U S Heavy Bombers Raid Zagreb Amid Balkan Attacks
Allied air offensive strikes Zagreb the capital of the Croatian puppet state destroying 14 Nazi planes. Other Balkans targets Sofia Budapest and Bucharest were previously hit as Rome and allies push toward D Day preparations along the French coast.
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Zagreb
Croatia
Red Army
Balkan
Sofia
Bulgaria
Budapest
Hungary
Bucharest
Romania
Knox Warns of Mass U Boat Raid on Allied Shipping
At Bermuda United States Naval Base the secretary warned that a mass attack by German U boats may come soon against Allied shipping. He noted Germany is concentrating on submarine construction to the virtual exclusion of other vessels, speaking at the base's third anniversary celebration.
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United States Naval Base
Bermuda
Germany
Wheeler Attacks Abuse of Speech Rights on Air
Cincinnati Congressman Wheeler D. of Ohio, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, opposes radio stations using commentators to spread innuendo or lie without allowing the subject to respond. He backs FCC oversight to curb abuse of broadcast speech.
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Cincinnati
Wheeler D
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Blue Network
Federal Communications Commission
Rationing to Extend Beyond World War II Ends
Walter F. Straub of the Office of Price Administration told a regional conference that rationing of American foodstuffs will continue until the first peacetime European harvest. He warned that after Germany’s defeat the U.S. must still feed its people and supply troops in the Pacific. Victory gardening will persist for several years, and 1944’s food outlook mirrors 1943 with sugar likely scarce.
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Columbus
Walter F. Straub
Office of Price Administration
Straub
OPA
Germany
United States
Pacific
Congress seeks halt to Army medical student cuts
Washington Representative Bender of Ohio urged revoking an Army order that would reduce medical and dental student quotas by 50 percent next year. He warned the plan would cut assigns to 2,800 instead of 5,800, creating a 30 percent drop in enrollment amid urgent postwar needs for doctors.
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Washington
Bender
Ohio
Army
Ohio State Guard to Add Four Rifle Companies in Columbus
Adj. Gen. Donald Pancoast announced four new rifle companies to be formed in Columbus under the Ohio State Guard program. The units will total 256 officers and men as part of increasing the state's military strength.
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Adj
Donald
Pancoast
Ohio State Guard
Clear Skies Forecast For Ohio Easter Parade
The weatherman predicted fair conditions for Ohio on Easter. Temperatures will rise slowly as Easter Sunday arrives with bright skies and a clearing outlook through Sunday.
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Columbus
Milady
Deferment of Coal Miners Likely Not To Happen
Secretary Ickes said few coal miners under 26 would be deferred from the draft and predicted heavier coal use restrictions next winter. He cited 36,000 miners under 26, with 20,000 potentially inducted if none defer, risking a 28 million ton loss plus a 26.6 million ton deficit, totaling 54 million tons.
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Washington
Ickes
Solid Fuels
Athens and Nelsonville Win Awards for Safety
Cleveland and Cincinnati led the state in the 1943 traffic safety contest. The Ohio Traffic Safety Council says Athens and Nelsonville earned honorable mention awards for reducing traffic fatalities or reporting no traffic deaths.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Traffic Safety Council
Athens
Nelsonville
Ohio
Meat consumption rate highest since 1908 in early 1944
The OPA announced that the per capita meat consumption in the first quarter of 1944 reached its peak since 1908, marking a record level for the period.
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Washington
OPA
Girl Weds Lifer in Ohio Penitentiary Ceremony
Betty Kopp, 24, wed Richard Swain, 31, two hours before Swain began 25 consecutive life terms for burglaries. She plans monthly visits, a job, and savings while awaiting his parole possibility after ten years. Swain says marriage gives meaning to his life, and he hopes to study engineering in prison.
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Ohio
Betty Kopp
Richard Swain
Justice of Peace
Swain
Jap Base at Hollandia Knocked Out in Big Bomb Raid
Allied air and sea forces battered Hollandia on New Guinea with 720 tons of bombs in two waves, crippling the base that supplied Japan’s Bismarck Sea operations. American bombers struck Burma Siam railways and bridges, while Gurkhas of the 17th Indian Division pushed toward Imphal, inflicting heavy Japanese casualties.
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Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Odessa
Black Sea
Red Star
Tarnopol
Skala
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Razdelnaya
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India
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
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Pope as Vicar Is Questioned
Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow challenged the Pope’s claim to be Christ's Vicar. In The Journal of Moscow he cited St. Mark 28 20 to argue Jesus remained with the church spiritually, opposing the Pope's earthly authority.
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Sergei
All
Christ
Dewey Reiterates He Is Not a Presidential Candidate
In Albany, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey again refused to be stampeded into seeking the Republican nomination. He held to his stance that he is not a candidate and will not declare his intent after Wendell Willkie’s withdrawal, sticking to his state duties during a busy day.
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N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Wendell Willkie
Omaha City
Thomas EF. Dewey
Wisconsin
Willkie
Eleanor Roosevelt urges women delegates for postwar talks
Mrs. Roosevelt says American women should be sent as delegates to peace discussions but she considers herself unqualified. She notes she will be 60 next birthday and has not held any responsible positions.
