Nazis Retreat Fifty Miles in Caucasus Front
Russia reports a 50 mile northward advance in the Caucasus with shattered German counter-attacks and the capture of towns near Rostov. Soviet dispatches claim heavy German losses, Stalingrad pressure, and German officers fleeing by plane as Red Army widens the break in the Axis line.
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Adolf Hitler
Rostov
London
DNB
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Don-Volga
Reuters
Moscow
Georgievsk-Minerainye Vody
Lower
Don
Velikie Luki
Red Army
Friday Deadline for War Ration Book No 1
Washington expects Friday to be the final day to obtain War Ration Book No 1. The Office of Price Administration notes Book No 2 will be issued only to Book No 1 holders and will cover point rationing for various commodities, with Book No 1 currently used for sugar and coffee.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Ohio to Prepare Plans for Post War Program
Columbus bill proposes a 11 member commission to shape Ohio postwar policy and present plans within 60 days after hostilities end. Senator Frank E. Bubna sponsors the measure in the General Assembly.
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Ohio
Columbus
General Assembly
Frank E. Bubna
Cuyahoga
Burley tobacco price drops on Kentucky markets
Burley price on Kentucky markets fell nearly one dollar in three days with the general average at 42.90 dollars per hundredweight yesterday. In Uhrichsville Ohio a 17 year old, Jacob F. Riggs, was killed when an auto rammed his parked car as he changed a tire on Route 16.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Uhrichsville
Jacob F. Riggs
Route 16
17000 Miners Idle in Pennsylvania Amid Wage Dispute
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania 2000 striking miners returned to work after a War Labor Board order, while about 17000 others remained idle on the 16th day of the wildcat strike. unions pressed for wage bonuses and peaceful negotiations as tensions rise across collieries.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
WLB
Hudson Coal Company
Baltimore No. 5
Glen Alden Coal Company
Wanamie
United Mine Workers
Army Dispatch Rider Held Up By Armed Men
Four men hijacked Army dispatch rider Private Raymond L. Mosher near North Kingstown Rhode Island at gunpoint and rifled official papers before returning them and claiming they were not there. Mosher was forced to drive the Army truck for over a mile to a secluded lane before the suspects fled in a sedan. State police set up a dragnet and handed the case to the FBI in Providence.
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North Kingstown
R. T
Raymond L. Mosher
Springfield
Mass
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Providence
Aviation Industry Finds Printing Press Valuable
In Columbus the Curtiss-Wright Corporation announces that using printing presses to make steel patterns for airplane parts cuts man hours and materials by 85 percent, solving a major production problem for Navy scouting and bombing planes.
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Columbus
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Italian Sicilian Coast Defenses Strengthened
Berlin radio dispatch from Palermo reports heavy strengthening of Italian and Sicilian coastal defenses to guard against invasion. The broadcast notes intensified fortifications along the coastlines and cites heightened alert as tensions rise in the region.
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New York
Berlin
Palermo
Students To Do Many Jobs In War Effort
About two million high school students will work part time after school and on vacations for the duration of the war to aid manpower. The estimate comes from Lyle Spencer of Science Research Associates after a year long survey of the United States employment outlook. The teen age draft law limits work after turning 18 to what is necessary for technical war occupations.
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Chicago
Lyle Spencer
Science Research Associates
U S Ships Sunk Since First Loss Marked by Year Anniversary
A year after a Nazi U boat attacked off New York Harbor the Associated Press tallies 587 sunk United Nations vessels as of Jan 11. Of these 504 ships were United Nations merchant vessels, 262 of them American.
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Washington
New York
United Nations
United States
Caribbean
Associated Press
America
Love Will Find Way Despite War Time Union
Shig Nishimura, a Japanese sergeant in the U. S. Army, wed Yaeko Nakamura in an Army chaplain ceremony after overcoming hurdles from two service commands the FBI and a relocation board regional director. Nishimura enlisted in 1941 in Tacoma Washington and met Nakamura there. she later moved to Newell California with her family before the marriage.
