Germans Admit Loss of Rzhev in New Russian Offensive
The Russians claim a major breakthrough northwest of Moscow with Demyansk falling as part of a broader new offensive. German units retreat under pressure while Italian forces withdraw to Italy. Allied forces in Tunisia and Sicily press advances as Berlin endures RAF strikes and casualties.
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Semeon Timoshenko
Rzhev
Moscow
Berlin
RAF
Germany
Tunisia
Jurgen von Arnim
Erwin Rommel
Demyansk
Baltic States
Velikie Luki
Russia
Hitler
Eighth Army
Italy
Kazar Mezous
First Army
von Arnim
Sbeitla
Reuters
North Africa
Palermo
Middle East
Cairo
Sweden
Meats Cheese Butter and Fats to Be Rationed April First
Washington AP reports that meats cheese butter and cooking fats and oils will be rationed starting April 1 under current food and rationing agency plans. Red coupons from the No 2 Ration Book would be used and meat rations may run about 1½ pounds per person weekly. Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said the rationing start would be discussed at a later press conference. Cheese will be rationed with meat and butter margarine and cooking fats will be grouped for rationing due to interchangeability.
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Washington
Prentiss Brown
Rooney appeals I A classification as essential actor
Hollywood film star Mickey Rooney's employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filed an appeal to the draft board claiming he is an essential man in an essential industry. The submission was made about a month after Rooney was classified I A and is on file at state draft headquarters.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Mickey
West Los Angeles
Selective Service Board
Army glider crashes near Portsmouth injures crew
A breaking loose glider detached from its tow plane and crashed at Lucasville yesterday killing one occupant and injuring another. Both aircraft operated from Pope Field near Charlotte North Carolina.
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Portsmouth
Lucasville
Pope Field
Charlotte
N. C
Fire destroys 91 year old Richmond Presbyterian Church
A blaze yesterday leveled the 91 year old Presbyterian Church in Richmond near Steubenville. Estimated loss is $10,000, with fire officials investigating the cause.
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Steubenville
Richmond
Farm Worker Deferment Bill Seeks Broad Draft Exemption
Sponsors of a blanket draft deferment for all farm workers claim a possible majority of 43 senators as opponents push a narrower substitute. Senator Bankhead says support may pass though War Department opposes the measure which would impose a January 1 1944 end date. In the House the Kilday Bill for deferments for married men and those with children stalls awaiting rules committee action.
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Washington
Bankhead
Military Committee
War Department
Selective Service
Army
More Milk Is Used in Ohio War Diet Increases
Ohio dairy experts report higher milk use in the wartime diet with class one milk consumption across 19 major markets reaching 82,588,000 pounds in January a 24 percent rise from January 1942. An extra 24,765,000 pounds went to processors versus the previous January bringing total 19 area supplies to 102,269,000 and 107,353,000 pounds across January 1942 and 1943 respectively.
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Columbus
Fourteen Ohioans Fined in Lottery Violation Case
Chicago federal court fined 62 people twenty five dollars each after guilty pleas to conspiring to violate lottery laws in a system handling over one million dollars. Six Ohioans failed to appear for arraignment. Indicted last December they acted as agents selling lottery tickets on baseball games treasury balances and race track mutual numbers.
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Chicago
Treasury
Ohio Senate Ed Committee backs higher school subsidy
The Senate education committee recommended passage of a bill by Sen. Virgil E. Cramer that would raise Ohio annual subsidies to schools from 4 million to 5 million dollars. It shifts payment basis to average monthly enrollment and increases per pupil daily payment through the eighth grade from 25 to 29 cents.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Virgil E. Cramer
Lucas
Knox Seeks Action on Wartime Absenteeism
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the House Naval Committee that time lost in war plants from absenteeism far exceeds losses from strikes and had been rising over the past year. He supported a bill requiring contractors to report work absences to help induct persistent absentees into military service.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Price ceilings for beef and pork near, Brown announces
Washington D C price administrator Prentiss M Brown told a Senate committee that uniform national dollar and cent ceilings on beef and pork would be set soon to curb meat black markets. He noted independents face squeeze from live cattle and hog prices and questioned whether cheese butter and fats will join rationing. initial meat ration hinges on Agriculture Department checks on diverted meat.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Senate
Wickard
OPA
The
Food Administration
Agriculture Department
Chiang speech calls for charity and unity after victory
Madame Chiang Kai-shek addressed 17,000 in Madison Square Garden and a national audience urging a postwar world built on justice, cooperation, and mutual respect. She advocated forgiveness for enemies as the United Nations approach victory looms. Lieutenant General Arnold outlined a US Air Force aim for broad bombing of Japan to crush the foe on its soil.
