Oscars Award Winners Shine in 1944 Ceremony
Hollywood notes celebrate Ingrid Bergman Crosby Leo McCarey and Margaret OBrien as top Oscar recipients. Bergman wins best actress for Psycho drama while Zanuck earns Irving Thalberg for Wilson. Barry Fitzgerald and Ethel Barrymore win supporting honors as Crosby and OBrien reap special awards.
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Robert Myers
Hollywood
Sweden
Ingrid Bergman
Crosby
Leo McCarey
Barry Priegeraid
Margaret O'Brien
Ireh
Paddys Pig
Mus Bergman
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Capital
Wilson
An “Oecar
Barry Pitzgerald
Leo, McCarey
Mie Bergman
Irving
Thalberg Aword
Darryl F. Zanuck
Ethel Barrymore
Rale
Fitzgerald
Cary Grant
Bob Hope
Imeria
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer
American Forces Split Rhine Defenses Near Remagen
U S First Army troops cut the Rhine Ruhr Berlin corridor seven miles northeast of Remagen, advancing toward Coblenz amid reports of Third Army operations. Patton's Third Army and Seventh Army join in driving toward the Saar and Siegfried Line with heavy air support and rapid armored thrusts.
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U. S. First Army
Rhine
Germany
Rhine-Ruhr-Berlin
Remagen
Third Army
Coblenz
Ruhr
Ninth Army
Duisberg
Seventh Army
Saar
Hagenen
George &. Patton
Turd
Moselle
Siegfried Line
Patton
Fourth Armored
U. S
Fourth
Eifel
Siegfried Forts
American Blood Will Pay for Lack of Unity in China
Washington reports gloomy prospects for real unity between China’s communists and the national government. The split threatens American lives during the Pacific war as half a million communists fight guerrilla war and demand a say in San Francisco talks. Chiang Kai Shek and Chou En Lai cling to firm positions.
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China
Bohn M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
China Coast
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chou En Lei
San Francisco Se
Curity Conference
United States
Chiang
Japan
Asia
San Francisco
Generalissime
North China Communists
Moscow
Fifth in Position To Cut Highway Behind Vergato
Fifth Army forces report capturing Serra to threaten the highway behind Vergato as Allied troops push toward Salvaro amid stiff German resistance. An Allied raiding party penetrated north of Monte Belvedere and destroyed enemy equipment while strikes reached Purth Army positions near Boinga.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Serra
Vergato
Salvaro
Bo- Parther
Monte Belvedere
Purth
Pants
Boingna
German Sailboat Surrenders in Swedish Waters
A German patrol boat from Ostholstein entered Swedish waters yesterday with a crew apparently eager to desert the Nazi cause. Dagens Nyheter reports the vessel was the first German craft to surrender in Swedish waters, according to today’s note.
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Stockholm
Osto
Mannes
Swedish
Dagens Nyheter Caid
Allies prepare invasion as Rhine frontier tightens
Allied forces in the West report preparations for a North German invasion. U S patrols cross the Rhine near Remagen where the bridgehead expands to 13 miles while machine gun fire hits the Ruhr superhighway. The Saar is sealed by U S Third and Seventh Armies with signs of German flight observed.
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Associated Press
Rhine
North German
Remagen
Ruhr
Saarland
U. S
Steel Vice
Saar
North
Germany
U_S. First Army
U. S 5Th Army
U.S
Cologne
Moselle
Seventh Army
V-2 Rockets Hit London Area Killing and Wounding
Censorship lifted to reveal that German V-2 rockets have been landing in the London area, causing casualties. Details on exact numbers or specific hit locations remain secret. Also noted is a report from Waco detailing penicillin success at a rapid treatment center, including a patient recovering reading and swallowing after six months.
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London
Austin
Waco Rapid Treatment Center
State Health Department
Return of Allied POWs Triggers Bayfront Celebration
A ship carrying 216 American and about 75 British veterans liberated from Japanese camps in the Philippines arrived in San Francisco. Sirens rang as crowds cheered while the vessel passed the Golden Gate and harbor boats escorted the return through the bay.
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Philippines
Bataan
Corregidor
Golden Gate
Bay
Cabanatuan
Bilibid
Accommodating Nazi Lights Up Our Victory
Capt. Jesse H. Gwin of Waxahachie Texas found Cologne's main postal and telegraph building briefly lit when the Nazi power switch was accidentally set wrong. The lights stayed on only one afternoon and evening before being cut off again.
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Cologne
Jesse H. Gwin
Waxahachie
Tex
Rhine
Nijinsky Reported Executed by Nazis in Budapest
Morgontidningen reported Nijinsky, the famed dancer, was killed in Budapest as part of Nazi policy against mental illness. The claim, cited without a source, says he traveled from Switzerland in 1940 seeking treatment and a U.S. entry.
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Stockholm
Morgentidningen
Vaslav Nijinsky
Budapest
Nijinsky
Switzerland
United States
Iwo Jima lifeline aids B-29 crews in Philippines front
A Major breakthrough in the Philippines may trap two Nipponese battalions as Iwo Jima was secured at the cost of about 4,000 Marines. The lifeline saves hundreds of B 29 airmen whose raids have inflicted heavy enemy casualties.
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Iwo Jima
Japan
Philippines
War Update Details Iwo Jwo and Pacific Advances
Spokesmen report 30 B29s made emergency landings on Iwo Jima for repairs or refueling saving about 330 men from sea crashes returning from incendiary raids on Tokyo Osaka and Nagoya. Philippine advance by 43rd Division drove a two mile wedge into Shimbu line on Luzon while 41st Division seized 15 villages and 28 miles of Mindanao shore.
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Iwo
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Japan
Sadao Iguchi
Philippines
Pacific
Shimbu
Luzon
Edwin D. Patrick
41St
Zamboanga
Mindanao Island
Fifth Marine Division
Iwo Island
Adm
Richmond Kelly Turner
Fifth Amphibious Corps
Kita Village
Higashi Mountain
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Mostly cloudy with mild temperatures and 30 to 40 mph winds today. Tonight cloudy and cooler. Saturday partly cloudy with slowly rising temperatures. West Texas and New Mexico regions show varied clouds and winds with chances of snow flurries in mountains. Highs around 72 in some areas, lows near mid 40s. Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Roosevelt Says Americans Must Tighten Belts For War
President Roosevelt told a news conference that Americans must tighten belts to spare others from starvation as World War II strains food supplies. He cited a Byrnes committee to study food factors and warned sugar shortages could justify cuts to save lives. In London, German V bombs hit southern England with undisclosed damage and casualties.
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James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
London
England
No Peace Feelers Reported By Roosevelt at Press Conf
President Roosevelt told reporters there were no German peace feelers or armistice proposals in play. He said Britain’s Foreign Office likewise had none and noted no details on American occupation zones since Yalta. He mentioned only a talk with Robert Murphy about his German boyhood and deferred questions on armistice terms to the War Department.
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Iwo
Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
Stockholm
von Rundestedt
Wim Peete
Huliline
Mr. Roosevelt
Foreign Office
Robert Murphy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Murphy
Yalta
Churchill
Stalin
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Neces
Coal Mine Operators Rebuff UMW Demands
Coal mine operators rejected 18 wage contract demands from the United Mine Workers in Washington on March 16. They proposed counter-proposals on six items, stating the changes would add about $1.69 a week to miners' base earnings.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
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