Germans Admit Loss of Rzhev in New Russian Offensive
The Russians claim a major push northwest of Moscow has breached the German line at Rzhev and Demyansk, with Velikie Luki near Latvian borders, while German and Italian forces pull back. Reports note heavy RAF raids on Berlin, North Africa fighting, and Allied bombings of Palermo.
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Rhzev
Semeon Timoshen
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
Timoshenko
Rooney appeals I A classification as essential man
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer objects to Mickey Rooney's I A Selective Service status arguing he is an essential personnel in an essential industry. The appeal was filed about a month ago and is on file at state draft headquarters, officials said in West Los Angeles.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Mickey
West Los Angeles
Selective Service Board
Army Glider Crashes After Breaking Tow Plane
A glider broke loose from its tow plane and crashed near Lucasville yesterday, killing one occupant and injuring another. The aircraft and glider were based at Pope Field near Charlotte North Carolina.
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Portsmouth
Lucasville
Pope Field
Charlotte
N. C
Old Church Burns at Richmond in Steubenville Area
The 91 year old Presbyterian Church at Richmond near Steubenville was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss estimated at 10000 dollars.
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Burns Steubenville
Presbyterian
Richmond
Meat and dairy rationing set to start April 1
Washington reports that meats cheese butter cooking fats and oils will be rationed beginning April 1 under No 2 ration book red coupons. Officials say meat rations may run about 1 ½ pounds per person weekly and plans will be outlined at a press conference later today.
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Washington
Prentiss Brown
Farm Worker Deferment Drive Feels Senate Pulse
Sponsors of a blanket farm worker draft deferment counted 43 senators six short of a majority as opponents worked on a limited substitute. Senator Bankhead said they might pass it, after a military committee approve with a Jan 1 1944 end date. In the House the Kilday bill for deferments faced procedural delay after a strong committee vote.
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Washington
Bankhead
Military Committee
War Department
Selective Service
Army
More Milk Is Used in Ohio
Ohio dairy experts report increased milk use in January across 19 markets with class one consumption rising 24 percent from 1942 to 1943 totaling 82,588,000 pounds. An extra 24,765,000 pounds went to processors, bringing total delivery to 107,353,000 pounds for January 1943 compared with 102,269,000 a year earlier.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Economics
State Department of Agriculture
Fourteen Ohioans Fined in Lottery Law Violation Case
Chicago report says 14 Ohio residents were among 62 people fined $25 after pleading guilty to conspiring to violate lottery laws. The scheme allegedly handled over $1,000,000 with Ohio defendants acting as agents in selling lottery tickets tied to baseball games treasury balances and race track mutual numbers. Six Ohioans did not appear for arraignment.
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Chicago
Treasury
Ohio Senators Approve Higher School Subsidy
The Senate education committee backed a bill by Sen. Virgil E. Cramer to raise annual school subsidies from 4,000,600 to 5,000,000 dollars. The bill would switch payment basis to average monthly enrollment and boost per pupil daily payment through eighth grade from 25 to 29 cents.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Virgil E. Cramer
Lucas
Knox Says Absenteeism Tops Loss by Strikes
Secretary of the Navy Knox testified before the House Naval Committee that time lost in war plants from absenteeism far exceeds losses from strikes and has been rising. He supported proposed legislation requiring contractors to report absences to aid draft calls and urged renewed effort to boost production for the front lines.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Price Ceilings Nears for Beef and Pork Federal Move
Washington announced uniform dollar and cent ceiling prices for beef and pork will be set nationwide to curb meat black markets. The action follows packers' complaints that independents face collapse from price squeezes on live hogs and cattle. The plan awaits overdue authorization for cheese butter fats and oils to join rationing. Initial meat rations depend on Agriculture Department findings on diverted meat.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Senate
Wickard
OPA
The
Food Administration
Agriculture Department
Mme Chiang Outlines Aims After Victory
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek urged a postwar world of justice cooperation and mutual respect as the war ends. Speaking to 17,000 at Madison Square Garden and a national radio audience she called for peace through charity and forgiveness toward the enemy. General Arnold spoke of the air force aiming for total destruction of Japan 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 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 at Columbia High School Saturday March 6 at 2 PM Eastern War Time The Reverend F G Strickland former Meigs County pastor will conduct the service Steward son of Mr and Mrs Charles Steward graduated from Columbia High School in 1938 and was a Grange member
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Carpenter
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 and their staff 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 said negotiations are under way for their exchange.
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Washington
Algiers
United States
North Africa
Ingleside
Staunton
State Department
Wallace to address Franklin County farmers on National Farm Day
Vice President Henry A. Wallace will speak to a Franklin County meeting of farmers and consumers in Columbus on Monday as part of the nationwide National Farm Day observance.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin County
Stolen Kiss Brings Year's Jail Sentence
In Columbus Ohio the Ohio Supreme Court sentences James Del Gregg of Cincinnati to one year in jail for stealing a kiss from Cristoleen Goodwin under 17. He was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of the girl by kissing her without consent.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Supreme Court
James del Gregg
Cincinnati
Cristoleen Goodwin
Gregg
Canada adopts pay as you go tax plan for 1942 income
Ottawa reports a pay as you go income tax plan to begin April 1 under which 50 percent of 1942 tax liability on individual earned incomes will be forgone. Finance Minister J L Lisley says the plan corrects an eight month lag in collections and moves federal finances to a current basis.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. L. Lisley
Beardsley Ruml
United States
Dominion
Nazi declares destruction of enemy is aim
The Berlin radio quoted Dr. Paul Schmidt head of the foreign office press department saying the aim of the war is the destruction of the enemy. He claimed Allied bombing hardens German and Italian resolve and that only by total victory will hostilities end, with Bolshevists and British mercy not expected.
