Planes Bomb Budapest in First Big Allied Bombardment
Allied heavy bombers from Italy struck Budapest yesterday hitting rail links to Germany and a Messerschmitt factory at Tokol. The attack, planned for months, aimed to disrupt German Balkan defenses as the Red Army massed nearby. Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining led the strike from Italy, with a 1,000 mile round trip.
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Naples
United States
Budapest
Germany
Balkan
Italy
Danube
Europe
Hungary
Messerschmitt Aircraft Factory
Tokel
Nathan F. Twining
11Th
Red Army
Balkans
Middle Danube
Twining
Steyr
Austria
Vienna
Jap Burma Army Cuts Imphal Road
Japanese invasion forces have cut roads into the Allied base at Imphal Manipur as fighting rages in the Naga hills east of Kohima. An Allied spokesman said Imphal is temporarily isolated but crisis will be overcome without air supply. A Japanese column presses toward Dimapur on the Assam Burma railway while another force east of the Chindwin is repulsed. Artillery shells the Tamu Palel road southeast of Imphal.
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Imphal
Manipur
India
Kohima
Dimapur
Assam-Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Naga Hills
Chindwin
Tamu-Palel
Welders Face Trial on Federal Fraud Charge
Twenty five welders at Bethlehem Sparrows Point shipyards were held for federal grand jury action on charges of defrauding the government by falsifying welders work records for money. Bail set at 1000 each after a four hour hearing. Fifty six arrested in all case FBI says involved up to five million dollars yearly.
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Baltimore
Bethlehem- Sparrows Point
United States
James K. Cullen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
G L F Cobleskill Store Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed a Grange League Federation store in Cobleskill causing about 150 dollars in damage. Ferris Middlemast, the manager, said the mill machinery and large quantities of grain were stored inside. Fire officials could not determine the cause of the blaze.
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Cobleskill
Grange League Federation
Ferris Middlemast
Jail Cohoes Night Chief Charged with Perjury
Lieut. James S. Collins, 44, Cohoes night police chief, was arrested by state troopers on two counts of first degree perjury. Indicted by a special grand jury for sworn false Civil Service applications, he faces 2.5 to 5 years plus fines. Detained by Supreme Court Justice Parton W. Swift with bail set at 5000, arraignment scheduled.
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James S. Collins
Cohoes
Albany County
Collins
Albany
Supreme Court
Parton W. Swift
Justice Swift
Sylvester Collins
Butsey Collins
George F. Monaghan
Authority of Justice
Negro Vote Ruling Opens Texas Primary To Negroes
The UPI report notes the Supreme Court’s eight to one decision overturning a nine year old Texas law keeping Negroes from Democratic primaries. The ruling, cited by Justice Roberts, states the right to vote in primary elections cannot be denied by color, though poll taxes and educational tests remain unaffected. The NAACP urged vigorous Department of Justice action against denials and argued South states face federal crime exposure for exclusion. Lonnie E. Smith was the case plaintiff.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Texas
Roberts
Tri
Bunal
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Biddle
Justice Department
Association
Deep South
South
Lonnie E. Smith
Master Chemical Helps Maintain Health and Vigor
A methyl group, a master chemical beyond vitamins, is found in certain protein foods and is essential for health. Though methyl is a toxic wood alcohol, three chemists note its harmless forms in choline and some amino acids. Foods like egg yolk, soybeans, meats, and vegetables provide methyl, and a varied diet helps prevent methyl deficiency.
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Cleveland UP
American Chemical Society
South Still Hostile to Negro Voter
Associated Press reports state and regional leaders react to a Supreme Court ruling allowing Negroes to participate in Democratic primaries with caution and defiance. Mississippi guarantees white primaries, Georgia cites non qualification, Florida vows resistance, while Tennessee North Carolina and Virginia leave Negro participation unbarred in some cases.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Texas
Mississippi
Herbert Holmes
Democratic Executive Committee
Georgia
Democratic Committee
J. Lon Duckworth
Florida
Tom Conely
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Army absolves soldier of aid to prisoners at Camp Hale
Col John A. Chase, commander of Camp Hale, announced that Staff Sgt Guido M. Gundisch of Milwaukee was acquitted by a special court martial of trafficking commercially with German prisoners of war. The charge related to the purchase of three ping pong balls and radio tubes for the prisoners.
