RAF Keeps Up Steady Attacks Upon Germany
RAF bombers hammered western German industrial areas and mined Axis waters in a weeklong air offensive described as a prelude to invasion. Three bombers were reported missing as raids continued on Berlin and other targets while Dover Straits artillery duel with German positions across the Channel.
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Germany
RAF
Charles A. Smautie Chon
London
Marvel
Royal Air Force
Bere Fin
Bomber Command
Europe
Stockholm
Britain
Berlin
R. A.F
Reich
England
Dover Straits
Channel
Winter Weather Returns With Snow On Highland Hill
A local high school lecture on vegetable gardening aired remarks about frozen vegetables as March began. Winter roared back with several inches of snow and a sharp cold snap. Groundhogs at Crafton Park reportedly remain in hibernation as heavy shovelling resumes after an abrupt winter return.
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Kemper
Highland Hill
Owen Wox
Crafton Park
Daily Weather Report United States 9 a.m. figures
United States daily weather statistics for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. record a maximum temperature of 2b and a minimum of 9 with 24 two and a half inches of snow and a river stage at 63 feet. The year-ago figures show a maximum of 42, minimum 31, precipitation .65 inches and six and a half inches of snow.
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United States
Skeptical Over Reports Hitler Mussolini Meet
London officials doubted claims that Hitler and Mussolini met recently in Germany. Past such meetings carried propaganda and would have been used to lift axis morale. Hitler was believed on the eastern front. Berne reports said the meeting, requested by Hitler, set groundwork for later decisions with Mussolini in Rome and four German demands on Italy.
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Qlote
London
Bertie
Hitler
Mussolini
Germany
Fuehrer
Ti Duce
Axis
Berne
Joachim Ribbentrop
Rome
Accore
German Forces Withdraw From Rzhev Front
London March 3 International News Service reports the German high command announced the garrison at Rzhev northwest of Moscow has been evacuated in a planned move to shorten the front. The note recalls a December Soviet report found in a Nazi prisoner copy of Hitler’s orders to defend Rzhev at all costs, warning its loss would be like losing half of Berlin.
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International News Service
London
Rzhev
Moscow
Adrolf Hitler
Berlin
Sommunique
Raney
Mitler
Farm Meetings At Princeton
Two farm meetings are scheduled for Friday at Princeton high school as announced by the Lawrence County Agricultural Extension Association. The afternoon session at 2 will feature music by high school students and talks on wartime farm business, home accounts, clothing remodeling, and farm machinery. Evening program includes county agent Robert H. McDougall speaking on Better Crops For 1943, plus discussions on Producing the Family Food Supply and vegetable hints.
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Princeton
Lawrence County Agricultural Extension Association
J. Armies
State College
T. B. Armstrong
Anna’ Marie Quinn
Home Economica
T. C. ‘Dayton
Robert H. McDougall
Butler County
Knox Aims to Clear Oahu of Japs on Island
Secretary of the Navy Knox testified before the house appropriations committee that there are almost 140,000 Japanese on Oahu. He urged removing those deemed dangerous, warning the island remains a fortress and that military needs must drive action more than currently.
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Cinternational News Service
Washington
Secrecf
Navy
Knox
Oahu
House Appropriations Committee
Progam
Fierce Battles Rage on Soviet Front Across Donets Basin
Reports from Moscow indicate heavy fighting along the southern Soviet front as Nazi counter-attacks press to slow the Soviet drive. The Red Army claims continued offensives, with gains reported near Demyansk and fierce tank engagements around Staraya Russa and Kholm.
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Natalia RE
Sovstatt
Moscoaw
Russia
Red Cary High
Lake Timen
Leningrad
Demyansk
Semyon Timoshenko
Paris
Staraya , Russa
Kholm
Donets
Captured Axis Diplomats Brought to U S
German and Italian diplomatic officials captured in North Africa have been moved to the Ingleside hotel near Staunton Virginia under guard. The group includes the former consul general at Algiers, their staff, and households and are kept apart from the public. They were captured by American forces in North Africa.
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International News Service
Washington
State Departments
North Africa
United States
Ingleside Hotel
Staunton
Algiers
Baltimore raid on canned hoarders spurs searches
OPA agents armed with summonses searched private homes in Baltimore on March 3 in a raid for undeclared canned food hoards as war ration book No 2 was issued. Two persons refused entry unless proper warrants. others surrendered after documents were shown.
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Cinternational News
Baltimore
OPA
Astoria Cruiser to Be Launched at Cramp Shipyard
The new USS Astoria, named for a sunk cruiser, will be launched into the Delaware River at Cramp shipbuilding in Philadelphia on Saturday. It is Cramp’s second cruiser launch in the current war and the 101st ship overall for the yard, with Mrs. Robert Lucas sponsoring the vessel.
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Thabarmatiniidd Ste
Philadelphia
Astoria
Savo Island
Delaware River
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Navy
Cramp's
Robert “Lucas
Jap Barracks Badly Battered By American Bombers
American air forces in China destroyed about three quarters of a Japanese barracks area along the Salween river front near the Yunnan Burma border in a half hour bombing raid. Lieut Donald Brookfield of Philadelphia, aboard Major Everett Holstrom’s lead ship, witnessed the attack and the anti air batteries that downed his previous aircraft two weeks earlier losing their guns to Yankee bombers.