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Columbus
Shig Nishimura
U. S. Army
Yaeko Nakamura
Nishimura
Tacoma
Wash
Miss Nakamura
Fort Hayes
Newell
Calif
FBI
Relocation Board
Social Security Sidetracked by Immediate Legislative Needs
Washington reports that urgent congressional action on new taxes and related revenue measures will likely push aside President Roosevelt’s proposed expansion of social security. Senate Finance Chairman George said Ways and Means and Finance calendars will be crowded with pay as you earn tax bills debt-limit increases and trade agreement authorities for months.
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Washington
Roosevelt
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance
Senate
War Supplies to China Ridiculously Small Say Beijing Official
London director of the Chinese ministry of information Dr K C George Yeh said war supplies reaching China are ridiculously small. He commented on President Roosevelt's address noting larger air shipments than those carried via the Burma Road, now controlled by Japan.
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London
K. C. George Yeh
Chinese Ministry of Information
China
Roosevelt
United States Congress
Burma Road
Train Women To Be Airplane Designers
New York move your drawing board over the Lady has designs. Curtiss-Wright selects 400 young women from 100 American colleges for a ten month course in six engineering schools. They will be known as cadettes.
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New York
Curtiss- Wright Company
Emergency Corps Mobilized to Harvest Special Crops
Byron D. Ruth president of the Farmers Club announces an Emergency Corps called Agricultural Reservists to help harvest berries and truck garden crops near Cleveland. The corps will recruit residents with no prior farm experience to assist during the harvest season.
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Cleveland
Byron D. Ruth
Farmers Club of the Chamber of Commerce
Logan Man Frank Poling Dies at 74 in Perry County
Frank S. Poling age 74 died this morning at a Zanesville hospital. He lived near Maxwell in Perry County. Funeral arrangements are being completed.
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Logan
Franks
Poling
Zanesville
Maxwell
Perry County
Allied planes strike Lae and targets in Pacific theater
Allied air forces bombed Lae and other New Guinea targets including Salamaua Madang and Finschhafen while raids on Akyab Kyauktaw and Merauke were reported. US Navy torpedo boats attacked Japanese destroyers off Guadalcanal, scoring multiple hits and forcing withdrawal.
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India
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Kyauktaw
Guadalcanal
Navy
Navy Department
Canada Steel Strike Expands to Four More Plants
The United Steel Workers strike spread to four Canadian plants as 7,500 more workers quit, bringing total on strike to about 12,500. Ottawa authorities warn production could drop by over two thirds, affecting Algoma Steel at Sault Ste Marie and three Dominion Steel plants at Trenton Nova Scotia.
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Toronto
United Steel Workers of America
CSO
Ottawa
Canada
Algoma Steel Corporation
Sault, Ste. Marie
Ont
Naval Committee Plans Broad Review of Sea Warfare
Washington officials say the House Naval Committee will undertake a broad review of American sea warfare since Pearl Harbor. A portion of the hearing will examine Navy efforts to replace men with WAVES so combat troops can return to the fleet and fight.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Jenkins urges extending of flood control
In Washington two Ohio congressmen urge continuing the national flood control program to support vital war effort projects. They cite the Ohio River flood defenses as proof, while President Roosevelt calls for limited spending. Jenkins notes flood walls protected communities and saved money and distress.
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Washington
Ohio
Michael J. Kirwan
Youngstown
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Roosevelt
Congress
Jenkins
Ohio River
Fairs Should Continue During War Say Ohio Expert
Dean John F Cunningham of Ohio State University urged the Ohio Farm Managers Association that fairs and agricultural expositions should be held in wartime. He said these events promote continual improvement of livestock and farm product quality and type.
