Nazis Launch All-Out Sub Campaign in North Atlantic
Allied and German submarines clash as U-boat packs attack convoys. Reports say at least three U-boats sunk and several damaged in 72 hours of fighting. Coast Guard Cutter Campbell collided with and sank one large submarine and depth charged five others, then reached port damaged but afloat. The Campbell’s actions marked a dramatic Navy disclosure of anti-submarine warfare.
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Washington
Germany
North Atlantic
Byres
London
Coast Guard
Campbell
Navy
Atlantic
Pointblank
Temporary price ceilings on vegetables in 36 Ohio counties
The Office of Price Administration set temporary ceilings on fresh vegetables in 36 Central Ohio counties including spinach 15 cents per pound, green peas 25 cents, carrots 4 to 12 cents per bunch, tomatoes 21 to 35 cents, cabbage 8 to 11 cents, lettuce 10 to 19 cents, and beans about 33 cents per pound. The ceilings take effect immediately and will hold until a nationwide limit is set.
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Columbus
Ohio
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Athens
Belmont
Champaign
Clark
Coshocton
Delaware
Fairfield
Fayette
Franklin
Gallia
Guernsey
Harrison
Hocking
Jackson
Jefferson
Knox
5Rence
Licking
Logan
Madison
Marion
Meigs
Monroe
Mor
Morrow
Muskingum
Noble
Rry
Pickaway
Pike
Ross
Scioto
Union
Vinton
Washington
Tax Receipts Soar Tuesday
Treasury reports March 16 income tax receipts reached 514,606,492 surpassing Monday and last year’s 422,371,325. Daily statement notes the deadline for no returns. Receipts on March 16 more than double the prior day’s figures and exceed the 422 million from March 17 a year ago.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Knox Declares Journey To Victory Has Begun
Secretary of the Navy Knox told a New York meeting that Japan lost about 1 857 000 tons of ships early in the war, roughly a third of its tonnage, while about half of those losses were recovered through seizure of foreign ships and salvage. He said the war effort of the United Nations is just beginning.
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New York
Navy
Knox
Japan
Noily Sons of St. Patrick
United Nations
Draftee Pleads Innocent Of Substituting Brother
James R. Owens 27 of Beaver Pike County pleaded innocence to charges over a substitution scheme for induction. He told U S Commissioner Robert Benson that his 14 year old brother Eli s asked to take his place. In a separate item Mrs Ad L Phelps 84 died in a hotel fire due to an electric heating pad short circuit.
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Columbus
James R. Owens
Beaver
Pike County
Lung
Ellis
U.S
Robert S. Benson
James
Painesville
Ad L. Phelps
M Here
Women To Train for Radio Ratings in Ohio
The Navy will train women reservists as radio operators at Miami University Oxford Ohio starting April 19. One hundred Navy Marine and Coast Guard women will begin a 16 week course each month in addition to 800 enlisted men already in training on campus.
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Washington
Navy
Miami University
Oxford
Navy, Marine and
Coast Guard
Meigs County Road Worker Drowns After Bridge Collapse
Denver Wise 27 of Rutland drowns when a caterpillar tractor tipped into Leading Creek at Dexter after a bridge gave way during road work. Rescue teams locate the body after 20 minutes underwater. Survived by wife, stepson Leo Marshall, and daughter Lucille Wise.
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Middleport
Denver Wise
Rutland
Leading Creek
Dexter
Wise
Meigs County
Finsterwald
Leo Marshall
Lucille Wise
Columbus
Pleasure Driving Ban Lifted Halved Ration Aid
The Office of Price Administration halves the Atlantic Seaboard A book weekly ration of three gallons while lifting the pleasure driving ban. The changes take effect Monday and reflect wartime fuel controls and consumer conditions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Atlantic Seaboard
Ragland Robber Steals at Steubenville Post Office
Postmistress Florence Hunter reported the Ragland area post office in Steubenville was robbed by a masked gunman who forced her to surrender the complaint and jewelry valued at $3,000. The theft occurred yesterday and involved $500 in cash.
