Red Army Near Prut River in Major Rumania Drive
Soviet forces reached the Prut River border after a week long push from Dniester gains 60 miles deep. Moscow reports heavy bombardment on Romanian soil as Red Army closes on Iasi while Stalin claims Byeltsi capture and aims at Odessa and the Ploesti oil region.
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Rumania
Adolf Hitler
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Rumanian
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Red Star
Berlin
Marshal Stalin
Byeltsi
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Iasi
Jassy
Black Sea
Odessa
London
Lwow
Stalingrad
Allied Troops Press Japanese on Burma India Front
Allied forces push toward Myitkyina as Gurkha and Kachin units close in on the Burma base. Chinese and American troops advance from the Mogaung Valley toward the Ledo supply route to China. In Bougainville, U S forces repel a major assault near Empress Augusta Bay. Bombers strike Kuriles and Ponape, while Allied mop up continues in Manus and nearby islands.
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Associated Press
Burma
Marshalls
Indian Imphal
Bougainville
Solomons
Ukhrul
Imphal
India
Myitkyina
Burma Road
Mogaung Valley
China
Empress Augusta Bay
Kurile Islands
Ron A
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Onekotan Island
Kuriles
Tokyo
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Shimushu
Kurile
Central Pacific
Ponape
Truk
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Manus
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Bismarck Sea
Rabaul
New Britain
South Pacific
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Wewak
New Guinea
Kohima
Bengal-Assam
Chungking
Indo-China
House Member Urges Rounding Up of Probes
Washington report notes proposals to create two more special investigating committees. A suggestion calls for a coordinating panel and renaming the House to The House of Investigations. Chairman Cochran of Missouri voices concern over rapid proliferation of probes.
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Washington
House Today
House of Investigations
Cochan
House
Greta Garbo Returns To War Picture
Greta Garbo returns to the screen after a three year absence. At the urging of Wilhelm Morgenstern, the Norwegian ambassador to the United States, she has accepted a role in a war picture based on the exploits of the Norwegian merchant marine, producer Lester Cowan announced.
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Hollywood
Greta Garbo
Wilhelm Morjerne
United States
Lester Cowan
Vesuvius Erupts Spreads Ash Over Naples
Vesuvius vented a fresh plume today sending clouds of smoke and ash over Naples while most cinders fell harmlessly into the Mediterranean.
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Vesuvius
Naples
Mediterranean
Democrats Defend Policy Against Isolationist GOP Critique
Democrats dismiss GOP isolationist charges and defend FDR era policy. Senate speech planned by Connally emphasizes war aims, while Hull aides and Tunnell rally in Baltimore condemn isolationists who opposed troop and navy expansion before Pearl Harbor. World War III warned if isolationists gain power.
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Washington
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Hull
Connelly
Congress
Senator Tunnell
D-Del
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
America
Europe
Probers Work for FD Spark War Over Truman Chair
Washington reports Republican charges that Senator Truman used his War Investigating Committee chair to aid Roosevelt’s fourth term. Senator Bushfield rebutted, saying the panel’s war oversight is being used to promote one man for president, despite GOP claims of keeping politics out of the committee.
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Washington
Truman
Roosevelt
Senate
Bushfield
S. D
Ten Fliers Die In Florida Air Mishap
Police report ten killed and one injured when a four engined bomber crashed through wires onto Florida East Coast Railroad tracks at Eau Gallie. The plane allied with Melbourne naval air station and was said to be from Chatham Field Savannah Georgia.
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Eau Gallie
Fla
Hugh Dewitt
Florida East Coast Railroad
Melbourne Naval Air Station
Chatham Field
Savannah
British Yachtsmen Called Upon For Western Europe Invasion
British yachtsmen who aided at Dunkirk are told to stand by for up to six months for another government call, likely tied to the invasion of Western Europe.
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London
Dunkerque
Europe
Feud Between Dies and Winchell Sparks Nationwide Radio Exchange
Washington report details a heated on-air exchange between House investigate chair Dies and columnist Walter Winchell. They clashed in separate studio booths then met in the reception area to trade barbs about Congress, alleged manipulation, and who funds their broadcasts.
