Patton and Patch Close On Rhine Front in Saar Palatinate
Allied forces in the Rhine valley push toward Kaiserslautern and Mainz as Patton's Third Army and Patch's Seventh Army converge near the Rhine. German resistance collapses with air support and river crossings, while forces report heavy enemy casualties and rapid advances along the Saar Palatinate line.
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Saar - Palatinate
Siegfried Line
Patton
Patch
Associated Press
Third Army
Seventh Army
Rhine
Saar-Palatinate
Uae
Vusauncu
Adimout
Rhine Valley
Rhine-Saara
Kaiserslautern
Palatinate
Mainz
Hodges
Cologne-Frankfurt
Remagen
East Rhine
Budenbach
Lausche pushes record Ohio budget for 1945 46
Columbus AP reports Governor Lausche recommends a state budget of 425,069,663 for 1945 46, a record high. The proposal includes a 56,286 increase over 1943 expenditures, excludes local sales tax shares, and seeks 32,000,000 for the new biennium, nine million more than the previous two years. The governor emphasizes total allocations with no local tax share included.
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Columbus
Frank J. Laus
Kobe and Kure Navy Yard Targeted in Allied Air Assault
American carrier planes bombed Kobe, Japan’s largest shipbuilding center, and the Kure navy base for a third straight day. MacArthur’s forces advanced on Mindanao and Panay in the Central Philippines as U S forces reported heavy Japanese casualties on Mindanao and in the Zambales mountains. Japanese claims spoke of losses and evacuations as B-29s returned from Nagoya and Iwo Jima supplied sorties.
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Philippine Islands
Mitscher
Kure
Kobe
Tokyo
Luzon
MacArthur
Panay
Philippines
Malamiaui
Mindanao
Mindan Ao
Zambales
Ma‘Gila
40Th
Tibaguan
Hailo
Pansy
Honshu
Shikoku
Kyushu
U.S
U. S
Iwo.Jima
Emerg
Romblon Island captured after brutal Japanese actions
Report from Philippines say Romblon Town was reduced to about 1 000 inhabitants after the island's seizure by the 1 %th Regiment of the 24th Division. Civilians were slaughtered and escape routes limited. Meanwhile Chinese Communists report defeats in Henan Province and Japanese counterattacks in Burma are crushed. British information says 274 Nipponese vessels sunk in East Asia over eight months.
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Twenty-Fourth Division
Philippines
Romblon Island
Luxon
Romblon
Habitants
China
Henan
Southeast Asia
Mandalay
Burma
British
British Summarines
Ohio governor outlines 1945 46 budget and capital plan
The biennial governor Laudele packet proposes $704,550 for state universities and a $354,645,000 capital program. It includes funds for welfare, highway buildings, new state school projects, and university construction. The plan stresses delaying nonemergency spending until resources like materials and manpower are available.
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Columbus
Ohio
All State Uiniversitiee
Rank J. Laudelie
Mic
Wilbert A ‘Obie
State University
Highway Department
Port Clinton
Ohio Selters
Senlees
Jenia
Welfare
Ohio State Guard
Paper Waste Debate Clash Over Newsprint Supply
In Washington Rep Wolverton protested newsprint allotments for circulars, accusing wasteful use by manufacturers, while Rep Brown objected to supplying France and liberated areas under the Foreign Economic Administration and Army. Meanwhile New York City faces curfew issues as the entertainment industry shows gains but city shutdown anxieties persist.
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Washington
Wolverton
House
Brown
Ohio
France
Foreign Economic Administration
Army
Federal Funds For Ohio Postwar Highway Aid
Federal funds for Ohio would share in an estimated $500 million total for highway projects in the first three postwar years. Each year could see about $20 million, totaling roughly $60 million, though the text notes government participation and authorization facts are tentative.