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Camp Hale
John A. Chase
Guido M. Gundisch
Milwaukee
Chase
Ickes Sees No Increase In Civilian Gas Rations
Secretary Ickes stated there will be no rise in civilian gasoline allotments in any region. He cited tight stocks nationwide and warned that total crude petroleum and products are at twenty year lows. Deputy Davies added East Coast supplies are better than last year but not abundant, with military needs taking priority.
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Washington (P
United States
Office of Price Administration
PAW
Ralph K. Davies
Davies
Chaplin Trial Ends In Battle Over Mann Act Descent
In Los Angeles the Chaplin trial heard five hours of final pleas as prosecutors claim Chaplin transported Joan Berry to New York for immoral purposes while the defense angrily denies any Mann Act violation. Jerry Giesler ridiculed the government view of a single intimate act and Charles H. Carr closed with a poem about societal judgment.
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Los Angeles
Chaplin
U. S
Charles H. Carr
Heaven’s Gate
Carr
Giesler
Joan Berry
Joan
Beverly Hills
Yanks Seize Ten More Jap Islands
U S Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports that American forces have occupied ten additional atolls in the Marshall Islands, bringing the tally to 14 cleared with Jaluit still held by Japan. The new atolls are Ujae Lae Lib Namu Ailnglapalap Namorik Ebon Kil Arno and Bikini. Most seizures occurred with little or no resistance and some prisoners were taken.
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Pearl Harbor
Upi
Marshall Islands
Jaluit Atoll
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Ujae
Lae
Lib
Namu
Ailnglapalap
Namorik
Ebon
Kil
State Troopers Called Out in Labor Dispute
West Virginia state troopers patrolled the steel town of Wierton after arrests linked to distribution of CIO United Steelworkers literature near the Wierton Steel Company plant. Col. H. Clare Hess led about twenty troopers who posted a governor issued proclamation warning of unlawfully restrained liberty and possible breaches of the peace in Hancock County.
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Wierton
W. Va
West Virginia
C. I. O. United Steelworkers
Wierton Steel Company
Col. H. Clare Hess
Matthew M. Neely
Hancock County
Wherton
His Lordships Speech Riles British Crooners
Lord Winterton, aging Irish peer, attacked female crooners in the House of Commons and later in a newspaper piece calling them like caterwauling parrots. Vera Lynn and Anne Shelton responded, drawing wide press coverage of their rebuttals and features.
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London
Earl Winterton
House of Commons
Lord Winterton
Parrot
Bri
Vera Lynn
Anne Shelton
Coal Miners Not Draft Exempt in Key Decision
Washington reports that coal mining was tentatively ruled out of draft deferrable activities for men under 26 by an interagency committee. The decision, not officially announced, may be reversed by the War Manpower Commission or Selective Service. Officials warn 25,000 miners aged 22 to 25 could supply 1,500 tons annually, and a draft of 10,000 might widen a national coal deficit.
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Inter-Agency Committee of
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Selective Service System
Solid Fuels Administration
WMC
SFA
Chinese Deny Cross Border Aggression Into Outer Mongolia
Beijing rebutted Tass dispatches claiming Chinese troops from Sinkiang crossed into the Mongolian Peoples Republic and that Chinese planes fired on Kazakh refugees. The official statement branded the Tass report as wholly false.
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Chungking UP
Sinkiang
Mongolian Peoples Republic
Tass
Uiga
Ulan Bator
Outer Mongolia
Helicopter Rescues Marooned Youth in Jamaica Bay
The Third Naval District says a 15 year old, Harry E. Lundmark, may be history’s first rescuer by helicopter after a windswept Jamaica Bay sand bar incident. Coast Guard Lieut J Z C Bolton spotted the marooned youth, landed, and airlifted him to Floyd Bennett Field after he had been stranded three hours half a mile from shore.
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York
UWP
Harry E. Lundmark
Third Naval District
Jamaica Bay
Coast Guard
J. Z. WC. Bolton
Milton
Mass
Floyd Bennett Field
Wright Co Inspectors On Trial For Court Martial
Wright Co officers Greulich Ryan and Bruckmann face court martial over alleged duty neglect and conspiracy to bypass quality in Wright Aeronautical Corp aircraft production. Prosecution says they aided a production override policy, while defense argues normal inspection duties.
