Major Burt Cochrane Leads Italian Squadron Life
In Italy on March 15 Major Burt Cochrane, executive officer of the squadron, is described as a gentleman cattle farmer near Kenwood north of San Francisco. He owns 4 acres, raises about 75 beef cattle, and enjoys a tranquil home with horses in a near utopian life. He is respected by enlisted men and officers for his soldierly demeanor and courtesy, often addressed as sir. Lieutenant Leroy Kaegi from Ashland, Oregon, had a busy day with two missions, morning and afternoon.
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Italy
Ajor Burt Cochrane
Ajor Cochrane
Cochrane
Sanancisco
Jack London
Kenwood
Leutenant
Leroy Kaeg
Eggy
Ashland
Ore
Kaegi
Deaths Tied to Extortion Ring In New Orleans Slayings
Detectives link two New Orleans killings to an extortion ring suspected of mutilating bodies with a timelike chemical. Victims include Gene Mano a French Market butcher killed last August and Tommy Siracusa who disappeared after a body found in the Mississippi two days earlier.
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New Orleans
John J. Groschid
Grosch
Geneano
Agust
Tommy Siracusa
Mississippi River
Mano
Siracusa
C. Grenes Cole
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Brooklyn
Italy
New Orleans Publishes March 16 Fruit and Vegetable Ceilings
The OPA district office sets new ceiling prices for fruits and vegetables in parishes outside New Orleans effective March 16. Prices include apples 2 lb for 25c, bananas 1 lb for 4c, grapefruit 1 lb for 8c, lemons 1 lb for 1c, and more across several categories. In Baton Rouge, Jared Young Sanders, former Louisiana governor, is reported seriously ill in local hospital after a long public career.
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New Orleans
OPA
Guatamala
Honduras
California
Arizona
U. S
Idaho Bakers
Baton Rouge
Jared Young Sanders
Louisiana
Sanders
United States Senate
London Hit by Fierce Fire Raid in March 15 Attacks
Rescue workers faced smoking ruins as London endured a major fire raid described as rivaling 1941 German assaults. Incendiaries and bombs hit business and residential districts. fires spread to warehouses and apartment blocks while American soldiers aided firefighting and rescue operations.
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London
United States Bombers Strike Hannover and Northern France
U S heavy bombers hit central Germany with strong escort focusing on Hannover amid major air battles. Marauder B 26s hit targets in northern France and Belgium as RAF and Allied fighters support. Mosquito raids on Düsseldorf precede a broader daily Allied offensive across Europe this month.
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London
United States
Germany
Strategic Air Force Headquarters
Hannover
Berlin
Ninth Air Force
France
Belgium
Dominion
Duesseldorf
Rhine
Cologne
Rail crash injures 55 at Memphis station
A Rock Island passenger train between Hot Springs Arkansas and Memphis rammed a steel and concrete bumper at the Memphis station. Fifty five persons, mostly crew and standing passengers, suffered slight injuries and were treated at Memphis hospitals or by railroad and city doctors.
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Memphis
Rock Island Lines
L M Hunt
Hot Springs
Ark
Hunt
Woodring backs Sam Jones as presidential timber
Former secretary of war Harry H. Woodring told a New Orleans press conference that a southern Democrat should be elected president to restore constitutional government and states rights He named Governor Sam Jones as presidential timber and outlined aims of the American Democratic national committee seeking party unity among opposed factions.
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New Orleans
Harry H. Woodring
United States
Sam Jones
Woodring
American Democratic National Committee
Louisiana War Contracts Top $1.44 Billion Through 1944
War Production Board data show Louisiana orders totaling 1 443 230 000 with shipbuilding 423 418 000 as the leading sector. New Orleans area dominates with 679 142 000 in contracts. Orleans parish leads parish listings followed by East Baton Rouge and Calcasieu.
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Washington
Louisiana
War Production Board
WPB
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
East Baton Rouge
Calcaseu
Louisiana Parishes
Beauregard
Bossier
Caddo
Calcasieu
Cameron
DeSoto
Ticheria
Iberville
Jackson
Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Lafayette
Lafourche
Lincoln
Morehouse
Natchitoches
Orleans
Ouachita
Plaquemines
Rapides
St. Charles
St. Landry
St. Mary
St. Tammany
Tangipahoa
Terrebonne
Vernon
Webster
Dublin faces lean times amid blockade fears
Dublin frets over Britain's plan to isolate Southern Ireland as travel and trade restraints loom. Churchill declines to discuss specifics while Irish demand details on coal fuel and other supplies amid an acute coal shortage and a half reduction in electricity use for heating.
