Soviet Drives Drive Germans Back Across Ukraine Front
Soviet forces under Zhukov push toward Tarnopol Proskurov as Proskurov falls and Tarnopol nears encirclement. Izvestia says Germans pushed back to war start line while Konev advances in Bessarabia threatening Balti and Zagaikiny. Units report capturing tanks and trucks as morale sags among German troops.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Carpathians
Dniester
Prut River
Balkans
Ukraine
Bucovina
Rumiania
Prut
Romania
Black Sea
Middle Bug River
Bessarabia
Ariven
Tar
Tarnopol
Lwow
Proskurov
Ivan S. Konev
Zagaikiny
Balti
Senate Denies TVA Financial Autonomy in Funding Battle
In a tense session, the Senate voted 39 to 26 to strip the Tennessee Valley Authority of its independent funding, mandating congressional appropriations and directing TVA receipts into the general fund. The move, tied to an $87 million appropriations package, follows debates over executive agency control and parliamentary rules.
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Washington
Wallace
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
McKellar
D-Tenn
Clari
D-Mo
TVA
Public Power Agency
House
The
Treasury
Barkley
David E Lilienthal
Tennessee
Lilienthal
Gillette
Wilson
Iowa
Allied report on Cassino falls to German tunnels
Allied headquarters in Naples said German reinforcements reached Cassino through ancient tunnels enabling a belt of Nazi-held positions from the town center to its northern edge. Roper notes continued heavy fighting with key strongpoints like the amphitheater and the Hotel des Roses under German control. Meanwhile on the Anzio front Fifth Army artillery halted several tanks near Aprilia and compressed rail targets Rimini Leghorn and Orvieto. Air bombardment had previously battered Cassino as trenches and tunnels provided escape routes for German units.
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Naples
Cassino
Highway 6
James E Roper
Roper
Hotel Des Roses
Jung
Ooe
Mt. Cassino
Castle Hill
Fifth Army
Anzio
Rome
Aprilia
Cisterna
Rimini
Ancona
Leghorn
Orvieto
Sulmona
Fano
Liquor-by-Drink Prices Rise After New Federal Taxes
The 1 April effective date for federal liquor taxes allows bars to raise prices by two to four cents per drink based on liquor weight and proof, add one cent to a draught beer glass of at least eight ounces, and raise wine prices by one to three cents. Bars may absorb the tax or stick to existing price levels, but cannot charge unusual odd amounts or a flat five cent addition.
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Washington
OPA
Boy's Dog Delays Willkie Campaign Tour in Wisconsin
A young boy's dog was killed after being struck by a car in Allen's Grove during Wendell L. Willkie's Wisconsin pre primary tour. Willkie halted the campaign to travel to Beloit and buy a pedigreed cocker spaniel to replace the mongrel, and the 18 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bettin reacted by saying Goo while his mother proposed naming the dog Wendell.
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Allen’s Grove
Wis
Wendell ‘L. Willkie
Wisconsin
Willkie
Billy Bettin
Henry Bettin
Allen's Grove
Beloit
Wendell
Merrill Marauders Take North Burma Stronghold
New Delhi reports Merrill’s Marauders advancing from Shadrup toward the Myitkyina-Mandalay railroad, with Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill’s force pressing pockets of Japanese resistance. British commandos and allied units move from Suprahum toward Myitkyina as Japanese torched positions in retreat.
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New Delhi
INS
Merrill
Shadrup
Myitkyina - Mandalay
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Joseph W Stilwell
Shadzup
Magaung
Reds Not Ready to Discuss Policy with Hull Report
GOP congressmen said Secretary Hull described a concrete plan for postwar Germany shown to Britain and the Soviet Union, but no policy discussion followed at Moscow. Eden approved in part, Litvinov called it pretty good, while critics urged clearer aims and noted Hull’s 17 point statement left questions.
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Washington
Hull
Moscow
Germany
U. S
Japan
Britain
Anthony Eden
Maxim Litvinov
Russia
Eden
Litvinov
Clare Boothe Luce
Conn
State’ Department
Sen
Reed
Brian
Arizona
Dixie Telephone Strike Threatens 9 Southern States
The Southern Federation of Telephone Workers threatened to strike if not recognized as the sole bargaining agent for 26,000 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company employees in nine southern states.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Federation of Telephone Workers
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Five of Detroit Spy Ring Sentenced to Prison
Miss Grace Buchanan-Dineen led the group guilty of conspiracy to violate wartime espionage act. Sentences ranged from 5 to 20 years for four Detroiters and a German‑American secretary. one defendant was convicted previously, another was deemed mentally incompetent and later cleared. Additional co conspirators were indicted abroad in Switzerland and other nations.
