British Armies Push Deep in Tunis Gabes Gap
Allied HQ reports British 8th Army driving into the Gabes bottleneck and 12 miles beyond Gabes to Oudret as Rommel’s retreating columns are pursued on a broad front. U S troops are said to be sealing Rommel’s escape corridor in three sectors across about a 100 mile front. Concurrently the British 1st Army opens a major offensive against von Arnim in the Tunis Bizerte area.
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8Th Army
Gabes
Erwin Rommel
U. S
Rommel
London
1St Army
Jurgen von Arnim
Tunis-Bizerte
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oudret
Gabes Gap
Resurfacing planned after minor street pothole repairs
Main street buckholes are being filled with bituminous material as city service department signals end of freeze risk. A full resurfacing project for Street is anticipated, with patching as a preliminary step. The Buckeye Tavern notes a rumored Straitsville Moon comeback, citing a Cheyenne liquor shop gag and a 1.50 mile joke.
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Maintreet
City Service
Buckeye
Trade Journal of
Ohio
Straitsville Moon
Straitsville
Hocking County
Wyoming
Perry County
Schoolboy Finds 013 901 In Junk Pile Find
York reports 13 year old Reet Kominsky of the East Side found 13901 dollars in a junk heap during a午ternoon break from 8B class. He and two companions discovered Frank money and coins, then told his family the astonishing sum before returning home.
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York
Kominsky
East Side
Frank
Commodities Destroyed In Columbus Warehouse Fire
Fire destroyed 20 barrels of spices 50 000 pounds of coffee 200 000 pounds of peanuts 36000 pounds of peanut butter and 20000 pounds of sugar in the Andrus Scofield Co warehouse in Columbus Ohio last night authorities reported today no injuries were noted and the loss was under investigation by local fire officials
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Columbus, O
Andrus-Scofield Co
New Straitsville Man Among Africa Casualties
Ed Reynolds a well known New Straitsville resident is reported killed in action in Africa. A World War I flyer now 43 he had served as an aircraft mechanic after age limits prevented further pilot duty.
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Ed Reynolds
New Straitsville
Logan
Reynolds
Postwar issues shift focus from Congress to manpower and trade
With Rumplan rejected and Emory S. Land renominated, Congress steps back as Roosevelts talks with Eden project a UN approach. A semi compulsory manpower plan aims to relieve dairy worker shortages and could spread to agriculture, while farm and truck prices and rubber and food production loom.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Emory S. Land
Congress
Roosevelt
Anthony Eden
United Nations
Senate
Committee urges federal exit from motor vehicle tax
A committee of experts studying intergovernmental fiscal relations says the federal government should abandon motor vehicle taxes as soon as possible and reserve taxation of aviation gasoline. The six volume report to Secretary Morgenthau also urges studying new local revenue sources and notes municipalities are in a bad financial way.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Coed 23 and cook murdered near Akron in car
Summit County Coroner R E Amos ruled murder in the deaths of Lucille Caprano a 23 year old Kent State coed and George W Reynolds a 55 year old Twin Lakes Country Club cook whose bullet riddled bodies were found in a car between Cleveland and Akron. Caprano suffered a chest wound while Reynolds had bullet holes in his back and chest. Both likely died by 10 PM Sunday and robbery is possible motive. Caprano was a Cleveland native returning home from campus.
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Akron
Summit County
R. E. Amos
Lucille Caprano
Kent State University
George W. Reynolds
Twin Lakes Country Club
Cleveland
Amos
Reynolds
Miss Caprano
Solon Man Says District Backed Ruml Plan
Washington dispatch reports Rep J Harry McGregor of West Lafayette says a district poll shows 95 percent favor the Ruml pay as you go tax proposal. He urged cutting the federal payroll by half and adopting a pay as you earn system while the House rejected the plan. Ohio Democrats Crosser Feighan and Kirwan opposed it. 18 Republicans supported the plan.
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Rep
J. Harry McGregor
West Lafayette
House
Congress
Rums
Ohio
Crosser
Feighan
Kirwan
McGregor
Bender
Bolton
Brown
Brehm
Carson
Clevenger
Elston
Griffiths
Hess
Jenkins
Jones
Lewis
McCowen
Ramey
Rowe
Smith
Vorys
Weichel
Bucyrus Brief: Truck Hit by Train Kills Walter Pine
Walter Pine, 28, of New Washington, was killed today when a Big Four railroad train struck his truck near Crestline. The accident occurred in Bucyrus O district, with authorities reporting the fatal collision this afternoon.
