Australian Veterans Return To Defend Homeland From Invasion
Australian veterans from Tobruk and Singapore return to homeland reforming into allied defenders. General Blamey warns Japan may attempt invasion as US and Australian air and ground forces hold the frontier, citing raids on Port Moresby and Timor.
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Melbourne
Imperial Force
Australia
Libya
Malaya
Tobruk
Singapore
United States
Thomas Blamey
Southwest Pacific
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Boom Town Growth Sparks Massive Kaiser Housing Project
Vancouver, Washington, prepares for an $18.5 million housing development to house about 30,000 workers for Kaiser shipyards. The 5,000-unit project will include churches and schools and expand the city dramatically within 10 months.
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Vancouver
Wash
Uncle Sam
Kaiser Company
The Grafton Sentinel Invites Delores Hyett Tonight
Mrs Delores Hyett of 471 W Francis Street is invited to attend tonight's Strand presentation The Man Who Came To Dinner starring Bette Davis and Monty Woolley. Also showing Go West Young Lady at the Dixie with Penny Singleton and Harmon of Michigan featuring Tom Harmon.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Delores Hyett
W. Francis Street
Bette Davis
Monty Woolley
Strand
Penny Singleton
Harmon
Michigan
Tom Harmon
Dixie
Bertha Love
Washington Street
Riccardo Cortes
Opera
Cripps declares progress in Indian talks with Gandhi
Sir Stafford Cripps said he was entirely satisfied with discussions with Indian group leaders and anticipated another meeting with Mohandas K Gandhi. He noted the Gandhi interview had been extremely helpful and cited topics like weather Wardha food and health as discussed during their session.
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New Delhi
India
Stafford Cripps
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Stafford
Gandhi
Wardha
Lindbergh Joins Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant
Charles A. Lindbergh will begin work Monday at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan. Each report notes his exact duties were not disclosed, but he is expected to take a supervisory role in the engineering department after resigning from air corps reserve.
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Detroit
Charles A. Lindbergh
Air Corps Reserve
United States
Ford ‘Motor Company
Willow Run
Lindbergh
Henry Ford
Archbishop Schrembs Improves Amid Diocese Prayer
Archbishop Joseph Schrembs of the Cleveland diocese, age 76, showing improvement from pneumonia after intensive care. Dr. William E. Merrick said the dangerous stage has passed and there is a good chance of recovery as 550,000 faithful prayed for his health.
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Cleveland
Joseph Schrembs
Cleveland Catholic
William E. Merrick
Nazarene Church to Host Trevecca Quartette Sunday Evening
Rev Edward C Oney leads Trevecca college quartet at Nazarene Church Parkview for one service Sunday at 7 30. The notice invites attendees to hear the singing and message at the church gathering.
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Edward C. Oney
Trevecca College
the Nazarene Church
Parkview
Yugoslav Guerrilla Force Readies Spring Offensive
In New York and Hoboken reports, Col Dragutin Savich says 100000 Yugoslav guerrillas prepare a spring push against the axis. He appeals for supplies by parachute or submarine to Dalmatian coast patriots as three airmen recount brutal German prison camp conditions and escape ordeals.
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New York
Dragutin Savich
Axis
Draja Mihailovic
Col
Savich
Adriatic Sea
Dalmatian
Col. Savich
Vukadin Yelich
Milan Mitich
Janko Kalega
Yugoslavia
Mitich
Yelich
Reds Surprise Nazi Legions at Murmansk Coast
Soviet forces land on the Murmansk coast to disrupt axis supply lines and threaten the invaders from the rear. Red Star names Lieut. Gen. Edward Diet as the enemy commander and notes Austrian mountaineer troops in retreat as Soviet landings press the left invasion flank.
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Moscow
Arctic
Murmansk
Edward Diet
Adolf Hitler
Narvik
Red Star
Diet
California to register boys over 15 for summer work
Sacramento California March 28 registration of all California students over 15 who are willing to work in fields and factories this summer will start April 15 to avert a farm labor shortage. The state department of education cooperates with the U S employment service in the effort. Students seeking canning and processing jobs must join unions and pay fees. The description of summer employment should cover both appealing and less attractive conditions.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
State Department of Education
U.S. Employment Service
U.S. Launches Large U-Boat Patrol Unit
Washington March 28 Army bombers and Navy patrol boats ringed American waters from Iceland to Panama in a new counteroffensive against submarines that have sunk about 70 ships off Atlantic and Caribbean shores. Clearing spring weather is expected to aid the hunt in coming weeks as longer days reduce opportunities for periscope recharges.
