Cassino Made 1 Target of U.S. Guns in Italy
Allied forces advancing on the Cassino front drive deeper into San Vittore Giusto and adjacent positions as American troops seize Giusto and mount artillery pressure. British units push Mt Porchia while Americans occupy a 4,000-foot peak north of Cassino, with air strikes targeting Fiume and Mirabor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassino
U.S
Italy
Algiers
Giusto
San Vittore
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Mt. Porchia
Liri
Clark
San Vittore- Giusto
Via Casalina
San Vitttore
United Nations
Cerraro
Boston
Naples
Rapido
Rome
Mt. Majo
Mt. Raimo
Majo
Rome Road
Mt. Lunge
Oliver Leese
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pescara
Mirabor
Yugoslavia
Fiume
Balkans
Sparta
U S Chamber Backs World Police Plan for Postwar Harmony
The United States Chamber of Commerce endorsed an international political organization guided by postwar harmony. It supports armed forces of peace-loving nations acting via the combined chiefs of staff. The vote passed 1848 to 6, favoring reciprocal collaboration not a superstate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chiefs of Staff
Chamber
Funeral Services For Mrs. Hoover In New York Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Hoover former First Lady will be held Monday at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York at 11 am. Burial will be private. Mrs. Hoover died Friday night after a heart attack at the Waldorf Towers. The event will be attended by about 100 Girl Scout representatives and leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Paull T Sargent
Waldorf Towers
Girl Scout
Ralph G. Wright
Girl Scouts
All Ration Stamps To Have 10 Points Value After Feb 27
Washington AP The Office of Price Administration says the new token plan keeps ration buying power steady starting Feb 27. Each family member will have 60 points for meats and fats and 50 points for processed foods monthly, with adjustments to point values as tokens are phased in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Army
Congress
Rep
Wadsworth
R-N.y
Canol Project Criticized as Wartime Oil Gamble
A wartime committee urged halting further Norman Wells drilling until new contracts are negotiated with Imperial Oil and the War Department. It warned the project may not be worth the cost and criticized rush contracts with Canada, noting a $125 per barrel royalty vs U.S. royalties of 15 to 20 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox
Ickes
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
United States
Norman Wells
War Department
Imperial Oil Co., Ltd
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Whitehorse
Aviation
War
Canada
Imperial Oil Company, Ltd
Standard Oil Company of
Imperial
Seventy-eighth Congress Faces War and Peace Debates
Opening session topics include soldiers' discharge pay and voting rights, wartime taxes, labor disputes, food pricing control, foreign relief, renegotiation law, peacetime production planning, and mandatory military training proposals as Congress reconvenes in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Senate
House Military Committee
Republican Congressional Food Study Committee
House Agriculture Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Krupp Factory Returns to Family Control in Germany
A Berlin broadcast reported by United Press says the Krupp Works at Essen, Germany’s largest industrial and war production group, has been dissolved as a corporation and returns to Alfred Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach as a privately owned firm. The move follows Fuehrer directives and maintains a six percent dividend for the period ending Sept 30 1942, with the Societe Anonyme form remaining for branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
DNB
Krupp
Essen
Germany
Alfred Krupp von Bohlen and
Halbach
Berlin
New York
Alfred Krupp
Societe Anonyme, Ltd
Societe Anonyme
Fuehrer
R.A.F
Power Cut Off by Oil Fire at Frisco
A three alarm waterfront fire started by a short circuit razed a Pacific Gas and Electric substation in San Francisco and spilled thousands of gallons of oil. Flames rose fifty feet as firemen and military crews fought the blaze for three hours and moved explosives and supplies away from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific Gas and Electric
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Snow closes schools in New Mexico amid heavy storm
Five thousand pupils in New Mexico were ordered to stay at home Saturday as a heavy snowstorm hit the state. School bus drivers were told to halt operations where roads became dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe, N. M
Ins
New Mexico
Doughton Pushes Quick Tax Simplification Drive
Washington AP Aiming to ease the nations tax complexity Chairman Doughton vows to make simplification the top House Ways and Means priority. He proposes withholding to collect total tax for 30 million workers and notes the March 16 filing deadline remains. A staff review and bureau input are planned alongside a proposed 15 member commission proposal by Rep Forand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Doughton
