Lewis' Contract Demands Blasted By Operators
UMW Chief John L. Lewis unveiled 18 demands in wage and control terms as talks start on a new contract due March 31. Operators fear his plan creates a political fund of 50 to 60 million dollars yearly and could leverage shutoffs, with shifts paid at extra rates, veterans protections, housing, and seven hour workday goals among disputed items.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMWA
Canned Fruits Point Values To Be Raised
Washington reports a Blue Points increase for canned mixed fruits peaches pineapple pears and tomatoes starting Sunday. No 2% can up from 60 to 80 points. tomatoes rise 10 points to 30. Other blue point values stay the same for March as new stamps P2 Q2 R2 S2 become valid through June 30 with each stamp worth 10 points.
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Washington
Gifts Presented To Men Entering Service
Gifts of candy and cigars along with New Testaments were given to Athens County Selective Service Board No 1 inductees. The items were provided by the K T Crossen Post American Legion and Gideon Society. Distribution was handled by Mrs C E Dupler and Mrs John Mikros, auxiliary leaders.
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K. T. Crossen Post
American Legion
Gideon Society
Athens County Selective Service Board
C. E. Dupler
National Defense Committee of the Legion, Auxiliary
John Mc ¥Iros
Mrs Haake Dies At Home In Pekin Illinois
Mrs Ray James received word of the death of her aunt Mrs RW Haake age ... Pekin Illinois. She was the former Miss Ada Holland of Athens County and the last survivor of her immediate family.
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Ray James
Haake
Pekin
Ada Holland
Athens County
River Rises Again After More Rain in Athens
The Athens area saw a 45 degree high and 35 degree low yesterday with a mid morning rise to 40. Rain measured two and eight hundredths inches as the river begins to come up, standing at 7.6 feet. February records show a 3 degree high on the 15th and 3 below on the 5th with five clear days.
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Athens
Midwest Granaries Crowded With Surplus
Kansas City reports Midwestern granaries bursting with over a million bushels of corn and more than two hundred million bushels of wheat. Board of trade officials urge the ODT to secure railroad cars to move the surplus, amid mounting concern over storage and distribution.
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Kansas City
Board of Trade
ODT
Flood on Ohio Still Doubtful forecast questions crest risk
Heavy rains between here and the Ports Mouth may push the Ohio River above a predicted crest of 50 feet. U S River Forecaster George R Marth says the outcome depends on storms in the southwest and will be clearer later. Rainstorms were reported from Texas Kansas Missouri and Illinois into Pittsburgh as the rise near flood stage began to fall. Fire damage estimated at $10000 hit the Copperweld Steel plant in Warren during war production.
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Cincinnsts
GPI
Ohio River
George R. Marth
U.S
Southwest
Ohio Valley
Marth
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Illlinois
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Warren
Copperweld Steel Corp
U S Casualties Rise to Over Eight Hundred Thousand
Washington reports total U S casualties since Pearl Harbor at 813 032 with Army at 722 695 and Navy 90 337. Stimson notes Italian invasion losses 100 790 from Sept 1943 to Feb 1945 including 19 889 killed and 70 402 wounded. Army breakdown lists 140 366 killed 430 757 wounded 60 535 prisoners 91 037 missing. Navy figures show 34 282 killed 40 904 wounded 4 476 prisoners 10 674 missing. In Cleveland, Marvin Lilly is jailed for 10 years in an $800 robbery at Girard Savings and Loan.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Navy
Italy
Yanks Digging in On Banks of Rhine
American soldiers dug foxholes on the west banks of the Rhine as Maj. Gen. Macon's 83rd Division, built from Ohio and Indiana men, pushed to the river in a swift assault. Thunderbolt fighter bombers pounded roads to the Rhine while thousands of French and Polish prisoners were freed and embraced the mud soaked soldiers.
