Allied Forces Repel Japanese Drive Toward Imphal and Bougainville Gains
Allied headquarters report fierce fighting east of Kohima and along the Imphal frontier as Japanese columns are checked near Imphal and Chindwin routes. American airmen shoot down 12 Japanese planes while MacArthur announces seizure of two hills near Bougainville and advances toward Bogadjim, with raids over Truk Ponape and Rabaul.
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Kohima
India
Tiddim Road
Imphal
Burma
Chindwin River
Chin Hills
Tamu-Palel
Arakan
Buthedaung
Tokyo
Maungdaw
Myitkyina
India-Burma
Arkan
Southwest Pacific
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
Bogadjim
Madang
New Guinea
Finesterre
Rabaul
New Britain
Truk
Ponape
Central Pacific
Carolines
Seventh Airforce Liberators
Dublin
Central Island
Truk Atoll
U. S
Caroline
Marshalls
Washington meningitis quarantine lifted at Arlington Farms dormitory
About 300 girls resumed government jobs as the meningitis quarantine was lifted at Louisiana Hall in the Arlington Farms dormitory area. No new cases emerged after the three day quarantine following the death of a roommate. One girl remains hospitalized with meningitis.
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Washington
Louisiana Hall
Arlington Farms
Bucyrus Man Admits Murder of His Wife
Bucyrus 61 year old Jack Wilson admitted to first degree murder in the slaying of his wife Daisy 57. Prosecutor Scanlon said Wilson confessed to striking his common law wife during a quarrel over another man last March 12. He said he beat her with a weapon likely a stove poker, then disposed of the body, burned the clothing and fled.
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Bucyrus
Jack Wilson
Daisy
Scanlon
Wilson
Tragic Drowning of Ten Month Old in Columbus Tub
A ten month old named Thomas Edmond Travers drowned yesterday after falling into a tub of wash water at his Columbus home. Authorities investigated the accidental death as a local tragedy.
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Columbus
Thomas Edmond ‘Travis
Here
Finnish Cabinet Studies New Peace Terms
The Finnish Parliament was to convene an extraordinary session to hear Juho Paasikivi report on new Russian peace proposals obtained in a Moscow mission. Modifications would keep Hongoe naval base and Viipuri under Finnish control, while internment of seven German divisions in Finland remained uncertain.
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Stockholm
Juho Paasikivi
Moscow
Paasikivi
Hongoe
Viipuri
Finland
Taft backs probe into government news distribution
Senator Taft supports a Palmer Hoyt proposal for the Senate to investigate how war news is distributed at home and to troops abroad. Hoyt calls for a Senate committee to uncover why vital news is withheld and to explain the practice.
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Washington
Palmer Hoyt
Oregon
Office of War Information
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Republican Steering Committee
Hoyt
Partisans claim gains in Serbian interior
London reports large Yugoslav Partisan forces advancing deep into Serbia as other Partisan units hold Axis troops to a standstill in Montenegro Slovenia and Moslavina. Tito says heavy enemy casualties are being inflicted in fierce fighting.
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London
Serbia
Tito
Josip Broz
Montenegro
Slovenia
Moslavina
Bonds Bought by Ohio 87th Division on Bougainville
On Bougainville March 2, soldiers of Ohio's 87th Division oversubscribed their War Bond quota. They purchased bonds at the pay table, with more than half of the regiment taking part. The unit exceeded its $44,000 goal by $20,050, totaling $64,050 for three months.
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Bougainville
Ohio
British War Plants Face Coal Shortage and Power Cuts
British war factories supplying equipment for an invasion face production slowdowns as a government order curtails electric supplies by 10 percent and gas by 25 percent amid miners strikes. Fuel stocks are dwindling after losses estimated at 2 million tons. tens of thousands idle, unions split over a 40 cent coal charge, and broader discontent grows as miners vote on a four year stabilization plan.
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London
Fuel Ministry
Yorkshire
South Wales
Scotland
Northumberland
Lancashire
Britain
Big Bills Cash Boxes Filled To Capacity In Chicago
The mystery of where William Hale Thompson known as Big Bill the Bilder persists as $1,466,250 in currency sits in two safety deposit boxes after his death. Thompson’s attorney James W. Breen says more boxes may hold funds and hints Thompson converted stock holdings to cash before the 1929 crash to safeguard against a rainy day.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Bill the Bilder
Thompson
James W. Breen
Destroyer shells landing craft. 13 dead at Eniwetok
A U S destroyer accidentally shelled three landing craft at Eniwetok Atoll on February 22, killing 13 sailors and wounding 46. In Ohio thousands set clocks forward as cities switch to Eastern War Time for the summer, including Columbus and Springfield.
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Washington
Pacific
U. S
Eniwetok Atoll
Columbus
Springfield
Chillicothe
Fremont
London
New Lexington
Bellefontaine
Gasoline From Crop Waste Assures World Fuel Supply
Dr E Berl of the Carnegie Institute describes a lab developed process to convert farm crop wastes forests and seaweeds into a Diesel like fuel with hydrogen to yield oils gasoline or coal. He claims one year of US crop waste could fuel 32 million cars and notes possible postwar shifts in energy power.
