Allied Forces Closing Trap on Rommel
President John L. Lewis warned no retreat in the wage stabilization fight as the labor board and Roosevelt insist on keeping the 15 percent cost of living allowance. The wage, draft, farm price, and postwar planning debates unfold across Congress with labor, CIO, AFL, and government leaders arguing over compulsory service and economic controls.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Roosevelt
Lewis
Austin-Wadsworth National Service Bill
CIO
White House
Churchill
National Resources Planning Board
NRPB
Congress
NNRPB
Charles W. Eliot
Capitol Hill
LaFollette
Wis
Sol Bloom
N. Y
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Ohio motorists slow to buy 1943 license stickers
Ohio motorists lag 50 percent behind 1942 totals for 1943 motor vehicle license stickers, with the March 31 deadline seven days away. Highway Director Hal G. Sours announced the figure, noting about 2,270,000 vehicles were registered in Ohio last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hal G. Sours
New York Air Raid Drill Triggers Citywide Alert
Early morning alert sent 75 000 civilians and wardens into motion as sirens wailed at 4 55 EWT routing workers from buildings for a 35 minute air raid drill. Police and officials mobilized for the exercise amid public safety preparations.
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New York
700 Japs Slain by Yanks Australians in New Guinea
Allied forces claim at least 700 Japanese troops killed with over 100 prisoners taken as they cleared the Mambare River Valley in northeast New Guinea. Some enemy dead believed from starvation and disease after a failed December 13, 1942 landing.
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New Guinea
Mambare River
Douglas MacArthur
Mambare
Buna
Salamaua
United Nations
Japan
Australia
Gasmata
New Britain
Lae
Finschhafen
Madang
MacArthur
China War
Imperial Tokyo
Hupeh
Kiangsu
Ohio House OKs Welfare Consolidation and Related Bills
The Ohio House voted to permit consolidation of county welfare activities including poor relief and aids to the blind and dependent children, sending the measure to the Senate. Other actions included beer and liquor restrictions for permit premises, village council pay increases, and a bill enabling retired teachers and public employees to return to work. The chamber adjourned without voting on easing pensions for old age pensioners doing casual work.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Senate
House
Shawnee Gas Station Destroyed by Fire Explosion
NEW LEXINGTON AP A Happy Hatem gasoline station at Shawnee was destroyed by fire after a gasoline truck explosion. Two horses left at the station by a farmer were killed in the blast.
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Shawnee
NEW Lexington
Post War Inflation Fears From Morgenthau
Secretary Morgenthau warned of post war inflation with a likely rapid industrial revival after the war. He projected national debt near 210 billion dollars by end of 1944 and yearly interest payments around 4 billion dollars.
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Morgenthau
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Deferments questioned as Hershey probes federal workers
Washington reports Selective Service head Major General Lewis B. Hershey told House members deferments in government agencies were not clearly setting a proper example. He cited 750 draft age OWI employees deferred by local boards and 127 OWI workers not classified, with discussion limited to an executive session.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
House
Hershey
Harness
Ind
Armed Services
Office of War Information
OWL
Indianan
Costello
Calif
Soviet Lines Hold Fast On Donets Front In Heavy Fighting
Soviet forces in the Northern Donets repelled repeated German attempts to cross the waterway as the drive toward Smolensk continued. In the Donets sector and north of Zhizdra near Bryansk, Russians threw back attacks with heavy German losses, while in the Caucasus air battles produced 15 German planes shot down and three by anti-aircraft fire.
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Moscow
Red Army
Donets
Smolensk
Chugueve
Belgorod
Chuguey
Kharkov
Zhizdra
Bryansk
Orel
Bely
Vyazma-Smolensk
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Naples Raided Again by Allied Bombers
Cairo reports Naples faced another night raid by allied heavy bombers with no losses. The ninth U.S. Air Force fleet attacked the port Saturday night, and American fliers bombed it both day and night last Thursday, with all bombers returning safely.
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Cairo
Naples
Middle East
United States Air Force
Goodyear Plant Will Employ 20000 Women
Akron plant officials estimate more than 20 000 women will join the workforce making aircraft parts for Goodyear Aircraft Corp. by year end. Blythe, vice president and manager, said women workers would likely be more than half of the production staff as operations expand.
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Akron—4
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Harry E. Blythe
Paul Goebtels
RAF Bombers Hit St Nazaire and Wilhelmshaven Bases
RAF bombers blasted the German submarine base at St Nazaire after a major assault on Wilhelmshaven by American heavy bombers. British Whirlwind fighters targeted Brittany rail targets. One RAF aircraft lost. German raids on England caused casualties and damage.
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Wilhelmshaven
St. Nazaire
London
RAF
Brittany
Miners Offer New Proposal Amid Contract Talks
United Mine Workers proposed to Northern Appalachian coal mine operators that all mines in the Appalachian region stay open for 30 days after April 1 under the current contract. Any wage increases or hours improvements would be retroactive to that date. A union rep cited President Roosevelt's telegram urging uninterrupted work as the trigger for renewing the proposal. The president did not set a negotiation deadline and said wage changes must follow the wage stabilization act.
