Goering in Paris as French-U.S. break looms
Swiss-based AP report says Goering may meet Petain and Laval in Paris to decide on Martinique status and Axis military ties, with Vichy facing a possible break with the United States. Observers warn Paris could reject American proposals and push toward major decisions on Martinique, Italy, and oil fleets.
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Goering
Paris
U.S
Bern
Switzerland
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Petain
Laval
Martinique
United States
Evol
Parm
France
Italy
Vichy
Riviera
London
Reuters
Moulins
Tunisia
Corsica
S. Pinckney Tuck
U. S
French West Indies
Council of Ministers
Antilles
Marseille
Madagascar
Nice
Identify Deceased Man In Midwest as Fugitive
A man who died recently in Grand Forks North Dakota was identified as Noble C Magnus wanted for questioning in the death of Fred Counts aged 30 nearly six years ago. Chief James Goodwin said fingerprints supplied by the FBI established the identity of the year old man living under the name Harvey Russell.
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Lima
Grand Forks
N. D
Noble C. Magness
Fred Counts
James Goodwin
Harvey Ussell
Expect Quintuplets But Only Triplets Born
A British couple, Mrs Emily Sedley and Private Arthur Woodley, welcomed three boys today in Abington England. The birth, though not quintuplets, followed hopes of multiple offspring and saw neighbors knit for the family.
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Abington
England
Emily Sedley
Arthur Woodley
Allies Sink Two Enemy Transports
Allied reports from General MacArthur state that air strikes damaged two to three more Japanese transports, raising total Japanese losses in the Coral Sea clash to about 23 or 24 ships. Two additional transports were hit in the Solomon Islands, with a possible 24th casualty being a tanker hit near Deboyne Islands.
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Allied
Australia
Japan
Coral Sea
MacArthur
Solomon Islands
Deboyne Islands
Louisiade
Japs Face Fresh Reverses in China and Burma
AP dispatch from New Delhi reports Allied lines reclaiming ground as British columns withdraw from the Cindwin River area in western Burma. Japanese troops are said to be pushed back along the Burma Road into China, with advances near Chittagong and Wanting challenged by Chinese counter offensives.
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New Delhi
Cindwin
Burma
Shwegyin
Mandalay
China
Burma-China
Akyab
Chittagong
Paris
Bay of Bengal
Yunnan
Lungling
Cincinnati Hosts Ohio Coal Dealers Convention
Cincinnati welcomes about 590 coal dealers for the 11th annual Ohio coal conference convention. President Thomas I. Borden of Van Wert urged readiness to aid wartime production and avoid delays in coal supply.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Coal Conference, Inc
Thomas I. Borden
van Wert
Roosevelt Creates Air Medal For Distinguished Service
President Roosevelt announced the establishment of a new air medal to be awarded to armed services personnel who distinguished themselves with outstanding performance in operations. The award recognizes valor and achievement in aerial missions and honors service members across branches.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations Fighters Smile Amid War Zone Photos
War zone pictures show U S Marines on Corregidor greeted by fresh cigarette supply before capture by Japanese. A British Tommy is shown wounded and brought ashore at Alexandria, Egypt, part of a recent Britain Italy prisoner exchange.
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United Nations
U. S
Corregidor
Tommy
Alexandria
Egypt
Britain
Italy
Girls Working for U. S. Get New Home
Washington reports a federally funded hotel for women housing government staff. Single rooms without baths cost 34.50 dollars a month, with private bath rooms higher. guests may entertain in parlors with romantic names like Anthony Cleopatra and Romeo Juliet. The 250 room hotel, built with an RFC loan by Ralph S. Scott, will be ready in about three weeks.
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Washington
Ralph S. Scott
R.F.C
Anthony Cleopatra
Romeo Juliet
John Alden
Scott
Four Injured In Accident Near Logan
Four people were injured Monday evening when a car driven by Clayton Kuhn 31 of Gibisonville lost control and plunged over a 25 foot embankment on State Route 664 seven miles southwest of Logan. Passengers included Alice Moore in fair condition with internal injuries Dean Hood with severe scalp lacerations and an injured arm and Paul Keller with minor injuries. Sheriff Floyd Duffy said Kuhn appeared to lose control.
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Logan
Clayton Kuhn
Gibisonville
Alice Moore
Cherrington Hospital
Dean Hood
Paul Keller
Floyd Duffy
Kuhn
Engineer's Attacker Charged With Sabotage
Cleveland officials say Donald Kintner, 20, will be charged by the U S District Attorney with sabotage for the shooting of a locomotive engineer to halt a train carrying war materials. The offense carries up to 30 years in prison and a $10 000 fine.
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Cleveland
U. S. District Attorney's Office
Donald Kintner
Accused Mother K killer Bound to Grand Jury
Arch R. Matteson 33 a railroad worker is bound to the grand jury in Orville after pleading not guilty to first degree murder. He is charged with beating his mother Ina Florence Matteson 62 to death with a shoe last last Thursday.
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Wooster
Arch R. Matteson
Orville
Ina Florence Matteson
Ohio Surrenders Military Facilities to Federal War Effort
Col Roland B Lee reported that nearly all of Ohio's military facilities are now under federal control. He cited Camp Perry, structures at the Cleveland airport, and 73 armories as transferred to prosecute the war.
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Columbus
Roland B. Lee
Ral
Ohio
Camp Perry
Cleveland
Canton Repository to Raise Weekday Street Sale Price
The Canton Repository will raise its weekday street sale price from 3 to 4 cents next Monday and notes a change to Sunday pricing.
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Canton
Canton Repository
Freeze Hog and Cattle Prices Freeze
Chicago reports hog and cattle prices shipped to slaughtering centers held within set limits on the first day of wholesale ceilings. Livestock experts say these anti inflation ceilings on beef and pork likely transmit stability to the live market, preventing price rises unless ceilings are revised.
