Red army drives toward Czechoslovakia and Odessa
Moscow reports the Prut crossing as the Red Army pushes 30 miles from Kolomea toward the Czechoslovak border. Stalin described Kolomea as a key Carpathian foothill strongpoint and tank infantry bold maneuver. Other forces move across south Russian steppes toward the Black Sea port of Odessa with advances near Nikolaev and along the Odessa Tiraspol Isai railroad corridor.
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Moscow
Prut
Rumania
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
ONDON
Kolomea
Lwow-Czernowitz
Stalin
Poland
Carpathian
Carpathians
Red army
Black Sea
Ossa
LONDON
C.P
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Nikolaev
great Black Sea
Odessa
Bessarabia
Death Ends Career Of Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock Canadian economist and humorist died in Toronto after weeks of illness at 74. A private funeral will be held Friday at St George's Anglican church Sibbalds Point Lake Simcoe attended only by family and close friends.
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TORONTO
Stephen Leacock
McGill University
Toronto General hospital
Leacock
Tweedsmuir
C.P
St. George’s Anglican church
Sibbald’s Point
Lake Simcoe
Sutton West
Melting Pot Hawaii Birthrates and Mixed Heritage
A Collier's inspired view notes Hawaii’s diverse population rising from industrial mixing and disease earlier, with mixed native and immigrant lineages showing vigor and high birth rates. It cites a "League of Nations girl" with Hawaiians Spaniards Chinese Japanese English German and Scottish blood. The piece also alludes to patriotism verses and postwar occupation hints.
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AWAIL
mainland
Pacific
Collier’s
League of Nations
Quadruplets Born at Sloane Hospital in New York
New York March 29 2 P A trio of girls and a boy were born today at Sloane hospital for women to Mrs Harry Zrief the hospital announced The girls weighed five pounds each the third girl four pounds 12 ounces and the boy four pounds 13 ounces The mother and babies were said to be doing exceptionally well.
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NEW YORK
Sloane hospital
Harry Zrief
Revised Bank Act to be Introduced After Easter
Ottawa March 29 The revised Bank Act and other financial measures will be introduced in Parliament after the Easter recess. The plan includes an industrial development bank with a projected capital of 25 million held by the Bank of Canada, and aims to aid post war housing and farming credit. The Bank’s loss ratio is put at about one percent per year. Certificates include a national housing and agriculture credit push.
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OTTAWA
Douglas Abbott
Isley
house banking committee
Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
CBC
Augustin Frigon
the
commons radio committee
Paul Triquet Back Home
Major Paul Triquet, 36, Victoria Cross recipient, arrived at Dorval airport aboard a Trans-Canada Airlines Lancaster after a nonstop flight from Prestwick Scotland. He was greeted by his wife and family, Defence Minister Ralston, and civic officials, and plans a civic reception in Quebec tomorrow before returning to his home in Papineau Quebec.
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MONTREAL
Paul ‘Triquet
Dorval
Prestwick
Scotland
Maj
Triquet
Ralston
Buckingham Palace
Moro river
Italy
Quebec
Pabano
Que
Japs Suffer In Air Fights
Destruction of 30 Japanese aircraft with six more probably destroyed and seven damaged was reported for two days of air action over Burma and Assam. Mountbatten HQ said Japanese pressure continued near Ukhrul northeast of Imphal, with allied troops taking new positions and checks on thrusts toward Imphal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHARLES GRUMICH
Associated Press
NEW DELHI
Burma
Assam
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Ukhrul
Imphal
Burma-India
Manipur
Cassino Tactics Shift As Gurkhas Withdraw From Hills
Allied reports from Naples say Indian Gurkha troops pulled back from Hangman's Hill and Hill 202 near Monastery Hill above Cassino after two weeks of siege. Artillery duels and air supply issues persisted as medium bombers targeted rail lines from northern Italy to the German front. Headquarters cited strategic value loss after the Cassino offensive failed to dislodge German forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LYNN HEINZERLING
Associated Press
NAPLES
Hangman’s Hill
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Italy
Hill 202
Alleged Killer Bigamously Wed To Nine Women
Washington March 29 The justice department said Roger Lewis Gardner 26 was arrested in New York City in the Gardenia Murder case and other offences. He is charged with impersonating federal officers. Gardner allegedly fatally beat Mrs Ora Murray and left her nude body on a Los Angeles golf course July 27 and had married at least nine women without divorces, victimizing at least 20 women.
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WASHINGTON
justice department
New York City
Roger Lewis Gardner
Gardenia
Los Angeles
federal bureau of Investigation
Gardner
Ora Murray
Chaplin Admits Immorality Claims In Mann Act Trial
Los Angeles March 29 Charlie Chaplin testified via butler Edward Chaney at his Mann Act trial that he had sexual relations with Joan Berry in New York. Prosecutors allege Chaplin transported Berry to New York in 1942 for immoral purposes as his case closes. Chaplin’s attorney Jerry Giesler had said he would deny any intercourse in New York.