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Bucyrus. O
Walter Pine
New Washington
Crestline
Youth Admits Killing Family at Loomis Ranch
Amos Raymond Latshaw, 19, confessed to police that he killed his father Amos Latshaw 38, his mother and other family members on February 11 at their Loomis California ranch. Latshaw worked as a theater doorman in downtown Los Angeles until recognized by a traffic officer and taken into custody.
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Los Angeles
Amos Raymond Latshaw
C. E. Clark
Vernon Rasmussen
Latshaw
Loomis
Placer County
California
Rasmussen
Amos Latshaw
Draft program tightens dairy labor ties to service
President Roosevelt announced a semicompulsory manpower plan aimed at easing a 50,000 dairy worker shortage. The program could extend to all agriculture and essential industry, offering draft deferments and reclassifications, with overage and disabled men moved to inactive enlisted reserves and many dairy workers urged back to farm work.
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Roosevelt
Army
Ohio House Considers Pension Bill for Judges
Columbus March 31 A proposed retirement system would pension judges at $6 000 annually from a $12 000 salary, now approved by the Senate on reconsideration. The House faced opposition likening it to the failed Congressmen’s pension plan and might kill it. The session also moved to abolish county ditch inspection fees and to shift inmate care costs for feeble minded facilities to the state.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Senate
House
Christian Science
CIO Steel Workers Called From Plant
Youngstown Ohio March 31 A CIO steelworkers strike at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Campbell plant tied up shipping and threatened production. Union leaders claimed 500 shippers on three shifts walked out over a 25 percent basic bonus while company officials put the number far lower. Conciliator Robertson and War Production Board representatives pressed for a settlement as negotiations continued. Archie Cassanta said the union voted to seek the bonus.
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Youngstown
CIO
Shipping Department
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Campbell
Thomas Robertson
Robertson
Regional War Production Board
Arthur J. Petersen
Fred Selm
Archie Cassanta
United Steelworkers of America
Ohio Increases April Bicycle Quota In Cleveland
Ohio's April rationed quota rises to 3905, up 259 from March, per the regional Office of Price Administration in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Regional Office of Price Administration
Bomber sinks Jap destroyer near New Guinea night raid
A lone American flying fortress, in darkness, was credited with probably sinking a large Japanese destroyer and driving three others away off northern New Guinea. MacArthur headquarters said any supply run was thwarted. Pursuit missions also hit Lae Salamua and Finschhafen bases, and Gasamata in New Britain. An Allied recon plane shot down four of nine Japanese aircraft over the Bismarck Sea and returned to base.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
Salamaua
Finschhafen
Youngstown Killer Faces Electric Chair Tonight
William Patrick Jennings, 23, of Youngstown, is set to be executed in the electric chair for the August murder of 18 year old James Oswald White. A last minute stay would require an order from Governor Bricker. The conviction followed a traffic accident confrontation.
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Columbus
William Patrick Jennings
Youngstown
James Oswald White
John W. Bricker
Jennings
Oswald
Naples blast kills 72 in ammunition depot explosion
The Berlin radio report from Rome says an ammunition depot in Naples blew up last Sunday, killing 72 and wounding 1,179 civilians and soldiers. The incident underscores wartime strain and civilian casualties amid ongoing turmoil.
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Berlin
Rome
Naples
Explosion during demolition exercises at Camp Swift kills officer and seven men
An explosion at Camp Swift Texas during demolition drills left one lieutenant and seven enlisted soldiers dead and five others wounded. Names of the casualties were not released.
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Camp Swift
Tex
Kidnapped Lake Forest Youths Die in Abduction Case
Five youths abducted Helen Priebe 18 heiress to a coffee fortune Thomas Armour 18 grandnephew of Ogden Armour Kent Clow Jr 18 son of a plumbing supplies maker and another 18 year old were captured near Lake Forest after attending a theater and nightclub in Chicago. They were identified by the girl as abductors and died early today. Authorities said three of the five had been taken into custody.
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Chicago
Frank Tiffany
Lake Forest
Indiana
Wisconsin
Helen Priebe
Thomas Stanton Armour
Ogden Armour
Lester Armour
Kent Clow, Jr
Kent Clow
North Shore
Armour
Deputy Registrars Busy As Tag Deadline Nears
Ohioans fill deputy registrar offices on the final day to purchase wartime wind shield stickers for motor vehicles. The 2,270,000 last year included autos trucks trailers and motorcycles. Offenders without red or yellow stickers risk arrest.
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Columbus
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Yanks Pound
Frank Hopkins
Lexington
J. Archer Grey
Hopkins
Sedjenane
By Roger Greene
Associated Press
Wesley Jackson
Jackson
Africa
GOP
The
Solon Claims District
Ruml
the War Manpower Commission
Frank E. Whittemore
CIO Steel
Pearl Adams
Grosse Pointe
Mich
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