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Ninth Army
The
Rhine
Robert C. Macon
83Rd Division
Thunderbolt
83Rd
Ohio
Indiana
Lower Rhine
First Army
Alps
Strasbourg
Neuss
Second Armored
Neuss Canal
2000 Bombers Back Western Front Assault
Fleets of 2000 heavy bombers backed Allied armies as 750 to 1000 RAF bombers hit Cologne and 1200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacked rail and oil targets in southeastern Germany. The operation aimed to annihilate German troops disrupt communications and cripple transport. February figures show 2000 tons of bombs dropped by British and American planes.
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London
UPI
Cologne
U. S
First Arm
Germany
Reich
Berlin
Dresden
Red Army
Chemnitz
Krupp Tank
Magdeburg
Bohren
Rositz
Leipzig
Rhine
Wallace Accepts Commerce Post After Long Political Wanderings
Henry Agard Wallace is appointed secretary of commerce at 15000 a year, returning to federal service after leaving the vice presidency January 20. The Senate confirmed him 56 to 32 after a two hour debate, and he will take the oath from Justice Hugo L. Black. He will avoid federal lending agencies previously run by Jesse Jones.
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Washington
Henry Agard Wallace
Senate
Wallace
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Jesse Jones
Plan Work Ideas for Prisoners After War
Ohio prison staff focus on war work with plans to keep inmates productive. State Welfare Director Frazier Reams said superintendents have been asked to submit ideas and will meet monthly to discuss and exchange plans.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frazier Reams
Reams
Logan Firm Charged With Wage Violation
Cleveland report shows the War Labor Board enforcement division announcing findings against Ohio firms for wartime wage code violations. Logan Clay Products Co. of Logan is named, with penalties totaling $1,200 and related actions cited.
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Cleveland
War Labor Board
Ohio
Logan Clay Products Co
Logan
Six Detroit Factories Closed by Strikes
War industry disruption spreads as six Detroit plants shut down and operations at 14 others slow. About 29,900 workers idle, with figures likely to grow. In Washington the War Department says Dr Rollin G Myers of Mansfield Ohio was among civilians freed in the Philippines.
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Detroit
Washington
War J Department
Rollin G. Myers
Mansfield, C
Philippines
Yanks Strike Toward Borneo in Palawan Invasion
General MacArthur returns to Corregidor as B 29s and veteran invasion forces push southwest toward Japan’s conquests. Palawan is seized with Puerto Princesa abandoned, two airfields captured, and the port placed in use. Marines break enemy defenses on Iwo Jima while attacks extend toward Borneo, Sumatra, and Singapore with submarines and air strikes continuing in the Pacific theater.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor
Japan
Dist
Palawan
Philippine Archipelago
Borneo
Sumatra
Singapore
India
U. S
Bonin Islands
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Iwo
Morrie Landsberg
Puerto Printesa
MacArthur
Manila
Marikina
First Cavalry Division
Verne D. Mudge
Antipolo
Cardona
la Buna de Bay
Robert S. Beightler
37Th Infantry
North Borneo
Formosa J
Hong Kong
China
Nazi Retreat Called Rout Near Cologne In Rhine Advance
American forces push to the Rhine with the Ninth Army within two miles of Neuss and five miles of Cologne. Venlo captured clearing the Maas Rhine plain as Luftwaffe bombers strike ahead of advancing units.
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Cologne
Associated Press
U.S
Ninth Army
Rhine
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Muenchen Gladbach
Venlo
Simpson
U. S. First Army
Tthe
Canadian Fire Army
Neuss
Maas River
Maas
15Th Army
Rheyde
Meunchen Glad
Bach
Duisburg
Bonn
Warsaw Man Isaac W. Sharp Turns 97 on March 9
Isaac W. Sharp of Warsaw Indiana, former commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, celebrates his 97th birthday on March 9. Strongly named entities and a historic affiliation are noted, reflecting a milestone in the veteran’s life.
