Assailant Wounded After Attempt On Mexican President
Nazi sympathizer Lieut Jose Antonio Lama Rojas tried to escape custody after firing at President Manuel Avila Camacho in Mexico City. He was shot in the stomach by soldiers and jailed. The president, uninjured, wore the same coat as reporters arrived and urged investigators be allowed to proceed.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Jose Antonio Lama Rojas
Avila Camacho
Francisco Urquizo
National Defense
Loma Rojas
Ortiz Rubio
Fidel Velasquez
Mexican Workers Confederation
Camacho
Third Ranking Ace Missing Since March 27
Major Mahurin a former Fort Wayne clerk and the third ranking American ace in the European theatre failed to return from a mission on March 27. The 25 year old Thunderbolt pilot was officially credited with 21 Nazi planes. Gentile and Johnson, both credited with 22 kills, ranked ahead of Mahurin. Gentile now claims 30 planes with 27 confirmed.
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London UP
Walker Mahurm
Fort Wayne
Ind
Eighth Air Force Fighter Command
Thunderbolt
Mahurin
Don
Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Robert S. Johnson
Lawton
Watch Lost In Sawdust Finally Found In Bags
Truman French at a local sawmill misplaced his watch which ended up mixed into 1 100 bags shipped to Somerville Mass. Charles R Ryan an inspector at the Somerville plant spotted the loss and pulled one bag containing the watch.
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Laconia
WN. H. Upi
Truman French
Somerville
Mass
Charles R. Ryan
Falangists Dictate University Studies in Spain
Spanish universities announce mandatory three year political studies under Falange control. Each student must pass an examination in these studies to obtain a degree, tightening ideological oversight across higher education.
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Madrid
Falange
Ace With 18 Victories Missing in Action
London report says Maj. Gerald Johnson of Owenton Kentucky an American fighter ace is missing in action after extending his combat tally to 18 enemy planes, the announcement notes.
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London
Gerald Johnson
Owenton
Crosa Subscriptions Brief Note Appears
A brief, cryptic notice mentions Crosa Subscriptions and a 1 yt ade reference, suggesting a subscription matter or notice across a local Broadway area. The text is fragmentary with unclear context or full details.
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Crosa
Test Vote Seen In Mid-West
The article covers a non binding presidential preference vote in Illinois and Nebraska featuring Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Lieut. Com Harold E. Stassen. Wendell L. Willkie remains on the ballot after ending pursuit of the nomination. Stassen previously won four Wisconsin delegates, MacArthur three, as backers seek a pre convention boom.
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Douglas MacArthur
Harold E. Stassen
MacArthur
Illinois
Riley Bender
Chicago
Stassen
Nebraska
Wendell L. Willkie
Wisconsin
Communists Say De Gaulle Broke Word
Communists charge De Gaulle broke a pledge to Giraud by abolishing his position as commander in chief of French armed forces. They call the move a moral swindle while De Gaulle supporters offer no official comment. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny urged a settlement with De Gaulle seen as possible. The Easter Day order allegedly violated assurances given to commissions Billoux and Grenier.
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Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
Henri Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Giraud
de Gaulle
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
National Committee
Francois Billoux
Fernand Grenier
Invasion Hospitals Set Up in England
A large emergency medical organization has been formed in the United Kingdom to care for casualties if the western front opens. Mansions across town areas have been converted into hospitals with gymnasiums and rehabilitations facilities. Equipment and staff from the United States and Canada, including doctors and nurses, are arriving. English WAAFs and ATS are being trained as nursing orderlies.
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London
United Kingdom
Britain
United States
Canada
Waafs
ATS
Gotham Swelters and Upstate Shivers 1944 Weather
New York city basked in 70 degree warmth yesterday marking the city’s warmest spell of 1944 though no record was set. The day’s high reached 82 in 1922, with normal 47. Blanketing clouds brought occasional showers as workers took strolls during lunch. Upstate remained cooler with clouds and rain.
