzio beachhead as German raiding parties were repulsed and Allied forces held forward positions near Cassino. The Sunday communique noted heavy patrols, 2000 sorties by RAF halifaxes liberators and Wellingtons, and continued pressure on submarine pens at Toulon.
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Allied
Naples
Hitler
Genoa
la Spezia
Livorno
Toulon
Anzio
Cisterna
Sessano
Cassino
France
Soviet Planes Smash at Rail Junction
Soviet bombers attacking the Idritsa rail junction near the Latvian border and a nearby airdrome caused big fires and explosions. The Moscow communique said the land front lull continued into its second week with no major changes and did not mention SevastoPol. In Sevastopol and the Black Sea, Russian naval planes sunk 61 Axis ships in the last 15 days, including 24 transports. Braham shot down his twenty seventh German plane near Poitiers on a Mosquito mission, tying for second with Johnson in RAF air victories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Idritsa
Moscow
Sevastopol
Crimea
Berlin
Romania
Ivan Filatov
Moscow News
John R. D. Braham
Poitiers
Mosquito
France
J. E. Johnson
Malan
Eighth Air Force destroys over 1300 German planes in April
U S Eighth Air Force reports destroying more than 1,300 German fighter planes and dropping over 24,000 tons of bombs on Germany and occupied Europe in April. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle noted the loss of 503 Allied aircraft and the growing depletion of the German air force amidst Allied bombing. He cited factory hits and potential rebuilding by Germany, warning production could resume after repairs.
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Eighth Air Force
London
United States
Germany
Europe
James H. Doolittle
Eighth
Strategic Air Forces
America
Doolittle
Fortress Europe
Marienburg
Schweinfurt
Regensburg
Warnemunde
Stalin Credits U S Britain With Help In Russian Victories
Premier Stalin's May Day order from Moscow credits American and British aid in Russia's successes and urges joint blows to crush Hitlerite Germany. He calls for eradicating invaders, restoring frontiers, and pushing the war from the east and west. He also urges satellites to quit the war to avoid catastrophe.
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Russell Sandstrom
London
Marshal Stalin
Moscow
American
Britain
Russia
Russians allege Nazis spread typhus in prisoner camps
A Soviet state commission said Germany spread typhus among Red Army prisoners and civilians in February and March in fenced open camps. It accused German authorities and unit commanders of mass infection and showed pictures of people dying in open, crowded areas.
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Moscow
Red Army
Germans Burning Villages in Yugoslav Front
Yugoslav Partisan communique from Marshal Tito reports Germans burning villages and slaughtering inhabitants along the Bihac Knin railway corridor about 40 miles from Split. The campaign forms part of a new offensive across a 60 mile front. Partisans say they are holding their defenses despite fresh infantry and tank reinforcements.
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London
Bihac-Knin
Adriatic
Split
Marshal Tito
Josip Broz
London nerves rise as invasion wait grinds on
London endures invasion jitters as four year vigil tightens nerves. Citizens note a shared strain visible in crowds and subway faces while Americans and Britons press on with air raids and security. Drivers compare waiting to a wife birthing, yet a sense grows that decisive hour nears and German nerves may fray first.
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London
Hitler
United States
New York
Washington
Los Angeles
Europe
Japs Mass for All-Out Blow
Allied headquarters assess a possible Japanese push on Imphal as Kohima battles continue. In the fortnight to April 27 Japanese casualties reach about 1500 while supply lines weaken, and British forces reportedly close off northern exits and threaten Kohima.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Manipur
India
Kohima
Goering's New Air Ministry Building Blasted
The air ministry building in Berlin sustained direct hits in Saturday's American raid and the south wing burned. Photographs show hits on other government buildings in the area. Templeshof yard, Anhalter station, and main rail lines near Berlin suffered direct hits and damage in southwest sectors.
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London
Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering
Air Ministry
Berlin
U. S. Air Force
Templehof
Anhalter
Schoneberg
Dahlem
Teiton
Zehlendorf
German Prisoners Captured Near Mojave After Escape
Denver FBI reports two German POW escapees from Fort Sumner New Mexico were captured near Mojave California last night, following their escape last Wednesday.
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Denver
Fort Sumner
N. M
Mojave
Calif
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Army Liberators Hit Truk Atoll In Air Offensive
U S Army Liberators bombed Truk atoll again Friday night delivering 41 tons of bombs. Nimitz reported weak anti air resistance from the garrison while Sixth and Seventh air forces joined in the assault. Penetrating strikes also hit Ponape and Marshall Islands bases with heavy tonnage as part of ongoing softening up of Japan’s forward outposts.
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Pearl Harbor
Truk Atoll
Carolines
Ngand
Island
Marshal Island
Baste
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Seventh Air Force
Nimitz
Ponape
Japan
Marshalls
US hens deliver eggs to Anzio beachhead troops
On the Anzio beachhead in April 30 dispatches the Fifth Army reports more than 500000 eggs laid by United States hens have reached the front. Troops celebrate their first ration of beer and bottled soft drinks as the supply arrives.
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Fifth Army
Anzio
United States
Train Strike Kills Six At South Bend Crossing
Four women and two men died when their car was hit by an eastbound New York Central passenger train at a South Bend crossing on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
New York Central
South Bend Crossing
Air Offensive Rolls on Into 17th Day
A force of 3,000 Allied planes including 1,000 heavy bombers and fighters attacked German invasion targets in France. RAF bombers crossed the Channel Sunday night extending the air offensive into May. Allied strikes hit German airdromes coastal defenses and railyards as Berlin raids continued. Brand details note the 16th straight day of medium bomber operations and losses on both sides.
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France
London
English Channel
Britain
Italy
Berlin
Vichy
Alps
Danube
Austria
Canadian Destroyer Athabaskan Sunk in Channel Clash
The Canadian destroyer Athabaskan was torpedoed and sunk near Ushant off France in a clash with two German Elbing class destroyers. Haida rescued a few Athabaskan survivors while the other German ship fled. Berlin claimed 85 Canadians were saved by the Germans.
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London
Athabaskan
Admiralty
Ushant
Quessant
France
Berlin
U S Inaugurates Pre Invasion Broadcasts to Europe
London April 30 United States opens pre invasion broadcasts from Britain to occupied Europe promising liberation is near and that German lies will be exposed by Allied radio. Robert E Sherwood directs overseas OWI, urges secrecy until proper time and warns underground workers not to act prematurely. Premier broadcast cites combined Russian and Allied forces ready to end Nazi tyranny.
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London
United States
Europe
Britain
Robert E. Sherwood
Office of War Information
France
Germany
Sherman
Eisenhower
Sir Henry Maitland
Sherwood
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