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London
Dublin
Churchill
Britain
Ireland
Commons
Eire
de Valera
United Nations
United States
Dublin Dispatch
Allied planes bag 65 enemy aircraft in south Pacific sweep
Allied forces report no Japanese ships or combatant planes sighted in a three day operation near Wewak New Guinea despite a 500 ton assault that left as many as five enemy planes shot down. MacArthur headquarters confirms heavy air strikes on Wewak's airfields and supply areas.
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Associated Prees
South Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Japan
Aaron 8. Merrill
Victory Gardens
Douglas MacArthur
Bougainville
New Britain
Willaumez Peninsula
Talasea Battlefront
Sixth Army
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
Rabaul
Catalina
Nints
New Hampshire Favors Willkie in First Primary
New Hampshire Republicans appear to back a pro Willkie slate for the national convention as ten precincts report. Democrats choose delegates pledged to Roosevelt for a fourth term. Result signals a pro Willkie trend, with unpledged winners yet undecided on formal backing.
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Manchester
N. H
New Hampshire
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Charles A. Holden
Hannover
Natonal
Robert P. Burroughs
Willkie
Burroughs
Gripsholm Returns with 663 Repatriates to New York Harbor
The Gripsholm steamed into New York Harbor carrying 663 repatriates freed from internment in Germany and Nazi-occupied France. Red Cross workers anticipated 350 would need help locating relatives and securing hotel or employment. The ship passed Ambrose Light at noon and was due at about 2 50 p m at its dock, with thousands of letters and messages awaiting recipients.
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Jersey City
N.J
New York Harbor
Americas
Germany
France
Ambrose Light
Navy
Red Cross
American Export Lines
Finland Decides to Continue War With Soviet Russia
The Finnish parliament voted to continue the war against Soviet Russia rejecting Moscow's final armistice terms. The margin was about 120 to 40 with a small minority open to peace terms. The decision keeps Finland at war as Moscow's conditions were rejected.
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Finland
Russia
Louisiana to vote as a unit at Democratic convention
Louisiana selects delegates for the Democratic national convention with a unit vote in favor of restoring a two thirds rule for presidential nomination. Governor Sam Jones and Governor-Designate James H. Davis head a delegation, while Huey Long supporters push for district selection but fail. Delegates and alternates are named across eight congressional districts with at large electors designated.
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Baton Rouge. la
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
New Orleans
Sam Jones
James H
Jimmy” Davis
Huey Long
Leander Perez
Plaquemines Parish
Earl K. Long
Kingfish
Designate Davis
Emile Verret
Jones
Roland Cocehan
John Fred Odom
Alice Bondurant Conner
W. H. Talbot
James I. Smith
E. A. Stephens
Charles Farwell
George W. Hardy, Jr
Fletcher Cunningham
Sam Boylan
Claude Mauberret
James O'Connor
Clifton Ganns
Ralph Nicholson
A. B Freeman
J. A. Fernandez
Edward Haggerty
Robert Elliot
Leon Irwin
Romeal Theriot
B. C. Brown
C. A. Morvant
John M. Caffery
James Bienvenu
Clarence J. Savoie
Charles J. Barker
di. H
Missing top air ace Neal E. Kearby reported in action
Colonel Neal E. Kearby of San Antonio a leading Southwest Pacific ace with at least 21 victories is missing in action since March 5. He received the Medal of Honor from General MacArthur on January 22 for downing six enemy planes in one day.
