Crest of 58 Feet Seen At Pomeroy
Ohio River flood fears rise across Meigs Gallia and Mason counties as levels could reach 58 feet at Pomeroy and 56 57 feet elsewhere. Hocking River flooding in Nelsonville closed schools and disrupted transport while 233 Ohio families evacuated to Mission House Washington School and other shelters.
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Meigs
Gallia
Mason Counties
Hocking
Athens County
Nelsonville
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
Pomeroy
Highway Patrol Inc
Gallipolis
Mission House
Washington School
Middleport
Hocking River
Myers
Jackson Sts
Shafer Wholesale
West Canal
Falyette
Hocking Sts
Columbus
Fulton Sts
Brooks Shoe Factory
York Township
Hocking County
Trimble
Dover
Associated Press
Cincinnati
Hash Glo
Athens
Pickaway
Pike
Clinton
Noble
Guernsey
Marietta
Bellaire
Louisville
Indiana
Ohio Civil War Veteran Celebrates 102nd Birthday
Findlay reports John Hart, a lone survivor from Northern Ohio of the Civil War, marks his 102nd birthday today. The veteran’s name appeared on a casualty list during the conflict and is noted in local memory of his service.
Acquittal in Mercy Killing of Air Base Gunner
A 31-year-old lieutenant colonel at a U S air base was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter by a general court martial. He shot a trapped sergeant in a burning B 25 after a crash on Jan 18. Names were withheld in dispatch.
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Forward
American Air
U.S. 14Th
Air Force and Associated Service
Plans for V E Day Approved by War Agency
Washington reports War Production Board directives require armed services to give advance notice of proposed cutbacks after V E Day. WPB seeks estimates on arms output status as of V E Day and future milestones three and six months later and on V J Day.
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Washington
U.S
James F. Brynes
WPB
Armed Services
Seal Byrnes
Japan
Americas Press Freedom Urged After War
Twenty American republics including the United States called for full freedom of the press and radio. They urged unhindered access to news sources and the abolition of peacetime censorship, proposing immediate lifting of wartime controls after the war.
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Mexico City
United States
Yanks Launch All-Out Push On Iwo Jima
Marine forces began a heavy assault on Iwo Jima with the heaviest artillery barrage to date, aiming to drive Japanese defenders from the northern cliffs. U S and Allied forces reported fierce resistance as MacArthur announced regrouping for final Luzon phases amid ongoing Pacific operations.
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Iwo. Jima
Associated Press
Iwo Island
Philippines
Luzon
South China
Imperial Navy
Pacific
Mitscher
U. S
Iwo
Little Island
Tokyo
Domei
Manila
Marit ‘Kina
U.S
MacArthur
John D
S03rg Parachute Regiment
Corregidor Fortress
China
Suichwan
U. S. 14Th Airforce
Admiral Mitscher
Bob Geiger
Congress urged to end coal miner induction
Reps L P Mooney of Hocking County and C T McCart of Belmont County introduced a House resolution asking Congress and the Federal Government to discontinue the induction of coal miners and release enough miners from the armed forces to keep coal production going.
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Columbus
L. P. Mooney
Hocking County
C. T. McCart
Belmont County
Congress
Disorders spread as Italy’s crisis widens to prisons
In Rome disorders spread across the capital as convicts and fascist detainees in Regina Coeli Prison erupted before dawn. Police and fire crews quelled the riot while bombs exploded in various sections and demonstrations formed before Carabinieri barricades.
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Rome
Regina Coeli
Italy
Royal Palace
Carabinieri
Senate panel OKs continuation of food subsidies
Senate Banking committee approved legislation to renew Reconstruction Finance Corporation subsidies totaling 1.468 billion dollars for the next year starting July 1. The measure covers subsidies on meat butter flour petroleum and other products under existing programs.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate Banking Committee
Army Hospital Expansion Planned at Cambridge
Col. F R Ostrander commander of Fletcher General Hospital said War Department authorized plans to expand from 1500 beds to 2020 beds at Cambridge cost 459000 dollars.
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Cambridge
F. R. Ostrander
Fletcher General Hospital
War Department
Flier Killed as Bomber Crashes Near Firebrick Kentucky
A twin engine army plane crashed into a hill and burned in a wooded hollow five miles south of Portsmouth near Fire Brick Kentucky last night. The pilot was killed and burned beyond recognition, not immediately identified. Navy shore patrolmen on flood duty reached the scene after residents alerted authorities. The plane was reported to have flown from the east and dropped flares minutes before the crash.
