Allied Drive Through Reich Faces Hard Nazi Resistance
Allied forces press into German soil east of the Rhine in a major offensive. Patton's Third Army drives toward Berchtesgaden while Kesselring's forces struggle with over 1.25 million Allied troops, as Russians push toward Vienna and the Austrian border. The front teeters on a potential finish, with heavy battles expected north of Emmerich.
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Aghith
Reich
Emmerich
Ruhr
Westphalian Plain
Berlin
Kesselring
von Rundstedt
Hitler
Jong’ Rhenish
The
Patton
Third
Bavarian Alps
Berchtesgaden
Pattendge
Fuehrer
U. S
Rhine
Austria
Vienna
Hungary
Yast Sland
Okinawa air bases seen as key to war aims
Wartime dispatch notes five Japanese plants destroyed in Nagoya by B 29 raids. New photo coverage shows five square miles of central Nagoya burned, damaging the arsenal, aircraft engine plant, textile works, pottery, and Mitsubishi Electric facilities.
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Twenty-First
Bomber Command
Japan
Nagoya
Oesubish
Asashi Pottery Works
Kurenai
Mitsubishi Electric Company
Aichi Aircraft
Nagoya Arsenal
Nagoya Castle
Sailor Rescues Man From Monongahela River
A sailor leaped into the swollen Monongahela River near a railroad bridge on March 24 and rescued August A. Ta Tea, a man whose skiff became caught in the swollen water, preventing his escape.
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Ene
Three Million Tough Regulars Form Mainstay of Continued German Fight
Swiss based observer reports on March 21 that Germany may hold out for months with about three million regulars plus 5 million including Volkssturm. Despite hard losses in France and across the Rhine, high command claims large numbers, but morale sinks since Stalingrad. speculation on how the Rhine crossing at Remagen affects plans continues.
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Curt Riess
NEA Service, Inc
Berne
Switzerland
Wehrmacht
Gertmainay
Germany
Amed
High Command
France
Rhine
Todt
Volkssturm
Himmler
Goebbels
Volksstrom
People's Army
Volks Isturm
Eisenhower
Stalingrad
Remagen
Wounded Marines Return From Iwo Jima Confinement
In San Diego March 26, UPI reports 200 wounded Marines and Navy men convalescing at the U S Naval Hospital following the Iwo Jima assault. Many fought in Solomon, Marshall and Mariana campaigns. Lt. Lewis Meyers of Ardmore Pa credits Japanese with strong fighting on Iwo Jima.
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San Diego
Calif
UPI
Iwo Jima
U. S. Naval Hospital
Solomon, Marshall
Mariana
Isla
Iwo Jimg
Lewis Meyers
Ardmore
Iwo
Oiler Island
Eye Witness Recounts Narrow Escape With British Paratroops
An American observer describes near Arnhem style combat as German fire and an anti tank gun threaten a farmhouse six miles from the Rhine. He hides, escapes through flames, and links with U S engineers after a harrowing 24 hours of bombardment and pursuit.
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James Leadson
Liverpool
U. S
Paris
Arnhem
Rhine
Hamminkeln
Rangenburg
Inftas
Kamerad
James A. Olson
Kansas City
Kan
Fourth Division Breaks Through Rhine Bridgehead Near Aschaffenburg
Allied dispatches detail rapid advances across the Rhine with the Fourth Division linking Aschaffenburg to Mainz and Frankfurt. German resistance collapses in the west as 300,000+ Germans surrender since March and Third Army gains widen the bridgehead while patrols push toward Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.
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Upper Rhing
Frankfurt
Aschaffenburg
Mainz
Third
Rhine
Berlin
Supreme Headquarters
Essen
Hermann Goering
Krupps
Ninth Army
Germany
Eisenhower
Suisburg
Rees
cross-Rhine
Field Marshal Montgomery
First
Duisburg
First Army
Ruhr
21St
Coblenz
Patton
Heidelbert
Lower Rhine
Bienen
Westphalis
Rees-Hamminkeln
Issel
Haffen
Mehr
Old Hickory
Bruckhauser and
Hunze
Ninth
Hodges
Siegen
Ersfeld
Hennef
Ascheffenburg
Siebert
Third Army
Voblens
Boppard
Labor secretary seeks 30 day coal contract extension
Washington March 28 AP Secretary of Labor Perkins plans to seek a 30 day extension to avert a nationwide soft coal strike. The current pact expires Saturday night and talks between United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis and operators stall over a 10 cent royalty demand. A strike vote among 400000 miners is scheduled for Wednesday and the retroactivity of wage adjustments remains a major hurdle.
