War Today analysis on Axis collapse and Allied planning
Dewitt Macken analyzes wartime shifts as Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill may meet again. Red armies push through Romania and Bessarabia, Nazi defenses crumble on the Bug and Dniester fronts, while spring weather threatens operations. Strategic questions loom on fate of Germany and postwar alignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niter
Russia
Romania
Dniester
von Mannstein
Bug River
Pravda
Ukraine
Balkans
Rumania
Bessarabia
Berlin
Baltic States
Women Recruits Marine Corps Recruiting Tour in Indiana
A Marine Corps Women’s Reserve recruiting party led by Lt Dorothy White will visit Indiana on March 21 and 22 at Hotel Indiana to interview young women ages 20 to 36 interested in enlisting. Staff Sgt Gladys Biele Sgt Kathleen Roach Sgt Hattie Meacham and Sgt Cathryn Rhodes accompany. Marines’ Women’s Reserve funds non combat duties in the United States with about half in Aviation and roles in communications laboratory mechanical and clerical work. Pay matches male rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
Dorothy White
Inediana
Lady Marines
Hotel
Indiana
White
Gladys Biele
Kathleen Roach
Hattie Meacham
Cathryn Rhodes
United States
Two 17-year-olds enlist in Navy during Indiana County visits
Two of several 17-year-olds enlisted in the Navy during recruitment visits in Indiana County. Henry Albert Shaffer and Joseph Anthony Gordos joined after choosing their leaving dates, with Shaffer turning 18 March 24 and enlisting March 11, Gordos March 17 and turning 12 March 20. Visits continue weekly with McCutcheon in the Court House basement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Richard J. Butts
Secruiter
Johnstown
Henry Albert Shaffer
Verla Shaffer
Philadelphia St
Joseph Anthony Gordos
Arpad J.gordos
Penn St
Clymer
Shaffer
Gordos
George B. McCutcheon
Court House
Navy
Indiana County
Butts
Miner Colosi Dies After Kent No 2 Mine Rock Fall
McIntyre Pa Saturday night miner Pietra Guilennie Colosi born 1985 in St Pier Nievro Italy died from rock fall injuries at Kent No 2 Mine McIntyre. Survived by widow Mary Ciordano Colosi in Italy three sons Frank Clune Dominic Philip and Rose daughter in Italy three grandchildren two brothers Salvatore and Phillip and four sisters including Sara Amato and Rose Colosi. Funeral March 22 at St Gertrudes Meintyre with interment St Bernards Cemetery Indiana England. He worked for nine years with Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company and belonged to St Gertrudes Church and McIntyre Local 3548. Friends receiving at son’s home in Chine Pa after seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y Pietra Guilennie Olosi
Kent No. 2
McIntyre
Juncesca
Rosa
Colosi
St. Pier Nievro
Taly
Mary Ciordano Colosi
Italy
Frank Colosi
Clune
Dominic
Philip
Holy
Rose Col
Snow Storm Wreaks Havoc Across States in Winter Storm
The winter storm spread from New England to the Deep South with snow and freezing rain. Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky reported storm deaths while cities faced downed lines, closed schools, and traffic disruptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Altoona
Greensburg
Associated Press
Ohl
New Ereland
Texas Panhandle
Midle
Utah
Indiana
Expo
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Wanner
New England
New York State
New York City
New York
Butler
Keystone State
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Washington
Waca
Indianapolis
St. Lars
Springfield
Kansas
Oklahuwz
San Juan
Weather outlook for Western Pennsylvania turns slick
