Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Vyazma Bastion War Front
Soviet headquarters says on the central front the Red Army has taken at least 44 towns and villages, crushed stiff German resistance, and moved within 80 miles of Smolensk. Nazis fiercely defend Vyazma, a key bastion 135 miles west of Moscow, as the road to Smolensk remains under threat.
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Adolf Hitler
Smolersk
Red Army
Bely
Vyazma
Moscow
Smolensk
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Hitler
Berlin
Ukraine
Russia
Red Cross praise for National Supply workers and tree-planting notice
The 20 employees of the National Supply Company (secondhand division) donated over 100 dollars to the Red Cross, averaging more than five dollars per person. They also contribute over 10 percent of pay to War Bonds through payroll deduction. The Ohio Division of Conserva tion and Natural Resources invites requests for trees under its planting program and urges prompt response to estimated tree needs. Hayden of the Game Management Division in Columbus oversees the project and will issue a booklet with full details.
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Fae Co
Red Cross
Red Cross War Ie
Ohio
Conservam and Natural Resources
Vision
Atéence
Pr Gant
Hayden
Game Management Ion
Conserva and Natural Resources
Columus
Bricker unveils farm solution plan for 1943
Ohio Gov. Bricker presents a war farming plan to 11 western states leaders in Des Moines. The proposal urges federal action to treat agriculture as a war industry, secure equipment and manpower, raise steel allotments, and lift red tape to boost 1943 planting and harvest.
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Columbus
John Wer
Des Moines
Y. Bricker
Ohio War Agricult Committee
Ohio
J P Morgan Better Grande Fra March 11 in Pierpont Morgan
J P Morgan heads the world famous banking firm as he announces plans at Grande Fra on March 11. The event marks continued leadership at Pierpont Morgan and signals strategic direction for the firm.
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J. P. Morgan
Better Grande
Fra
Pierpont Morgan
Labor bill would set 52 hour week for women
Organized labor opposed a Senate committee bill to fix a 52 hour week for women with war plant exemptions. Ohio CIO leaders urged defeat while labor groups warned extended hours would push women from war production. The measure, praised by employers and Gov Bricker, awaits Senate vote next week amid manpower strain.
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Columbus
Organized Labor
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Ted Silvey
Ohio Cio
CIO
Phil Hannah
Ohio Federation of Labor
John W. Bricker
Theodore M. Gray
Senate
State
Industrial Relations Department
Racketeers Pose As OPA Inspectors Claim
Washington reports racketeers posing as Office of Price Administration inspectors tried to seize canned foods by intimidating households. Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said private homes would not be searched except in flagrant cases and noted a city story of an OPA man entering a home without permission to check for undeclared processed foods.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Germans Claim 13 Allied Ships Sunk In Convoy
German radio broadcast via Berlin claims 13 Allied ships totaling 73 000 tons sunk by U boats from a North American to Britain convoy, raising total destroyed vessels to 36 in the last 24 hours, though no Allied confirmation has been received.
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Associated Press
Berlin
North America
Britain
Missing Hocking County youth listed in North Africa
Mrs Ruth Bloomfield received a War Department telegram stating Pvt Clyde Leonard Bloomfield age 22 is missing in action since February 17 in the North African theatre. Earlier, two other county men Clarence Earl Primmer age 28 of Logan Route 1 and Wilbur Raymond Primmer age 24 of Rockbridge were also listed missing.
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Hocking County
Ruth Bloomfield
War Department
Pvt
Clyde Leonard
Junior) Bloomfield
Clarence Earl Primmer
George Primmer
Logan
Wilbur Raymond Primmer
Haydenville Man Reported Missing
Wilbur Bond a 24 year old Haydenville man is reported missing since February 17 in relation to the North African campaign His mother Mrs William Bond was notified Thursday afternoon Bond attended school in Haydenville and his status marks the fifth local youth listed as missing in action in the same theater of operations
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Hocking County
Wilbur Bond
William Bond
Haydenville
Primmer Family Soldiers and Local Men in Wartime Service
The article notes Ambrose Primmer serving with the Army in North Africa and James known as Jiggs stationed in Wisconsin. Pvt Bloomfield, a Logan High School athlete, worked in Columbus before enlisting and has been in Africa for months. Clarence Primmer helped on the family farm near Logan during induction on October 22, 1941, while Wilbur Raymond Primmer, married with a child he has not seen, formerly worked at Lancaster Carbon Company.
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North Africa
James
Jiggs
Wisconsin
Pvt
Bloomfield
Logan High School
Columbus
Africa
Clarence Primmer
Logan
Wilbur Raymond Primmer
Lancaster Carbon Company
Allies Superior In Tunisia Says Stimson
Secretary of War Stimson said Allied forces in Tunisia had the better of last week’s fighting though losses were substantial. He reported over 1,000 Axis prisoners and more than 100 destroyed tanks, with American casualties peaking in mid February at 59 killed 176 wounded and 2007 missing.