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Columbus
John F. Cunningham
Ohio State University College of Agriculture
Ohio Farm Managers Association
Eight Discharged for Causing Wildcat Strikes
Eight workers at the Bohn Aluminum and Brass plant in Detroit were discharged at the Army’s request for alleged responsibility in a series of unauthorized strikes last month. Seven were fired by Bohn. the remaining worker, who had joined Packard Motor Car Company since the strikes began, was also discharged at the Army’s request.
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Detroit
Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp
Bohn Corporation
Packard Motor Car Company
Air patrols claim no U boats within 300 miles of British shores
London reports Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair stating that Britain's anti submarine patrols are so effective that no U boat dares surface within 300 miles of the British coastline, reflecting confidence in naval defenses.
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London
Britain
Archibald Sinclair
Special Milk Prices To Be Raised Friday
The regional Office of Price Administration authorized raises in special milk prices and elimination of volume-discount cuts for Ohio Michigan Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia. Effective tomorrow dealers may align special milks with adjusted plain milk prices with four types capped at the regular price.
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Cleveland
Regional
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
OPA
Advocates Closing Of Snooty Schools In Wartime Readjustment
Dr John Dale Russell of the University of Chicago urges scrap of snooty schools for wealthy youths as a wartime reform. He also favors ending intercollegiate athletics to redirect resources during readjustment.
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Cleveland
John Dale Russell
University of Chicago
Assure Parents Ample Supply of Baby Milk
Washington officials from the agriculture department said there is no reason for anxious parents to worry about evaporated milk supplies for babies. Infants will be assured of ample supplies even if acute shortages develop.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Food Distribution
Germans mobilize unfit men to bolster retreating army
Stockholm reports a commission of senior officers tours the Reich to draft men deemed unfit for combat but fit for garrison duties or desk work. The move aims to add up to 2,000,000 soldiers, though it pressures Fritz Sauckel to replace labor losses across occupied territories and wartime industries.
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Stockholm
Reich
Allied Air Offense Rains 100 Tons on Ruhr Targets Night Raid
Britain's 1943 aerial offensive strikes Germany for the eighth time in 11 nights with 100 tons of high explosives and incendiaries aimed at Ruhr war industries including Essen and Krupp works. Four RAF bombers missing. daylight raid on Lille described as one of the heaviest over occupied Europe with American planes missing. Allied actions extend to North Africa as Rommel’s positions and Axis convoys are attacked while Montgomery’s Eighth Army pushes toward Tripoli.
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Britain
Germany
France
Holland
London
RAF
Ruhr
Essen
Krupp Armament Works
Europe
Lille
St. Omer
Venturas
Abbeville
Shuttlin
Channe
Axis
North Africa
United Nations
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Tunisia
Tripolitania
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Tripoli
Sidi Arat
Tunis
Tunis-Bizerte
Kairouan
Berlin
Atlas Mountains
Eighth Army
Misurata
Sousse
Tunisian
Cairo
Reuters
Henri Honore Giraud
Jacques Leclerc
Gibraltar
North African
AEF
John E. Seal 78 Dies at McArthur
John E. Seal aged 78 died at his home in McArthur yesterday evening. Survived by his wife Etta two nephews Lt Commander George Paffenbarger and Prof. Ralph Paffenbarger of Ohio State University and a niece by marriage Mrs. Ida Freeman of Westerville. Funeral services set at Tinker Funeral Home tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Interment in Elk Cemetery.
Ohio boards can set school year dates under state law
Robert L. Roche of the Ohio Department of Education said local boards of education may fix and change the dates of school years and semesters under Ohio statutes. The statement clarifies school calendar authority for districts in Columbus.
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Columbus
Ohio
Boards of Education
Robert L. Roche
State Department of Education
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Mallison
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Thomas Sullivan
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Cape of Good Hope
Frank Poling
Rock Lae
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Burma
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New Guinea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Madang
Finschhafen
Merauke
Dutch New Guinea
Charles Bedaux
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Canada Steel
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Anna Mae Mackay
Fritz Sauckel
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McArthur
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