Liberation of 513 PoW Survivors From Bataan Camps
Associated Press reports a daring rescue of 513 Allied prisoners from Japanese camps in the Philippines amid Allied drives on Manila and Bataan. The war news notes the Olongapo Naval area recaptured and B 29 raids on Singapore with multiple aerial victories over Japan.
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Associated ‘Press
Philippines
Manila
Bataan
Olongapo Naval
Baze
Singapore
Japan
Ie Ph Thes
Yanks Eye Manila Mission and Prison Camp Rescue
Lt Earl Baumgard in Yonkers describes desire to join Manila offensive. Text covers liberation of prisoners by Sixth Ranger Battalion led by Lt Col Henry Mucci, casualties on both sides, and mass arrival to American lines. Mentions MacArthur decorates rescuers and ongoing Bataan battlefront context. Also notes Ohio appointee to liquor control board, Republican Mrs Maude McQuie of Cleveland.
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Luzon
Earl Baumgard
Hex
Yonkers
Rado Corporation of American
Manila
United States
Hataan
Japan
Hun
Allied Push Breaches Siegfried Line Front Extends 40 Miles
American forces drive into outer Siegfried Line along a 40 mile front from northeast of Monschau to the Belgian Luxembourg German corner. More than 200000 U S First and Third Army troops advance one to three miles into Reich at several points. Controls Ohio plant Newark Sears Roebuck now runs Newark Stove Co described as a $3 million concern.
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Monschau
1St
The
Reich
Ohio
Newark
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Newark Stove Company
T. D. Adams
Churchill Plans Four Power Germany Control
London reports Prime Minister Churchill carries a plan for a four power postwar government to govern the Rhineland and Ruhr under Britain Russia the United States and France. A source says an Instrument of Surrender will be presented at capitulation and zones of occupation will be discussed. Roosevelt reportedly favors equal occupying power in Austria alongside Britain and Russia. French ask to share in Austrian occupation.
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London
Churchill
Rhineland
Ruhr
Germany
Great
Britain
Russia
United States
France
European Advisory Commission
Roosevelt
Austria
First Yankee Nurse Taken Prisoner in Europe
Paris report states Second Lt. Reba Z Whittle flight nurse, listed missing since September 28 over France, is held in a German prisoner of war camp. The U S Army medical headquarters was informed as a number of American nurses were captured by Japanese forces.
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Paris
Reba Z., Whittle
France
U. S. Army Medical Headquarters
Bataan
Plan for rapid shift of Allied troops from Europe to Pacific
Prospects of a faster end to the war against Japan emerge as a plan is disclosed to move European troops to the Pacific after Germany falls. The idea would leave equipment in Europe to be rearmed in the Pacific, potentially saving months and thousands of lives, but raising costs and stretching shipping, with track and construction gear left behind for postwar rehabilitation of France Belgium and Holland.
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Washington
Europe
Pacific
Germany
Stimson
Japan
France
Igs
Belgium
Hol
Land
11 Army Hospitals Are Without Nurses
Maj. Gen. Paul Hawley, surgeon general of the European theater, said 11 U.S. Army hospitals in the war zone are arriving without any nurses because domestic volunteers are insufficient. Thousand-bed facilities now average about 1,400 patients, with several at 2,000 and one at 3,000, highlighting a critical nursing shortage.
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Paris
UPI
Paul, Hawley
United States
Pate
Hawle
Cities Urged to Reorganize Pension Funds in Ohio
Ohio cities were told they must reorganize their polio and firemen pension funds before receiving further state support. The measure seeks to restructure funding alongside a redistribution tied to sales tax collections, amid a legislative push and upcoming committee meetings. Names mentioned include Rep Benjamin Turner and Rep James Rudoyee as sponsors.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lalit
House
Senate
Bureau of Motor’ Vehicl
Highway Departmentiesin Bitrgary
Edward J.n
Benjamin ¥. Turner
Meigs County
James Rudoyee
Jefferson County
Postwar Farm Program Urged By National Grange Leader
Albert Goss of Washington, head of the National Grange, urged a postwar farm program grounded in three aims: wealth production prosperity, equity based on individual contribution, and government protection against aggression. Speaking at Farmers Week he said monopoly violates the first principle and agriculture harmed by plowing under crops and destroying livestock.
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Columbus
Albert Goss
Washington
Natonal Grange
Goss
Congress Urged to Help Finance Colleges
Washington action urged to appropriate 25 million dollars to assist war-harassed colleges and universities. A report by educator group to the House Education Committee recommends legislation to speed return of students and teachers in the services or in war work to schools.
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Congress
Washington
House Education Committee
Ohio Faces Worsening Fuel Crisis Amid Cold Spell
Amid a deep cold snap the Ohio fuel shortage worsens with coal and natural gas scarce. Gov Lausche urges self restraint as shortages hit Cleveland and northern counties, closing taverns early and prompting state pushes to divert coal to retail use. Schools close or cut weeks. industry grips by gas cuts, Republic Steel suspends mills in Youngstown.
