MacArthur reports guerrillas aiding Mindanao defense in wary Pacific theatre
Allied forces nearing Iwo Jima cliff lines as Third and Fifth Divisions push toward the northeast coast and airbase. Tur ner says victory nears while critics note stronger Japanese organization. In the Philippines the 33rd Division seizes Aringay near Baguio as the 11th Airborne pushes 13 miles east to Lemery.
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Nboanga
Awan Island
Mindanao
Leyte
Samar Islands
MacArthur
Min
Iwo
Ihoo
Richmond Kelley Turner
Pacific
Philippines
Aringay
Baguio
Tomoyuki Yamashita
11Th Airborne
Lemery
Rhine crossing drives into Remasen sector reported
Allied forces crossed the Rhine in a vast bridgehead as U S First Army troops moved in long columns and extended onto the east bank. Headquarters kept a news blackout on the attack. The push risked advancing toward the heart of Germany in a major offensive operation.
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Associated Press
U.S
Rhine
Germany
Hitler Front Advances. Rhine Crossing Nears Coblenz
Allied dispatches report Hitler at the Oder front while German lines retreat under sweep of First and Third Armies. U S Fifth Army closes on Vergato near Bologna as forces push toward the Rhine, with Coblenz and surrounding ferries under shelling and a potential six division pocket forming along the west bank.
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Remagen
Bonn
Berlin
First Army
Third Army
Eifel
Xmanten
Rhine
West Bank
Wesel
Ludendorff
Third
Cu- Meng
Coblenz
Italy
U. S
Fifth Army
Vergato
Bologna
Cologne
Westerwalde
New Site Is Proposed For State Fairgrounds in Columbus
Bryan P. Sandles, assistant state director of Agriculture, backs buying land by Ohio State University Don Scott Air Field northwest of Columbus as the new state fairgrounds site. He spoke to a Senate agriculture committee on the Burke Bill to set up purchase procedures for the 1,009 acre tract, noting residents would be involved and there would be no auddleran. Freed on Luzon, Washington reports civilians liberated in the Philippines include Cofer, wieston, Mrs Ker, aunt, Gallipo.
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Columbus
Bryan P. Sandles
Ohio State University
Don Scott Airfield
Here
State Fairgrounds
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sandles
Luzon
Washington
Philippines
Cofer
Wieston
Ker
Gallipo
Congress Bill Aims at Unified Valley Development
Fragmentary text notes private enterprise funding for a valley project. It references Ohio congressman and representative Bender, a bill intended to unify development to prevent periodic floods that cause suffering and loss of life annually.
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Sity
Rain and snow lift Ohio water supply outlook
Ohio Water Supply Board reports February thaw rain and snow raised underground water nationwide, with Gallia County showing the highest rise at 20.23 feet and an average statewide gain of 3.86 feet. Other gains noted include Athens.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Water Supply Board
Gallia
County
Athens, Ll
Reds Blast Germans in Stettin District
Allied air units bomb German forces retreating into Stettin near the Oder River mouth. Soviet aircraft struck a large enemy column, aiming to throw it into confusion. The action took place as Red Army bombers targeted the area around Altdarim and the eastern gateway to the port.
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Stettin
Oscow
Red. Army
Beilige
Altdarim
Oder-River
Stormo
Fragmented OCR prompts a state program overhaul note
A garbled OCR fragment references postwar public development and state program aims. The text mentions publicity and general development plans but lacks clear details or identifiable entities. Further readable context is needed to produce a precise headline and summary.
House Hearing Focuses On Strip Mine Reclamation Funds
A House committee heard a $50,000 request to study reclaiming farm lands scarred by strip mining across 15 states. Representatives Thom and Lewis urged support, citing acute problems in Ohio. In Youngstown, speakers at an American labor forum urged a postwar government policy anchored in the National Labor Relations Act.
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Washington
House
Thom
Ohio
Lewis
Agricultural Appropriations
Youngstown
The
Economic and Business Foundation
Ohio Crests At 65.9 at Portsmouth Flood Threat
Ohio crests at 65.9 feet at Portsmouth as 9,000 residents evacuate lowlands. City walls hold against near 65 foot stage while river levels fall elsewhere. Red Cross Salvation Army and churches feed refugees housed in homes schools and churches. Industries closed except part of Norfolk and Western yards as Army planes drop 25,000 sandbags.
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Cincinnati
Louisville
Portsmouth
Highlands
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Norfolk & Western Yards
Wheeling Steel Corp
N. W
Navy flight nurse evacuates casualties from Iwo Jima
U S Pacific Fleet headquarters Guam reports Ensign Jane Kendrech of Oberlin Ohio as the first navy flight nurse to fly to a battlefront to evacuate casualties Her plane circled eighty minutes to await an American air attack on Japanese positions then landed on Iwo Jima Tuesday morning Also Kent State University retired industrial arts head Clinton St Van Deusen 73 died last night
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U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Guam
Ens
Jane Kendrech
Oberlin
Iwo Jima
Kent
Clinton St. van [Deusen
Kent State University
Kassel Target of Aerial Assault By 1000-Bomber Fleet
London dispatch reports Kassel, a major German industrial city, heavily bombed by RAF and again attacked today by the main force of a 1000-bomber fleet dispatched by the U S Army Air Forces. The night raids also hit Hamburg yards.
