U S Sixth Army Notches New Victories in Pacific Theater
Allied reports say the Sixth Army controls Los Negros in the Admiralty group and advances on New Britain and New Guinea fronts. Marines land on Willaumez Peninsula, while destroyers bombard northern island chains. Majuro atoll is described as a bloodless occupation with air field potential. Chinese and American troops jointly advance in Upper Burma near Haungnye and Shingban after linking up.
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Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Sixth Army
Cape Gloucester
New Britain Island
Willaumez Peninsula
Arawe
Amgoring
New Britain
Bismarck Sea
New Guinea
32Nd Division
Yalau
Saidor
Madang
Rabaul
Navy
Momote
Momote Airfield
Leadsler
Hauwei Island
Talasea
Atoll
Marshalls
Central Pacific Command
Majuro
Central Pacific
Ponape
Kusaie
Caroline Islands
Nauru Island
Marshal Islands
Walawbum
Upper Burma
Joseph W. Stillwell
Hpungnye
Maingka
Shingban
Gkwan
Te Hukawng
Pen Ter Gets New Trial In Ohio Murder Case
After three hours of deliberation a jury agreed there should be a new trial for Stewart of Canton Ohio on a degree murder charge. He fatally stabbed Clarence Cart bina at the penitentiary. Exsecutor Forrest F Litesawart would be re tried.
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Stewart
Canton
Ohio
Clarence Cartbina
Forrest F. Litesawart
Akron Rubber Plant Strike Enters Third Day
Akron AP reports General Tire and Rubber Co strike continued into its third day as production of tires slowed. War Labor Board urged workers to return or face possible Army takeover. The dispute ties to dismissals of seven URW local leaders for disruptive activities.
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AKRON
General Tire & Rubber Co
War Labor Board
WLB
Roosevelt
Army
Paul Fuller
Fuller
Fail To Agree On War Ballot
Washington lawmakers remain split as conferees finish a compromise service vote bill. Rankin calls it a victory for state ballot advocates while Green plans to oppose on the Senate floor. Connally faces a veto warning and Hatch alone opposes the conference report.
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Washington
Senate
House
Rankin
Mississippi
Green
Rhode Island
Senate Elections Committee
Connally
Texas
Hatch
New Mexico
Strike Spreads Through Welsh Coal Mine Area
A wage strike in Welsh coalfields reduced output to a trickle with 60,000 to 70,000 of about 100,000 miners already walking out. Indications pointed to possible total production halt by nightfall as the strike spread through the region.
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London
Best
Former Legion Chief To Seek State Office
Ralph H. Stone director of the Ohio State Council of Defense announced his bid for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor He is a Conneaut resident and former Ohio American Legion commander
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Legion
Columbus
Ralph H. Stone
Ohio State Council of Defense
Conneaut
Ohio American Legion
Retired businessman held for larceny after cash thefts
Washington man Leo Davis, 65, well dressed and carrying $1,335, was charged with two counts of petty larceny for stealing 15 cents from a newsstand and attempting to take 25 cents from another. Davis, with prior convitions, pleaded innocent and was held for trial on April 6.
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Washington
Leo Davis
Valuable dogs perish in Michigan blaze
Nine teenage Dobermans valued at $5,000 were burned to death when a fire swept the kennels of Glenn S. Staines in Royal Oak Township. The dogs were being trained for use by the Path-Finder project for the blind.
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Royal Oak
Mich
Glenn S. Staines
Royal Oak Township
Former Aide to F D Cited in Radio Probe
Rep Miller of Missouri alleges former presidential aide Thomas J. Corcoran may have shared in a $50 000 fee tied to the sale of WMCA New York. He accuses the FCC inquiry of being halted for political reasons after FCC chair James Fly denied the charges.
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Washington
Miller
Missouri
Thomas J. Corcoran
Federal Communications Commission
House
Ber. Miller
James L. Fly
FCC
WMCA
New York
Donald Flamm
Edward J. Noble
Harry Hopkins
Flamm
White House
Southeastern Ohio Roads Closed By High Water
Rain drenches southern Ohio as Scioto and other rivers rise to flood levels. Map shows numerous road closures across Athens Gallia Coshocton Morgan Tuscarawas Guernsey Hocking Vinton counties. Mindling notes crest forecasts for Circleville Piketon Chillicothe with 15 to 20 feet of flood water.
