Allied Armada Pounds German Installations In Europe
Allied air forces launched a massive daylight and night assault across occupied Europe. 2,800 tons of bombs hit Kiel and other German fortifications while heavy bomber formations targeted Belgian and French airfields. Royal Air Force and American fighters protected the strike as pre invasion operations continued with 3,006 Allied planes in action and jets moved by rapid dispatch.
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Avettn Bealmear Goon
Kiel
U Patent
Dedebury
Bess
Balfey
Western
Germany
RAF
Air Ministry
Jap Peace Terms to U S Include Abolishing Navy
Japanese published terms demand United States acquiesce to Japan taking over American ships and naval bases. Terms call for confiscation of the entire U S Navy, payment of expenses by the United States, and destruction of naval installations. Ship loss penalties set at ten times value for scuttling, with ships and educational centers targeted.
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United
Merrit @ Barum
Japan
United States
Coblemea
Wallace Rival to FDR on 1944 Ticket Suggests
Washington experts predict Vice President Wallace will be Roosevelts running mate for 1944. The idea gains traction as Wallace tours Siberia and China, fueling talk that Roosevelt has already chosen him for second place on the Democratic ticket.
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Wallace
Jack Bell Washington
Siberia
China
Roosevelt
Congress
Major Victory For Stilwell Seen In Burma
Allied forces push toward a key victory in Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s North Burma offensive. Myitkyina remains contested as Japanese positions at Kamaing and surrounding areas are described as blocked by British long-range units, with Chinese and American forces pressing along the rail line to Myitkying and down the Mogaung valley.
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Southeast Asia
Kandt
Ceylon
Joseph W. Stiwall
Burma
My‘ftkyine
Sthwet
Huevy Street
Atrmen
Irawaddy River
Kaemneing
Kamaing
Mogaung
Myitkying
Joseph W. Stilwell
Page
Underground Told Of Ways To Help
Shimushiru Island bombed by Americans in surprise raid reported by Lt. Nixon from an Allied air mission near Ehim ee. bombs dropped on Shimushira and Keto imlands, with limited hits on Ignimushiro and Keotoi. Tokyo’s air advance reached Kuriles as Army and Navy bombers attacked shipping near Paromushiro, sinking two vessels in a high-risk operation.
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Norman Bell
Tokyo
Kuriles
Ehimee
John A. Nixon, Jr
Omaha
Neb
Shimushira
Keto Imlands
Fleet
Pear
Habor
Ignimushiro
Keotoi
Japan
Shimushiya
Matsuwa
Paramushiro
Hozkside
Paremusbiro
Pararonshire
Radio Broadcast From Headquarters Urges Cooperation
London dispatch reports Supreme Headquarters urging civilians in occupied territories to aid invasion forces by sharing precise local knowledge. A staffer introduces a speaker emphasizing accurate guidance about roads bridges rivers woods and landing sites and warns of enemy countermeasures.
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Ned Nordness
London
Dwight D
Strucgia
Pexkerg
Thie
Haing
Thia
Second Ward Plant Resumes Operation Under Government Order
Springfield AP The Hummer Manufacturing Company will reopen the Second Montgomery Ward property within four weeks after Army representatives took possession following President Roosevelt's order. The plant had been halted 17 days by an AFL machinists strike over a one-year contract dispute. About 70% of day shift and 27% of first shift workers are reported returning as operations resume with full cooperation promised by plant manager Lt Col Nelson Talbott. Office staff total around 100 in a facility that employs 560.
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Springfield
Hummer Manufacturing Company
Montgomery Ward
Army
Roosevelt
Ward
Nelson Talbott
War Department
Perr
Siat
AFL
War Labor Board
Esizate
WLB
Wtite House
WLS
City water deemed safe though high bacteria noted
Superintendent Goodwin stated the city water system underwent chlorination as a precaution after routine tests by Dr. W T Burkett and R J City health officials found high bacteria counts in eastern city water. State lab analyses provided reports, with no immediate danger indicated, part of five weekly samples.
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Atic
W. T. Burkett
Hous- Coenty Heath
R. J. City Water
Seig
Goodwin
State Branch
Mate Heath
Arthur N. Beck
Seziatexy
State Health and Bureau of Sanitation
State Health and Bureau of Sanitation, Mpeeled In A Letter To Dr. Burcopies
World Today Shapes War Fronts Across Europe
A scrambled World War II era dispatch describes German advances near Terra- cina and Pico, Allied air raids on Kiel and Pas de Calais, and Liberator bombings targeting German fortifications. Reports also note submarine activity, rail and locomotive disruptions, and momentum in Eastern and Southeast Asia as Burma and Japanese targets loom.
