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April 15, 1944

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DEWEY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT BASED ON BUREAUCRACIES; Governor in First-Year Report Compares State's Program to Federal 'Directives' PRAISES WAR BALLOT LAW He Says New York Plan Is Better Than Blank Paper -- Tells the Albany Record DEWEY CRITICIZES RULE BY DIRECTIVES

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AUSTRALIANS TAKE MADANG OUTPOST; Occupy Bogadjim, Abandoned by Japanese, and Press Foe Retreating to Big Base JAPANESE BASE IN NEW GUINEA CAPTURED AUSTRALIANS TAKE MADANG OUTPOST

By the Associated Press

Australian troops take Bogadjim; contact Jap patrols north of town of Madang road; Jap resistance continues near Wenga; Allied planes destroy 60 bldgs, Wewak; raid Rabaul and Aitape area; fire airdrome, Wakde Is; map

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FOE FLEES TO FORT; Red Army 19 Miles From Crimea Citadel -- Most of Peninsula Freed AXIS LOSES 60,000 TROOPS East Bank of Dniester Estuary Cleared of Enemy -- Russians Attack Skala Salient FOE FLEES TO FORT IN CRIMEAN ROOT

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Yeremenko and Tolbukhin armies effect junction west of Simferopol, taking Bakhchisarai, Alushta, Karadzha and other points; prisoners total mounts to 31,000; Ger stand at Sevastapol seen; prisoners rept Ger and Rumanian gens deserting trapped forces to escape by plane; other USSR units clear Dniester lagoon east bank, liberating all but small corner of pre-'39 Ukraine; Ger wedge in Skala pocket threatens Zhukoff forces, despite Russian capture of Yagelnitsa, Tluste, Torske and other points; Axis evacuation vessels sunk in Black Sea; map

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NELSON APPOINTS 7 TO ADVISE WITH HIM ON INDUSTRY SHIFT; Says He Aims to Take All Steps 'in Goldfish Bowl,' as Group Represents All Segments N.A.M. WILL NOT TAKE PART Gaylord Declines to Serve on Committee -- Reconversion Policies Foreshadowed NELSON APPOINTS 7 TO ADVISORY GROUP

By Charles E. Eganspecial To the New York Times

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1944Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer^[†]

David William Edmunds is a Welsh retired singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer.

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1944Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (born 1901)^[†]

Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. During the Soviet offensive to retake right-bank Ukraine, Vatutin led the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was responsible for the Red Army's offensives to the west and the southwest of Kiev and the eventual liberation of the city.

Headlines from April 15, 1944

Front Page 1 -- No Title

DEWEY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT BASED ON BUREAUCRACIES; Governor in First-Year Report Compares State's Program to Federal 'Directives' PRAISES WAR BALLOT LAW He Says New York Plan Is Better Than Blank Paper -- Tells the Albany Record DEWEY CRITICIZES RULE BY DIRECTIVES

AUSTRALIANS TAKE MADANG OUTPOST; Occupy Bogadjim, Abandoned by Japanese, and Press Foe Retreating to Big Base JAPANESE BASE IN NEW GUINEA CAPTURED AUSTRALIANS TAKE MADANG OUTPOST

FOE FLEES TO FORT; Red Army 19 Miles From Crimea Citadel -- Most of Peninsula Freed AXIS LOSES 60,000 TROOPS East Bank of Dniester Estuary Cleared of Enemy -- Russians Attack Skala Salient FOE FLEES TO FORT IN CRIMEAN ROOT

NELSON APPOINTS 7 TO ADVISE WITH HIM ON INDUSTRY SHIFT; Says He Aims to Take All Steps 'in Goldfish Bowl,' as Group Represents All Segments N.A.M. WILL NOT TAKE PART Gaylord Declines to Serve on Committee -- Reconversion Policies Foreshadowed NELSON APPOINTS 7 TO ADVISORY GROUP

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