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April 14, 1943

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Headlines from April 14, 1943

AREA'S BOND TOTAL IS $1,365,000,000 ON 2D DAY OF DRIVE; Insurance Companies Exceed December Purchases, With One Taking $400,000,000 PARADE AT NOON TODAY Fight for Liberties Stressed at 'Thermometer' Unveiling -Dodgers Tour Plants THOMAS JEFFERSON HONORED AT WAR LOAN RALLY AREA'S BOND TOTAL IS $1,365,000,000

By Unknown Author

Treas repts on NY Fed Reserve Dist sales to date; ins cos purchases cited; thermometer unveiled, NYC Subtreas Bldg; illus; Col R C Patterson Jr, NY War Savings Staff chmn, and others s

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GERMANS ATTACK BELOW LENINGRAD; Widen Northern Offensive, but Russians Repel Assaults -Smolensk Lines Waver GERMANS ATTACK BELOW LENINGRAD

By the United Press

USSR forces repel attacks south of Leningrad; attack fortified posts, Smolensk front; Gers raid Krasnodar

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MacArthur Warns Bombers Must Hold Off Tokyo Navy; M'ARTHUR WARNS OF BOMBER NEED

By the Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, April 14 -- General Douglas MacArthur, whose planes have blunted two big recent Japanese aerial thrusts in New Guinea, warned today that powerful Japanese naval forces were within "striking distance of Australia," which, he said, can be held off only if the Allies keep command of the skies.

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STORES ARE FINED BY FEDERAL COURT; Joint Advertising Boycott of The New York Times Brings Action by Government STORES ARE FINED BY FEDERAL COURT

By the Associated Press

Govt fines NY Retail Dry Goods Assn and 15 NY dept stores for boycotting Times after it had warned of ad rates rise to come; Times refuses to raise paper's cost; Justice Dept officials and store spokesmen comment

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OPERATORS REJECT U.S. PLEA ON COAL; Steelman's Proposal, Backed by Miss Perkins, for Annual Work Guarantee Fails OPERATORS REJECT U.S. PLEA ON COAL

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northern operators reject Steelman plea for guaranteed annual wage; Sec Perkins urges reconsideration; alternative proposal by Lewis rejected; northern operators recommend renewal of existing agreement, ask Perkins to certify dispute to WLB; Steelman comments

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1943Yakov Dzhugashvili, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (born 1907)^[†]

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth.

Headlines from April 14, 1943

GERMANS ATTACK BELOW LENINGRAD; Widen Northern Offensive, but Russians Repel Assaults -Smolensk Lines Waver GERMANS ATTACK BELOW LENINGRAD

MacArthur Warns Bombers Must Hold Off Tokyo Navy; M'ARTHUR WARNS OF BOMBER NEED

STORES ARE FINED BY FEDERAL COURT; Joint Advertising Boycott of The New York Times Brings Action by Government STORES ARE FINED BY FEDERAL COURT

OPERATORS REJECT U.S. PLEA ON COAL; Steelman's Proposal, Backed by Miss Perkins, for Annual Work Guarantee Fails OPERATORS REJECT U.S. PLEA ON COAL

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