United Nations Air Forces Increase Attacks on Japanese Bases
Allied air power escalates bombings from the Solomons to Burma as MacArthur's airmen destroy a 22 ship convoy off New Guinea. Japanese statements acknowledge losses inclining to a retreat on the Salween front while RAF and U S forces hit targets in Burma and the Solomons theater.
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United Nations Air Forces
Pacific
United Nations
Solomons
Burma
United States Pacific Fleet
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Austra
Solomons- New Guinea
MacArthur
Tokyo
Australia
Kai Islands
Gasmata
Gloucester
New Britain
Mubo
Amana
Goodrenough Island
Ranm
Rangoon
Thailand
Myitage Bridge
Mandalay
RAF Blenheim
U. S. Navy
Esterday
Munda
Viru
New Georgiand
Kahili
Buin
Balale
Shortland Island
Tulagi
Dalcanal
Rabaul
Shipment of Garden Seeds To Be Delayed
The Ohio Agricultural Department urged gardeners to be patient as seed shipments fall about three weeks behind due to labor difficulties. Supplies remain plentiful according to a department spokesman.
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Columbus
Ohio Agricultural Department
Three Children Die in Blaze as Oil Explodes from Stove
A kerosene stove explosion sprayed burning oil in a Marys home killing a 29-year-old mother and her three children in their bedroom. Firefighters battled flames, but the family could not be saved. The blaze is under investigation to determine exact cause.
Synthetics Seen Driving Postwar American Economy
Dr Waclaw Szukiewicz Polish chemist inventor says cheap plastics tire materials and building insulation made from synthetic or natural rubber will reshape the economy after the war. He notes rubber from grain alcohol as a key stabilizer and predicts extensive use of both rubber types.
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Philadelphia
Waclaw Szukiewicz
Szukiewicz
Additional Tax Urged For State's Factories
Columbus report notes manufacturers with expanded war plants support a bill to tax them five million dollars yearly for unemployment insurance. Senate Commerce and Labor draws three committees tonight while others take Monday off to prepare income tax returns. House and Senate convene at 1 30 p m tomorrow.
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Columbus
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Senate
House
Ex Senator James E Ford dies at 77 in Chillicothe
Former State Senator James E Ford is dead at 77. He helped pass the free text book law in 1933 34 while serving in the Legislature. Ohio salvage report shows scrap collection for late 1942 at 2 131 500 tons reaching 98 percent of its quota statewide.
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Chillicothe
James E. Ford
Ohio
Columbus
Draft order shifts 38 and older from 4-H to farming deferments
Washington AP reports that men over 38 will no longer be classified as 4-H and will enter general draft classes. Those aged 38 plus engaged in farm work by May 1 may be reclassified to 2-C or 3-C farm deferments if they meet eligibility. Bankhead proposes barring farm workers from the draft, while administration backs a targeted exemption. House debates lend-lease, tax plans. Ways and Means returns to four proposals.
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Washington
Selective Service
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Senate
House
Capitol
Roosevelt
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Robertson
D.-Va
Doughton
D.-N.c
Wallace Calls for Russian Pact to Avert Third World War
Vice President Henry A. Wallace warned at Ohio Wesleyan University that World War No 3 could be triggered if Western democracies and Russia fail to reach a satisfactory understanding before World War II ends. He said rearmament by Prussia or a cross of interests with Fascist forces could push toward a new global conflict.
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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 86 wife of the late William Lent died at her Jacksonville home after a short illness. Survived by three sons Russell Lent W H Lent and Ben Lent two daughters Velma Sayre and Ada 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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Glouster
Valmetta Lent
William Lent
Jacksonville
Unreasonable Delay Provokes Strike at Ball Band Plant
MisHawaka Indiana workers walked out at the United States Rubber Ball Band plant protesting the War Labor Board delay in wage appeals. Plant manager Charles Glaes said the company needed a WLB order to grant higher pay.
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Mishawaka
United States Rubber Company
War Labor Board
Charles Glaes
WLB
No Coupon Required For Seed Peas And Beans
Washington OPA says local ration boards may authorize purchases of dry peas and beans for planting seed without coupons. The notice covers extra coupons for certain groups, temporary ration books for servicemen on furlough, special occasions, and meal planning. 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 cruiser plane apparently possessed by Gremlins took off alone after pilot James Tilford had landed. The craft climbed to about 2000 feet, nosed over, then plunged into the Cumberland River with no one aboard. Tilford and another pilot attempted to halt the craft as it moved under its own power. The plane nosed upward and sped away before ground crews could intervene.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
Cumberland River
James Tilford
Tilford
Dismissal Sparks Wellston Plant Strike Over Worker Firings
Wellston workers picketed the Frick Gallagher Manufacturing Co after midnight walkout protesting the dismissal of fellow worker Joseph Gallagher deemed for inefficiency. The plant, in war production, holds a contract with the CIO United Steelworkers.
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Wellston
Frick-Gallagher Manufacturing Co
Joseph Gallagher
CIO
United Steel Workers
Bakers To Be Permitted To Slice Bread for Homes
The Agriculture Department agreed to lift restrictions on bakers slicing bread for home use after improved paper and wax supplies. The decision followed talks with officials and the War Production Board. Formal announcement expected later today. the ban dated from January 18 and applied to all bread, with some commercial exceptions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
War Production Board
Soldiers Lost In Gulf Storm: 14 Feared Drowned
The Fourth Service Command announced the probable drowning of 14 soldiers during night maneuvers in a Gulf of Mexico storm off Florida. Six officers and three unidentified men were rescued from a landing barge that ran aground near Carrabelle after the ramp lowered in rough seas. the fallen were from Camp Gordon Johnston garrison at Carrabelle.
