Americans reach Ringstrasse as Cologne fights light
U S First Army armor and infantry push into Cologne through the Ringstrasse with surprisingly light German resistance. Big guns shell rail yards while air observers see a ruined city. West bank control extends from Cologne to Rheinberg, with pockets at Neuss being closed. Farther south Seventh Army nears Saarbrucken as Patton’s Third Army breaches near Coblenz along the Middle Rhine.
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U. S. First Army
Ringstrasse
Cologne
Germany
Reich
Rhineland
U. S
the Rhine
Rheinberg
Wesel
Neuss
Hohengollern
Canadian First
U. Ninth! Army
Rhine
U. S. Seventh Army
Saarbruecken
Saarland
Forbach
Saar
Patton
Third Army
Middle Rhine
Coblenz
Kyilburg
Kyll
Japs Burma Position Threatened by Allied Advance
The Associated Press reports a bold 85 mile British armored and airborne push threatening Japan’s Burma line. Mandalay to Rangoon lines cut, key airfields seized, stores captured, 1,600 Japanese killed. MacArthur cites 90,000 Japanese killed on Luzon, with 60,000 scattered. Nimitz notes unchanged Iwo lines as Marines seal caves with dogs aiding. Tokyo reports seven Superfortresses raid Honshu while China bases may host renewed B 29 activity. MacArthur pegs Luzon losses at 225,000 with Yamashita's forces split and cut off as guerrillas and air power close in.
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Associated. Press
Wnita
Burma
Mandalay
Rangoon
MacArthur
Luzon Island
Philippines
Dollood
Iwo Island
Navy
James Forrestal
U. S
Iwo
Gat- Fort
Nimitz
Lauds
Tokyo
Honshu
Japan
Amoy
China
Chungking
Suichwan
Hong Kong
Hankow
Kiangsi
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Luzon
Yamashita
Southwest
Pacific
Upheaval Threatens Italian Government After Roatta Escape
Italian political crisis looms as General Mario Roatta escapes from a military hospital. Mass protests are planned by leftist and opposition groups and parties call for cabinet strengthening as Premier Ivanhoe Bonomi faces possible ouster and Carlo Sforza eyed as potential successor.
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Rome
Mario Roatta
Ivanhoe Bonomi
Carlo Sforza
General Roatta
Truck Operators Must Sign for Gas Rations
The Office of Price Administration instructs local ration boards that all truck operators and other commercial vehicle operators must sign for the second quarter I rations. Operators should bring their Certificate of War Necessity to match gasoline allotments with records. First quarter coupons lapse March 31. to ensure ration by April 1, sign at the board by March 15. Also reports Joseph Morton, AP war correspondent, captured by Germans December 26 and later believed in a German POW camp.
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Office of Price Administraion
Rome
Joseph Morton
Associated Press War
Prejudice Bill Wins Approval
New York lawmakers approved a sweeping anti prejudice bill to ban religious or racial discrimination by employers and labor groups. The measure, backed by supporters as a landmark, was approved 49 to 6 in the senate and awaits Gov. Dewey's signature with penalties up to 500 dollars or one year in prison, though small firms and certain organizations are exempt.
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Alebany
New York
Wothers
Thomas. E. Dewey
United States
Senate
Nazi Oil Production Believed Wiped Out
London GP Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons Allied air forces have reduced German oil production to almost exhausted reserves. He said RAF and U S bombers losses fell from 4.1 per cent in 1942 to 1.7 per cent last year and 1.1 per cent in early 1945.
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London
Sir Archibald Sinclair
Sir Archibald
House of Commons
RAF
U. S
Europe
Ohio River floods threaten Cincinnati area as rain pours
Heavy rain across Ohio Valley pushes the Ohio River past 64 feet with forecasts of two to three more feet. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers rise toward flood stage in Pittsburgh where a crest near 27 feet was predicted early tomorrow. Damaging flooding could follow as water levels climb.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Ohio River
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Monongahela
Hamilton
Dayton
Great Miami
Columbus
Hester Scioto
Cambridge
Portsmouth
Mill Creek
Little Miami
Reading
Elmwood Place
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Leckland
Adj
Donald F. Panecoast
Marietta
Naval Militia
Pomeroy Schools Reopen March 12 Amid Flood Closures
The Pomeroy school system remains closed until next Monday March 17 after heavy rainfall and rising waters in the Monongahela and Allegheny basins. Ohio Valley rainfall drenched the region with rates among the heaviest in five years. Cincinnati and Reading faced severe flood threats with flood warnings and protective measures in place.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy City
Emmett Brickles Dies At Chester At Age 67
Emmett Brickles, 67, died Monday near Chester from a stroke at the home of his son Wayne. He leaves son T Sgt Homer Brickles at Camp Hood Texas and daughters Mrs Aurelia Bing Hemlock Grove and Mrs Jack Stanley Athens. Wife died four years ago. Funeral Friday at two at Cheater with burial in Midkiff Cemetery.
