Nazis Declare New Retreats Are Imminent
The Allied report chronicles Red Army advances toward Odessa and towns along the Prut and Curzon Line as German forces retreat or defend key positions in Romania and Poland. Air raids hit Germany and Pas de Calais while Italy battles near Cassino and Anzio as Churchill faces a confidence vote.
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Nikolaev
Black Sea
Odessa
Carpathian
Tartar
Czechoslovakia
Prut
Rumania
Iasi
Jassy
Ploesti
Kovel
Poland
Red Army
Warsaw
Curzon Line
Berlin
Bucovina
Czernowitz
Cernauti
Bessarabia
Moscow
Izvestia
Bulgaria
Tass
Russia
Italy
Hangman’s Hill
Cassino
Anzio
Churchi
Croatia
Rab Island
Marshal Prito
Administration's Food Handling Is Criticized
A House debate centered on food distribution as publicans attacked federal handling. Representative Jenkins urged centralizing authority under one head, arguing food is both handed out carelessly and wasted through spoilage.
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Jenkins
Ohio
Gas ration plan hinges on available supply
The Office of Price Administration says B card gasoline rationing could rise after a survey in 30 days if sufficient supply exists. Col Bryan Houston said the boost will occur only when there is gasoline to spare. Also, Pearl T. Lier, 44, was killed by a freight train last night.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Bryan Houston
Ncaster
Pearl T. Lier
Democrats Triumph In Oklahoma Fight
In Muskogee Oklahoma in the second district Democrat W G Stigler led Republican E O Clark 21405 to 17678 with 19 of 331 precincts reporting. National party figures claim Stigler’s win ends the national GOP trend while Republicans blame the New Deal machine for the loss.
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Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
W. G. Stigler
E. O. Clark
Washington
Robert E. Hannegan
Stigler
Ed H. Moore
President Roosevelt Reveals Bronchitis Diagnosis
President Roosevelt disclosed that he has bronchitis but feels fine overall. He told reporters the ailment has lingered two to three weeks and does not consider it serious or worthy of alarm, noting only one in 48,500 bronchitis cases progress to pneumonia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Second San Francisco Blaze Hastened by Fire Bug
Police link two fires to a single arsonist after a deadly hotel blaze yesterday. A second fire at an apartment building was checked by a vigilant tenant who arrived home late and stopped the flames from spreading.
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San Francisco
New Amsterdam
Bricker Sees Solution for Farm Problem
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker urged at a Wichita rally that agriculture and industry must be treated together to solve farmers price and parity issues. He said parity must work both ways and government should share responsibility for conditions affecting agriculture and build trust among farmers, industry, workers, and consumers.
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Wichita
Eas
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
McNutt opposes national service draft plan
Labor draft the War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt told Congress a national service bill would disrupt voluntary cooperation and favor military or bureaucratic control. he called such legislation unnecessary and warned it would be tragic to replace voluntary efforts with compulsion.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Congress
Roosevelt
House
2100 Nazi Planes Shot Down in Eight Weeks
Major General James H. Doolittle announced to the National Press Club that more than 2100 German aircraft were destroyed by Britain-based American airmen in eight weeks. He cited 37,000 tons of bombs dropped since February 1 and 16 major factories damaged, as an invading force of 170,000 men from the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces prepared for larger operations. Two American bombers and three fighters did not return from raids against Chartres, Chateaudun, Reims and Dijon.
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London
James H. Doolittle
U. S
France
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Britain
Germany
Doolittle
Ing
Eighth
Ninth
Europe
Chartres
Chateaudun
Reims
Dijon
National Press Club
Washington, D. C
Planes Play Vital Role on Burma Front
Allied airmen supply and evacuate wounded as planes support five forces in Burma and India. Across 1500 miles from Dutch New Guinea to Bougainville, 292 tons of bombs hit bases at Rabaul We wak Hansa Bay Kavieng and Bougainville. Stilwell’s forces advance in the Mogaung Valley as Chinese troops seize Hkawnglawyang.