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Paul Schmidt
Theoreign
Radio
A Press
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Het Casablanca
Churchill
Schmidt
Berlin
Army Healthy War Era Ailment Rates Down In Winter
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports U S Army winter illness rates for colds influenza pneumonia and measles below the five year average while civil populations in some regions show higher than average cases Venereal disease in the Army is markedly lower than World War I levels and the syphilis rate is the lowest 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
Ohio bank closes ten years ago have paid depositors over 495 million dollars from 285 institutions. Some dividends remain to be distributed, says David M Auch of the Ohio Bankers Association. Women in the state House take the Army Auxiliary oath. Coshocton veteran Joe Gill, one of two Civil War survivors there, dies at 107.
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Columbus
Ohio
David M. Auch
Ohio Bankers Association
Coshocton
Joe Gill
Coshocton County
Bombers Hit Four Ships In Japanese Convoy
Allied air forces struck a 14 ship Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea and near Lae Soembava and Wide Bay New Britain. At least four transports and cargo vessels were sunk or damaged and 13 fighter planes were shot down. MacArthur's planes also attacked Lae Soemba Soembava and an Australian airfield raid near Darwin.
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Allied
Australia
Bismarck Sea
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Lae
Soemba
Soembava Islands
Wide Bay
New Britain
Darwin
Warn Against Changing Time Policy From War Time Act
Washington officials including undersecretaries Robert P. Patterson and James V. Forrestal joined other government leaders in opposing any alteration of the war time law that moves clocks ahead one hour. They warned that changing the law would harm production and called the act a major congressional contribution to wartime output.
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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 who can wield a garden tool to plant a victory garden as a practical defense against food shortage. The call emphasized individual action to bolster wartime food supplies.
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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 an Army Navy and War Manpower Commission committee. Approval allows, not guarantees, training contracts. Navy inspection for V-12 basics includes Baldwin Wallace Bowling Green Denison Joan Carroll Miami Oberlin Ohio Wesleyan Wooster. War Department pre medical includes Ohio State Ohio University Western Reserve Xavier. Army basic includes Ohio State Dayton Western Reserve Xavier. Miami selected for WAVES training.
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Washington
Ohio
Army, Navy and War Manpower Commission
Army and Navy
Armed Services
Navy Department
Baldwin Wallace
Bowling Green
Denison
Joan 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 for human consumption after health committee rejects prohibition. Hill Facking Company of Topeka testified shipping nearly 1,000,000 pounds into Ohio last year.
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Ohio House
Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Hill Facking Company
Topeka
Kas
Improper Pilot Training Costs Planes, Knox Says
Secretary of the Navy Knox told a House sub committee that three B-24 bombers costing about 150000 each flew from a Pacific island base with inadequately trained crew. He sought 800 million dollars more for naval training stations and emphasized nine months of flight and navigation training before deploying aviators to the South Pacific. He urged two more Marine divisions for amphibious operations and noted strong Guadalcanal cooperation among forces.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Pacific
House
Navy
South Pacific
Far Pacific
Guadalcanal
Oahu
Navy aims for world-dominant fleet with 10 percent casualty forecast
Secretary Knox outlined an operating force plan to grow naval personnel to 2,250,000 by July 1944 and warned of a potential 10 percent casualty rate. The plan accompanied a record $3.816 billion in direct appropriations and $239.74 million in contract authorizations, as Congress weighed clothing costs and scrutiny of such expansion.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Navy
House
Naval Appropriations
Naval Affairs Committee
Sheppard
Calif
John Paul Jones
America
Randall Jacobs
Bureau of Personnel
Beekeepers Urged to Increase Bee Production
John T. Brown state director of agriculture and state Apiarist C A Reese urged beekeepers to expand production of bees honey and wax. They said a large bee population is essential for food production and war needs as bees pollinate legumes vegetables and fruits and beeswax is used in explosives and shell waterproofing.
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Columbus
Mm — Onfut
Warnet
John T. Brown
Wo. Agriculture
C. A. Reese
Gandhi Ends Fast by Sipping Orange Juice
Gandhi ends a 21 day hunger strike by drinking orange juice at 9 30 am. The communique notes he is weak and strained but in good spirits despite the protest against his interment by the British.
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New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
East May Lift Pleasure Driving Ban Under Review
Washington administrator Prentiss M. Brown said the proposed lifting of the east region pleasure driving ban around March 22 was under consideration with no definite decision yet. The comment signals possible easing of restrictions affecting drivers in the eastern area.
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East
Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
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