Hitler collapse seen as key to ending German militarism
A column argues Hitler's possible collapse would cripple Nazi morale and hasten victory, but warns that defeating Hitler alone won’t end militarism. Prussian leadership remains the real core. Allied actions must dismantle Prussian power and crush Germany’s military machine, with long occupation likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Japan
Italy
Reich
Fuehrer
Goering
Hitler
Prussia
Frederick the Great
Austria
Europe
Allied Council
Simple Simon and Pieman Stomach Ailment Cure Ad
An old style advertising item teases Simple Simon and his Pieman, then urges readers distressed by stomach ulcers indigestion gas pains heartburn and related symptoms to try a product called Udga or Vdeu Wanlets. It promises a double money back return offer and urges sending the first dose to obtain the refund.
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Simon
Assembly Roundup Outlines Shortened Postwar Program
Harrisburg March 15 A skeletonized legislative program aims to hasten adjournment of the 1943 session. Republican leaders propose streamlined postwar measures, with plans to boost teacher salaries and bet on funding changes. debate centers on a commission’s independence, social security study, and governor powers. A $20 million pay scale for teachers faces funding questions while revenue measures move in the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
General Assembly
Senate
House
Pennsylvania
Rep
Reuben. Cohen
Cohen
Martin
Ways and Means
Isalso
Edwin Winner
R-Blair
House Finance Committee
H. Jerome Jaspan
Dphila
Lohn M. Walker
Allegheny
Youth's Role in Peaceful Nation Building
A reflective note urges shaping a new generation toward peace, warning that a nation's character can shift rapidly through deliberate cultivation of youth. The speaker cites lessons from Hitler to emphasize vigilance and proactive moral education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lwe
Hitler
Giraud aims to dissolve Vichy decrees in North Africa
Giraud pledged to abolish anti Jewish decrees and restore democratic functions in North Africa. His promise to curb measures damaging the Allied war effort led some to expect removal of Bergeret Nogues and Peyrouton from his war committee. A Fighting French delegation led by Catroux was expected in Algiers to hasten talks, while London officials stayed cautious.
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North Africa
Giraud
Jean Marie Bergeret
Auguste Nogues
George Catroux
Algiers
London
Bergeret
Nogues
Marcel Peyrouton
Allied advance limited as British seize part of Djebel Ben Marche
Allied forces reported limited progress on the front with the British occupying portion of Djebel Ben Marche. They overran several machine gun posts and found 100 German bodies in one location. The Cairo and Allied communiques noted patrol activity along the front, weather hindering operations, and air attacks on Naples. A torpedo bomber formation was damaged after an enemy aircraft was shot down. No general offensive appeared imminent.
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Djebel Ben Marche
Mareth Line
Cairo
Naples
Allied air and ground actions widen North Africa theater
Allied and German forces engaged across North Africa as crack German units hinted at new offensives near Medjez el Bab while Allied tankbuster fighters claimed significant Rommel tank losses. In Australia and New Guinea, air war intensified with ships hit off Wewak and Japanese shipping concentrated near Darwin as Ambon and Timor fortifications see renewed buildup. In Tunisia, Rommel faced Mitchell raids targeting Mareth Line as air operations adapt to weather with mixed successes and ongoing reconnaissance.
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North Africa
Medjez-El-Bab
Cairo
Eighth Army
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
London
England
Europe
Tunisia
Henri Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Australin
Australia
Bandan Sea
Darwin
MacArthur
Wewak
New Guinea
Amboina
Ambon
Debon
Ambonia
Netherlands East Indies
Dole
Amboiia
Allied
Bomish Eg Dil
Timor
Ubili
Guamata
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
4-H Meeting in Rayne Township
Tomorrow evening 4-H club members and parents will meet at Consolidated school in Rayne Township to enroll for 4-H clubs. County Agent J W Warner will explain clubs emphasized this year. Last year 19 enrolled in the pig feeding club and 8 in the potato club.
