Allies Smash Jap Air Base At Rabaul In One Night Raid
Allied headquarters announced a pre dawn bombing of three airdromes at Rabaul New Britain destroying or damaging hundreds of Japanese aircraft. The raids used 54 tons of bombs and incendiaries over about ninety minutes. Gasmata Airdrome also targeted with two attacks leaving fires and smoke across facilities.
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Vern Haugland
Allied
Australia
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
William Thompson
Canton
Cape Gazelle
Gasmata
Japan
Mandated Islands
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Churchill Says 8th Army Gains Offset By Blow
World War II dispatches report Rommel's counterattacks recapturing Mareth border grounds while British, American forces maintain foothold near Mareth Village and Gabes. Allied gains include Maknassy ridge advances and prisoners as fighting rages across Tunisia with heavy losses on both sides.
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Churchill
Meat Probe Under Way in Cincinnati Meat Shortage
Cincinnati on March 24 with Hugh A Ritchey of the Office of Price Administration stating an investigation may designate the city a meat shortage area. About 25 to 30 percent of retail meat markets closed due to empty larders as E Kahn Sons resumed deliveries to regular outlets by Friday and Saturday after completing government orders.
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Cincinnati
Hugh A. Ritchey
Office of Price Administration
E. Kahn Sons’ Company
Food deliveries to Allied Nations fall short of 1942 average
The Food Distribution Administration of the Agriculture Department reported January shipments of 447,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs and other commodities to Allied Nations, marking a delivery level slightly below the 1942 monthly average.
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Washington
Food Distribution Administration
The
Agriculture Department
Convoy System Declared Best Defense Against Submarines
Liverpool report By the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association says the convoy system is the most effective response to German submarine attacks on Allied sea lifelines. It notes negligible losses in well guarded troop convoys and claims universal protection would likely break the submarine campaign.
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Liverpool
Liverpool Steamship Owners Association
UMW and Owners Agree to 30 Day Coal Pact After April 1
Northern Appalachian soft coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers reach a 30 day post April 1 operation pact on a retroactive basis. The agreement, signed by John L. Lewis for the UMW and Charles ONeill for the operators, covers 450000 miners and extends amid ongoing wage and hour negotiations.
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New York
United Mine Workers
Charles O'Neill
UMW
United States
John L. Lewis
O'Neill
Churchill Says Axis Regained Bridgehead
Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament that German counterattacks had recaptured most of the Mareth Line bridgehead. He cited Tunisia as still in hard fighting, with the Axis main line largely restored and the battle not yet at its climax for British and American forces.
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el Guetar
Maknassy
Rommel
U. S
Churchill
London
8Th Army
Zarat
Algiers
Gabes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Mareth Zone
Montgomery
Chott Djerid Salt Lake
Russia
Smolensk
Kharkov Front
House of Commons
Eighth Army
Three Die In Liquid Oxygen Truck Blast Near Cadiz
A truckload of liquid oxygen car tridges exploded four miles west of Cadiz Ohio yesterday after the truck ran off U S Highway 250 and overturned. Three men aboard were killed: William Nelson 22 of Steubenville Leonard Bake 22 of Smithfield and Roy Marker 18 of Bloomingdale. The blast shattered a crater twenty feet deep and forty feet wide and knocked windows nearby.
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Cadiz. O
Here
Donald Tope
William Nelson
Steubenville
Leonard Bake
Smithfield
Roy Marker
Bloomingdale
Anti-Saloon League Backs Liquor By Drink Bill
The Ohio Anti-Saloon League backs a bill to ban liquor by the drink, allowing bottle sales instead. Supt. S P McNaught says the measure would close places where war workers become unfit and where loose war talk is common, as introduced by Rep. L H Myers of Allen.
Pope Pius XII Improves in Rome Dispatch
A Rome broadcast via German radio and AP reports Pope Pius XII is in improved condition today after a period of indisposition since Sunday.
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London
Pius XII
Rome
Associated Press
Meat Rationing Issues Highlight Food Problems
Washington debates meat rationing values as the rationing program starts Monday and questions loom over two pounds of steak or 315 pounds of hamburger per person per week. Agriculture Secretary Wickard seeks substitutes for incentive payments and considers higher price supports for beans and peas amid crop shortages. House debates taxation issues and a War Security Act proposal, with focus on proof of wilful intent in wartime cases.