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New York
Manhattan
Upstate
Yanks Bomb Belgian Target in Largest Day Raid
American bomber and fighter formations up to 1500 strong blasted targets along the French Belgian coast and inland. The U S Ninth Air Force Marauders dropped over 1000 tons, with 600 fighter escorted planes delivering a major blow, chiefly on Namur railway yards. Two bombers were lost and escorting fighters claimed five enemy planes. Heavy Fortresses and Liberators joined the day’s raids, coordinated with British efforts, as dusk attacks and signals hinted at further operations.
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London
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Namur
Brussels
Amercans
Germany
Odessa Falls Without Battle Dewey Draft Advocated for Taylor Backing
The Rensselaer County Republican Committee endorsed Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for President as indispensable to the war effort and a just peace. They urged Dewey’s nomination and noted Taylor’s praise of the bid, citing increased Republican support in the county across two campaigns. The resolution marks the first nationwide endorsement by the county in 1940.
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Dean P. Taylor
Teader
Rensselaer County
Republican Committee
Hendrick Hudson
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Rensselaer
Dewey
Taylor
Avalanche traps 34 hikers on Berthoud Pass summit
Soldiers moved med supplies and water to 34 people trapped on 11314 foot Berthoud Pass Colorado after fresh avalanches blocked all roads to the Continental Divide. The 34 sheltered at a warm inn as meals stretched and families tended fires. One seriously injured officer to Denver for treatment. Continued on Page Thirteen.
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Georgetown
Colo
Berthoud Pass
Continental Divide Pass
Echo Lake
Japs Abandon Gasmata and Cape Hoskins
Allied Leader Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports Japanese by-passed and in retreat from Gasmata and Cape Hoskins on the New Britain coast. The base captured Feb 10, 1942, and now the enemy withdraws toward Rabaul as Allied forces widen the campaign. About one-fifth of an estimated 50,000 enemy on New Britain accounted for, with 232 prisoners and 4,679 killed since December 15.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Gasmata
New Britain
Cape Hoskins
Rabaul
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty Islands
New Guinea
Red Skelton Back on Bachelor List As Fiancee Changes Mind
Hollywood report notes Muriel Morris Muriel Chase said she would not marry Red Skelton after all despite recent marriage license. Skelton remained privately noncommittal and indicated engagement could be off while denying clashes over Edna Skelton as his manager. Skelton classified 1 A draft and subject to induction.
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Red Skelton
Hollywood
Muriel Morris
Richard
Red) Skelton
Skelton
Miss Morris
Muriel Chase
Edna Skelton
Red
Edna
Army Officers Executed After Salvador Revolt
Ten army officers involved in the failed revolt against President Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez were executed in San Salvador’s police barracks. The group included Gen. Alfonso Marroquin, Col. Tito Calvo, and Maj. Julio Faustino Sosa, with death sentences issued by the war council.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
Alfonso Marroquin
Tito Calvo
Acajtula
Julio Faustino Sosa
War Council
Remaining Jap Bases In Marshalls Bombed
The Navy reported continued bombing of four Japanese positions in the eastern Marshalls with hits on air field runways and fires in buildings. Additional raids hit an airfield on Ponape and a third strike targeted Otoluk Island with incendiaries. No damage details were released for the Carolines targets.
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Washington
Navy
Marshalls
Ponape
Otoluk Island
Carolines
State Republicans To Elect Today
Members of the Republican State Committee meet here today to choose officers and elect eight delegates at large to the national convention in Chicago in June. Committee members were elected at the Spring Primary March 28 when 85 national convention delegates were also chosen. Present officers of the state committee are scheduled to be reelected.
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Albany
Republican State Committee
Chicago
Ford Promotes Henry Ford II to Executive VP
The Ford Motor Co announced last night that 26 year old Henry Ford II was named executive vice president, ranking second to his grandfather the firm’s founder. A company source noted the move amid leadership discussions and industry attention.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford II
Allies Plan To Get Tough With Neutrals
London reports an Anglo American push to curb neutral trading. Cordell Hull voices impatience with neutral tactics while Churchill meets US officials. Allies consider measures to choke off Axis material flows from Portugal Spain Turkey and Sweden amid Eire isolation and tightened stance on wolfram chrome ballbearings and ore.
