Roosevelt Presents To Congress A Word Picture Of Conference
President Roosevelt told Congress the nation must help build world cooperation or face another world conflict. He described the Crimea talks with the Allies aiming for unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan as essential to lasting peace. The address, delivered to a joint session, emphasized a start on a world peace road and the need for Allied unity.
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Roosevelt
Congress
House
Warold Oliver Washington
America
Crimea
Alida Tha
Japan
Germany
Starford Mine Runaway Cars Injure Six Miners
Six workers from Starford tied to the James Coal Company mine were injured when a man trip of 22 coal cars rolled down a slope after a link slipped. At Indiana Hospital, six men face non life threatening injuries including head and limb trauma. Three Starford men who rode the trip escaped injury, while Anthony Aloi fled after about 500 feet. The cars traveled roughly 1,500 feet before stopping in a lower passage. several jumpers suffered minor bruises.
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James Coal Company
Starford
Indiana Hospital
Joseph L. Yaros
Julio Ssiani
Joseph Banko
Frank Rodman
Joseph Tomayko
Joseph Pimina
Alex Qorecksin
John Aloi
Wayne Buterbaugh
Anthony Algi
Anthony Aloi
Aloi
Anthony
Aloj
Roosevelt Address Highlights Peace and Allied Strategy
President Roosevelt in a March report from Washington outlines hopes for world peace, praising the Crimean conference Polish agreement, and allied unity. He notes intensified plans against Japan, German surrender in full, and shared responsibility for liberated areas. He mentions joint action by United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union and urges support for a peacetime world order. The piece ends with promotional insertions from Gearhart's and Molly Ann Shop.
MacArthur Invades Palawan Report Puts Focus on Sea Route Link
Tokyo radio reports an American landing at Palawan with a violent battle under way. If confirmed, Palawan would extend U S forces along over 600 miles of the South China Sea from Lingayen Gulf to Palawan’s tip. Corregidor battle ends with heavy Japanese losses and rising Allied supply through Manila Bay.
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Palawan Island
Philippines
South China Sea
Tokyo Radio
Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
Palawan
MacArthur
Sulun
South China Seas
United States
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon
Corregidor
503Rd Parachute Regiment
Big Bay
Three U.S. Naval Vessels Sunk With 200 Lost
The Navy reports three ships sunk including the salvage vessel Extractor mistaken for a US submarine. cargo ship Serpens with about 200 officers and men lost, and infantry landing craft LCI(L) 600 sunk in the Central Pacific with two dead and one missing. Skipper Perry L. Stinson of the Serpens is listed as missing. Extractor survivors were rescued after a search.
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Navy Today
Coast Guard
Central Pacific
Ithe
Candy
Perry L. Stinson
U. S. Fast Guard
Dermott
Ark
Navy
Frank Miconi Missing In South Pacific
Frank Miconi, aviation radioman second class in the U. S. Navy, is reported missing after action in the South Pacific. He is 22 years old, from Ernest, and has served two and a half years. He has three brothers also in service.
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Frank Japies Miconi
Samuel Miconi
Ernest
South Pacific
Matthew
Seing
Panama
Ead Debony
Dan
Red Baltic Drive Threatens to Cut Off Germans In Danzig
Moscow and Berlin reports claim the Red Army crossed the Ihna River east of Stettin and began splitting eastern Pomerania from German defenses. Zhukov and Rokossovsky forces pushed toward the Baltic while Danzig and Neustettin areas see heavy shelling and rapid German retreats.
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Richard Kasiscuke
London
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Stettin
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Moscow
Pomerania
A. K. Sokolssky
Danzigs Stettin
Fron AP
Eddy Gilmore
Gregory Zhukov
Stargard
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Bublitz
Rummelsburg
Germany
Rokossovsky
Polinow
Neustettin
Red Star
Berlin
Neisse
Spree
East Wall
Clymer Man Struck by Train In Serious Condition
Joseph Balitsky a 61 year old Clymer coal miner was struck by a freight train at about 5 pm yesterday while walking along tracks on his way home from James Coal Co Stafford. He was admitted to Indiana Hospital with a crushed chest head injuries and internal damage in very serious condition.
