Aid Far Short Of Needs FDR Bluntly Warns Congress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress that lend lease aid totaling 2.57 billion dollars last year remains far short of what is needed to turn the tide in World War II. He warned the offensive against the Axis will demand the nation’s full strength and greater land and transport capacity. He noted 49 billion authorized but only a fraction used, with much of the remainder contracted or earmarked, and praised the program for boosting U.S. industrial capacity before America’s entry into the war.
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Washington
United Nations
Lucent Roosevelt
Congress
Broken Son
United
Roosevelt
United States
America
Producers Appeal For Gas Rations On Atlantic Seaboard
East coast oil firms urged a gasoline card rationing plan for the Atlantic seaboard as tanker sinkings threaten an eastern oil shortage. They asked Ickes to restore the 7 pm curfew on retail stations until a rationing system is ready and proposed pipelines from the gulf to the New York Philadelphia retail zone.
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Washington
INS
Atlantic Seaboard
Atlantic
Harold I. Ickes
John A. Brown
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Grandpa Han Quit Okla Unable to Buy Cigar
The article fragment notes Willie Willis and Robert Quillen profile Grandpa who stops in Oklahoma due to inability to afford cigars and pipe. His teeth are missing, affecting smoking and whiskers, with a tone of personal anecdote.
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Han
Unions Fight Bill Forcing Registration
In Washington CIO and AFL oppose a House measure for government registration of labor unions and associations as Senate considers Sen Lee’s push for urgent anti strike legislation. Green argues the bill destroys voluntary unions and won’t curb racketeering. Murray rejects delay.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
House
Senate
Lee
D-Oklaz
House Judiciary Committee
William Green
Philip Murray
Vinson
D. Sc
House Naval Affairs Com
Murray
Green
Trains Halted In Rail Dispute By Picket Action
In East Peoria AFL and CIO volunteers halted two freight trains from the Toledo Peoria and Western line as part of a rail labor dispute. A third train, from the Burlington road, was slowed but later moved after crews backed away. Night pickets supported 104 Brotherhood members as talks followed with no immediate resolution.
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Peoria, I
AFL
CIO
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Li Nes
Burlington Road
Peoria
Pekin Union Road
T. P
East Peoria
Brotherhoods of Railroad
India Freedom Plan Reached Says Churchill
Britain’s war cabinet unanimously approves a plan toward eventual dominion status for India. Sir Stafford Cripps will visit India to test feasibility. Churchill says plan aids self government while maintaining military control during the war. Page 7 continuation.
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RRS
Stafford Cripps
India
Churchill
Summons
London
Britain
Subcontinent
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
United States
War Cabinet
Parity Ban Approved by House on Farm Sale Rule
The House voted 114 to 47 to bar government loans and funds from supporting farm sales below parity prices via the Commodity Credit Corporation. The move blocks sub parity sales but faces administration opposition and questions about effectiveness. The agriculture appropriation bill totals 6.495 billion dollars with a 3.513 million CCC allotment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
French Aid Reported Going to Madagascar
The Daily Mail reports French cruisers Gloire and Montcalm left Dakar with three troop transports to reinforce Madagascar. Unofficial sources speculate the United Nations may seek to occupy Madagascar to protect Allied supply routes to India and the Middle East from potential Japanese gains.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Gloire
Montcalm
Dakar
French West Africa
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
United Nations
India
Middle East
France Faith in Republic Voiced at Riom Trial
Leon Blum told the Riom court that the French people remain faithful to the republic and said he would collaborate with the Communists to defend it. He argued the Axis caused the war, not French leaders, and urged leniency toward Communists amid a coalition seen as protecting republican institutions.
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Riom
France
Leon Blom
Peroration
Blum
Popular Front
Faust
Axis
S. Pinkney Tuck
U. S
de Mela
Col. Quiroga
Blume
Pierre Laval
Joseph Stalin
Japs Overrun Lower Burma Threatens Prome and Toungoon
British forces north of Rangoon brace for Japanese assaults as Tokyo troops reportedly seize the Irrawaddy delta. Unconfirmed reports place Japanese units 16 miles south of Toungoon and in contact with Burmese bands, with an attack on Prome possible. Chinese forces in the Shan states are to be supported by American air power under Gen Alexander.
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Rangoon
Prome
Toungoon
Mandalay
Burma
Lost Rangoon
Irrawaddy
Lower Burma
Vilage
Bay of Bengal
Thailand
Shan States
H.R. L. G. Alexander
Mystery Explosions Off Mantoloking Coast Baffle Officials
Four or five heavy blasts were heard at sea off Mantoloking New Jersey as authorities and residents remained uncertain about their origin. Residents reported a haze and a vehicle claim, while an army truck activity was observed then denied by Army HQ. Coast guard had no information.
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Mantoloking
N. J
Weldon Polhemus
Governor’s Island
Coast Guard
British Force Lands in Nassau to Shield Bahamas
A detachment of British troops has landed in Nassau Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas with 70 000 residents The Duke of Windsor now governor conferred with US Navy and Royal Air Force officers in Miami about island defense The colony has long relied on display cannons rather than real armament and sits 180 miles off the Florida coast
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Florida
Duke of Windsor
Miami
United States Navy
Royal Air Force
New Providence
Nassau
British Air Units Sting Nazi Raider Tirpitz Off Norway
British torpedo planes attacked the German battleship Tirpitz as she steamed north along the Norwegian coast. The attack, conducted under heavy smoke, aimed to thwart a possible raid on a British convoy to Russia. Two British planes were reported shot down.
