Allied Offensive Shapes Up In Far Pacific
London reports great convoys of American troops moving toward Australia and India for a potential offensive to drive Japan back to Tokyo and Yokohama. Australian leaders promise a coordinated strategic build up with allied support as Java’s fall looms and Burma strengthens.
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Far Pacific
Melbourne
Australis
London
Pacific
Washington
Australia
India
Tokyo
Yokohama
John Beasley
Sydney
Southwest Pacific
Daily Mail
United States Pacific
New Guinea
Wake Island
Minamifori Suma
Marcus Island
Lendon
United Nations
Java
United States
Burma
Britain
Ndia
Japan
Arctic Wavell
Archibald Wavell
Wavell
Papa- Nego
Malaya
Thailand
Indo-China
Persia
Iles
Japs Seize Brazil Embassy in Tokyo and Hold Ambassador
Brazil reports its embassy in Japan occupied by military police and its ambassador held incommunicado. It notes Brazilian diplomats in Japan are treated as prisoners of war and vows reciprocal measures. Four uniformed officers guard the Brazilian residence as Tokyo tensions rise.
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Rio de Janeiro
Japan
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Germany
Italy
Itaro Ishii
Fuller-Hillman Interior Decorated on Broad Street
Painters completed a renovation of the Fuller-Hillman Co on Broad Street. The interior is white, brightening the rooms. Ray W. Hillman and a firm official said this marks the second interior painting since the Arm moved in four years ago.
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Fuller-Hillman Co
Broad Street
Ray W. Hillman
Train Crash Kills Six at Granby on Frisco trestle
Six people died and at least 45 were injured in a head on collision of two Frisco passenger trains near Granby Missouri. The Will Rogers from Oklahoma City to St. Louis had seven cars and many soldiers aboard. Torches were used to free passengers trapped in wreckage. Frisco officials blamed a signal mixup.
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Granby
Oklahoma City
St. Louis
Herschel
Pier
Springfield
Sam Weldon
Porter
Rogers
Army
Frankie Springfield
Will Rogers
Luther Erie
Tulsa
McAlester
Lester Powers
Ed Chapman
Frisco
Munition Truck Explodes Four Killed 100 Hurt
A truck carrying 30,000 pounds of munitions exploded after a wreck near Here Smithfield New York killing four and injuring about 100. The blast destroyed a tavern, filling stations, and windows for miles. two vehicles wrecked. wreckage scattered two and a half miles. Named dead include George Stroupe Cecil Propst Minnie Lewis Buck Mitchell.
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Smithfield
Selma
George Stroupe
Gastonia
CCC
New Holland
Cecil E. Propst
Lawndale
Minnig Lewis
Raleigh
Buck Mitchell
Dunn
U.S
Pretty Russian Guerrillas Win Red Banner Honors
Lida and Katia, young Russian guerrilla leaders, fight behind German lines. They ambushed a supply train, destroyed tanks and 41 automobiles, and received the Order of the Red Banner in Moscow. Katia commands about 30 fighters while her husband serves in the Red Army.
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Moscow
Lida
Katia
Red Army
Liola
New Japanese Forces Arrive For Bataan Fight
The war department reported new Japanese troops landed at Calapan Mindoro with tanks, signaling stronger opposition. Japanese naval units shelled Mindoro east shore, while Mindanao near Zamboanga saw desultory fighting. Bataan showed only slight artillery fire and a notional air raid.
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Washington
Philippines
Bataan Pon Y Insula
War
Mindoro
Lazor
Mindanao
Zamboanga
War Department
Bataan
Candidates and Board Set Monday Meeting in Blountville
County election board members will meet Monday at Sp. o. in Blountville to discuss the Democratic primary on April 4. Final plans for the primary and voter turnout on March 12 13 and 14 will be discussed. all party members are invited to attend.
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Pemiary Election Board
Sp. O
Blountville
Two Die In Auto Collision Near Hiltons Virginia
Two men perished in a head on crash three miles west of Hiltons Virginia late Saturday night. One victim was Paul Bush 19 of Hiltons Tennessee Eastman employee who died after being taken to Holston Valley Community Hospital. The other driver, a Bristol Virginia man, died instantly and was not identified at the scene.
