Russians Drive Across Prut Into Rumania Allied Forces Check Two Jap Columns
Allied headquarters report fierce fighting along the Burma border near Kohima and Imphal with Japanese columns repulsed. British and Allied units attack near Maungdaw. Tokyo claims British forces withdrew. American air forces claim 12 Japanese planes downed and strikes on Rabaul, Ponape, and Truk.
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Kohima
India
Tiddim
Burma
Chindwin River
Chin Ellis
Tamu-Palel
Arakan
Buthedaung
Tokyo
Maungdaw
Myitkyina
India-Burma
Arkan
Pacific
Sture
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Bogadjim
Madang
Finesterre
Rabaul
New Britain
Truk
Ponape
Central Pacific
Carolines
Seventh Airforce Liberators
Dublin
Central Island
Truk Atoll
U. S
Caroline
Marshalls
Meningitis Quarantine Lifted at Arlington Farms Dormitory
Washington reports the lifting of a meningitis quarantine at Louisiana Hall in Arlington Farms after three days without new cases following a roommate death. About 300 girls returned to their government housing as one patient remains hospitalized.
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Washington
Louisiana Hall
Arlington Farms
Bucyrus Man Admits Murder of His Wife
Bucyrus 61 year old Jack Wilson charged with first degree murder in the slaying of his common law wife Daisy 57. Prosecutor Scanlon says Wilson admitted striking her during a quarrel last March 12 then burning clothing and fleeing after locking the body in a heated room.
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Bucyrus
Jack Wilson
Daisy
Scanlon
Wilson
DROWNED TODDLER IN WASH TUB NEAR COLUMBUS
A ten month old boy, Thomas Edmond Tra, fell into a tub of wash water and drowned yesterday near Columbus. Authorities investigated the incident as a tragic accidental drowning.
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Columbus
Thomas Edmond Trafell
Here
Finn Cabinet Studies New Peace Terms
The Finnish Parliament to hold an extraordinary session to hear Juho Paasikivi report on new Russian peace proposals from Moscow. Paasikivi returned after transmitting Russian modifications to the armistice terms, reportedly allowing Finland to keep the naval base at Hongoe and the city of Viipuri. The status of Moscow demand to intern seven German divisions in Finland remains unclear.
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Stockholm
Juho Paasikivi
Moscow
Paasikivi
Hongoe
Viipuri
Finland
Taft Backer of Probe into News Distribution
Senator Taft and other Republicans support Palmer Hoyt proposal for a Senate committee to investigate how war news is distributed at home and to troops abroad. Hoyt argues vital news is withheld and government remains a poor reporter despite some improvements.
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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 Yugoslav Partisan forces advancing into the interior of Serbia under Marshal Tito. Fierce fighting with Axis troops continues in Montenegro, Slovenia, and Moslavina with heavy casualties reported on the enemy side.
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London
Serbia
Tito
Josip Broz
Montenegro
Slovenia
Moslavina
Ito
Ohio 37th Division Bonds Drive Sets Home Front Example
On Bougainville March 2 delayed report shows Ohio's 37th Infantry over subscribed its war bond quota. Soldiers, many combat veterans, bought bonds with payroll deductions and cash, boosting the regiment's three month total to 48 575 dollars. They sacrifice pay to support the war effort, aiming to save lives and shorten the conflict.
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Bougainville
Ohio
Coal Shortage Halts British War Plant Output
British war factories face production cuts as government curtails electric and gas supplies by 10 and 25 percent due to strike induced coal shortages. Fuel stocks dwindle after miners strikes cost about 2 million tons in the last month.
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London
South Wales
Scotland
Northumberland
Lancashire
Britain
Portuguese-born stowaway reaches Naples after sea voyage
Overseas report tells how Albert Porvestro, 16, born in Portugal, slipped aboard a U S Navy vessel in Boston bound for the Mediterranean. He learned his fate at sea and was sheltered by sympathetic sailors after landing in Naples where he looks forward to Navy chow and life ashore.
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Albert Porvestro
San Diego
Calif
Boston
Mass
Mediterranean
Naples
Navy
Big Bill Thompson Cash Boxes Hoard Revealed
Chicago records show the late William Hale Thompson left a currency stash totaling 1,466,250 in two safety boxes with two more unopened. Attorney James W. Breen says further money may exist and speculates Thompson converted stock into cash before the 1929 crash to guard against a rainy day.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Bill the Bilder
Thompson
James W. Breen
Three Landing Craft Shelled by U.S. Destroyer at Eniwetok
A Pacific fleet report says a U.S. destroyer accidentally shelled three landing craft at Eniwetok Atoll on February 22, killing 13 crewmen and wounding 46. In Ohio, thousands set clocks forward to Eastern War Time as several cities shift this weekend.
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Washington
U. S
Eniwetok Atoll
Columbus
Gasoline From Crop Waste Assures World Fuel Supply
Dr. E Berl of the Carnegie Institute of Technology outlined a postwar plan to produce gasoline and coal from farm crop wastes forests and seaweeds. The process creates a jelly like Diesel fuel then hydrogen adding oils gasoline or coal. He claimed US crop waste in one year could fuel 32 million cars and Australia Britain and Africa plan a carbohydrate empire.
