Britain Lancasters Bomb Marignane Factory In Moonlit Raid
British four engined Lancasters struck Germany again and reached southern France to bomb the large Marignane aircraft factory near Marseille. The air ministry said the operation was accurate and concentrated under bright moonlight. Mosquitos also hit targets in western Germany. None of the British planes were reported missing.
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Britain
Germany
France
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Marseille
Air Ministry
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
Marignano
Western Germany
Italian fleet deal may move allies to Russia
More than a dozen British and American surface warships plus many smaller craft could join Russia for the war duration, leaving the Italian fleet largely intact in the Mediterranean. The plan aims to use vessels on northern supply routes to Murmansk, with further options if Russia and Japan go to war, while avoiding the Black Sea under German control.
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Washington
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Mediterranean
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Black Sea
Japan
Pacific
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Italy
Roosevelt
America
Pauline Reed Invited to Strand or Dixie Theatre Shows
The Grafton Sentinel invites Pauline Reed of 117 West Boyd Street to attend tonight’s Friday feature at the Strand theatre The Ghost Walks Alone with Arthur Lake Janie Garter and Lynne Roberts and Border Patrol with William Boyd at the Dixie theatre Verification may be required.
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Grafton Sentinel
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West Boyd Street
Strand Theatre
Arthur Lake
Janie Garter
Lynne Roberts
William Boyd
Dixie Theatre
Irvin Cobb humorist dies after three month illness
New York March 10 Irvin Cobb 67 humorist whose wit brightened books films and stage died at his Hotel Sheraton apartment after a three month illness Complications from the long illness were given as the cause.
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Cobb
Sheraton
Miners Warned Of Intended Action By English Councils
London March 10 The British war cabinet signaled firm action to halt the coal strike that has paralyzed South Wales minefields unless 90 000 idle miners return to work. Government may seize mines as in 1926 while Welsh Miners Union leader Arthur Horner urged work pending negotiations. Union delegates plan a Saturday conference and Sunday mass meetings to discuss concessions won, including improved piece rates and extra allowances for dangerous work. Thirteen Labour MPs tour mining districts to explain concessions estimated to net miners seven to eight million pounds annually.
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British War Cabinet
South Wales
Arthur Horner
Welsh Miners Union
Cardiff
Gwilym Lloyd George
Iabor
War Labor Board seeks White House guidance in steel wage clash
A subsurface AFL CIO battle over prestige drives the War Labor Board to seek White House direction on wage ceilings as it weighs whether to challenge the Little Steel Formula. The CIO steelworkers demand 17 cents, while both unions push to overturn the 15 percent limit, raising the stakes for labor prestige and potential broad hearings.
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White House
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OPA
Congress
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WLR
Army hour radio program to broadcast from Ashford General
West Virginia brief reports note War department program from Ashford General Hospital where soldier patients will be interviewed. Col Clyde M Beck says public relations staff will assist. program airs 3 30 p m on NBC. Also Morgantown says a 39 year old itinerant Stanley O Senbuku of Jefferson City Missouri is held on attempted armed robbery charge after a breakfast kitchen incident. Bishop Swint in Wheeling interview supports bombing Rome if needed to win the war and save American lives.
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War Department
Army Hour
Ashford General Hospital
Clyde M Beck
Ashford
National Broadcasting Company
Morgantown
Clarence Johnson
Stanley O. Senbuku
Jefferson City
W. G. Johnson
Johnson
Wheeling
John J. Swint
Rome
West Virginia
Ramirez resigns Argentina presidency as Farrell acts
March 10 Pedro Pablo Ramirez formally resigns the presidency of Argentina after a palace coup left Edelmiro J Farrell acting president with delegated powers. Ramirez has left the presidential palace for a private villa in Buenos Aires and provided a resignation notice and manifesto to the supreme court. Authorities note Farrell’s government claims mere delegation for illness while the United States and Britain withhold formal ties awaiting clarification. Chile and Bolivia recognize the Farrell government.
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Pedro Pablo Ramirez
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Supreme Court
Farrell
United States
Britain
Chile
Bolivia
Col
Move Over Brother In Tax Time Main Post
Washington report says President Roosevelt also struggles with form 1040 as he works through the income tax muddle. The White House desk is piled with papers and forms as FDR tackles the tax by himself. Henry Morgenthau is not dispatched to help.
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Treasury
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White House
Five WACs Exchanged Notes With Escaped German Prisoners
Camp Hale Colorado March 10 military disclosures show five WACs exchanged notes with German war prisoners and eight American soldiers aided two prisoners’ escape from Camp Hale amid the German flight. Pfc Dale Maple of San Diego is charged with aiding the escape and held for trial. Lt Col John A Chase notes leave readers to form conclusions about the notes contents. Three WACs Frances H Bundorf Florence C Rechon Margerete L Franklin have appeared before court martial at Camp Hale.
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Mexico
Pfc
Dale Maple
San Diego
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Maple
John A. Chase
Frances H. Bundorf
Birmingham
Ala
Florence C. Rechon
New Orleans
Margerete
The War Today by Dewitt MacKenzie Analysis
The article reports on Nazi retaliations against Russia and Red air power threatening eastern German bombing, with Stalin announcing a new Ukrainian offensive. It notes axis fear of eastern bombers, spring mud delaying operations, and potential temporary lulls in fighting as troops contend on multiple fronts.
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Associated Press
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Red Air
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Mickey Rooney Accepted for General Army Duties
In Los Angeles on March 10, Mickey Rooney passed a physical and was accepted for general service. Maj. D. L. Turpin of the Induction Station said Rooney would receive at least 21 days before induction. Rooney, 22, wife of Ava Gardner, had been rejected a year earlier due to heart flutters and high blood pressure per his mother Nell Payne.
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Mickey Rooney
D. L. Turpin
Rooney
Ce Hus
Ava Gardner
Nell Pankey
JAP WARRIORS TAKE OWN LIVES ON LOS NEGROS ISLAND
A wartime dispatch from Los Negros Island describes Japanese soldiers taking their own lives after failed assaults on American First Cavalry Division positions. Eyewitness accounts include a Jap officer shouting Kill all the American dogs before stabbing himself and a group of Nip soldiers blowing themselves up with grenades rather than surrender.
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Dan Burnett
Franklin
N.C
Rey
Southern Ukrainian Blazes In Action Drives Germans Back
London dispatch reports a major Soviet offensive in southern Ukraine, with the third Ukrainian army pushing west along the Ingullets river, routing nine German divisions and taking Novi Bug and Groghany. In four days of heavy fighting, 8,000 Germans killed and 1,000 captured. Advances reach up to 53 miles from Nikolaev. Russians claim extensive material losses for the Nazis including dozens of guns.
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Groghany
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Kazanka
Marines Break Through Japanese Lines on Willaumes Peninsula
Allied forces report three miles of jungle advance on the Willaumes peninsula in New Britain near the enemy base at sea as cleanup continues on Los Negros and Raipaul harbor air and naval operations intensify with no Japanese interference observed in the Solomon Islands action.
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Grafton Sentinel Promotes Tonight's Opera House Attraction
The Grafton Sentinel invites readers to attend tonight's presentation at the Opera House featuring Lloyd Nolan Alexi Smith and Stevans in the show Steel Against the Sky. Barrett street resident J.IMER 110 is among those encouraged to attend.
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Barrett Street
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