Heavy Raid on St Nazaire Follows Berlin Blitz
RAF bombers resumed attacks on German submarine bases with a concentrated strike on St Nazaire after the war's greatest raid on Berlin Saturday night. The Air Ministry announced the heavy blow involved 900 tons of bombs and targeted the German base.
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St. Nazaire
Berlin
London
RAF
St.Nazaire
Air Ministry
Germany
Rouen
France
Norwich
England
Apoo
Britain
Reuters
United States
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
English
Sydney S. Bartlett
Imbardier
Netherlands North Sea
Rotterdam
Liege
Belgium
Pacific Chiefs Wind Up Parley With War Plans
Washington reports a group of top Army and Navy officers completed Washington talks on future Pacific campaigns. The meetings followed the Casablanca strategy approval, with emphasis on raids against Germany and its satellites and continued attacks on rail hubs in Rouen.
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Washington
Pacific War Theaters
War Department
United States Joint Chiefs of Staffs
Pacific
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
All Jews in Warsaw Wiped Out by Nazis
Baltimore report states Warsaw is now a city without Jews as Hitler orders灭 the destruction of its 500000 Jewish population. Rabbi Maurice L Perlzweig of the World Jewish Congress warns at a Baltimore meeting. An auto struck and killed 13 year old Harley Dil on Route 42.
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Warsaw
Baltimore
Toy
Hitler
Maurice L. Perlzweig
World Jewish Congress
Baltimore American Jewish Congress
Manskrlv
Harley Dil
Battle reports clash on Aleutians and Pacific fronts
Tokyo claims damage to two enemy cruisers and a destroyer after a six day old engagement off the Aleutians, while a U.S. communique says Japanese ships were defeated in the same area. MacArthur reports heavy Allied air action at Oro Bay and New Guinea bases with losses for Japanese raiders. Allied air forces hit targets at Gasmata Cape Gloucester Madang Finschhafen Dobo and RAF bombers strike near Rathedaung Meiktila Akyab.
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North Pacific
Aleutians
Tokyo
U.S
Pacific Air Force
Gasmata
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Madang
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Dobo
Aroe Islands
India
Rathedaung
Burma
Katha
Meiktila
Akyab
Eating Places Cut Down Heavy Menus
Washington OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown commends restaurants for trimming menus to fit wartime rationing. He notes they cannot continue large meat courses and that OPA is cutting meat purchases by 25 percent or more. The Agriculture Department may set meal size limits.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Agriculture Department
AAA opposes one cent rise in gasoline price
Cleveland report notes the American Automobile Association opposes a nationwide one cent per gallon gasoline price increase. John L. Young, secretary, said the AAA executive committee informed Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes the committee found the raise unwarranted at this time.
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Cleveland
American Automobile Association
John L. Young
National Association
AAA
Harold L. Ickes
Arizona Meat Packer Forced Out by Ceilings
PHOENIX Ariz The Tavera Packing Company Arizona's largest meat processor served notice it would curtail production 65 percent by April 10. Phil Tovrea president said the firm has been losing 3000 dollars a day due to ceiling prices on dressed products and lack of ceiling on livestock.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Tavera Packing Company
Arizona
Phil Tovrea
New York Rush Urged as Meat Shortage Deepens
New York officials reported 1 250 000 pounds of beef missing from an emergency shipment meant to ease the citys meat shortage. Sylvan L Joseph regional OPA administrator said the supply may arrive tomorrow instead of today as planned.
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New York
Sylvan L. Joseph
OPA
Chileans Welcome Wallace in Striking Reception
SANTIAGO Chile 4 The complete solidarity which the countries of the Americas must maintain in the post war world depends on their finding the basis for a common welfare and progress Vice President Henry A Wallace said last night in an address to high Chilean officials following a day in which he received one of the most striking receptions ever accorded a visiting foreign official here.