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Washington
House Committee
Walter Winchell
Texas Democrat
Winchell
Dies
Reds Laud Churchill Air Talk as Victory News
London newspapers gave restrained approval to Churchill's one year first broadcast. He predicted victory, praised Soviet westward advance as Hitler's undoing, outlined postwar Britain, warned of feints in the coming invasion, and noted American air power now surpasses the RAF. He cited Japanese weakness and Russia's valor as key to Hitler's downfall. The Italy campaign was slower but Rome would be rescued.
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London
Churchill
Hitler
Britain
Europe
RAF
United States Navy
Russia
Balkans
Italy
Rome
Service Flag Rises Pastor Resigns at Universalist Church
Bridgeport Conn Rev Emerson S Schwenk resigns as pastor of the First Universalist Church after trustees vote to display a service flag honoring armed forces members in the main auditorium. The resignation, accepted by church members, ends a dispute with trustees who had pushed the flag display. He will leave the pulpit until after Easter on April 9.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Emerson S. Schwenk
First Universalist
Schwenk
Woman Second Rabies Victim in Washington
Washington reports its second rabies death since the epidemic began last summer. Mrs Estelle Kirby aged 65 was bitten by a large dog in front of the Shoreham Hotel last October. She received Pasteur treatment but died March 17.
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Washington
Estelle Kirby
Shoreham Hotel
Massacre Reported in Rome Involving Italian Leaders
Reports from Naples claim German troops killed about 300 Italians in Rome including former WWI premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Mario Badoglio son of Pietro Badoglio. Premier Badoglio says there is no confirmation.
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Naples
Rome
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Mario Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
Russian Sub Attack Affects Romanian Black Sea Convoy
A New York report states Russian submarines attacked a Romanian Black Sea convoy evacuating troops from Crimea on Thursday night. The British radio broadcast claims a nearly complete Romanian division was destroyed, though the source remains unclear.
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New York
Crimea
Lom
Bricker Seeks Sixty Million Jobs After the War
In Hot Springs Arkansas Gov. John Bricker pledges sixty million U.S. jobs after the war, arguing industry must return to private hands. He says government cannot provide jobs but can foster an atmosphere for private enterprise and predicts Republican inroads into the Solid South during a campaign swing through the South and Southwest.
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Hot Springs
Ark
America
John B. Bricker
Ohio
South
Southwest
Little Rock
Bricker
Republican Party
Solid South
Miner Admits Killing Former Wife and Friend
BELLAIRE A 27 year old coal miner Donato Maurizio admitted stabbing his divorced wife Teresa 35 and Henry Spradling 38 to death in the rear seat of a car outside Oasis night club near Shadyside. Prosecutor Ross Michener said first degree murder charges would be filed. Two witnesses saw the couple slumped in the car and drove to Maurizio’s home, where they learned both were dead.
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Bellaire
Ross Michener
Donato Maurizio
Maurizio
Teresa
Henry Spradling
Here
Clyde Snyder
Josephine Bigovich
Young Child Drowns in Tub at Home
In Middleport Imna Jean Hayes a one year old child of Mr and Mrs Pearl Hayes Kingsbury fell into a tub of water used for washing and drowned. Firemen and Dr R D Boice were called and the death was confirmed as drowning. She is survived by her parents and two siblings Mary Katherine and Kenneth Eugene.
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Middleport
Imna Jean Hayes
Pearl Hayes
Kingsbury
R. D. Boice
Mary Katherine
Kenneth Eugene
Marine carries captured Jap flag in Bougainville parade
A weary U S Marine returns from a month and a half of jungle combat in Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville, staging a solitary victory parade as he trudges to base carrying a captured Japanese flag.
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U.s
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
USMC
NEA
Slayer of Family Denied New Hearing
Washington C H Common Pleas Judge H M Rankin overruled a motion for a new trial by James W Collett the 60 year old Clinton County hog breeder convicted for the Elm er McCoy family slaying last Thanksgiving Eve Collett was found guilty March 10 by a jury of nine men and three women with no mercy recommendation making the death penalty mandatory
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Common Pleas
H. M. Rankin
James W. Collett
Elmer McCoy
Collett
Clinton County
Farm Cadet 4 H Club Formed By New York Youths
New York City forms its first rural club, the New York City Farm Cadet 4 H Club, organized by nine youths who worked on upstate farms last summer and aim for 100 members by season end.
