American Bombers Hit Wewak Base in New Guinea Strike
Fifth Army Air Force Lib erators and Mitchell bombers struck Wewak, along with Boram Airdrome, causing fuel dumps to catch fire and downing at least 26 Japanese planes. Allied forces also advanced on Los Negros and Manus Islands while continuing raids on Rabaul and Bougainville.
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New Guinea
Associated Press
Fifth Army Air Force
Wewak
Boram
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Lorengau
Lugos
Manus Island
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Rabaul
New Britain
Ohioans in Burma Battle With American Chinese Forces Near Walawbum
Six Ohioans participate in a bitter Burma clash as Japanese fire elephant grass to halt advancing American mechanized units. Names include Lt. Col. McPherson Lemoyne Woodsfield Capt. Conrad Hildebrant Xenia and technicians Charles Croy McConnelsville Paul Oughman Glenford Pits Caleb Courtney Columbus George Cory Hamilton. Milk deliveries resume in Detroit area after dairy workers end unauthorized strike affecting about 2500 workers.
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Walawbum
Burma
McPherson Lemoyne
Woodsfield
Conrad Hildebrant
Xenia
Charles Croy
McConnelsville
Paul Oughman
Glenford
Pits
Caleb Courtney
Columbus
George Cory
Hamilton
Safety Parley Date Set in Columbus
The fifteenth annual all Ohio Safety Congress and Exhibit will be held in Columbus on April 18 and 20.
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Columbus
Corning Flier Hero Of Berlin Bomber Rescue
Lt Leo Sullivan of Corning Ohio piloted a Flying Fortress nicknamed Snafu during a raid on Berlin. After the nose and a wing were damaged by Nazi fire a shell killed the bombardier and another engine was lost. Sullivan dived low and hugged the ground to return to England while gunners attacked targets on the path home and drew fire from a German camp.
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U. S
England
Berlin
Leo Sullivan
Corning
Perry County
Sullivan
Would Abolish Farm Security Would Abolish Farm Security
Washington bill offered by a House agriculture subcommittee seeks to abolish the Farm Security Administration by transferring its assets to the Farmers Home Corporation and moving regional credit operations to the Farm Credit Administration. The measure aims to curb regulatory powers and end 99 year government leases while reallocating facilities at resettlement projects to public or semi public bodies.
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Washington
Farm Security Administration
Cooley
D-Nc
Farmers Home Corporation
FSA
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Credit Organization
Enriched Flour Price Ceiling Cut By Five Cents
The Office of Price Administration reduced the ceiling price of all enriched flour by five cents per hundred pounds. The cut becomes effective March 18 for households and bakers. OPA cites lower costs of oral vitamins and a millers agreement to forgo profit on enriching processes.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Taft Slated for New Position in Senate
Washington text reports Senator Taft of Ohio likely to be named chairman of the Senate minority’s Steering Committee. The move aims to prevent a split over McNary’s successor after McNary’s death left Senator White as acting leader.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Charles McNary
McNary
White
Akron Man Killed Chasing Visitor at Home
Cervera L. App, 43, was shot and killed last night after pursuing an unidentified visitor who called at his Akron home. Mrs. Ola App told police her husband was shot when he chased the visitor. App operated a refrigeration and air service from his home.
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Akron
Cervera L. App
Ola App
App
Possible cut in A gasoline ration across Midwest and West
Colonel Bryan Huston deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration said a plan to trim basic A gasoline rations from three to two gallons a week may be adopted to match the eastern seaboard. OPA expected to announce the decision after PAW transmits civilian allocations for Q2 tonight.
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Washington
Mid-west
West
Seaboard
Bryan Huston
Office of Price Administration
Houston
Petroleum Administration
OPA
PAW
Tiffin Man Dies After 27 Foot Barn Fall
Harry Bishop, 62, of Republic, died Saturday night from a crushed head and injuries after falling 27 feet from a barn he was helping to repair. Authorities report the accident occurred during work beneath a collapsing structure.
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Tiffin
Harry Bishop
Republic
First WAC to Fly Pacific Ocean Pictured in New York
Maj Geraldine May leads an inspection tour as the first WAC to fly the Pacific Ocean. She points to areas she recently visited while arranging for WACs to move into Pearl Harbor soon.