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Santiago
Chile
Americas
Henry A. Wallace
Veteran Editor Gale B. Orwig Dies at 70
Gale B. Orwig, editor of the North West News for 43 years, died yesterday in Napoleon Ohio at age 70. He built the paper into a longtime community voice and mentored younger reporters. He is survived by his wife and two children.
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Napoleon
Gale B. Orwig
The
Northwest News
Republicans Firm Behind Ruml Plan
On Capitol Hill the House nears ending debate on the new income tax bill. Rep Knutson predicts Republicans will back the Ruml skip a year plan, oppose compromises, and back Forand s proposal canceling 1942 liabilities. Senate recesses as six senators back a postwar United Nations peace initiative. Chester C Davis, new food administrator, meets officials and farm leaders on shortages and labor recruitment.
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Capitol Hill
House
Rep
Knutson
Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Forand
R. J
Beardsley Ruml
New York
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
United Nations
Hatch
N. M
Ball
Burton
Ohio
Hill
Ala
Truman
Maybank
S. C
United States
Chester C. Davis
Davis
Federal Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Mr. Roosevelt
Senate Appropriations Committee
Union Chiefs Are Suspended At Timken Plant
CIO United Steel workers Local at Timken Rou ter Bearing Co Gambrinus plant suspended as I. W. Abel district director takes over local affairs after a plant work stoppage over promotion of negroes to machine jobs. Abel says the move was ordered by David McDonald international secretary treasurer.
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Canton
CIO United Steelworkers
Timken Router Bearing Co
Gambrinus
I. W. Abel
Abel
David McDonald
Here’s Where Meat Butter Cheese Is Going
Lend Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. reported that for January and February shipping to Allies, the United States allocated per person weekly: beef one quarter ounce bacon and pork three ounces lamb and mutton three fifths of an ounce butter one fourth ounce and some cheese and fats.
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Washington
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
United States
Mareth Break Traps Rommel as Axis Fights for Gabes
The Mareth Line breakthrough by Montgomery’s Eighth Army puts Rommel and Axis forces in Tunisia in peril. Patton’s troops hold and push toward the coast in the Sousse to Sfax area while a mobile group nears El Hamma. The coast advance aims to split Axis forces and trap them near Gabes, despite expected stubborn resistance.
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Patton
Sousse-Sfax
Fondouk
Montgomery
el Hamma
Gabes
Rommel
Births Below World War I
The Census Bureau reports a decline in young children in American families during 1930-40, noting 1940 data show nearly half of 35,100,000 families had no children under 18 and only 15 percent had three or more. The 1942 rate is not counted. The 1941-42 rate was about 21 per 1,000, below the WWI level of around 25.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Five Cargo Ships Sunk By Subs During Week
Washington reports five Allied and neutral cargo ships sunk by Axis submarines in the Western Atlantic this week. This raises the official toll to 639 ships since Pearl Harbor, with March losses totaling twenty two so far. Emerson Groman, 17, is found guilty of second degree murder and handed 1 to 20 years at Mansfield Reformatory.
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Washington
Atlantic
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Ironton
Emerson Graman
Dennis McMackin
Mansfield Reformatory
Rachmaninoff Dies Of Pneumonia on Coast
Beverly Hills Calif a 69 year old Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff died of pneumonia. The famed composer and conductor was celebrated as a concert pianist and long ranked second only to Paderewski among keyboard masters.
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Rachmaninoff
Beverly Hills
Calif
Sergei Vassilievitch
Paderewski
Two Counties To Get Extra Meat Shipment
The OPA designates Lake County and Van Wert County as hardship areas and authorizes extra meat deliveries of 3 500 pounds to each to forestall an imminent shortage identified by the Food Distribution Administration investigation.
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Cleveland
Lake County
van Wert
OPA
Food Distribution Administration
Wartime rationing tightens meat and fat purchases nation wide
Washington reports the civilian diet shifts as meat butter and allied products enter wartime rationing. Red A stamps in No. 2 book provide 16 points for meat and fats while some items gain or lose value. Blue stamps cover processed fruits vegetables soups and baby foods through April with new value charts issued for housewives.