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New York
New York City
Fremont Firemen Battle $500000 Gordon Lumber Blaze
Fire crews from Tiffin Sandusky Port Clinton and Clyde assisted Fremont firefighters in fighting a 500000 blaze that destroyed the Gordon Lumber Co branch office yesterday.
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Fremont
Tiffin
Sandusky
Port Clinton
Clyde
Gordon Lumber Co
RAF US Bombard Axis Ruhr and Channel Coasts in Major Air Strikes
The RAF and US bombers pummeled Essen and the Krupp works, Hannover’s rubber centers, and Courtrai rail lines while 1,700 American planes hit Pas-de-Calais, Paris airfields, and IJmuiden. Losses totaled nine bombers for the RAF and five bombers plus one fighter for the US. The Essen assault aimed to cripple German industrial capacity as cloud cover limited damage assessment.
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Essen
Ruhr
Krupp Works
Hannover
Reich
Courtrai
Belgium
Pas-de-Calais
Paris
Germany
Low Countries
U. S
Air Ministry
RAF
Continent
Occupied
Aulnoye
Lyon
France
Berlin
Allied Drive Stalled At Cassino Amid Urban Fortifications
Allied artillery targeted the Continental Hotel and the Hotel Des Roses in Cassino while German positions held via Castle Hill. Ground action shifted to Anzio as two German raiding groups probed the line and air forces hit port, rail and air facilities in Northern Italy. American and British bombers claimed several enemy planes down with losses on the Allied side. Marshall Tito announced Yugoslav partisans, backed by Allied support, continue operations.
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Ypyene
ITU Gbuty Wen
Hotel Des Roses
Anzio
Italy
Cassino
Rome
Ducal Palace Coliseum
Marshall Tito
Eliminate Expiration Date of Red And Blue Food Stamps
The Office of Price Administration announced the expiration dates on Red and Blue food ration stamps will be removed. The policy aligns with shoes and sugar, preventing buy ahead rushes and token tampering. The order, under consideration for weeks, will likely be issued today with field offices instructed to pause announcements.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Ing
OPA
Dallas
Tex
Estimate Soybean Acreage Could Set Ohio Record
Ohio crop reports indicate 1944 soybean plantings may reach 1,558,000 acres, the largest ever in the state, with corn and oats averages also possibly breaking records while hay and potato plantings may hit new lows.
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Ohio
Columbus
Federal
OPA Charges Two Men With Counterfeit Coupon Trafficking
Youngstown two men Antony T. Longa 22 Hubbard and Mike Pavliga 29 Campbell pleaded innocent to selling counterfeit gasoline ration coupons at arraignment before U S commissioner P Richard Shuman. They were released on bond for hearing April 3.
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Youngstown
Office of Price Administration
U. S
P. Richard Shuman
Antony T. Longa
Hubbard
Mike Pavliga
Campbell
Building Collapse Kills Two Dayton Men in Springfield
Two watchmen were killed when steel girders, extending from a moving freight car, ripped through a two story brick warehouse of the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company. George Duffy, 74, and Arthur McCune, about 63, were crushed in the wreckage during the early Saturday incident in Springfield.
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Springfield
Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company
George Duffy
Arthur McCune
Ore Miners Awarded Portal-to-Portal Pay
The Supreme Court ruled that underground iron ore miners are entitled to portal to portal pay for time spent traveling from the mine mouth to the ore mining site. The decision affects ore production workers and sets a federal standard for compensated travel time.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Naples pilots down five German planes in raid over Italy
Five German aircraft were shot down during heavy bomber raids on Northern Italy Sunday credited to pilots of the Naples 4 inch Lighting unit. Lt. John C. Aiken of Warren, Ohio, was among those credited with the five victories.
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Naples
Italy
John C. Aiken
Warren, O
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