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Atlanta
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Fourth Service Command
Carrabelle
Fla
Gordon Johnston
1500 Japanese Troops Slain Near Nanchang
Central News Agency reports 1500 Japanese troops killed in mopping up operations southwest of Nanchang Kiangsi Province. Enemy stragglers in the area were completely wiped out according to the dispatch.
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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 Rise Amid U Boat Attacks
Five cargo vessels a destroyer and a submarine slid down eastern shipyard ways as Western Atlantic losses climbed to 621 ships since Pearl Harbor. The week’s toll marked the highest in over a month and prompted speculation Axis submarines may be intensifying their campaign.
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Atlantic
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Ohio Gas Consumers Asked To Be Sparing
In Columbus the Ohio Fuel Gas Company urged rationing of gas use due to an emergency from heavy consumption that has reduced reserves. The appeal warned war industries relying on gas could face shut downs if demand remains high.
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Ohio Gas
Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Post War Alliance With Australia Advocated
Sir Keith Murdoch in Melbourne urged a firm postwar alliance between Australia and the United States. He said Australia must maintain America’s binding interest in the Southwest Pacific and favored an active British American alliance with global partnership in undeveloped regions.
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Melbourne
Keith Murdoch
Australia
United States
America
Southwest Pacific
Rommel's South Attacks Smashed by Eighth Army
Allied lines report Rommel's offensive from the Mareth Line failed with heavy German tank losses while the Eighth Army held firm in southern Tunisia. In Russia the Red Army advances near Vyazma and Gzhatsk as Moscow declares new offensive momentum. RAF and USAAF prepare broad air battles as western weather halts air operations briefly.
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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
Gzhatsk
Olemon
Vyazma-Smolensk
Ringling Circus Returns to Old Time Spectacle
The Ringling Circus announces a shift away from modernistic trappings in its current Sarasota tour. The parade, once cut for schedule speed, is revived as the opening under canvas, signaling a return to traditional features that delighted earlier audiences.
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Sarasota
Fla
Ringling Circus
Columbus Plane Wreckage Near Tucson Linked to Ohio Unit
Davis-Monthan Field officers report wreckage sighted about 50 miles northeast of Tucson likely a B-17 from Lockbourne Air Base near Columbus Ohio missing since Wednesday with nine crew. A second B-24 with 11 aboard from Davis Monthan is missing since January 18 and thought to be down in the same area.
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Tlefield
Gzhatsk
Sychevka
Vyazma
Staraya Russa
England
London
RAF
The
Reich
Wilhelmshaven
Helgoland
British
Air Ministry
Tucson
Ariz
Davis-Monthan Field
Here
Lockbourne Air Base
Columbus
Japanese setback in Bismarck Sea not fatal blow to foe
AP dispatch from New Guinea reports cautious Allied views on the Bismarck Sea convoy loss. Observers say despite the decisive convoy defeat, Japan may still hold Lae and other northeast New Guinea bases, demanding a larger air force to guard Australia’s northern coast.
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Bismarck Sea
Yates McDaniel
New Guinea
Pacific
Australia
Papua
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Lae
MacArthur
Figures on Lend Lease Aid to Russia
Lend-Lease Administrator E R Stettinius Jr says U S aid to Russia includes not only weapons but vast raw materials and equipment such as 3 million pairs of heavy boots 18500 tons of leather 72500 trucks 17500 jeeps 75000 tons of rails 140000 field telephones 268000 tons of petroleum products 580000 tons of steel 46000 tons of aluminum 21500 tons of zinc 94000 tons of copper and brass 50000 tons of toll and TNT and other chemicals.
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Washington
America
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
House
Stettinius
Russia
Confirm Allred for Appeals Court Bench
Senate judiciary subcommittee votes two to one to confirm former Texas Governor James V. Allred to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Opposition came from Louisiana members and Senator O'Daniel who defeated Allred in Texas's last Senate race.
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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 Call Strike
Dayton's 49 public schools may close as the Local Union of Non-Teaching Employees declares a strike for next Monday. The action includes school firemen engineers and janitors protesting wage increase demands.
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Dayton —P
Dayton
Five Pass Tests for Hocking Home Job
The State Civil Service Commission reported today that applicants passed an examination for superintendent of the Hocking County home. The post pays 1080 dollars a year. Buckingham Barker Skinner Funk and Hite named for Logan and Gore.
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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
American airmen rescued after bomber downed off Brittany
London dispatch says eight American airmen were saved from rubber lifeboats off Brittany after their four engine bomber was forced down during a raid on the French coast. The Associated Press reports the recovery occurred following the raid, details unspecified.
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London
Associated Press
Brittany
Fire blamed on hemp dust explosion at Newark plant
Fire Chief Stanley Shaw said hemp dust explosion heavily damaged the E. T. Rugg Co plant in Newark, a facility engaged in war work. No injuries were reported in the blaze.
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Newark
Stanley Shaw
E. T. Rugg Co
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