Meat Crops Civilian Rations and Lend-Lease Cut
The government announced a 12 percent cut in civilian meat supplies starting April 1, lowest in ten years, with beef and pork reduced while lamb and mutton rise. Civilian allotment drops to 115 pounds per person for April June quarter, from 130. Lend-lease meat shipments also shrink while U S Army and Navy use rise. Britain to receive about 25 million pounds next quarter, about 12.5 percent of current shipments. Authorities pledge fairer cattle allocation among slaughterers and packers nationwide to avert shortages.
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Washington
Office of War Information
War Food Administration
OWL
U. S. Army
Britain
England
James ¥. Byrnes
Task Force Attacks Near Kyushu as Japan Faces Inbound Raiders
An American task force reports carrier based attacks near Kyushu and Shikoku as Japanese air defenses scramble. Domei cites jet planes in action and a possible broader operation. Tokyo says enemy raiders have engaged and are under heavy defense action.
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Japan
Kyw-' Shikoku Islands
Mitscher
Tokyo
Domei
Woadcast
Kyushu
Recordee Federal Communications
Win. 1
City Officials Named in Affidavits Amid Election Row
A set of affidavits filed at City Hall names City Commissioner Miles A. Miller City Attorney T E Buntin and Street Superintendent A J Harvard in connection with the upcoming city commissioner election. The embattled trio deny the accusations and claim the statements are false and unfounded.
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Missioner Miller
Altomey Buntin
Harvard
Eacock
A. J. Harvard
Record Vote Expected in City Commission Race Tuesday
A three candidate race for a three year city commissioner term is seen as closely contested with 1300 to 2000 votes anticipated. Candidates Bates Ayres and Arkins challenge incumbent Miles A Miller. Voting machines will be at City Hall courthouse Robert Motor Company and the Market from 8 am to 8 pm. Ballots may be cast at any polling site. The Democratic Executive Committee schedules a second primary if needed and notes the new commissioner will assume office the first Monday in October.
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Miles A Miller
C. Bates
John Ayres
Arkins
Y Hall
Robert Motor Company
BP. m
Irish Parade Marks St Patrick’s Day in New York
Eyed creagh York reports the St Patrick’s Day parade along Fifth Avenue with sunlight and 50,000 spectators. Silk hats, bright uniforms, and marching bands filled the scene as paper bits showered from buildings, creating a jewel of a day for the celebration.
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Creagh York
Kiarney
Fith Avenue
Preview Of 1945 Alabama Legislature Tactics
Rex Thomas reports the Alabama legislature will convene next Tuesday for a wide open session. Interims committees diverged from their admin urged program amid debates on stream pollution peace offices poll taxes and welfare funding. The finance panel backed a 25 million building fund and urgent needs totaling about 12.88 million with further desirable and deferable projects.
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Rex Thomas Nee Dee
Alaama
Senate
House
Committee On Constitution and Legislative Procedure
Constitution and Welfare
Alabama
Office of the Peace
Hayse Tucker
Tucker
Finance Committee
Paper Salvage Nets More Than Ten Tons
Incomplete reports indicate more than ten tons of waste paper were collected Saturday with over four carloads expected when all drives finish. About 150 Scouts and Cubs manned ten Army trucks from Napier Field and Camp Rucker for the collection. A second drive is planned in about two weeks and citizens are urged to save more paper. Proceeds will be shared by the Boy Scouts and the Exchange Teen Age Club.
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Napier Field
Camp Rucker
Boy Scouts
Exchange
Americans Cross Strait Invade Basilan Island
Americans cross the 12 mile strait from Mindanao to Basilan Island in an announced invasion. Gen Douglas MacArthur says Japan has lost 282000 troops in five months of the Philippine campaign. American losses total 18578 with 145000 Japanese dead or captured on Luzon and Basilan guarding Zamboanga.
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James Rutcheson
Manila
Basilan Island
Zamborangs
Mindanao
Japan
Basilan
Sulu
Borneo
Zamboanga
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Mantla
Baguio
Tamayuki Yamashita
Baguio City
38Rd
Benguet Mountains
Fires Rage For Seven Hours In Kobe After B 29 Assault
American airmen dropped 2 500 tons of incendiaries on Kobe and Rangoon as Tokyo announced the Kobe bombing by 300 Superforts from the Marianas. Fires raged over seven hours in Kobe’s Mitsubishi plant and docks, with one nine square mile area burned and another three square miles badly hit according to Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay.
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Vern Haugland
21St Bomber Command
Guam
Kobe
Nippon
20Th Bomber Command
India
Rangoon
Burma
Japan
Imperial
Rmass
Tokyo
Nagoya
Osaka
Mitsubishi Aircraft
Kawasake
Curis E. LeMay
271St Bomber Command
W. H. Blanchard
LeMay
Deferments for Young Men in Five Vital Industries
Selective Service authorized deferment for about 145,000 men aged 18 to 29 in steel, coal mining, transportation, synthetic rubber, and nonfertitious mining. The move lifts the 30 percent ceiling and redirects deferments from broader essential industries to critical war sectors. Local boards retain autonomy in applying the new formulas.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Selective Service
Inter - Agency Committee
James F. Byrnes
Navy
War Production Board
National Coal Association
Office of Defense Transportation
Great Lakes
France Seen Weighing Regional Security Pact
London reports a belief in diplomatic circles that France may join a Western European regional security pact with The Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg and possibly Norway as part of a World Peace Plan. The Manchester Guardian criticized Crimean conference voting and warned small nations risk losing rights if governed by great powers.
