Bombers Attack Nagoya in Major Incendiary Raid
Washington reports 300 B 29 Superforts hammered Nagoya with 2000 to 4000 tons of incendiaries. The assault followed Tokyo’s destruction two days earlier, targeting aircraft plants and war industry as Jap defenses struggled to respond.
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Washington
War Department
Nagoya
Tokyo
Singapore
21St B0mber
Zuam
Japan
Lres
Apan
Nagovya
FCC
St Patrick's Day Weather Brightens City Streets
The day after St Patrick's observed Saturday sees streets busy with pedestrians enjoying sunshine. Some resurfaced roads fared well through winter while others show damage from hard traffic. Streams ran high with fishermen along creeks, and rural gravel treated lanes offered better travel than untreated roads.
Daily Weather Report Summary of U S 24 hour period
The report records a maximum temperature of 48 and a minimum of 31 with a precipitation reading. The river stage is 7.5 feet. For the same date a year earlier, the minimum temperature was 43 and 22 with no precipitation.
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United States
Air Raids On Japan Raise Question Of Decisive Results
Air attacks on Japan continue with Nagoya and Tokyo targeted by large bomber formations. Observers debate whether city bombing can yield decisive results, noting Japan’s highly flammable urban construction and the potential for extensive destruction and panic.
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Japan
Industries Report In Drive For War Fund
Local plants report strong Red Cross War Fund participation with average per contribution over five dollars. Standard Steel Spring Co led with 3 585.75 total from near full participation, averaging 5.40 per worker. Fornev's contributed 300, averaging 5.45 per worker. A sacred concert at First Congregational church yielded 54 in silver. General Chairman J Lepore Matthews urges speed and a final week push ahead of the campaign closing.
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Red Cross War Fund
Standard Steel Spring Co
T. C. McClain
E. N. Swartzlander
Fornev’s
Russell G. Magill
The
Alive
First Congregational Church
J. Lepore Matthews
Bombers Strike Singapore Area in Daylight Raid
A force of about 50 India based B 29 Superfortresses bombarded Singapore area industrial targets in a daylight raid. The operation followed a Kuala Lumpur attack on railway and communications sites. The 20th Air Force released no more details pending reports from Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey.
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Washington
INS
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur
Malay Peninsula
20Th Air Force
Roger M. Ramey
20Th Bomber Command
India
Ruhr Area Is Badly Ruined by Allied Air Raids
New York march 12. An Allied air raid campaign has destroyed or damaged every major factory in the Ruhr area over more than 620 square miles. A CBS heard British radio report quoted a staff officer of the 21st army group. About 65 towns were devastated. two thirds of Duesseldorf, nearly half of Dortmund and Oberhausen, and four fifths of Bochum are in ruins.
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New York
Ruhr
CBS
21St Army Group
Duesseldorf
Dortmund
Oberhausen
Bochum
Japs In Death Stand On Iwo Jima
U S Marines press the Japanese to two pockets on Iwo Jima as a steep cliff butte at Kitano Point forms a stubborn natural barrier. The Japanese shore hold extends about two miles with defenses 1700 yards inland, as Maj Gen Keller Rockey's Fifth Division advances.
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John R. Henry
IN. S
U. S. Fleet
Iwo Jima
Arizona
U. S
Kitano Point
Keller Rockeys
Taft proposes MacArthur summoned to Washington
Senator Robert A. Taft argues Gen. Douglas MacArthur should be called to Washington to participate in final Japan destruction planning. Taft notes Admiral Nimitz’s return and states the final assault will be largely a land operation.
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Washington
INS
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Taft
Nimitz
MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Navy
Bombers Strike At Southern Austria
Allied aircraft in the Mediterranean attacked rail bridges and facilities in southern Austria, the central Po valley, and the Brenner route to support ground forces. Night bombers hit a Po valley ammunition camp and air fields. RAF raid targeted Verona rail yards and several bridges. Six Allied aircraft are missing from 1,300 sorties.
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Rome
INS
Mediterranean
Austria
Brenner
Tactical Air Force
di Piave
Verona
Fordham Reports Severe Earthquake Felt Near New York
Fordham University officials announced the recording of a fairly severe earthquake yesterday afternoon, about 5,800 miles from New York in an unknown direction. The first shock was at 5:50 p.m. and the second at 6:01 p.m. Eastern War Time.