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LOS ANGELES
Charlie Chaplin
butler
Chaplin
Joan Berry
New York
Edward Chaney
Joan
Jerry Giesler
Britain Bars Export Of Daily Papers
London reports the British government banned exports of daily newspapers to several regions including Ireland, excluding morning papers, as a precaution against information leakage ahead of the anticipated invasion zero hour.
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Britain
LONDON
C.P.Reuters
Ireland
Churchill demands confidence vote after one vote defeat
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, cheered by Commons, vows to resume education hearings and delete clause 82 proposing equal pay for women and men teachers. He says deletion will be treated as a vote of confidence. if majority fails, government could resign and a new cabinet formed. Next session uncertain.
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WINNIE
Churchill
House of Commons
Gen
Eisenhower
U.S
House
James M. Long
Associated Press
C.P
Empire Air Plan Urged
Ottawa March 29 An Empire system of air transportation within an international aviation framework is the Progressive Conservative alternative to the government policy. John Diefenbaker urged an Empire air board with Britain dominions and India, an Empire corporation with Canadian headquarters, and independent regulation by a board of transport. He contrasted PC views with CCF and British Labour on ownership and control of aviation amid war-appropriation debate.
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OTTAWA
C.P
John Diefenbaker
P.C
Lake Centre
Howe
Diefenbaker
British Commonwealth
Empire air board
Great Britain
dominions
India
Empire corporation
Canada
board of transport commissioners
munitions department
CCF
M. J. Coldwell
C.C-P
United States
Aerial War Waxes Bitter Over Central Germany and Pas-De-Calais
American heavy bombers struck central Germany and the Pas-De-Calais coast in a major battle described as aimed at Luftwaffe strength on land and in the air. Maj Gen Doolittle announced a new monthly record with more than 2,100 German planes destroyed in eight weeks, based on raids from Britain. Fighter escorts accompanied the missions, following a prior four-dozen airdrome raid in France.
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AUSTIN BEALMEAR
Associated Press
LONDON
Germany
Pas-De-Calais
France
U.S
James H. Doolittle
Britain
Penicillin for public use soon in Canada
Ottawa March 29 The Munitions Minister Howe told Parliament that penicillin could be released for civilian use within five to six months. He cited guidance from a National Research Council committee and said production progress was ahead of schedule. Sufficient supply exists to meet armed forces needs.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Howe
commons
Herbert Bruce
P.C
Toronto Parkdale
National Research Council
Allied Bombers Strike Pacific Bases In Heavy Raids
Allied bombers dropped 252 tons of explosives in raids across the Bis Marck Sea area hitting Kavieng New Ireland Rabaul New Britain Bougainville Island and Wewak Hansa Bay on the New Guinea coast The heaviest blows fell on New Guinea coastal targets with about 2 500 tons dumped this month reducing Japanese air and supply operations Wewak received 74 tons Hansa Bay 94 tons Kavieng 50 tons and Bougainville 38 tons in additional strikes plus a fire set on an enemy cargo ship near Kaimana Dutch New Guinea.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific
Allied
Bis- Marck Sea
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Wewak
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
south Pacific
Torokina
Bougainville
Kaimana
14-Year-Old Girl Slain in Detroit Refuse Dump
Detroit police reported the death of 14 year old Joyce Raulston, a local schoolgirl missing since Friday. She was found slain on a city refuse dump near the western city limits, with stab wounds and blunt force injuries identified as the cause.
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DETROIT
Joyce Raulston
Peace Govt For Italians Pledged After Rome Capture
Naples March 29 44 King Victor Emmanuel pledged to form a government with a larger base after Rome fell and with an Italian parliament to be elected within four months after peace is established. The plan was made public by Interior Minister Vito Reale at a Po tenza rally of the Italian democracy party.
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NAPLES
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Italy
Vito Reale
interior
Italian democracy party
Potenza
Allies plan Anzio offensive with reinforcements
Paris radio reports considerable Allied reinforcements landed at Anzio for a new offensive to be preceded by a powerful air assault. German air force fights American bombers over central Germany as Pas-de-Calais coast bears the 68th raid in 106 days. Russians clash in Czernowitz suburbs as Balta near Odessa falls. Alberta eyes 10000 veterans settling on arable land after soil surveys. Germans lose 4000 in Yugoslavia in late 1943, Tito's army noted. Japanese liner Nahal Mare hits a mine near Canton with most of 400 aboard drowned.
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FARIS
ANZIO
LONDON
Paris
Italy
Jean Paques
GERMANY
Pas-de-Calais
CZERNOWITZ
C.P
Prut river
Rumania
Bucovina
Ukraine
Balta
Odessa
TANNER
ALBERTA
CALGARY
N. E. Tanner
Yugoslavia
Moscow radio
Marshal Tito
Army of National Liberation
BBC
CHUNGKING
A.P
Chinese Central News agency
China
Canton
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ager
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Paul Triquet
Cassino Hill
Empire Air Plan
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Royal Canadian naval
RCAF
R.C.AF
R.C.A.F
Douglas Duval
East Kildonan
Man
A. Ferguson
Seven Islands
Leon Vigneault
Cap Whittle
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