United Nations Air Forces Step Up Pacific Attacks
Allied air power intensified bombing from the Solomons to Burma as U S and Australian reports describe a shifting Allied offensive in the Pacific. MacArthur’s airmen crushed a 22 ship Japanese convoy near New Guinea while Tokyo admitted losses of two destroyers five transports and seven planes, with Allied claims of heavier enemy losses.
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United Nations Air Forces
Pacific
United Nations
Solomons
Burma
United States Pacific Fleet
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Australia
Solomons- New Guinea
MacArthur
Tokyo
Kai Islands
Gasmata
Gloucester
New Britain
Mubo
Salamaua
Goodrenough Island
Burma War Bombers Hit Rangoon Area Deep in Burma
Big American bomber formations attacked Rangoon area on Saturday sinking or damaging three ships on the river. A second wave bombed docks along with targets such as a lighthouse a landing field and a radio station. RAF Blenheims struck Akyab while the Burma Yunnan front showed Japanese retreat reports. Two Tulagi defenders were killed in renewed fighting near Guadalcanal.
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Rangoon
Burma
Thailand
Myitnge
Mandalay
RAF Blenheims
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Burma- Yunnan
Salween
Clayton L. Bissell
India
China
U. S. Navy
Munda
Viru
New Georgia Island
Kahili
Buin
Ballale
Shortland Island
Solomons
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Synthetics Could Reshape Postwar American Economy
Dr Waclaw Szukiewicz Polish chemist inventor says cheap plastics tires clothing and building materials from synthetic or natural rubber could drive a sweeping postwar economic shift. He notes alcohol derived butadiene as key to synthetic rubber and envisions broad simple uses stabilizing the U S economy.
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Philadelphia
Waclaw Szukiewicz
Szukiewicz
Shipment of Garden Seeds To Be Delayed
The Ohio Agricultural Department urged gardeners to be patient as seed shipments lag about three weeks due to labor problems. Officials said supplies are plentiful despite the delays.
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Columbus
Ohio Agricultural Department
Fire kills mother and three children in St Marys home
A kerosene stove explosion spread burning oil through a St Marys bedroom killing a 29 year old mother and her three children. The blaze destroyed the residence yesterday.
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ST. Marys
Additional Tax Urged For State's Factories
Columbus report says manufacturers with expanded war production plants back a bill to tax them an extra five million dollars yearly for unemployment insurance. Three Senate committees meet tonight while other lawmakers take Monday off for income tax prep. House and Senate assemble in regular session at 1 30 p m tomorrow.
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Columbus
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Senate
House
Former State Senator Ford dies at 77
James E. Ford, longtime Ohio lawmaker, dies at age 77. In the Legislature he helped secure the 1933 34 free text book law and influenced statewide education policy.
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Chillicothe
James E. Ford
Ohio scrap drive hits 98 percent of 1942 half-year quota
Ohio salvage committee reports that scrap collection in the second half of 1942 reached 2,131,500 tons, about 98 percent of the target. The data reflects statewide efforts amid wartime resource mobilization.
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Columbus
Ohio
Draft ruling shifts 38 plus men from 4-H to general classification
Washington AP reports Selective Service orders mark men over 38 not to be kept in 4-H. Those farming by May 1 move to 2-C or 3-C deferments. The move aims to ease farm labor shortages. Bankhead seeks to bar farm workers from service, while relief plans vary by individual eligibility. Debates on lend-lease extension and tax proposals fill Capitol Hill.
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Selective Service
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Senate
Selective Service Headquarters
House
Capitol
Roosevelt
Ways and Means Committee
Robertson
D.-Va
Doughton
D.-N.c
Wallace Urges Russian Pact To Avert World War No 3
Vice President Henry A Wallace warned that a third world war is likely if western democracies and Russia do not reach a satisfactory understanding before World War II ends. He spoke at Ohio Wesleyan University urging a union to prevent Prussia rearmament and anti Russian interests gaining power.
