bloc drive to override veto stalls amid Capitol Hill scramble
Washington reports say lawmakers halted a bid to override the President's veto on the Bank Bill, aiming to delay Senate action. James Byrnes, the administration's strategist, boosts support as war measures and public office rules draw attention. House hearings set on omnibus fiscal bill. labor voices to testify on strikes and managerial unionization ban.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Iiculture Committee
Byrnes
Bankad
Army
War Department
Rep
Drter
R-Pa
Ge D.ouglas MacArthur
Rosevelt
Phe
War Bueas
Prisoners May Serve as Farm Labor, Senate Hearing Reveals
The Senate Appropriations Committee disclosed that German and Italian prisoners might be used to ease farm labor shortages. Wayne H. Darrow testified at a closed March 22 hearing that plans were incomplete and guarding prisoners plus camp equipment would complicate the program.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Wayne H. Darrow
Agriculture Department Labor Administration
War Department
Former Zanesville Judge Disbarred for Six Months
Charles C. Lemert a former judge of the Fifth District Court of Appeals was disbarred for six months. The order issued by Common Pleas Judge Fred H. Wolfe followed Lemert’s conviction yesterday for misconduct in office and unprofessional conduct in handling the estate of Anna E. Denison. The Muskingum Bar Association committee filed the charges.
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Zanesville
Charles C. Lemert
Fifth District Court of Appeals
Common Pleas
Fred H. Wolfe
Fulton County
Lemert
Anna E. Denison
Muskingum Bar Association
Youth Heroics Stop Sister's Fire With Coat
In Cincinnati 12 year old Jerry Wheeler wrapped his three year old sister Charmaine in a Mackinaw coat to smother a blaze from an open grate. The fire was out before their mother arrived, protecting Charmaine from life threatening burns.
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Cincinnati
Jerry Wheeler
Charmaine
Jerry
Boutwell daughter to join WAAC in April training
Mrs. Alice M. Boutwell told an Army Day audience that her 20 year old daughter Ann Jean Would begin WAAC training on April 17. Her six sons already serve in the armed forces.
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Columbus
Armed Services
Alice M. Boutwell
Ann Jean
WAAC
All Weather Garb for Army Being Planned
Maj. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory reveals the Army plans a new all climate outer garment for soldiers. A wind resistant water repellent cotton coverall will be used across latitudes from Greenland to Waikiki, with inner layers adjusted to local weather.
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Seattle
United States
Edmund B. Gregory
Army
Greenland
Ice
Waikiki
Bill To Regulate Unions Hit by CIO Spokesmen
Columbus Ohio lawmakers heard claims that a bill to regulate labor unions could allow an employer to fire every labor leader on staff. Thomas Downs of the Ohio CIO and officials from the Ohio Federation of Labor and the Ohio CIO condemned the measure as designed to destroy unions during the second House Judiciary hearing.
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CIO
Columbus
House Judiciary Committee
Thomas Downs
Ohio Cio
Phil Hannah
Ohio Federation of Labor
Ted F. Silvey
Defense Director Urges Rural Blackout Readiness Across Ohio
Columbus Ohio defense head Ralph H Stone warned rural areas are perfect targets for incendiary phosphorus cards and bombs and must blackout as quickly and completely as cities He said a Thursday night blackout in 19 northern Ohio counties would test rural defenses for possible night air raids.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Defense
Ralph H. Stone
Stone
Extension of license deadline ends midnight
AP reports the deadline to buy 1943 auto licenses extends to midnight. Motorists without new windshield stickers tomorrow face arrest.
Findlay man dies from farm blaze burns
Ludwig B. Bach aged 71 died at a Findlay hospital from burns after his clothing ignited on burning fodder at his Belmore area farm. The accident occurred on the nearby farm and the man was taken for treatment but did not survive.
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Findlay
Ludwig B. Bach
Findlay Hospital
Belmore
Fortresses Hammer Axis Supply Lanes in North Africa
Allied air forces under Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle struck Axis supply routes in North Africa. Flying Fortresses damaged or sank at least 10 ships near Trapani Sicily and destroyed vehicles on the Wadi El Akarit battlefield. A large 6,000-ton ammunition ship exploded after a fierce air battle with German fighters.