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Jonn A, Farris
London
API
France
San Francisco
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Norway
The
Manchester Guardian
Dumbarton Oaks
EN. Vari Kiet Fens
Paris
George Bidault
Ibn Saud Shows Interest In Trees But Not Farming
The Yalta conference wrap up to Feb 11 included Roosevelt greeting King Farouk and Emperor Haile Selassie in Egypt. Roosevelt promoted reforestation and growing trees on his Hyde Park estate, suggesting Arabs might adopt the practice. Ibn Saud said he was too old to start farming.
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Ibn Saud
Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
Washington
Yalta
Roosevelt
Sevastopol
Navy
Egypt
Great Bitter Lake
Suez Canal
Farouk
Hailie Selassie
Ethiopia
Tew
Tan Saud
Saudi Arabia
Hyde Park
N. Y
Nazi Stronghold Of Brandenburg Seized In War Weary Europe
London dispatch reports Red Army tanks and infantry smashing into Brandenburg defenses and pressing toward Stettin and Berlin. Zhukov’s First White Russian Army reportedly captured Frauenhof, Bergland, Wilhelmafelde, and other towns as 13 day Balaton fighting ends with heavy German losses. About 20 000 Germans killed and 600 tanks destroyed in repelled counterattacks.
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Richard Basischee
London
Stettin
Oder Solyurdey
East Prussia
Andenburg
Stazing Koengsberg
Ecrass
Odere
Baltic
Mareha Gregory K Zhukov
Frauenhof
Berlin
Attdamn
Moscow
Red Army
Lake Balaton
Budapest
Hungary
Brandenburg
Heiligenbell
Braunsberg
Zhukov
Bergland
Wilhelmafelde
Dammacher See
150 Jap Survivors Of Iwo Jima Fail In Banzai Charge
U S Pacific Fleet reports Matsuwa Island bombardment by warships and a failed Japanese Iwo Jima survivor banzai attempt. Nimitz says two booby traps were set but caused no American ship damage. Matsuwa lies 40 miles from Parry? coast, long shelling history. Iwo Jima action noted with Fifth and Third Marine Divisions.
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Iwo Jima
Banzai
Elmont Waite
U. S
Pacific Fleet
Guam
Matsuwa Island
Chester W. Nimitz
Igland
Nimitz
Matsuwa
U.S
Mitsuwa
Paragnushire
Tokyo
Beih Army
Navy
Army Liberatora Price
Matwawa
Ank
Nimutz Solid Armauhing
Iwo
Suribachi
Hale Jane Smith
American Planes Brave Weather To Raid Germany
United States and British air forces mounted a large daylight and night raid over Germany amid severe winter weather. More than 2,000 American bombers and fighters attacked five key targets including synthetic oil plants near Leipzig and Ruhland, while Berlin faced its 26th consecutive night of bombing. Air operations involved five US groups and RAF Mosquitos in the combined assault described as the winter’s worst weather.
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Henkey
Jameron London
Armencan
Germany
RAF
Mosquito
Berlin
Reich
Eithth Air Force
Boblen
Leipzig
Ruhland
Dresden
Benzel
Moblis
1200 Americans Liberated By Reds En Route To U S
About 1,200 former American prisoners and 406 British ex-prisoners were freed by Soviet advances and arrived at a Middle East port five days ago en route to the United States. Repatriates boarded again amid celebration, crane-like rigging, and quick goodbyes as guards and troops recounted harsh ordeals under German captivity and shifting fronts in Poland and Germany.
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Cairo
Middle East
United States
Arnes
Germany
Poland
Froyo Tras
Finns Balloting On Hew Parliament
Helsinki reports show Finland voting in parliamentary elections as Premier Juho Paasikivi seeks support to oust war-responsible deputies. Polls indicate turnout near 2,200,000 eligible voters with nationwide openings until 6 p.m. Local campaigns stress urgency amid cautionary calls from the Democratic Peoples Union and remarks on Romania.
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Robert WN
Sturdevant Helsinki
Polititad
Romania
Seventh Smashes Into Siegfried Barrier, Gains Up To 8 Miles
Edward Kennedy reports Allied forces push into the Siegfried Line as the Seventh U.S. Army advances six to eight miles from Coblenz toward the Rhine, with Fourth Armored and Third Army units driving toward Mainz and the Ruhr region amid rumors of armistice talks. American troops cross the Moselle at Coblenz and press from the north and south, while First Army widens its bridgehead east of the Rhine and Ninth Army probes across the river, signaling a broad momentum across the western front.
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NEA
Hoidges
Rhine
Cologne-Frankfurt
Patton
Moselle
Coblenz
Edward Kennedy Paris
Ince Bonn
U.S
Palatinate
Cobling
George & Patton
Raming Sear
Siegfried Line
Shst
Seventh
Hornbeck
Weibruecken
Seventh Army
Third Army
Rheinboeller
Eliern
Sast
Mainz
First
Remaren-Erpel
Topico
Ruhr
Supreme Allied
Succesder
Allied Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Switzerland
Flying Unk
Nahe
Flaming
Saar
Eigenhower
Frankfort
Mannheim
Ludwigehafen
Rhineland
Rhine Valley
U. S. First Army
Firat
Strodt
Hoenningen
Sjemy
U. S. Ninth Army
George
Patrons
7Th Infantry
Stimalum
Fourth Armored
Hunsrueck Hills
Soonwald
Nehe
Bad Krueznach
Lkely
Bad Kriezrach
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Cher
S OF Attack
Philippines
Sue
Pretafeld
Bahl Estate
Weyardwich
Siegfried
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