D-N.c
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Dougton
Bureau of Internal Revenue Bureau
Rep. Forand
Dri
Treasury
Twin Cities Transit Strike Ends After Wage Wins
In Minneapolis the Twin City Rapid Transit streetcar and bus crewmen, 2700 workers, return to duty after a three week strike ends. The company will not appeal the War Labor board ruling granting a retroactive wage increase about 600000 dollars, including 8 cents per hour retroactive to January 1 1943, a 44 hour workweek, and time and a half for overtime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
INS
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
War Labor Board
Orders to Resume Ship Work Ignored
In Philadelphia 17000 striking Cramp Shipbuilding workers stayed idle awaiting a Sunday general membership meeting. Secretaries Knox Green and the War Labor Board pressed for a return to work, but officials warned the strike would continue into Monday due to lack of mass communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Secretary of the Navy
War Labor Board
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Frank Knox
John L. Green
WLB
Men and Women in the Service In Wartime Headlines
Joseph L. Pospisil III receives wings and a second lieutenants commission as a pilot in the Army Air Forces after training at Fort Sumner. The list then notes several others in the armed forces including transfers, promotions, furloughs, and new postings across Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine units, with families and hometowns cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph L. Pospisil
Mr. Vernon
Army Air Forces
Fort Sumner
N. M
Lt. Pospisil
Joseph_ L. Pospisil
Yospisil
Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon High School
Government stresses termination clause in wartime contracts
Industry leaders outlined the termination article to cover new war contracts and urge early inclusion in existing ones. The government may terminate a prime contract at any time by notice, with two settlement routes: negotiated fair settlements or a default path if negotiations fail.
Gable Brothers Noted With Transfers In War News
Word received by their families places Corporal George W. Gable in Italy after service in Africa. His wife homes at 412 Seventh Avenue SE and his parents Mr and Mrs C J Radeke at 1613 E Avenue NE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest D. St. Germain
Farragut
Idaho
Navy Pier
Chicago
St. Germain
Ernest St. Germain
Eighteenth Avenue
Howard Sawyer
C. H. Sawyer
Ninth Street
South Pacific
Gene Oswald
Minneapolis
Navy Air Corps
Gordon Oswald
Fifth Street
Roosevelt High School
John D. Sage
Coast Guard
J. F. Sage
Nineteenth Avenue
San Francisco
Cpl. Hopkins
Redding
Tech
George Kanellis
Alamogordo
N. M
Fourteenth -Street
Werbert Westrom
Great Falls
Mont
A. C. Westrom
Grande Avenue
David Ht, Clark
Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune
New River
N. C
San Diego
Calif
J. O Clark
Ely
Williamb. Sanders
Cpl
Lloyd Krahling
H. C. Krahling
Atkins
Greensboro
Lowryfield No. 2
Denver
Colo
Ronald W. Anderson
Camp Bennion
George Ae Anderson
Donald R. McLeod
Blacksburg
Cedar Rapids
Robert W. McLeod
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Melvin R. Bammert
Australia
Fred M. Bammert
Tenth Street
Elmer M. Bruce
John C. Bruce
Higley Avenue
Camp Davis
Norfolk
Edward Bruna
England
Atd
M Street
Ron
Seventh Avenue
C. J. Radeke
E -Avenue
George W. Gable
Africa
Italy
E. B. Gable
Oakland Avenue
Republicans Set Dates for 1944 Convention in Chicago
Republican national committee opens a two day meeting in Chicago to pick the date and site for the 1944 convention with observers predicting June in Chicago. Chairman Harrison Spangler says the event will occur around the usual June time and should not hinder the war effort. Delaying to August or September could delay mailing ballots to overseas servicemen by 60 to 90 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Harrison Spangler
Indicted Firm Not Remington Rand In New York Case
The Justice Department said the defendant named in an anti trust action filed in New York was Remington Arms of Bridgeport Connecticut not Remington Rand Arms as earlier announced by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Justice Department
New York
Remington Arms Company
Bridgeport, Conn
Remington Rand Arms Company
Department
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U. S. Chamber For World Police Plan
Meg
Seventy-eighth
Baruch
Hancock
Frisco
Twin Cities
Pfc
Charles Moel
Richard
Fort Meade
Baltimore, Md
Arch Moel
N Street
Ae Frank Keister
J Street
Lough
Palo
Shannon L. Peters
Norfolk, Va
Twelfth Street
Kenneth Radeke
W. T. Sands Printing
Second Street
Fussell
Okinow
Fur Coats
Remington Rand
Craemer’s
Grean R.A.F
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