513 Yank Heroes Freed in Daring Attack on Japanese Prisoner Camp
A daring rescue freed 513 American war heroes from a Japanese prisoner camp in the Philippines. Survivors include Bataan veterans. The operation coincided with American advances toward Manila and Bataan, the recapture of Olongapo Naval Base, and daylight B 29 raids on Singapore. Additional sorties over Japan marked ongoing Allied air war. An elite commando action was reported as the largest engagement in the Philippines.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Manila
Bataan
Olongapo
Naval
Singapore
Japan
Yanks Want to Go to Manila and Liberate Prisoners
A wartime dispatch recalls Lt. Karl Baurguardner and U S troops near Luzon. The Sixth Army overran defenses while a Ranger-led commando freed 513 prisoners from a Subic Bay camp, with 121 Rangers and 296 Filipino guerrillas sustaining heavy casualties but liberating many, including nearly 100 too weak to walk. General MacArthur decorated all involved as veterans marched to American lines. Nearby, Gov. Lausche appointed Maude Megute to the state liquor control board.
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Luzon
Subic
Tokyo
Japan
Ranger
Stockade
Henry Mucci
Bridgeport
Conn
Eitheir
Freedom
MacArthur
Bataan
Olongapo
Pampanga
Calumpit
Manila
Eighth Army
Bagnio
Yanks Push Into Siegfried Line Across 40 Mile Front
American forces strike into the Siegfried Line along a 40 mile front from northeast of Monschau toward the Belgium Luxembourg German corner. More than 100000 U S 1st and 3rd Army troops advance one to three miles into the Reich at several points.
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Monschau
1St
3Rd Amy
The
Reich
Siegfried Line
U. S
Hodges
Siegfried
Churchill plans four power postwar Rhine Ruhr control
London report says Churchill would push a four power government with Britain Russia the United States and France to run the German Rhine land and Ruhr after surrender. A separate instrument of surrender reportedly signed by British Russian and American representatives authorizes terms Germany must meet and outlines occupation zones. Roosevelt reportedly favored equal occupancy in Austria with Britain and Russia, while France sought a share in Austrian occupation.
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London
Churchill
Rhineland
Ruhr
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
United States
France
European Advisory Commission
Roosevelt
Austria
Britain
Sears Controls Newark Plant In Ohio Acquisition
Sears Roebuck and Co now controls the Newark native Company, described by T. D. Adams as heading a 3,000,000 concern. The move centers on consolidation of assets under Sears Roebuck, with Newark cited as a key manufacturing site and Adams named as head of the Newark operation.
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Ohio
Newark
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Newarkative Company
T. D. Adams
First Yankee Nurse Held as Prisoner of War in Europe
Second Lt. Reba Z. Whittle, flight nurse, listed missing in action over France, reported in a German prison camp. She is the first American nurse prisoner of war in the European theater, with U S Army medical headquarters noting the capture. Earlier, American nurses were captured by Japan at Bataan.
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Paris
Reba Z. Whittle
France
U. S. Army
Bataan
End of Speed War Sparks Plan to Shift Troops
The article discusses a proposed wartime plan to quickly shift troops from Europe to the Pacific. It notes shipping limits and the risk of leaving behind equipment and perishable supplies, while highlighting potential cost increases and extended production for postwar rehabilitation.
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Washington
Europe
Pacifics
Germany
Japan
Pacific
Stimson
Schaaulle
France
Tugu
Belgium
Holtaf
Ee . P
11 Army Hospitals Are Without Nurses
Maj. Gen. Paul Hawley, surgeon general of the European theater, said at general U S Army hospitals in this war zone lack nurses because U S nurses are not volunteering in sufficient numbers. Thousand bed hospitals carry about 1,300 patients, with several at 2,000 and one at 3,000, sparking his question about how many nurses could serve 3,000 patients.
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Paris
Paul Hawley
United States
Hawley
Cities Advised To Reorganize Pension Funds
Ohio cities were advised to reorganize their police and firemen pension funds to qualify for state aid, a stance stated by Gov. Frank Lausche as the Legislature opened its session. The House sent through a partial appropriation bill while the Senate kept sessions for committee work. A separate measure would move the Bureau of Motor Vehicles from the governor’s cabinet, and a proposal would base the $12 million yearly city and county aid on sales tax collections by county.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
House
Senate
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Cnevey Department
Governem
Jary
Edward J. Hurmel
Benjamin F. Turner
Meigs County
James R.jones
Jefferson County
Postwar Farm Program Advocated by National Grange Leader
Albert Goss of Washington, head of the National Grange, urged a postwar farm program built on three principles: prosperity from wealth production, equity based on individual contribution, and government protection of citizens from aggression. Speaking at Farmers' Week, he said monopoly violates the first principle and that agriculture has violated it by plowing under crops and destroying livestock.
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Columbus
Albert Goss
Washington
National Grange
Farmers’ Week
Goss
Congress Urged To Help Finance Colleges
Washington calls for 25 million dollars to aid war strained colleges. A House Education Committee report urged legislation to accelerate student and teacher returns from service or war work to maintain teaching facilities.