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Dallas
Tex
Neal E. Kearby
San Antonio
Army Air Forces
Southwest Pacific
J. G. Kearby
War Department
Kearby
Fifth Air Force
Douglas MacArthur
University of Texas
Kelly Field
John G. Kearby
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Engineering Research Department
Eastman Dies. Longtime ICC Transport Chief
Joseph B. Eastman 61, director of defense transportation and 25 year ICC member, died after a month's illness from a coronary occlusion. Deputy Brigadier General Charles D Young to run wartime transport system. Eastman, native of Katonah New York, never married, shaped U S transport policy since 1919 and was praised by Brandeis. He joined during Wilson era and served under many presidents.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastman
Charles D Young
Katonah
N. Y
Massachusetts
Public Franchise League of
Boston
Street Railway Company
State Public Service Commission
Interstate Commercce Commission
Roosevelt
Ford Plant Pickett Line Dispersed in River Rouge
Police dispersed an auto mobile picket line at Ford Motor River Rouge plant with workers returning to jobs within an hour. Company and union spokesmen offered few explanations. The two demonstrations included Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine production and large gate blockages. Separately, the Louisiana Bankers Association will hold six regional conferences from March 20 to 25, starting in Shreveport and visiting Monroe Alexandria Baton Rouge Lafayette and Thibodaux.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Pratt & Whitney
Schaefer
Shreveport
Louisiana Bankes’ Association
R. J. Didier
Monroe
Alexandria
Baton Rouge
Lafayette
Thibodaux
Didier
Red Army tightens ring in Ukraine as Germans suffer heavy casualties
Soviet communique reports 10 000 German dead and 4 000 captured in operations around Nikolaev and Bereznegovat Snigerevka. Red Army closes exits from Nikolaev harbor and advances near Kherson Gaisin and Vinnitsa, claiming control of multiple localities and crossing the Bug river as part of a three front push.
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Moscow
Red Army
Ukraine
Black Sea
Nikolaev
Odessa
Russia
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Bereznegovat- Snigerevka
Kherson
Nikolaev Harbor
Shirokaya Balka
Bug River
Kiselevka
Chekhovichi
Bug
Gaisin
Vinnitsa
Mikhailovka
Kirovograd
Novo Archangelsk
Uman
Snigerevka
Korsun Ring
Draft policy clash over older fathers deferments in Congress
Washington March 15. Chairman May of Kentucky reopened the House military committee inquiry into draft deferment policies. A sub committee led by Costello will study moves by McNutt and Nelson to push for broader non-fathers deferments and induce older fathers into service, arguing it harms families and industry. A new order bans occupational deferments for men under 26 with narrow exceptions, boosting father drafts and reducing local boards discretion.
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Washington
May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Representative Costello
California
Paul McNutt
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
McNutt
Nelson
Selective Service
Caraway backs Roosevelt as Democratic choice
Senator Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas says President Roosevelt is the Democratic party's only hope for 1944. She tells a reporter she believes Roosevelt will be the nominee and downplays reports of split between northern and southern Democrats while planning her 1944 reelection campaign.
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Little Rock
Ark
Hattie W. Caraway
Arkansas
Roosevelt
Caraway
Allied Air Blitz and Ground Assault Target Cassino
Allied air power dropped more than 1 400 tons of bombs on Cassino in a half mile area, followed by a ground assault to drive German forces from the fortress town. The attack involved an armada of 3 000 sorties as British and American artillery joined in a heavy barrage to collapse resistance near the Fifth Army advance. Cassino sits on the Rome highway, 73 miles southeast of Rome and near the Anzio beachfront.
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East Anglia
England
Britain
Holland
London
Berlin
Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Oit
Rome
Anzio
Ira C. Eaker
Eight month old quintuplets born to Buenos Aires rancher
Franco Diligenti and his 42 year old Italian wife welcomed five babies eight months ago in a Buenos Aires suburb. The quints Maria Fernanda Maria Esther Maria Cristina Carlos Alberto and Franco weigh 20 to 25 pounds each and were born at home on July 11. Reports say the birth was kept secret to avoid public excitement like the Dionne children.
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Buenos Aires
Dionne
Franco Diligenti
Maria Fernanda
Maria Esther
Maria Cristina
Carlos Alberto
Franco
Diligenti
Valleta
Leila Shaw
Buenos Aires Herald
Critica
Canada
Senora Diligenti
Armando
Ana Maria
Mayra
Yvonne
Cecile
Emile
Annette
Marie Diotine
Calelander
Ont
Ontario
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Joseph BO Fastman
J. B. Eastman
Ford Plant
RED Cross War Fund
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