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Allied
North Africa
James H. Doolittle
Trapani
Sicily
Bizerte
British Retreat in Burma To Avert Flank Attack
British forces withdraw on the Mayu Peninsula to blunt a northern Japanese flanking threat. Wavell pulls back to stronger positions as monsoon nears while defending units on the Maya Peninsula hold. allied air strikes target Aroe Islands Salamua Tanimbars and New Britain.
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Burma
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Mayu
Bay of Bengal
India
Akyab
Wavell
Maya Peninsula
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Aroe Islands
Australia
Salamaua
New Guinea
United Nations
Alitut
Tanimbar Islands
Guasmata
New Britain
British Towns Hit by Nazis
German hit and run fighter bombers attacked two towns on the British southeast coast at dawn causing casualties and damage to business establishments. Reconnaissance photos after the Berlin raid on March 1 showed destruction in Templehof rail yards and central factories. Nazi authorities warned of harsher retaliation.
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London
Air Ministry
Berlin
Templehof
Paris
Bowling Green Dorms Turned Over to Navy
Bowling Green State University will open a training school for 400 officer candidates July 1, with Kohl and Williams Dormitories turned over to Navy men as announced by President Frank J. Prout.
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Bowling Green
Kohl
Williams
Navy
Bowling Green State University
Frank J. Prout
Child Welfare Code Revision Turned Down
In Columbus the Ohio House rejected a voluminous bill by the State Children's Code Commission opposing further state control of local welfare. The roll call was 48 yes 75 no. The House also turned down a proposed constitutional amendment for a three fifths petition session and approved moving real estate tax payments from September 11 to June 20 with installment provisions abolished.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
State Children's Code Commission
Child Welfare Code
State Welfare Department
House
Senate
Seed Potato Purchase Limit Listed Today
Washington officials end 50 pound seed potato rule to aid small gardens. Purchases for planting now allowed in any quantity, removing price ceiling constraints. The Office of Price Administration announced the change to help gardeners and households with limited space.
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Washington
Victory
Office of Price Administration
Ohio Welfare Director Estimates Relief Bill Drop
Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood estimated that Ohio's poor relief bill for the first quarter of 1943 would total about 2,064,399 dollars, down 1.7 million from 1942 and 3.5 million from the first quarter of 1941.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Ohio
Rommel Driven From Hills in Tunisia Capture Over 6000
General Montgomery’s Eighth Army ripped through the Wadi El Akarit defenses in seven and a half hours aided by heavy Allied artillery. Two key hills Djebel Tebaga Fatnassa and Djebel El Roumana fell by 6 am with fierce resistance repulsed. The clash coincided with American Second Army Corps actions along the El Guetar road as Axis tanks faced destruction from 155 mm fire and Allied air power. Churchill announced the victory to Parliament, noting Rommel’s losses approach 17 percent of his 80 000 man force, leaving about 170 000 troops in the field under Arnim in the north.
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Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Africa Corps
Tunisia
Wadi el Akarit
Djebel Tebaga Fatnassa
Djebel el Roumana
Rommel
London
Churchill
Jurgen von Arnim
Gabes
Mareth
Maginot
Desert Army
House of Commons
United States
Work of Yankee Fliers in Near Junction With Yankees Desert Campaign Lauded
Brig Gen. Aubry Strickland praised American fliers in the western desert for breaking German resistance in the El Hamma area. He cited a single group's raid results including 22 trucks destroyed and 101 damaged, plus silenced guns and other targets, with only two aircraft lost. Allied advances linked with the Eighth Army push toward a junction with U S forces as Patton’s columns near the coast. The German high command reported ongoing fighting as Rommel faced an intensified Allied assault.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aubry C. Strickland
Western Desert
Ninth
United States Army Air Force
Tunisia
el Hamma
Lewis H. Brereton
Middle East
Strickland
U. S
George S. Patton, Jr
el Guetar
Maknassy
Eighth Army
Rommel
Montgomery
Stabilization Plan Seeks Global Gold Fund for Postwar Trade
Washington reports a U S Treasury plan proposes a 5 billion dollar stabilization fund funded by 40 percent from the United Nations and 60 percent from other nations under a fixed formula. Secretary Morgenthau suggests repurposing the domestic 2 006 billion fund into a world pool to avoid extra financing. The aim is to restore healthy trade, with adjustments for each nation, acknowledging some states cannot meet full quotas.
