Job Conscription Bill Faces Hostile Senate Reception
The Senate military affairs committee opened hearings on a President Roosevelt backed national service bill amid a cool reception. Senator Austin urged support while Labor leader William Green of the AFL denounced the plan as undermining democracy. Patterson defended the measure as boosting morale and stabilizing wartime industries, with several more hearings planned. Continued on Page Nine.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Reynolds
D.-N.c
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Austin
R-Vi
House Military Affairs Committee
National Service Plan
Robert P. Patterson
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Patterson
Green
Labor
Emiment
Bernard Baruch
Fourth Term Bid Speech Seen In Roosevelts Plans
Washington Republicans call Roosevelt speech a fourth term bid and a preview of the 1944 Democratic platform. GOP leaders say the president outlined postwar domestic aims as a cue for campaign stances and party strategy, prompting debate on whether to match or surpass his proposals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Chicago
Jenkins R
Ohio
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
House
Prisoners Escape as Dogs Sleep Through Breakout
Three inmates escaped from the county jail by sawing bars smashing a plate glass window and scaling the wall while two German shepherd dogs slept in the yard. The incident occurred yesterday as guards did not notice the escape.
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Chicago
Slavs Admit New Gains By Germans
Yugoslav Partisans say German tanks push 30 miles from Banja Luka toward Jajce in Central Bosnia while improv ing offensives elsewhere are repulsed. Tito states Partisans avoid major battles and raid rail lines as German forces press in Vrbas Valley and Travnik area.
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London
Banja Luka
Jaice
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Bosnia
Jajce
Vrbas
Mrkonjkgrad
Prince Eugene
Travnik
Frebrenica
Vlasinjaka
Hopkins Letter Forgery Questioned by Grand Jury
Federal grand jury questioned former Akron mayor C Nelson Sparks for an hour about a letter bearing Harry Hopkins name that allegedly predicted Wendell Willkie as Republican nominee Hopkins labeled the letter a forgery and urged an investigation Sparks said the letter was addressed to Dr Umphrey Lee president of Southern Methodist University Lee claimed no knowledge of it Sparks declined to reveal his testimony before the panel and said he did not find the Hopkins letter in an ashcan The jury then recalled Dr Lesin and Sparks was ordered back tomorrow.
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Washington
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Harry Hopkins
Wendell Willkie
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Sparks
Umphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Tex
Lee
Lesin
Work Day Extended in Stockholm Women 10-Hour Shift
Aftontidningen reports Germany orders women to work ten hours daily to free 3 to 5 percent more workers for front duty. The measure reflects wartime labor mobilization and impact on home schedules in occupied territories.
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Stockholm
Aftontidningen
Angry Republicans See Politics in Soldier Vote
Republicans on the House Elections Committee push a bill on servicemen voting amid Democratic charges of politics. Rep Vursell says Republicans seek an election bill to deliver a complete ballot to soldiers overseas and at home, while Democrats accuse palace influence. The panel aims to release a floor bid next week with state responsibility for ballot machinery.
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Washington
House Elections Committee
House
McCormack
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Congress
Vursell R.ill
Elections Committee
Continental
United States
Palace Guard
House Committee
Worley
D.-Tex
Cadets Up in Air as Pin-ups Are Torn Down
About 500 University of Buffalo air cadets in the 23rd college training detachment returned from classes to find their pin ups removed from barracks walls. The remover or order is unknown. Capt. Harold D. Woodbury, detachment commander, is handling the matter and declined further comment.
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Buffalo
University of Buffalo Air Cadets
University of Buffalo
Harold D. Woodbury
Prisoner suicides blamed on Nazis at Concordia camp
The Seventh Service Command reported two German POW crises at the Concordia East internment camp. Franz Kettner, a private first class, slashed his wrists in protective custody at his request. An unidentified German captain hanged himself after being accused of anti Hitler remarks and removed by fellow prisoners.