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Washington
German Interior Minister Orders Roundup Amid Propaganda Push
Underground sources say German Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler orders a roundup as propaganda tightens blame on Jews and Aryans over perceived reverses, reflecting Nazi scapegoating in Germany.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Germany
Draft quotas to be poured into the draft mill indefinitely
The Army reaches its planned peak strength of 7,700,000 as General Hershey signals continued heavy drafts to meet replacement needs and slow demobilization, while political maneuvering in Washington weighs on GOP unity and postwar leadership.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
United States
General Hershey
War Labor Board delays coal wage pact pending mine travel report
WLB will not consider the soft coal wage agreement until a further report from the presidential commission on miners underground travel time is issued. Chairman William H. Davis said the Cooke commission has covered about two thirds of the industry and will send a supplementary report to the President soon. He denied adviser's claims that the panel urged rejection of the pending agreement.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Presidential Commission
William H. Davis
Stettinius in England For Policy Conference
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. U S undersecretary of state arrived in London for a series of foreign policy conferences with British officials that may pave the way for another Roosevelt Churchill Stalin roundtable.
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London
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
U. S
U S Airmen Drop Leaflets Over Europe in War News Campaign
American airmen at a bomber base in England drop up to 2.5 million leaflets daily to residents of occupied Europe and Germany to spread war truths. Nazi leaders threaten imprisonment or death for reading or discussing the leaflets as the invasion prepares.
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U. S
England
Europe
Germany
Confessed Slayer of Father Sent to Pen
Carl Muntz, 57, after pleading guilty to first degree manslaughter, was sentenced to Ohio Penitentiary for one to 20 years by Common Pleas Judge A. A. Slaybaugh for the Jan. 21 killing of his father Charlies W. Muntz, 83. Sheriff Arnold Potts said the man admitted striking his father during a groceries dispute.
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Lima
Carl Muntz
Charlies W. Muntz
Ohio Penitentiary
Common Pleas
A. A. Slaybaugh
Arnold Potts
Muntz
Hero’s Mother Pleads With FD To See Son
Pittsburg dispatch reports Irene Kelly appeals to President Roosevelt to bring home Tech Sergeant Charles E. Kelly, newly awarded the Medal of Honor for Italy, for a short visit. She is deaf with failing sight, mother to seven in service.
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Kelly
Roosevelt
Tech
Charles E. Kelly
Italy
Irene Kelly
Willkie Silent On His Plans After Campaign Tour
Wendell Willkie returned to New York from a campaign run in which he withdrew his candidacy saying he cannot be nominated. He refused to answer whether he will back the Republican convention nominee or Governor Thomas E. Dewey, offering only a cheery, noncommittal smile.
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York
Dewey
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Wisconsin
New York
Grand Central Station
Omaha
Thomas E. Dewey
Proposes Induction of 17-Year-Old Youths
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox urged that 17-year olds be summoned under Selective Service in Cincinnati He argued they would be better soldiers than fathers drawn away from families and businesses for years of hard labor.
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Cincinnati
Albert L. Cox
District of Columbia
Portmouth youth dies from lockjaw after scratch
Arlen Mc Guire aged 16 died from tetanus after scratching his hand on a damaged automobile fender Sunday. The infection developed and proved fatal yesterday in Portsmouth.
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Portsmouth
Arlen McGuire
Bricker vows intensified campaign for delegates
Ohio Governor J W Bricker told the Indianapolis Press Club he will intensify his drive for delegates to the Republican national convention after Wendell Willkie withdrawn. He pledged to double efforts to inform the nation of his positions on major domestic and foreign questions in this war era.
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Willkie
Vandenberg
Reich
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Roosevelt
MacArthur
Wisconsin
John W. Bricker
Ohio
South
Taft
Bricker
Indianapolis
J. W. Bricker
Indianapolis Press Club
Wendell Willkie
More Corn Stalks Per Acre Urged by Experts
Government researchers report a method to boost Ohio corn by increasing stalks per acre. Agronomists told the Agriculture Department that farmers could harvest at least 10,000,000 more bushels by growing more stalks per acre.
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Washington
Ohio
Agriculture Department
Meat Waste Denied In Packing Concerns
Washington officials call claims that packers discard millions of pounds of edible meat in waste tanks grossly exaggerated as they enforce a War Food Administration order prohibiting storage of certain meats. Cincinnati man George M. Barnes, 84, fatally burned after stumbling into a brush fire near his victory garden yesterday.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Cincinnati
George M. Barnes
Victory Garden
Britain's Labor Crisis To Reach Peak in 1944
Britain faces a peak in labor unrest in 1944 as strikes surge. Last year was the second worst for strikes in history, with over 1,000,000 work days lost in 1943 and March 1944 alone costing more production than all of 1941. Unauthorized walkouts rise despite wartime labor orders, coal fields remain hot spots, and workers are constrained from quitting or being fired while still able to strike.
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Associated Press
Kenneth L. Dixon
Rome
Anzio Bay
Dixon
Hamburg
Ruhr
Rhineland
North Reich
Tirpitz
Norway
Alten Fjord
Calais
Thunderbolts
France
Britain
London
Bradley predicts large but manageable invasions losses
Lt Gen Omar Bradley told officers preparing for Europe invasion that initial reports of huge losses are unfounded. He said naval gunfire and air power will surprise the enemy, acknowledging some casualties but few returning. He outlined manpower needs of about 150000 men monthly to sustain forces and warned demobilization must not endanger future peace.
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England
Omar N. Bradley
Europe
Ration Books Searce Warned by Office of Price Administration
The Office of Price Administration urged housewives to care for ration books as replacements are limited. Book Four will be used about three times as long as earlier food books, and Book One will be withdrawn when shoe stamp 18 expires April 30.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Women and Children Return to the Rock
Gibraltar sees children and non combatants back on the rock after nearly four years as two transports return 1400 women and youngsters from a place of refuge via La Linea de la Florida.
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Madrid
Gibraltar
LaLinea
the Rock
Call Mass Meeting Philo Up
A mass meeting of idle workers was called today as a federal labor conciliator sought to end a time stoppage at the Ohio Power Philo plant that serves 55 of the state's 88 counties.
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Ohio Power Philo
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