Patton’s Third Army closes on Kaiserslautern amid German collapse
Allied forces report major German retreat as Kaiserslautern area nears collapse. Patton’s tanks push toward the Siegfried Line with 30,000 plus captives in Third Army cages and thousands more killed or captured in the weeklong offensive. First Tactical Air Force says tank fliers sealed off eastern escape routes.
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Kaiserslautern
First Tactical Air Force
Ludwigshafen
Karlsruhe
Saar
Third Army
Seventh Army
George S. Patton
Siegfried Line
Pirmasens
Neunkirchen
Patton
Mainz
Rhine
U. S. First Army
Remagen
Ruhr
Eudenbach
Rhine - Ruhr - Berlin
First Army
Saarbruecken
Saar-Palatinate
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh
Perpendicularization of Henfruit by Globe News Reporters
Globe News reporters demonstrate eggs standing on end at the office with six eggs from a nearby store. They test cold and warmed eggs, cite Dr Wang Fu Shih and Einstein skeptically, and conclude gravity and balance allow standing eggs, noting three broken eggs and a humorous bacon aside.
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Globe- News
Walter Rundle
United Press
Eg Mandinge
Chungking
Life Magazine
Becaus
Columbus
America
Globe-News
Albert Einstein
Wang Fu Shih
DSC
Munich Technological Institute
Amatillo
Shih
Globe News
Republicans Demand One Man Food Boss
Republicans on Capitol Hill call for centralized national food control as shortages strain the system. Chairman Jenkins of Ohio leads a Feed Study Committee urging one man in charge to coordinate production, processing, distribution and transport with a $5,000 inquiry mandate. Senate and House move to probe black markets and foreign stockpiles ahead of urgent actions.
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Capital Hill
Congress
Jenkins
Ohio
Republican Congressional Feed Study Committee
Senate
House
Thomas
Senate Agriculture Committee
Mittee
Carrier air sweeps Japan as ground forces advance in Pacific
American carrier planes swarm over Japan for the third day while ground forces push on two Philippine islands. Mitscher's carriers hit Kure and Kobe amid earlier raids, as MacArthur’s forces seize Panay and Malal south of Minbu, with British forces pressuring Japanese in Burma along the Lashio to Maymyo line.
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Oy Leonard Mielliman
Associated Press
Japan
Philippine Islands
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Kure
Kobe
Panay
Philippines
Seventarguest Island
Archipelago
Mala
Min
Burma
Mogok
Burma Road
Lashio and
Maymyo
World War II Updates From Pacific and Burma Fronts
MacArthur reports 3583 more Japanese dead on Mindanao and in the Zambales Mountains as the 41st Division advances. Formosa air raids continued with Mitscher and the Third Fleet 300 miles off Japan. In the Philippines the 40th Division lands on Panay at Tibaguan with guerrillas aiding the beachhead. Chinese and British reports note defeats of Japanese forces and sunk vessels as Allied operations push toward Mandalay and Burma. Panhandle region forecasts. Amarillo area expects warming trend with fair skies today and tonight.
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Mindanao
Zambales
Manila
Philippines
Formosa
Panay
Tibaguan
Tloilo
China
Henan
Southeast Asia
Mandalay
Burma
British
East Asiatic
Butter ration increased for Canadians starting April 1
The Prices Board announced in Ottawa that the Canadian butter ration will rise from six to seven ounces per week effective April 1. The notice mentions lumber firms and loan services, including John Maynard Lumber Co and A Regal Co, Real Patate.
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Ottawa
Silesia Front Battles deepen as Soviets push toward Vienna
Nazi sources say Russian divisions converge on the Czech border area of southern Silesia threatening to trap defenders along the upper Oder south of Oppeln. Berlin notes fighting in the southwest Silesia corner as Marshal Konev seeks routes to the Moravian Gap and southern Germany amid renewed campaigns near Budapest and Lake Balaton.
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London
U.P
Silesia
Upper
Oder Valley
Oppeln
Berlin
Ivan 8S. Konev
Moravian Gap
Germany
Hungary
Budapest
Lake Balaton
Vienna
Stalin
Patrol in Strength On Fifth Army Front
Allied forces conducted large scale patrols along the Fifth Army front with artillery on German outposts and communications routes. An American patrol entered Latorre and clashed with German troops before withdrawing. Enemies raided near Bologna but were repulsed. Eighth Army fought to seize German positions near the Senio River and dike before night counterattacks forced a withdrawal.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Latorre
Bologna
Eighth Army
Senio
Cotignola
Temperature Drops To 30 Degree Mark In Amarillo Area
Frost hit the region with temperatures around 30 degrees at 8 am and kept freezing for about four hours. Clarendon saw 30, Pampa 29, Dalhart 28, and Lubbock 32 as wet ground helped protect plants. Weather Bureau forecast fair skies and rising temperatures.
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Amarillo
Clarendon
Pampa
Dalhart
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
First Day of Spring Arrives in Amarillo
The calendar marks spring with the vernal equinox prompting Amarillo to greet the season. Spring shows up as chilly morning weather gives way to milder evenings, with a coat carried for the slight chill.