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Detroit
Grace Buchanan-Dineen
Bertrand Hoffman
FBI
Switzerland
Sweden
Portugal
Hungary
Germany
Thief Steals Car Left Outside Irvington Home
Carl Lehrhoff reported to Irvington police that his car, left outside his home after it would not run Friday night, was driven away by an unknown thief Saturday.
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Irvington
N. J
Carl Lehrhoff
Dewey Accuses Administration of Dangerous News Gag
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accused the national administration of suppressing news and hiding foreign policy details. He spoke at the Press Photographers Association of New York exhibition, demanding light on diplomatic commitments and criticizing censorship despite wartime information efforts.
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NEW York
Thomas E. Dewey
National Administration
Dewey
The
Press Photographers Association of
NBC
Gerous
Congress
Congress of
United States
All Deferred Under 26 to Be Examined
Washington outlines a new McNutt led program to cancel industrial deferments under 26 and ration out key indus try exemptions. Immediate pre induction physicals will speed selection of fit draftees while local boards retain final deferment decisions under interim rules.
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Washington
Paul V. Mc- Nutt
Inter-Agency
Mc- Nutt
WMC
War Manpower Commission
Armed Services
Selective Service
Lewis B Hershey
Army and Navy
Maritime Commission
War Production Board
Office of Defense Transportation
War Food Administration
War Shipping Administration
Petroleum Administration For War
Solid Fuels Administration
Office of
Senate backs G I Bill of Rights 49 to 0 vote
The Senate approved the three billion dollar GI Bill of Rights for World War II veterans by a 49 to 0 margin and sent the measure to the House. It includes education benefits, home loans, unemployment pay, and a veterans employment service. The American Legion supports the plan as sound, fair, and administratively ready.
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Washington
INS
Senate
House
Len Clark
D-Mo
Hattie Caraway
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Len White
White
Warren R Austin
Veterans Administration
United States Employment Service
Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs
The
American Legion
RAFs 2800 Ton Night Bombing Over Berlin Heavy Blow
London said the Royal Air Force dropped more than 2800 tons of bombs on Berlin Friday night in the heaviest attack of the war, with 73 bombers lost. The raid against Kiel also hit the German naval base as Germans claimed 102 planes shot down.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Kiel
Germany
R.A.F
Leipzig
Royal Canadian Air Force
Fairmen
Continent
Ninth Air Force
Hirson
France
Two Men Two Trucks and Two Trees in Street Crash
Cedar Rapids report describes an noon Vernal Street NW accident involving Donald Jones driver of a Rock Island Motor Transport truck. A low branch struck the trailer causing a bounce into a second tree and a crash with Charles Loomis in another truck. Both trucks damaged and drivers shaken.
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Vernal Street NW
Donald Jones
L Avenue NW
Rock Island
Charles Loomis
A Avenue NE
Four Charged in Wartime Cattle Rustling Ring
Four men were indicted for wartime cattle rustling in Atlanta. The charge alleges they jumped from a car, bled a heifer with a pocket knife, and hauled the carcass to the woods to dress the beef.
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Atlanta
Yanks Bomb Wake Island Raid Hit Fuel and Barracks
American airmen pressed a heavy anti-aircraft barrage while dropping 115 tons of bombs on Wake Island to strike fuel storage tanks and barracks. The raid marked the sixteenth air attack on Wake since the island’s capture, with planes all returning safely.
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Washington
Wake Island
Wake
Little Island
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Ponape
Ant Islands
Carolines
Pacific Islands
Fragmented OCR News Page Sees Scribbled Section Labels
A damaged OCR render shows scattered headings like Com ics Movies Radio Sports and Personalities such as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson. The fragmentary lines include dates and names with unclear context, presenting an unreadable mosaic of a newspaper page.
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Index Marquis
Pula
Seeeeaseen
David Lawrence
Marion
Cceersteue
Eeeeeensenes
Drew Pearson
Sceeeeee
C. Cee Ceeeees
Mosaaticdee
el State
Eae Gels
Walter Winchell
Cbececea
Marchish Cedar Rapids Forecast
Cedar Rapids area forecast calls for colder conditions tonight with a low near 20 degrees. Sunday should be milder but not warm, with increasing temperatures from Saturday’s chilly start. Recent readings show 7 am near 30, 2 pm about 44, humidity around 25 percent. Friday highs reached mid sixties in Davenport and Spencer, with cooler nights.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
U S Merchant Vessel Sunk by Submarine in Arabian Sea
The navy said a medium sized United States merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine late in January in the Arabian Sea. All crew members were rescued and survivors have landed at Boston.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Arabian Sea
Boston
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Burma
Stilwell
Myitkyina
Imphal
Manipur
India
Mountbatten
Tamu
Maih Tonghkas
Magaung Valley
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Get Prison
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Sicily
Teheran
Vatican
State Department
Marauders
Cedar Rapids News
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