Snow mixes with sleet and freezing rain today with continuing cold conditions. Tuesday brings partial cloudiness and a calm, dry outlook as temperatures remain low. War bonds promotion appears in the mixed text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Germans Regain Hill and Take 100 Prisoners at Cassino
Allied headquarters in Naples report German forces reinforced their positions at Cassino and regained Hill 165, taking about 100 prisoners. Allied infantry and armor attacked the Continental Hotel area as heavy fighting continued, while American air forces struck targets in Austria and Yugoslavia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Fifth Army
Batce
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Kagenfurt
Graz
Austria
Knin
iMetkovic
Yugoslavia
Alps
Monfalcone
Trieste
Italy
Mediterranean
Gether
Rome
Orlan
Littoria
Anzio
Betchhead
United States
Cassino
Heinzerling
Mt Vesuvius On Rampage Largest In 34 Years
Naples March 20 three streams of molten lava crept down Mt Vesuvius after yesterday’s eruption in its most violent display in 94 years. The lava wiped out 100 feet of the scenic railway around the mountain and neared two miles of Boscatrecase village. An American soldier, Sergi Fred C Drake, drove a jeep to within 100 yards of the crater to assist Professor Giuseppe Imbo of the Royal Vesuvius observatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Mt. Vesuvius
Boscatrecase
Sergi
Fred C. Drake
Walnut St
Elmira
Crater
Giuseppe Imbo
Royal Vesuvius Observatory
Right Wing of Am. Labor Party backs Roosevelt
The New York right wing of the American Labor Party endorsed a fourth term for President Roosevelt with Vice President Wallace as running mate. It also urged a fourth term for U S Senator Robert F. Wagner and denounced the CIO Political Action Committee alliance with the party's left wing as a pipeline for Communist leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Labo
Roosevelt
Wallace
U. S
Tkobert F. Wagner
Sidney Hillman
CIO
ALP
Sideshow Fight Over Clitchfolded Poodle on 42nd Street
A poodle in a 42nd Street sideshow slipped along a tightrope while a dog yelped. The trainer and an India rubber man clashed with a Coast Guardsman, sending him to hospital. The rubber man and assistant were later charged with assault.
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New York
42Nd Street
India
Bombers Strike German Targets Across Europe At Dusk
London Daily Mall reports American four engine bombers pouring in at a high rate as Eighth airforce Fortresses and Liberators hit the Pas de Calais coast trench invasion area. no enemy fighters encountered and one bomber did not return. Other bombers struck rail yards and plants at Knin Metkovic and Graz near Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pas- De-Calais
15Th Airforce
Alps
Italy
Vienna
Klagenfurt
Graz
U. S
Knin
Metkovic
Yugoslavia
Bus Crash Rescue Amid Passaic River Storm Disaster
Stanley Kowalski of Garfield aided in rescuing 30 trapped riders as boards floated from a raft department. Two women were pulled from the water and all survivors received first aid at the rubber plant before hospital transfer. Police, fire, and rescue units from both sides of the Passaic rushed to the scene. officials weigh expected rider counts on the Comfort Bus Line after a severe storm. The bridge stood about 15 feet above water.
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Stanley Kowalski
Garfield
Passaic
Joseph E. Conlon
Public Utility Commission
Iwe
Gazette War News Item Summary
A wartime plea requests readers to supply complete local military notices. It asks for name, home, parents, service place, length of service, and awards beyond the Purple Heart, plus any notable life events. It notes editors may censor unrelated material and urges citizen cooperation for county welfare.
