America at war! (1941–) – Part 3

3 employers cited by WLB to President

Montgomery Ward tilt piles up record load


Ickes fears shift in coal controls

New bituminous act points to President

Currency plan discussed by U.S., Russia

Exploratory talks being conducted


Reserve lifts bond holdings to new peak

Buys $316 million of U.S. securities

Al Capone’s chief aide goes on ‘ride’

Whether he’s dead or alive is puzzle


‘Junior Miss’ picked from 1,000

Patricia Peardon wins comedy role

Bong, top U.S. ace, becomes a major

Millett: Story upsets U.S. women

Attempt to ease minds fails
By Ruth Millett

Pirates resume series with Tigers

Preacher Roe gets test for opening game
By Dick Fortune


Dodgers show attack wallop; Olmo big gun

Canadiens sweep Stanley Cup series

Some students under 26 may be deferred

State draft director must approve 2-As


Admiral will head Public Relations


U.S. interference in schools scored

Völkischer Beobachter (April 15, 1944)

Leitartikel: Fait accompli

Kritik eines US-Sozialisten –
Gegen Churchills Bluffpolitik

Genf, 14. April –
Der Führer der Sozialisten in USA, Norman Thomas, hat, wie Daily Telegraph meldet, ein neues Buch geschrieben, in dem er die englische Arbeiterpartei und Winston Churchill scharf angreift. Thomas bezeichnet die englischen Versprechen, den Indern die Selbstverwaltung zu gewähren, sobald sich die indischen Parteien einigten, als Bluff, wenn nicht als glatte Heuchelei. Er wendet sich gegen Churchill wegen dessen offensichtlicher Politik, „das herrschende Empire zu retten, gleichgültig wie viele alliierten Länder dabei draufgehen.“ England, so sagt er in dem Buch, das den Titel trägt: Was ist unser Schicksal? habe zwar manche Erfahrungen in der Verwaltung des Empire, aber nach dem Kriege werde es in allen wesentlichen Fragen weit hinter den USA zurückstehen.

Pacht- und Leihgesetz als wirkungsvolle Daumenschraube
England mußwichtige Luftbasen aufgeben

Von unserem Lissaboner Berichterstatter

Mangelnder Kampfgeist beunruhigt Kommandostellen –
US-Truppen erhalten politische Invasionsspritze

Drahtbericht unseres Lissaboner Berichterstatters

Um die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Deutschland –
Die Frühjahrsoffensive gegen die Neutralen

Von unserem Berichterstatter in der Schweiz

U.S. Navy Department (April 15, 1944)

CINCPAC Press Release No. 355

For Immediate Release
April 15, 1944

Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, USA, on May 1, will assume new duties as the Commander Shore-Based Air Force, Forward Area, Central Pacific. He will be succeeded by Brig. Gen. R. W. Douglas, USA, who will serve as Acting Commanding General, 7th Air Force.

RAdm. John H. Hoover, USN, former Commander Aircraft, Central Pacific, will assume duties as Commander Forward Area, Central Pacific. RAdm. Hoover will exercise command over all forces assigned to the Forward Area, including shore-based air forces.

In his new command Maj. Gen. Hale will coordinate the operations and logistic support of all shore‑based Army, Navy and Marine Corps combat aviation in the Forward Area, Central Pacific.


CINCPAC Press Release No. 357

For Immediate Release
April 15, 1944

Eniwetok Atoll was attacked by enemy bombers before dawn on April 14 (West Longitude Date). Night fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing intercepted the enemy force and shot down two planes and probably shot down another. All bombs landed in the water.

Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four bombed Shimushu and Paramushiru in the Kuriles during the night of April 13‑14 (West Longitude Date). Liberator bombers of the 11th Army Air Force bombed Onekotan and Paramushiru the same night. Anti-aircraft fire was meager.

The Pittsburgh Press (April 15, 1944)

U.S. fliers blast Romania

Bucharest and Ploești hit by 500 Liberators and Fortresses from Italy
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer

Allies hammer 3 Italian ports

1,400 planes batter Nazi supply lines
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer

Japs 10 miles from Indian base

Enemy losing heavily in attack on Imphal

Aussies closing on Guinea base

Yanks hit Paramushiru in North Pacific
By the United Press


Adm. King: Jap fleet refuses to join in sea battle

U.S. to occupy Southwest –
Spheres of control in post-war Germany drafted by ‘Big Three’

Eisenhower gets unprecedented authority over Europe in allied armistice plan
By John A. Parris, United Press staff writer

London, England –
Allied Advisory Commission plans for governing Germany under the post-war armistice were understood today to call for U.S. occupation of Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Saxony, comprising most of the Southwest Reich.

The framework of a strict Anglo-American-Russian military government for Germany after the defeat of the Nazis were understood to be almost complete after each of the Big Three had submitted proposals calculated to give Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower unprecedented authority over Europe.

Under the proposed plans, it was understood, Russia would occupy Germany up to the Oder, running through Silesia and to the North Sea at Stettin, while Britain would take over Northwest Germany.

All three Allied powers would participate in the occupation of Berlin, reliable reports of the planning by the Advisory Commission said.

The Rhineland would be under joint occupation by the United States and Britain.

The British proposals were understood to have suggested that the Americans occupy Austria, but Russia was said to have favored a three-way occupation.

The first suggestions to the Advisory Committee from Russia, Britain and the United States were submitted a month ago.

The first drafts of the British and Russian suggestions were understood to have been made, followed within a few days by those from the United States.

Crowley: Misuse of Lend-Lease are fictions


UMW cheated on back pay, Lewis claims

‘Unrest’ reported in coal fields