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New York
Fordham University
Mindanao Invasion Advances as U S Forces Move on Zamboanga
American armor and infantry drive inland from Davao Gulf beachheads on Mindanao. U S troops seize San Mateo San Jose Calaman and San Roque while Zamboanga City eyed for capture. MacArthur confirms Mindanao invasion as Japanese forces retreat to hills.
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Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Mindanao
Zamboanga City
Philippines
Philippine Archipelago
San Mateo
San Jose
Calaman
San Roque
Wolf
Zamboanga
Tokyo Radio
Robert Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Ainting
U.S
Basilan Island
Samvoanes
FCC
Douglas McArthurs
MacArthur
Bar Association Banquet Brings Lawyers Together at The Castleton
Lawrence County Bar Association held a three year return banquet at The Castleton Hotel with court officials as guests. Roy W. Hazen served as toastmaster leading a committee headed by William D. Coban. Attendees carved their own turkey using missing carving sets from Judge Charles Matthews Jr. and several attorneys.
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Lawrence County Bar Association
Castleton Hotel
Court House
Roy W. Hazen
Willian D. Coban
Gilbert Lone
Michael A. Barletta
Glenn Berry
Joseph R. McFate
Charles Matthews, Jr
Robert M. White
Ralph Cooper
French Installment Paid Toward Africa Aid
The Foreign Economic Administration announced that the French provisional government paid a 40 million dollar installment for supplies to the French north and west Africa administration. Christian Valensi handed the check to Leo T. Crowley in a ceremony with French and FEA officials present. Total shipments payments to north and west Africa since February 1943 reach 153,668,907 dollars.
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Washington
Foreign Economic Administration
Christian Valensi
French Supply Council
Leo T. Crowley
FEA
North and West Africa
Third Army Cleans West Bank of Rhine and Moselle
Patton's Third Army completes clearance of the western bank of the Rhine and Moselle with two stubborn pockets holding out. The advance captures 2,156 German prisoners and 14 towns, despite a final garrison near Coblenz and minor resistance north of the Moselle.
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Third Army
Germany
George S. Patton
Rhine
Moselle
Cochem
Erden
Third
Coblenz
The
Reich
Three Children Die in Four Days in Robinson
Health authorities report three of five Mitchell household children died in four days from encephalitis possibly viral. Oldest, Joseph, 3, died after drowsiness. Nore Lou Knoblett, 19 months, died within hours. Robert Leroy Mitchell, 23 months, died after hospital care. A fourth child survived.
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Robinson HI
INS
Robinson
John Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell
Nore Lou Knoblett
Joseph Knoblett
Schmidt
Red Army Closes On Baltic Ports Danzig Gdynia Campaign
Soviet forces pressed toward the Baltic ports of Danzig and Gdynia, capturing Koelln and Neuteich as fighting raged on the approaches to Neustadt. The communique said Russians cut enemy withdrawal routes and reached the Baltic coast west of Kolberg, with heavy losses reported for German troops.
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Moscow
Red Army
Baltic
Danzig
Gydnia
Koelln
Neuteich
Neustadt
Kolberg
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Gdynia
Furious aerial assaults across eastern front intensify war effort
Moscow reports heavy Soviet air action at both ends of the eastern front. Stormovik dive bombers strike German targets to support the Red Army offensive along the Baltic and to counter a German counter drive toward the Danube. The Stettin region Berlin port and Swinemunde outer harbor were attacked as part of a broader push to end Nazi dominance in the Baltic.
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Moscow
Rea
Lage Balaton
Stettin
Berlin
Swinemuende
Auto plunges into Buchanan creek injures teen minor
Theodore Yez, 19, of West Middlesex, on the West Middlesex Pulaski highway, fell asleep at 9:30 a.m. Sunday and drove between a bridge and guard rail, tipping 10 feet into Buchanan Creek. He suffered only a slight knee injury and escaped, though the car was badly damaged and the guard rail broken.
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Buchanan Creek
Middelsex-Pulaski
Theodore Yez
West Middlesex
R. D
Stockholm Reports Riots Overnight in Munich Streets
Stockholm-Tidningen reported that riots and street fighting persisted in Munich as late as last night with a revolutionary mood. German tanks reportedly rolled through streets to suppress disturbances while railway traffic and telegraph service were disrupted. The unrest began during Germany's heroes pay observance.