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Congress
Washington
House Education Committee
Ohio Faces Deepening Fuel Shortage As Weather Stalls Relief
Governor Lausche warned no relief until weather moderates and urged residents to conserve fuel. Severe shortages hit Cleveland and Akron areas with tavern closures considered. Industrial coal diversions planned. schools and industries strained as gas curtailments hit Republic Steel in Youngstown and several Ohio cities.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Columbus
Cleveland
Akron
Elyria
Lorain
Canton
State Liquor Department
Solid Fuels Administration
Washington
Leroy Diehl
Toledo
Dayton
Youngstown
Republic Steel Corp
East Ohio Gas Co
Ohio State awards 80 rural youth scholarships
Dean John F Cunningham announced four year scholarships will be awarded in ex aminations across Ohio counties March 8 10. The university board of trustees funds the program. States divided into four sections northwest north east southwest and southeast with the five top students in each section earning the awards.
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OSU
Columbus
Ohio State University
College of Agrculture
Ohio
John F. Cunningham
University Board of Trustees
Northwest
Fortheast
Southwest
Southeast
Lands Army Chaplains For Building Morale
Bishop Henry Wise Hobson reported to the House of Bishops after visiting European battlefields that army chaplains play a role in boosting morale. He cited a hospitalized soldier who lost a foot saying he would have one less shoe to take off at night as an example of spirit fostered by chaplains.
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Birmingham
Ala
Henry Wise Hobson
Ohio
House of Bishops
Hobson
Europe
Ohioan Fights Erosion With Reforestation
William H Vodrey of Columbiana County plants thousands of trees on his 4000 acre farm to combat erosion. Despite scarce manpower and limited 1945 plantings, he has set out hundreds of thousands of seedlings since 1937 and earned a Forestry Association award.
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Columbus
William H. Vodrey
Columbiana County
Vodrey
Liverpool
Forestry Association
Guy Findlay
Elyria
Ohio
Ohio Division of Forestry
Marietta
Service Bill Passage Near in Washington
National service legislation nears final House approval after defeating provisions on anti closed shop and anti discrimination. Safe margins foreseen to withstand amendments as President Roosevelt seeks manpower for expanded war production.
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Washington
House
Senate
Military Committee
Roosevelt
Bus Passengers Spend Night in Farm Homes
Thirty two Greyhound passengers including two children were marooned on an ice covered Columbiana County highway when their bus slid into a roadside ditch late yesterday. Patrol officers said the travelers spent the night in the farm homes of John Conrad William Peterson and others whose names were not learned.
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Salem
Greyhound
Columbiana County
John Conrad
William
Peterson
Rush planes from west amid Oder battle and retreating Germans
Germans dynamited and bombed ice bridges as they fought to halt the Soviet advance on the Oder. Moscow announced landings near Berlin and gains around Landsberg and Konigsberg as civilians queued for soup meals. Allied forces pressed the Siegfried Line from the west with renewed momentum, while German troops pulled back from Strasbourg toward the Rhine and dikes at Mass Island.
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Cologne
Aachen
Moscow
Beyersdorf
Berlin
Zhukov
Landsberg
Frankfurt
Strasbourg
U. S. Seventh Army
Gambsheim
Rhine
Mass Island
Tilburg
Holland
Siegfried Line
Wilmington Man Is Victim of Paralysis
Robert Hadley a 38 year old Wilmington lumber dealer is patient at the infantile paralysis center in Warm Springs Georgia He was flown there yesterday from Clinton County air base near Wilmington in an army transport plane accompanied by Capt George M Wilcoxen flight surgeon His seven year old son Charles also suffered paralysis but walked on Christmas Day
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Wilmington
Robert Hadley
Warm Springs
Clinton County
Here
George M. Wilcoxen
Charles
Georgia's Poll Tax Doom by Legislature
The Georgia Senate and House passed a substitute bill to wipe out the poll tax. Senate leaders indicated no objection to the measure after the House approved it 141 to 51. In Columbus the Senate taxation committee backed a bill allowing municipalities to issue bonds for airport construction and landing fields.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Senate
House
Columbus
Senate Taxation Committee
Disease Claims Lives Of Two More Babies
Cincinnati health officials report the deaths of twin baby girls from contagious enteritis. Joan and Linda Sonnycalf, 11 days old, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J Ennie Sonnycalf of Norwood, died at Children's Hospital after transfer from Good Samaritan Hospital. The outbreak has recently claimed seven newborns.
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Cincinnati
Joan
Linda Sonnycalf
J Ennie Sonnycalf
Norwood
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ohio Republicans Plan 1946 Election Drive and Education
Ohio Republican leaders outlined a 1946 campaign emphasizing voter education and an auxiliary organization to win the independent vote. Headed by State Chairman Ed D Schorr, the precinct based effort will use pamphlets increased Ohio Republican news and radio. A sub committee will study 1944 campaign features to repeat or discard them as needed. The party cited gains in state and local offices despite losing governor and lieutenant governorship.
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Columbus
Ohio
Political Action Committee
State ‘Central and Executive Committee
Ed D. Schorr
Schorr
Republican
Ohio Republican
Thestate
Common Pleas
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Kalberg
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Metz
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Miles
Speed War
Lands Army Chaplains
George Huffman
San Francisco
Huffman
Pfc
Jose Paez
Washington, D. C
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Red Army
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Zhukay
Warthe
Paul Joseph Goebbels
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