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John W. Jarrell JI
China
Salween River
Yunnan- Burma
Donald Brookfield
Philadelphia
Brookfield
Everett
Brick” Holstrom
Tacoma
Wash
All-Clear inaudible signal justified for defense rules
Dr Ralph Hutchinson, executive director of the State defense council, defends the inaudible all-clear signal amid new air raid regulations. He says audible signals lack intrinsic meaning and sequence varies with emergencies. The all-clear is now radio, air raid warning, or street light tuning to indicate safety. A blackout drill is set for tomorrow night under the new rules.
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Harrisburg
Mareth
Defense
Ralph Cooper’ Hutchison
State Defense Council
Air Radd
Smashing Jap Invasion Armada Eases Pacific Tension
News from Australia reports MacArthur's airmen disabled part of a north New Guinea invasion convoy while U S submarines sunk five Japanese ships and damaged two more in the Pacific. Both actions, though unrelated, help reduce Japan's merchant marine and warship strength as American forces press their onslaughts.
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Joseph A. Bors Ih
Jay Varese Pees
Pacific
America
Japan
MacArthur
Australia
Navy
Axis Thrusts In Tunisia Halted By Allied Push
Allied forces halted all Axis thrusts on the Tunisian front as American and British troops pressed the line in North Africa. The North African air force attacked Tunis harbor installations and shipping, while German assaults in Beja and Medjez El Bab paused under heavy pressure. Unconfirmed reports claimed Axis withdrawal along the Beja Mateur road after heavy losses. RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires continued pounding Axis concentrations, transports, and tanks.
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Tunisia
Mareth Line
Robert G. Nixon
N.S. Statl
North Africa
North African Air Force
Tunis
Tu~ingia
Beja
Medjez-El-Bab
First Army
Beja- Mateur Road
Royal Air Force
Gas Ration Decision Expected for Western Pa Area
Western Pennsylvania motorists await a ruling from federal petroleum coordinator Harold L. Ickes on gasoline ration revisions. Senator Joseph F. Guffey telegraphed the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce that the decision is due today or possibly tomorrow, with uncertainty over whether the three gal weekly limit remains or if a four gal weekly quota like Ohio and West Virginia applies, and whether restrictions on pleasure driving will stay.
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Pivytsburgh
Western Pennsylvania
Washington
Federal Petroleum
Harold L. Ickes
Joseph F. Guffey
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
Youth Confesses To Strangle Murder Of Michigan Girl
Tonia Mich town, 18 year old Clara Johnson, a war worker, was found dead in a coal bin after being strangled. Police say teen football star Temeleo, 15, confessed after arrest in Montreal following a long chase.
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Michigan
Citernational News Service
Tonia
Mich
Mroeh
Donald Temeleo
Clara B. Johnson
Montreal
Geslier
Murephy
Temeka
Arter
Cleriber
Progress in Battles On Sub Menace
London dispatch reports February anti submarine campaign gains as First Lord of the Admiralty A V Alexander tells the House of Commons that while setbacks and losses will occur the output of U boats remains high but gaps are narrowing. He cites reduced tonnage losses from December 11 to February 28 and notes British warship losses on convoy routes to Russia, including two cruisers and six destroyers, plus many merchant ships.
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International News
London
Menacy
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
House of Commons
Alexander
Washington
Knox
United Nations
Atlantic
Sa Alexander
Russia
Rooney Says He Will Follow Uncle Sam Either Way
Mickey Rooney stated he will accept whatever draft decision comes, deferral or enlistment, saying he will do what Uncle Sam wants. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives called Rooney a test case for deferments for stars, noting technicians receive deferrals but actors face wholesale drafts.
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Cinernational News Service
Hollywood
March
Mickey Rooney
Okeh
Sam
Rooney
Smino
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Death Record: Lewis J. King and Sharon George Petri
Obituary note records the deaths of Lewis J. King aged 72 and Sharon George Petri aged 56. Both tied to 4 Waldo Street, with standard notice of mortality and residence.
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Lewis J. King
Sharon George Petri
Waldo Street
Jap convoy hammered by Allied air power near New Guinea
Allied air forces relentlessly pummeled a Japanese convoy north of Lae New Guinea as the battle entered its third day. Four enemy vessels were sunk or damaged with reports totaling about 36000 tons of shipping seriously hit. Fortresses and Liberators carried out continuous attacks over 48 hours while weather improved and reports continued on the remnants.
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Lee van Atta
Nations
PHA Doquartiers
Australia
Marvel O
New Guinea
George C. Kenney
Ball
Lae
Berlin Utilities Hit Hard by RAF Raid
London March 3. Berlin is without water gas and electricity after a major Royal Air Force raid. A Zurich Reuters dispatch reported a slaughterhouse was struck allowing hundreds of cattle to escape into the streets, triggering panic among residents.
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CUNEO
London
Berlin
Royal Air Force
Reuter
Zurich
No New Type Pennies In Circulation Here
In this district no new type pennies have been released for circulation by Congress authorized coins. If any are in use here they arrived by trade channels through informal exchanges.
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Congress
Winter Returns in March Storm Logged in City
Readable text portrays Arthur Mometer lamenting a lingering blizzard as Here Me returns with gusty winds and heavy snowfall. The fragment notes snow to the ankles on streets, widespread cold, and a clash between winter and hopeful signs of spring, with references to King Winter and Afiss Spring.
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King Winter
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