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Steubenville
Florence Hunter
Ragland
Army clarifies policy on soldiers for farms during shortages
The Army restates rules on releasing soldiers for farm work. No furloughs for temporary returns. units may help harvest vital crops if requested by the War Manpower Commission chair. Older soldiers may be discharged with conditions. overseas servicemen may be discharged if replacements exist. Under 38 may be discharged in extreme emergencies.
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Washington
War Department
War Manpower Commission
United States
Coun
Selective Service Boards
Would Permit Equalizing of Home Burdens
Washington AP Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson urged civilian draft law adoption to mobilize workers for war production. He argued for democratic equalization of obligation, noting existing coercive practices and the need to include women and farm labor in war service. The Austin Wadsworth bill faces congressional rewrite as manpower shortages grow and farm deferments spark War Department objections.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
Senate
Patterson
United States
New Guinea
House of Senate
Austin-Wadsworth National Service
Nye
R-Nd
War Department
Army Air Force
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Austin
Robert A. Taft
Harold H. Burton
Ohio
Agriculture Placements Show Large Increase
The War Manpower Commission regional director Robert C. Goodwin reports Ohio agricultural placements rose 157.6 percent in the first year of federal public employment services. In the Ohio Michigan Kentucky area total industry and agriculture placements rose 60 percent as the US Employment Service filled 805102 jobs in 1942.
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Cleveland
War Manpower Commissin
Robert C. Goodwin
Ohio
Ohio-Michigan-Kentucky
WMC
United States Employment Service
Goodwin
Rope soled and other non-strategic shoes freed from rationing
Washington announces rationing lift for rope soled and other shoes with non-strategic material soles. The policy takes effect March 24, easing shortages and permitting broader footwear access across the public.
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Washington
Moore resigns as regional OCD director for Army assignment
Dan T. Moore stepped down today from the post of regional director of the office of civilian defense to take an unspecified assignment with the U S Army.
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Cleveland
Dan T. Moore
Office of Civilian Defense
U. S. Army
Jap offensive base found high above Buna New Guinea
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced discovery of elaborate Japanese positions about 50 miles above Buna in New Guinea. Allied ground forces found the fortified area as they mopped up near the Mambare River mouth. The communique also said Allied airmen bombed Rapopo airfield at Rabaul with 392 bombs and reported heavy destruction of aircraft on the ground. Tokyo radio announced a cabinet advisory board to boost fighting strength and a warning from Premier Tojo on the war’s seriousness.
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Douglas MacArthur
Buna
New Guinea
Bismarck Sea
Mambare River
Rapopo
Rabaul
New Britain
Mambare
Lae
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Labor Bill To Extend Hours Left Stranded In Ohio Senate
A proposed bill to raise working hours for women and minors was blocked by 13 Republican senators demanding a 48 hour week. The measure was sent back to the rules committee as House liquor rationing legislation advanced 110 to 15. Rep Howard Metzenbaum argued rationing was needed due to long liquor lines.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Rules Committee
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Howard Metzenbaum
Cuyahoga
Ohio Chapters Attain Half of Red Cross Goal
Harold B. Nearman director of the Red Cross Lake Region says Ohio chapters reached 54 percent of the state's war fund goal of 6,996,000 while the national goal stands at 125,000,000.
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Ohio
Red Cross
Alexandria
Harold B. Nearman
American Red Cross
Lake Region
Japan's Trained Pilots Gone Says Kenney at White House
Washington reports that Gen George C. Kenney said Japan's highly trained first string pilots are gone while Allied air forces begin to form their own first team. He and Maj Gen Richard Sutherland updated President Roosevelt with ops in the South Pacific and brought greetings from Gen MacArthur.