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New York
Chiang Kai-Shek
United Nations
Madison Square Garden
Mme. Chiang
H. H. Arnold
United States Army Air Force
Japan
Lieut. Ches ter F Steward Rites Set at Columbia High
Funeral services for Lieut Ches ter F Steward of Carpenter killed in an Army airplane crash in Texas will be held Saturday March 6 at 2 PM at Columbia High School. The Reverend F G Strickland will conduct the eastern wartime service. Steward a 1938 Columbia High graduate and Grange member died on a routine flight.
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Carpenter
Chester F. Steward
Texas
Columbia High School
F. G. Strickland
Meigs County
Williamsport
Steward
Charles Steward
The
Grange
Axis Diplomats From Africa Interned Here
Former German and Italian consuls general at Algiers with their staffs and families have been captured by U S forces in North Africa and arrived in the United States under guard at the Ingleside Hotel near Staunton Virginia. The state department says negotiations are under way for exchange of these Axis officials.
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Washington
Algiers
United States
North Africa
Ingleside
Staunton
State Department
Wallace to address Franklin County farmers Monday
Vice President Henry A. Wallace will speak to a Franklin County farmers and consumers gathering in Columbus as part of National Farm Day observance nationwide.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin County
Stolen Kiss Brings Year's Jail Sentence
Ohio judge jails James Del Gregg of Cincinnati for one year after convicting him of contributing to the delinquency of a girl by kissing Cristoleen Goodwin under 17 without consent. The case underscores penalties for underage sexual touching in Columbus.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Supreme Court
James del Gregg
Cincinnati
Cristoleen Goodwin
Gregg
Canada Adopts Pay-as-You-Go Tax Measure
Ottawa introduces a Pay-as-you-go income tax plan to ease cash flow, offering 50 percent relief on 1942 earned incomes. Finance Minister J L Ashley says the plan shifts Canada to current budgeting, ending the eight month tax collection tag and aligning income and outgo.
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Canada
Ottawa
J. L. Asley
Beardsley Ruml
United States
Dominion
Nazi declare destruction of enemy as war aim
Berlin radio quoted Dr. Schmidt stating the goal in German Italian talks is the absolute destruction of the enemy. He claimed Allied bombing fosters hatred and that victory requires annihilating British and Bolshevists, while Casablanca leaders seek unconditional surrender.
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Schmidt
ComMation Department
Foreign Office
Radio Today
Ress
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
Berlin
Army Healthier Than Civil Population In Winter Study
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports U S Army men show fewer winter illnesses than civilians in some regions with cold season rates below five year averages for the Army. Venereal disease is markedly lower than in World War I and syphilis has the lowest rate in Army history.
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Chicago
U. S. Army
Journal of the American Medical Association
Closed Ohio Banks Pay 90 Cents on Dollar
Depositors of Ohio banks closed since the bank holiday 10 years ago have received more than 90 cents on the dollar across 285 institutions, totaling 495,920,000 with some dividends still to be distributed. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps oath was taken by 69 women in a ceremony in the Ohio House of Representatives. Joe Gill, 100, Civil War veteran of Coshocton County, died today.