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Isaac W. Sharp
Warsaw
Ind
Grand Army of the Republic
Use of Boys 18 in Combat Is Explained
Secretary of War Stimson defended sending 18 year olds as combat replacements in Europe and likely the Pacific. He argued younger soldiers improved training and saved lives, noting distinctions between draining a division and training individuals. Most replacements since July 1943 had 17 weeks in basic camps.
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Washington
Stimson
Europe
Pacific
Congress
Veleven
Rationing To Stay Says OPA
OPA deputy administrator James G. Rogers Sr. said major rationing controls cannot end until the Pacific war is won. He warned shortages will worsen as military demands rise, naming meats butter sugar canned fruits vegetables gasoline fuel oil shoes and tires as increasingly hard to obtain. Count Carlo Sforza was named Italian envoy to France with the rank of ambassador.
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Cleveland
Ipi
James G. Rogers, Sr
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Rogers
France
Paris
Carlo Sforza I
Tfoday
Texle
Mussolini
Yanks Confused by Nazi Uniforms in Rhine Drive
American forces pushing across the Rhine report confusion over the variety of German uniforms as they overrun about 50 towns. The First and Third Armies fight near Trier and Coblenz while Volkssturm units and villagers show morale strain. British patrols observe German vehicles fleeing toward the Rhine in the Krefeld area ahead of Ninth Army advances.
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Sinth
Duesseldorf
Meinchen Gladbach
Cologne
Third Army
Trier
Ruhr
Paris
Volkssturmietrs
Coblenz
Middle Rhine
Rhine
Krefeld
Allied push near Cologne eyes fate of Von Rundstedt
Allied forces report rapid gains across a broad Rhine plain as the First and Ninth Armies expand bridgeheads east of the Brit River and press toward Cologne. More than 20 000 prisoners were taken in a week while French and Canadian units hold extensive river banks.
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Brit River
Cologne
Ninth Army
Wes Gallagher
von Rundsteat
Brittany
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Rhine
Maas
Ruhr
Red Gains in East Continue In World War II report
German high command says Russian forces reached the Stettin to Danzig highway between Koeslin and Schlawe in Pomerania, near the Baltic coast. Russian lines push toward Koenigsberg as desertions mount and mobile courts martial are cited. Zhukov’s forces press near Stettin while Tolbukhin meets with Alexander after Tito talks in Yugoslavia.
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Stettin-Danzig
Koeslin
Schlawe
Pomerania
Baltic
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Junkers
Rokoslovsky
Marshal Zhukov
Stettin
Berlin
Germany
Feodor K. Tolbhukin
Third Ukraine
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Tolbhukin
Alexander
Marshal Tito
Nazi Prisoners Strike At Camp Perry Over Discipline
About 2,200 German POWs at Camp Perry refused work in a bread and water protest against strict discipline. The halt began at Crile General Hospital and spread, with prisoners confined to solitary and fed only bread and water. Col. E. McCormick said POWs are treated under the Geneva Convention.
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Camp Perry
Wehrmacht
E. ©. McCormick, Jr
Crile General Hospital
Cleveland
Manding
McCormick
Song lauds Ohio soldier Rodger Young of Clyde
A nationwide program will premiere a Sousa style song honoring Pye Rodger Young of Clyde Ohio who died on New Georgia while saving 37th Division comrades. Written by Frank Loesser it promotes infantry heroism and will be broadcast on major radio programs.
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New York
Pye Rodger Young
Clyde, O
New Georgia
Rodger Young
Pfe
Frank Loesser
Army Special Services
Fleeing Huns Attacked By Airmen in Balkans
RAF Mustangs of the Balkan Air Force attacked a German convoy of about 300 vehicles moving northward through Yugoslavia toward Maribor yesterday, with six vehicles afire and 20 severely damaged, and an additional 38 damaged likely. US Air Force Lightnings destroyed 30 locomotives on Austrian rail lines. Roosevelt said treaties on reparations and other peace matters will be submitted to the Senate alongside the world security organization.
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Rome
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Maribor
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
World Security Organization
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