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Washington
American
Iceland
Panama
Atlantic
Caribbean
War Gasoline Probe May Be Coming Soon
Senate investigating committee uncovers evidence warranting a full wartime aviation gasoline program probe. Chairman Truman says testimony links Standard Oil of New Jersey to pre war German refinery interests and notes independent firms were kept from contracts for 100 octane fuel. He expects further inquiry after rubber program work.
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Washington
Senate Investigating Committee
Truman
DMO
Hee
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Germany
Standard Oil Group
Thurman Arnold
Attorney Returns Million Dollar Check in Error
Chicago March 28 Atty Arthur H Schwab sighs easy come easy go as he prepares to return a 1 000 000 20 dollar check to a West Virginia client. The misdated draft was drawn on the Kanawha Valley Bank of Charleston West Virginia after a client’s letter revealed the error.
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Chicago
Arthur H. Schwab
West Virginia
Schwab
Kanawha Valley Bank of
Charleston
W. Va
Heroine Widow Returns to Work at War Plant
Mrs Colin P Kelly widow of the air force captain who sank a Japanese battleship resumes work as a secretary stenographer at a war plant in Los Angeles. She previously traveled the country selling defense bonds and aiding Red Cross drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Colin P. Kelly
Philippines
Red Cross
Paying Buck Rogers, Now It's Rocket Cannons For Defense
New York reports a futuristic weapon concept where jet propulsion powers shells. An experimental light metal tube, three inches in diameter and four feet long, fires six inch shells two inches thick. Developer Edward F. Chandler of New York outlined the proposal in Astronautics, the American Rocket Society journal, as a start on a sound aviation principle.
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Buck Rogers
New York
Science
Edward F. Chandler
Astronautics
The
American Rocket Society
Dutchmen Sentenced for Anti German Utterances
London reports three Netherlanders have been imprisoned in Holland for spreading UN broadcast material and making anti German statements. The news comes via Aneta, the Dutch news agency, dated March 28.
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London
Holland
United Nations
Aneta
Yanks Score Two Assaults On Japanese Positions
The War department reports two successful raids by Philippine defenders on the Japanese in the Bataan peninsula and at Zamboanga. Anti aircraft gunners on Corregidor shot down one heavy bomber. Allied patrols advanced to within a mile of an outpost near Zamboanga with no casualties.
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Washington
War Department
Corregidor
Bataan
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Husband and wife on trial for assault in Lafayette
Arthur H. Leslie returned to the witness stand in Lafayette Indiana to relate how he saw his wife strike a school teacher who had disciplined their son Danny aged 11. The couple, Mrs Leslie and Arthur H, face assault and battery charges as the trial paused after a late adjournment.
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Constance. Davis
Yette
Ind
Danny Leslie
Danny
Virginia Leslie
Miss Davis
Leslie
Lafayette
Arthur H. Leslie
D'Antonio Brothers In War Effort Go Record Like
RED BANK New Jersey March 28 The D Antonios regard their war effort as notable with several members already in the armed forces. Martin Frank Rosco Dominick James Peter Carmine Vincent Samuel and Tony ten are serving while John awaits his call and Michael plans to enlist.
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Red Bank
N. J
D'Antonios
Martin
Frank
Rosco
Dominick
James
Peter
Carmine
Vincent Samuel
Tony
John
Michael
Civilian defense workers to meet at Grafton Courthouse
Notice to all national civilian defense workers including auxiliary police firemen bomb squad members fire watchers messengers and air raid wardens. They are ordered to meet at the Courthouse Grafton at 7 30 P M Monday night to receive blackout duty instructions. CAPTAIN EARL C. DEMOSS GRAFTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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Grafton
Torpedo Boats Attack Shore Naval Bases
Berlin says British raid on St Nazaire failed with losses including one destroyer and nine motor torpedo boats destroyed. German report claims attackers landed but achieved nothing. a US destroyer rammed explosives and blew up. German high command cites heavy damage to enemy boats and land forces routed.
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Berlin
St. Nazaire
Germany
Atlantic
High Command
London
Ace the Army Jeep Riding Dog Returns Home
Camp Wheeler Ga March 28 Ace a German shepherd famed for riding Army jeeps was found five months after hitching a ride from Camp Wheeler toward the Carolina maneuver area. Lieut Phil A Adams MP detachment at Wheeler had given up hope. Sergt Homer D Smith spotted a dog atop a jeep and alerted the unit.
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Camp Wheeler
Ace
Carolina
Phil A. Adams
Homer D. Smith
Voy
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