Mine Run correction and wartime chewing gum policy
A correction clarifies a Manila story about Rev. R K Story and his brother Rev. Mark Story, replacing mistaken identification from decades past. The piece then argues Wrigley will not dilute brand names during wartime shortages, praising transparent substitution and long held quality standards to preserve consumer trust.
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R. K. Story
Manila
City
R. K
Mark Story
Evansville
Ind
William Wrigley Jr Company
Wrigley Company
Switz City Plans Community Party for Team and Band
A community banquet for members of the Switz City basketball team and the Switz City band will be held in the Switz City gymnasium Thursday at seven o'clock. The public is invited to attend.
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Switz City
Switz City Band
Mrs. Mary Alice Hall Pigg Undergoes Major Surgery
Word from Hammond reports Mrs. Mary Alice Hall Pigg submitted to major surgery at St. Margaret's Hospital on Monday.
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Mary Alice Hall Pigg
St. Margaret's Hospital
Hammond
Attacks on Tokyo Destroy 233 Japanese Aircraft and 31 Vessels
American carrier aircraft struck Tokyo and nearby targets destroying or damaging 233 Japanese aircraft and 31 vessels and small craft. The Ota plant near Tokyo was about 75 percent destroyed and Haio island was targeted, with heavy losses for the enemy and minor losses for the U S forces amid adverse weather conditions.
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Frank Yremaine
United Press
Guam
U.P
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Ota
Keizuno
Ha‘io
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Nimitz
Mitscher
Syria and Egypt Declare War on Germany and Japan
Syria and Egypt formally declared war on Germany and Japan amid Allied pressure for Axis members to join the fight. President Shukri El Kuwaily announced Syria’s move in Damascus, with ratification by the Chamber of Deputies planned. Egypt’s chamber and senate approved the declaration and backed Premier Mahmoud Nokrashy Pasha’s government.
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Syria
Egypt
Germany
Japan
Shukri el Kuwaily
Damascus
Chamber of Deputies
Lebanon
Senate
Cairo
Mahmoud Nokrashy Pasha
Dairy Feed Payments Change Schedule
The dairy feed payments are now issued every three months instead of two. The next payment covers January to March and will be issued in April. The deadline for the November and December payment remains February 28.
Hospital Report on Local Surgeries This Afternoon
Mrs. Donald Burton of Worthington had a major operation this afternoon. Mrs. Joseph Cavanaugh of Coalmont underwent minor surgery. Mrs. Frank Inman of Linton route 1 was taken to the home of Mrs. Robert Trinkle today.
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Donald Burton
Worthington
Joseph Cavanaugh
Coalmont
Frank Inman
Linton
Robert Trinkle
Coal Shortage Looms With Nation Facing Crisis
Washington February 27 UPI Fuel Administrator Harold L Ickes warned that many industries will have to curb coal use or halt operations as the nation faces a potential fuel crisis. He noted a possible nationwide coal shortage by next winter amid a wage dispute and possible mine interruptions.
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Washington
U.P
Harold L. Ickes
Europe
United Mine Workers
Ray M Mitchell called by death
Ray M Mitchell, 40, died in an Indianapolis hospital after a brief illness. Survived by widow Beatrice Risher Mitchell and three children, two Army brothers, two sisters. Funeral from Newkirk Funeral Home Pleasantville, burial at Fairview cemetery. Reverend Charles Strater to officiate. Funeral Thursday at 2 30 p.m.
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Ray M. Mitchell
Indianapolis
First Church of God
Black Hawk
Beatrice Risher Mitchell
Billy Ray
Donald
Deloris
Artie
Ernest Mitchell
United States Army
Ira Snoddy
Lula Haupt
Terre Haute
Newkirk
Pleasantville
J Street
Charles Strater
Fairview Cemetery
Russians Seize Bridgehead Across Neisse River Southeast of Berlin
Red Armies broke German lines in central Pomerania and along the Neisse with a major bridgehead southeast of Berlin. Two Ukrainian regiments crossed the Neisse and fought into Gross Gastrose as Moscow reports heavy fighting near Dresden and Berlin’s defenses.
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Neisse River
Berlin
Robert Musel
United Press
London
U.P
Pomerania
Baltic Sea
Moscow
Neisse
Dresden
Ivan S. Konev
Saxony
Middle
Oder
Gross Gastrose
Guben
Forst
Cottbus
Oder River
Radio Berlin
Third Attempt to Prove Man Guilty in Bank Robbery Slaying
Robert J. Loftus 45 of Rockford Illinois faced a third trial in South Bend Indiana for the 1933 Lacrosse bank holdup murder of teller William Tennell. Judge J Fred Bingham presided as the retrial followed hung jury in St Joseph and a 1943 conviction that was stayed while an indictment defect was reviewed.