Allied blitz drives Rommel forces from Mareth Line in Tunisia
Allied offensives crush Rommel’s Mareth Line in southern Tunisia as German and Italian troops retreat toward Gabes. Montgomery’s Eighth Army breaks through on a 25 mile front, taking 6,000 prisoners and signaling a large Axis retreat along the coast toward new positions.
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Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tunisia
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Mareth
Matmata
Toulane
Montgomery
el Hamma
Gabes
Allied push in Tunisia as Patton forces near sea
American columns under Patton advance from El Guetar toward the Mediterranean coast, with Maknassy and Fondouk activity, while British First Army presses in Djebel Aboid. Red Army mudbound front near Smolensk shows activity, and reports say Italy's navy may be under German command as Doenitz takes control of the fleet.
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George S. Patton
el Guetar
Marshal Rommel
Maknassy
Fondouk
Kairouan
Sousse
Ousseltia
K. A. N. Anderson
Djebel Abiod
Bizerte
Red Army
Smolensk
Moscow
Kharkov
Mediterranean
Reynolds News
London
Germany
Karl Doenitz
Arturo Riccardi
Doenitz
AAF Command Is Streamlined
The Army Air Forces unveiled a major reorganization to speed action. Headquarters offices drop from 25 to 13 and air staff divisions shrink from 19 to 6. Field commanders will be told what to do but not how to do it, officials said.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Chicago Tops Goal in Drive for New Cruiser
Chicago announced it had surpassed the $40 million goal in a war bonds drive to replace the sunken cruiser. Campaign chairman Oscar G. Mayer expected final returns to show a comfortable margin, with by Saturday noon residents having purchased $39,553,458 in Series FE bonds.
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Chicago
Oscar G. Mayer
Bombing Raids Put Heavy Toll on France, 4000 Killed Reported
German radio quoting Fernand De Brinon claims 4,000 killed and 7,000 injured in British and American air raids on France over the last 18 months. The figure reflects wartime casualty estimates circulated by Vichy aligned sources in London.
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London
Radio Today
Fernand de Brinon
Pierre Laval
Paris
France
15-17 Year-Old Boys Will Fly Jap Planes
A Tokyo dispatch on Berlin radio says Japanese youths aged 15 to 17 would be included in a broadened military aviation training program.
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London
Tokyo
Berlin
Three AWOL Soldiers Escape Toledo City Jail
Three soldiers held on AWOL charges escaped from the Safety Building jail in Toledo by prying a window and grating on the fourth and fifth floors. Names listed by police: Rollin S. Bowers, 23, Toledo. John Walker, 22, alias Louis Manning, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.. Alton Francis Wright, 24, alias George Grover, Worcester, Mass. They climbed to a ledge, dropped 10 feet to a third floor ledge, and jumped into bushes and soft earth outside. Footprints measured at least a foot.
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Toledo
Lester Cooper
Lloyd Pittman
Rollin S. Bowers
John Walker
Louis Manning
Jefferson Barracks
Alton Francis Wright
George Grover
Worcester
Mass
Frank Baumgartner
Release of Students For War Work Favored
Columbus report says the Legislature nears week 13 with tentative Senate approval of a plan letting schools release students for war plant and farm work without losing subsidies. A clash remains over raising working hours for women and minors, with Republicans insisting a 48 hour maximum rather than 52.
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Columbus
Senate
Horse Meat Here To Stay Says Oakland Meat Dealer
In Oakland Jim Augustine, a single horse meat jobber with four stores, declares horse meat here to stay. He asserts horses killed as nuisance animals provide meat while ranchers complain they spoil range grass and Nevada paid a bounty.
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Oakland
Calif
Jim Augustine
Jim
Nevada
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