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Office of Price Administration
Washington
Agriculture
Wickard
House Appropriations
House of Representatives
Salvage Chiefs to Meet at Cleveland Conference Opens
A two day national conference of regional salvage managers and scrap processors branch of the War Production Board opens in Cleveland tomorrow. Harold Ludlow, Cleveland regional salvage manager, announced the meeting aims to launch programs and plans for salvage operations for the rest of the year.
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Cleveland
War Production Board
Harold Ludlow
Hitler's ex baker nabbed by FBI in New York
Adolf Hitler's former pastry chef, who baked for the Nazi Elite Guard at Berchtesgaden, was arrested by FBI agents as an enemy alien in New York. E. E. Conroy, FBI official, said the 40 year old said he arrived from Berchtesgaden in 1937 and worked at a West 42nd Street restaurant. He claimed he refused to serve in the U S Army and noted two brothers in the German army and a German policeman.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
FBI
E. E. Conroy
West 42Nd Street
Conroy
U. S
Labor chiefs oppose civilian draft and seek war mobilization office
Washington reports President Philip Murray and Socialist Norman Thomas voiced strong objections to a civilian draft. Murray told the Senate war investigating committee the CIO opposes formal drafting and rigid manpower curbs. He urged replacement with a plan for civilian control over labor, management, and materials under a war mobilization office.
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Washington
Philip Murray
Norman Thomas
Thomas
Murray
Senate War Investigating Committee
CIO
Office of War Mobilization
Allies Trade Punches With Nazis In France
Allied airmen struck northern France early today as Nazi warplanes resumed hit and run raids on Britain's coastal districts. The London report notes exchanges of hits across the English Channel with Allied fighters countering German raids and targeting enemy airfields and coastal targets.
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London
English Channel
France
Britain
Woman Dies in Route 23 Crash Near South Bloomfield
Mrs. Nellie Baker, 45, of Ashville, died when her car collided with a truck on Route 23 north of South Bloomfield. Two other Ashville women, Blanche Johnson, 36, and George Justice, 48, were injured.
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Columbus
Nellie Baker
Ashville
South Bloomfield
Blanche Johnson
George Justice
965 School Buses Fail To Meet Standards In 1942 43
In Columbus Ohio on March 24 Sept Lynn Black of the State Highway Patrol reported that only 965 of 5 636 inspected school buses met all operating requirements for the 1942 43 school year.
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Columbus
Lynn Black
State Highway Patrol
Bomb blast hits German stock depot near Perrache station
A late report from Lyon via Geneva states a powerful delayed bomb exploded beside the Perrache Railroad Station area used by German forces to store materials for trans shipment. The blast damaged nearby wooden buildings and disrupted transport in the area.
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Bern
Geneva Tribune
Lyon
France
Perrache
Expenditures for 1942 Reach New War Year High
Washington reports consumer spending in 1942 totaled 81.9 billion dollars, up ten percent from 1941. The Commerce Department notes higher incomes drove the rise, yet inflation pushed prices higher and left the quantity of goods purchased somewhat smaller.
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America
Commerce Department
Clergymen Press for Tougher Numbers Laws in Columbus
Three Toledo clergy appealed to the Ohio legislature to stiffen gambling statutes and eradicate the numbers racket in Toledo. A Toledo critic testified city police arrest gamblers under a lenient city ordinance, allowing the city to keep fines rather than share with the state. The proposed bill would raise penalties to $1000 fines and longer terms for second offenses, targeting vendors and promoters of the numbers racket.
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Columbus
Toledo
House of Representatives
William Miller
Company sued in two suits over alleged ejectors in Cleveland
In Cleveland on March 24 Jack & Heintz Inc faced two damage suits totaling 20000 dollars. Bernard A. Kroeckel and Emma J. Welsh allege humiliation and insult after being forcibly removed from the employment office while seeking work in February. Each seeks 10000 dollars in damages.
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Cleveland
Jack & Heintz, Inc
Bernard A. Kroeckel
Emma J. Welsh
Common Pleas Court
Man Killed as Auto Hits Street Car in Cleveland
Nick Kastar, 25, a Cleveland war plant worker, was killed today when his car collided head on with a street car while on his way home from work.
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Cleveland
Nick Kastar
Cleveland War Plant
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