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Omaha Pi
Concordia
East
Seventh Service Command
Franz Kettner
Hitler
Marines Smash Jap Rescue Attempt at Cape Gloucester
Marine artillery repelled a Japanese landing effort on Cape Gloucester in northwestern New Britain. Gen Douglas MacArthur said enemy evacuations cost many ships and crews off New Guinea and New Britain. About 43 Japanese barges were sunk off New Guinea and New Britain, with many carrying troops. Over 130 barges destroyed or damaged since the Saidor landing on January 2 as Allied bombers continued operations.
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Associated Press
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Saidor
Huon Peninsula
Still Right There Advances Allied Headsquarters New Guinea
A US Sixth Army spokesman said Arawe remains in American hands and Tokyo broadcasts of a recapture are an exaggeration. NBC reported Tokyo claims of recapture. the official noted continued operations and “we are still right there and on the job.” US forces bombed Alexishafen area heavily, with over 1,100 tons this month. Cape Gloucester landing saw 2,400 Japanese killed but Allied losses about 400.
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New Guinea
Arawe
New Britain
U. S. Sixth Army
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
New York
NBC
Tokyo Radio
Alexishafen
Saidor
Cape Gloucester
Montreal City Workers Call Off Strike
The 23 day Montreal municipal white collar strike ended as leaders urged 2300 workers to return to their jobs and submit the wage dispute to arbitration. Workers sought up to 500 dollars yearly, having rejected provincial arbitration. Leaders planned a mass meeting but canceled it, hoping most strikers would resume work today.
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Montreal
Quebec Municipal Commission
Quagmire Traps Two Women and Boy in Bronx
In the Bronx last night a four year old boy named Robert Raposo wandered into thawed mud along Westchester Creek and sank neck deep. Two women and another passerby became trapped while aiding him. All four were pulled to firm ground by Mrs Marion Frick and others before police arrived.
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New York
Bronx
Robert Raposo
Westchester Creek
Ina Sandkulla
Miss Marion Frick
Mrs. Sandkulla
Funeral rites held today for Ann Clare Brokaw
Representative Clare Boothe Luce cancelled remaining Western campaign stops after the death of her 19 year old daughter Ann Clare Brokaw in an automobile accident. Miss Brokaw, a Stanford University senior, will be buried in a chapel service at Stanford University at 4 p.m. local time.
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San Francisco
Clare
Booth Luce
Connecticut
Ann Clare Brokaw
Miss Brokaw
Stanford University
Russians Fight Off Nazi Counter Attack
A massive air battle over Germany saw American planes lose 64 in battle while claiming to have destroyed more than 100 enemy aircraft. Bombing runs targeted factories at Oschersleben Halberstadt and Brunswick, hitting Focke Wulf 190s Messerschmitt 110s and Junkers components.
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Yanks Bay
Germany
London
United States
Oschersleben
Halberstadt
Brunswick
Braunsweig
Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt-Regensburg
U.S
Coastal Area Blackouts Restricted on Washington
War Department and OCD restricted practice blackouts and air raid alerts to coastal areas only. Along Atlantic and Pacific coasts, such events will be allowed at most once every three months and only on Sundays. Coastal area defined as all territory of a coastal state, with Pennsylvania and Vermont included. Gulf states excluded. OCD to continue periodic local civilian defense training with limited public participation.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
War Department
Office of Civilian Defense
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Gulf States
OCD
Woman 86 Receives War of 1812 Pension
Esther Ann Hill Morgan of Independence Oregon receives a pension for services of a soldier in the War of 1812. Daughter of John Hill a private in the Clark and McCumber New York Militia, pensioned under a special act of Congress in 19827. VA annual report notes she is 36 and receives $20 monthly.
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Washington (P
Esther Ann Hill Morgan
Independence
Ore
John Hill
Clark and McCumber
New York
Congress
Veterans Administration
Greek government in exile forms probe into exiled officials
The Greek government in exile announced a committee to investigate former Greek officials who fled to Cairo, focusing on potential collaboration with Germany and their conduct while in exile.
