Kentuckian Barkley Returns as Senate Leader
Washington AP reports Senator Barkley of Kentucky was returned to his post as Senate majority leader after accepting reelection by a strong Democratic vote. The House passed a $2.3 billion revenue bill over President Rouse's veto and sent it toward the Senate, with leaders predicting further action.
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Senate turmoil as Barkley re elected leader amid Roosevelt tax veto
Unanimous Senate factions back Lyndon Barkley for re election as majority leader while President Roosevelt faces a tax veto override crisis. House Democrats clash over the veto with Doughton declaring a break with the president as Barkley weighs resignation. If overridden, tax changes hit income, luxury, postal, and corporate taxes.
Nazi Commander Killed in Allied Raid Report
Gen Fritz Ein, a German commander of ed forces, was killed during an Allied raid on Berlin. The Aftonbladet Berlin bureau reported today, noting the Feb incident.
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Charge Camp Items Missing
Adjutant General Donald F. Pancoast announced the discharge of two employees suspended after about 3000 dollars worth of property disappeared from the state arsenal in Columbus. The removals stemmed from irregularities in disposal of state equipment at Camp Zaleski in Vinton County where cots and washtubs were among items dealt with. Missing items also included nearly 20000 shotgun shells.
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Senate Considers Tobacco Allotment Bill
The Senate opens consideration of House approved tobacco legislation setting minimum acreage allotments for farms with 1943 allotments. It would guarantee at least one acre or 25 percent of cropland, whichever is smaller, replacing the 1942 rule of at least a half acre.
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Alliance man sentenced for income tax underreporting
Elbert D. Nall 43 of Alliance Ohio was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after admitting he filed a 1940 tax return showing net income of 4293 instead of 25474. He also was fined 500 in Cleveland.
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Elbert D.nall
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Robert N. Wilkins
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Republic Steel Corp
Canton
R. E. Somerville Dies At Point Pleasant
R. E. Somerville aged 81 retired railroad man died at his home in Point Pleasant shortly before noon. Funeral services are being arranged. Surviving: wife, a son H. E. Somerville of Point Pleasant, and daughter Mrs. Jack Johnson of Alexandria Virginia.
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Taylorcraft to Expand Plant Space in 1944 Drive
The Taylorcraft Aviation Corp announced a plan to add 74 000 square feet of floor space to its Alliance facility to handle higher 1944 business. The project includes a new wing and an adequate hangar at the main building.
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New Bronze Star Award Aimed Primarily at Infantrymen
Washington reports the Bronze Star is introduced with precedence over the Air Medal and Purple Heart. It honors heroic or meritorious action by any service member not involving flight, with infantrymen expected to top eligibility. Airmen may qualify only for ground actions. The ribbon is red with a vertical blue center stripe and white piping on the ends.
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Navy
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Allied Air Offense Pushes German Frontiers Deeper
Packs of American Marauders and British Typhoons renewed the aerial assault across the channel amid indications of a deep Allied penetration into Germany. The U S strategic air force says German fighter production is reduced and every enemy plane shot down helps knock Nazi air power out.
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Record Breaking Hog Shipments Peak Passes
Chicago traders say the peak of the country hog movement to mid western stockyards has passed and shipments will likely decline through autumn. The Chicago hog marketing committee will end its market plan next Monday, a measure from January 24 to curb hogs overwhelming packers.
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Modification Of New Draft Rules Sought
Senate farm committee members and four major farm organizations urged relaxing the revised draft rules. Senator Bankhead said the goal is to protect food production with up to half of the 1.7 million farm workers potentially drafted. Brig. Gen Hershery is to testify on Friday on farm labor effects.
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National Council of Farmers Cooperatives
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Selective Service
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Exchange Trains Take Prisoners to Lisbon
The first of three diplomatic exchange trains carrying 36 wounded American aviators crossed the Spanish frontier from France on the way to Lisbon Portugal. More than 300 diplomats Red Cross workers and journalists from the United States and other American republics are expected aboard the three trains for the exchange with German nationals at Lisbon.
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Willys Overland Sees Jeep Use Expanding After War
Ward M. Canaday president of Willys Overland Motors predicts postwar Jeep deployment beyond combat roles. Farmers plan to use jeeps army scout cars for tasks from wood cutting to orchard spraying, signaling broad civilian adoption.
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America
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Ward M. Canaday
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Gateway to Pskov Taken By Russians
Red Army routs Germans from Dno and presses toward Pskov in North Russia. Dno, 64 miles west of Pskov, is a key rail and road crossing as Russians advance up to ten miles, seizing 150 settlements and killing about 2,500 Germans.
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General Rain Eases Ohio Water Shortage
General rains over the last two days relieve the state's water shortage, with rainfall totals varying across cities. Meteorologist George W Mindling reports 2.35 inches in Cincinnati, 2.32 in Chillicothe, 1.78 in Washington Court House, 0.76 in Columbus, and 0.26 in Cleveland as the southwest monitors the bulk of the moisture.