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Delaware
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Wallace
Ohio Wesleyan University
Prussia
United States
Germany
Mrs Valmetta Lent Dies in Jacksonville
Mrs Valmetta Lent age 86 wife of the late William Lent died at her home in Jacksonville after a short illness. Survived by three sons Russell Lent W H Lent and Ben Lent a daughter Velma Sayre and Ada at home, 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not yet complete.
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Glouster
Valmetta Lent
William Lent
Jacksonville
Unreasonable Delay Provokes Strike at Ball Band Plant
Misaha wa Ind. 4 Em ployee of United States Rubber Ball Band plant started a strike protesting War Labor Board delay in ruling on wage increase appeal. Plant manager Charles Glaes said the company could not grant higher wages without WLB order.
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Mishawaka
Ind
United States Rubber Company
War Labor Board
Charles Glaes
WLB
No Coupon Needed for Seed Peas and Beans
The Office of Price Administration allows Victory gardeners to buy dried peas and beans for planting without ration coupons. Local ration boards may authorize such purchases. Additional notes cover extra coupons for certain groups, furloughs, temporary books, special occasions, and housing arrangements. Dried parsley and onion flakes are not rationed.
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Washington
Victory
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Gremlins blamed for Nashville plane plunge into Cumberland River
In Nashville, Tennessee, a Cub airplane piloted by James Tilford leapt from its field, rose to about 2000 feet, then nosedived into the Cumberland River after the aircraft’s motor stalled. Tilford escaped with no cargo aboard as the ship sped away before being grounded.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
Cumberland River
James Tilford
Tilford
Gremlins
Dismissal of Wellston Worker Triggers Walkout at Plant
Wellston workers began a midnight strike at the Frick Gallagher Manufacturing Co. protesting the dismissal of fellow employee Joseph Gallagher the plant's general manager said the firing was for inefficiency. The wartime plant is under a contract with the CIO United Steel Workers.
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Wellston
Frick-Gallagher Manufacturing Co
Joseph Gallagher
CIO
United Steel Workers
Bakers Allowed to Slice Bread for Home Use
The Agriculture Department will lift restrictions on bakers slicing bread for home use after paper and wax conditions improved. The move follows talks with the War Production Board and is expected to be officially announced today, ending the Jan 18 ban that applied to all bread.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
War Production Board
Soldiers Lost In Gulf Storm Near Florida
The Fourth Service Command reported the probable drowning of 14 soldiers during night maneuvers in a Gulf of Mexico storm off Florida. Two officers and three other men were rescued from a landing barge with nineteen aboard that ran aground near Carrabelle after the ramp lowered in the storm. The men were from Camp Gordon Johnston garrison at Carrabelle.
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Atlanta
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Fourth Service Command
Carrabelle
Fla
Camp Gordon Johnston
1500 Japanese Troops Reported Killed in Kiangsi Province
Chungking dispatch from The Central News Agency says 1,500 Japanese troops were killed in mopping-up operations southwest of Nanchang, Kiangsi Province. Enemy stragglers in the area were completely wiped out according to the report.
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Chungking
Central
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Defiance College President to resign for church pastorate
President John W. Claxton of Defiance College announced his resignation next June to accept the pastorate at Union Congregational Church in Green Bay Wisconsin.
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Defiance
John W. Claxton
Defiance College
Union Congregational Church
Green Bay
Wis
Atlantic Ship Losses Rising
The Western Atlantic toll rose with five cargo vessels a destroyer and a submarine launched from eastern yards. The AP tally reached 621 Allied and neutral ship losses since Pearl Harbor, marking the highest weekly toll in over a month as pressure from Axis submarines grows. The attack on a neutral Spanish ship fueled speculation that submarines had begun a broad sinking campaign.
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United Nations
Atlantic
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Ohio Gas Consumers Asked To Be Sparing
The Ohio Fuel Gas Company urged listeners to conserve gas due to an emergency from heavy consumption. The appeal warned war industries could face shutdowns if use remains high and reserves stay depleted.
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Ohio Gas
Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Post War Alliance With Australia Urged
Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian director general of information, argued that Australia should seek a strong postwar alliance with the United States and uphold Americas stake in the Southwest Pacific. He urged an active British American alliance with joint partnerships in undeveloped regions.