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Cleveland
American Chemical Society
E. Berl
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Berl
Africa
United States
Two Burn To Death as Paint Barrel Explodes
In Youngstown at Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co a sour paint barrel exploded after being rolled onto a fire. Victims Mark Fitch aged 70 and Stephen Buffalo Bajnck aged 65 died in the blaze. Coroner Hauser confirms both men burned to death. A related note from Columbus reports Paul McCoy a five year old son of John and Mrs McCoy recovering from exposure after a 24 hour disappearance.
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Youngstown
Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co
David H. Hauser
Mark Fitch
Stephen
Buffalo
Columbus
Paul McCoy
John McCoy
Busy Spring Forecast in Congress Faces Tax and War Issues
Washington notes expect a busy spring as Congress returns to tackle taxes, GI benefits, subsidies, price control, and draft policies. Willkie Dewey Stassen MacArthur split factions and Wisconsin primary looms. Woodring resigns as Democratic chair amid calls for stronger stance. McNutt cites lower munitions labor turnover in 1943.
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Washington
Congress
G. I
Woodring
Harry H. Woodring
American Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
McNutt
Willkie Says Civilians Must Sacrifice in Tough War
Wendell Willkie warned at a Hastings breakfast that the current administration is forcing a war without civilian sacrifices. He urged Americans to devote all resources to a tougher war to shorten it, save lives, and safeguard the nation. He said fighting such a war without sacrifices jeopardizes the country’s future.
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Hastings
Nebr
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Ohio Flier Ties 22nd Nazi for Lead in Europe
Capt Don Gentile of Piqua Ohio and Capt Robert S Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma both hold 22 aerial victories. Gentile, flying a Mustang, downed a Messerschmitt 109 while protecting bombers over Germany last Saturday to reach the tie.
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London
Don 5
Gentile
Piqua
Robert S. Johnson
Lawton
Okla
Germany
Johnson
Move Houses to War Plant Areas in Ohio
The National Housing Agency reports demountable houses moved to support war workers in Ohio. Two hundred units were relocated to Port Clinton and 100 to Rittman in Wayne County. Lt. Robert Paul Zirkle of Venedocia, Van Wert County, claims his first aerial victory after a gas tank strike in Italy’s 15th Air Force.
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Ohio
Washington
National Housing Agency
Port Clinton
Rittman
Wayne County
NHA
15Th Air Force
Italy
Robert Paul Zirkle
Venedocia
van Wert County
Yanks and Nazis clash in air battles over Hungary
Berlin radio reported violent air battles between American and German planes over Hungary. Alerts sounded in Budapest and surrounding areas as fragmentary reports described U S planes attacking.
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Hungary
London
Berlin
Budapest
U. S
British Bombers Score on Tirpitz in Norway Fjord Action
British naval planes struck the German battleship Tirpitz in Alten Fjord Norway, hitting the 35,000 ton ship after Allied raids including Italy based American heavy bombers. The attack followed prior Tirpitz sightings and a broader weekend air offensive that targeted Steyr ball bearing works and Yugoslav rail yards, with high Allied losses reported by Berlin.
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London
Admiralty
Norway
Alten Fjord
Scharnhorst
Budapest
Italy
Ballbearing
Steyr
Old Austria
Hanover
Krefeld
Aachen
Naples
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Vienna
Brod
Belgrade-Zagreb
Mostar
Split
Bihac
Zara
Schaffhausen
U. S
Driver sought in fatal hit by tire repair scene
Police seek the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed Paul Class aged 46 as he and Joseph Zimmer aged 46 were repairing a tire on Classs car in Youngstown.
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Hunt
Youngstown
Paul Class
Joseph Zimmer
Reds Deny Territorial Aims as Invasion Expands
Soviet forces smashed across the Prut into Romania threatening Bucharest region and the Danube area. Molotov claimed military necessity with no aim to seize Romanian territory while reporting near Odessa and Czernowitz falls.
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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 Government
Ohio governor John W. Bricker argues soldiers fear unemployment after the war more than enemy death. He calls for restoring faith in private enterprise and local self-government. In Lancaster Rufus L. Karshner, 36, was fatally injured when his car hit a culvert on Route 36.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Lancaster
Rufus L. Karshner
Here
Drafted Dads Due for Refund on Income Tax
New York report explains draftee fathers may receive a tax refund as much of the year’s withholding will be returned. If entering service by July 1, civilian and military pay rules cap taxability, yielding a windfall by mid-1945 for many family men.
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New York
Armed Services
Woman killed in truck auto crash near Fre mont
One woman died and another was critically injured in a truck automobile collision near Fre mont. Mrs Florence Hill 51 of Union City was killed the other occupant Mrs Coltie McEntire 42 of Union City was left critically hurt. Twenty eight Mexican workers bound for the sugar beet fields were injured in the crash.
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Celina
Fremont
Florence Hill
Union City
Coltie McEntire
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