Oil as pivotal issue in Hitler's looming defeat
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie argues that Hitler's oil shortage drives Nazi defeat as Allied bombers target Ploesti Romania and Galicia oil fields. He notes the strategic value of these regions, the ferocity of Tarnopol fighting, and the looming invasion of western Europe as fuel reserves dwindle for the German war machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Lkely
Europe
Fuhrer
Omar Bradley
Britain
Ploesti
Rumania
Galicia
Poland
Romania
Veritas
Tarnopol
Jassy
Odessasagior
Danubian
Odessa
Western Europe
Sgt Robert T Henderson Found After Missing In Action
A telegram reports Staff Sgt Robert T Henderson, previously listed missing in action, has returned to military control on 26 March 1944. He served as an Air Corps gunner and pilot on a Mitchell medium bomber. The message notes he may soon contact his family about his welfare and whereabouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
Pacific
Mr. Henderson
Xon
Robert T. Henderson
Dunlap
Air Corps
NO INFLATION Continued From Page One
Senator Taft argues rising labor costs and raw material prices push small businesses toward black markets. He notes home pay and hourly wages rose over 6 percent in 12 months, countering claims of wage restraint. Butler favors ending subsidies with slight higher food costs, White seeks less burdensome price controls, and Danaher notes stabilization chiefs conflict with AFL and CIO views on living costs rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
R-Obio
Wet Labor Board
Butler
White
Banking Committee
Danaher R-Connt
Wiliam Green
American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
CIO
Organized Labor
Soviet press free to publish own views in wartime shift
Old controls loosen as Pravda and others publish separate peace and Vatican stance while Soviet officials deny censorship. London reports Easter dawn services for American troops across Italy and Britain with chaplain led prayers, music, and broadcasts to front lines. Clark leads Fifth Army service in Italy. WACS sing with a 26-soldier choir. North Africa theater hosts combined Christian Jewish observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Rus Sian
Pravda
Pius
Vatican
Wendell Willkle
London
Italy
Battle Ground
Hyde Park
Charal Society
U.S
Ireland
St. Bridget's Church
Belfast
British Isles
Fifth Army
Ropelands C. Adams
Lisbon
N. H
Willinon Yeumbull
Worcester
Masy
Mark W. Clark
Aw Secon
Mediterraneans
No Glassed Read Bible in Tucson Man Discards Glasses
Tucson Arizona resident John E Lindley stopped wearing glasses at age 90 after frustration finding a fit. Now he reads daily from his Bible without squinting, saying he is through with glasses on his 1000 birthday curiosity.
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Tucson
Ariz
John E. Lindley
Victory in Pacific Forces Press On In Wake of Kohima
Allied and Japanese reports outline ongoing battles across Burma and the Pacific with Kohima in Manipur, Truk air attacks, and missions against Bougainville and Northern Hainan. Allied air forces claim progress from Timor to Bougainville, while Japanese communiques note strikes and limited ground damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truk
Vanity
Wis
Palau
London
Reuters
Kohima
Imphal
Bengal- Assam
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Manipur
North America
Domes
Radio Tokyo
Hainan Island
China
Burma
Wakawng
Mogame
Mandalay-Myitkyina
Arakwi
Kaladen
Chir Wills
Chindwin Valley
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Pacific
Timor
Bougainville
Gem MacArthur
van Tellafire
Waksie
Bouguilivile
Solomons
Bunlbyis
Kara and
Kats
Nuinchunia
Kats Solomons
Blairsville Union Hotel Sold to Blairsville Buyer
Sale of the Union Hotel property at East Market street Blairsville was completed recently. Ownership passed from Mr and Mrs John M Thompson to James M Turner of Blairsville. The transaction included the hotel and a three story brick building with 80 foot frontage on Market street and 160 foot depth on Iron Atlay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hotel
East Market Street
Blairsville
John M. Thompson
James M. Turner
Market Street
Iror Atlay
Weather and utility actions across Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania shows light showers and cold, with tonight and Sunday remaining chilly and mostly cloudy. In Harrisburg, the Public Utility Commission approves a booster pumping plant for Philadelphia Suburban Water Co in Lower Merion Township, first under the township act of 1981. Also approved is discontinuation of train service between Roulette and Port Allegheny, six months after. Fish Commission permits powered boats on all rivers and Lake Wallenpaupack. other actions deferred.
