Senate Overrules Roosevelt in $2.315 Billion War Tax Bill
Congress votes to override the President's veto and enact a wartime tax measure estimated to raise 2.315 billion dollars over a year. Senate Democrats reelect Barkley as leader after his resignation bid, signaling renewed partisan tension and a push for cross‑branch cooperation.
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Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Barkley
White House
Capitol Hill
Congress
Kley
McKellar
D-Tenn
George
Treasury
Billy Sunday's Son Die in Air Crash Tragedy
Mrs. William A. Sunday confirms her son T. Sunday died in an air crash yesterday near California. Paul Sunday, 36, a Navy patrol bomber test pilot, perished with three other men when the aircraft struck a mountainside.
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Waycross
William A. Sunday
Elist
Billy Sunday
T. Sunday
Paul Sunday
Mhale
Calif
Dallas Fugitive Surrenders After Ohio Penitentiary Escape
Inspector Will Fritz said James Raymond McMinnard, an escaped inmate from Ohio State Penitentiary, surrendered to Dallas police late last night. The case ties a national manhunt to local authorities as McMinnard faces extradition proceedings.
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Dallas
Tex
Inspector of Detectives
Will Fritz
James Raymond Mcmnard
Ohiotate
U S Casualties Total 157 865 36 005 Killed
Washington reports national war casualties total 157 865 with 36 005 dead. From Dec 7 1941 to Feb 7 1944 Army totals 118 128 with 19 499 killed 45 545 wounded 26 339 missing 26 745 prisoners of war. Navy Marine Coast Guard casualties total 39 737 with 16 506 killed 9 322 wounded 9 491 missing 4 418 prisoners. Of 45 545 wounded, 24 289 have returned to duty. One thousand six hundred sixty four prisoners are confirmed dead in enemy camps. actual deaths likely higher.
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Patterson
Sea Services
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Leas Files Nominating Petition for Attorney General
Columbus field reports Charles Leas of Zanesville filed nominating petitions yesterday to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
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Columbus
Charles Leasure
Zanesville
DeHaven descendant seeks repayment from U S in large claim
Mrs Zella Blanche DeHaven Pope of Denver Colorado declares she represents about 300 DeHaven descendants in Colorado Illinois Oklahoma Missouri and Kansas in a suit claiming Uncle Sam owes her debt plus interest totaling roughly 5.9 million dollars dating back to the Revolutionary era when Jacob DeHaven lent 500000.
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Zella Blanche DeHaven Pope
Denver
Colo
Sam
Jacob DeHaven
U. S
Pope
DeHaven
Colorado
Ilinois
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Pacific Sweep Keeps Up Naval Assaults On Japanese Bases
Allied forces reported new surface raids in the South Pacific as the Little Beaver squadron destroyed Japanese ships off New Ireland and shelled Rabaul and Duke of York Island. Bombing strikes hit Truk, the Marshalls, and Bougainville while U S troops advanced toward Saidor New Guinea. In Burma airfields and coastal positions faced heavy Allied attacks as British and Allied forces press the Arakan campaign.
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Pacific
Solomons
South Pacific
Kavieng
New Ireland
Duke of York Island
Rabaul
Bismarck
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty
New Britain
Truk
Marianas
Marshalls Atoll
Japan
Kwajalein
Roi Islands
Kwajalein Atoll
U. S. Navy
Eniwetok
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Associated Press
Vern Haugland
Palau
Bougainville
New Guinea
Saidor
Madang
Burma
Akyab
Arakan
Mayu
Kaladan
Magwe
Upper Chindwin
Ngakyedauk
Mayu Hills
Oter
New Delhi
Ohio's Frances Bolton Voices Tax Bill Stand
Rep. Frances Bolton of Ohio, one of three Republicans who backed Roosevelt's veto on the tax bill, said the bill was not good. She stressed the nation is at war and vast sums must be raised and paid promptly.
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Washington
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Roosevelt
Alben Barkley
Would-Be Assassin of Duce Appointed Purge Chief
Tito Samboni a Socialist with 18 years in prison for an alleged Mussolini assassination plot has been named high commissioner of national purging by Premier Badoglio to investigate and try Pro-Fascist Italians in Naples.
