Two Hollandia Airstrips Fall To Invaders
Allied Sixth Army forces seized two Hollandia airfields in New Guinea and pushed toward a third as troops advanced from Tadji to Aitape village. Australian forces captured Madang base and airfield after repelling a rear-guard, with no major enemy resistance reported in the invasion sectors.
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New Guinea
United States
Sixth Army
Hollandia
Tadji
Aitape
Robert Bunson
Associated Press
Hollandis
Bunson
Madang
Douglas MacArthur
Humboldt Bay
Lake Sentani
Nefarr
Swedish Press Scores U S War Role Over Ball Bearings
Aftonbladet ridiculed U S Secretary Hull for criticizing Sweden over its reply to an Allied request to halt ball bearing shipments to Germany. The paper noted England supported the request while Russia remained silent, and Hull noted Sweden’s answer was unsatisfactory though not public. Sweden maintained it cannot break its commitments to Germany.
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Stockholm
Aftonbladet
U. S
Hull
Sweden
Germany
England
Russia
Washington
Bomber Crew Rescued In Nevada Wilderness
Six Army flyers marooned since Sunday in the Nevada Oregon border country were rescued yesterday. Lieut. Col. Clarence D. Barnhill reported the men, who bailed from a faltering bomber, were brought to Bomber Creek by an Army rescue squad. They were perched on the rim of rugged Owyhee Canyon about 25 miles east of here and, after drops of food blankets and cigarettes, were found uninjured though exposed.
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McDermitt
Nevada-Oregon
Clarence D. Barnhill
Mountain Home
Idaho
Owyhee Canyon
Here
Barnhill
National scoreboard shows mixed results across leagues
Pittsburg leads Chicago Cincinnati 1 while St. Louis wins 6 in 13 innings as other American games unfold with New York 6 over Philadelphia 2 and Washington 2 to Boston 1. St. Louis 5 Detroit 2, Cleveland 2. Detroit at Chicago postponed.
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National
Pittsburg
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
American
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit
Bombs Fall on Essen In Night RAF Raid
Heavy RAF bombers struck Essen during a moonlit night raid as part of a continuing Allied air offensive. The 13th consecutive day of bombings followed a 1,000-plane American daylight assault on Brunswick and other targets. Americans lost six fighters. no bombers were downed.
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London
Europe
Essen
Brunswick
Pittsburg
Germany
Soviets Sink Five Axis Transports
Soviet forces claim to have sunk five German and Romanian transports and damaged two more in the last 24 hours as Axis evacuations near Sevastopol continue. Moscow reports no major front changes while German and Romanian sources claim a large Romanian front offensive with local breakthroughs. The communique notes skirmishing near Stanislawow and a Russian tank advance seizing key heights, while another sector reports heavy German casualties and tank losses in a deadly engagement.
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London
Sevastopol
Moscow
Red Army
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Sevastopol Jull
Jap Jungle Fire in Burma Boomerangs Japanese Attack
An Burma report says Japanese forces on the Kaladan front set a jungle fire to cover a hill position held by West African troops. Strong winds drove the flame back, trapping and burning many Japanese as West African machine gunners repelled the advance.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Kaladan
Burma
German Bomber Direct Hit on Shelter in South Coast Town
A German bomber scored a direct hit on a shelter during a south coast air raid yesterday causing many casualties. The raid was brief and the all clear sounded in London with no incidents reported. An additional evening alarm occurred without further events.
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London
Weak Navy Endangers Jap Island Defenses
Japan’s shipping losses exceed 3,000,000 tons, straining the island empire’s defenses. The failure to protect remaining transport and weak naval forces hinder air and land resistance in the Southwest Pacific. General MacArthur’s amphibious assault on Hollandia underscores shifting naval strategy amid tanker shortages.
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Washington
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Knox
Ernest J. King
Nazis Arrest Many Danes for Sabotage
Hundreds of Danes have been arrested in Copenhagen as German armored cars patrol the capital amid sporadic gunfire. Reports from Danish underground sources claim widespread sabotage against the Germans, with threats of summary executions and broken communications with Sweden. Refugees say arrests target intellectuals and Conservative youths, with 20,000 fresh German troops reported in North Jutland as a precaution.