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Washington
George C. Kenney
Allied Air Forces
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Kenney
Richard K. Sutherland
Douglas MacArthur
White House
Roosevelt
South Pacific
MacArthur
British Eighth Army Attacks Mareth Line in Tunisia
Allied reports confirm American troops recaptured Gafsa air base in central Tunisia after a 30 mile advance. British Eighth Army launches a major assault on the Mareth Line with four divisions while Maj. Gen. Anderson’s First Army conducts two counterattacks north of Tamera.
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Gafsa
Tunisia
Berlin
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maginot
U. S
Patton Leads Tank Troops As Allies Read Signs Of Widening Offensive
Allied HQ silent on Mareth Line operations while Gen. Patton is installed as commander of US troops in western Tunisia. Reports note reinforcements near Ksar Khilane and a major Soviet tank battle around Kharkov as Red Army troops claim gains south of Smolensk and towns along the Donets.
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Mareth Line
Dwight JD. Eisenhower
George S. Patton
Tunisia
Patton
Blood and Guts
Ksar Khilane
Mareth
Russia
Donets
Kharkov
Chuguev
Red Star
Bely
Smolensk
Moscow
Lakemen
Semeon Timoshenko
Staraya Russa
Berlin
Delay in Price Ceilings on Live Meat Animals Sought
The livestock industry asks Washington to withhold live animal price ceilings until new meat slaughtering price control and rationing programs work. OPA officials say ceilings on live animals are needed to curb meat black markets and prevent a squeeze on packers. A spokesman warns farmers may stop producing if prices drop. hog ceilings discussed range from 13.50 to 15 per hundredweight, with recent prices hitting 16.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
February job placements set record in Ohio
Columbus report shows U S Employment Service Ohio recorded 49 332 placements in February a monthly record State Director Wade Hammond said the figure stands as an all time high for the month across the state
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Columbus
U.S. Employment Service
Ohio
Wade Hammond
Bricker Emerges asPossible 1944 Presidential Timber
In Washington Bricker is named as a potential Republican presidential candidate during a House floor exchange. Rep. Bender touts Bricker as a strong leader and potential nominee while Eberharter and Fish discuss an anti New Deal ticket with Bricker as a pivot.
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Bender
Bricker
Washington
John W. Bricker
Congress
George Bender
Cleveland
Eberbarter
Republican Party
Eberharter
MacArthur
Bricker Boston
Hamilton Fish
R.-N.y
General MacArthur
Ohio
Roosevelt
MacArthur Praised by Australian Prime Minister
Prime Minister John Curtin lauded General Douglas MacArthur as an inspiring force for Australia in a speech to Parliament marking his arrival from the Philippines to command Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific. Curtin noted MacArthur’s actions as critical to Australia’s defense and praised his service as an American-born officer in the U S Army.
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Canberra
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
John Curtin
Curtin
House of Representatives
Phillipines
Southwest
Pacific
MacArthur
United States Army
Republicans To Battle For Ruml Tax Plan
Representative George Bender of Ohio declared House Republicans would fight for the Ruml pay-as-you-go tax plan. He attacked Democrats for failing to solve the revenue problem and said their leadership was lacking in Congress.
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Washington
George Bender
Ohio
House
Congress
Bender
Farm Crop Board to Report 1943 Acreage Shortages
The Federal Crop Reporting Board will estimate prospective 1943 acreages in a report due tomorrow based on reports from about 80 000 farmers nationwide. The release aims to show the severity of the food production problem and potential civilian cutbacks. BOMBS WOMEN'S HOSTEL LONDON A German raider bombed a women's hostel on the East Anglian coast killing five and wounding 12 before dawn.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
London
Chinese Army Says 2000 Japanese Troops Attacked in Yunnan
A Chinese army spokesman reported 2000 Japanese troops launched a new thrust against Chinese forces in Yunnan Province near the border with Japanese-occupied Burma.
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Chungking
Yunnan Province
Burma
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