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Frank C. Greulich
Walter A. Ryan
William Bruckmann
Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Air Force
Lockland
Truman Committee
F. C. Greulich
Detroit
Lehman
Miller
Camp Sutton
N. C
Greulich
A.A. F
Wright Wield
Dayton
Ryan
Bruck- Mann
Wright Plant
Park Holland
Albany
Philip J. McCook
New York Supreme Court
Major Clausen
San Francisco
Rumanians Desert in Danube Delta Skirmishes Reported
A Bulgarian home radio dispatch quoted an Istanbul report saying Rumanian soldiers are deserting in large numbers and skirmishes are breaking out with German forces across regions from Braila to Harsova in the Danube delta. About thirty thousand deserters are said to be hidden with rifles machine guns and mine throwers resisting detachments sent after them.
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New York
Istanbul
Braila
Harsova
Danube
Soviets Announce Major Axis Losses In Romania Offensive
Moscow reports the Second Ukraine Army has advanced 13 miles into Romania, capturing 50 villages and nearing Iasi within nine miles while the First Army claims heavy Axis casualties and encirclement of 15 divisions near Poland and Czechoslovakia. Marshal Konev’s forces cut the Dorohoi Iasi railway at Dengeni 130 miles west of the Prut. A Soviet bulletin notes high German losses and stag gering casualties.
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Russia
Ukraine
Rumania
Iasi
Moscow
First
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Ivan S. Konev
Romania
Dorohoi
Dengeni
Denzheng
Jijia
Prut River
Soviet
Ger
Finns Seen Cool To Peace Plan
Stockholm reports CPI A decision on Finland’s war crisis seems postponed until after Easter. Helsinki circles express pessimism about Finns finding a way out with Russia as armistice terms stay harsh and precise. Parliament adjournment and Easter break loom over continued peace talks.
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Stockholm
Sweden
CPI
Finland
Helsinki
Russia
Juho KH. Passikivi
Moscow
Farm Union Calls Subsidy for Abundant Postwar Agriculture
The National Farmers Union urged a Republican farm plank committee to back expanded postwar agriculture programs with government subsidies to ensure universal food access. President James G. Patton warned of unserved needs in lower income homes and urged subsidies such as food stamps and school lunches, linking abundance to national policy goals.
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Chicago
National Farmers Union
James G. Patton
Republican Committee
Congress
Patton
Saca
Tesii
Preliminary Skirmish Tests Willkie Strength in Wisconsin
Wisconsin holds the first presidential primary with 24 Republican delegates and 26 Democratic delegates at stake. Wilkie leads a four way GOP race with 24 pledged delegates, while Dewey Stassen MacArthur and other names vie for support, and Democrats run unopposed for Roosevelt. Analysts say Willkie must win a majority or risk losing influence for Chicago in June.
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Milwaukee
Wendell Willkie
Wisconsin
Midwest
Franklin D.roosevelt
Wilkie
Gen
der .MacArthur
Harold KE. Stassen
Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Willkie
Chicago
Willie
The Moscow Tactic Urges Rumanians to Capitulate
A Soviet government broadcast recorded by the London Daily Mail urged the Rumanians to abandon Germany and capitulate at once. It warned that without surrender, Romania would become a battlefield with towns and villages reduced to ruins.
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London
Moscow
London Daily Mail
Soviet Red Army advances into Axis territory in Romania area
Soviet reports indicate 183 310 Germans killed and 24 950 captured in 28 days on one front, boosting nine major offensives to 537 160 total killed or captured. Remnants of 15 German divisions hunted in Skala forests, north of the Middle Dniester, with raids toward Hungary and Berlin. Overnight bulletins claim enemy units split and wiped out, 2 000 killed and 1 500 captured in one sector, and 3 000 Axis trucks destroyed or captured.
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Russia
Red Army
Skala
Dniester
Rumania
Hungary
Berlin
Smokeless Soft Coal Shortage Foreseen By War
Dr. C J Potter deputy Solid Fuels Administrator warned last night that a drastic war driven shortage of smokeless bituminous coal from Southern Appalachian mines will hit next winter. Eastern states face shock and the Midwest bad news as domestic consumers in northeastern areas may receive only seven tons of solid fuels for every eight they had last winter.
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Washington
UPI
Appalachian
C. J. Potter
Middlewest
New England Coal Dealers Association
Boston
Profiteers Exploit Bulletproof Bibles Draw Protest
Washington inquiry investigates profiteering in New Testament Bibles sold with steel jackets. Dr William L Darby of the Washington Bible Society filed a complaint against an unnamed firm buying large quantities from the American Bible Society and wholesaling them at high prices.
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Washington
Wiliam L Darby
Washington Ebte Society
American Bible Society
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