American Third Army Advances Toward Saarbrucken Front
Allied forces push from Saarburg toward Saarbrucken as the U.S. Third Army drives eight miles along the Saar front near Saarburg while Canadian and British units expand the push toward the Ruhr. More than 5,000 Allied aircraft pound German targets as Nazi resistance cracks in multiple sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
U. Ss. Third Army
Saarburg
Saar
Moselle
Maas
Rhine
Canadian First Army
Calcard
Ruhr
Moyland Forest
Seventh Army
Saarbruecken
Alexander M. Patch
Saar River
94Th Infantry
Yeece
Doughboys
Onsdorf
Saarburs
Patton
Saar-Moselle
Siegfried
Pruem
Echternach
Alexander Ath
Forbach
Saarbrucken
U S Bombers Strike Hitler Retreat Berchtesgaden
U S air forces raid Berchtesgaden in Bavaria described as the first war air attack on Hitler's inner stronghold. Thunderbolts and heavy bombers target rail lines near the town while anti aircraft fire challenges entering the area. No report of hits on Hitler's residence and pilots encountered stiff defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Reich
U. 8 15Th Airforce
Parana
Vienna
Udine-Tarvisio- Salzburg
Obersalzbuerg
Nazs
Air Force
Germany
Six Ringling officials sentenced in New Haven circus disaster
Hartford February 21 Six key Ringling Brothers managers were sentenced for involuntary non homicide in the July 6 circus disaster that killed 168. Sentences ranged from six months to seven years with most stayed to allow the show to open. Judge William J Shea ordered five to report April 6 before the Madison Square Garden season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc
James A. Haley
George W. Smith
Leonard S. Ayleforth
Edward R. Versteeg
William Caley
Seatman
David W. Blanchfield
Iays
Superior Court
William J. Shea
Madison Square Garden
Local Plant to Get Army Navy E Award
Public ceremony at Ramsey auditorium marks the Army Navy E award presentation to J. B. Belcher Lumber employees for production excellence. Lt. Comdr. James M. Robertson will preside and deliver the main address with music by Beaver high school band and a Legion color guard. Several employees will receive pins from Major Lawrence Herron. the event includes invocation, anthem, and city acknowledgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Belcher Lumber Company
Army-Navy
Ramsey Auditorium
James M. Robertson
USNR
U. SS. Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Navy
Bluefield
George Richardson, Jr
WHIS
Kennedy General Hospital
Memphis
Bluefield Post No. 9
The
American Legion
America
William C. Lynder
Rene
Mr. Richardson
Comner. Robertsons
Belcher
Thelma Motley
Charles Hager
Lawrence Herron
Ramsey
Assembly
Kin Of Mercer Woman Freed From Jap Camp
Mrs. Helen Van Stavern Mosby of Princeton learns her daughter Mrs. Effie R. Van Stavern’s kin Nancy and Walter Mosby and their parents Jefferson Davis Mosby and his wife have been released from a Japanese camp in the Philippines. The family had resided in Manila for years with Mr. Mosby in the hotel business. News arrived after years of partial updates, including a December 1941 bombing and a February 1944 card from their daughter indicating they were safe but had no escape then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen van Stavern Mosby
Effie R. van Stavern
North Walker Street
Princeton
Nancy
Walter
Philippines
van Stavern
War Department
Mosby
Mosbys
Ban On Use Of Gas Is Lifted
The war production board will let its ban on natural gas use by amusement venues in the Appalachian area expire at 7 p.m. eastern wartime. With a cold snap ending, gas supplies are easing and services to war plants can be restored. Industrial plants with standby oil burning facilities must operate them to capacity until March 20, instead of resuming gas use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Appalachian
Industrail
Teachers Bill Triggers Bitter House Debate in West Virginia
Delegate Rush Holt leads teacher forces in a heated House session over a $4,800,000 annual pay raise and a $25 monthly bonus for teachers. After a 20 minute clash, a compromise moved the bill to a special calendar, with Holt withdrawing his calendar resolution in exchange for assurances the measure would be considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rush Holt
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Meadows
House
Senate
D-Lewis
U. S
J. Horner Davis
Dhanawha
Julian Hansbarger
Holt
Rules Committee
John Amos
Davis
Hansbarger
Gerate
Lewis Hall
Marines Thrown Into Fierce Iwo Battle Drive Last Japanese From Corrigidor
General MacArthur reported American forces tightened the noose on the Corrigidor fortress and Intramuros in Manila. He said more than 1,700 Japanese dead were buried on Corregidor and not a single Japanese soldier remained on Bataan. Marines advanced under heavy fire, taking the Manila hotel and Burnham Green as they pressed toward the Intramuros wall to free civilians and end the garrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Yates McDaniel
Manila
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Corrigedor
la Bay
Bataan
First Cavalry Division
Intramuros
MacArthur
MacArtur
Bagac
Pocahontas Officer Guilty on Assault Charge
W. M. McFadden, Pocahontas police officer, found guilty of assault and battery in Tazewell county circuit court over the death of George Putt. He was sentenced to six months in jail and fined. Witnesses described a possible blackjack blow. Putt died after fractures at Bluefield Sanitarium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. McFadden
Pocahontas
Tazewell County
George Putt
Las August
McFadden
Butt
Bluefield Sanitarium
Boissevain
Clarence McCann
Tazewell
N. Clarence Sinich
John Harman, Sr
John Harman, Jr
Abs Valley
Harman
SubS links 25 more Jap ships
Washington reports American submarines have sunk 25 Japanese ships in a fresh attack tally. The navy release lists three warships among the kills, plus 17 cargo vessels, 3 cargo transports, and 2 transports. Total Japanese ships sunk since the war began reaches 1,045 with 110 combatant and 935 non combatant vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Japan
Night club plans candlelight hour to beat curfew
A Newark cafe dubbed Dubonnet announced it would turn off heat and lights at midnight and stay open without heat for a candlelight hour until 2 a.m. to comply with the curfew aimed at saving fuel, starting tonight.