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Amarillo
Campaign to hunt Japanese fleet begins in inland sea
Washington reports the campaign to destroy the Japanese fleet has begun with powerful carrier based air attacks on enemy bases in Japan's inland sea. The navy press spokesman says the inland sea is a major hiding place for the fleet and that the campaign will force their ships out of refuge.
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Washington
Navy
Japan
All Quiet on the Ghost Front Two Coffins Found
A Panhandle caller reports two caskets found on a road twelve miles east of Amarillo. State patrolman Set C G Conner received the tip at 3 am and alerted police to locate the owners. The Texas Coffin Company of Amarillo identified the caskets from a shipment headed to Hugoton Kansas. the cargo was recovered this morning.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Set
C. G. Conner
State Highway Patrol
Texas Coffin Company of
Hugoton
Kan
Red Cross Truck Convoy Reaches German Prison Camp
War Secretary Sir James Grigg told Commons the International Red Cross convoy arrived at Bohemia POW camps delivering about 18 000 food packages to U S and British prisoners. He said additional convoys are en route from Geneva.
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London
James Grigg
Commons
Red Cross
Bohemia
United States
Geneva
One and Half Million Nazis Captured by Western Allies
London March 20 Approximately 1 500 000 Germans have been captured by the Allies excluding Russia since September 1939 War Secretary Sir James Grigg told Commons. Russian reports say over 12 000 000 Germans killed or captured.
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London
James Grigg
Commons
Red Army
German E boats sink seven Allied ships off English coast
The German high command said Nazi E boats sank seven Allied supply ships totaling 24 500 tons and damaged a destroyer and two motor torpedo boats in a convoy attack off the east coast of England no Allied confirmation yet.
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London
High Command
England
Argentine Cabinet Fails to Declare War on Axis
The Argentine cabinet adjourned its meeting without a decision on foreign affairs. It had been expected to declare war on the Axis to fulfill a condition for joining the United Nations.
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Buenos Aires
Dobie Stirs Up Row in Austin
AUSTIN March 20 AP J Frankie Dobie UT author professor faced denunciation in the Texas House and a call for removal after claims about admitting negro students to the University of Texas. Dobie later said he was misquoted and advocated improved negro schooling, not abolishing segregation. House members urged action while Lt. Gov. Smith warned the remarks threaten social order and harmony.
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New York
University of Texas
Texas
Prairie View
J. Ed Winfree
Houston
Dobie
House of Representatives
J. B. Sallas
Crockett
Regents
The
State University
Sam Huston College
Austin
OPA Orders 300000 Stores to Freeze Markups in Clothing and Furniture
Washington March 2 The Office of Price Administration moves to cut living costs by changing how price ceilings are fixed in retail clothing and furniture The new order requires stores to freeze markups equal to yesterday’s selling price for each general class of goods and to post price tickets on every item or its display bin This applies to men’s women’s and children’s clothing linens yard goods bedding rugs lamps lamp shades and household furniture.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Bombers Roar Over Germany Hit Ruhr Rail Yards
American and British heavy bombers hammered rail yards at Recklinghausen and Hamm in the Ruhr while escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs. The raid sought targets not immediately announced and involved the Eighth Air Force taking part over Germany.
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London
Maren
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Recklinghausen
Hamm
Ruhr
Italian Partisans Resumed Actions in Northern Italy
A dispatch from Bern reports Italian partisans resumed activity in northern Italy as Allied offensives in the region appeared imminent and continued to be anticipated.
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Bern
Switzerland
Tier Sall
Italy
Texas Labor Bill Speeded Through Second Reading
The Texas labor bill cleared a second reading 75 to 63 after a bitter debate. Proponents say it guarantees jobs for returning soldiers, while opponents call it chaotic for wartime. The measure bars employers from discriminating based on union membership or non membership and prohibits forcing union or non union contracts. It does not ban collective bargaining and allows wage deductions for union fees with written agreement.
Roosevelt seeks $4.48 million for Missouri River Valley plans
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a 4.48 million appropriation to the Interior Department to prepare initial works plans and specifications under the Flood Control Act and to continue investigations toward a general plan approved by the act.
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Missouri River Valley
Interior Department
Bulletproof Car Offered to World Security Conferees
In San Francisco on March 20 Mayor Roger D. Lapham announced acceptance of a bullet proof limousine for World Security Conference delegates. Chrysler Corporation made the offer, recalling its previous vehicle for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's American tour.
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San Francisco
Roger D. Lapham
Chrysler Corporation
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Great Britain
Tokyo Firestorm Described in BBC Tokyo Broadcast
A BBC report from London quoted a Japanese broadcaster saying Tokyo districts were destroyed by the March 10 incendiary raid by 300 B 29s. The broadcast compared Tokyo destruction to Hamburg and noted Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay now directs attacks from the Marianas.
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BBC
Tokyo
Hamburg
Japan
Marianas
Curtis Lemay
21St Bomber Command
Germany
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