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Wy the Angociated
Europe
Terracina
Hitler
Ansio
Heavien
Dulaburg
Bucdey
Palin
Sera Fontinue Pacific
Marcus Falande
Aartheest
Tokyo
Lrieg Liberators
Iilmusht
Wena
Kurtles
Bartern
Asia
Burton
Quien
Burma
Beree
Clark narrowly escapes death as trap explodes on frontline
On the fifth Army front in Italy an abandoned German anti-tank gun exploded near the jeep carrying Lt Gen. Mark Clark during a front inspection. The blast wounded Clark and several nearby soldiers. witnesses said some had been tampering with the gun before the incident. Clark urged caution with abandoned ordnance and continued with the inspection after initial treatment.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Mark Om
Clark
Dlart
Selowina
Robert C. Yarbrough Killed in Action in Europe
Staff Sergeant Robert C. Yarbrough son of Mrs H A D Yarbrough of 305 North Lene Street was killed in action over the European continent, according to a War Department telegram received by his mother. He was a top turret gunner and engineer on a Flying Fortress and overseas since August 1943. Survived by his mother two sisters Mrs Brandross of Dothan and a brother Starvey Yarbrough of Marion Institute Alabama. job prior to service with the Engineer Corps at Napier Field.
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Robert C. Yarbrough
H AD Yarbrough
North Lene Street
War Department
Yarbrough
Engineer Corps
Napier Pield
Mra Brandross
Dothan
Starvey Yarbrough
Marion Institute
Marion
Ala
Kent Breaks Hand On Fishing Trip
Kent, composing room foreman of The Eagle, suffered a painful injury early Sunday in Marianna Florida. He fell into a pit at the plant while with his fellow mechanical department members en route to a fishing holiday at Dead Lakes. Several bones in his right hand were broken and he was taken to Marianne hospital.
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I. c. Kent
The
Eagle
Mananus
Fla
Kent
Desd Lakes
Florida
Marianne Hospital
Rhett Jones Killed When Ship Is Sunk
Rhett Jones nineteen son of Mrs A E Jones Malvern was among 1012 near men killed when torpedo sank their ship in the South Pacific Feb 17 1944. He was buried at sea. Survived by mother three brothers Chester Jones Williamsburg Alert Jones Norfolk Va Gerald Jones in the South Pacific and five sisters Mrs Durwood Connell Mrs Edna Jones Elisabeth Jones Mrs VY Kelley and Mrs J T Buckner.
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Fleaman
Rhett Jones
A. E. Jones
Malvern
Moen
South Pacific
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Fla
Chester Jones
Williamsburg
Alert_ Jones
Gerald Jones
South
Officer On Trial For Slaying Four At Military Camp
CAMP ANZA Calif AP one of the Armys most sensational court martial involving the slaying of four persons and the wounding of four others in an outbreak of gunfire at a wartime reserve camp on March 5 was called today in the trial of Lt Beaufort G Swan. The officer is accused of murdering Dorothy Douglas and Lourdios Livermore both 18 from Long Beach Calif, and involves his company commander Capt Aubrey G Werfling of Preston Minn and Riverside policeman Arthur B Simpson who tried to halt him.
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Camp Anza
Calif
Witery
Tria
Beaufort G Swancuit
Dorothy Douglas
Lourdios Livermore
Long Breach
Awbray G Werf
Tuskegee fires Carver successor over royalty dispute
Austin W. Curtis Jr, 32, longtime Tuskegee Institute successor to the late George Washington Carver, is dismissed amid a royalty dispute over a book on Carver. Curtis says he refused to relinquish royalties or resign. President F D Patterson cites unethical contract practices and lack of justified service.
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Tuskegee, Ala
Austin W. Curtis, Jr
Tuskegee
George Washington Carver
Royaltie
Baling
Curtis
Carver
1Charleston
W Va
Pr. F. D Patterson
Lasertey
Wee
West Virginia State College
Charleston
Cornell University
Tuskegee Institute
Dr. Carver
Curtle
Patterson
Georgia Proposes 18-Year-Old Vote Debate
Montgomery AP reports Birmingham columnist decries Georgia precept allowing 18-year-olds to vote as part of a broader youth glorification trend. Graves warns voting rights must pair with civic duty and education, while Georgia Governor Arnall faces pushback on youth enfranchisement amid wartime conduct debate.
