Butter and Oils Put Under One Week Retail Freeze
Washington AP March 22 OPA bans retail sale of butter margarine lard and other edible fats and oils for a week before rationing begins March 29. The ban runs 12:01 a m March 22 to 12:01 a m March 29. Restaurants exempt. wholesalers still supply them. Mayonnaise and salad dressings not rationed. Point values for rationing to be announced March 29, with 16 points per week per person in book No 2.
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Washington
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Office of Price Administration
House Group Backs Postwar Plan For Global Security
Washington March 21 Twenty six House members from 17 states pledged wholehearted support to a collective security resolution from Senators Ball Burton Hill and Hatech and urged a national foreign policy backing UN leadership and a program for economic and political security. Senator Pepper announced a constitutional amendment to grant the House equal voice with the Senate and require a majority of both chambers to ratify treaties.
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Washington
I House
Ball
Rminn
Burton
R-Ole
Hill
N-Ala
Hateh
D-N.m
United Nations
Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
House
Newsmen Unite to Aid Nation's Big Bond Sale Campaign
Washington reports that newspaper representatives formed an allied council to back the treasury's $13,000,000 900 second victory drive beginning April 12. They heard from Morgenthau and Gen. George Marshall and stressed that all Americans must invest in government bonds to fund the war effort.
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Washington
America
Council
Treasury
Hhe Council
Morgenthau
George €. Marshall
Lee
Navy reports strikes on Vila and Munda in Solomons
On March 21 the navy announced two dive bomber attacks on Vila in the central Solomons and a nine percent air raid on Munda nearby. Fires were started at both locations. Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers also attacked Japanese positions on the hill in the Shortland Islands area.
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Pacific
Washington
Navy Today
Vila
Solomons Islands
Munda
Flying Fortress
Thehill
Arce
Russians Yield Rail City in Sudden Shift of Fronts
London dispatch reports Belgorod, a key rail city 50 miles north of Kharkov, fell to German forces after a Soviet winter offensive. German high command said its southern army reached the upper Donets on a broad front and secured 200 miles of communications between Kharkov and Orel as fighting continued along the central front near Smolensk and Zhizdva. The Soviet communique claimed renewed pressure, with villages captured and units destroyed, while stating Germans suffered heavy losses in tanks and troops in various sectors.
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London
Russia
Belgorod
Kharkov
Donets
Orel
Moscow
Red Army
Centr
Driva
Smolensk
Ited
Zhizdva
Gryansk
Vadino
Gulna
Senate to Join House on Two New Bills in Parity Reform
Senate expected to back House moves to include farm labor costs in the parity formula and repeal Roosevelt's salary initiation. A third administration reshuffle looms over Allred nomination as the Judiciary Committee prepares a vote. Senator Thomas argues the parity change will not hit market prices but affects government loan values this harvest season.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Senate
James V. Allred
Texas
Senate Judiciary Committee
Thomas
D-Obla
Ban on Pleasure Driving Eases for A Card Holders
New York March 23 motorists may drive for recreation again but A card holders face reduced gasoline allotments. Beginning tomorrow one and a half gallons weekly replaces twice that amount. OPA regional office in New York to have local rationing boards evaluate supplemental requests.
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New York
OPA
Churchill Praises Yankee Fliers For Blow at Nazis
London reports Prime Minister Churchill praised American airmen for a successful attack last Thursday on Vegesack, a U boat construction center in Bremen, Germany. He sent compliments to Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews and Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, who replied with thanks from the American forces in the European theater and British islands.
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London
Vegesack
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Frank M. Andrews
Ira C. Eaker
Ysterday
Andrews
United
Britis Isles
Southerners Flee as Floods Appear In Several Areas
Floods sweep across the southeast as rivers rise and towns evacuate. Between 2,500 and 3,000 residents in Mississippi and nearby states flee lowlands. Red Cross teams aid in Hattiesburg while crews bolster levees in the region. Authorities warn of severe floods along the Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers and urge protective action.
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Red Cross
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Georgia
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Montgomery
Ala
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Tallapools
Atlanta Weather Bureau
Chattahoochee
Flint
Apalachicola
Georgia-Florida-Alabama
Willkie Lands Ideals of Red Cross Group
Wendell Willkie told a 10,000 strong crowd at Kansas City's Municipal auditorium that the Ideals of the Red Cross must prevail to prevent another terrible war. The 1940 Republican presidential nominee spoke during the Red Cross war fund drive opening remarks.
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Kansas City
Red Cross
Wendell Wilkie
Willkie
Municipal Auditorium
Churchill says two-year path to defeat Hitler and Tunis offensive
London reports Prime Minister Churchill pledged a difficult two-year fight to crush Hitler while announcing the British drive into Tunisia. He cited a message from General Montgomery that the Eighth Army is on the move. He urged UN unity to shape a postwar world with councils of Europe and Asia to prevent future aggression.
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London
Muh
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Hitler
Tunisia
Churchill
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Montgomery Wis
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Alllea
Dapan
United Nations
Prine
Ile
al Council of Europe
Council of Asia
Hitler Admits German War Weary Yet Sees Mobilization Ahead
Adolf Hitler addressed Nazis in Berlin on Memorial Day admitting Germany’s soil had become a war zone after American and British bombing. He claimed the crisis on the eastern front was overcome, promised a gigantic mobilization toward final victory, and warned that a merciless war and Bolshevik danger await those who fail. He urged unity against Allied pressure and warned of fate for those siding with Jews.