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Columbus
Ohio
George W. Mindling
Circleville
Scioto
Piketon
Chillicothe
State Highway Department
Chauncey
Athens County
Mohawk Dam
Coshocton County
Dawn
Ansonia
Darke County
Blissfield
Holmes County
McConnellsville
Morgan County
Cadmus
Gallia County
Stewart
Junction 21
St. Marys Reservoir Bank
Ae County
Guernsey ‘County
Hocking County
Vinton County
Russell's Point
Junction 69
Knox Reports American Fleet Has 900 Warships
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced in Washington that the American fleet, the largest in world history, now includes more than 900 warships. He noted this figure excludes supporting small craft.
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Knox
Washington
Navy
Bureaucracy Foe Defeats War Veteran in Denver Special
In Denver a 59 year old Republican businessman Dean M Gillespie defeated retired World War II hero Maj Carl E Wuertele in a special election for the district's vacant seat. Gillespie won by 2978 votes claiming voters tire of Democratic New Deal policy and favor less government in business. Wuertele a Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient conceded late.
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Denver
G.O.P
Dean M
Gillespie
Carl E. Wuertele
Wuertele
South Pacific
Detroit Woman Held In OPA Case
Mrs. Dorothy Gertrude Martin, chief clerk of a Lansing ration board, stood mute on arraignment before a U S commissioner on charges of violating price regulations in a large scale gasoline coupon sale. She pleaded innocent and is held on $2,000 bond for examination March 15. She was arrested Monday night for allegedly selling 19 200 gasoline coupons at five gallons each to a secret service undercover man for 1 920.
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Detroit
Dorothy Gertrude Martin
Lansing
Mich
United States
Office of Price Regulations
Convalescent minister weds couple in hospital
In Columbus Pvt. Robert Reutsch, 20, from Groveport, and Miss Mary Jane Baker, 17, married at White Cross Hospital where Rev. Glenn E. Copeland, convalescing after an appendectomy, performed the ceremony from his bed.
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Columbus
Robert Reutsch
Groveport
Mary Jane Baker
White Cross Hospital
Glenn E. Copeland
Lend-Lease Proves Vital to Allied War Effort
Washington reports the volume of reserve lend-lease aid to the United States by its Allies is rising steadily. Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic administrator, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the air offensive against Germany and the invasion coasts of Europe would have been impossible at current scale without lend-lease and reverse lend-lease.
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Washington
United States
Leo T. Crowley
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Germany
Europe
Cookies Stolen From Truck Labeled Poison Bait Warned
Youngstown police warned that cookies-like pieces in a five gallon can stolen from a truck are poisoned rat bait soaked in strychnine. Driver Andy Gaydos 18 said the material was to be used in stores to kill rats and could be mistaken for cookies by children.
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Youngstown
Andy Gaydos
Russia Rejects Polish Compromise on Boundary Dispute
London reports say Soviet rejection of a temporary settlement plan for the Russo Polish border dispute. Polish exile premier Mikolajczyk says his government was not informed. Moscow demands removal of anti Soviet elements and acceptance of the Curzon Line as Poland's eastern boundary.
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London
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
Stalin
Churchill
Kremlin
Curzon Line
Poland
Labor Leaders Urged to Visit Battlefronts in Pacific
Lieut. Commander James E. Van Zandt urged sending labor leaders to the South Pacific to see how soldiers endure long hours for a small wage. He said troops work until exhausted and complain about strikes at home.
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Washington
South Pacific
James E. van Zandt
House
Pennsylvania
van Zandt
RAF Bombers Hit French Rail Centers and Berlin in Allied Blitz
Allied air forces pressed raids on Berlin with heavy bomber fleets dropping incendiaries and explosives. RAF targets included rail yards at Le Mans 110 miles southwest of Paris, while U.S. Liberators struck near Rome and the Toulon naval base.
