Allies Hit Wewak Base in Heaviest Air Blow in Weeks
Allied Fifth Army Air Force crews blasted the Japanese base at Wewak New Guinea with a 120 ton raid on Saturday wrecking gun positions and fuel dumps while shooting down at least 26 planes. Liberators Mitchells and Thunderbolts attacked Boram Airdrome and supply areas as Marines fortified Talasea and invasion troops held gains on Los Negros Island.
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Wewak
New Guinea
Boram
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Lorengau
Ligos
Manus Island
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Talasea
Willaumez Peninsula
New Britain
Rabaul
Ohioans in Bitter Burma Fight With American Forces Near Walawbum
Six Ohio soldiers took part in a fierce Burma battle as Japanese troops set fire to elephant grass to halt American mechanized units near Walawbum Burma. The force included Lt. Col. McPherson Lemoyne Woodsfield Capt. Conrad Hildebrant Xenia and Technicians Fifth Grade Charles Croy McConnelsville Paul Oughman Glenford and Privates Dale Courtney Columbus George Cory Hamilton.
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Walawbum
Burma
McPherson Lemoyne
Woodsfield
Conrad Hildebrant
Xenia
Charles Croy
McConnelsville
Paul Oughman
Glenford
Dale Courtney
Columbus
George Cory
Hamilton
Resumed Milk Deliveries After Detroit Dairy Strike
Milk deliveries in the Detroit area resumed after an unauthorized strike by about 2,500 dairy workers. The stoppage had reduced deliveries to a trickle over the weekend.
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Detroit
Safety Parley Date Set in Columbus for Ohio Congress
The 15th annual all Ohio Safety Congress and exhibit will be held in Columbus on April 18 19 and 20. Organizers confirm a three day program featuring safety seminars and exhibits from state agencies and industry groups.
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Columbus
Corning Flier Hero A Bomber Base England
Lt. Leo Sullivan of Corning Ohio piloted the Flying Fortress Snafu on a Berlin raid. Despite losing the nose and part of a wing a bombardier was killed and another engine knocked out. Sullivan dove to low altitude and hugged the ground to return to England as gunners attacked Nazi targets along the way.
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U. S
England
Berlin
Leo Sullivan
Corning
Perry County
Sullivan
Abolish Farm Security Would Transfer Assets to Farmers Home
A House agriculture subcommittee offered legislation to abolish the Farm Security Administration. The bill, by Chairman Cooley, would shift FSA assets and regional credit operations to the Farmers Home Corporation and Farm Credit Administration entities. It would curb supervision powers and end 99 year leases, with public facilities at resettlement projects to be granted to public or semi public institutions.
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Washington
Farm Security Administration
Cooley
D-Nc
Farmers Home Corporation
FSA
The
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Credit Organization
Enriched Flour Price Ceiling Reduced by Five Cents
The Office of Price Administration announced a five cent cut per hundred pounds in the ceiling price of all enriched flour effective March 18 for households and bakers. OPA cites lower vitamin costs and an agreement by millers to no profit on enriching processes.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Taft Slated for New Senate Position Amid Leaderiod Tension
Washington reports Senator Taft of Ohio appears set to chair the Senate minority’s board of directors, a move seen to avert a split over McNary’s successor. With Charles McNary dead, Senator White of Maine acts as leader while some Republicans push for a confrontation, but elder members seek delay until January.
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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 after chasing an unidentified visitor who had called at his Akron home. Mrs. Ola App told police her husband was shot while pursuing the visitor. App ran a refrigeration and appliance service from his residence.
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Akron
Cervera L. App
Ola App
App
May Slash A Coupon Value In Midwestern Ration Plan
Colonel Bryan Huston deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration said the possibility exists to reduce basic A gasoline rations in the Midwest and West from three to two gallons per week to align with the eastern seaboard. OPA may announce the decision tomorrow after the civilian allocation for the second quarter is sent from PAW tonight.
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Washington
Mid-west
West
Seaboard
Bryan Huston
Office of Price Administration
Houston
Petroleum Administration
OPA
PAW
Fall Fatal for Republic Worker at Barn Construction Site
Harry Bishop aged 62 of Republic died after a 27 foot fall from a barn under construction. He sustained a crushed head and broken neck, authorities reported.
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Harry Bishop
Republic
First WAC to fly Pacific Ocean tours Pearl Harbor move
Maj. Geraldine May leads an inspection tour in New York highlighting areas she recently visited. She arranged for WACs to move into Pearl Harbor soon as part of the deployment plan.
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Pacific Ocean
Maj
Geraldine May
New York
Wacs
Pearl Harbor
Travel suspension tightens Britain Ireland border
The British government ordered an immediate suspension of travel between Britain and Ireland to prevent Axis spies from operating in Eire. The Home Office acted after Eisenhower urged action to protect Allied war secrets as De Valera refused to close German and Japanese offices, with Australia reportedly consented to support the move.