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New York
Stockholm-Tidningen
Munich
Germany
Yanks Push Toward Famed Hitler Highway Across Rhine
U S First Army forces reach the Rhine Remagen bridgehead and move within three miles of the Hitler Highway. Hodges’ troops bridge the Rhine to improve the Allied push into Germany while Luftwaffe jets bomb the area and German artillery counterattacks mill about Erpel and the bridge.
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U. S. First Army
Rhine
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Remagen
Ludendorff Span
The
Golden Gate
Aachen
Americas
Alliea
Germany
Duke
DNB
Erpel
Ludendorff
Lufftwaffe
Germans Report New Crossings By U S Forces
Paris dispatch reports First Army troops across the Rhine expanding the Remagen bridgehead. American forces hold the initiative, enlarge holdings along a 12 mile strip around Remagen while Third Army tightens the Moselle pocket. Berlin cites new crossings and a possible German withdrawal as Hodges forces push over the river.
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Paris
United States First Army
Rhine
Remagen
Dwight D. Eisenhowere
Berlin
Third Army
Moselle
DNB
Saar
Ge George S
Ten Killed In Crash Of Bomber
Air corps officials at Alexandria Army Air Field identified ten men killed in a bomber crash Saturday evening. The victims include Captain William A. Cadwallader of Philadelphia and Corporals James L. Allen of Warren, Reed D. Allison of Union, and their spouses.
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Alexander
INS
Air Corps
Alexandria Army Air Field
Iden
William A. Cadwallader
Loretta T. Cadwallader
Philadelphia
James L. Allen
Winifred Allen Warren
Reed D. Allison
Eva R. Allison
Union
Truck Driver Involved In Homewood Accident
Malvern E. Shaffer and Mrs Beverly Grove, both of Wilkinsburg, were hospitalized after their car hit a milk truck and crashed into a grill in Homewood. The milk truck driver Everett Shaffer of New Castle escaped injury. Police estimate damages at $2,000.
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Pittsburgh
Malvern E. Shaffer
Beverly Grove
Wilkinsburg
Homewood
Everett Shaffer
New Castle
Death Notices List From Erie and Nearby Cities
Death records show Mrs. Ira L. Nowling aged 50 of Erie Pennsylvania and Mrs. J. E. McKibben aged 94 of New Brighton among those reported. Also listed are Henry G. Fox 65 of Württemberg, Lawrence Turner Sr. 71 of Ellwood City, Mildred Anne Kougher 1 of Youngstown, Mayme Pitzer Harris 5 of West Madison Avenue, and H. Guy Wilson 68 of 241 Line Avenue Ellwood City.
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Ira L. Nowling
Erie
J. E. McKibben
New Brighton
Henry G. Fox
Wurtembuarsg
Lawrence Turner, Sr
Ellwood City
Mildred Anne Kougher
Youngstown
Mayme Pitzer Harris
Madison Avenue
H. Guy Wilson
Line Avenue
Huge Air Fleet Bombs Germans For 28th Day
A 1350 plane American bomber force, including Flying Fortresses and Liberators, struck Baltic coast targets and six western German rail yards. The raids hit Siegen, Betzdorf, Dillenburg, Marburg, and Friedberg. over 700 fighters supported the operation, bringing total aircraft to more than 2100.
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London
INS
United States
Reich
Baltic
Germany
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Siecen
Betzdorf
Dillenburg
Marburg
Friedburg
Ruhr
Prankfurt
Stettin
Swinemuende
Bieme
Birthday Cheers for a 77 Year Old Neighbor
In this weather note the local voice salutes a man turning seventy seven, noting he looks and acts younger than his age. The writer wishes him many more years of good health and activity, while mentioning the damp conditions and cool temperature of thirty four.
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John Cashman
PA Newc
Daily Weather Report
Major Paul C. Raborg
Marianas
Europe
Bulletin
Sen. Taft
Po Valley
Fordham
New Island
By Frank Robertson
M. S
Nancy Bower
Washington D. C
Bar Association
Castleton
Wylie McCaslin
By Larry Newman
West Bank of Rhine
Alf River
House
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Donovan
Clayton Bissell
Army Intelligence
Baltic Ports
By Natalia Rene
N.S
Communique
Baltic Shores
East
Natalia Rene
Stockholm
Yanks
Hitler Highway
Remagen Bridge
Lef Carson
Rhine Bridgehead
James L. Kilgallen
Arthur Mometer
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