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London
Lemans
Paris
France
Italy
Germany
Renault
U. S
15Th Air Force
Toulon
Britain
Rome
Mud and Nazis Fail To Halt Red Drive In Ukraine
Russian forces pushed toward Lwow amid heavy mud and thaw as they seized the Odessa Warsaw Railway and advanced from Tarnopol area. Igrovitsa fell near Tarnopol. Podvolochisk extended rail reach. 200 localities liberated. 60 tanks lost or captured. 1,000 enemy dead. Baltic front reports German air reinforcements and heavy losses. Cassino fighting continues with New Zealand siege guns and US troops on the beachhead. Weather hampers movements with snow in mountains and mud in valleys.
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Russia
Odessa-Warsaw
Lwow
Ukraine
Igrovitsa
Tarnopol
Warsaw
Kochanovka
Volchisk
Zelentsy
Proskurovy
Moscow
Staraya Sinyava
Zhmerinka
Red Army
Podvolochisk
Baltic
Narva
Cassino
New Zealand
Cisterna
OPA Extension Sought by FDR
The White House may seek party harmony to urge Congress to extend the Office of Price Administration past its June 30 expiration. Price Administrator Bowles will meet with the Senate banking committee Friday to discuss exterior plans amid warnings of strong opposition from several congressional quarters.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Price Administration
Capitol
Bowles
Senate Banking Committee
OPA
British Church Loss Reported In Thousands
Rev. William Cecil Northcott of the London Missionary Society cites four thousand English churches damaged or destroyed by German bombs. He lists by denomination: Church of England 163 destroyed 1 280 damaged Baptist and Congregationalists 800 plus lost or damaged Methodists 1 316 lost or damaged Church of Scotland 9 destroyed 170 damaged Roman Catholic 234 lost or damaged. He praises American soldiers for kindness to British children.
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Boston
England
William Cecil Northcott
London
London Missionary Society
Church of England
Church of Scotland
Northcott
Britain
Defense Testimony in Collett Trial Begins
Defense for James W. Collett called the first witness as they counter the state's murder for profit claim. The 60-year-old farmer allegedly killed three wealthy relatives to benefit from their deaths, with the prosecution resting after 19 witnesses across two and a half days.
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Washington, D. H
James W. Collett
John B. Hill
Collett
Elmer McCoy
Forrest McCoy
Mildred McCoy
Postwar Conference Lineup on State Department Calendar
The State Department lists a long slate of postwar talks led by Secretary Stettinius. Britain and the United States will discuss petroleum in Washington, with a Persian Gulf to Mediterranean pipeline looming large. Plans include a United Nations monetary conference and talks on an international currency unit. Definite plans announce for the International Labor Office meeting in Philadelphia on April 20. The UN Food and Agriculture Interim Commission nears its food board draft and council start. The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration plans its second meeting this summer addressing urgent postwar issues. A major aviation conference is shaping up with Britain, Russia, China, Canada, and the United States likely to attend. Informal talks on postwar shipping between the US and Britain continue. A communications conference, still early, may focus on world cable and radio control.
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Washington
State Department
Edward R. Stettinius
Great Britain
United States
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
United Nations Monetary Conference
Treasury Department
Treasury
Unitas
International Labor Office
Philadelphia
United Nations Food and Agriculture Interim Commission
United Nations
Hot Springs
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Britain
Russia
China
Canada
U. S
Ohio Prisons Go On Two-Shift Work Day
Ohio's four adult prisons operated on a two shift work day to support war production. Welfare Director Herbert R. Mooney said inmate numbers fell from 8,753 on January 1, 1941 to 7,449 at the start of this year, with drop mainly due to enlistments and improved employment for inmates.
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Ohio
Columbus
Herbert R. Mooney
Mooney
Frank D. Henderson
Ohio Penitentiary
Miner’s Wife Is Found Murdered in Residence
Steubenville report states coal miner John Kartoy arrived home to find his wife shot three times in the kitchen, the home ransacked, and the woman unconscious while washing noon dishes. Sheriff Robert Bates said details point to a homicide with the scene under investigation.
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Steubenville
John Kartoy
Robert Bates
Bates
Federal grand jury indicts 20 in polygamy case
A federal grand jury has indicted 20 persons in 10 true bills, authorities said today, alleging polygamous practices involving government attorneys.
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Salt Lake City
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URW
International Executive Board
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Lend-Lease
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Ellison D. Smith
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