Allied press warns of looming naval casualties in Africa
Allied signals report Rommel’s retreating armored forces in central Tunisia as advances press south of Sheita near Tunis. British Eighth Army probes Mareth Line while U S and British air units harass enemy positions. Harbor facilities at Tunis attacked. Axis defenses around Sejenane Beja Mateur and Sidi Bouzid targeted by bombers and fighters.
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Africa
Tunisian
Sheitla
Marshal Rommel
Seutheast
Tunis
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
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la Goulette
First Army
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Mejez-El-Bab
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Mateur
Berlin Claims Move Made To Shorten Lines
Berlin reports the evacuation of Rzhev 130 miles west of Moscow to shorten the front. German forces withdrew as planned while the rearguard blew bridges and pulled out during the night of March 2. Military briefing noted Russian and German actions elsewhere in the Caucasus and Don sectors.
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Berlin
London
Rzhev
Moscow
DNB
Smolensk
Velikie Luki
Bryansk
Upper Volga
Adolf Hitler
Volga
German Italian consuls held in Staunton Virginia
Former German and Italian consuls general at Algiers their staffs and families are detained by the United States under guard at the Ingleside Hotel near Staunton Virginia. The State Department says negotiations are underway for their exchange for U S and other American officers seized by the Germans in France now held in Germany. Axis internees in Virginia are not allowed contact with the public.
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Washington
Mar
Algiers
United States
Ingleside
Staunton
State Department
France
Germany
Virginia
M Arthur Fliers Pursue Remnants of 14-Ship Japanese Convoy
Allied air units report the shattered remnants of a 14 ship Japanese convoy moving toward Lae New Guinea. General Douglas MacArthur's forces press the chase, scattering the enemy fleet in the Bismarck Sea.
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M'Arthur
Australia
Bismarck Sea
Lae
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
West Germany Hit As Raids Continue Into Seventh Day
British and Allied raids across Western Germany continued for a seventh night with losses reported on both sides. The air ministry said three Allied aircraft were missing and mines were laid in enemy waters. Berlin and Paris radio broadcasts cited raids on Germany and occupied France amid weather hindrances and limited German retaliation.
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London
Germany
RAF
Air Ministry
Ministry
Berlin
Paris
France
Ministries of Air and Home Security
Britain
Reuters
Stockholm
Plans Set Up For Dominant Navy Of World
Secretary Knox outlined an operating force plan to build a Navy large enough to dominate all seas with 2,250,000 personnel by July 1944 and a 10 percent casualty rate. The plan accompanied a $4 billion supplemental naval bill, with direct appropriations totaling about $3.82 billion after reductions, and a cautious note on clothing costs and enlistment strength. The House Navy Subcommittee pressed for casualty and cost explanations.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Congress
Navy
Knox
House
Subcommittee On Naval Appropriations
Naval Affairs Committee
Kannapolis man sentenced for draft board defiance in Mill Point
Carl Byers, 30, of Kannapolis, was sentenced to four years in the Mill Point federal reformatory after conviction for failure to obey a draft board order to report for induction. He claimed his Jehovah's Witness beliefs led to his 1-A classification dispute.
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Rockingham
Carl Byers
Kannapolis
Federal Reformatory
Mill Point
W. Va
Jehovah's Witness
Byers
Absenteeism Worse Than Strikes and Shutdowns
Secretary of the Navy Knox testified before the House naval committee that time lost in war plants due to absenteeism was far greater than losses from strikes or shutdowns and had been increasing over the past year. He supported a bill requiring contractors to report absences to draft boards to induct consistent absentees into military service. He urged removing chronic absentees and stressing full effort to aid the war effort.
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Washington
Mar
Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Driving Ban Could End By March Twenty Second
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown and an OPA spokesman said a lifting of the pleasure driving ban in the east is under consideration but no date is set. March 22 is noted as the current deadline for coupon stocks and speculation centers on lifting when stocks warrant. Dr. Robert E. Wilson of the petroleum council suggested lifting as soon as possible given good public cooperation.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
East
Brown
OPA
Atlantic Seaboard
Robert E. Wilson
Petroleum Industry War Council
Wilson
Heavy Attacks Carried Out On Aleutians
U S aircraft conducted nine bombing raids in February on Japanese positions at Kiska under fog and storms, dropping more than 1 000 pounds and suffering no plane losses. An 81st raid on Mun-da base at New Georgia Island in the South Pacific was executed by a patrol bomber with no details released.
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MacArthur
Lae
Soemba
Soembawa
Australia
Wide Bay
New Britain
Gasmata
Washington
Aleutians
U. S
Kiska
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
South Pacific
North Pacific
Meats and fats to be rationed starting April first
Washington reports plan to ration meats butter cheese and cooking fats starting April 1 using No 2 red coupons. Initial meat rations likely about 1 1/2 pounds per person per week. Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said details would be discussed at a press conference.
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Washington
Prentiss Brown
The
Food Administration
Agriculture Department
Gandhi Ends 21 Day Fast in Good Shape and Strain
Gandhi, 73, ends a 21 day hunger strike in protesting internment by the British. He drinks orange juice after mediation, weak but in good spirits, and reverts to political prisoner status with restricted visit rights at the Aga Khan's palace in New Delhi.
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Gandhi
New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Cancellation Of 50 Per Cent Of'42 Income Taxes
Canadian plan to forego 53 percent of 1942 taxes on earned personal income seen as possible pay as you go compromise for Rum plan opponents. Ottawa asked for details. Doughton says it mirrors a idea to ease transition. Carlson insists on full abatement of one tax year and vows to continue opposition. Others privately weigh Canada option amid congressional debate.
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Washington
United States
Joint
Congressional Tax Staff
Ottawa
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means
Canada
Rep
Carlson
R-Kas
Beardsley Rum
New York
Coughton
Congress
Fuel Oil Coupon No 5 Value Boosted to Ten Gallons
The Office of Price Administration raised the No 5 householder fuel oil ration to ten gallons in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia. No 4 coupons remain eight gallons in Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania and nine gallons in other Atlantic Seaboard regions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
District of Columbia
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
Broadcast By Mme. Kai-Shek Is Cancelled
New York March 3 The National Broadcasting Company says a scheduled bilingual address by Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek from Carnegie Hall at 3 30 p m has been canceled due to her weakened condition after 11 weeks of illness and convalescence from an operation. She had appeared at a Madison Square rally the previous night and spoke at a mass tribute gathering.
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New York
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
National Broadcasting Company
Mme. Chiang
Madison Square
Carnegie Hall
LWT
Waldorf Astoria
China
Axis Warned That Reprisals Coming For Nazi Killings
London March 3 The Germans have been warned in RAF leaflets that the Allies will hang every person convicted of torturing and killing the people of Nazi occupied nations Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said in the Commons He noted an Allied declaration about atrocities has been broadcast and efforts were made to reach the German people with postwar intent messages
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London
RAF
Anthony Eden
Eden
House of Commons
United Nations
Europe
German Tank Crews Desert On Northern Tunisian Front
On the northern Tunisian front the author observes German tank crews deserting their machines as infantry break and run amid a four day assault. British artillery continues after dark while prisoners pass the road scene near a churchill tank and a prominent hill. An English speaking German prisoner voices doubts about the war.
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William B. King
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