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London Sunday Observer repts USSR seeks 3-yr post-war US lend-lease in exch for aid in war against Japan

Future Aid to Russia Is Linked to Pacific

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MAYOR MYSTERIOUS ON HIS TRANSIT TAX; Speculation Centers on Its Being Higher Sales Levy -- 'Trick Way,' Says Windels MAYOR MYSTERIOUS ON HIS TRANSIT TAX

Zhukoff troops capture Gertsa, Cernauti area

PRUT RIVER FORCED; Molotoff Reveals Red Army Crossings 'in Several Sectors' PLANS NO 'SOCIAL' CHANGE Pledges Pursuit of Axis Troops Until They Yield -- 3 Soviet Forces Score Gains PRUT RIVER FORCED, RUMANIA INVADED

accidental shelling of 3 infantry landing craft by US destroyer in Feb 22 landing assault on Parry Is disclosed; 13 US troops killed, 46 wounded; craft in div headed by Lt Comdr T Blanchard; Adm Nimitz comment and Rear Adm H W Hill and Lt Comdr Blanchard messages noted

American Navy Guns Killed 13 U.S. Troops at Eniwetok; 13 U.S. TROOPS DIED BY ENIWETOK ERROR

Ital troops who took Monte Marrone win nearby Castelnuovo Ridge, giving Allies new advantage

BEACHHEAD RAIDS PUSH ALLIES BACK; Line Bends in Aprilia Sector -- Italians Take Second Peak Northeast of Cassino BEACHHEAD RAIDS PUSH ALLIES BACK

PEARL HARBOR, April 2 -- Seventh Air Force Liberators pounded Dublon, central island in Truk Atoll, before dawn Friday (United States time) in their fourth strike at the enemy's big base in the central Carolines in four straight nights, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today.  

TRUK HIT 8TH TIME IN NEW AERIAL SIEGE; Nimitz' Bombers Strike for Fourth Successive Night -- Ponape Also Is Battered TRUK HIT 8TH TIME IN NEW AIR SIEGE 

Signs bill for terminals transfer to NYC and Port of NY Authority

Dewey Signs Bill on Desecration; Felony to Mar Church, Cemetery; DESECRATION MADE A FELONY IN STATE

Chinese-Mongol Clash Is Revealed; Moscow Broadcasts a Warning; BORDER CLASH IN REMOTE PART OF WORLD CHINA, MONGOLIA IN A BORDER CLASH

aerial photographs show severe damage to Sofia rr yds

STEYR IS ATTACKED; ' Forts' and Liberators in Third Blow at Plane and Bearings Plants YUGOSLAV RAIL YARDS HIT North Italian Fighter Factory Also an Allied Target -- RAF Mosquitos Stab in Reich STEYR IS ATTACKED BY BOMBERS AGAIN

War bonds and stamps: Sec Morgenthal on 5th War Loan drive goal and plans; stresses individuals quotas; asks banks to refuse purchase loans

FIFTH WAR LOAN SET AT $16,000,000,000; 'URGENT NEED' TOLD; Morgenthau Says Individuals Will Be Asked to Buy Bonds of $6,000,000,000 June 12 QUOTA IS UP $2,000,000,000 But Four Weeks' Drive Will Seek $730,000,000 Less Than Last One Raised $16,000,000,000 Quota Is Set For the Fifth War Loan Drive

Supply improvement in East as receipts reach record discussed; improved transportation cited

BIGGER 'GAS' RATION URGED BY OIL MEN AS STOCKS PILE UP; Supply of All the Petroleum Products in East Estimated at 58,000,000 Barrels RECEIPTS REACH RECORD Shortage of Storage Facilities for Light Fuel Oil Is Seen as Possibility Soon BIGGER 'GAS' RATION URGED BY OIL MEN

Vichyite Mayor Dies of Wounds

US Min Harrison expresses regret to Swiss Govt; Swiss Min in US instructed to file protest; toll put at 35 dead, 55 hurt; mass funeral plans; fires still burning as officials inspect damage; US fliers distressed at base, Eng

U.S. Fliers Distressed

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LONDON, April 2 (AP) -- The Swiss prepared today a mass funeral for the victims in the bombing of Schaffhausen.  

Swiss Plan Mass Burial

NEW DELHI, India, April 2 (AP) -- A communique: On the Arakan front there Is no Important change. Near the eastern tun. nel on the Maungdaw-Buthcdaung road there was an exchange of mortar fire. South of Buthedaung a minor Japanese attack on one of our positions was repulsed with loss to the enemy-on March 31.  

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U.S. ENVOY VOICES REGRETS TO SWISS; Berne Plans Formal Protest on Bombing -- Death Toll Set at 35 Instead of 50 

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Monday, April 3 (AP) -- A communique: NORTH'WggI" N SECTOR I Ceram: Our heavy units at night at- I tacked Lautem, starting fires. NOIrrTR S-C'l'Oa New Ireland Oue Solomons-baed torpedo bombers attacked installations at Cape St. George. New Britain Rabaul: Our medium and light bombere from the Solomons attacked the enemy base on successive days with approximately 200 tons of explosives.  

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LONDON, April 2 (UP) -- A German communique, as broadcast from Berlin:  

German

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Peter Malcolm Colman is the head of the structural biology division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.

Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic

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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, known professionally as Tony Orlando, is an American pop/rock singer, songwriter, and music executive whose career spans nearly seven decades. He is best known for his work as part of Tony Orlando and Dawn.

April 3, 1944

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