Americans Extend Remagen Bridgehead to Twelve Miles
Overnight attacks pushed the U S First Army deeper into the Remagen bridgehead across the Rhine as Berlin announced a widening to 12 miles. About 25 000 American troops had already crossed the Ludendorff Bridge and pontoon spans. A smoke screen along a 40 mile Rhine front disrupted Allied dispositions from Wesel to Nijmegen.
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Associated Press
U.S. First Army
Remagen
Rhine
Berlin
Ludendorf
Wesel-Nijmegen
Resistance plea is renewed by Hitler in London broadcast
Adolph Hitler renewed Nazi resistance appeals on the 16th anniversary of conscription, warning Allies may exhaust themselves and fail. Allied advances included Remagen bridgehead operations with heavy bombardment and river-crossing actions, while German lines faced pressure along the Rhine and Moselle. Red Army forces pushed west toward Moravska Ostrava, and Moscow signaled regrouping to Berlin front as American and Italian fronts move in Italy and along the Po valley.
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Adolph Hitler
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Honnef
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Hoeningen
U. 5
Third Army
Coblenz
Rhine
Moselle
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Erden
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Tenterhooks
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Green Hills
Erpei
Red Army
Gdynia
Danzig
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Moravska-Ostrava
Moravian
Moscow
Oder
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Italy
Vergato
Bologna
Pis« O13
Vorys Blames Army For Nurse Shortage
Rep Vorys of Ohio blames Army for nurse shortage, saying army bans and bad planning caused expected requirements. House passes a related draft bill amid his reluctant vote.
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Vorys
Washington
Ohio
Allied Bombers Aid Russians At Stettin
Allied bombers from Britain, aided Russians at Stettin as part of a broad daylight offensive across the Ruhr and northern Germany. The raid, part of a 28 day aerial campaign, hit Swinemunde and other targets while American heavy bombers focused on submarine yards at Hamburg, Bremen, and Kiel.
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Sia Wae
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Reich
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Munich
Italy
Essen
RAF
Berlin
Hamburg
Bremen
Kiel
Lewis Claim Is Contested in Labor Dispute
Washington D C Representative Smith criticized John L Lewis's claim of a labor dispute between miners and bituminous operators under the labor disputes statute. He argued a dispute requires two parties and noted Lewis filed notice February 26 with the NLRB, triggering a strike vote. Negotiations for a new contract began March 1 with Lewis demanding 418 points.
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Smith
D-Va
John L. Lewis
Lewis
NLRB
Taft says MacArthur should be brought to Washington
Senator Taft argues General MacArthur should be summoned to Washington to help shape final strategy against Japan. He notes Admiral Nimitz is present and calls MacArthur's absence since the war began significant.
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Taft
MacArthur
Washington
Ohio
Chester W. Nimitz
Navy
Pacific
Ace Urges Pilots To Have Confidence Speak At Graduation
Victoria Texas report says Captain John H. Woll of Goshen Ohio, United States top ace in the Mediterranean with 21 enemy planes, addressed 48 fighter pilots at Aloe Field graduation urging belief in themselves to prevail in future air battles.
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John H. Woll
Goshen
America
Mediterranean
Aloe Field
Woll
Portsmouth Wins Fight With Flood
Portsmouth celebrates a five day battle against the Ohio River flood with a $10 million victory. About 9,000 residents begin returning home as flood levels drop to 60 feet, two feet below a section of the flood wall where sandbags were used. Citizens and State Guardsmen praised protection efforts and urged completion of the 15 foot flood wall halted by wartime needs.
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Ohio
Citizens’ Flood Defense Committee
State Guard
Salladay
U. S. Army
Vern Haugland
21St Bomber Command Headquarters
Guam
Nagoya
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tokyo
Jing
Washington
U. S
Germany
St. George Perrin, Jr
Europe
Kuniaki Koiso
Nippon
Nimitz
Asiatic
Establish New Food Agency Formed to Manage Home Front Supplies
President Byrnes created a new Super-allocation agency to oversee essential food and supplies for the home front as foreign demand grows and domestic shortages appear. The committee headed by Leo T. Crowley includes representatives from the State War Navy War Shipping Administration and WRA, with authority to approve export commitments except for essential military purposes or lendlease.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Leo T. Crowley
Byrnes
Crowley
state,War and Navy Departments
War Shipping Administration
WRA
Logan Woman Dies After Fall in Logan Home
Miss Louise Stedem age 80 a lifelong Logan resident died at her home on E Hunter Street from injuries from a fall nearly two months earlier. She was taken to St Francis Hospital Columbus after the hip break and spent weeks there. Surviving are two sisters Miss Mary and Mrs Kessler. Funeral plans are being made today.
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Logan
Louise Stedem
E. Hunter St
St. Francis Hospital
Columbus
Mary
Kessler
Ashland
Allied AMG Faces Biggest Assignment Yet at Cologne
Forty-two American officers and 26 enlisted men trained in city administration lead Cologne’s restoration after battle damage. They confront looting, body removal, water and power outages, and a Gestapo-prison legacy while locating non-Nazi locals to aid in governance and rationing efforts.