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Columbus
Ohio
David M. Auch
Ohio Bankers Association
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Ohio House of Representatives
Coshocton
Joe Gill
Coshocton County
Bombers Hit Four Ships in Japanese Convoy
Allied forces report a crippled Japanese convoy of 14 ships was attacked by U S bombers and fighters in the Bismarck Sea. At least four transports and cargo vessels were sunk or damaged, with 13 Japanese fighters shot down. MacArthur’s planes also hit Lae Soembava and Soemba airfields and destroyed an ammunition ship at Wide Bay.
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Allied
Australia
Bismarck Sea
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Soemba
Soembava
Wide Bay
New Britain
Darwin
Navy outlines plan for 2.25 million personnel by 1944
Secretary Knox tells Congress the Navy aims for a casualties rate near ten percent and a global reach with a force large enough to dominate all seas. The House sub committee reviews a $4 billion supplemental bill and related costs while stressing scrutiny of such expansion.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Navy
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Sheppard
Calif
John Paul Jones
America
Randall Jacobs
Bureau of Personnel
Warn Against Changing Time Act Keeps War Clock Shifts
Washington officials led by War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal urged Congress not to alter the law that set wartime time, arguing any change would harm production. The act, they said, is a major contribution to boosting output during the war.
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Washington
War and Navy
Robert P. Patterson
James V. Forrestal
Office of War Information
Patterson
Forrestal
Congress
Urges All Citizens to Plant Victory Garden
Washington reports James M. Landis director of civilian defense urged every adult and child capable of gardening to plant a victory garden as a practical defense against food shortage stressing the home garden as a wartime measure in national effort.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Ohio U. Among 13 Schools on Approved List
Thirteen Ohio colleges and universities join a wartime approved list by Army Navy and War Manpower Commission for possible use in basic and specialized training. Navy inspection for V-12 basic training includes Baldwin Wallace Bowling Green Denison John Carroll Miami Oberlin Ohio Wesleyan Wooster. War Department pre medical training lists Ohio State Ohio University Western Reserve Xavier. Army specialized training includes Ohio State Dayton Western Reserve Xavier and Miami eyed for WAVES inspection.
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Washington
Ohio
Army, Navy and War Manpower Commission
Army and Navy
Armed Services
Navy Department
Baldwin Wallace
Bowling Green
Denison
John Carroll
Miami
Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan
Wooster
War Department
Ohio State
Ohio University
Western Reserve
Xavier
Army
Dayton
Navy
WAVES
Ohio House Approves Sale of Horse Meat
Ohio lawmakers back horse meat sales as the health committee rejects a ban. A Hill Facking representative from Topeka testified the firm shipped nearly 1,000,000 pounds of horse meat into Ohio last year.
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Ohio House
Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Hill Facking Company
Topeka
Kas
Retribution Promised by RAF for Nazi Killers
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said leaflets dropped by the RAF warned that Germans who torture and kill people in Nazi occupied nations will hang after conviction. The pledge follows reports of Allied air operations.
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RAF
London
Anthony Eden
Improper Pilot Training Costs Planes, Knox Says
Secretary Knox told a House sub committee that three costly B 24 bombers were flown from a Pacific island base by under trained crews and two crashed. He urged $800 million more for naval training stations and defended Navy aviation training standards while noting progress in Guadalcanal cooperation and Marine divisions for Pacific amphibious operations.
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Knox
Washington
Congress
Pacific
House
Navy
South Pacific
Far Pacific
Guadalcanal
Oahu
Beekeepers Urged to Expand Production in Ohio
Ohio state officials urge beekeepers to boost production of bees honey and wax to support war efforts. John T. Brown and apiary head C. A. Reese say a large bee population pollinates legumes vegetables and fruits while beeswax aids explosives waterproofing shells.
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Columbus
Ohio
John T. Brown
C. A. Reese
Gandhi Ends Fast by Sipping Orange Juice
Mohandas K. Gandhi ending a 21 day hunger strike by drinking orange juice at 9 30 am. The communique said he was weak and strained but in good spirits. The protest was against his interment by the British.
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New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
East may lift pleasure driving ban under consideration
Washington Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown said the proposed lifting of the eastern pleasure driving ban around March 22 was under consideration with no definite decision yet. The statement reflects ongoing review by government officials.
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East
Washington
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
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