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Aiward
Gazette
Child Found Was Not Kidnaped Will Marry Edith Toy
Edith Toy twenty two year old cleared of a kidnaping charge in the disappearance of four year old Charlotte Garon from Bucks County. Camden arrest preceded arraignment in Croydon where Russo said the case was not kidnaping and Toy planned to marry a sailor after claiming responsibility for a wide visit with permissions from the mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croydon
Edith Toy
Charlotte Susan Garon
Bucks County
Anthony Russo
Miss Toy
Camden
N. J
Little Charlotte
Instrument drive in Indiana and Armstrong counties for troops
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Indiana Pa sponsors a final week campaign to collect musical instruments for soldiers overseas. Residents are urged to donate har monicas ocarinas accordions guitars and banjos by delivering to any Coca Cola dealer or having Coca Cola trucks pick up items for forwarding to the Army. Local manager H M Repino leads the effort and urges basements attics and storage rooms be searched for unused instruments to comfort soldiers in foxholes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. I. Joe
Indiana
Armstrong Counties
Coco-Cola Bottling Company
War Department
Armstrong
Coca-Cola
H. M. Repino
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Madeleine Carroll Joins Red Cross in Italy to Aid Army Hospitals
Naples reports Madeleine Carroll, formerly seen at Lake Como villas between film gigs, has returned in an American Red Cross uniform to work in army hospitals. She hopes to be assigned as a staff aide to evacuation hospitals and says she appreciates Red Cross for not treating her as a celebrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Madeleine Carroll
Hollywood
Lake Como
Mary
American Red Cross
Miss Carroll
Red Cross
Goat blocks motorist with horned shove in front door
Mrs Felice Ferris fights off a goat that chased a passing car after her door is cut by the animal. Two policemen later subdue the unruly beast. Charles Man jailed in Indiana County on assault and peace charges. arraignment set before Justice J. W. Gordon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Felice Ferris
Kibitzet
Charles
John Halupka
Indiana
Donald McMullen
J. W. Gordon
Armagh
Allied forces push in Burma amid heavy Japanese losses
Stilwell reported about 4000 Japanese deaths in the Hukawng Valley as Allied troops expanded control to 1800 square miles in four and a half months. Mountbatten praised rapid advances, noting fighting skill and endurance in difficult terrain. Reports on Kaladin Valley and Mayu Rane sector followed with new Allied gains. Separately, G Harold Wagner announced 4406 unemployment checks issued for the week ending March 17, 1844, with $6,257.50 disbursed including 110 checks to veterans returning to civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stilwell
Hukaway
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Hukawng
Burma
Kaladin
Mayu Rane
Arakan
G. Harold Wagner
State Treasury
Ufe
Indiana
Greyhound Bus Strike Expands Hope in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh officials warn the three day old Greyhound strike may spread to cover the east of the Mississippi. Harold Blum says 14 union divisions meet today as 400 drivers and others walk out over the discharge of two workers. If expanded, service from New York to Chicago could be paralyzed. The union calls the stoppage a continuous meeting not a strike and seeks a wage increase ruling by the War Labor Board.
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Pittsburgh
Greyhound
Mississippi River
Harold Blum
Pennsylvania Joint Council
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Toach
Blum
Greyhound Lines
Harry&. Crawford
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
St. Louis
Chicago
T. E. Benson
War Labor Board
WLB
Benson
Clarence Martin
Norman Miller
Martin
Miller
Obituary notices from Indiana and Saltsburg areas in March
Obituaries report Mrs. Mary J. Walsh of Johnstown dying at her daughter's Indiana home on March 18 after a long residence in the area. Surviving children: Edwards Baltimore Payne Baltimore John Walsh Baltimore James Walsh Johnstown William Walsh Pittsburgh and Mrs Raymond Shick. Solemn Mass at St Bernards Indiana and burial at Mt Carmel Williamsport. Also Margaret George Richards of Saltsburg dies at home March 8. survivors include children and grandchildren, services by Rev Bates, burial Saltsburg Cemetery. Kenneth Charles Johns, ten months old, son of Homer and Dorothy Johns of Salisburg, dies at home March 18. burial Salisburg Cemetery. Interments set with Robinson Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary J. Walsh
John Patrick Walsh
Johnstown
Raymond Shick
Oak St
Indiana
St. Bernard’s Church
Mt. Carmel
Williamsport
Shick
Margaret George Richards
James Richards
Saltsburg
John Reynolds
Barn Run
Presbyterian Church
Salisburg
Henry Townsend George
Clarence W. George
Mae Fryer
Grace Billingsley
Dover
Ohio
Gen. Reynolds
Francis Reynolds
West Newton
Walter Reynolds
Ruffdale
Osha Sherbondy
Nora Hough
Lawrence
Laura Hepler
California
Robinson Funeral Home
C. J. G. Bates
Presbyterian Church of
Kenneth Charles Johns
Lloyd Homer
Dorothy Irene
Garris
Q Johns
R. D
New Kensington
William Roy
Charles Johns
Roy Garris
Columbiana
Robinson
David Zimmerman
Salisburg Cemetery
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Bristol
Sinre
Sylvia
Charlotte
Labor Party
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Philip G. Cochran
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