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Chicago
Army Adds Olive Drab Airliners for Transport Role
Several former airliners stripped of interiors and repainted olive drab join the army to carry soldiers and military cargo.
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Washington
Senate Farm Bloc Proposes Wheat Sale Relaxation
Senate farm bloc members floated a partial reversal of opposition to selling government surpluses below parity. Senator Russell said an amendment could allow wheat sales under conditions to feed livestock, aiming to avoid depressing corn prices below about 85 percent parity.
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Washington
Senate
Russell
Senate Appropriations
Agriculture Department
Charge New Nazi Atrocities In Norway Concentration Camp Report
London report states the Norwegian government in exile charges German occupation forces ran a camp for 700 teachers tortured to break them. It cites Major Vidkun Quisling’s plan to Nazify schools, with 1 300 teachers in camps and 20 collapsing after 14 days. Fifty hundred teachers were sent to the ship Skjerstad for Arctic forced labor.
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London
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Skjerstad
Arctic
Railroader Is Rescued From Engine Wreckage
A 30 year old Nickel Plate brakeman John Schaffer of Bellevue Ohio was freed from an overturned locomotive after a wrecking crew cut him out rescue flames from burning freight cars sent smoke around him for hours he was taken to hospital with an injured leg.
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Cleveland
John Schaffer
Bellevue
Schaffer
Red Army Halts German Spring Drive In Crimea
In Crimea the Red Army slows a four day old German push as Moscow fights back to block Hitler’s spring offensive. Civilians behind lines wage guerrilla warfare and threaten the invader while Meantime Hitler clings to defensive posts awaiting a full breakout.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Crimea
Herr Hitler
Caucasus
Hitler
BUC Hopes for Seasonal Working Rule
P G Scott Kallenbaugh of the Ohio bureau of unemployment compensation expressed hope today that new regulations on seasonal employment could take effect by June 1. The rules designate employment as seasonal only if approved by the BUC administrator who can set the proportionate weeks and earnings needed to qualify for benefits.
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Columbus
G. Scott Kallenbaugh
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
BUC
Italians Claim Three British Warships Sunk
Italian high command reports three British destroyers sunk by German bombers in the Eastern Mediterranean north of the Gulf of Salum as part of intensive aerial activity over the Mediterranean and North Africa.
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Rome
Mediterranean
Gulf of Salum
High Command
North Africa
London Star Today
Vichy
Bucharest
Crete
London
Admiralty
Lively
Jackal
Kipling
Norwegian
Netherlands
Goodrich Co Disputes Negligence Charge In Explosion
A. B. F. Goodrich Co. spokesman disputed a charge that the Miller plant caused a sewer explosion that killed three people on December 11. George A. Strain said the investigation found promiscuous careless handling of solvents at the Miller plant.
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Akron
A. B. F. Goodrich Co
George A. Strain
Miller
Inland Waterways To Be Considered For Petroleum Transport
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee urged a $5,000 inquiry into expanding inland waterways to haul petroleum and other goods as states east of the Mississippi begin gasoline rationing. Canada links gas supplies to U S allocations, with non essential cars limited to 3 gallons weekly in the East.
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Washington
Maine
Florida
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
District of Columbia
Canada
Senate
Pay To Dependents Debate In House On Soldier Pay
The House set aside two hours to debate a Senate approved measure boosting pay for soldiers, while the military committee questioned Paul V. McNutt about legislation to fund dependents. Objections focused on a rider allowing the War Department to commission specially qualified civilians for technical and professional work.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
House
Paul V. McNutt
War Department
Torpedoed Ship Sinks, Ohio Sailor Loses Life
Philip Shera, 36, of Ohio, assistant engineer, was killed when a merchant ship was torpedoed by submarines off the Atlantic coast. He remained below to cut off the engines during the sinking.
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Ohio
Oxford
Philip Shera
George Shera
Navy
Atlantic
Shera
Expansion of Cleveland Steel Plant Authorized
War production board and defense plant corp authorize Otis Steel Co to expand the Cleveland plant at a cost exceeding 15 million dollars. President E J Kulas reported the approval.
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Cleveland Steel Plant
Cleveland
War Production Board and
Defense Plant Corp
Otis Steel Co
E. J. Kulas
Otis
Germans Blow Up Own Munitions Factory
Moscow report says a large munition works in Munich was blown up. Soviet Information Bureau attributes the blast to rising resentment of the German people toward Missalani and Mulleriis clinica.
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Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Munich
Missilani and MuLleLiis Clinica
Kerch Peninsula battle seen as prelude to broader German offensive
Allied and Axis dispatches indicate Germany and Romania pressed the Kerch Peninsula clash in the Crimea while Soviet forces halted the advance after four days of heavy fighting. London and Berlin reports conflicted on scope with British and German officials weighing whether the action signals a larger spring offensive.
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Russia
Criemea
Great Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Kerch Peninsula
Hitler
Berlin
Kerch
London
Red Army
Donets River
Ukraine
Taganrog
Rostov
Sea of Azovy
Tass
Crimea
Winston Churchill
Britain
Reich
Germany
Go home sign greets travelers from Maine to Florida
Reported across the eastern seaboard, motorists began lining up for gasoline rationing as the sign urging residents to return home appeared in multiple states. The scene suggested widespread concern over fuel supplies and travel during the period.
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Washington
Seaboard
Maine
Florida
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Robert F. Jones
Jones
House Appropriations Committee
Department
Congress
Senate Farm Bloc
L'Offul
Servator Romano
Vatican City
Organ
Pius XII
Pope
Goodrich Co
Associated Press
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