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London
Kassel
RAF
U. S. Highth Air Force
Hamburg
Deadlock on Fringe Broken in U S Labor Fight
Washington reports a four month deadlock on fringe wage adjustments may be broken as Labor circles consider William R. Davis as economic stabilizer. The U S 15th Air Force hit German rail yards near Komarom and Osnabruck while bombers from Italy renewed Reich strikes. The Air Force, with Mustang and Thunderbolt support, backed by the War Labor Board action, may ease OPA limits on fringe demands.
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Washington
William R. Davis
Berlin
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Hungary
Komarom
Hegyesharom
Miers
Italy
Reich
Eighth Air Force
John L
Lewis
Kassel
Germany
Fred M. Vinson
Osnabruck
Davis
Muenster
Rheime
Frankformer
War Labor Board
Tammain
Vinson
Thunderbolts
Vis
WLB
Fugitives Returned To Ohio Penitentiary
London report states two fugitives from the London Prison Farm are being returned to the Ohio State Penitentiary after capture in southern states. John W. Flemister 38 of Cleveland and James J. Murphy 44 of Akron escaped in 1943 and 1942 respectively.
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London
John W. Flemister
Cleveland
James J. Murphy
Akron
Ohio State Penitentiary
William Amrine
Flemister
Murphy
Man nailed to cross linked to cult violence in Chicago
A 40 year old man, Fred Walsher, was found on Hudson Avenue crucified on a ten foot cross with spikes through his hands and rope binding his feet. He claimed he was summoned to an automobile crash scene by a knock on his window, then forced to lie on the cross at gunpoint. Police suspect a religious cult motive.
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Chicago
Hudson Avenue
Fred Walsher
Belive
Wealthy Capital Woman Is Found Murdered
Police in Washington uncovered the body of Nancy Boyer a wealthy red haired woman about 45 in her fashionable apartment kitchen last night with two bullet wounds in her head. The case marks the second slaying in two weeks prompting a police investigation.
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Washington
Nancy ‘Boyer
Washington Police
Counterattacks Loom as Remagen Crossing Sparks Fight
News recounts continuous counterattacks through the night as Allied and German forces clash near Remagen, with Berlin reporting American troops crossing to the eastern Rhine bank. German bolt positions hindered the advance toward Linz, amid ongoing battles along the Rhine frontier.
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Remagen
Bonn
Coblenz
Berlin
Rhine
S. A
Linz
Ludendorff
Patrol Survey Pays Dividends
An eight year Ohio River flood survey by the State Highway Patrol enables advance flood stage warnings for 744,963 residents along the river and its tributaries. The plan includes 26 dam forecasts from East Liverpool to Cincinnati, a local disaster contact for every community, and defined escape routes.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
State Highway Patrol
Gol
George Mingle
Highway Patrol
A. C. Felty
J. W. Krrchbaum
East Liverpool
Cincinnati
Perry Co Lieutenant among prisoners freed
Washington report notes Second Lieutenant John Kader of Con BO among American POWs liberated by Soviet armies, as announced by the War Department.
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Perry Co
Washington
John Kader
Con- BO
War Department
Emmett P Thompson Dies Near Cheshire at 92 or 93
Emmett P. Thompson, who was rejected in the Civil War draft, died last night near Cheshire. Believed to be among the oldest residents of Gallia or Meigs Counties, he would have been 93 on April 1.
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Gallipolis
Emmett FP. Thompson
Cheshire
Gallia
Meigs
Effect of Allied Bombings Revealed With Rhine Cities Taken
WES GALLAGHER reports Allied air raids have lifted German secrecy about bomb damage. Cologne, Krefeld, Muenchen Gladbach and Neuss show 60 80 percent destruction claims are conservative. Incendiaries hit harder than HE. roads and rail yards lag. Cologne’s prewar population, 1 million, now 73 000 to 100 000 remain. Germans say 70 000 killed or injured. recovery may take years.
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Wes Gallagher
Cologne
Rhine
Krefeld
Muenchen-Gladbach
Neuss
Dusseldorf
Germany
Jare
Corlogne
Manhattan
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Ear of
Philands
Teland
Japan
Minitalay
Remasen
Hitler
Eastern Front
Oder River
Transocean
Oder
Rmor
Congress
Bender
Ohiod
Peek-A
Rogers
Asland Park
Minn
Ohio Navy
Onl
Xonfen
Issum
Ventor
Kamp
Rheinberg
Miles
Essen
Dortmund
Duisburg
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Hagen
Aachen
BELG
M. Glodbach
Duergn
Worringen
Pruem
Schleiden
Feuskirchen
Duppac
Wuppertal
Solingen
Patrol Survey
Saar
Palatinate
Supreme Headquarters
Bad Gedesberg
Bradley
12Th Army Group
von Rundstedt
Roer
Eisenhower
Emmett P. Thompson
Chester
Rhineland
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