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Washington
U. S. Treasury
Morgenthau
United Nations
Treasury
New World Pool
United States
Yugoslavia
Bombs Cripple U Boat Yards At Vegesack
British and American heavy bombers struck Vegesack on March 18 damaging seven of fifteen U boat submarines under construction. One vessel capsized in her berth and was ready for imminent launch. Experts say the yard cannot contribute substantially to U boat construction for months.
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London
United States
Vegesack
RAF
Churchill backs Eisenhower on delaying De Gaulle trip
Prime Minister Churchill stated in the House of Commons that he agrees with General Eisenhower’s request to General de Gaulle to postpone his planned journey to North Africa.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
Brigadier General Rank Unlikely for LaGuardia
Washington reports that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is unlikely to receive a brigadier general commission. President Roosevelt said at a press conference he has no plans to nominate the New York mayor, as all general officer commissions require presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.
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Washington
Fiorello Laguardia
Senate
Roosevelt
LaGuardia
New York
P-40 Guerrilla Fighters At Tunisian Airbase
The North African front troops dubbed the P-40 unit Guerrilla Fighters by Cochran's men surge in Tunisia. Led by Col William Momyer and Maj R Chase, the squadron racks up Nazi planes with high tempo attacks, boasting top pilots tied at eight kills. Local names include Lieut James Gray and Lieut Thomas Thomas Jr among the fighters.
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Tunisia
Jerry
Phillip G. Cochran
Erie
Cochran
William W. Momyer
Seattle
R. Chase
Cortland
N. Y
Momyer
Major Chase
James W. Gray
Summerfield
Thomas A. Thomas, Jr
Ada
Okla
Allies Strike New Air Blows In African Campaign
General Eisenhower reports the Eighth Army crushed a Nazi counterattack and punched a wide wedge into the El Alkarit zone amid heavy fighting. British tanks push across the coastal plain while air forces sink 27 Axis ships in two days and claim 79 planes downed. In the Caucasus, Soviet forces press the Donets and Kuban Delta amid mud and swollen rivers as they push at German positions around Novorossisk.
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Sicilian
Eisenhower
Bizerte
Donets River
Kuban
Caucasus
Red Army
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Southern Coal Operators Seek WLB Intervention
Southern bituminous coal operators announce they will ask the War Labor Board for intervention in the wage dispute with the United Mine Workers if Dr. John R. Steelman cannot certify the matter. Spokesman Edward R. Burke, former Senator and president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, disclosed the plan yesterday.
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New York
Southern Bituminous
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
John KR. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
Athens Meigs Road Contracts Awarded
Ohio highway department announces apparent low bidders on 14 projects to improve about 67 miles of roads for roughly $668,928. H M Stinson of Albany tops bids at $10,082 to grade about 19 miles of Route 143 across Athens and Meigs counties including Lisbury Rutland Seiple Columbia and Lee Townships.
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Columbus
Highway Department
Athens
Meigs
H M. Stinson
Albany
Lisbury
Rutland
Seiple
Columbia and
Lee Townships
War training enrollment and completion reported statewide
The State Board of Vocational Education announced 296 888 persons enrolled in war production training from July 1 1940 to February 28 with 281 174 completing. Of those in vocational education national defense training 252 273 of 246 737 completed, rural war production 16 020 of 17 270 finished, and all 32 881 in National Youth Administration courses completed. Training occurred in 160 centers across 56 counties with 374 courses offered.
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Columbus
State Board of Vocational Education
Joseph R. Strobel
National Youth Administration
New High Test Gas Released by Standard Oil
The Justice Department announced a supplemental judgment in an anti trust suit. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey will license patents for producing high octane aviation gasoline through a low cost process at a reasonable royalty rate. The move aims to revolutionize the automobile industry by broadening access to the technology.
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Washington
Justice Department
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Brazilian Air Force Sinks Seventh U Boat
Aviation Minister Joaquin Pedro Salgado Filho announced that the Brazilian air force sank another German submarine, giving Brazil a seventh credited to its air war efforts.
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Brazilian Air Force
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Joaquin Pedro Salgado Filho
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Tripoli
Second Army
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Jay
Dwight Disenhower
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el Alkarit
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