Textile chief resigns claiming WPB hampered arms program
Washington reports that Rohert Guthrie head of WPB Textile Division and two aides quit, saying indecision and resistance within WPB hinder conversion of textile, clothing, and leather industries to war production. Nelson ordered inquiry. Mead to seek congressional review. Guthrie cited need to act without industry influence and protested delays in mobilizing resources.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Production Board
WPBE
Rohert BR. Guthrie
WPE
Guthrie
WFB
Donald M Nelson
Mead
D-Ny
New Wall
Truman Committee
Nelson
WPB
George] P. Doherty
Marshall Hale
Teadle
Doherty
DuPont Company
Taok
Reds see Kharkov liberation near as frontlines surge
Moscow dispatches report Russian forces pressing Germans on Kharkov approaches while smashing through to the Kharkov Kursk Orel line below Moscow. In Donets Basin and Ukraine heavy fighting leaves hundreds of German dead and many captured. Kharkov recapture is portrayed as imminent and the city is described as a "nightmare of atrocities." Separately in Midland Mrs Hazel Paxton, about 45, was found shot to death at home while her husband John, about 50, lay critically wounded in a separate room. sheriff offers no opinion on the shooting.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Kharkov
Red
Red Army
Kharkov Kursk-Orel
Staraya Russa
Leningrad
Midland
Hazel Paxton
John
Ira M. Smith
Paxton
Brothers Admit Plot To Loot Local Farms Near Liberty Center
Duane A. Jacobs and his brother Everett, both from Adrian, pleaded guilty in Judge Rathbun’s court to larceny and breaking and entering charges. They admitted a string of thefts since January 15, totaling about $500 in value, targeting farms in southern Michigan and northern Ohio to stock a rented Liberty Center area farm. They described nightly plundering of granaries, seed, livestock, and implements, with most loot sold to elevators in Henry County, Ohio.
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Eer
Duane Jacobs
Cemter
Ohio
Cauip
Everett
Tabor Street
Michigan
Elmer
Bringman
Momorning
Michigan State
G. Arthur
Pear Liberty
G. Arthur Rathbun
Duane
A. Jacobs
Adrian's
Liberty Center
Lawrence J. Hammond
Frank Sims
Medina Township
Michigan State Police
Elmer Eringman
Clayton
Mr. Sims
Sims
Ralph DeShettler
Deerfield Township
Norman Reaume
Deerfield
North Adams
de Shettler
Orson
Claude
Medina
Henry County
American Bomber Attacks New Britain Airfield
Washington reports a single American Flying Fortress bomber on a reconnaissance patrol struck the Japanese held Vunkanau airfield at Rabaul on March 13. Bombs damaged runways and hit parked aircraft, destroying at least two enemy planes. the plane returned safely. No other theater activity noted.
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Washington
War Department
New Britain
Vunkanau Airéreme
Rabaul
Philippines
Vunkanau
Rehbaul
New Brittain
British Recross Sittang River in Burma Push
British imperial forces reportedly re crossed to the east bank of the Sittang River near Shwegyin eighty miles north of Rangoon in a counter offensive. Indian troops fought house to house to recapture Shwegyin from about 500 Japanese supported by Burmese. Weather disrupted patrols with clouds and rain delaying movements and cutting visibility.
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Mandalay
Burma
Sittang
Shwegyin
Rangoon
Adrian
Paper Collection Hinges On Weather NEEDED AS HOME
Major General Henry Gordon Bennett urged Australia to recall troops and imitate Japanese training principles to meet invasion risk. Tomorrow, Sydney waste paper collection may begin at 8 a.m. if weather permits, covering southwest city blocks. households should place cartons on curbs. If rain, collection is postponed until the first fair day.
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Sydney
Australia
Henry Gordon Bennett
Bennett
State Street
Maumee Street
Auction Notice Near Blissfield by Lindon & Lindon
An auction advertisement dated March 20 announces sales by Lindon & Lindon north of Blissfield and west of Onsted. The notice directs readers to see the advertisement on market pages for full details and terms.
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Blissfieid
A. A. Dings
Awcton
Onsted
Lindon & Lindon
War Profits Limitation Foes Demand Profit Controls
Congressional friends of labor warned they would oppose any proposed wage caps without broad wartime profit restraints. Senators Hill and La Follette urged that wage ceilings accompany legislation to curb profits on war contracts, fearing inflation and industrial disruption without such controls.
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Associated Press
Washington
March
Congressional Friends of Labor
Roosevelt
Hill
Alabama
la Follette
LaFollette
Jan
Congress
Wheat Penalty Held Invalid by Special Court
A three judge federal court ruled the 2 49 cent wheat penalty for marketings over AAA quotas invalid as a retroactive taking without due process. The ruling enjoins collection and affects the 1943 amendment raising the penalty and lien. Washington aides said the decision would be appealed.
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Dayton
Florence Allen
Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Allen
Robert Nevin
John H. Druffel
Congress
Washington
Wickard
Australians deal heavy new blows to foe air bases
Canberra reports heavy new blows to Japanese air bases and shipping as Allied air and submarine forces target Dili Timor and bases at Rabaul and Gasmata New Britain. The raid involved American bombers with Royal Australian Air Force support, sinking 60,000 tons of shipping in a 15,000 mile foray through Indonesian Philippine and Malayan waters.