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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
OSU to test rural youths for agriculture scholarships
Ohio State Universitywill determine twenty four year scholarships in agriculture through statewide exams March 8 10 announced by Dean John Cunningham. The state is divided into Northwest Northeast Southwest and Southeast with five top students in each section earning scholarships.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
College of Agriculture
Ohio
John Cunningham
University Board of
Lands Army Chaplains For Building Morale
Bishop Henry Wise Hobson told the House of Bishops that chaplains support the spirit of troops. He recounted visiting European battlefields and described a hospitalized soldier who, after losing a foot, said he would wear “one Jess shoe to take off at night.”
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Birmingham
Ala
Henry Wise Hobson
Ohio
House of Bishops
Hobson
Europe
Ohioan Fights Erosion With Reforestation
East Liverpool attorney William H. Vodrey plants trees to fight erosion on 4000 acres in Columbiana County. With 896000 seedlings set since 1937, he produced 25000 in 1944 and expects little gain in 1945, yet he plants when possible and has won the Forestry Association award. Fellow Ohioan Guy Findlay donated 300 acres for forest after planting over 15000 trees.
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Columbus
William H. Vodrey
Columbiana
Vodrey
East Liverpool
Forestry Association
Common
Guy Findlay
Elyria
Ohio
Ohio Division of Forestry
Marietta
Goebbels Says Zhukov Set For Final Drive on Berlin
German high command reported the Red Army near the Oder northwest of key Kushin and 38 miles from Berlin as Marshal Zhukov prepared for a major assault. Reports placed Zhukov at Kustrin and indicating a 40 mile front along the Oder Warthe area with heavy artillery and infantry and tanks ready to breach Berlin defenses.
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Zhukov
Berlin
Zhe
Pke
Red Army
Oder
Key Kushin
Marshal Zhukov
Kustrin
Warthe
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Austria
Frankfurt
Prankfurt
Breslau
Silesia
Zhukev
Rush of German Front Collapses as Russians Advance Toward Oder
German forcesDiam Germania evacuation trains bound for Saxony as Moscow reports rivers of artillery near the Oder. Zhukov’s First White Army seizes Beyersdorf Landsberg and threatens Berlin’s flank while Russians push through East Prussia Silesia and Hungary taking thousands of prisoners and expanding control across the eastern front.
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Cologne
Aachen
the Oder
Moscow
Beyersdorf
Berlin
Zhukovs
Landsberg
Fk.furt
Stockholm
Reich
Resi
Saxony
Danzig
Stettin
Baltic
East Prussia
Konigsberg
Polish Silesia
Ukraine
Oderwalde
Katowice
German
Pomerania
Flatow
Jastrow
Zhukov
Germany
Hungary
Budapest
Allied Attack Surges Into Siegfried Line As German Defenses Falter
American First and Third Armies drive three to four miles daily into the Siegfried Line. Lt. Gen Hodges reports the last German foothold in Belgium eliminated. In the Colmar Pocket German losses mount as French and American forces bypass Cernay, while Strassbourg's Rhine approaches near. Allied air support hampered by foul weather as major offensive buildup continues.
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U. S
Third
Hodges
First Army
Siegfried
Washington
Roosevelt
Colmar
Cernay
Stragbourg
Strasbourg
U. S. Seventh Army
Gambsheim
Rhine
Mass Island
Tilburg
Holland
Wilmington Man Is Victim of Paralysis
Robert Dudley a 38 year old Wilmington lumber dealer was a patient at the infantile paralysis center in Warm Springs Georgia He was taken there yesterday in an army transport plane from Clinton County accompanied by Capt George M Wilcoxen flight surgeon His son Charles seven was stricken last fall but walked on Christmas Day
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Wilmington
Robert Dudley
Bus Passengers Spend Night in Farm Homes
Thirty two Greyhound passengers including two children were marooned on an ice locked Columbiana County highway when their bus slid into a roadside ditch late yesterday. Patrols said the group spent the night in the farm homes of John Conrad and William Peterson and others, names not learned.
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Salem
Greyhound
Columbiana County
John Conrad
William Peterson
Georgia Poll Tax Doom by Legislature
In Atlanta both Georgia Senate and House voted overwhelmingly for a substitute bill aimed at wiping out the poll tax. Senate members indicated no objection to the measure after the House passed it 141 to 51. In Columbus the Senate taxation committee approved a bill allowing cities 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
City health authorities and physicians study contagious criteritis as seven newborns previously died. Joan and Linda Sennycalf, 22 days old, daughters of Mr and Mrs Sennycalf of Norwood, died at Children's Hospital after transfer from Samaritan Hospital, their birthplace, eleven days earlier.
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Cincinnate
Joan
Linda Sennycalf
Ernie Sennycalf
Norwood
Lin
Children's ‘Hospital
Gand Samaritan Hospital
Ohio Republicans Plan 1946 Campaign Like PAC Effort
Ohio Republicans outlined a 1946 campaign focusing on voter education with a auxiliary organization to win independent voters on a patriotic basis. Ed D Schorr would head this precinct based effort, while pamphlets, expanded Ohio Republican news, and radio programs are planned. A county study will analyze 1944 campaign features to repeat successes and drop failures.
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Columbus
Ohio
Political Action Committee
State Central and Executive Committee
Ed D. Schorr
Schorr
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