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Northern Ireland
Eire
Britain
Ireland
Gc ccEe
Belfast
Ejire
Eamon de Valera
United States
Home Office
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Curtin
Australia
Associated Press
Canberra
Bricker urges private jobs plan over federal aid
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio argues a dynamic private economy can solve postwar employment issues without federal help. He warns against political ownership of industry, calls for a balanced budget, and urges a constructive tax policy to curb war related debt growth.
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Boston
Empley T
America
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Boston University Institute
Doolittle Nominated for Lieutenant General Rank
President Roosevelt nominates Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle to the rank of lieutenant general. Doolittle led the Tokyo raid on April 18, 1942 and earned the Medal of Honor. He has since commanded the Eighth Air Force and the 12th Air Force in North Africa before returning to England.
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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
SANTIAGO Chile Else von Flaten former employee of the German embassy has been arrested on an espionage charge government authorities announced today Police said they found many espionage papers including instructions to spies in Chile in her possession Two other arrests of Germans on espionage charges were announced yesterday
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Santiago
Chile
Else von Flaten
Senate to Consider Federal Service Ballot Bill Today
The Senate moved to take up a service vote compromise aimed at overseas service members and select federal ballots for certain voters. The measure would allow a short-form federal ballot to service members who cannot obtain a senate absentee ballot and where state law permits. domestic voters in states lacking absentee laws could also use the federal ballot if allowed by their state.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Paris Blue-Beard mystery shocks Europe
Police uncovered a grisly Bluebeard style case in a Paris villa. DNB reported several bodies in a furnace room with severed limbs and organs scattered around. Smelly smoke lingered as investigators entered, with eight to twenty five women allegedly butchered.
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London
Paris
DNB
London Air Raids Result in 961 Dead Missing
The Home Security Ministry announced that last month air raids against the United Kingdom left 961 persons dead missing and believed dead, highlighting the human toll of sustained bombing.
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London
United Kingdom
Admits Slaying Mail Carrier in Kentucky
Whitesburg Kentucky sheriff said an examining trial was set for John Banks 35 on murder charges for the death of Pearl Bowling 50 a Cornettsville rural mail carrier. Banks allegedly clubbed robbed and buried Bowling beside a roadside gravel area with two young witnesses nearby. Bowling was delivering a war department telegram when attacked and died shortly after.
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Whitesburg
Gilbert Polly
John Banks
Polly
Banks
Pearl Bowling
Cornettsville
B. F. Wright
Bowling
War Department
Army Officer's Wife and Daughter Die in Fire
A house fire gutted an upstairs apartment near Sandusky's downtown business district killing Mrs. Louise Dobert 26 and her four year old daughter Pollyanna. The woman was wife of Capt. Vincent Robert who is serving in Italy.
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Sandusky
Louise Dobert
Vincent Robert
Italy
Pollyanna Dobert
British Coal Miners Returning to Shafts
London reports a week long strike by about 100,000 miners easing as early returns indicate as many as a third of workers back at their shafts and the industry estimates the disruption cost Britain 300,000 tons of coal.
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London
Britain
Stockport Flier Dies As Plane Hits Hangar
An Army B 17 bomber crashed into a hangar at Presque Isle air base killing Second Lieutenant T Walter Gage 25 of Stockport Ohio and injuring nine other crew members The son of Mr and Mrs J Gale Gage of Stockport Morgan County Ohio the accident occurred Saturday and resulted in nine injuries to the crew.
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Presque Isle Air Base
T. Walter Gage
Stockport
Morgan County
Lieut. Gage
J. Gale Gage
Child struck and killed by auto in Columbus
A six year old girl named Shirley Ann Freeman was struck and killed by an automobile as she started to run across a street in Columbus yesterday. The incident occurred after she stepped into the path of the vehicle.
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Columbus
Shirley Ann Freeman
Weather note from Athens on temperature swings
Yesterday Athens reached 54 with a low of 30 overnight. By noon today the temperature stood at 32 as conditions shifted through the day.
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Athens
Walt’s Ridge Named After Marine Leader at Cape Gloucester
Lieut Col Lewis Walt USMC pictured at the U S Naval Hospital Oakland. He led a Marine unit to capture a ridge in the Cape Gloucester campaign described as the bloodiest battle. The ridge is officially named Walt’s Ridge. Walt rose from first lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in 11 months via field commissions.
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Lewis Walt
USMC
U. S. Naval Hospital
Oakland
Calif
Ridge
Cape Gloucester
Walt
Dies Says Winchell Statements May Be Investigated
Chairman Dies of the House Un American Activities Committee charges that about 60 percent of radio statements by Walter Winchell can be proved utterly false and warns of a possible inquiry. He considers subpoenaing scripts from long‑running commentators to test truth or falsity and questions if networks would allow maligned figures to answer accusations on air.