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Washington
Marsty
Secretary of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Peapeelnos
Lewis
Perkins
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
Charles O'Neill
FDR Lets Stand Veto on ArmyTruck Claims Payment
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to pay nearly 20000 to five individuals or estates over an army truck accident involving the Pennsylvania State Guard. The driver was on the wrong side, no negligence by others, and the truck was not on a U S mission. Amounts named include estates of Robert C Meals Essie Mac Margaret Meals guardians of Donald Meals and Betty Rightatona.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania State Guard
United States
Robert C. Meals
Essie Mac Margart
Margaret J. Meals
Donald Meals
Betty Rightatona
Passover To Be Observed In Homes And Synagogues
Passover will be observed by the Jewish race in homes and synagogs starting Wednesday evening and lasting a week. The Neder ceremonial meal ushers in the festival, commemorating liberation from Egyptian slavery with matzo, bitter herbs, and the Seder rites. Distillers produced 472 million pints of drinking liquor in January.
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Elijah
House Passes Manpower Compromise
Washington March 26 AP Compromise manpower bill viewed as anti strike measure targets 400 000 soft coal miners spurring House members to return to Congress to finalize a wartime labor pact The measure gives War Mobilizer Byrnes power to fix plant ceilings control hiring and transfers freeze workers and mobilize agencies Penalties include up to one year in jail and 10 000 fine for violations Unlike prior bills it does not draft age men or constrain only employers
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Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
James F. Byrnes Bower
Byrnes
Senate
Average Farm Net Income Hits $1200 in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports show the average Pennsylvania farm earned a net income of $1,200 last year. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service records cross cash receipts at $532,239,000, up $38,410,000 from 1943, with farming expenses also reaching a record high.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Miles Horst
Federal
Horst Gard
Orchard Spraying Show Friday
Two orchard spraying demonstrations are planned for Friday March 30 at 9 30 a m at the H W Stonebraker orchard four miles northeast of Indiana on Route 80 and at 1 30 p m at T C Hood Elders Ridge Henry Menusan extension entomologist at Penn State will conduct the demonstrations with County Agent F W Warner They will explain recommended changes in the spray schedule due to advanced growth conditions.
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H. W. Stonebraker
Indiana
T. C. Hood
Elders Ridge
Henry Menuson
Penn State
F. W. Warner
Menusan
Proud of Husband First Man to Cross the Rhine
Mrs. Duke says she is proud of Lt. Stephen Duke who was among the first to cross the Rhine with the Third Army. He is 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Duke of Smithville Pennsylvania, and a Madera high school graduate.
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Cleveland
A Duke
Stephen Duke
Rhine
Third Army
Duke
Andrew Duke
Smithville
Madera, Pa
Man Placed Dynamite Cap in Car and Died in Explosion
Uniontown PA March 26 John Badonic aged 63 took his own life by placing a dynamite cap in his car and detonating it with a storage battery. Coroner Lee Herrington confirmed the self inflicted blast occurred yesterday.
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Uniontown
John Badonic
Lee Herrington
John Zehner Passes Away In Indiana County
John Zehner died in Indiana Hospital on Sunday March 25. He was born September 26, 1856 in Pittsburgh and moved to White Township and later Indiana. Survived by wife Mary Elizabeth, a daughter, three grandchildren, a great grandchild, and a brother. He long served as Oakland cemetery superintendent and never missed a vote in 67 elections. Funeral services Wednesday at 1 30 p.m. at the Robinson Funeral Home with Rev. Arthur J. Piehl officiating. Interment Oakland cemetery.
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Jon Lewis Zehner
Indiana
Pittsburgh
White Township
County
Peter
Henrietta Dill Zeline
Zion Lutheran Church
Mary Elizabeth (O'Neil) Zehner
David Hall
D. D
Richard G
Mate) Hotham
Liste Zehner
U. S. Army
Jack Smith
U. S. Navy
Fort Lauderdale
Florida
Kay Smith Pittsburgh
Lisle_Zehner
Washington
Charles Zener
Zehner
Oakland Cemetery
Robinson Funeral Home
Arthur J. Piehl
Obituary of Pearl Brewer Glover of Sagamore
Pearl Brewer Glover of Sagamore died Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in Ag Wan Hospital Punxsutawney after fifteen months of complications. Born May 1880 in Indiana County, she resided in Sagamore fifteen years. Survived by two sons Wilmer Uncapher Rochester Mills and John Uncapher Canton Ohio, two daughters Ethel Lewis Indiana and Alice Stewart Bradford, sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also survived by brothers Edward Brewer Indiana Oran Brewer Creekside and sisters Mrs Sara Work Rochester Mills and Mrs Mabel Cabler Midland. Bowser Funeral Home Plumville after 5 p.m. today. services 2:00 p.m. Tuesday March 27 in charge of Rev Elizabeth Prugh. Burial Harmony Grove cemetery Five Points.
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Pearl (Brewer) Glover
Sagamore
Agwan Hospital
Punxsutawney
Indiana County
William Jarkes
Martha Emma (Roof) Brewer
Wilmer Uncapher
Rochester Mills
John Uncapher
Canton
Ethel Lewis
Indiana
Alice Stewart
Bradford
Edward Brewer
Oran Brewer
Creekside
Sara Work
Mabel Cabler
Midland
Bowser
Plumville
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Navy
James V. Forrestal
Roy M. Davenport
the Rhine
Signal Corps
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Maine
FDR
Nijmegen
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