Enlistment Spurt for Nurses Ends After Three Weeks
The wartime push to recruit nurses for the armed services ended after about three weeks following President Roosevelt's annual message asking for broader draft of nurses. Secretary Stimson advised the Military Committee, and the effort lasted until January, marking a brief surge in enlistments.
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Stimson
Roosevelt
Armed Services
War Board urges scale down in military demands
Washington. Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production Board said he is asking the military to reduce requirements to protect a bedrock war supporting economy at home. The Army and Navy agreed to keep demands within bounds, with a cooperative attitude, to avoid harming civilian needs. Bedrock estimates are being prepared for items like shoes clothing gloves textiles tires and batteries. WPB efforts to protect civilian footwear trimmed Army shoe demands in the second quarter to avoid leather shortages for civilian production.
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Washington
J. A. Krug
War Prediction Board
Krug
Army
Navy
WPE
Office of Civilian Requirements
WPB
Limited Increase in Machinery Ordered by War Production Board
Washington reports the War Production Board moved to raise lagging farm machinery output by assigning a limited volume of malleable iron castings as AA-1 priority. Production is about 20 percent behind schedule due to casting shortages. Also, the National Labor Relations Board ordered Cory Rubber Co. of Marion to reinstate six workers allegedly discharged for union activities.
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Washington
War ‘Production Board
Tional Labor Relations Board
Cory Rubber Co
Marion
Russians Score New Gains In Hungary And Silesia
Soviet forces renew offensive in Hungary drive to within 12 miles of Konstom on the Danube northwest of Budapest. Berlin reports extensive attacks along an 80 mile front in Silesia aimed at overrunning factories. German pockets near Koenigsberg shrank to about 100 square miles. Braunsberg and Heiligenbeil remain key targets.
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London
Hungary
Konstom
Danube
Budapest
Hich
Berlin
Red Army
Upper Silesia
Neustadt
Moscow
Oder River
Silesia
Koenigsberg
Braunsberg
Heiligenbeil
Red Star
Frisbes Haff
Overnight Rains Drive Flood Threat Across Tri-State
Heavy overnight rain swelled the Ohio River and tributaries across the tri state, prompting evacuations of low lying camps along the Little Miami River. Backroads and some primary highways were blocked as Army engineers noted rising streams even where rainfall was light.
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Cincinnati
Ufi
Tri-State
Ohio River
Little Miami River
Chile
Wheeling
W- Ya
Gallipolis
Madison
Ind
Ohio Flood Affects 47,611 Families in Survey
Red Cross reports initial surveys show 58 homes and 60 barns destroyed, 8 other buildings, and 20,709 homes 602 barns and 2,639 other structures damaged across the Ohio Valley after the two week flood. Joseph L Carter, Red Cross Central Headquarters Director, announced the totals.
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Cincinnati
Red Cross
Red Cross Central
20 Pound Baby Dies at Birth in Hartsville
Dr. J. J. Gwin delivered a baby boy weighing 20 pounds in Hartsville Tennessee on March 9. The infant died at birth. Mother Mrs. Willis W. Stephens is described by the doctor as in satisfactory condition.
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Hartsville
Tenn
J. J. Gwin
Gwin
Willis W. Stephens
U S Subs Continue To Take Heavy Jap Toll
U S submarines add 15 Japanese vessels to their tally in the Pacific. Navy report says three destroyers two escort vessels and ten merchant ships were sunk including a tanker and a small cargo ship. Parole convicts Ohio Penitentiary parolees and conditional releases announced by State Pardon and Parole Commission.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Pacific
Navy
Parole Convices
Columbus
UPI
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Ohio Penitentiary
Jenkins Group Calls for One Man Food Boss to Fight Scarcity
Washington Republicans on Capitol Hill pushed for a centralized national food authority. The GOP Food Study Committee chaired by Thomas Jenkins urged creating a single man or agency to coordinate production processing and distribution amid shortages. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones was proposed as a capable head.