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Portsmouth
Here
Firebrick
Navy
Allied Forces Close On Bonn As Rhine Front Buckles
Allied units press toward Bonn while Patton's Third Army routs Germans within 15 miles of the Middle Rhine. Hodges' First Army nears Bonn, with Cologne and Wesel in ruins as Russian forces push toward Stettin and Berlin. Prisoner totals top 1,000,000 as Cologne falls.
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Hodges
Bonn
West Bank
Associated Press
George S. Patton
Third Army
Middle Rhine
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Key Rhine
Cologne
Baltic
Mecklenburg
Berlin
Wollin
Stettin
Germany
Hitler
Rhineland
Seventh Army
Saar
Patton
Reich
Rhine
Rheinberg
Zons
Duesseldorf
Lower Rhine
Wesel
Hugh Gaffey
Fourth Armored
Coblenz
Graf von Rothkirk
Eifels
Edward D. Ball
Thoburn Wiant
Boston
World War II Developments Across Europe and Italy
Allied forces press advances in Italy near Bologna with the capture of Castel dʼAiano and 1,200 prisoners. Red Army units advance near Stettin and Wolin while German rail and troop movements face heavy RAF bombings. Mosquitos raid Berlin for the 15th straight night as Western Germany and Cologne endure air activity.
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Germany
Cologne
Hitler
Wehrmacht
Rhine
Italy
Apennines
Bologna
Castel D’aiano
Red Army
Stettin
Oder Delta
Dievenow
Wollin
Moscow
Alldamm
Gollnow
Danzig
Sassnitz
Baltic
Ruegen
Berlin
Dortmund Oil Plants Raided in Allied Bombing Sweep
London reports more than 200 U S heavy bombers struck Dortmund area oil plants and rail viaducts at Bielefeld while RAF night raids hit Wesel and Rhine targets. The Senate and railroad yards at Soest and Siegen also attacked. an education bill approving special classes for handicapped children advanced. The plan would fund 850000 dollars for 1945 46 programs.
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London
U. S
Dortmund
Bielefeld
Columbus
Senate
Soest
Siegen
Wesel
Rhine
Eighth Air Force
Margaret A. Mahoney
Plattts
Cleveland
Ralph A. Winter
Saa CR
Lodi
Medina County
House of Representatives
Hig Iland
Brunswick
Hannover
Ruhr
Crooksville Residents Die in Crash South of Town
Three Crooksville residents were killed Monday night when their car collided with a truck south of Crooksville. Victims were George Showers 38 his mother Mrs W Showers 65 and Harriet Talkingburg 30. Lawrence Early of Zanesville the truck driver was unhurt.
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Zanesville
Crooksville
George Showers
W. 4. Showers
Harriet Talkingburg
Lawrence Early
U S Military Government Sets Up In Cologne Ruins
American Military Government takes control of Cologne led by Lt. Col. Jean K. Patterson as utilities remain dead and chaos and rubble hinder recovery. An advance AMG unit seeks quarters while Patterson’s staff begins civilian registration and public safety planning amid destroyed infrastructure and food distribution challenges.
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U. S
Cologne
Howard Cowan
Rhineland
Jean K. Patterson
Riverside
Calif
Patterson
AMG
France
Belgium
R. L. Hiles
Rosebud
Texas
Georgetown
Ulrich
Bud) Orton
Lancaster
Public Safety Department
Flood Threatens To Top Portsmouth Wall
Ohio River nears a two foot flood wall protecting Portsmouth steel and shoe center as 300 Ohio National Guard and engineers rush to seal the gap. Workers place sandbags and barriers in a tense effort to hold back the rising river.
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Portsmouth
U. 5 S
Ohio State
Ohio
Question of Fees for Practitioners Raises Big Issue
In Columbus the Ohio Senate judiciary committee spent five hours in a second public hearing on Senator Virgil E. Cramer's bill about allowing Christian Science practitioners to charge fees for spiritual healing. A vote was postponed for two weeks.
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Columbus
Judiciary Committee
Ohio Senate
Virgil E. Cramer JA
Toledo
First Lady Receives Her First Mink Coat
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was gifted her first mink coat valued at $8,000. The present was given yesterday by the Quebec Fur Breeders Cooperative Association. She accepted it as a symbol of U.S. Canadian trade cooperation.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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