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Emmett Brickles
Wayne
Chester
T-Sgt
Homer Brickles
Camp Hood
Téx
Aurelia Bing
Hemlock Grove
Jack Stanley
Athens
Cheater
Midkiff Cemetery
Raps Census Bureau Publication as Silly
Washington congressman denounces a 265 page Census Bureau volume on the fertility of women calling it silly and outrageous and demands a halt to the work during the war while the Budget Bureau will identify officials who approved the expenditure of money for the publication.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
Census Bureau
Brown
Ohio
Five Day Ban Ordered On Eastern Shipments
Washington detains rail traffic with a five day embargo on all less than carload freight shipments in or out of the eastern half of the nation. The cutoff begins at midnight and ends Sunday midnight to ease congestion from the rail tie up.
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Washington
Agreement on Voting Method May Assure U. S. Postwar Cooperation
Washington reports that Republican and Democratic Senators view the Big Three voting procedure as a practical path to American participation in a postwar world peace body. The plan lets any permanent five member power veto force, with Senate approval seen possible if the San Francisco Conference accepts it. Senators George and Hall discuss hopes the United States and allies will support United Nations action only with broad agreement among Britain, Russia, China, France, and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
World Peacekeeping Organization
San Francisco
Senate
George
D-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Yalta
Britain
Russia
China
France
International Council
Japanese Plane Plant Wrecked By Air Raiders
Admiral Mitscher announced from his flagship that reconnaissance confirmed the Ota Aircraft assembly plant near Tokyo was more than 90 percent destroyed or damaged in February carrier raids. Koizima Tama Musashiro and Tachikawa engine plants were heavily damaged, and other Japanese facilities suffered heavy harm.
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Mitscher
Ota
Tokyo
Admiral Mitscher
Actress Overcome as Mother Kills Herself
New York actress Una Merkel, reported in fair condition, survived after her mother Betsey Merkel, 70, died from gas fumes in their apartment. Police said she turned on the kitchen gas jets, but door cracks were stuffed with towels to block leaks.
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New York
Una Merkel
Betsey Merkel
Bas
Sub-zero Wave Grips Northwest States As Cold Spreads East
A broad frigid belt froze a seven state area in the Northwest with subzero readings. Temperatures plunged in Montana the Dakotas Minnesota and Nebraska while Chicago and central Michigan faced extended below freezing conditions. Warmer 30s and 40s appeared in Ohio and along the eastern seaboard as cooler weather was forecast.
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Northwest
Midwest
Wyoming
Iowa
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Chicago
Michigan
Missouri
Texas
Ohio
England May Blackout Again
London reports the return of German night air raiders after a year without blackout. Officials say it unlikely signals broad enemy activity and view raids mainly as propaganda. A 24 hour period ending at 7 am noted Southern England under attack with censored details.
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London
England
Promotion Only Way To Get Pay Raises
Gov Lausche says raises limited to law created increases and promotions. Wright Field crash kills 8 and injures 14 as a twin engine C 60 cargo plane slams into a hangar during a test flight, with seven planes destroyed in the blast. Victims include five crew members. Initiation set for Minear Chapter 274 CES Guysville meeting Wednesday night March.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Mat Dayton
Wright
Bien- Field
Ces
Guysville
Baby Dies as Peanut Lodges in Windpipe
Toledo 20 month old Henry Richard Krauss died after a peanut lodged in his windpipe at St. Vincent's Hospital. Coroner Frank G. Kreft listed suffocation as the cause. Columbus Former Probate Judge Frank F. Fleming of Marietta joined the state board of tax appeals.