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Stockholm
Copenhagen
Denmark
Sweden
Jutland
New Greek Cabinet Formed After Resignation Crisis
The exile stop gap government led by Sophocles Venizelous resigned and a new cabinet under George Papandreou was sworn in by King George II. Papandreou, a Socialist Democratic Party leader, recently arrived from Greece and is premier and foreign minister for now.
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Cano UP
Sophocles Venizelous
George Papandreou
Greece
Papandreou
Socialist Democratic Party
George II
Tarzan Tyrant Trapped in Africa After Five Year Chase
In Kruger National Park a naked black giant known as lord of the jungle is captured after five years of roaming the South African forests. Rangers said he killed game for food, injured a leg leaping from a crag, and moved with deer-like speed and leopard cunning before being seized. The story continues on Page Thirteen.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Chare
British Sink German Destroyer Off Brittany
A British Canadian naval force on a pre invasion patrol in the English Channel sank a German destroyer and routed two or three others near the Isle de Bas off Brittany before dawn. The Channel force included the cruiser Black Prince and destroyers Ashanti Haida Athabaskan and Huron. British carrier planes damaged five ships in a German convoy off Bodo in Northern Norway.
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London GP
Bodo
Norway
Arctic Circle
Admiralty
Black Prince
Huron
Isle de Bas
Brittany
France
Stanford Drops Nine Sororities At Campus Throated Action
Stanford University trustees ordered discontinuance of nine national sororities to unify women’s housing under university ownership. President Donald B. Tressider announced the decision following student petitions and a lengthy review. Sororities named include Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Phi Beta Phi.
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Palo Alto
Stanford University Board of Trustees
Donald B. Tressider
Jpetitions
Alpha Omacion Fi
Alpha Phi
Chi Omega
Delta Delta
Delta Delta Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta
Phi
Beta Ph
Avery Yields After Defying President in Chicago seize
Government troops seized the Chicago units of Montgomery Ward and Co after Avery resisted a presidential order to seize the facilities. Wayne C. Taylor announced Avery left the premises and business would continue. The scene involved 32 military policemen, a crowd of 1,500, and officials including U.S. Marshal William McDonnell and Brig. Gen. John F. Davis.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Co
Sewell Avery
Wayne C. Taylor
Avery
Roosevelt
Commerce Department
White House
Ludwig Pinchure
Tavinar
Ran Afters
The
Ee Ee
United States
Taylor
Uge Carusi
Carusi
U. S
William McDonnell
Commerce
Jesse Jones
J. Albert Woll
Camp Skokie Valley
John F. Davis
Sixth Service Command
Montgomery
Anti War Plan Promoted by Methodist Leaders
Bishop Arthur Moore told 762 delegates at the Quadrennial General Conference that 3,000,000 Methodists must push for an international organization to prevent another war. He urged civilized nations to adopt a moral, organized world body while warning against postwar isolationism and materialism. He also decried 13,000,000 Negroes facing sub Christian status but expressed hope for reduced discrimination and greater cooperation.
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Kansas City
Arthur Moore
Atlanta
Moore
American Planes Raid Near Jap Homeland
Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports American air forces struck Japan's Kurile Islands Paramushiro and Shumushu for a second night, while a 36 ton bombing raid hit Truk in the Caroline Islands. Ventura search planes reached the Kuriles and Eleventh Army Air Force bombed Matsuwa Island, 500 miles from the Japanese main lands.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Kurile Islands
Caroline Islands
Truk
Matsuwa Island
Mein Islands
Loyal Japs Forbidden To Serve in Pacific
The War Department will not deploy Japanese Americans in uniform against Japan due to fears of infiltration and confusion. The War Relocation Authority was notified of the restriction as publicized in San Francisco.
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Pacific
San Francisco
War Department
U. S
Milk Price Increase Blocked by Federal Restraining Order
A restraining order from Judge Stephen W. Brennan in Syracuse halts New York State from enforcing a May 1 price raise for Mohawk Hudson milk. The OPA says the order would lift wholesale by 2 1 4 cents per quart and consumer by two cents, affecting 60 dealers in Troy Schenectady Albany area. A hearing is set for May 4 in Syracuse.
