British Make Slight Gains At Beachhead
Allied forces report heavy fighting across Italy with British and American units advancing at Anzio while German counterattacks near Lutsk and in Poland are repelled. Russian offensives push toward Pskov and Dnieper west bank areas as 210 villages fall, and 15,000 German casualties are cited along with 14,900 captured. The week ends with aerial battles over Helsinki and Dalmatian coast activity.
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Baltic States
Red
Ukraine
Nikopol
Dnieper
Kherson
Nikolaev
Black Sea
White Russia
Bobruisk
Minsk
Moscow
Lutsk
Old Poland
Bug River
Italy
Anzio
Rome
U. S
Theth
Eighth
Dancee
Vela Luka
Sibenik
Dalmatian
Paris
Badoglio
Ont
Germany
Hic-kier
Helsinki
Stockholm
Finland
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Badoglio Stands Firm as Government Maintains Power
In Naples Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio declares his government will endure until a better one is found by King Vittorio Emanuele. He faults fascism and says he will stay in power, while British PM Churchill signals Allies may reassess after Rome is reached. Badoglio asks who will lead Rome and answers nobody else.
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Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Vittorio Emanuele
Surehill
Rome
Badoglio
Gas Books Ordered in March Checkup to Trace Coupons
Washington reports the OPA will conduct a weeklong checkup on gasoline books to verify coupon endorsements. Administrator Chester Bowles said writing license tag numbers on coupons is the only fail safe for tracing leaks. Also noted are a fatal Massillon collision that killed Charles 62 and his wife Florence.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Hlask Marlate
Massillon
Charles
Florence
Avi Euvela Pee Yaue
Troop convoy arrives in Britain for invasion push
US forces massing in Britain receive one of the Atlantic’s largest troop convoys. The crossing was uneventful with no submarine contacts and included mechanized units and planes. troops dispersed to American bases across the UK.
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Britain
London
U. S
Europe
Atlantic
United Kingdom
John A. Moroso
Associated Press
Girl Swept Into Drain During Storm in Texas
In Dallas a storm sent Melba Ann Eberle into a sewer when she and her brother Charles crossed a foot bridge. The 9 year old was swept into the sewer opening by a cloudburst while the pair walked near their home.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
Charles Eberle
Melba Ann Eberle
Larger Draft Calls Expected
Ohio draft officials say preinduction physical examinations will expand due to a presidential order directing local draft boards to reassess all deferments. State headquarters had already raised February agricultural deferments and increased March calls by 20 percent amid warnings that rapid farmer inductions could threaten 1944 crop goals.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Selective Service
National Selective Service
Powhatan Mine Work Stoppage Continues
Powhatan coal mine in Bellaire Ohio enters its fifth day as workers refuse to return after a dispute between a foreman and a miner. Adolph Pacifico acting president of District 6 United Mine Workers calls the stoppage unlawful.
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Bellaire
Powhatan
Ohio
Adolph Pacifico
United Mine Works
Derailed Baltimore & Ohio Freight Train Near Here
Thirteen cars of a fast Baltimore and Ohio merchandise freight train derailed one and one half miles south of the town late yesterday. No details on injuries or cause were provided in the report.
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Oxford
Baltimore & Ohio
Here
Pledges Business Loans For Returning Soldiers
Washington officials announce new extensions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation small business loan program for veterans. Returning service members may obtain federal funds to reestablish private enterprises they liquidated, with requirements on experience, seed capital, and demonstrated economic need. Banks may finance the program to the extent possible.
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Secretary of Commerce
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Aebeelos Eneusine
RFC
Destroyers Sink Seven Jap Vessels in South Pacific Raids
U S destroyers roved the Bismarck Archipelago sinking seven Japanese ships and damaging seven more while surfacing defense from shore batteries at Kavieng and Rabaul. Coordinated air strikes hit Wewak and other bases as Kwajalein Eniwetok advances hint at Allied gains in the Marshalls and Carolines.
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South Pacific
U. S
Bismarck Archipelago
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
Nabdaul
Wewak
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Bismarck Sea
Mars
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Marshall Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Ponape
Mariana
Nimitz
Burma
Akyab
Chin
U S Medium Bombers Attack Europe Today
U S Marauder bombers with fighter escorts swept the channel area shortly before noon renewing the attack on German targets after a weekend lull. Former Massachusetts Governor Joseph B Ely announces 1944 presidential bid in Boston stating opposition to FDR and a potential to block a fourth term.
