Yanks Hold Own Against Jap Counterattack in Admiralties
Allied headquarters report a fierce Pacific battle on Los Negros Island with about 3000 Japanese killed or wounded as American forces protractedly defend Moinote airfield. American losses include 61 dead and 254 wounded while air strikes targeted Mes on Rabaul and other targets in the Admiralties and New Guinea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Admiralties
Moinote
Los Negros Island
Bismarck Sea Admiralty Group
Southwest Pacific Command
Buna
Momate
United States Navy
Rabaul
Kerovia Bay
Rapepo
Rabeul
New Britain
Hanse Bay
New Guinea
Hansa Bay
Alexishafen Sidrome
Blajdang
Allies Hold Firm To Anzio Beachhead
Allied forces maintain a firm hold on the Anzio beachhead near Naples as they repulse German counterattacks and press south of Rome. The Mediterranean air force reports 1200 sorties against Nazi communications and a quiet front at the beachhead with no enemy air activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eadquarters
Naples
Alles
Rome
Mediterranean Air Force
Northaly
Americans Pour Bombs on Ponape in Steady Stream
The U S Fleet announced that Liberator heavy bombers of the Seventh Army Air Force continued pounding Ponape, a Japanese base in the Caroline Islands, with a right ton raid on March 2. They also struck enemy shipping and docks at Kusale Island southeast of Ponape. Army Mitchell medium bombers and Navy search planes attacked two unnamed enemy bases in the Marshall Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape
Caroline Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Kusale Island
Navy
Bate
Marshall Islands
Truman War Production Over Hump Says Report
The Truman War Investigation Committee issued its third report painting a high wartime production picture. It cites progress in aviation, new Navy fighters and a bomber, and notes factory reallocations toward landing craft and special radio ships while praising manpower savings and efficient civilian plant operations. It criticizes Army hotel acquisitions and wartime policies, urging continued civilian production and farm machinery emphasis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman War Investifire
Senate
D-Mo
Army
Dallas
Tex
Navy
Union
Chicago
Advitary Council
Lepke and Two Pals Die in Sing Sing Execution
In Sing Sing electric chair two of the murder ring’s leaders, Louis Buchalter Lepke, Emanuel Weiss, and Louis Capone, were executed after being convicted in the 1936 Rosen candy store murder. Bishops and rabbis attended as final prayers, while Lepke’s wife released a statement denying cooperation for a life stay. Other portions note Red Cross fundraising plans in Kingsport and War-era civic appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lepke
Red Cross
Allo Tate
Ossliins
N.Y
Capore
Weiss
Hen Buchalter
Canone
Bernard Martin
Tored
Jacob Katz
Pins
Buchalter
Natz
iLepke
High Court
Supreme Court
Lepie
Betty
Joseph Rosen
Rosen
Fels
Soviets Capture Panevo and Advance on Pskov Rail Line
Soviet dispatches report Panevo taken three miles east of the Pskov Warsaw railway as Red Army gains north to widen the Estonian bridgehead. South of Krivoi Rog troops cross the Tagsulet River, seize seven localities, including final spur rail stations toward Nikolokazélsk. About 3,000 Germans killed. many prisoners taken after four days of intense fighting.
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London
Moscouw
Pskov- Warsaw
Pskov
Panevo
Monitor
Ukraine
Krivoi Rog
Tagsulet
Zagradovka
Nikolokazélsk
Pskov-Ostrov-Dvisak
Ostrov
London Radio
CSB
Bus Wreck Near Gate City Leaves Nineteen Hurt
Nineteen people were injured when two Tri State Corporation buses collided Saturday about one and a half miles west of Gate City Virginia at 11 am. Six were admitted to Holston Valley Hospital and twelve treated for minor injuries before release. One man, Ker Hill, 45, had fractured ankles and was moved to a Johnson City hospital. The hospitalized include Mrs. Charlotte Hartsack and Lucian H. Lane with facial wounds and possible jaw fracture.