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Newark
N. J
Cafe
Dubonnet
West Virginia colleges eyed for federal hospital transfer
Charleston officials report a proposal to abandon five West Virginia colleges and lease or sell their buildings and lands to the federal government for veterans hospitals and rehabilitation centers. The plan also suggests transferring students to similarly sized institutions and notes long-standing discussions without action. A separate measure would revise police and fire pension funding rules, requiring larger towns to levy and workers to contribute three percent of wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginije
Wright Hugus
Ohio
Hugus
Fairmont
Glenville State
West Liberty State
Shepherd State
Concord
House Finance Committee
Police and Fire Department
Rape slayer James Chambers to die on noose in West Virginia
Elkins, February 21. James Chambers, 33, a Black former Wyoming county resident, is sentenced to death for the murder and alleged rape of Lucy Ward on January 20 at her farm. Judge Dailey schedules execution for March 30 after Chambers confessed to the killing but denied rape. Coroner Gray cites a throat knife wound as Ward's cause of death. Ward had also been suspected of criminal assault.
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Elkins
W. Va
James Chambers
Wyoming County
Huttonse
Moundsville Uison
Lucy Ward
A. Jerome Dailey
Stanley Bosworth
Chambers
L. Gray
Miss Wat
West Virginia
Paul Tross
Keyser
Mineral County
AEDS Battle to King Frankfurt
Soviet and German forces clash as encirclement of Frankfurt looms. Reports say Marshal Konev’s First Ukraine army pushes near Guben while Zhukov’s White Russian units threaten toward Berlin. Pravda claims Red Army within 34 miles of Berlin amid renewed battles and shifts along the Oder.
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London
Guben
Moscow
G. K. Zhukov
Berlin
Pravda
Communist Party
Red Army
Zhukov
Frankfurt
the Oder
Oder
No Exemption From Midnight Curfew Seen
Washington officials said there would be no exemption from the midnight curfew for entertainment places served by hydro electric power. Final rulings rest with the war manpower commission but the aim is to save manpower transportation and coal. Radio programs with studio audiences after midnight face the same outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Mobilization Office
War Manpower Commission
Marines extend invasion force in Pacific island battle
U S Pacific Fleet reports a third Marine division bringing total assault strength to about 45 000 as Devildogs push along a southern wedge of the island facing heavy Japanese resistance. Casualties exceed 3 600 as mines and artillery stall efforts toward the central airfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmont Waite
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Tarawa
Waite
Nis
Third Marine
Graves B. Erskine
Clifton B. Cates
Keller E. Rockey
Ig Motoyama
Nimitz
Gripsholm Returns Americans From War Prison Camps
The Gripsholm docked at Jersey City with 1209 repatriates including 463 American soldiers 78 Canadian personnel 46 merchant seamen 548 U S civilians and 74 Latin American nationals. Americans went to Halloran hospital for examinations while civilians faced long processing as many had been away over 20 years. Red Cross nurses noted many were ill or malnourished though some had gained weight aboard.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gripsholm
America
Ity
United States
Halloran Hospital
Staten Island
Army
Red Cross
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Omar
Saar-Moselle Triangle
Tn Army
By Austin Bealmear
Circus
Mercer
Bill
Stabs Holt
Iwo Isle
Corregidor Tunnel
W. M. M’fadden
George Butt
SUBS
Joe
6Th
U. S. Ranger Battalion
Luzon
Cabanat
John F. Murphy
Center
Springfield
Mass
Auaeeck
Notre Dame
Rockne
AEDS
Ukraine
East Prussia
W. W. Hercher
Reds
Pacific
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