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Rayne Township
J. W. Warner
War worker dies from chemical kettle accident at Rohm & Haas plant
Kenneth Carver, 43, of Newton, died at Bristol Hospital from third degree burns after a kettle of chemicals boiled over at the Rohm & Haas Co plant. Three others burned seriously. H. C. Hastright, 54, of Altoona, was killed instantly near Lewis Town when he leaned from a cab and struck a freight car stand on another track. Two Philadelphia pedestrians, Carmen Vesta, 58, and Fred Nabis, 65, were killed in separate traffic accidents. Anthony Chodnicki, 25, of Pittston, fatally injured in a Route 92 crash between West Pittston and Tunkhannock.
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Kenneth Carver
Newton
Bristol
Wim
Rohm & Haas Co
H. C. Hastright
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Lewistown
Highead
Philadelphia
Carmen Vesta
Fred Nabis
Anthony Chodnicki
Pittston
West Pittston Land Tunkhannock
Ration Guide Continues with Item Suspensions and Stamp Dates
The article details rationing measures including suspension of sales for canned meat and fish until March 29, clothing guidance to avoid shortages, and stamp validity for Coffee Stamp 25 through Red E stamps. It notes gasoline rationing rules, three passenger obligation for B and C motorists from March 22, price ceilings for pork ham and bacon, and shoe stamp 17 for one pair.
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OPA
Road Builders Prayer Meditation on Service and Duty
The piece speaks to humble volunteers and unseen workers who enable righteous causes. It honors ordinary acts that create the path for freedom, urging readers to answer a divine summons with humility, strength, and obedience in service. It frames sacrifice as essential to progress and moral roadmaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Congress Roundup on Taxes and Postwar Plans
Washington reports tax deadline looms as income taxes for 1942 are due today amid a clash over a pay-as-you-go Rum Plan. Beard Ramdsley Rum s plan faces White House opposition while Congress debates reciprocal trade renewals and postwar United Nations cooperation with Eden visiting for talks on a grand wartime peace framework. Senate moves to confirm James Allred to the Fifth Circuit.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Beardsley Rums
New York
Roosevelt
Rums
Anthony Eden
United States
Ways and Means Committee
Eden
United Nations
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
White House
Tioa
Senate Judiciary Committee
James Allred
Texas
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Special ration rules extend to stamps and goods across regimes
June 15 ration guidance outlines when purchase certificates may be issued for exhausted No 17 stamps and various groceries. outlines shoe, clothing, and bread item ceilings, tire inspections schedules for motorists, and Ration Book 2 stamp changes for butter cheese and other staples. It details registration for drug stores, wholesalers, and retailers, plus ration banking rules for multi store firms and rent and stove purchase provisions under wartime controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Men’s
Duke Schisler Dies in Bermuda Crash
Montreal report says Capt Clarence Duke Schisler, renowned aviator and World War I veteran, was killed in a night landing crash in Bermuda. Separate Treasury update shows March 12 receipts 120,097,448.46, expenditures 27,704,241.12, net balance 4,047,903,322.20, total debt 120,107,526,684.81 with daily increase of 147,410,062.40.
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Montreal
Clarence Duke Schisler
Bermuda
Treasury
Washington
Pluvyle Interchange 20 Red Stamps Weekly Ration
The article outlines red stamp trade rules for weekly ration books, allowing 16 red stamps per customer to be interchangeable for various items. It notes how households may allocate stamps across meat and cheese, mentions family shopping with all ration books, and provides stamp validity dates and weekly periods with several expiration dates. It also mentions potential meat sales measures and a related inquest into a mine operator's shooting death nearby.
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Weill
Jess
Brown
Wall Street Stock Ticker From Historic Market Page
A sweeping ledger of ticker symbols shows a wide array of companies from across industries. Major names include General Motors, Boeing, Union Carbide, IBM, Sears Roebuck, and US Steel, reflecting a broad market snapshot with varied performance indicators and percent changes.