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London
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England
Germany
Weather in Helena Mon 0.5 Moniker Bureau Warmer
Weather outlook for Helena shows mild conditions with a slight rise in temperatures on Monday. Bureau notes warmer air moving in, bringing higher daytime highs and comfortable overnight lows through the start of the week.
RAF Bomb Lands on Goering Building in Berlin
March 21 report says a direct hit on Marshal Goering’s fire ministry in Berlin occurred during a major raid on March 4. About 80,000 Berlin residents were rendered homeless, with extensive damage to the dairy and demalls complexes. casualty estimates ranged toward 2,000, higher than the 500 official count cited by Goebbels.
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Herr Goering
Berlin
SteckHoiny
Marshal Goering
Goebbels
Chinese Overcome Obstacles To Gain On Japs
Chinese forces push a slow advance south of the Yangtze in the Hunan Hupei border region under coalition command. The high command did not confirm reports that Hwajung was recaptured, saying Chinese forces reentered Mwajung suggesting a sortie. Japan has flooded rice lands near Lake Tungting, causing civilian suffering and hindering waterway defenses.
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Yangtec River
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China
Snow slide kills woman and injures husband near Salt Lake City
Mia Ray F. Durfee, 41, was killed and her husband injured when a snow slide crushed a cook shack and bunk house in Mineral Fork canyon near the Alaki resort, 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Hundreds of tons of snow broke loose from Twin Peaks slope, piling 200 feet high in the lower canyon.
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Salt Lake City
Marcel
Mia
Ray F. Durfee
Mineral Fork Canyon
Alaaki
Twin Peaky
Reaction Differs On Churchill Social Policy Talk
London reports show a split in response to Prime Minister Churchill's remarks on postwar social policy. The Times urges continued government effort toward gradual reform while the Telegraph warns against shifting focus from victory and denying wartime unity.
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London
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Times
Allied push in Tunisia breaks Italian lines near Sened
Allied artillery tanks and infantry under Gen Patton rout Italian forces from heights near Sened, advance past Gafsa toward Maknassy as air power intensifies the southern Tunisia campaign. Montgomery urges joining forces with Eisenhower to finish quickly.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
United
Erwin Rommel
Tunisia
United States
Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Rommel
Mareth
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Western Desert Air Force
Communiqua
Allied fliers bombard Japanese convoy and islands raid
Allied airmen attacked a Japanese convoy off Dutch New Guinea and a destroyer in the Solo mon sea, scoring direct hits and crippling vessels. Bombers also struck airfields at Gasmata and Madang, New Guinea, starting fires. A separate Moscow report notes Gen Martel named head of British armored forces. no reason given.
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Dutch New Guinea
Solomon Sea
Alot
Kalmann
Solomon Ke
Cape Impariol
Alore
Invst
Gasmata
Cainea
Borgen Bay
Finchhafen
Madang
New Guinea
Wardrome
Britain
London
Liont
Cen
Giddard Te Quesne Martel
Mlitary
Moscow
War Office
Mwe
G. J. A. Miles
French Plan for Unity Faces Paris Delegates in Africa
Northwest Africa braces for Gen Charles de Gaulle and Georges Catroux to push for unity among anti-Axis French factions. Gen Henri Giraud holds key influence as French military and civic leader in North and West Africa, with Briton and American support seen. Catroux and de Gaulle expected to arrive soon from the Levant and London respectively. party divisions linger over appointments and colonial governance as negotiations progress.
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Foward Kennedy
Algiers
Northwest Africa
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Catwroux
Nalson
Henri Monore Girard
North
West
Africa
French Guiana
Finland
Giraud
Catroux
Syria
Ualson
de Gaulte
Girand
Levant
de Gaulle
London
Judge’s Diagnosis Says Heart Is O.K. Head Poor
A police report notes the judge found the person's heart sound but declared another diagnosis. The court fined the defendant $100.
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Cole Tirtoel
Elyer
Yank air forces raid French Indo China phosphate mine
A new U S air force unit under General Claire Chennault launched bombing raids seven miles south of Laokay on the Kunming Hanot rail line. More than 10 tons of bombs hit the target area destroying tracks and the main shipping and receiving yard. The open pit mine across the Red river produced about 100 tons of phosphate daily for explosives.
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U. S. Army Air Fort
China
Ying
Claire L. Chennault
L4th
United States Air Force
Indo-China
Laokay
Kumming-Hanot
Yunaem
Herbert Morgan
Freedout
Red River
Interpreting The War Interpreting The War Hy CVRD G.CRANMER
The article recalls a wartime speech and reactions from an uneasy audience at the Hewett venue. It notes defeatist sentiment, a somber mood, and the sense that the eastern front may be overstretched. It references Hitler’s prior admission of possible defeat and the Reich’s battlefield strain.
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G.cranmer
Adolf Witters
Marty
Hewett
Miler
Hitler
Reich
Bellah
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