Meat Markets And Red Cross Aid In The Season
A column notes a fund drive and material aid for the Red Cross with a request for a foot powered sewing machine. Volunteers led by Mrs. Frank Brown coordinate transfers. Separate items report government securities sales totaling 343.40 last week and 300.25 for March 22 26, with Senior High leading contributions at 94.95, Junior High 72.90, West 68.90, Central 40.45, East 23.05.
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Red Cross
Legace
Frank Brown
Volunteer Activ
Little Army
Senior High
Junior High
West
Central
East
Allied forces push deeper into Mareth Line Tunisia
Allied war bulletins report Gen. Montgomery's 8th Army advancing into the Mareth Line despite heavy rains and resisting fire. Many prisoners were captured as the push continued with recon in force by Gen. Anderson's 1st Army toward the Tunis Bizerte zone while Patton’s US forces press toward the coast.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Mareth
Eighth Army
Cairo
Egypt
8Th Army
Tunisia
Algiers
Wadi Zigzaou
Little Maginot
Montgomery
K. A. N. Anderson
Tunis-Bizerte
Mareth Line
el Guetar
Maknassy
U. S
George S. Patton, Jr
Lewis presses miners pay in dramatic Senate hearing
In Washington on March 27 John Lewis argued miners deserve higher wages and may strike if not granted them. UMW president joined Americans in hoping no work stoppage is needed but rejected the no strike pledge as voided by the War Labor Board. Soft coal operators and unions debated a time limit for contract talks with a 30 day extension option and retroactivity to April 1 as the current pact nears expiration March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Lewis
New York
Roosevelt
Oxford man named to executive committee duties
E. J. Ashbaugh of Oxford Ohio was named to the executive committee at a North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools meeting held in Chicago on March 27.
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Chicago
E. J. Ashbaugh
Oxford, O
North Central Associatf Colleges
Large cities assign extra cops to stores before rationing
Ohio butchers and shoppers faced shortages as meat demand surged ahead of Monday rationing. In Cleveland crowds formed at markets selling out quickly while Columbus and Cincinnati saw reduced supplies. OPA released 165000 pounds to Cincinnati and 200000 to Dayton. Springfield warned of a meat famine without more stock. Officials urged restrained buying as slaughter quotas reset April 1.
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Cleveland
Columbus
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Cincinnati
Dayton
John Boller
Springfield
Birkett L. Williams
Williams
La Guardia May Enter U S Army as General
New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia reportedly faced an Army commission in a presidential order awaiting War Department clearance. The order would require a Governors Island physical next week and proposes promoting La Guardia to brigadier general, with waivers for any defects.
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New York
The
Daily News
Washington
F. H. la Guardia
War Department
Governors Island
la Guardia
Plane still in action after 600 enemy holes in raid
Sgt Charles O Starcher of Logan Ohio radioman on the bomber Flying Cock and three crew members who bailed out after a raid on Tripoli January 15 remain missing while the ship keeps operating despite 600 holes from enemy fire. Bom bardier Robert W Slade says the plane sustained a direct 88mm hit on engine three, caused fire and shaking, riders prepared to land on water, hydraulic line repaired with tape, landing gear lowered, four crew bailed out, others continued to fight for recovery.
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Charles Starcher
Robert W. Slade
Norfolk
Brown
Llewellyn Brown
Malvern
Ark
RAF Bombers Hit Duisburg and Ruhr Targets
A strong RAF bombing force attacked Duisburg and other Ruhr targets last night per the air ministry, with four bombers missing. Fighter command aircraft engaged the area as part of the operation.
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London
Duisburg
Ruhr
Air Ministry
These Youngsters Have Not Tasted Food for 2 Years
In Columbus Ohio on March 27 a hospital report highlights two youngsters at University Hospital who have not tasted food for more than two years. Five year old Eugene Blevins, son of Mrs. Alice Blevins of South Web, is among them. The story notes concerns over rationing and food supply affecting children.
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University Hospital
Eugene Blevins
Alice Blevins
South Web
Aircraft Carrier Fleet Augmented Near Action Areas
Washington March 27 Dozens of small but useful new aircraft carriers are now in combat areas, Secretary Knox said yesterday, and scores more are either heading for action or are under construction.