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Mongomery
Ala
Jobn Temple Graves
Birmingham
Agnad
Graves
Huntingdon College
Georgia
Birmingham Age Herald
Fear Harbor
Graven
Arnall
Pateed
Dewey Pace Tops GOP Delegates as Primaries Near
Dewey leads GOP delegate race as Texas Florida Maryland and Georgia primaries loom. Bricker trails with 62 delegates while Caldwell and Green vie for the Democratic nomination in Florida. Reynolds retires and North Carolina sets a Senate contest. Results hinge on state conventions and runoff outcomes.
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Skretch
Thomas F. Deway
New York
Roosevelt
Lq Ayba
Texas
Florida
North Carolina
Benatar Reynolds
Dewey
John W Bricker
Ohio
Maryland
Georgia
Republicana
New Yorker
Bricker
Millard Caldwell
Lex Green
Georgia Republicans Stir Racial Strife, Committee Is Told
ATLANTA AP. Mrs Bertha M Field, national committeewoman, charged racial issues mar Georgia Republicans as state central committee met to set the temporary roll for the state convention. She alleged disunity and race class conflicts threaten the party’s national prospects and said she would not seek or accept any leadership role amid the turmoil.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Bertha M Field
State Central
Wilson Wilflame
Mia Field
Republican Party
J. M. Nichols
J. G Hipp
Hipp
Nichols
Fartoneliy
Lend-Lease aid grows as US speeds arms to Europe
President Roosevelt told Congress that United Nations forces are poised to strike Nazi-occupied Europe from bases in the west, south and east. The 15th Lend-Lease report shows $24.225 billion in equipment and supplies shipped, mostly to Britain and Russia, with air transport already breaking records and Britain receiving most military planes and weapons.
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United Nations
Europe
United Na
Ehamy
Naxi
United Kingdom
Panthera
Strike in Chrysler drink delivery dispute continues
In Detroit area plants about 12 800 Chrysler workers idle as a War Labor Board order and UAW CIO guidance spur a picket line protest over a jurisdictional clash involving the APL Teamsters and a rival CIO union. Pickets distribute handbills while some employees debate passing the gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
War Labor Board
United Automobile Workers {Cio
George F. Addas
International Uaw
CIO
Chrysisty Union
William Jenkins
Uaw-Cto
Chrysler
APL Teamatera
WLE
White Supremacy Debate Faces Democratic Parley
AP dispatch from Washington reports a clash over poll taxes and civil rights as Congress weighs altering the Senate treaty ratification and minority protections. Southern states resist change while Northern Negroes and whites react amid a tense national debate on voting rights and governance.
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Congress
the Berets
Wota
Allied push nears Anzio as German retreat tightens
Allied forces report continued advances along the Liri Valley and toward Pico with Fifth and Eighth Armies striking at Terracina and Pontecorvo. German rearguards retreat within 24 miles of Anzio Beachhead as smoke and disruption signal continued combat along the central Italian front.
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KOB
Germas
Ancis Beerhhand
Treet
Cas Bastion
Lirt Valley
Roweway Tuppig
Alege
Fifth Army
Censtral
Pico
Terracina
Newie
Wouther
Dafanse Wall
Pentine Marshes
Angin
Eighth Army
Piadimonts
Alée
Liri
Cassius
Pontecorvo
Pontecorvo-Pice
Monte Laucio
Ee Iaw Steels Fico
Eiitence
Northan
United States
Prohibition Vote In Congress Gets Serious Setback
In Washington AP report says House Judiciary subcommittees postponed hearings on a wartime anti prohibition bill. A survey of committee members indicated at least half opposed the legislation. Chairman Hobbs noted hearings unlikely soon amid election concerns. Bryson's office offered no explanation for cancellation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtom
House
Cheirman Hobbs
Maid Po Dain
Cammites Mente Bers
Dhecamsy
Gartag
Bryson
Supreme Court reverses ruling on federal veil coverage
The Supreme Court today overturned a lower court decision denying federal binding coverage in a high profile case. The ruling, issued via Kentucky district court in Harlan County, releases the ballot then suspends most actions by officials in the process.
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Washington
Kentnsky Tetrict Court
Harlan Cecily
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