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Washington
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On
Unamerican
Walter Winchell
Texan
House
Blue Network
Winchell
Canned Music Ban Assailed and War Board Recommendation
A War Labor Board panel recommends bringing the American Federation of Musicians back into general record making. It finds the August 1942 AFM recording ban was a strike with direct interference in the war effort. President Petrillo contends the move was merely musicians' rights and denies a strike, insisting the WLB lacks jurisdiction.
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Washington
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
WLB
AFM
Petrillo
Eight Die in Train Auto Crash West of Columbus
A passenger train and an automobile collided at a crossing eight miles west of Columbus, killing eight people and injuring two others as two families were returning from church. The Spirit of St. Louis was involved according to patrolmen. The car was crushed in two.
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Here
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of
Allied Air Forays Target French Coast Ahead of D Day
Hundreds of Allied planes swept over the continent in a push to destroy the German air force before the invasion. U S Liberators hit Pas-De-Calais targets in France in a heavy bombing run. all crews returned safely. RAF Mosquitos struck Hamburg. one plane lost. German raids over England triggered alerts with limited damage. Augsburg U boat engine works sustained extensive damage.
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Pas-De-Calais
France
U. S
Hamburg
Germany
England
London
Air Ministry
Augsburg
Hitler Shuffles Eastern Command On Front
An informant says two German field marshals on the Russian front were relieved and replaced by Nazi loyalists from outside the Junkers caste. In a U S broadcast Brig Gen George McDonald cites up to 3000 Allied planes striking Regensburg Stuttgart and other Nazi targets on February 25.
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London
Guenther von Kluege
Georg von Keuchler
Junkers
United States
George McDonald
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Regensburg
Stuttgart
Reds Drive Toward Kherson in Major Soviet Offensive
Moscow announced the Red Army reached within 22 miles of Kherson after a day of heavy fighting and claimed over 60 000 German deaths in eight days. Soviet reports said 210 villages fell, rail lines severed, and prisoners increased as forces advanced toward Nikolaev and Tarnopol with heavy German resistance noted.
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Burma
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Bay of Bengal
Akyab
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast
Thhe
Hukawng Valley
Chanma
Walawbum
Frank Merrill
Kamaing
Red Army
Kherson
Dnieper
Moscow
Proskurov-Gulyatin
Rumania
Hungary
Gaivoron
Bug
Russia
Tarnopol
Tass
Red Star
Berislav
Tyaginka
Dolinskaya
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Bessarabian
Allied and Axis Actions Across The Western Mediterranean
Reports say British Beaufighters attacked two enemy supply ships off the Spanish coast, driving one ashore and sinking the other. Berlin claims nine Blenheim bombers sank the German refrigerator ship Kirissi in Spanish waters with 10 dead and 15 wounded. Allied navals also claim sunk vessels in the Adriatic and on the Yugoslav coast, while Anzio artillery and air actions continue with ongoing losses for both sides. Pope Pius XII appeals for peace, and Tito’s forces seize Pacisco on Brac Island as rumors of commando landings surface.
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Berlin
Adriatic
Neretva
Ancona
Anzio
Italy
Genoa
Padua
Florence
Toulon
Pope Pius XII
Rome
White House study on manpower leadership meets on deferments
President Roosevelt summoned War Production Board chair Donald M Nelson WPB vice chair Charles E Wilson and War Manpower Commission chair Paul V McNutt to review occupational draft deferments amid concerns of leniency toward younger men needed for the armed forces. Senator Barkley attended the Monday confab with Democratic leaders after his veto dispute and resignation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M Nelson
The
War Production Board
WPB
Charles E. Wilson
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
Selective Servi
Lewis B. Hershey
Barkley
D-Ky
White House
Senate
Point Pleasant Houses Floated to Kentucky
A massive tow on the Ohio River pushed by the steamer Arthur Hitler carried 12 barges with 80 fully equipped homes from Point Pleasant West Virginia to Uniontown Kentucky. The 940 foot convoy, among the largest river tows, is bound for Camp Breckinridge Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
Arthur Hitler
Ohio River
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Uniontown
Camp Breckinridge
Jenkins on Postwar Taxation Committee
Washington report says a 25 member Republican committee on postwar taxation was accepted as the first step toward shaping the 1944 tax plan. The lone Ohioan on the panel is Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Yugoslav Troops Rally to Marshal Tito in Russia
A Yugoslav unit equipped by the Red Army pledged allegiance to Marshal Tito and prepared for battle under his banner in Russia. The move consolidates Tito’s Partisan leadership amid ongoing conflict.
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Russia
Red Army
Tito
Attorneys Prepare New Trial Motion in Collett Case
Attorneys for James W. Collett plan to file today a motion for a new trial for the 60 year old prosperous hog breeder condemned to death in Ohio’s electric chair.
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Washington
D.H
James W. Collett
Ohio
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