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Stephen W. Brennan
Syracuse
Troy Area
OPA
State of New York
Troy
Schenectady
Albany
Lester W. Herzog
Mohawk-Hudson
Armored Bibles Questioned by Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission charged the Arthur Von Senden Co Inc with false claims that its armored Bibles and heart shield Bibles could deflect bullets shrapnel or bayonets. The agency said such statements jeopardize families and friends of combatants and that metal covers can distort bullets causing more severe injuries.
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Washington
Pittsburg
Federal Trade Commission
Arthur von Senden Co., Inc
Police Sweep 11 Miles of Road Free of Nails
Ninehendon Mass UP-Police Chief Robert Hildreth and his men with highway department sweep 11 miles of Route 12 between Winchendon and the New Hampshire line. Hundreds of small envelopes containing shoe nails had fallen from a truck, keeping local gar den 9 land office busy repairing flat tires.
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Ninehendon
Mass
Robert Hildreth
Highway Department
Esterday
Winchendon
New Hampshire Line
Gar J Anen
Japs Perish In Droves In Burma Front
Waves of Japanese jungle troops attacked Allied roadblocks in Central Burma near Mandalay and Myitkyima. Allied artillery, mortars, and air enforcements halted assaults as Japanese units suffered dozens of casualties while pressing through mined terrain.
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Burma
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Two Troy Men Held By FBI
Two Troy men were among six General Electric workers arrested by FBI agents in Glens Falls for theft of government property from the GE plant. Rafael Richard Roberts and Alfred William Marshall, both Glens Falls residents, appeared before U S Commissioner David Fisk at Hudson Falls and pleaded innocent.
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General Electric
Glens Falla
Troy
J. B. Wilcox
Albany Field
Rafael Richard Roberts
Fifth Street
Glens Falls
Alfred William Marshall
Roberts
Clarkville
Cal
Marshall
Herkimer
U. S
David §. Fisk
Hudson Falls
Senators Approve Lend-Lease Extension in Senate
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously voted to extend the $22.5 million lend-lease program for another year. Chairman Connally plans to bring the House-approved extension to the Senate next week. Leg T. Crowley testified that lend-lease has aided recent air offensives in Europe and wears down Nazi air power as the invasion approaches. The House previously passed the bill 334 to 21, extending the program to June 30 with a three-year liquidation window.
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Washington (P
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Connally
D.-Tex
Leg T. Crowley
Europe
House
Patton remark on world rule disowned by War Dept
Washington reports that Secretary Stimson issued a memorandum stating General Patton spoke only for himself when he said Americans, British and Russians were destined to rule the world. The AP inquiry prompted the denial amid Congress criticism of the general after a Sicily incident.
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Washington
War Department
George S. Patton
Congress
Stinson
Patton
Mississippi Flood Menaces States and Levees
Inland floodwaters from days of rain swept down the Mississippi and western tributaries threatening cities and farms. Federal troops and prisoners aided levee protection along the Mississippi Missouri and Illinois rivers as engineers urged evacuations in hard hit districts.
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Mississippi
Associated Press
Midwest
Mississippi River
Missouri
Ilinois Fiivers
Grand Tower
Baruch Gifts $1,100,000 to Physical Medicine Program
New York donor Bernard M. Baruch contributed 1.1 million dollars to extend the physical medicine branch, with Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur leading a Baruch Committee to push nationwide, science based support for returning soldiers. Baruch predicts benefits for 700,000 servicemen and women monthly and hinted at further fortune investments if the program succeeds.
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Baruch
New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch Committee
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Sonvinesd
Barwoh
WLB to Query Petrillo In Radio Music Strike
The War Labor Board summoned officials of the American Federation of Musicians to a hearing on Monday to explain why strikes at radio stations in Chicago and Minneapolis have not been terminated. Telegrams were sent to James C. Petrillo Edward Benkett and George Mark.
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Washington DP
War Labo Board
A. F. of S. American Federation of Musicians
Chicago
Minneapolis
James C. Petrillo
Edward Benkett
George Mark
Mine Neapolis
Lindbergh Arrives in Hawaii on Technical Mission
Charles A Lindbergh has arrived in Hawaii as a civilian technical representative for an aircraft maker. He serves to obtain information on aircraft performance in the Pacific war theater.
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Lindbergh
Hawaii
Honolulu
Charles A. Lindbergh
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