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Daven Tri-State Corporation
Gate City
Holston Valley Hospital
Ker Hill
Johnson City
Charlotte Hartsack
Dale Street
Kingsport
Lucian H. Lane
Route 3
GOP Calls Meeting Of Farm Leaders To Map Out A Comprehensive Platform
The Republican Party convenes a conference of farm organization leaders at Chisago on April 3 and 4 to craft a comprehensive agricultural platform for the June Republican National Convention. Attendees include Hickenlooper, Willis, Wherry, Ford, Bortolfsen, Taye, Andresen, and Hope, amid debate over wartime subsidies and postwar farm policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOP
Washington
Republican Party
Chisago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa i
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Farmers’ Union
W National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Na- Feder Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Farmers Union
Roosevelt
Chicago
Harrison N. Spangier
Republican National Committee
Hickenlooper
R. B. Willis
Indians
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Sumner’ Senail
Maine
Sam C. Ford
Muntana
C. A. Bortolfsen
Idaho
Edward J. Taye
Mitnesota
August Andresen
Minnesota
Clifford, Hope
Kansas
Tornado Rips Abingdon Area Causing Major Damage and Injuries
A tornado struck the east Abingdon area at 6 45 p m Saturday destroying homes and buildings including the Stonewall Jackson Coffee induction center and damaging three buildings of Stonewall Jackson College and the Nurses Home at George Ben Johnson Memorial Hospital. Five injured with possible more unaccounted for. the storm ripped roofs from Abingdon High School and Eskimo Hut Service Station and heavily damaged a Negro neighborhood. The most severely hurt was Mrs. W L Gannoway, 56, in Dr Phillip Phipps’s home. See Abingdon Page 11.
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Weom State
Abingdon
Stonewall Jackson
United States Armed Forces
Stonewall Heights
Stonewall Jackson College
Abingdon Academy
George Ben Johnson Memorial Hospital
State Highway Department
Washington County Industrial School
Abingdon High School
Eskimo Hut
Taylor's Hill
W. L. Gannoway
Fhillig Phipps
George Ben Johnson Hospital
Gannoway
Street Scene Boys Mistake Circus Wagon For Animal Parade
A small boy misreads a gaudy red and white delivery truck parked downtown as an animal wagon and asks his mother to visit the circus. The scene on Broad Street shows two ancient vehicles chained together, one puffing and the other climbing a long hill, both with backfire trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allicy
T-motiel Bord
Broad Street
Long Hill
Bombers Reach Berlin in First Major American Raid
London AP report details a daylight U.S. Eighth Air Force raid on Berlin as part of a large assault into eastern Germany. Heavy bombers with Mustang escort penetrated 600 miles, facing blizzards and subzero cold, while RAF forces attacked northern France. Official counts of planes and losses remained incomplete.
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London
Berlin
Germany
U. & Eighth Air Force
Reich
Capitel
Europe
France
Vichy
RAF
Fortress
Taha
Siem
Oing
Harry
Lee
Daniels Reconsiders Appearing Before Senate Panel
Washington reports that Jonathan Daniels said on Saturday night he will appear as requested before a Senate agriculture subcommittee examining contempt charges. He says a talk with the President changed his stance and he now supports answering questions posed by the committee. Chairman Smith of the subcommittee said he views Daniels letter as satisfactory and will convene the panel Monday to receive it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jonsthen
Senate
Daniels
Smith
Agriculture
Dan
Rite House
FBI Nabs 31 in first step to curb ticket racket
Miami and Miami Beach see 31 arrests in a nationwide push led by Director J Edgar Hoover to stop a black market in railroad reservations. The group included 16 railroad workers and 14 hotel staffers with profits estimated at 15 000 to 20 000 dollars per month. Convictions could bring up to two years in prison and 5 000 dollars in fines.
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FBI
Miami
Fla
J¢ Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miami Beach
Hoover
Pacific Coast
Florida
Jare
Ernest L. Dubaime
FSI
3Ttardt
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Cs Berlin
Robert E. Utley
Walter W. Barr
Uber
Ind
Set
War Department
Barr
Utley
Anzio Beachhead
Truman
Iet Navy
Kingaport
James E. Weight
Mr. Wright
A. D. Brockman
Iworld
Wright
Red Crows
Louis (Lepkey Buchaiter
Capital
Anid
Gorlin
Jonathan Daniels
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