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Burma
India
Associated Press
William Boni
New Delhi
Myitkyina
Pacific Ocean
Dutch New Guinea
Bougainville
Rabaul
New Britain
Wewak
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Kavieng
New Ireland
Solomons
Pityilu Island
Admiralties
Joseph. Stilwell
Imphal
Kohima
Imphal-Kohima
Louis Mountbatten
Radio Tokyo
Stilwell
Mogaung
Hkawnglawyang
Left Wing Forces Take Control of Labor Party
In New York the left wing claimed control of the American Labor Party after a bitter intra party fight. The losing right wing warned this shift could affect Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for New York's 47 electoral votes. George S. Counts and Alex Rose conceded, saying Earl Browder would control the ALP's direction as its front.
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New York
American Labor Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George S. Counts
ALP
Alex Rose
Earl Browder
Jittery Thief Drops Jewelry Into Ohio River
Edwin Grutzmacher twenty seven told police he dropped thousands in jewelry from a bridge into the Ohio River when near a police officer. Detective Walter Carney quoted him as saying he was carrying the items wrapped in a handkerchief and was questioned about another man.
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Cincinnati
Edwin Grutzmacher
Ohio River
Walter Carney
Texas Boy Succumbs Despite Transfusions
Billy Meers, a 4 year old from Dallas and victim of chronic nephritis whose case drew nationwide attention in January, died today after receiving continuous plasma transfusions totaling about two pints of blood daily. He was too weak for another transfusion.
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Dallas
Billy Meers
Pioneer tourist dies at 71 in heart attack
Jefferson, D. C. Fetch aged 71, famed for a cross country auto journey from San Francisco to New York, died last night of a heart attack.
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Jefferson, D
E. T. Fetch
San Franccisco
New York
Beachhead Wedding In A Napleg Trench Tent
United States army nurse Second Lieutenant Genevieve Clarke and Signal Corps lieutenant Thomas G. Rose wed in a flowered sandbagged tent near Anzio during the Italian campaign. The ceremony occurred amid war, with 300 nurses officers and GI guests present as Capt. Carl J. Simon led a makeshift march and Tech. Sgt. Eugene Wentz sang. The bride wore her uniform and cut a 25 pound cake with a trench knife after vows.
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Naples
United States Army
Signal Corps
Camp Pickett
Thomas G. Rose
Lancaster
Genevieve Clarke
Allison Park
Anzio
Carl J. Simon
Canton
Eugene Wentz
Pittsburgh
Maj. L. C. Grimes
Portland
Ore
Argentinian Interior Minister Accused of Attacking U.S. Ambassador
Dispatches from Montevideo report Gen. Luis C. Perlinger, Argentina's interior minister, violently criticized United States Ambassador Norman Armour in a private briefing with Argentine journalists. He allegedly challenged U.S. and British war aims and forecast a future alliance of belligerents against Russia.
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New York
New York Times
The
Herald Tribune
Montevideo
Luis C. Perlinger
Argentina
United States
Norman Armour
Perlinger
Armour
Great Britain
Russia
Senate Bills Memory Day Set as Mom Monday
The Senate passed a bill setting the first day of each month as Mom Monday to honor service members who died in war. It would require displaying the flag at half mast on all public buildings and military installations.
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Washington
Senate
House
Bender calls for sale of frozen automobiles
Congressman George Bender of Cleveland urged the House to release thousands of automobiles nicknamed frozen from wartime storage. He argued the cars, once reserved as mobile transportation, are no longer needed for the war effort and should be sold.
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Washington
George Bender
Cleveland
Bender
Fort
Italian Mud Wins Boots for U S Soldier
Parents of a son in United States forces in Italy sought a certificate of necessity from the county rationing board to buy and mail rubber boots. The board indicated it would approve, citing Italy and mud as the need.
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U. S
Rochester
N. Y
United States
Italy
1000 Acre Site Sought For State Fair Grounds
Agriculture Director John T. Brown says the relocation advisory committee seeks a new state fair site of at least 1,000 acres. The current grounds in North Columbus are leased to the Army until a year after the war, with $50 more in cost noted.