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Uakrrisburg
Public Utility Commission
U Day
Philadelphia Subs Ban Water Company
Lower Merion Township
Montgomery Co
Chiss Township
Harrisburg
Concersport and
Port Allegheny
Roulette
Potter County
Port Abeghensy
Allesphony County
Too Little Too Late Pocatello Post Finds Shoes
A garbled report notes Marine Pre from Rigby needs a size ISEE shoe pair to reach Hansa in the Pacific. Postal clerks weigh four items for overseas delivery while seeking special permission. The Dover Gazette lists 13,500,009,000 dollars in U.S. revenue for December 1943.
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Pocatello
Marine Pre
Lawrence Taisin
Rigby
Tahoe
Hansa
Pacific
Thansen
Park
Wallace
Wu Ostore
Sud
U. S
Dover
Church Of England With Russian Idea
New York April 7 AP The Church of England stands closer to the Russian Orthodox Church than to the Catholic in denying the Pope’s authority Archbishop Garbett said at a press conference during a U S visit He praised Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow as a “wonderful old man” and spoke of a revival and growth of Orthodoxy in Russia amid the war context
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Church of England
Cyril Forster Garbett
York
England
Henry St. George Tucker
Episcopy! Church
Rome
Christ
Sergei
Moscow
All Russia
Journal of Moscow
Jesus
Garbett
Russia
Allied advances and bombardment along Italian beachhead
Allied headquarters in Naples report a new strongpoint northwest of Padiglione and steady shelling on the central beachhead below Rome. Allied guns destroy a German tank near Carraceto, while air and naval actions from Mestre to Leghorn disrupt targets and sink an E-boat. Coastal craft and bombers support operations as patrols clash along the Carigliano River.
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Allied
Naples
Padiglone
Rome
Carroceto
Fifth Army
Carigliang
Cassino
Algon
Terese
7Th Air Force
Kilba
Leghorn
U. S
Mestre
eVaiee
Bologna
Treviso
Venice
Ferrara Yards
Leib Brothers Enter Merchant Marine Service
Dan and Ted Leib sons of Mr and Mrs Earl Lieb of 624 Chestnut Street left Wednesday April 5 to begin service with the Merchant Marine. Dan eighteen and Ted seventeen reported at Sheepsherd Bay for basic training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan
Ted Leib
Earl Lieb
Chestnut Street
Merchant Marine
Ted
Sheepsherd Bay
Refugees Arrive Home from Europe aboard Portuguese Ship
The Portuguese ship Serpa Pinta arrived in Philadelphia with 385 refugees from Europe. Of these, 276 bound for Canadian points were moved by sealed railway cars while the rest, many intending to stay in the United States, were screened by security officials before departure. The group included physicians, tailors, diamond cutters, engineers, seamen, farmers, nurses and teachers from Russia, Poland, Australia, Belgium, Yugoslavia, and Lithuania, aided by the Canadian National Committee on Refugees and the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Serpa Pinta
Europe
United States
Trin
Canadias National Committee On Refugees
United Jewish Refugee and War
Lieut Testifies Engine Parts Were Defective
Army inspector Melvin L. Hiller testified at a court martial that five of the first nine engines in a batch of 100 aircraft engines sent to Wright Aeronautical Corp. showed dangerous defects including cracked master rod bearings, bad compression rings, and a dangerous cylinder defect. He said the engines, returned from Columbus depot, were torn down Sept. 6, 1943 at the Undersecretary of War’s request, and that parts were mutilated by careless assembly and use of tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Army
George H. Brett
Frank Andrews
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Melvin L. Hillex
AAP
Columbus
Hiller
Tovis
Mitchells Hit Key Rail Bridges North of Rome
In World War II action northeast of Bologna and on the Florence Rome line, Mitchells attacked railway targets. They struck a bridge near Orte, about 40 miles north of Rome, and another at Finulle, roughly 65 miles north of the capital, with reported good results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bologna
Mitchells
Florence-Rome
Orte
Rome
Finulle
Capital
League of Nations Seen as Solution by McAdoo Daughter
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, said in Atlanta that the nation is coming to understand the principle her father died for and that thousands nationwide see a league of nations as the young solution. She warned the plan may differ from her father’s exact blueprint.
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Atlanta
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Four Delegates For Gov Dewey From Oklahoma Assembly
In Enid Oklahoma AP reports two delegates instructed to vote for Gov Thomas E Dewey were chosen at the Eighth Oklahoma district Republican convention. H Wenz a national committeeman predicted Dewey would win on the first ballot. Earlier in the week in the Sixth district two Dewey delegates unfettered were elected. The remaining thirty member delegation will be picked at later conventions.