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Ice jam flood forces village residents to flee near Willoughby
About 100 people in the Chagrin River Valley near Willoughby returned home after an ice jam at the Lake Er ie mouth caused a flash flood that inundated several cottage type homes.
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Red Army Triumph at Krivol Rog Clear Dnieper Bend
General Malinovsky led a major eastern front victory to capture Krivol Rog, a key mining center and German prize on the Dnieper bend. The 44 year old commander previously fought as a corporal in France with U S troops during World War II.
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Krivol Rog
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France
U. S
Mobile Farm Army Planned By WFA Chief
Col Philip G Bruton of the War Food Administration announced a 1944 plan for a mobile labor task force of about 200 000 workers to back up harvests in food production. The effort is part of a 12 million strong national labor force with 4 million temporary workers including 800 000 women and 1 200 000 children, drawn from cities towns and villages under the crop corps community mobilization program.
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WFA
Philip G. Bruton
War Food Adminstration
Midwest
U. S. Crop Corps
Boy Admits Shooting Mother and Sister
David Edward Warmichall sixteen confessed to the fatal shootings of his mother and nine year old sister at their home near St Charles Michigan. He was returned to Saginaw in a stolen car. Deputy Lake and Patrolman Clay cited a war movie in Lansing as the motive behind the killings.
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Bowling Green Head Named for New Term
Bowling Green State University board of trustees appointed Dr. Frank J. Prout to another five year term as president. Prout enters his fifth year as head of the university after previously serving as superintendent of schools in Sandusky Ohio.
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Barkley Quits as FDR's Flag Bearer in Tax Bill Rift
U.S. Senate scene erupts as Senator Barkley of Kentucky resigns as Democratic leader after 12 years carrying the Roosevelt banner. He denounces the President's tax veto as an assault on Congress and says conscience and self-respect outrank any honor. He accuses Roosevelt of misleading statements on social security tax effects.
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Mariana Islands Raid Signals Broad Pacific Offensive
American forces pressed toward Japan as a carrier task force struck the Mariana Islands 1,300 miles south of Tokyo and pushed near Truk. Joint strikes against Saipan and Tinian followed a dawn attack, with advances at Eniwetok and Kwajalein in the Western Marshalls, while Japan faced internal turmoil and continued Allied air operations in the Central Pacific.
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Report on Pacific War Actions and Burma Front Progress
Allied operations across the Pacific report Eniwetok seizures and continued strikes on Ponape Kusaie and Nauru. Marines link Arawe to Cape Gloucester stakeouts near Rabaul while MacArthur estimates 7 000 Japanese dead at Cape Gloucester and Arawe. Air forces hit Lakunai Rapopo Akyab and other targets with heavy payloads as Gurkhas push in Arakan and Chin Hills.
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Girls Die in Refrigerator Tragic Toledo Incident
Coroner Frank G. Kreft reports two young girls died when they climbed into a refrigerator and slammed it shut from inside. Victims Vivian Carroll and Robert Banks Jr. were children of military families, with fathers serving abroad. Lulu Belle Carroll, age 9, found the bodies while their mother worked in a war plant.
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Britain to resume double summer time in August
London dates the government announces a return to double summer time starting April 2 and lasting until August 13. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison informed the House of Commons, placing London clocks six hours ahead of Eastern War Time, up from five hours.
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Fire Chief Dies After Blaze Directing Firemen
Overexertion while directing firefighters at a residential fire led to the death 45 minutes later of Fire Chief Frank Stahl aged 44 in Mansfield.
Tax man Joseph G Nunan Jr named U S commissioner of internal revenue
Joseph G Nunan Jr of Douglaston New York is named the new U S commissioner of internal revenue succeeding Robert E Hannegan who resigned to become Democratic national committee chair
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Douglaston, N. Y
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Black Woman Crowned Queen at West Chester Winter Ball
Miss Rosalie Terry of Philadelphia was chosen queen of West Chester State Teachers College midwinter formal in a predominantly white student body. Six white finalists who lost earlier formed her court at the dance.
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West Chester State Teachers College
Rosalie Terry
Philadelphia
Hitler purge alleged by Estonian refugees report
Stockholm reporting Estonian refugees arrive in Sweden and claim Adolf Hitler visited Pskov and Narva and Reval at the end of January and ordered execution of some high German officers for poor showing against the Red Army on the northern front.
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New Agency Advises Soldiers and Families
The War Department announced a personal affairs division of the army service forces to aid soldiers and their families with information and advice on personal and family problems.
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Washington
War Department
Army Service Forces
Subpoenas Issued for 17 Witnesses in Collett Trial
Fayette County common pleas court has requested a subpoena for 17 witnesses for the James W. Collett trial. The defense attorney James N. Linton announced the start date is Monday.
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