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Melbourne
Keith Murdoch
Australia
United States
America
Southwest Pacific
Rommel's South Tunisia offensive smashed by Eighth Army
Allied forces report the British Eighth Army crushed Rommel's attacks from the Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia with heavy tank losses. In the north, Allied forces push forward while Russia reports Red Army advances toward Vyazma and Grhatsk. Air operations pause in the West due to weather with RAF and USAAF preparing for future battles.
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Rommel
Eighth Army
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Mareth Line
Russia
Moscow
Vyazma
Harold H. Balfour
RAF
U. S. Army Air Forces
Medenine
Sicilian
Grhatsk
Olemon
Gzhatsk
Vyazma-Smolensk
Ringling Circus Reverts to Old Fashioned Parade Welcome
Sarasota Florida crowd sees Ringling Circus drop modernistic trappings as the year’s tour favors old time features. A revived street parade will open under canvas, replacing the former street ballyhoo parade that slowed schedules.
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Sarasota
Fla
Ringling Circus
Grandpa Spelbound
Columbus Based Plane Wrecked Near Tucson
Davis Monthan Field officers identified wreckage sighted about 50 miles northeast of Tucson as a B 17 bomber from Lockbourne Air Base near Columbus Ohio missing since Wednesday with nine crew aboard. A second B 24 bomber with 11 men aboard has been missing from Davis Monthan Field since January 18 and is presumed downed in the same area.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis-Monthan Field
Here
Lockbourne Air Base
Columbus
Japanese Setback Not Fatal Blow to Japanese War Effort
A correspondent argues that the Bismarck Sea convoy loss does not force Japan to abandon New Guinea bases. He cites persistent Japanese concentrations at Lae and other northeast New Guinea positions and warns Allied forces must maintain a broad air and sea patrol around Australia as MacArthur expands air power.
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Bismarck Sea
Fee
Australia
Papua
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Lae
MacArthur
Figures On Lend Lease Aid To Russia
Lend Lease Administrator E R Stettinius Jr says U S aid to Russia measures by raw materials and industrial gear, not just weapons. The report lists boots, leather, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, rails, telephones, petroleum products, steel, aluminum, zinc, copper, TNT and other chemicals.
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Washington
America
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
House
Stettinius
Russia
Confirm Allred for Appeals Court Bench
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted two to one to confirm former Texas Governor James V Allred to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The nomination faced opposition from Louisiana members and Senator O Daniel who defeated Allred in Texas last year.
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Washington
A _ senate
James V. Allred
Texas
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Hatch
D-Mex
Allred
Louisiana
Congress
O'Daniel
D-Tex
Dayton School Plant Workers Strike Looms Over Closures
Dayton public schools face possible closure as the Local Union of Non-Teaching Employees orders a strike for next Monday. Firemen engineers and janitors join, protesting wage increase demands and board inaction.
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Dayton
Five Pass Tests For Hocking County Home Job
The State Civil Service Commission announced that applicants Charles F. Buckingham Edwin Barker Clarence Skinner Joe L. Funk all of Logan and Porter V. Hite of Gore passed an examination for the superintendent of the Hocking County home. The post paid $1080 a year.
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Columbus
State Civil Service Commission
Hocking County
Charles F. Buckingham
Edwin Barker
Clarence Skinner
Joe L. Funk
Logan
Poreter V. Hite
Gore
Eight U S Airmen Rescued After Bomber Downed Off Brittany
A German radio broadcast cited by AP reported eight American airmen were rescued from rubber lifeboats off Brittany after their four motor bomber was forced down during a raid on the French coast.
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London
Associated Press
Brittany
Fire destroys E. T. Rugg Co plant in hemp dust explosion
Newark Fire Chief Stanley Shaw said an explosion of hemp dust sparked a blaze that heavily damaged the E. T. Rugg Co plant engaged in war work. The incident underscores risks in wartime industrial sites and local firefighting efforts.
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Newark
Stanley Shaw
E. T. Rugg Co
Ince
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