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Associated Press
Canberra
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Air Ministry
Dili
Portuguese Timor
Rabaul
Gasmata
New Britain
United Nations
Perth
Port Darwin
Arca
Koepang
New Guinea
Park Moresby
Rebaul
Lenawee Supervisors Close Fiscal Year at Adjournment
Lenawee county supervisors wrapped up their fiscal year with the end of their March session on Saturday. They thanked chairman Merrill Taylor of Woodstock township as the board departed. The justice accounts report, read by John Ay Osborne, showed fines and costs by various justices, with Clinton Justice L J VanDeusen leading in totals. Rex Forrister urged higher indigent care payments. the matter was sent to the welfare committee.
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Lenawee County
Merrill Taylor
Woodstock Township
Committee On Justice Accounts
John Ay Osborne
Lenawee
L. J. VanDeusen
Clinton
Franklin J. Russpell
Rex Forrister
United Nations Lose 12 Ships In Java Sea
A mixed Allied report recounts Java Sea losses through late February as the United Nations admit 12 ships sunk or damaged, with the United States losing a battleship, a cruiser, and five destroyers while Britain reports substantial tonnage and submarines rendered inoperative.
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United Nations
Java Sea
Associated Tress
New York
Uni-1
Java
Japan
Poge
United States
Cruizer Houston
Pope
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Hitler vows crushing victory over Soviet Russia this summer
March 16 dispatch reports Hitler appealing for sacrifices and warning of hard struggle ahead while promising victory over Soviet Russia in the coming summer. He spoke at Berlin memorial ceremonies, reviewed troops, and said Bolsheviks who failed this winter will be annihilated in the next season. Police and crowds attended the Unter den Linden ceremony.
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Berlin
Hitler
Soviet Russia
Germany
Roosevelt
Zeughaus
Unter den, Linden
Russia
Holsheviks
Suromer
Allies promise offensive move as new planes arrive
In Delhi India March 16 a United States air command sets up in India as air marshal Sir Richard Peirse announces faster deliveries of American and British aircraft. He pledges to strike into Japanese held Burma and proceed to an offensive against Japan, praising the Flying Tigers and RAF for their early success.
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Associated Press
New Delgi
India
United States
Burma
Japan
Sir Richard Peirse
RAF Bomber Command
Britain
Air ‘Front
United Nations
Peirse
Russia
Hitler
Germany
LE Valumiere
London
Ceylon
Geofrey Layton
Roosevelt
Ocean
Geoffrey
Ie Aera
China Station
Oeeal
Allance
Uae
France
Red Army Readies for Japanese Attack
Russia's Siberian forces and naval bases are reported ready for immediate action against Japan. Swedish reports, via the Daily Mail, claim battle orders could be set in motion at Vladivostok and Nikolaevsk, as Japan beefs up Manchukuo to over a million troops and Moscow braces for an early strike. Reuters cites three signs: Japan recalls and replaces diplomats, Korea's governor general is moved, and Chang Ching Hui visits Tokyo, with Ta Kung Pao deeming Sato's appointment a possible cover for war plans.
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London
Russia
Chungking
Stockholm
Anly Mail
Vladivostok
Sea of Japan
Nikolaevsk
Amur
Sakhalin Island
Daily Mail
Manchukuo
Red
Siberian
Reuters
Chung- King
Japan
Yoshitsugu Tatekawa
Moscow
Naotake Sato
Tokyo
Jiro Minemi
Korea
Chang Ching-Hui
Ta Kung Pao
Sato
Coast Guard Vessel Attacked Off Caribbean in WW II News
Word from Havana reports a U S Coast Guard ship torpedoed and abandoned after shelling and machine gun fire near Guadeloupe. An SOS also claimed a large U S tanker was torpedoed while eleven survivors reached shore from the Sugar transport Colabee, carrying 37,000 sacks of sugar.
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Havana
United States Coast Guard
Caribbean
U.S. Coast Guard
Guadeloupe
Lesser Antilles
United States
Atlantic
Child sender pleads with Hitler in wartime cable
Francis Kennedy of the Bronx forwarded a seven cent message to Adolf Hitler on the Eastern Front urging surrender to General MacArthur. Cable officials sought a redheaded eight year old to return the 50 cent payoff and defense stamps. The note claimed kids in schools buy stamps for soldiers and warned of imminent attack in a cryptic wartime dispatch with unclear casualty details.
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New York
Maron
Francis Kennedy
Bronx
Adolf Hitler
Eastern Front
Kennedy
Alta
Mac
Prancis Kennedy
Indefinite Pass Vehicle Sales Allowed for Servicemen
Washington reports that soldiers and sailors may sell their new passenger cars without restriction for an indefinite period, extending prior limits that allowed sales only until March 9. The Office of Price Administration announced the amendment to ease wartime logistics and keep rationing stable. The same day, Senate Finance Committee approved a debt limit increase from 85 to 180 billion dollars, with the measure advancing after House passage and added indirect obligation provisions. The proposal would also cover bonds of government corporations guaranteed by the federal government.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Mitter
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Continent
Batenana Ne
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
East
Middle West
Hirohito
Chang Ching- Hui
AVG
Flying Tigers
RAF
Reutera
Colombo
Andrew Caldecott
San Francisco
Mendocino
Calif
Coast Guard
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