U S Seizes Idle Coal Mines as Miners Get $10 Pay Deal
Federal seizure of 925 mines follows broad pay concessions in a new contract with John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. A base wage of 16 dollars a day for the average inside miner was understood to be included. The plan, subject to Labor Board review, aims to keep steel production flowing amid plant disruptions.
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Roosevelt
MacArthur Forces Land in Sulu and Capture Jolo
General MacArthur reports troops landed on Jolo in the Sulu archipelago and seized the city and airfields. The Eighth Army also cleared Jolo town, while southern Luzon defenses collapsed and relief efforts reach a leper colony. Army units moved ashore at Corregidor Bay area, and supplies were delivered to the leper colony after three years.
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Jens A. Doe
Jolo
Sulu
Douglas MacArthur
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Borneo
Chief City
Eighth Army
Joto
Joto City
Joi
Shrine
Mindanao
MacArthur
Luzon
Sith Airborne Division
Antimoman
Lucena
Laizon
Philippines
Coren Bay
Busitanga
British Push To Free Italy Breaks Across the Senio
The veteran British Eighth Army crossed the Senio River near Lugo as part of a major offensive to destroy the German Tenth and Eleventh Armies before they retreat toward southern Germany. A massive artillery and air assault preceded the river crossing, with 3,400 100 pound bombs and 180,009 fragmentation bombs. Strong German formations including First and Fourth Parachute divisions and the 26th Panzer Grenadiers hold positions across the Po valley, while the Eighth Army advances from a newly won bridgehead toward Bologna and ferries toward Ravenna.
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Eighth Army
Italy
Germany
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Lugo
Ravenna
Faenza
Fourth Parachute
26Th
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Vabley
Bologna
Italia
Poll Director Fears Ku Klux Klan Return
P-Elmo Roper, director of Fortune magazine’s public opinion poll, warned delegates in New York that the United States faced a revival of Ku Klux Klan activity. He cited rising anti-Semitism and anti-Catholic sentiment, especially in urban centers and rural areas of the Midwest and South.
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Elmo Roper
Fortune Magazine
United States
Roper
National Conference’ of Christians and
Middle West
South
Two U. S. Armies Tie Berlin Race 110 Miles From Goal
Luftwaffe suffers record losses as American fighters help destroy 387 Nazi planes and set new single day aerial destruction records. Over 3,150 American planes, 1,200 Britain-based bombers, 830 fighters, and 1,000 fighter-bombers take part across German airfields near Berlin, with Me 262s among the downed aircraft in heavy battles.
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Fiehter
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Yanks Seize Tsugen Island as Okinawa Fight Rages
US forces push on Okinawa as 5,000 Japanese killed and 222 taken prisoner in eight days. Doughbors reach little Siegfried Line on southern front amid fierce artillery as Marines and soldiers suffer high casualties. battles extend from Uehitomari to Tsunva core areas.
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Tsugen Island
Okinawa
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Uehitomari
Tsunva
Naha
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Keep Ports Out of Nazi Hands Eisenhower Warns Germans
General Eisenhower addressed Germans urging North Sea port workers to block Nazi attempts to wreck harbor installations. He warned that resistance in the west had collapsed and the ports could be rendered unusable. The broadcast urged safeguarding food and fuel stocks and instructed harbor officials to report mined areas to the Allies, with immediate redeployment for dock work.
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Meat Probers Grill OPA on Black Markets
In a Senate agriculture committee session on food shortages Senators Wheeler and Lucas criticized OPA handling of black markets and price policies. Emerson, OPA enforcement chief, cited 10 percent wholesale and 1 to 3 percent retail black meat shares, noting a larger black market this year. He said OPA has 3,200 agents and seeks 300 more, and suggested broader state enforcement to uncover violations.