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Jenkins
Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Thomas ‘Jenkins
Ohio
Republican Congressional Food Study Committee
Thomas-Dilp
Senate Agriculture Committee
Rees
Andres
Senate
Iplanes Strafing Retreating Nazis
Allied warplanes struck retreating German forces on the Western Front while German radio claimed heavy bombing from England and Italy. Allied air action totaled about 5,000 German vehicles lost and 8,000 planes over Germany, as Saarlautern fell after three months of battle and the Third Army reported capturing thousands of trapped Nazis between the Third and Seventh armies.
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London
Western Front
Heick
England
Italy
Germany
Saarlautern
Saar
Shells Smash Ruhr Factories In Wartime Advance
The Ruhr area suffered heavy shell damage as allied forces push east toward Essen. Patton’s tanks breach eastern plains near the Ruhr while Seventh Army advances claim Wissembourg Lautersbourg and Altenstadt. German pockets near Trier and Saar shrink as Third and Seventh Armies close in.
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Ruhr
Essen
Hodges
Rona
Patton
Natiern Front
Wissembourg
Lautersbourg
Altenstadt
Atlantic
Channel
Mainz
Babenheim
Wels
Midway To Get Newest Planes Carrier to receive 1945 model aircraft
Newport News Va The USS Midway the largest strongest carrier will be covered with a 1945 model aircraft not yet seen in combat Arm Artemis L Gates Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air disclosed this in a christening speech for the 45000 ton Midway He offered no details on the new plane but said the carrier and aircraft will be a formidable target for Japanese war lords Gates noted heavy armor intricate watertight compartments and improved damage control for protection
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Newport News
Midway
Artemus L. Gates
the Navy
Air
Gates
Move To Curb Farm Benefits Is Beaten
Washington based administration effort to curb farm program payments next year drew a veto from the House Appropriations Committee as it approved an Agriculture Department supply bill totaling 833,801,932 dollars. Current farm program payments are capped at 300 million dollars. the budget bureau proposed a 200 million dollar limit for the 1946 crop.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Budget Bureau
Escape of Germans Halted by Norwegian Sabotage
Norwegian patriots struck last Wednesday night in a major sabotage blow, wrecking railways and bridges between Oslo and southern embarkation ports. The action isolated upward of 200,000 German troops moving from Norway to Germany, according to the Norwegian government.
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London
Norway
Germany
Oslo
Wechem Authors Bill To Govern Merchants
COLUMBUS UP The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill prohibiting merchants from using terms such as Army Navy Marine and Coast Guard in store names. Senator C Stanley Mechem of Nelsonville authored the measure to curb misrepresentation in government surplus sales. DEFIES CURFEW TOLEDO A downtown movie theater stayed open until 4 am defying the curfew.
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Columbus
Senate
House
Army
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
C. Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
Toledo
Price control rules aim to lower consumer costs
The OPA announced new rules to cut back shoppers' prices on clothing textiles furniture and house furnishings. Overnight price markups at about 300,000 retailers were frozen and stores were forbidden to charge a greater margin over cost than on March 19. Prospective reductions in manufacturers' prices will be passed to customers to restore 1942-43 levels.
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Washington
OPA J
Springfield Woman Is Kidnaped by Negroes
Springfield police report two Black men confessed after Mrs. John Foster described hearing one call the other by name. The suspects were taken into custody and charged in connection with the Sunday night kidnapping. An Ohio man, James F. Batstone, Pvt., Crooksville, is listed among liberated POWs by Soviet armies. Reports circulate of a deadlock as bituminous operators resume talks with the United Mine Workers. Allied forces captured Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, a dispatch says.
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Springfield
Walter L. Sweet
John Foster
Sweet
Ohio
Washington
Batstone
James F
Crooksville
United Mine Workers
London
Dufferin
Mandalay
Bure Pere
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Dunn
Crile General Hospital
Third ‘Army
Coblenz Street
Gignal Corps
NEA Radio
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Hammerstein
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Weise
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Hungsberg
Rhineland
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