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Hiltons
Paul Bush
Tennessee Eastman
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Bristol
Lam
Busie
British Forces Batter Pegu Area in Burma Battle
British armored units pressed efforts against Japanese positions in the Pegu sector about 54 miles northeast of Rangoon. RAF strafing continued as Japanese forces pushed across the Sittang toward Pegu, with Rangoon being reinforced. British bombers reached into Thailand raiding railheads for enemy supplies. If Pegu falls, the next aim would be the junction of Burma's two trunk highways near Pegu, potentially severing the Prome Rangoon railway.
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Mandalay
Pegu
Rangoon
Sittang
RAF
Thailand
Burma
Prome
Prome-Rangoon
London
Russians Call Up New Corps For Nazi Drive
Report from a Swiss frontier paper claims Russia is assembling multiple new army corps in a triangle between Rostov Stalingrad and Astrakhan. The aim is to counter a German spring push on Rostov oil fields and the Caucasus while Russian offensives reportedly disrupt Hitler’s plans up to 250 miles behind the front.
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Bevn
Hitler
Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov Dies in Swiss Sanatorium
The Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov, claimant to the old Russian throne and nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, died suddenly Friday at a Swiss sanatorium from a kidney ailment after a period of illness. He had been gravely ill about ten days.
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Waves
Switzerland
Dmitry Romanov
Russia
Nicholas IL
Talk of New Allied Front Finds Favor
London reports growing Anglo American acceptance of a second front in northern Europe to pin down German forces. The plan would open a joint U S British Soviet northern front around Norway to protect Murmansk and Archangel and ease Pacific pressure. Timor Dutch commissioner captured by Japanese forces, deputy commissioner captured after fleeing in a downed plane.
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London
Europe
United States
Hiller
Aulumnn
Japan
United Nations
Pacific
United Kingdom
Norway
Murmansk
Archange
Germany
Reich
Hitler
Britsain
Stafford Cripps
Russia
Washington
Timor
Tokyo
Domei
Australia
Driver For MD Lines Killed In Highway Crash
A defense worker from Laurel Md John R Hiller 21 died after a truck collision near Water Maryland Friday night He was the truck driver killed instantly at Baltimore hospital John William Price 34 of Kingsport Tenn a Mason and Dixon Lines employee since August 1993 also died from injuries The truck swerved off the road and struck a telephone pole Funeral services for Price were set for Monday at Morrison Chapel Burial will follow He is survived by his wife two stepsons his father three sisters and four brothers Fellow Mason and Dixon drivers to serve as pallbearers
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Savage, Md
Silver
John R. Hiller
Laurel
Baltimore
John William Price
Kingsport
Tenn
Henry Price
Nora
Gladys Price
Frances Carter
Hugh
Fred
Clarence
Harrison Price
Mason and Dixon
Masons Launch Intensive Scrap Metal Campaign
Kingsport Masons begin a scrap metal drive with a collection depot at EB Main Street opposite Slip Not Belting Corp. BE D Blankenbecler, drive chairman, says men will staff the depot after 5 30 p m daily and Saturdays afternoon to collect light metal. Heavy metal will be picked up at homes and businesses by calling 995 7 or 1976. Proceeds go to the Red Cross.
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Kingsport Masons
Main St
Belting Corporation
BE. D. Blankenbecter
Masons
Red Cross
Congress Uncovers Law Forbidding Allied Military Information
Congress members learn that reenacting the 1917 espionage act makes it legal to supply or transmit military information to Allied or enemy nations with penalties up to death. Senator Austin says a war secrets bill will correct the scope to prevent defense data sharing with foreign nations. The act may bar exchanges previously allowed by Lend-Lease, despite preexisting wartime authority.
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Washington
Congress
Austin
Senate
Vermont
United States
United Nations
Japs Break Through At Bandoeng
Japanese forces break through western Java defenses around Bandoeng as communications fail. Dutch retreat reported from Bandaeng area with armored units moving south toward Tangkoeban Prahoe and Lembang, while central and eastern Java faced advancing columns toward Soerabaja and Jogjakarta amid shattered defense lines.
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Jave
Bandaung
Magelang
Melang
Soerabaja
Javex
Tijilatjap
Remband
Soerakarta
Jogjakarta
South Shors
Indian Ocean
London
Java
Bandoeng
Dutch East Indies
Tondon
Long Island
Tava
Zreas
Tangkochan Prahoe
Aneta
Berlin
Tokyo
Lembang
Bandaeng
Tangkoeban Prahoe
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George
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