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Cairo
Greece
Willkie and Dewey Lead G.O.P. Preferences
G.O.P. polls show Gov. Dewey and Wendell Willkie tied with 21 votes each among 82 GOP committeemen open-minded 23 undecided. Other names receive scattered support including Taft Bricker Green Warren MacArthur Warren and none. Postmaster general Walker reportedly ready to resign the Democratic chair to Robert Hannegan as Democrats eye July Chicago convention.
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Chicago
UPI
Frank C. Walker
Roosevelt
Robert E. Hannegan
St.bauiyethgnts
Internal Revenue
Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Republican National Committee
Associated Press
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Harold E
Two Mail Planes Set Records for Atlantic Flight
Montreal GPS Two Lancasters carrying mail for Canadian troops overseas set a record for the Montreal to Great Britain flight. One plane completed the voyage in 11 hours 14 minutes, the other landed two minutes later. The previous record was 11 hours 30 minutes set in November by a Liberator.
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Montreal
Great Britain
Britain
Malta Defender Appoints Middle East Air Chief
Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, then air officer commanding at Malta, was named air officer commander of the Middle East last night. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, who was appointed head of the British coastal command last Saturday.
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Cairo
Keith Rodney Park
Malta
Middle East
Sholto Douglas
Arnold Brands Nazi Claims As Propaganda
General Henry H. Arnold said the air battle over Germany inflicted a hard blow on the German air force with about 5 percent losses to American planes. He noted three fighter plant factories at Oschersleben Halberstadt and Brunswick were destroyed, delaying German fighter production for months.
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Wichita
Kas
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Germany
Arnold
Oschersleben
Halberstadt
Brunswick
London
Two German Submarines Destroyed in South Atlantic Battle
Navy reports two German U-boats were destroyed after a five and one half hour contest in the South Atlantic. Six Navy and Army planes participated with 33 depth charges and ten demolition bombs. First sub damaged enough to fail submersion. final kill credited to Liberator aircraft.
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Washington
South Atlantic
Navy
Ascension Island
Natal
Braz
Charles A. Badwin
Kearney
Marion V. Dawkins
Sumpter. & C
General Says Japs Not “Big League”
Detroit UPI report quotes Major General G. M. Barnes of the United States Army ordnance department asserting that Japan lacks fire power and will be overcome as logistics improve. He cites captured Japanese and German equipment to argue the war effort required long planning and that Japan has not entered the true “big league.”
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Detroit
UPI
Japan
G. M. Barnes
United States Army Ordnance Department
Society of Automotive Engineers
Barnes
Russians Make Major Offensive In White Russia Front
Soviet communique reports a three pronged offensive in Mozyr sector of White Russia with Sarny railway bastion captured and German counter attacks repelled. 5,000 plus Germans killed and 144 Nazi tanks destroyed in last 24 hours as Vatutin’s forces push nine miles in two days taking more than thirty towns.
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London
Mozyr
White Russia
Sarny
Old Poland
Buz
Musecow
Moscow
Davidovich
Zhlebin
Kozlovichi
Berezina
Poland
Nikolai Vatutin
Dombrovitsa
Vilna--Royno
Brest-Litovsk
Vinnitsa
King
Vatutin
Bug River
Rumania
London Daily Expo
Ukraine
President Urges Postwar WPA Highway Project
President Roosevelt proposed a 34 mile postwar highway network to reduce unemployment and boost defense and economic welfare. The plan would follow existing federal routes, with some busiest roads becoming four lane expressways like Pennsylvania's turnpike. Estimated annual cost about 750 thousand dollars over years, with a twenty year horizon and about two million jobs.
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Washington
Hoosevelt
Congress
Tedetehald Airlines
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Pittsburs
National Inter-Regional Highway Committee
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