Full story of MacArthur hazardous voyage revealed by commander
The spokesman Col LeGrand Diller recounts MacArthur's perilous Manila Bay crossing to reach Australia in a PT boat convoy led by John Bulkeley. He notes no submarine escape, that the mission faced night seas and Japanese warships, and that three boats continued after dawn to rendezvous inland awaiting air support that never arrived.
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MacArthur
C. Yates McDaniel
U. S. Army
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Supreme Commander
Bataan
Col. LeGrand Diller
Diller
United States Navy
John D. Bulkeley
China Sea
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Bulkeley
Hitler Drives Reserves Into Soviet Fronts In Desperate Move
Allied dispatches report Hitler massing hastily trained reserves and Balkan levies to stem the Soviet advance. British invasion fears rise as Axis claims of naval strikes expand. Sweden and Turkey watch with mounting tension. Soviet notices claim heavy fighting near Leningrad and Moscow with German 16th Army contesting Staraya Russa.
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Associated Press
Near East
Turkey
Adolf Hitler
Balkan States
Russia
British Isles
Sweden
Tass
Istanbul
Bulgaria
Stockholm
Scandinavia
London
Mussolini
High Command
North Africa
Mediterranean
Malta
Gulf of
Sirte
Leningrad
Moscow
Staraya Russa
Hitler
Donets River
Ukraine
Kharkov
Nelson Seeks 30 Day Limit on Double Pay Plan
Washington reports war production chief Donald Nelson asked Congress for a 30 day limit to voluntary suspension of double pay for overtime through labor leaders agreement. He warned if talks fail he will seek legislation while opposing a full 40 hour week shift and a ban on closed shops in war contract industries.
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Nelson
Washington
Donald Nelson
Congress
Organized Labor
House Naval Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
Representative Smith
D-Va
George
Rayburn
D-Tex
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Philip Murray
CIO
Cripps Presses Talks With Moslem Leaders In India
Sir Stafford Cripps met the governors of Madras Bombay and Bengal and planned further talks with Indian political leaders. Mohammed Ali Jinnah urged Moslems to reserve judgment and face consequences if any scheme harms moslem interests as Pakistan Day is observed.
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New Delhi
India
Stafford Cripps
Madras
Bombay
Bengal
Linlithgow
Archibald P. Wavell
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Stafford
Arthur
United Nations Generalissima
Japan
Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Torres Strait
Markham Valley
Burma
Toungoo
Pyu
Toungao
Thailand
Sir Stafford ‘Cripps
Moseles
Britain
Sir Stafford
Winston Churchill
Japanese Bombers Blast Corregidor in Bold Assault
The War Department reports 54 Japanese heavy bombers attacked Corregidor and American positions in Bataan. Several clashes occurred, three enemy planes were shot down, and Japanese losses are believed heavy while American casualties were light.
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Washington
Corregior
Bataan
War Department
Corresidor
Nazis Push Reserves as Hitler Seeks Initiative
Moscow reports German forces pour reserves from Yugoslavia and Norway to strengthen fronts against the Soviet Union. Soviet briefings claim 2,500 enemy killed on Leningrad and Kalinin fronts, with several communities retaken and German units burned to hide losses amid encirclement attempts.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Norway
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Information Bureau
Leningrad
Kalinin
Red Army
Edward Brunsfeldt
312Th
France
Serbia
Smorensk
Vyazma
Weather Outlook For Southeast States Tonight
Weather data shows Alabama warmer tonight while extreme northwest Florida has little change. Florida and Georgia remain moderately cool with slight temperature rises in the northwest. South Carolina stays moderately cool tonight.
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Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Racial Vote Right Faces Court Test in Dade County
In Miami on March 24 the Democratic State Committee's rule limiting party primary participation to white voters is challenged. Registration supervisor Carl Holm er Jr is ordered to answer by April 3 in a suit filed by two Negro plaintiffs claiming the restriction violates the Constitution.
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Dade County
Fla
Miami
Democratic State Committee
Carl Holmer, Jr
Nazi Conference May Be To Plan Spring Offensive
Wide World War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes Bulgaria's King Boris and Count Von Papen visit Hitler as signs of a looming Nazi spring offensive. The piece argues Hitler may press Turkey to allow German forces through to the Middle East for oil and supplies, with Boris pressed into axis action and Papen using threats to extract concessions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Bulgaria
Boris
Germany
Herr Hitler
Count, von Papen
Turkey
Papen
Fuehrer
Middle East
Hitler
Count von Papen
Ferdinand
the Fox
Kaiser Wilhelm
Greece
Yugoslavia
Italy
Giovanna
Ankara
Britain
America
Near
Europe
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Aegean
Isle of
Japanese Bombers Hit Corregidor and Bataan Fronts
Japanese heavy bombers attacked Corregidor and American Filipino positions on Bataan as U S Navy submarines claimed 25 ships sunk with several more damaged. American gunners shot down three bombers while heavy fighting continued in Burma and India with Chiang Kai-shek's forces reporting strong counterattacks.
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Associated Press
Bataan
Corregidor Fortress
War Department
U. S
Commmunique
Britain
India
Sir Stafford Cripps
Stafford
Tokyo
Japan
Indian Ocean
Australia
Hideo Hiraide
Netherlands East Indies
Mhkaide
Washington
Philippines
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
Douglas Mac
Navy
Burma
Joseph Stilwell
Pyu
Toungoo
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Noorway
LABOR
Karl Hauper
Herman Reidenbach
Bremen
16Th Army
M’ Kenzie
U.S
Pacific Coast
Tillamook
Ore
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