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Cleveland
American Chemical Society
E. Berl
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Berl
Africa
Dr. Berl
Beri
United States
Two Burn To Death as Paint Barrel Explodes
Two men were burned to death Saturday at the Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co when a sour paint barrel exploded after they rolled it onto a fire. Victims were Mark Fitch, 70, and Stephen Bajnok, 65, per Coroner Hauser. In Columbus, Paul McCoy, five, partially paralyzed, recovered after being missing over 24 hours.
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Youngstown
Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co
David H. Hauser
Mark Fitch
Stephen
Buffalo
Columbus
Paul McCoy
John McCoy
Busy Spring Is Forecast In Congress
Congress faces taxes veterans benefits subsidies price controls and military draft issues after recess with taxation reform urged and the GI bill likely to be examined. Wisconsin GOP primary draws attention with Willkie Dewey Stassen and MacArthur among potential delegates. Woodring resigns as DNC chair amid internal party tensions and McNutt notes lower labor turnover in munitions industries in 1943.
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Washington
Congress
G. I
Senate
House
Wisconsin
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
MacArthur
Frederick E. Schluter
Trenton
N. J
Woodring
Harry H. Woodring
American Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
McNutt
Willkie urges tougher war effort and civilian sacrifice
Wendel Willkie told a Hastings breakfast crowd that the administration is waging a war without civilian sacrifices. He urged Americans to mobilize all resources for a tough war to shorten it, save lives and protect the nation, arguing sacrifice is essential for victory.
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Hastings
Nebr
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Ohio Flier Ties Nazi Ace Lead With 22 Victories
Captain Don S. Gentile of Piqua Ohio and Captain Robert S. Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma both with 22 confirmed aerial victories share top honors among American fighter aces in the European theater. Gentile downed a Messerschmitt 109 while supporting bombers over Germany to reach the tie.
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London
Don S. Gentile
Piqua
Robert S. Johnson
Lawton
Okla
Germany
Johnson
Move Houses to War Plant Areas in Ohio
Washington reports that homes and dwellings no longer needed at current sites are being relocated to house war workers. Two hundred demountable houses have been moved to Port Clinton, Ohio, and 100 to Rittman in Wayne County, Ohio, according to the National Housing Agency. A separate note from the 15th Air Force in Italy recalls Lt. Robert Paul Zirkle of Venedocia, Van Wert County, Ohio, achieving his first victory over a Nazi fighter with a dropped gas tank.
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Washington
National Housing Agency
Port Clinton
Ohio
Rittman
Wayne County
NHA
15Th Air Force
Italy
Robert Paul Zirkle
Venedocia
van Wert County
Yanks and Nazis Clash in Hungary Air Battles
Berlin radio reported violent air battles over Hungary between American and German planes with alerts in Budapest. Early fragments described aircraft clashes and chaos as U.S. planes struck across Hungarian skies.
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Hungary
London
Berlin
Budapest
British Bombers Score on Tirpitz in Norway Fury
British naval planes said to have scored several bomb hits on the German battleship Tirpitz in Alten Fjord Norway. The Tirpitz, last major German capital ship, was attacked as Allied air operations continued across Europe including Steyr ball bearing works in Austria and targets in Yugoslavia. Swiss authorities reported 35 dead and 55 injured from a Saturday bombing of Schaffhausen. Police sought the driver of a car that struck and killed Paul Class during tire repairs.
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London
Admiralty
Norway
Alten Fjord
Scharnhorst
Budapest
Italy
Steyr
Old Austria
Hanover
Krefeld
Aachen
Naples
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Vienna
Brod
Belgrade-Zagreb
Mostar
Split
Bihac
Zara
Schaffhausen
U. S
Hunt
Youngstown
Paul Class
Joseph Zimmer
Invasion Drives Across Romania Distanes to Danube Delta
Soviet forces crossed the Prut River into Romania and pressed toward the Danube delta and Carpathians while Molotov framed the move as military necessity not territorial seizure. Berlin and Moscow reported near Bucharest, Odessa, and Czernowitz with shots of fighting across the region.
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Red Army
Prut River
Romania
Danube River
Carpathian Mountains
Moscow
Black Sea
Odessa
Vyacheslav Molotov
London
Prut
Berlin
Bucharest
Ploesti
Bricker Urges Faith in Enterprise and Local Self Govt
Columbus report quotes Gov. John W. Bricker urging soldiers to retain faith in private enterprise and local self-government to allay unemployment fears after the war. He argues men and women must have chances to practice self-government. Lancaster notes a fatal auto crash injures Rufus L. Karshner, 36.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Drafted Dads Due for Refund on Income Tax
New York report notes many draftee fathers may receive a tax refund as money withheld from civilian pay is returned after entering the Army. If drafted by July 1, 1945, military pay is non taxable and government family allowances are gifts, reducing annual taxable income and sparking potential windfalls.
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New York
Woman Killed and 28 Hurt in Truck Auto Collision
One woman was killed and 28 total injured in a truck auto crash near Celina up Fremont. Florence Hil 31 of Union City Ohio died while her companion Coldie McEntire 42 also of Union City sustained serious injuries. 27 Mexican workers bound for sugar beet fields were hurt.
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Celina
Fremont
Here
Florence Hil
Union City
Coldie McEntire
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Gertsa
Gregory K. Zhukov
Konev
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Kuty
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Kovel
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Rumania
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Rome
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