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Columbus
John T. Brown
Ohio State Fair Relocation Advisory Committee
Akron man named executive vice president of Ohio Chamber
Herschel C. Atkinson of Akron, vice president of the Akron Canton and Youngstown Railroad Co., will become executive vice president of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce on April 1.
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Columbus
Herschel C. Atkinson
Akron
Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad Co
Ohioo Chamber of Commerce
Patterson pushed 3.5 million into essential war work or army
Undersecretary of War Robert B. Patterson urged the House Military Committee to place 3.5 million 4-Fs ages 18 to 37 into essential industry or army labor battalions. He floated national service legislation for disqualified men and proposed extending the selective mechanism to direct these workers to war production while preserving civilian status and wages.
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Washington
Robert B. Patterson
House Military Committee
Patterson
Paul V. McNutt
Costello
D-Calif
Serevice
Dems Ready To Name FD As Candidate
Roosevelt appears set to win renomination on the first ballot at the Democratic convention. Preliminary delegate tallies show at least 604 of 1,176 votes likely if he runs. He holds public support of 116 of 142 delegates, with 86 elected yesterday in New York and 10 from Maine Arizona and New Hampshire.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maine
Arizona
New Hampshire
New York
Four Die as House Burns Near Columbus
Deputy Sheriff Dan Parkinson reported a fatal fire ten miles east of Columbus that killed Mrs Grace King 29 and her three children Merrill 3 Shirley 2 and Edward 13 days as the mother died trying to save them. Father Elsworth King worked at a Curtiss-Wright warplant at the time. two children Ronald 8 and Oliver 5 escaped.
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Columbus
Grace King
Here
Dan Parkinson
Parkinson
Merrill
Shirley
Edward
Ronald
Oliver
Elsworth King
Eleanor Back Home From Caribbean Trip
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt returns to Washington after an extensive tour of South America Central America and the Caribbean area announced by President Roosevelt. He said the journey was at his suggestion and that she had apparently done a lot of good.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
South America
Central America
Caribbean
Roosevelt
Leacock Dies at 74. Noted Economist and Humorist
Stephen B. Leacock, 74, Canadian economist and humorist long associated with McGill University, died last night. News obituary notes his years on the faculty and his prominence in Canadian letters.
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Toronto
Stephen B. Leacock
McGill University
Frozen Fruits and Vegetables To Be Removed From Ration Lists Soon
Government plans to remove frozen fruits and vegetables from ration lists while meat values stay steady through April. War Food Administration cites crowded cold storage and record slaughtering in January and February as reasons to free storage space. Bowles notes high civilian meat consumption in the first rationing year and large overall meat production.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Neil Sedwick Dies at Amesville
Neil Basil Sedwick 48, dies at his Amesville home on Tuesday after a year and a half illness. A dairyman and school bus operator, he lived in Amesville 18 years and leaves wife, son Jackie Lee, two sisters Blanche Totman and Bessie Anderson, and three brothers Carl, Fred, and Glen. Funeral at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Smith residence, Rev. George Timberlake officiating. burial Mt. Hermon.
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Neil Basil Sedwick
Amesville
Sedwick
John W
Martha Wilson Sedwick
Athens County
Jackie Lee
Blanche Totman
Columbus
Bessie Anderson
Danville
Carl
Collett Sentenced to Die for McCoy Murders
James W. Collett a 60 year old Clinton County farmer was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary on July 26 for the McCoy family murders.
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Washington, C. H
James W. Collett
Clinton County
Ohio Penitentiary
Minister and Father of 30 Applies for War Insurance
Ira Knapp, a minister and war worker at Brown Shipbuilding in Houston, disclosed he is father to 30 children, with 18 sons and 12 daughters, 19 alive. Six sons serve in the Army, four married sons are 1-A, oldest child is 39, youngest 3. Knapp has been married three times and has two grandchildren. He is in his fifties.
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Houston
Tex
Brown Shipbuilding Company
Ira Knapp
Knapp
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