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Dewey
Enid
Okla
Thomas E. Dewey
Oklahoma
En H. Wenz
Obituary notices for W C Baird and others in Elderton and area
Obituary notices report W C Baird aged 71 died in Banks Two at 12 30 a m burial at Urey Cemetery with family details and survivors. Additional notices include John W Cribbs aged 50 11 died of acute appendicitis, service details, and survivors. William C Pattison aged 87 died in White Township with burial at Havemon y Cemetery. Mrs Ipa Brillyart 75 died in Marion Center. Albery Hell died in Cherryhill Township La sana County with services at Brushvalley Lutheran Church and burial in Brushvalley Cemetery.
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W. C. Baird
Banks Two
John W. Cribbs
Claringa
George Cribbs
Silas Cribbs
Elderton
Armstrong County Hospital
Kittanning
Plumereck Two
Warren
Ohio
Park Ave
Cribbs
Medical Corps
Oaverseas
Presbyterian Church
Margaret
Dona Lee
James W. Herron
New Kensington
Clarinda Cribbs
Glenn
Bristlerville
Miles Rupp
Kittanning R. D
Wilbert Wood
Loda
Blaine Wood
Stanley Schall
William C. Pattison
White Twp
Jefferson County
Robert
Margaret T Neal
Pattison
Kellysburg
Penn Hunl
Q. J. Pattison
Indiana
O. T. McHenry
Johnstown
Robinson
Harry Burton Boyd
Havemony
Penn Run
Ipa Brillyart
Marion Center
Thomas Uncral
Albery Hell
Zora Schreckengost Hill
Cherryhill Township
Lasana County
Pine Township
Lindi County
Brushvalley Lutheran Church
Brushvalley Lutheran Cemetery
Willkie Considers Silence For Party After Criticism
Washington April details outline Wendell L. Willkie, age 12cused by critics of talking too much, may retreat to Rushville Indiana for a rest. Aides say he likely will reveal future plans in weeks. Taft suggests Willkie will push liberal postwar foreign policy in the Republican platform and may not join Roosevelt cabinet overtures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Rushville
Ind
Taft
Ohio
Wisconsin
John W. Brieker
Roosevelt
War Stimson
Navy
Knox
Assessment Case Before Local Court
A. Buchman appeals a $60,000 assessment on his Blairsville bank building at Market and Walnut streets. The Blairsville borough argues the valuation reflects property value and replacement cost. A decision from the Indiana County Court is expected soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Buchman
Market and
Walnut Streets
Blairsville
Court of Indiana County
Buchman
Lawrence pilot after Pacific tour injured skiing
Lt Rosaire Dubreule aged 27 an AAA pilot who earned the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster for 46 combat missions in the Pacific returns home uninjured except for a fractured ankle from a North Conway New Hampshire ski accident now under doctor care.
Soviet Drive Near Razdelnaya Traps German Forces
Odessa region reports a Soviet counteroffensive trapping six German divisions near Razdelnaya with 25 to 50 thousand enemy troops. In two days of fighting, 1,000+ Germans were captured and 64 guns and 25 tanks fell into Soviet hands as the trap tightened.
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Razdelnaya
Ski Anc
Tarnopol
Red Army
Skala
Gregory K. Zhukov
Mayaki
Dniester
Baden
Ovidispal
Jagt
Oressa
Noith
Akkerman
Lower Arabia
Odessa
High Command
Rumania
Konex
Isi
Lisi
Botusani
Tasi
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Sgt. Henderson
Moorhead
McIntyre
Todd Setlock
Provost Guard
Capt
W. F. Dietrich
NTS
AL. A. Taylor
Gunnery
Sellock
McMutten
Todd
Jacob Sellock
Seaman Sellock
Norfolk
Andrew T
Fort Baker
Calif
Tavestian
Red Star
Kremlin
Front Lines
Gazelle
Union
Pennsylvania
Wagrisburg
Charles A. French
Stelling Fyvem
Wallenpaupeck
TooLittle,TooLate
Archbishop of
Pope
Gazette
NEA
Kwajalein Atoll
Dock
Neered Coor
Daisy Mae
Patrick Strauss
Pat
Maj. Arthur Bryan
Baltimore
Leib Brothers
Lawrence W. Zonker
Hollywood Automotive Tinkerer
WPS
Zonker
Hollywood Ares
Mr. Willkie
Ouch
Reyd
the Gazette
Eis
Aya
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