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WAC
Pacific Ocean
Maj
Geraldine May
New York
Wacs
Pearl Harbor
Travel Suspension Tightens Between Britain and Eire
The British government ordered near complete travel ban between Britain and Ireland effective midnight as Allied leaders push to curb neutral areas used for Axis spying. Reports from Belfast say the measure aims to protect war secrets amid Eire's refusal to close German and Japanese offices and Allied pressure.
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Northern Ireland
Eire
Britain
Ireland
Procopeur Wuay
Belfast
Eamon de Valera
United States
Home Office
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Curtin
Australia
Associated Press
Canberra
Curt’n
Bricker Presses Private Jobs Plan for Postwar America
Governor John W. Bricker argues a dynamic private economy without federal aid will solve postwar unemployment. He contrasts regulation with regime, opposes political ownership of agriculture and industry, and urges a balanced federal budget and pro growth tax policy to curb rising public debt.
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Boston
America
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Boston University Institute
Doolittle Nominated for Lieutenant General Rank
Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, commander of the Eighth Air Force in England, is nominated by President Roosevelt to be lieutenant general. He led the Tokyo raid on April 18, 1942 and earned the Medal of Honor before roles in North Africa and Europe.
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Washington
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
England
Roosevelt
Tokyo
12Th Air Force
North Africa
German Woman Held As Nazi Spy In Chile
In Santiago Else von Flaten a former German embassy employee has been arrested on an espionage charge authorities said they found numerous espionage papers and spy instructions in her possession Two other Germans were arrested on espionage charges yesterday during Chilean police operations
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Santiago
Chile
Else von Flaten
Senate Set To Consider Overseas Service Vote Bill Today
The Senate moved to debate a service vote bill that would provide a short form federal ballot to military voters overseas who cannot obtain a senate absentee ballot and when state law authorizes it. Domestic service voters in states without absentee voting could also receive a federal ballot if their state permits.
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Senate
Washington
United States
Bluebeard Mystery Unfolds in Paris Villa
Police uncovered a grisly Bluebeard style case in a Paris villa as eight to 25 women were reported killed. Vile smoke rose from the chimney while authorities found heads arms and other remains around a furnace room.
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London
Paris
DNB
Air raids in Britain Leave 961 Dead or Missing
London authorities report last month's air raids across the United Kingdom killed or believed missing 961 people, according to the Ministry of Home Security.
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London
United Kingdom
Ministry of Home Security
Mail Carrier Slaying Admittted by Suspect in Kentucky
Whitesburg Kentucky reports that John Banks 35 faces murder charges in the death of Pear Bowling 50 a rural mail carrier. Examin ing trial scheduled with two young witnesses and a local resident aiding in exhumation of the body from a shallow roadside grave.
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Whitesburg
Gilbert Polly
John Banks
Polly
Banks
Pear Bowling
Cornettsville
B. F. Wright
Bowling
War Department
Army Officer's Wife and Daughter Die in Fire
Sandusky investigators report an upstairs apartment blaze near the downtown area killed Louise Dobert 26 wife of Capt. Vincent Robert now in action in Italy and their four year old daughter Pollyanna. The fire gutted the upper dwelling, and the couple's son and other relatives were not harmed.
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Sandusky
Louise Dobert
Vincent Robert
Italy
Pollyanna Dobbert
British coal miners return to shafts in slow restart
London reports a week old avina of 100000 miners returning to work as roughly a third of the workforce resumes duties. Early indications show about 300000 tons of coal lost during the stoppage.
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London
Avina
Britain
Stockport Flier Dies As Plane Hits Hangar
An Army B 17 bomber crashed at Presque Isle air base killing Second Lieutenant T Walter Gage age 25 of Stockport and nine other crew members. Gage was son of Mr and Mrs J Gale Gage of Stockport.
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Presque Isle
Presque Isle Air Base
T. Walter Gage
Morgan County
Lieut. Gage
J. Gale Gage
Stockport
Automobile Kills 6 Year Old Shirley Freeman in Columbus
An automobile struck and killed Shirley Ann Freeman as she started to cross a Columbus street yesterday. The incident occurred in the early morning hours near her home, prompting investigation by local police.
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Columbus
Shirley Ann Freeman
Weather snapshot from Athens shows heat persists
The report notes high temperatures around 54 degrees in Athens and a record warm spell with a noon reading indicating continued heat. Details are incomplete due to fragmented text.