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Washington
Knox
Stock Market Hits New Peak on Broad Rally
New York March 27 Securities prices surged to fresh highs in years as Wall Street saw the broadest buying wave since the Pearl Harbor aftermath. The Stock Exchange announced that from April 1 margin trading in low priced issues would end, with many gains of one to five dollars a share and a daily turnover of 2,142,880 shares the largest in 15 months. The average of 60 stocks rose to 47.70 the highest since May 11, 1940. Bonds also climbed to top levels since 1937 as the exchange eyes public reaction to war time trading while stressing market strength to support treasury war bond sales.
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Wall Street
Rails
Exchange
Board of Governors
Treasury
Eden Vows Britain Will Fight To End War
Apostle Eden pledges unyielding battle alongside United Nations to crush Axis powers in Europe and Pacific. He warns of strains ahead, promises steady effort with China and United States, and says no sudden victories expected. Broadcast across CBS.
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Anapolis
Britain
United Nations
Anthony Eden
United States
Maryland
China
Pacific
U. S
Eden
CBS
Additional Local Registrants Placed For Service
The Fort Hayes public relations office in Columbus announced more local men sworn into the service in the past days. Nolan Arledge from Laurelville Route 3 heads to Camp Shelby Mississippi. Robert O. Steele of Laurelville goes to 471st Ordnance Evacuation at Camp Chaffee Arkansas. Joseph T. Kran nitz of 235 Hocking Avenue Logan heads to 497th Port Bn TC at Fort Lawton Washington. Owen S. Kinnison Gore Route 1 and Joseph R. Rarick 312 West Main Street Logan receive assignments to Camp Polk Louisiana.
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Fort Hayes
Columbus Army Induction Center
Hocking County
Camp Shelby
Miss
Nolan Arledge
Laurelville
Gore
Joseph R. Rarick
West Main Street
Logan
Suspended Sentence in Embezzlement Case
Frederick J. Scherer of Ironton Ohio received a suspended two year sentence in U S district court on a guilty plea to an embezzlement charge involving 2308 45 dollars from the Liberty Federal Savings and Loan Association of Ironton His counsel said he lost most of the money in a gambling house and that his father had made up the shortage
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Cincinnati
Mar
Frederick J. Scherer
Ironton
U. S. District Court
Liberty Federal Savings & Loan Association of
Scherer
John H. Druffel
Red Fighters Storm Into German Trenches
Soviet troops fight to hold positions north of the Donets River while diniGerman counterattacks north of Chuguev fail. Russian forces claim to have stormed into German trenches killing a large portion of the enemy and seizing guns and ammunition. Western front activity includes consolidating gained lines and scouting as three Soviet thrusts push near Smolensk and Dorogobuzh.
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Moscow
Mareh
Chuguev
Donets
Belgorod
Red Army
Smolensk
Vyazma-Smolensk
Dorogobuzh
Fire destroys barn on Dillon farm near Tiffin
A barn on Charles Dillon’s farm near Tiffin caught fire on March 27, killing 30 dairy cattle, 12 hogs, a horse, and more than 20 calves and sheep. The blaze caused extensive property loss and is under investigation.
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Tiffin
Charles Dillon
Pay as you go tax debate intensifies in Washington
Congress wrangles over pay as you go income tax plans as the House schedules a Saturday session to push the Ruml skip a year proposal. President Roosevelt defers 3.5 million farmers from military service and studies a farm land army plan while a farm price bill faces a possible veto.
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Washington
House
Rep
Dingell
D-Mich
Roosevelt
Morgan Sons To Share Financier's Estate
J P Morgan who died March 13 will have his residuary estate shared by his two sons Commander Junius Spencer Morgan and Lieutenant Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan under the will filed in surrogate's court. Each daughter receives 25000 and generous bequests go to 27 domestic servants.
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Mineola
N. Y
J. P. Morgan
Junius Spencer Morgan
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Paul G. Penoyer
George Nichols
Massillon Lieutenant among six killed in Alamogordo crash
Second Lt. Will D. Willis of Massillon Ohio was among six airmen killed when a heavy bomber crashed southeast of the Alamogordo air base during a routine flight. Public relations officer W. G. Zelt reported no details on cause.
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Alamogordo, N. H
Will D. Willis
Massillon, O
Alamogordo Air Base
W. G. Zelt
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An Basil
No. African Front
By Roger Greene
Associated Press
Allied Headquarters
Solons
Ohio
Old Mother Hubbard
Sgt. Starcher
Ralph Starcher
North Street
Columbus, O
Harbor
Stock Exchange
Michigan Democrat
GOP
Morgan Sons
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