RAF SUFFERS HEAVIEST LOSS AS JAPAN SMASHES PALAU
Allied command reports the strongest Japanese naval assault yet near Palau within 600 miles of the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz confirms continued attacks as carrier task forces push toward the Marianas, with heavy losses for American ships and aircraft. The operation follows large carrier strikes against Truk and the Marianas, signaling a major escalation in the Pacific theater.
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Leif Buickeon
U. 8
Pacific
Peel
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Palau
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Japan
Saipan
Tinian
Guam
Marianas
Nimitz
Nazi Congress City losses heavy in Allied raid
London dispatch reports Nuernberg and surrounding areas suffered the heaviest Allied air losses to date as RAF bombers struck Nazi congress city. The night raid damaged the area and prompted warnings of approaching enemy aircraft.
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Nuernberg
Austin Bealmear
London
Armady
Nagi
Congress City
Austria
Hessén-Nassau_ province
Sia
RAF
Cena
Weis
Allies Bend Troops to Hold Monastery Hill
Allied forces report troops moved into two posts on Monastery Hill and held against German attacks. Casualties listed from Anzio and Cassino operations, with heavy Allied artillery fire and air raids across Italy. American bombers targeted Sofia while others hit railway objectives in Italy and Yugoslavia.
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Lynn
Naples
Magelt
HI Ovale
New Zealand
de Cassini
Anzio
Chee Geresan
Baidy
Joyrer Fifth Army
Daleie
Oi Snowpond
Dea Cassino
Air Ane
Attas
New Taxes Take Effect Tonight at Midnight
Washington reports a sweeping tax package going into effect at midnight April 1 after President Roosevelt veto override. Excise rates sharply rise, with liquor taxes and beer levies increasing revenue by about $1 billion annually, alongside higher postal rates and adjusted income taxes. The plan aims to curb deficits but faces criticism over adequacy and equity.
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Washington
Webster
Treasury’s
Roosevelt
Theatre Ticket Present This Clipping for Ad
The Grafton Sentinel invites MISS VEDA CROSS to attend tonight's Strand and Dixie theatre presentations. Films include True to the Army with Jerry Colonna and Judy Canova, Danger with Lancelot and Ann Dvorak, and Of the Plains with John M and Ruth Hussey.
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Grafton Sentinel
Veda Cross Warder Avenue
Jerry Colonna
Judy Canova
Anna Miler
Strand Theatre
Danger
Encl
Ann Dvorak
Burma jungle strategy hints at amphibious push toward Tokyo
War analyst Dewitt MacKenzie outlines a pattern of coordinated jungle operations in Burma that foreshadow a planned waterborne invasion from the Bay of Bengal. He cites Allied attacks on Pa lau Truk and Hollandia as precursors, tying Wilen Stilwell Merrill Wingate and Churchill to a Quebec plan for a future invasion.
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Associated Press
Burma
Tokyo
Asia
Pacific
Palau
Philippines
MacArthur
Truk
Hollandia
New Guinea
Joseph Stilwell
China
India
Frank Merrill
Britain
Orde Wingate
Winga
Bay of Bengal
Quebec
Wingate
Churchill
Stilwell
Merrill
U. S
Marshall
PLEA FOR 4-F WORK DRAFT 3 WAITS OFFICIAL REACTIONS
Washington March 31 1947 a House military subcommittee awaited official reaction to its plan to place many 4-Fs into essential jobs under threat of induction The move aims to clamp job controls and mobilize thousands of physically fit deferments as industries voice concerns and the services prepare to deploy labor battalions.
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Willliam F. Arbogast
Washington
House
National Tool and Die Manufacturers’ Association
Costello
D.calif
4-F
Army
Navy
Stimson
Inter - Agency Committee On
Indust
Ted
Zhukov pushes Ukrainian front toward Carpathians
Soviet dispatches report Marshal Zhukov expanding into the Carpathian mountains as the front presses toward Hungary and Romania. Zhukov’s vanguard crosses toward Delatyn near the Hungarian border while Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army holds the Prut east bank and clears German and Romanian remnants.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Prut
Czérnowitz
Gregory K. Zhuov
Carpathian Mountains
Hungary
Rumania
Zhukov
Delatyn
Carpathians
Hitler
Czernowitz
Ivan
Konev
West Virginia Board to Act on Vet Rehab Expansion Plan
West Virginia state board of education was to decide on expanding the rehabilitation division to aid returning veterans who are physically handicapped. Also due decisions on tentative summer programs at state colleges and related education matters.
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Charleston
State Board of Education
Touay
West Virginia
W. W. Trent
Truk Pounded For First Time By Liberators In War
Allied reports say Liberator bombers from South Pacific airfields struck Truk and nearby bases for the first time, wrecking 49 Japanese planes and setting fires on Eten island while Catalina planes hit Woleai. The strikes occurred as Nimitz announced Palau assault and other operations in the Southwest Pacific.
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Truk
South Pacific
Hollandia
Allied
Southwest
Pacif
Baroline Islands
Bismarck Sea
Eten Island
Douglas MacArthur
Hollania
Dutch New Guinea
Palau Islands
United States
Chester W. Nimitz
Palau
Weirton Steel CIO clash as 25 workers arrested at gate
At Weirton Steel 25 CIO unionists, local 1612 former workers, were arrested while distributing handbills at the plant gate. They posted $1,000 bonds and waived hearings, awaiting grand jury on charges of unlawfully assembling as the CIO vowed to press the organizing drive. Sheriff Wright and deputies made the arrest after an anti assembly proclamation was read. Kin caid said bond was posted by the union.
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Weirton Steel and Cio
Weirton
United Steelworkers of America
CIO
Weirton Steel Company
Orval J. Kincaid
Hancock County
Justice of the Peace
Norman J.ferrari
Tuil Grand Jury
Kincaid
Richard Wright
Wright
Weirton Street
Army Scientist Fights Crocodile With Bare Hands
Captain Philip Darlington a U S Army entomologist stationed with Marines waged a bare handed fight with a ten foot crocodile in a stagnant jungle pool at Cape Gloucester New Britain. He escaped with torn arms and reached a field hospital after the struggle.
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New Britain
Philip Darlington
Cambridge
Mass
Darlington
U. S
Chaplin Recalls Witness Stand in Mann Act Case Drama
White haired Charlie Chaplin returned to the witness stand in Los Angeles to deny government charges that he transported his former protege Joan Berry to New York and back. He fought back tears as Berry testified, claiming intimate meetings in 1942 and later, with the defense challenging the claims.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Berry
New York
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Chaplin
Berry
Beverly Hills
Waldorf-Astoria
California
Gerry Giesler
J. P.T. O'Connor
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