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South Bend
Ind
U.R
Robert J. Loftus
Rockford
William Tennell
Lacrosse
State Bank
J. Fred Bingham
Superior Court
Loftus
Lillian Youngreen
LaCrosse Bank
Taylorville
Ill
Tennell
St. Joseph
State Supreme Court
Nurses of Bataan Return to United States After Years in War
The Angels of Bataan, 68 army nurses, arrived at Hamilton Field California aboard four skymasters, three weeks after liberation in Manila. They endured Japanese starvation, losing pounds but none seriously ill, as crowds welcomed them with applause and reunions with families.
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Angels of
Bataan
Philippines
Letterman General Hospital
Hamilton Field
Calif
Manil
Gwendolyn Henshaw
Los Angeles
U. S
Hattie Brantley
Jefferson
Tex
T. D. Stevenson
Santo Tomas
Hickman Field
Honolulu
Paradise
California
Maude C. Davison
Cannington
Toronto
Ont
Vivian Weisblatt
North Land
Ore
United Press
Franz Weisblatt
Australia
Coregidor
Sexton Mixup Sparks Campus Laughs at Berkeley
A Berkeley professor was surprised after a reading exam on a sextant led to a co-ed being described as having learned how to handle a sexton yesterday. The mixup amused the campus as students discussed the astronomy quiz and its unintended humor.
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Berkeley
Cal
U.P
Man Applies for Car Purchase Permit in Oklahoma
A 57 year old man applying to an Oklahoma ration board for permission to buy a new car states that he will not use the car for pleasure because he is past that age. The remark appears in his application.
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Oklahoma
Call for Names for Grant Fairplay Honor Roll
Mrs. Palmer Hannum of Switz City urged all persons with names to contact her at once to be added to the Grant Fairplay honor roll, announced today.
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Palmer Hannum
Switz City
Moody wounded slightly in foot during service
Mrs. Bernice Liddil Moody received a V mail letter from her husband Pfc James L. Moody stating he had a slight wound in his foot. Moody enlisted in 1944, previously worked as a local post office mail carrier, now 31.
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Ebler
Lorraine
France
Quartermaster General
Army Service Forces
Washington
Philip Botchin
Epler
Pvt. Ebler
John Ebler
Linton
Bernice Liddil Moody
Pfe
James L. Moody
Pfc. Moody
Allied War Planes Out Again Over Germany
London reports more than 2,500 American and British aircraft struck German rail hubs Leipzig Halle and Mainz for the 15th straight day. Doolittle’s Eighth Air Force launched a 2,000-plane daylight raid on Halle and Leipzig, followed by 500 Lancasters and Halifaxes against Mainz. A British force bombed a benzol plant at Gelsenkirchen. Swiss dispatches say two American bombers were downed near Luzern.
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London
U.P
Germany
Leipzig
Halle
Mainz
James H. Doolittle
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Rhine
Gelsenkirchen
Ruhr
Luzern
Switzerland
Italy
Linton Boy Scouts Join Gen Eisenhower Waste Paper Drive
Linton Boy Scouts participate in the Gen Eisenhower Waste Paper Drive to aid war material shortages. Each registered Scout must collect 4 percent ton of waste paper, with medals and citations awarded for meeting quotas. Campaign runs from March 1 to April 30.
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Linton
Eisenhower
Triumphal Parade Of American Arms To The Rhine
Paris reports the German front west of the Rhine collapsing as U S forces flood into the Ruhr valley within eight miles of Cologne. The Ninth and First Armies push six miles, with Cologne bombarded by 155 mm guns and German defenses thinning. Over 6,500 Germans surrendered in 24 hours, about 11,000 in 48 hours, amid shattered rear areas and disorganized command posts.
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Paris
U.P
Rhine
Ruhr
Erft River
Cologne
U. S. First
Ninth
Roer River
Germany
Whelltorn
Rhineland
Roer-Rhine
Ninth Army
Muenchen- Gladbach
First Army
Erft
Marines Knock-Out Half of Jap Garrison on Iwo Jima
U S Marines reported they had knocked out half of the 20 000 Japanese garrison in the nine day battle of Iwo Jima. Lt Gen Holland M Smith said the island would be captured in a few days as Marines fought toward the north coast and northern airfield.
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Guam
U.S.U. S
Iwo Jima
Iwo
Holland M. Smith
Marines In
Pacific
Pacific Fleet
Task Force 38
Tokyo
Maré A. Mitscher
Chester W. Nimitz
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P. I
R. K Story
Rev. R. K. Story
Switz City Plans Community Party
Keizumo Airplane
Ray MS. Mitchell
Cager
Craftsbury
Barton Academy
Fifth Division
Suribachi
U. S. Navy
NEA
Dillon Ebler
New York
N. Y
Melen J. Ebler
Sycamore Street
Boonville
Indiana
Dillon W. Ebler
Central
East River
Angels OF Bataan
San Francisco
Sexton
CINCH
James Leon Moody
Linton Boy Scouts
The
Boyd D. Lewis
Iwe Jima
Frank Tremaine
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