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NEW York
United Mine Workers Union
Appalachian
Roosevelt
Axis Promises World Justice and Eternal Peace
Reports from Tokyo broadcasts say Germany Japan and Italy reached a new world order pact guaranteeing eternal world peace though absence of European Axis envoys suggested routine diplomacy. Meanwhile German Italian talks on manpower and Laval’s conference signal strained Franco Axis relations as France faces unrest over a German labor draft.
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Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Italy
Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Europe
Mussolini
Vichy
Pierre Laval
France
Hitler
Conscientious Objectors To Work on U.S. Farms
Approximately 500 men deferred from the draft due to conscientious objections to war are set to serve as a mobile Land Army for farmers. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told a congressional committee the objectors, sent to special camps, can be moved where the Agriculture Department certifies need, with potential to rise by about 1,000 soon.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Congressional
Department of Agriculture
U S Tank Troops Capture Maknassy as Eighth Army Sweeps
Allied reports say U S forces under Gen Patton seized Maknassy in central Tunisia and pushed toward the Gulf of Gabes as Montgomery s Eighth Army assaults Mareth Line In the south British and American units close to link up near El Hamma and Maha res with praise for a wedge into Mareth defenses while heavy fighting continues and prisoner totals rise.
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Tunisia
Mareth Line
Rommel
Afrika Korps
U.S
Maknassy
Eighth Army
Algiers
el Hamma
Gabes
Erwin Rommel
U. S
George S. Patton, Jr
Sea
Gulf
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Morocco
Mareth
Mahares
Gulf of Gabes
Geremans
Patton
Axis Supply Port Menace Near Mareth Front
Allied advances press toward Maknassy and the Mareth defenses as Rommel’s escape corridor and Sfax port face threat. Montgomery’s Eighth Army reports initial Mareth objectives captured while Allied air forces strike Mareth area and targets along the coast. Axis ships and Palermo docks hit. seven Allied planes lost.
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Maknassy
Erwin Rommel
Sfax
Algiers
Gulf
Gafsa
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Paris
Mareth Line
Rommel
Jurgen von Arnim
Tunis-Bizerte
North Africa
el Hamima
Mareth
Kettena
Zarat
Mezzouna
Palermo
Sicily
Naples
Locker Meat Not Rationed
The Office of Price Administration said frozen food lockers hold less than one percent of the nation’s meat and were excluded from rationing due to the small amount involved. Farmers feared being labeled hoarders, but OPA decided to treat locker meat the same as meat in a home refrigerator after a survey.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Eagles 1943 State Convention Cancelled
Springfield AP reports the Fraternal Order of Eagles cancels the 1943 state convention due to wartime conditions. The notice cites war priorities and constituent travel restrictions affecting planned gatherings.
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Springfield
Order of Eagles
British Research Shows No Critical Weakness in Nazi Military Machine
British sources report a survey of Germany’s military industrial and morale state finds no critical weakness despite losses in Russia and Allied bombing. Army size estimated at 7.5 to 8 million with 5 million killed or disabled since war start, and continued recruitment from younger classes.
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London
Russia
Arm Draftees Are Warned About Farm Deferments
Col. C. W. Goble, state selective service director, told registrants that men deferred for agricultural work must stay on the job to stay 2-C or 3-C eligible or face summons. He cited warning that some supposed farmers are not devoting full time to farming and are trying to maintain deferments.
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Columbus
Col
C. W. Goble
Selective Service
Colnel Goble
Grant Hamilton Receives 50,000 More Pounds of Meat
Cleveland AP The regional Office of Price Administration authorized packers to slaughter and deliver an additional 50,000 pounds of meat to Grant Hamilton for consumption between now and April 1. Regional Director Birkett L Williams based the order on an amendment to the OPA meat restriction to aid the war effort health and morale.
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Cleveland
Regional
Office of Price Administration
Hamilton
Birkett L. Williams
Jackson County youths charged with murder
Sheriff Charles Cramer said charges of first degree murder would be filed against Charles Woods 18 and Russell Wills 24 both of Ray in connection with the shotgun slaying of George Borland 71 last Saturday. Woods signed a statement saying they were ransacking the farmhouse when Borland appeared and they feared he had recognized them.
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Jackson
Charles Cramer
Charles Woods
Russell Wills
Ray
George Borland
Woods
Wills
Borland
Slain man found on Murray Hill in gang feud era
Louis Velotta a 35 year old man was found shot to death on Murray Hill Road in what police described as a gangland killing amid era related feuds. Investigators catalogued the scene as a fatal shooting with Velotta identified as the deceased.
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Cleveland
Louis Velotta
Murray Hill Road
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