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Toledo
Henry Richard Krauss
H. Richard Krauss
St. Vincent's Hospital
Frank G. Kreft
I Fleming
Columbus — VF
Frank F. Fleming
Marietta
State Board of Tax Appeals
Churchill Visits Germany. Bonn Proximity Noted
Prime Minister Churchill made a long awaited visit to a shattered Siegfried Line city in Germany. Hitler was not present. Churchill, age 70, toured the ruins and predicted no unemployment after the war as American forces moved within seven miles of Bonn amid intensifying Rhine defenses.
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Jhelich
Germany
Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Siegfried Line
Hitler
London
St. Lo
Germans Destroy Bridges and Press Offensive West of Rhine
Allied reporting says German forces destroyed three bridges at Duisburg before the ninth Army offensive and blew 1 serviceable Rhine span between Bonn and the Dutch border except Wesel and a makeshift crossing. British vanguards near Wesel faced heavy Nazi resistance as RAF bombers targeted Wesel and other targets. On the eastern front Zhukov’s First White Russian Army pressed toward Stettin with tanks and cavalry near the Oder, while Rokossovsky’s forces pushed along the Baltic coast and reclaimed towns, with German counterattacks described as unimpressive.
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Duisburg
Ninth Army
Rhine
Bonn
Wesel
Rheinberg
Bonninghardt Forest
al Toad
RAF
Reich
Chemnitz
Waal
U.S
Leipzig
Berlin
Stettin
Baltic
Marshal Zhukov
Gunss
Oder
Gdynia
Danzig
Zhukov
General Hale Takes Command of U S Army Air Forces Pacific
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale of San Francisco now leads U S Army Air Forces in the Pacific areas and becomes deputy commander of the 20th Air Force. He succeeds Lt. Gen. Willard Harmon, reported missing on a flight to Hawaii.
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Willis H. Hale
San Francisco
U. 3
Army Air Forces
Pacific
20Th
Air Force
Willard F. Harmon
Hawaii
Vinson Nomination Is Acclaimed in Senate
Washington reports the Senate praised Fred M. Vinson as qualified for government service. Roosevelt nominated Vinson to lead the RFC and Allied lending agencies with 40 billion dollars in aid. The banking committee may push fast confirmation without formal hearings.
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Washington
Senate
Fred .M. Vinson
Lgan
Roosevelt
Vinson
Jesse Jones
Banking Committee
Would Transfer OPA Powers on Livestock
New York based National Meat Industry Council advances a plan to shift some OPA price powers over livestock to the War Food Administration. The council urges funding to enable the WFA to set live animal costs to slaughterers at ceiling prices that allow a reasonable profit.
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New York
OPA
War Food Administration
National Meat Industry Council
WFA
Churchill Returns to London After Front Visit
Prime Minister Churchill has returned to London after visiting the Allied front. He conferred with General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery about ongoing operations and strategic plans.
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Allied Front
London
Churchill
The
Front
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Mechem weighs repeal of sales tax bill
COLUMBUS Senator C Stanley Mechem of Nelsonville said he might introduce legislation to repeal the three percent sales tax amid Metzenbaum’s bill to tighten collections. Metzenbaum of Cleveland estimates the move could boost state revenue by about 20 million, with mandates to separate tax from price and audit records raising small retailers’ burdens. Local Nelsonville and Athens merchants warn the plan would impose heavy record keeping and challenge shopkeepers to comply.
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Columbus
Metzenbaum
C. Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
Mechem
James Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Department of Tax
Athens
News- Am
Blechem
Frank Day
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Rhine East Bank
Associated Press
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Ad A. Vandegrift
Marine Corps
Iwo Jima
24Th Marine Regiment
Saipan
Marianas Islands
Hall
R-Minn
Wader
Nawar Saul Vate
Hilly South
1Worth, Jr
Columbus, D
Flushing Bay
Imegen
Arnhem
Akleve
Emmerich
Sansbeck
Wese
Miles
Netherlands
Venroye
Issum
EegPiheinburg
Oberhausen
Helmond
Roermond
Venlo
Heerlens
Maastricht
Linnich
M. Gladbach
Jueliel
Duerenst
Aachen
Homberg
Duisbur
Krefela
Neus
Rheydt
Rasellens
Seldort
Ogne
Tilerswist
Essen
Wright Field
SSS
Omben Perce
Prince
Virgil W. Burgess
USMC
Nea
Duisberg
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