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Washington
Tunisia
Stimson
North Africa
Apparel Purchases Gain in Week Ended February 27
State Treasurer Don Ebright reported sales tax receipts for the week ended February 27 showing women’s apparel up 105.7 percent from 1942, men’s clothing up 50.2 percent, and shoes up 64.3 percent, indicating a strong postwar shopping surge.
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Columbus
Don Ebright
Packers Hope for Expanded Market in Hogs
Chicago, March 11. Packing circles express hope that a new ceilings threat on hogs will spur farm marketing anew to capture current prices above the government planned maximum. Washington reports price officials considering a ceiling at 14.50 to 15 per hundred pounds, with orders to be issued soon. Hog prices in Chicago run around 15.50, with a weekly high of 16, the peak since October 1920.
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Chicago
Washington
Five Year Old Wickham Boy Recovering After Lung Bean Removal
In Columbus on March 11 a five year old boy, Robert Lee Wickham, was described as in fairly good condition after doctors removed a kidney bean from his right lung. His mother, Mrs Miles Wickham of Caldwell, said the boy likely swallowed the bean last November and the illness only recently diagnosed at a Zanesville hospital. The child was brought to Columbus under an oxygen tent.
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Columbus
Robert Lee Wickham
Miles Wickham
Caldwell
Zanesville
Postwar policy battles flare in Congress front
In Washington March 11 Republicans push Rums plan as Congress drafts postwar tax and labor policies. Senate weighs farm labor deferment while House contends with a salary limit repeal. Lend lease renewal moves toward approval with opposition from three Ohio Republicans. Labor shortages prompt revival of industrial concentration plans as postwar economic probes begin. A White House reception for 117 new congressmen ends with cautious optimism.
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House
Congress
Senate
Ohio
Walter E. Brehm
Robert F. Jones
Frederick C. Smith
White House
National Resources Planning Board
Allied planes sink five ships in Pacific and Burma front
Allied air forces credited with destroying five Japanese merchant ships in the southwest Pacific. MacArthur's HQ reports U.N. aircraft bombed three enemy vessels near Celebes Islands and Dutch East Indies, including a 7,000 ton ship left burning. Two more vessels hit off New Guinea. at least one 5,000 tonner damaged. no ground fighting reports from Burma or New Guinea.
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Southwest
Pacific
Burma
RAF
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Australia
Celebes Islands
Dutch East Indies
New Guinea
Congress Studies Post War Policy In Fight Over Planning
Congress signals it will largely ignore executive postwar plans and draft its own framework for economic transition. Senator George proposes a nine member postwar planning committee with a 50 000 staff budget to probe and guide policy while aims favor limited federal rehab aid and greater private initiative. Senate Foreign Relations backs lend lease vigilance warning agencies to seek congressional approval before future commitments.
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George
National Resources Planning Board
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Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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D-Tex
Taft
Ohio
Tata
French forces close ring on Axis at Mareth Line Tunisia
Secretary Stimson said fighting French troops engaged Rommel's 250,000 Axis troops by flanking the Mareth Line. Gen Le Clerc's columns, after marching over 1200 miles from Lake Chad, linked with Gen Giraud's forces to seal the trap.
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Stimson
Mareth Line
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
le Clerc
Lake Chad
Equatorial Africa
Henri Honore Giraud
Reds Drive Forward Around Vyazma In Smolensk Push
Red army columns surged forward on a broad front near Vyazma with steep German resistance and dug-in tanks used as pillboxes. Within 13 miles of Vyazma Russian shock troops pressed, more than 20 towns allegedly fell locally while several dozen villages burned in the Bely sector 70 miles northwest.
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Red Army
Vyazma
Bely
Coffee Rations Restored By OPA March 22
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown announced that coffee rations will be raised to one pound for five weeks starting March 22. He cited improved import conditions as enabling the return, calling the move welcome news to tens of millions of American coffee drinkers.
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OPA
Washington
Prentiss Brown
Senate Subsidies Bill Keeps Local Aid At 12 Million
In Columbus Ohio on March 11 the Senate approved a bill to continue the annual local government subsidy at 12 million dollars, sending it to the House. Sen. Lipscher urged 17 million but failed. The measure passed 31 to 1 with Lipscher dissenting. The chamber also backed a bill allowing armed service members to drive without a license if licensed before service and a separate provision to cut chauffeur license age to 16 to address delivery manpower shortages.
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Lipscher
Senate
ICC Denies Erie R R Bond Issue Permit
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied the Erie Railroad Company’s application to issue 14 million dollars of 3 percent bonds sold subject to ICC approval to Mongan, Stanley and Company of New York.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Erie Railroad Company
ICC
Mongan, Stanley and Company of New York
Appropriations Sought for Farm Labor Amid Food Supply Warning
Washington dispatch warns that without sufficient farm labor the food supply faces disastrous effects. The March 11 report notes government action to fund labor needs and prevent shortages, stressing impact on crops, markets, and national nutrition.
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Washington
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