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Cologne
Louis P. Lochner
Germany
Onco
Gestapo
Maj
Bawvin
12 000 Union Men Strike at Movie Studios
Hollywood reports a strike by 12 000 AFL union craftsmen over set designer jurisdiction at major studios. Picket lines formed at studio entrances as production chiefs warned output could drop by half within days. Some studios remained unaffected. The War Labor Board designated the local painters union as bargaining agent, while another union also claims jurisdiction.
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Hollywood
AFL
Herbert Sorrell
Conference of
Technicolor
Atiwork
Walt’ Dism ‘Monogram
Producers Releasing Corporation
AFL Painters Union Local 1421
Studio Unions
War Labor Board
International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage
Vets Begin Job Training for Disabled Veterans
The first group of 22 World War II disabled veterans starts vocational rehabilitation training. Three Ohioans Laura Clingenpeel Albert Kelch and Thomas Wilford will finish a course at American University and then begin on the job training in Cincinnati at the Disabled American Veterans national headquarters. After training they will be stationed at veterans hospitals and 504 discharge centers nationwide to aid wounded veterans and dependents.
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Washington
Lake Fleet To Begin Shipping on April 1
Cleveland dispatch reports the Great Lakes cargo fleet will start shipping April 1 to move war materials and surpass last year’s tonnage records. The Lake Carriers’ Association cites 92,960,000 net tons of iron ore, 340,000,000 bushels of grain, and unchanged quotas of 60,000,000 tons of coal and 17,000,000 tons of limestone for 1945.
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Cleveland
Great Lakes
Lake Cartiers’ Association
Three Killed Nine Missing In Bomber Crash Off Montauk Point
The First Service Command reported three Army fliers killed and nine missing after a heavy bomber crash off Montauk Point late Saturday. Lieutenant M B Tolle of Hillsboro Ohio was recovered yesterday, authorities said.
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L. 1
UPI
First Service Command
Army
M. B. Tolle
Hillsboro
CLO Demands Change In Little Steel Code
New York report says Philip Murray and five affiliated union presidents will present a resolution to President Roosevelt calling for immediate revision of the Little Steel formula and a minimum wage of 65 cents an hour. A separate item notes motorist Jack Hopkins, 27, of Zanesville, killed when his car overturned on Route 22. Chiang Kai-shek announced a decisive mainland battle with Japan drawing closer as seen from Chungking.
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New York
Philip Murray
Roosevelt
Zanesville
Jack Hopkins
Route 22
Here
Max Batti Chungking
Utse Chintsi
Mindanao Invaders Push Toward Key Airfields
Allied forces pressed toward San Roque airfield near Zamboanga after seizing Wolfe airstrip and nearby towns San Mateo San Jose Celarian. The advance followed heavy air and naval bombardment and aimed to cut Japanese lines as MacArthur announced a strengthened blockade of the South China Sea and East Indies.
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Wolfe
Mindanao Island
San Roque
Zamboanga
Jens A. Doe
Eighth Army
Zamiboanga
Associated Press
Russell Brines
13Th Air Force
Adm. Kinkaid
Seventh Fleet
Zamboanga Harbor
Fred Hampson
San Mateo
San Jose
Celarian
Borneo
U. S
MacArthur
China-Seai
Japan
East Indies
Long High
Iwo Jima
Suribachi Crater
Ines
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Waterbury Soldier Refuses Bronze Star Amid War Wounds
Sgt Joseph Kusaila of Waterbury Conn refuses the Bronze Star awarded for courage and leadership in battle calling it a sop to his conscience. He is recovering from wounds in Louisville Ky after being washed out at Fort Benning Ga officer training school.
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Joseph Kusaila
Waterbury
12 Year Old Kills Playmate Over Teasing
In Columbus an 12 year old boy named Hunter confessed to fatally shooting 11 year old William Ward after Ward teased him about a girl. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon on the Hunter property near Georgesville with a .22 rifle.
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Columbus
Joseph,Searist
Charles
Joseph
Hunter
William
Billy) Ward
Billy
Georgesville
Ife
Waymer Ward
Segrist
Daniel F. Hutter
Ward
Bastogne Road Show Opens Tri State Tour
GE road show produced at Fort Hayes moves from Columbus for a six week tour across 26 Ohio Indiana and West Virginia cities. Major Robert French produces the program built around six veterans of the Bastogne battle highlighting a heroic stand by a surrounded U S Company aiding stem German breakthrough.
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Columbus
Burton Urges U S To Help Small Nations
Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio urged United States leadership for small nations and called for an international organzation modeled on the Dumbarton Oaks plan. He spoke at the First Unitarian Church in Rochester, advocating America as a special champion for smaller states.
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America
Harold H. Burton
Ohio
Burton
American Unitarian Association
First Unitarian Church
Dumbarton Oaks
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