Germans Admit Loss of Rzhev in New Russian Offensive
The Associated Press reports Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s new offensive pushing the Germans from Rzhev northwest of Moscow after a Russian breakthrough at Demyansk. British air raids hit Berlin for a seventh night as Tunisian front battles shift with Rommel’s forces.
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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
Rooney appeals I A classification as essential actor
Metro Goldwyn Mayer has appealed Mickey Rooneys I A Selective Service status claiming he is an essential man in an essential industry. The appeal was filed about a month ago and is on record at state draft headquarters in West Los Angeles.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Mickey
West Los Angeles
Selective Service Board
Army glider crash near Lucasville kills one injures another
A tow plane released a glider that crashed at Lucasville yesterday killing one occupant and injuring another. The craft and tow plane were based at Pope Field near Charlotte North Carolina.
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Portsmouth
Lucasville
Pope Field
Charlotte
N. C
Fire destroys 91-year-old Richmond church
A Richmond Presbyterian Church aged 91 was wiped out by fire yesterday. Estimated loss stands at about $10,000.
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Steubenville
Richmond
Meat and dairy rationing to start April first
Washington reports that meats cheese butter and cooking fats will be rationed from April 1 using No 2 Ration Book red coupons. Estimated meat rations likely about 1 ½ pounds per person weekly as officials discuss implementation with Price Administrator Prentiss Brown.
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Washington
Prentiss Brown
Farm Worker Deferment Drive Narrows Majority Margin
Senate sponsors of blanket draft deferment for all farm workers claim 43 votes, six short of a majority, as opponents push a narrower version. Senator Bankhead says enough votes exist despite War Department opposition. House effort to grant deferments for married men and fathers stalls awaiting rules committee clearance.
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Washington
Bankhead
Military Committee
War Department
Selective Service
Army
More Milk Is Used in Ohio in War Diet
Ohio dairy authorities report a wartime rise in milk use with 82,588,000 pounds of class one milk consumed in January across 19 markets, up 24 percent from January 1942. Processors received 24,765,000 pounds more than last January, while total supplies for the 19 areas rose from 102,269,000 to 107,353,000 pounds.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Economics
State Department of Agriculture
Fourteen Ohioans Fined in Lottery Law Case
Fourteen Ohioans were among 62 people fined $25 each after pleading guilty to conspiring to violate lottery laws in a system handling over $1,000,000. Six Ohioans did not appear for arraignment. They were indicted last December as agents selling lottery tickets on baseball games, treasury balances, and race track mutual numbers.
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Chicago
Treasury
Ohio Senate approves higher school subsidy bill
The Senate education committee backed a proposal by Sen. Virgil E. Cramer to lift the annual school subsidy from 4 million to 5 million dollars. The plan shifts payment basis from average daily attendance to average monthly enrollment and raises per pupil daily payments through the eighth grade from 25 to 29 cents.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Virgil E. Cramer
R-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 due to absenteeism was far greater than losses from strikes. He said absenteeism had increased over the past year and supported a bill requiring contractors to report absences to draft authorities to induct willful absentees, urging renewed effort on production for the front.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Price Ceilings Near for Beef and Pork Nationwide
Washington announces uniform dollar and cent ceilings on beef and pork to curb meat black markets. Packers warn independents face squeeze from live hog and cattle prices, while Cheese butter fats await authority before rationing. Initial meat rations depend on Agriculture Department checks for diverted meat.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Senate
Wickard
OPA
The
Food Administration
Agriculture Department
Chiang Kai-Shek’s Wife Calls for Postwar Charity World
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek urged peace through charity and forgiveness after victory, addressing 17,000 at Madison Square Garden and a national radio audience. She framed a postwar world built on justice cooperation and mutual respect, while Gen. H H Arnold spoke of total air power against Japan.
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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 Steward Rites Set For Saturday at Columbia High
Funeral services for Lieut Ches ter F Steward of Carpenter who died in an Army airplane crash in Texas will be held Saturday March 6 at 2 p m at Columbia High School Rev F G Strickland former Meigs County pastor will conduct the Eastern War Time services Steward son of Mr and Mrs Charles Steward won his commission three weeks ago and was a Columbia High School 1938 graduate and Grange member
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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 are detained by U S forces in North Africa and have arrived in the United States under guard at the Ingleside Hotel near Staunton Virginia Negotiations for their exchange are under way according to the state department
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Washington
Algiers
United States
North Africa
Ingleside
Staunton
State Department
Wallace to address Franklin County farmers on Farm Day
Vice President Henry A. Wallace will speak to Franklin County farmers and consumers in Columbus on Monday as part of National Farm Day observances.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin County
Stolen Kiss Brings Year's Jail Sentence
In Columbus Ohio James Del Gregg of Cincinnati must serve a year in jail for stealing a kiss from Cristoleen Goodwin under 17. Gregg was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor 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
Ottawa reports Finance Minister J. L. Isley proposed a pay-as-you-go income tax to Parliament. The plan forgives 50 percent of 1942 tax liability on earned incomes and aims to remove an eight month lag in tax collections, aligning government finances to current income and outgo.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. L. Isley
Beardsley Ruml
United States
Dominion
Nazi Aim Is Absolute Destruction of Enemy Declared
Berlin radio quoted Dr. Paul Schmidt head of the foreign press office saying destruction of the Bolshevists and the British is the war aim. He claimed Allied bombing hardens German resolve and that mercy will come only after total victory.