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Indiana Hospital
Joseph Balitsky
Clymer
James Coal Co
Stafford
Balitsky
Borough Ordinance Enforcement After Ash Removal Delay
Borough officials warn citizens that ash and refuse removal delays due to weather will end. The ordinance prohibits blocking streets and alleys with refuse, with fines from two to ten dollars plus removal costs if the street commissioner cleans the obstruction. Police Chief Eddie Allen cites Section 1 of Ordinance 18 to back enforcement.
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Indiana
J. R. Maloney
Eddie Allen
Allen
Red Cross Fund Drive On Today
The nationwide Red Cross fund drive launches today in many towns and rural areas. It marks the 63rd anniversary of the American Red Cross with a 22 day campaign aiming to raise 200000000 dollars to support relief and peacetime humanitarian work.
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Red Cross
America
American Red Cross
Largest gas well completed near Brockway
A gas well near Allens Mills, few miles from Brockway, is regarded as the largest in northern Jefferson County in years. It produced about 6,000,000 cubic feet daily after tapping at 2,200 feet. Drilled by Crawford Drilling for Deemer Gas in a field with several productive wells. Flow tapped in the Balltown sandstone and maintained original pressure.
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Brockway
Isi
Jefferson County
Allens Mills
Crawford Drilling Company
Deemer Gas Company
Balltown
9th Army Gains and Perils Near Duesseldorf and Cologne
Allied forces push through beachhead defenses within five miles of Cologne threatening the Ruhr. Ninth Army moves toward the Rhine banks while Third Army breaches Moselle defenses near Trier. Canadians and Britons press Hochwald gaps as a Rhine port seizure looms. Air power watches for a mass retreat eastward as See 5th Army gains.
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Duesseldorf
Paris
First Army
Cologne
Rhineland
Ninth Army
Rhine
Moselle
Trier
Irsch
Germany
Hochwald
Weeze
Etvenheim
Duisburg
Wesel
Marshal von Rundstedt
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More Red Points For Beef Pork
Washington on March 1 announced a new red-point food plan described as the stiffest since rationing began. It raises values for a broad range of cheaper beef and pork cuts while cutting points for some choice beef steaks and roasts. Officials attribute the changes to heavy military needs and lower hog marketings, with most grain and real point values left unchanged.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Army and Air Forces to be re equipped for Japan
Defense Plant Corporation will fund a $100,000 increase in equipment for a McCreary Tire and Rubber plant in Indiana, raising the total investment to about $750,000. William S. Batt said the Army and Air Forces must be “pretty completely re equipped” to fight Japan and warned that war production must stay at peak for Pacific and large European style landings. He cited large production totals, including 28,471 heavy bombers built so far and a massive shipbuilding output, while noting reconversion to peacetime goods will be limited after Germany falls.
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Defense Plant Corporation
Indiana
McCreary ‘Tire and Rubber Company
New York
William TL. Batt
Pacific
Japan
War Production Board
Rotary Club
Batt
America
Germany
Europe
WPB
Associated Press
Stimson
Rep. Engel
Rt. Mich
Seaman Visits Red Cross Home Service Office on Leave
Seathan Je Leslie Kirkland of Blairsville paused at the Red Cross Home Service Office to commend the Red Cross for its service to overseas sailors. He had been overseas with Navy amphibious forces and spoke with Miss Martha Knapp, Indiana County Home Service Secretary, about the organization’s efforts. Home Service aids servicemen and families, with Tudoriana County office assisting in over 3,000 cases last year.
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Red Cross Home Service Office
Seathan
Je Leslie Kirkland
Market St. Blairsville
Red Cross
Seana Kirkland
Navy
Martha Knapp
Indiana County
Tudiana
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