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Naples
Tito Samboni
Benito Mussolini
Badoglio
Nation's Tax Bill Reaches Record High With Veto Override
The Senate overrode the president's veto to raise the wartime revenue act total to over 42 billion dollars annually. Higher postal rates take effect in 30 days, with April 1 bringing excise tax increases on liquor and other goods, while individual income taxes remain due March 15.
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Washington
Senate
Ramirez Quits As President of Argentina
Montevideo reports Gen. Pedro Ramirez resigns as Argentina’s president, Gen. Edelmiro Farrell takes over the military government. Censorship limits details while cabinet tensions and axis break with allies spark palace upheaval and Peron ally links loom over foreign policy.
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Montevideo
Edelmiro J. Farrell
Argentina
Pedro Ramirez
Buenos Aires
Ramirez
Farrell
Juan Domingo Peron
Labor and Welfare
Gou
Alberto Gilbert
Germany
Sparnon Rites To Be Sunday
Logan Staff Special Reuben Sparnon 78 longtime Carbon Hill resident and Hocking County figure died early today at Cherry- ton Hospital after his son Darl Sparnon died last Saturday. Funeral services set for Carbon Hill Methodist Church Sunday with body at the Darl Sparnon home then Carbon Hill residence. He was born in Wales and lived in Pennsylvania Wyoming before settling in Carbon Hill where he mined for years. Survived by two sisters Edith Keegle Washington and Abigail Powell abroad and several grandchildren. He belonged to Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows for years.
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Logan
Reuben Sparnon
Carbon Hill
Hocking County
Cherrington Hospital
Darl O. Sparnon
Darl Sparnon
Carbon Hill Methodist Church
Mr. Sparnon
Wales
United States
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Sparnon
Edith Keegle
Washington
Abigail Powell
West
Knights of Pythias and
Odd Fellows Lodge
Prepare for Evacuation of Austrian Capital
A Budapest dispatch to Morgan Tidningen reports Vienna authorities plan to evacuate the city starting March 1. The move reflects growing security concerns and authorities brace for orderly departure of residents and key institutions.
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Stockholm
Budapest
Morgan Tidningen
Vienna
Reds Push Westward After Capturing White Russia Base
The Associated Press reports Vitebsk evacuated as Soviet forces sweep from Rogachev and Dno through German defenses. German losses include 4,000 killed and many captured. Moscow says Rokossovsky’s army has captured Rogachev and advanced 15 miles on a 30 mile front near Minsk.
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White Russia
Vitebsk
Old Poland
East Prussia
Berlin
Rogachev
Dno
Schweinfurt
Germany
Hes
Rogachevs
Zhlobin
Minsk
Stalin
Constantin Rokossovsky
Pripet
Allied Attack in Italy Foretold by Front Reinforcements
Stockholm based paper cites Berlin correspondent reporting a lull before a major Allied assault on the Cassino line with reinforcements from Britain India and French Morocco. It notes heavy aftermath including 4000 enemy deaths and captures of 62 big guns along with prisoners and matériel. The report also mentions Rogachev and Vitebsk falls signaling a potential new Russian offensive toward Minsk.
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Stockholm
Umm— Aftenbladet
Berlin
Italy
Cassino
Rogachev
Vitebsk
Zhlobin
Gomel
Gomelyaminsk
Minsk
RAF and US RAF Bomber Strikes Hit Schweinfurt and Steyr
Allied air forces from Britain and the United States conducted daylight raids on Schweinfurt and Steyr with heavy losses. The day and night operations involved about a thousand bombers and multiple formations from Italy and the UK, aiming at ball bearing plants and aircraft factories.
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London
RAF
Britain
Schweinfurt
Italy
Steyr
U. S
Austria
Eighth Airforce
Death Penalty Sought in McCoy Case
Prosecutor John B. Hill said he would seek the death penalty as James W. Collett faces trial for the Thanksgiving Eve slaying of Elmer McCoy and the shooting of his wife Forrest and daughter Mildred. The exact counts to be tried were not disclosed.