Labor Board Crisis Prompts Call to End Wage Formula
CIO President Philip Murray urged the National War Labor Board to keep functioning but drop the little steel wage formula to match rising living costs. He said living costs up 22 percent since January 1941 and food costs up 46 percent have eroded real wages. Murray cited two key wage adjustment problems and criticized recent WLB decisions as misaligned with national policy. He announced regional steel production conferences, with a Philadelphia meeting March 21 and a national meeting tentatively set for May 2 in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
P— Cio
Philip Murray
National War Labor
Murray
CIO
WLB
Congress
United Steelworkers
Philadelphia
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Last Day for Income Tax in Pittsburgh
The Western Pennsylvania Office of Internal Revenue faced a rush as citizens sought to meet the midnight deadline. Collector Stanley Granger expected 225,000 to 350,000 more returns than last year’s 900,000 and receipts above 124,943,618 from 1942, with postmarked returns accepted.
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Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania
Office of
Internal Revenue
Citzens
Stanley Granger
Obituary notices from White Township and Punxsutawney
Andrew Kelly husband of Elizabeth Kelly dies at home in White Township. Body to Robinson Funeral Home. Funeral plans incomplete. Wilbert London 29, son of Homer and Cora London of Punxsutawney, dies of heart attack at Buffalo City Hospital while employed at Bell Aircraft as production control supervisor. Surviving Edna London, a son Richard, brother Arthur, sisters Leon Straitiff and Caroline Poydock. parents and other relatives reside in Buffalo. Private services at Pifer Funeral Home Punxsutawney. interment Circle Hill Cemetery. Julia Alexander born 1874 in West Wheatfield Township dies in New Florence residence after 11 years there. Survives by niece Margaret Alexander of Bolivar and nephew Clyde A. Fowler of Pittsburgh. Services at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at her home. Rev. Frank Turnbull to officiate. burial Bethel Cemetery.
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Andrew
Kelly
Elizabeth (Smith) Kelly
White Township
Aim
Robinson Feneral
Wilbert London
Homer
Cora (McMillen
Lone Idon
Punxsutawney
Buffalo
Bell Aircraft Company
Production Control
Punxsutawney High School
Baptist Church
That City
Edna (McKown) Gondor
Richeara
Arthur
Leon Straitiff
Caroline Poydock
Pifer
Julia Alexander
West Wheatfield Township
William
Margaret (Liggett) Alexander
New Florence
Margaret Alexander
Bolivar
Clyde A. Fowler
Pittsburgh
Frank Turnbill
Bethel Cemetery
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ARROW
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France
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Rommel
Bermand L. Montgomery
Medenine Plains
Algeria
Presum
Ty Attir
Swily
Tunisian
High Command
Rome
Bone
Tleo
Panisia
Gerspan
Snuther
Sicilian
Rayne
Ration Guide
The
Fellowship of Prayers
Howlery
Duke Schisler
Clarion—Cerenee
H. W. Wellmar
Calvin H. Jordan
Piney
Here
Dr. Wellman
Jordan
Air Reduction
Can . Am
Red & St. A
Am Smelt & R
Tel
Anaconda Atch
T&sf Atl Refining Bald Laco Balt & Ohio
Bendix Aviat Bath Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Brivas
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corp
Ta Column
G & el BM
Cam
Salvents
Edisatt
Oilig
Curtiss-Wright
West
Douglas Aircraft
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Tefract Greyhound Orpiy
Illinois Central
Int Harvester
Nick Can
Johns-Manvitly
Lehigh Port
Lehigh Val
Libby, Men & Luy Liggett & Myers Oddy Loews Inc
Mantyon Ware
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Distillers
Nat. Pow & Lt
N.Y
Central Row Ware
North Ameria
Northern Pacific
Packard Motor
AM Param Pictures
Penn RR
Pullman
Q Radio Corp
Arn
Repabr Steel Reynalds Toh
Sears Roebuck Uit
Sovony-Vacuum
Sperry Corp
Acro Supply
Ark Nat Gav
Klee Bund & Share
Pennrudd Corp
South Penn Oil
Labor Board Crisis
S.C
Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
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