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London
U. S
Itan
Massachusetts
Joseph B. Ely
Boston
FDR
U S Pacific Fleet Revisions Japanese Losses At Truk
Admiral Nimitz announced updated figures from the Truk raid showing 23 ships sunk and 11 damaged, with four additional vessels added to the previous tally. The March 16 assessment maintains 201 enemy planes destroyed and 50 damaged, while no Japanese carriers appear on the revised list.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Truk
Lagoon
Nimitz
United States
Solons Begin Work on New Tax Proposal
The House Ways and Means committee opens efforts to simplify tax law after March 15. Chairman Doughton notes potential for combining taxes into one levy paid through withholdings. Senator Russell proposes an appropriation bill to curb transfers to unappropriated agencies and aims to limit executive branch legislative power, targeting the FEPC.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Doughton
D-Nc
Russell
D-Ga
Congress
Fair Employment Practices Committee
FEPC
Executive Department
Guard Divisions Lead In Bridgehead Battling
The VU S 36th Division established the Rapido River bridgehead on Jan 20 21 and the 34th Division forced its way to Cassino Feb 2. Both are National Guard units with 36th from Texas and 34th from Iowa and Minnesota.
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Fifth Army
Cassino
VU. S. 36Th
Rapido River
National Guard
Texas
Iowa
Minnesota
Enemy planes hit Oulu in Finnish attack
A Finnish communique said enemy aircraft attacked Oulu in central Finland yesterday afternoon and night, causing damage and fires across the city.
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New York
Oulu
Finland
Finn Decision Believed Near
STOCKHOLM The Finnish press prepared the people for a government decision this week on Finland exiting the war with Russia. Helsinki recovered from the worst bombing of the war as 600 Russian bombers hit the capital. Russian troop moves into Finland remained the main obstacle to a Finnish Russian armistice.
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Stockholm
Finland
Russia
Helsinki
Ohio WAVE Killed in Air Transport Crash
A transport training plane crashed at the Olathe naval air station in Kansas killing 11 persons. Seaman first class Mary Kathryn Carr, 30, from Warren Ohio, was among the dead. Five others were injured as the plane pan-caked from 75 feet on take-off.
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Kansas City
Kas
Ohio
Olathe
Naval Air Station
Mary Kathryn Carr
Warren
Ohio Man Drowns in Creek 18 Inches Deep
Eldon T. Davis aged 61 fell from the Mulkey Creek bridge east of Chillicothe while taking a shortcut home after work. He drowned in 18 inches of water, coroner R. E. Oliver stated.
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Ohio
Chillicothe
Eldon T. Davis
Mulkey Creek
R. E. Oliver
Ask Greater Production in Ohio Gardens
Ohio gardeners face heavier draft demands this year as many farmers and victory gardeners join the armed services. H C Ramsower of Ohio State University urges redoubled effort in home gardening and canning, noting the Army’s greater need for canned goods to feed servicemen.
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Columbus
Victory
H. C. Ramsower
Agriculture Extension
Ohio State University
Apa
Armed Services
Ramsower
Army
Group Urges No Relaxing In Standards
A special manpower commission told the White House that military needs must be met by workers with dependents and not by lowering physical standards. It warned modest changes would not raise overall quality and noted ongoing shortages and large 4-F pools.
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Washington
Armed Services
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Pearl Harbor
Naval
Randall Jacobs
Navy
Frank T. Hines
War Supplies Reaching Reds
Washington reports lend lease to the Soviet Union totaled 4.24 billion dollars from Oct 1941 to end 1943. Most ships reached Russia, and more than 3,000 of 7,800 war planes were ferried under their own power.
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Washington
Russia
Red Army
Leo T. Crowley
Soviet Union
Crowley
Engineer Falls From Rail Bridge Crowns
Coast Guard units search the Ohio and Big Miami rivers for the body of W. K. Barlow of North Vernon Indiana a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer believed to have fallen from a bridge after stepping from his cab to inspect a mechanical problem.
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Cincinnati
Coast Guard
Ohio
Big Miami
North Vernon
Ind
Virtual Civil War Rages in France Between Patriots and Collaborationists
Lisbon dispatch reports a covert civil war in France between United Nations partisans and German loyalists. It cites 1,500 police and militia deaths and 1,500–2,000 German troops killed, plus 15,000 sabotage attacks and 1,000 rail strike actions. The piece notes Darnand’s Gestapo and Petain’s Vichy rituals, with courts martial failing to stop organized partisans freeing prisoners before executions.
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France
Taylor Henry Lisbon
United Nations
America
Germany
Joseph Darnan
Gestapo
Henri Petain
Vichy
Darnand
Collett Trial Opens In Washington D H
A nervous farmer, James W. Collett, stands for jury selection in a Washington D H court. Prosecutors seek the death penalty for Collett in the killings of Elmer McCoy and family members during a Thanksgiving eve gathering. A purported confession allegedly signed by Collett is to be offered as evidence.
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Washington
James W. Collett
Elmer McCoy
Forrest
Mildred
John B. Hill
Collett
McCoy
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