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Washington
John B. Hill
James W. Collett
Elmer Mce
Collett
Elmer McCoy
Forrest
Mildred
President Roosevelt Resting Away From Washington After Tax Veto
President Roosevelt, slowed by influenza, rests away from the capital. He remains connected to White House communications but is isolated from press. He urged Senate Leader Barkley not to resign over the veto, with no official reason given for his absence.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Senate
Barkley
Rum Removed From Rationed Liquor List
Ohio liquor rationing ends rum from the list while brandy is restored as a bonus for March 1 to April 8. Liquor Director Don A. Fisher says rum supplies are adequate for unrestricted purchases despite shortages reported in some metropolitan stores.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don A. Fisher
Truk Raid Reveals Weak Japanese Anti Aircraft Defenses
Eyewitness accounts describe a two day February attack on Truk by U S forces. American ships closed in to sink a Japanese cruiser and bombard ships while carrier planes downed about 201 enemy aircraft. Many Japanese ships fled as American dive bombers attacked a convoy 90 miles west of Truk.
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Elmont Waite
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Truk
United States
Caroline Islands
LA. Comdr
Donald B. Ingerstew
Trenton
Wham
Cmdr
William G. Privette
Chapel Hill
N. C
Ingerslew and
Harrison
Privette
Ingersien
Renewed attacks on Anzio beachhead face heavy losses
Allied Fifth Army repelled two German thrusts near Carroceto despite a seven inch snowstorm and improved positions on Monte Castellone west of Cairo. On Cassino front German forces probed Monte Abate while Lower Garigliano sector threats were halted. Spitfires shot down 13 enemy aircraft. Australian bomber sinks 5,000 ton merchant ship off Yugoslavia. Partisans land on Brac Island. The Curzon Line dispute surfaces in London amid Polish newspaper commentary.
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Carroceto
Fifth
Monte Abate
Terelle
Cassino
Garigliano
Monte Castellone
Cairo
Italy
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Brac
Split
Dziennik Polski
London
Churchill
Commons
Farm Leaders Hit Draft Rule
Four major farm groups protest new selective service directives calling them drastic and contrary to national farm interests. Maj. Gen. Hershey to testify as Senate committee probes 1.7 million farm labor deferments while leaders from Farm Bureau, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, National Grange and National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation sign the joint statement.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Edward A. O'Neil
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ezra T. Benson
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Fred C. Brenckman
National Grange
Charles W. Holman
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Two Die in Springfield Auto Crash on Route 69
Two persons, Mrs. Henrietta Quichet 63 and Earl Jones 63 both of Lakeview, died in a State Route 69 collision near Springfield yesterday. Two others were injured: Fred Quichet 66, driver, and Raymond Marker 48 of Troy.
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Springfield
Here
Henrietta Quichet
Earl Jones
Lakeview
Fred Quichet
Raymond Marker
Troy
Kinsey Comedy Company’s First Leading Lady Dies
Elizabeth Kinsey Miller, famed as the Kinsey Comedy Company’s first leading lady, who toured Ohio as a tent theater troupe, has died. The obituary notes her pioneering stage work and long career in regional entertainment. She helped shape early touring theater in Ohio.
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Elizabeth Kinsey Miller
Old Kinsey Comedy Company
Ohio
Grass fire death of farmer B W Russell report
Coroner W W Lynd ruled the 77 year old B W Russell died from over exertion and suffocation while battling a grass fire on his Chesapeake area farm. The death was reported as an accidental farm incident with no foul play indicated.
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Chesapeake
B. W. Russell
Here
W. W. Lynd
Franklin Woman Slain At Farm Near Franklin
Warren County deputies hunted a suspect after Myrtle Rogers aged 44 was found strangled and beaten to death at a farm home in Franklin. The body was discovered by her six year old nephew Leal Baron when he returned from school with his mother Pauline Balon. Residents said they shared the home with the slain woman and Balon’s sister.
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Lebanon
Warren County
Franklin
Myrtle Rogers
Reject Proposal to Defer Great Lakes Seamen
Washington reports that a proposal to defer Great Lakes seamen on the same basis as offshore seamen was rejected by selective service. The idea to assure adequate personnel for ore land grain vessels on the lakes came from the War Shipping Administration's recruitment and manning organization after a conference with Great Lakes carriers maritime unions and government agencies.
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Washington
Great Lakes
War Shipping Administration
Yank Fighters Are Not Driven on by Hatred
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland Ohio said on his return from war fronts that American soldiers, wounded or not, do not hate the enemy. He called war a dirty messy business the country did not want but that the enemy must be defeated.
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New York
Barnett R. Brickner
Cleveland
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