Allied Air Blitz Deepens Pressure Before D-Day
Hundreds of Allied planes, including American Liberators and RAF Mosquitos, struck targets across Pas de Calais Hamburg and Western Germany in the latest raids. German defenses offered little opposition as London reported alerts with limited damage from a weaker Saturday raid. Augsburg U-boat engine works reportedly damaged in late attacks.
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Pas-De-Calais
France
U. S
Hamburg
Germany
England
London
Air Ministry
Augsburg
Hitler shuffles eastern command amid Nazi loyalist replacements
An informant says Field Marshals Guenther Von Kluege and Georg Von Keuchler were relieved on the Russian front and replaced by strong Nazis not from the Junkers caste. A U S air forces report notes heavy Allied air attacks on Regensburg and Stuttgart on February 25.
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Guenther von Kluege
Georg von Keuchler
Junkers
United States
McDonald
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Europe
Regensburg
Stuttgart
Winchell Air Statements Are Declared False by Dies
Washington hearing fast tracks claim of false radio statements by Walter Winchell. House Un American Activities chairman Martin Dies says he may subpoena scripts to verify truth or falsity and asks broadcasting firms about offering maligned parties a platform to respond. Meanwhile Soviet forces near Kherson drive, claim 5,000 Germans killed as 60,000 die in eight days, with advances toward Nikolaev and Proskurov-Gulyatin railway severed.
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Kherson
Washington
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On
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Walter Winchell
Texan
House
Blue Network
Red Army
Dnieper
Moscow
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Rumania
Hungary
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Bug
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Tass
Red Star
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Come Munique
Dolinskeya
Nikolaev
Nazi
Black Sea
Bessarabian
Canned Music Ban Assailed
Washington case centers on the War Labor Board’s finding that the AFM August 1942 recording ban was a strike with direct war effort impact. James Petrillo defends the musicians rights to play or not to play, denying a strike and challenging WLB jurisdiction.
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Washington
War Labor Board
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
WLB
AFM
Petrillo
Eight Die in Train Auto Collision Near Columbus
A passenger train and an automobile collided at a crossing eight miles west of Columbus, killing eight people and injuring two. Patrolmen said the Spirit of St. Louis belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad was involved as two families were returning from church. The car was split in two.
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Columbus
Here
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of
Enemy supply ships hit by air and naval raids in western Mediterranean
Allied strikes on German shipping off the Spanish coast drove one supply ship aground and left another sinking. Berlin claim cited. Allied forces in the Adriatic sunk two more enemy vessels near Neretva Channel and below Ancona. Artillery and air actions intensified at Anzio and across Italy with losses on both sides. Pope Pius appeals for Rome’s safety. Dalmatian Island actions cited with Pacisco port capture on Brac Island. Berlin reports mention a claimed commando landing on Lissa Island.
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Mediterranean
Berlin
Adriatic
Neretva
Ancona
Anzio
Italy
Genoa
Padua
Florence
Toulon
Pope Pius XII
Rome
White House Convenes Leaders on Manpower Policy
President Roosevelt summoned three top officials to discuss the manpower shortage and deferment policy. WPB Chair Donald M. Nelson WPB vice chair Charles E. Wilson War Manpower Commission head Paul V. McNutt and Hershey were involved in the review. Senator Barkley met with the President at the Monday conference amid tax bill tensions and his leadership role.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
WPB
Charles E. Wilson
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Barkley
D-Ky
White House
Senate
Point Pleasant Houses Floated to Kentucky
A 940 foot tow of 12 barges carrying 30 fully equipped homes was pushed by the steamer Arthur Hitler on the Ohio River. The convoy passed Cincinnati en route from Point Pleasant West Virginia to Uniontown for use at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
Arthur Hitler
Ohio River
Point Apne W, Va
Uniontown
Camp Breckinridge
Jenkins On Postwar Taxation Committee
Washington reports the creation of a 25 member Republican committee on postwar taxation as the first step toward shaping the 1944 tax plan. The sole Ohioan named is Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton, serving on the panel.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Yugoslav Unit in Russia Bows to Tito
A Yugoslav unit, equipped by the Red Army, pledged allegiance to Marshal Tito and prepared for battle under his banner in Russia.
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Russia
Red Army
Tito
Collett Appeals Death Penalty Conviction
Attorneys for James W. Collett plan to file a motion for a new trial for the 60 year old condemned man sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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Washington D.H
James W. Collett
Tay Ddeath
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