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Thomas J. Emerson
OPT
Emerson
New York
Wherry
R-Neb
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Boston
Army Drops Plan To Complete 12 New Tank Plants
Army ordnance officials in Chicago announced a major shift in war production, dropping plans for 12 new tank plants and cutting the artillery ammunition program by about 320.8 million units. The decision follows the Western Front breakthrough and aims to guard against industrial hardship during cutbacks while peak plant operation is no longer planned.
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Army Ordnance
Chicago
Baruch Visits Patton With Third Army Visit
Bernarda M Baruch special advisor to President Roosevelt visited Lt Gen George S Patton Jr and the Third Army area yesterday meeting with military leadership and inspecting operations in progress.
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Bernarda M. Baruch
President Roosevelt
George S. Patton, Jr
Third Army
German Foreign Ministry Blitzed By Patton's Tanks
In Muehlhausen Germany on April 8 the Sixth Armored Division captured about 285 staff members from the foreign ministry last Thursday as the division moved into the city 19 miles northwest of Weimar. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and other top aides escaped capture as the largely administrative department had moved from Berlin a month earlier to the area. The tanks found little resistance and hardly touched the city while sensitive offices were disrupted.
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Foreign Ministry
Sixth Armored
Weimar
Washington
dJoachim von Ribbentrop
Muehlhausen
Berlin
Frisco Parley Bans Neutrals
Secretary of State Stettinius announced at a press conference that neutrals and invited nations will not be accommodated at the San Francisco conference on world organization. He said informal observers were refused as impossible. The U.S. delegation plans to decide matters by a majority vote and holds sessions at the State Department this week with eight delegates, two absent.
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San Francisco
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State Department
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Russians Near Escape Route From Vienna
Russians claim control of Vienna areas west and south of the Danube and within three and a half miles of Brno rail lines. Heavy street fighting, claimed encirclement of Leopoldstadt and Brigittenau, with key sites including Augarten Park, a sports stadium, and the old city ring. Malinovsky’s Third Ukrainian Army advances along the Danube north banks toward Muehleiten, seizing Deutsch Wagram and outlying suburbs in a rapidly closing encirclement.
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Brigittenau
Prater
Augarten Park
Johann Strauss
Whieh Malinovsky
Muehleiten
Malinovsky
Union
Deutsch Wagram
Czechoslovakia
Marchfeld Plain
Weeram
Napoleon
Archduke Charles
Police Hunt Mailer Of Dead Baby Boy In California Case
Police and postal inspectors tracked a parcel sent from Dallas to Palo Alto, California, as they hunted the sender and the addressed woman. The newborn baby allegedly suffocated after being placed in the box, with odor reported by postal workers. A supposed address at 382 Mereth Ave could not be verified.
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First Lady Funds Peace Trip for Vermont Seniors
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, visiting Chester Vermont, announced that money saved by Chester High School seniors for a school trip would be invested to foster peace. She will sponsor a youth fellowship for study of postwar peace issues, usable domestically or abroad, with the fund run by her as trustee.
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Isyelle Tural High School
New York
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chester High School
Office of Defence Transportation
Ninth Army advances toward Berlin near Hannover and Brunswick
Allied forces push from Hannover toward Berlin with the Ninth Army capturing Hannover and driving toward Berlin within about 110 miles. Second Army reaches the Aller River, while Canadian and French units close in on Holland and Karlsruhe area near Stuttgart. Air and ground actions intensify as Ruhr trap tightens and German defenses crumble.
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Berlina
Hannover
Brunswick
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Auleben
Halle
Leipzig
Germany
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Aller
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Berlin
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Emden
Holland
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Danube
First Army
Pforsheim
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart
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Ruhr
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William H. Simpson
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Elbe
Nordhausen
Soldiers earmarked for overseas duty as US buildup continues
Secretary of War Stimson told Rep. Maton that every able bodied American not yet serving overseas is slated for foreign duty as soon as a returning veteran can replace him. He cited February totals with 2,006,800 on duty in the US and 1,365,000 in admin and service roles awaiting replacement or training for overseas deployment.
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Mvemoder
House Appropriations Committee
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Pacife
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War Department
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