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Associated Press
Paul Schmidt
Press Nation Department
Theoreign Office
Berlin
Assoet ‘Press
Gerussians
Pachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Casablanca
Press- A
Churchill
Schmidt
Army Health: Fewer Winter Ailments in U S Army
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports U S Army men suffer fewer winter illnesses such as colds influenza pneumonia and measles than the five year average. Civilian rates in some areas exceed the national average while venereal disease and syphilis also show declines.
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Chicago
U. S. Army
Journal of the American Medical Association
Ohio bank depositors recover over 90 cents on the dollar
Depositors from Ohio banks closed during the bank holiday ten years ago have received more than 90 cents on the dollar. Ohio Bankers Association secretary David M. Auch said 285 such institutions paid out 495,020,000 dollars, with some dividends still to be distributed.
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Columbus
Ohio
David M. Auch
Ohio Bankers Association
Women take oath in Ohio House ceremony
In Columbus the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps oath was taken by 69 women during ceremonies in the Ohio House of Representatives. In Coshocton, 10 year old Civil War veteran Joe Gill died, marking the county’s remaining veteran’s passing.
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Columbus
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Ohio House of Representatives
Coshocton
Joe Gill
Coshocton County
Bombers Hit Four Ships in Japanese Convoy
Allied communique reports a 14 ship Japanese convoy reduced as bombers and fighters struck in the Bismarck Sea and at Lae Soembava and Soemba islands. Four transports and cargo vessels damaged or sunk, 13 fighters shot down, and a 10 000 ton transport hit five times before burning.
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Allied
Australia
Bismarck Sea
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Allied Headquarters
MacArthur
Lae
Soemba
Soembava Islands
Wide Bay
New Britain
Darwin
Warn Against Changing Time Act Critics Speak
Washington AP report notes War and Navy undersecretaries Robert Patterson and James Forrestal joined other officials in opposing any change to the wartime law that moved clocks ahead one hour. They argue altering it would hurt production and call the act a key Congress contribution.
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Washington
War and Navy
Robert P. Patterson
James V. Forrestal
Office of War Information
Patterson
Forrestal
Congress
Landis Urges Victory Gardens for Everyday Citizens
Washington report quotes James M. Landis, director of civilian defense, urging every adult and child capable of gardening to plant a victory garden as a practical defense against food shortage. The call emphasizes participation from all civic groups and households to boost food supplies during wartime.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Ohio U. Among 13 Schools on Approved List
Thirteen Ohio colleges and universities were added to a government approved list for Army Navy and War Manpower Commission training programs. The Navy V-12 basic training group includes Baldwin Wallace Bowling Green Denison John Carroll Miami Oberlin Ohio Wesleyan and Wooster for inspection. Ohio State Ohio University Western Reserve and Xavier were chosen by the War Department for pre medical training and Army basic training. Miami was also selected for Navy WAVES training inspection.
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Washington
Ohio
Army, Navy and War Manpower Commission Committee
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
The Ohio House health committee killed bills to ban horse meat sales for human consumption. A MHill Facking Company representative from Topeka Kansas testified the firm shipped nearly 1,000,000 pounds of horse meat into Ohio last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Mhill Facking Company
Topeka
Kas
RAF leaflets vow punishment for Nazi torturers
London reports the RAF dropped leaflets warning that every person convicted of torturing and killing in Nazi occupied nations will be hanged. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced the pledge today in a wartime statement.
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London
RAF
Anthony Eden
Navy Secretary Knox cites costly improper pilot training in Pacific
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the House subcommittee that three large B-24s costing about 150000 each flew from a Pacific base with crews inadequately trained in navigation. He urged 800 million dollars for naval training stations and outlined Coast Guard and Marine expansion ideas. He praised Guadalcanal cooperation and called for more amphibious Marine divisions.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Pacific
House
Navy
South Pacific
Far Pacific
Guadalcanal
Oahu
Navy Plans 2 250 000 Personnel By 1944 Amid Casualty Forecast
Secretary Knox outlined an operating force plan to build Navy strength to 2 250 000 by July 1944 and warned of a ten percent casualty rate as Congress reviewed a $4 000 000 000 supplemental spending bill and related costs. The subcommittee pressed for casualty justification while noting less than ten percent of the Navy had seen combat.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Navy
House
Naval Appropriations
Naval Affairs Committee
Beekeepers Urged to Expand Bee and Honey Production
COLUMBUS Ohio officials urge beekeepers to expand production of bees honey and wax for wartime needs. John T Brown state director of agriculture and Apiarist C A Reese say a large bee population is essential for food crop pollination and beeswax aids explosives production and shell waterproofing.
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Columbus
Om —Onisi
John T. Brown
O Agriculture
C. A. Reese
Gandhi Ends Fast by Sipping Orange Juice
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 73, ends a 21 day hunger strike protesting British interment by drinking orange juice at 9 30 a m. The communique says he is weak and strained but in good spirits.
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Gandhi
New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
East may lift pleasure driving ban on March 22
Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown said the potential lifting of the eastern pleasure driving ban around March 22 was under consideration with no definite decision yet.
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East
Washington
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
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