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London
INS
Germany
Admiralty
Russia
Brazil Nears War on Axis
Brazil moves toward war with the Axis as President Vargas asserts power to declare war or a national emergency. Brazilian merchant ships withdraw after Axis sinkings, with Da Noite labeling the Axis crime and calls for seizure of Axis property. Brazil breaks relations and pledges actions against Axis subjects and assets.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Ateast
Vargas
Diarao da Noite
Reich
da Noite
Gitbo
Hitler
Axis
Pan
Dies Probe Gains Year's Extension
The House committee investigating un American activities won a fourth year lease on life and plans a $300000 appropriation to fund its work through next January 3. The vote to continue was 131 to 46 amid claims of interference with the war program and charges of inefficiency.
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Washington
House
Life Today
D.-Tex
Dies
Aussies-Blast Japanese Invaders Near New Guinea
Australian air units reported destroying seven to nine ships of the Japanese invasion trains off New Guinea. U S bombers dropped 18 tons of bombs on hostile vessels while Royal Australian Air Force and allied forces pressed the attack around Port Moresby, Sala-maua, and the northeastern and southern coasts.
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Canberra
Australia
United States War Department
Washington
New Guinea
Royal Australian Air Force
Port Moresby
Cape Yar
Free French Take Desert Outposts in Libya Advance
London dispatch reports a Free French force under harsh sandstorms capturing Temessa and four smaller posts in a 1500 mile Libyan advance from the south. Temessa lies near the Gulf of Sirte, with Italian prisoners and documents seized. Rommel’s counterattacks prompt renewed fighting as British forces gain prisoners and recover equipment.
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London
Temessa
Libya
Asirline
Gulf of Sirte
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Cirenaisa
Rommel
Middle East
Monique
Pacific Indian Oceans Rebranded as Japanese Seas Says Navy Spokesman
Japanese navy spokesman Captain Hiteo Hiraide told Front News that the Pacific and Indian Oceans will be renamed as Japanese seas. He claimed Ceylon off the Indian coast is unsafe for British warships and that UN fleet units at Port Darwin are no match for Japan. He said two British battleships and two aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean cannot halt Japanese advances.
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Tokyo
Japan
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Hiteo Hiraide
Front News
Hiralde
Ceylon
Indian
United Nations
Port Darwin
Australia
Indian Ocean
Hiraide
Soviet announce 49 700 Germans killed on Kalinin front
Moscow reports a Soviet communique stating 49 700 Germans were killed on the Kalinin front between Feb. 6 and March 8. Russians recaptured 161 inhabited points, and 277 Germans were destroyed or captured along with 78 tanks and 2 guns. A key junction near Lake Ilmen was seized as Red Army pilots relentlessly hit Nazi transports for the trapped 16th Army under Gen. Von Busch.
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Moscow
Kalinin
Hitler
Lake Ilmen
von Busch
Staraya Russa
Koenigsberg
Germany
Higa
Latvia
Tass
American AVG pilots decorated by Britain in Burma
Two American pilots with the British Imperial forces in Burma were decorated by the British government, per a Mandalay dispatch. Robert Neale, former U S army pilot, received the PFC and Jock Newkirk, former U S navy pilot, received the DSO, the Daily Express reported.
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London
Burma
Daily Express
Mandalay
Robert Neale
Jock Newkirk
Daily Express Dispatch
Hart Says Jap Losses More Serious Than Allied Wins
Admiral Thomas C. Hart argued at a Navy press conference that Allied losses in the Pacific are less damaging than Japan's, due to Japan’s weaker replacement capacity. He contrasted UN losses with Japanese victories through air power and surprise attacks, as Admiral Ernest J. King urged offensive strategy and expansion of ships planes and guns.
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Washington
INS
United Nations
Pacific
Thomas C. Hart
Prince of Wales
Hart
Frank Knox
Ernest J. King
America
King
Yankee Planes Fight Off Japanese Fleet At New Guinea
Eight American heavy bombers raided the Sala maua harbor at New Guinea on March 10, sinking two Japanese ships, burning four more and Beaching one. All planes returned safely. The Navy reported the presumed loss of the Matama, a 924 foot freighter, without details, noting future notices would withhold ship names.
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Washington
INS
New Guinea
War Department
Australia
Bataan
United Nations High Command
Stralin
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Batean Peninsula
MacArthur
Limnesrainck
Richard H. Carmichael
United States Army
Salamaua
Laxon
Navy Department
Newark
N. J
San Francisco
Pacific
Knox
U. S
Machine Gun Nests Guard City Center
Los Angeles county defense council orders machine gun nests behind sandbag barricades to guard the Hall of Justice. Deputies will man the positions day and night, with a six and two half foot sandbag wall surrounding the building.
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Los Angeles
INS
Hall of Justice
Los Angeles County
County Defense Council
D. & Andrews
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