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London
Cordell Hull
Churchill
U S
John G. Winant
Edward R. Stellinius
Eire
Axia
Germany
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
Sweden
Army Doctor With Famed Wound Returns To Duty After Amputation
Army doctor Max Goldman of Boston, a psychiatrist, left Walter Reed Hospital to resume active duty at the Air Forces convalescent center in Pawling. He spent 18 months in Army hospitals after an air raid near Port Moresby, New Guinea, where bomb fragments shattered his right leg and forced amputation.
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Washington
Boston
New Guinea
Max Goldman
Walter Reed Hospital
Air Forces
Pawling
Goldman
Port Moresby
WAVES Recruit 1 000 Women Per Week
WAVES personnel reached 62 800 by April 6 with enlistments averaging over 1 000 weekly since mid January. If this pace continues the 92 400 women reservists target for year end 1944 will be surpassed.
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WAVES
Washington
Navy
Australia Defends Army Reduction Amid War Demands
Australian defense minister Sir Owen Dixon rejects criticism of a 90,000 man army cut as a misunderstanding of total war effort. He says the reduction frees 30,000 special releases while routine discharges cover others, and younger recruits will continue. The shift aligns with civilian production needs to feed about 4 million people.
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Washington
Australia
Owen Dixon
Owen
United States
America
Australa
Casey Drops Party Post In Rensselaer County
Casey, longtime Democratic leader in Rensselaer County, resigns as county party chair at the annual organization meeting in The Hotel Troy. John B. Judge is named as county chairman with Patrick J. Leahy treasurer and Daniel E. Conway secretary, unopposed. A Roosevelt renomination plea is urged in a party resolution.
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Comenus . Casey
Democratic Party
Rensselaer County
John B. Judge
Democratic County Committee
Troy
Roosevelt
United States
Casey
Chief Casey
Chester J. Atkinson
Joseph J. Murphy
Patrick J. Leahy
Daniel E. Conway
Mr. Judge
Mark
Local Boards Muddled Over Draft Order
State draft boards nationwide struggled to comply with a Selective Service order delaying induction of men 26 and older in essential jobs. Several boards halted inductions immediately while others postponed to later this month, and some studied younger man supplies before acting. Michigan proceeded with older men processing, hoping to exhaust the under 26 pool. most older registrants faced induction stations, with many choosing to proceed or defer. Estimates suggested drafting of under 26 men could delay broader inductions by days to ninety days.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Plastic replaces blonde hair as weatherman indicator
New York reports that the Bendix Aviation Fuez Instrument Division has created a plastic moisture indicator replacing hair for weather readings. The five inch strip is electrically conducting on edges with a more resistant center, measuring moisture changes instantaneously and reducing moving parts.
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New York
Fuez Instrument Division
Bendix Aviation Cor
Odessa Falls to Red Army as Axis Evacuates Black Sea Port
Soviet forces under Malinovsky reach Odessa after a rapid advance to within six miles of Ovidiopol, as Crimean and Romanian fronts push deeper. Moscow reports heavy German losses and captures in two days, with Konev’s II Army nearing Transylvania and Zhukov’s forces advancing near Czechoslovak borders. Stalin congratulates Czech resistance and promises freedom for Czecho-Slovakia.
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London
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Odessa
Black Sea
Naz
Ovidiopol
Crimea
Moscow
Feodoro I Tobukhin
Romaine
Red
Campulung
Ploestz
Malinov-sky
Dnestr
Bessarabia
Berlin
Alexandrogilf
Ovidienoi
Ivan S. Konev
Romania
Transylvania
Solca
Suceava
Gregory K. Zhukov
Konev
Stali
Eduard Benes
Stalin
Benes
Red Army
Trawler Crew Nets $763 for Nine Days Work
The Cormorant, a Boston trawler, earned $763 in nine days of work as officials hailed the vessel for aiding the Atlantic market. Crew members received $765 for the period, a sum noting the gains amid historic praise from government fishery officials for supporting essential food supply.
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Boston
Atlante
Feant
Harold Lockes
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