Point values in rationing of meat given
Washington March 24 The office of price administration posts the point values for rationed meat foods and fat canning items under the new program. Shoppers will receive 15 points for meat and butter, 12 points for canned fruits and vegetables and fats. The scheme aims to distribute about two pounds of butter weekly and 16 points per household for meat. The plan also assigns point values for butter cheese canned fats and oils and extends to 35,000,000 housewives. The public notice signals the next phase of wartime food distribution under OPA rules.
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Iy Phillips
Peck
Lons State
Washington
Price
Cary
Va- Lion Books
Na- Lion
OPA Fron
Valuies
World War reminiscences and wartime rationing appeal
A fragment from New Castle era notes wartime memory of Big Bertha and shell tech from World War One, urges continued bond purchases as patriotic, and alerts readers to new rationing values and Red Cross drives. It mentions a $31 tablespoonful fat measure for dynamite, and the upcoming meat and butter allotments under a new point system effective next Monday.
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New Castle’ News
Rago Jriday
Hitler
Bertha
Wonge
Red Cross
Weather Report Daily United States data
24 hour period ending 9 am today reports maximum 45 and minimum 26 with frost and light precipitation. River stage at 75 feet. Year ago record shows max 43 min 23 with snow flurries.
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United’ States
Rationing Program Details Shown on Page 7
The page 7 notice presents the meat rationing program details with the complete table of point values and the effective date, outlining how the system will operate for the upcoming period. Readers are directed to review the table and related notes for precise allocations and changes.
Coal negotiators extend thirty days in mine pact
Northern operators and United Mine Workers officials agreed to a 30 day extension of contract negotiations with no interruption in mining. Wage hour terms will be retroactive to April 1. Southern operators seek alignment with northern partners as talks continue.
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Kilgallen N.S. Stattec
New York
War Industries
Jol.og
Lewis’ United
Mine Workers of America
Zhov
Roosevelt
Charles O'Neill
Northern
Explosion at Ravenna Army depot kills two, injures many
A blast at the Grant $49,000,000 Army Ordnance Depot near Wayland, Ravenna, O., fatally injures two workers and wounds about ten others. Official reports quote Col. Raymond Brown as confirming two bodies recovered and undetermined cause. Guards are posted and gates closed as investigators search wreckage for more victims.
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Ravenna
Grant
Army Ordnance Depot
Wayland
Raymond Brown
We Cooper Introduces Bill to Cut State Support
Pittsburgh March 24 Assemblyman George We Cooper Allegheny introduced a bill in the House to cut off state support to colleges accepting interned Japanese in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The measure would bar use of state property for relocation of alien Japanese and oppose bringing interned Japanese to local colleges including Carnegie Tech and Pitt.
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Iiternational News Service
Pittsburgh
George We Cooper
Allegheny
Cooper Bil
Sassa
American Service Institute of
Allegheny County
Carnegie, Tech and
Pilt
RAF Keeps Up Attacks On Nazis
London dispatch notes Royal Air Force fighters continued raids against Nazi targets in northwest Germany and occupied territories after Monday’s St Nazaire assault. Mosquito bombers later hit the St Joseph Locomotive Works near Nantes, while the submarine base at Nazaire had seen heavy action in February with fires in docks and warehouses. Civilian labor casualties were reported by German radio as Allied operations resumed around Wilhelmshaven.
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Servier
London
Royal A
Germany
Air Ministry
St. Nazaire
St. Joseph
Nantes
Agen
Nazaire
St. Nazaire White
sa'Gerboat
Naval
Guadalcanal Air Attack Reported by Navy
The navy said a small number of Japanese planes attacked the Guadalcanal airfield causing material damage with no personnel casualties. An Army Lockheed fighter force strafed the Rekata Bay air base in the central Solomons. results were not reported. The night raid occurred March 23 24, marking the first such attack in about two weeks.
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SC International News Service
Iwashington
Navy
Guadalcanal
Sen Dane
Rekata
Bay
al -Rekata Bay
Solomons
Ark
The.alfield
Guadalcanals Island
Round, Flora and Dudley Arnold Lead Pennsylvania Power Meeting
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Power Company was held in Sharon today with vice presidents L. Round and O. B. Flora among the directors in attendance. President Samails of New York attended as part of the company leadership.
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B. Round
McGill
O. B. Flora
Dudley” Arnold
Pennsylvania “Power Company
Sharonys
Woh, Samails
New York
Air Attack on English Town Bombs Hit School
Air raid by Nazi planes struck a southeast English town. Ten craft took part in a dive bombing raid. A boys' school near the shelter was demolished just as pupils reached safety. British lighter planes and anti aircraft fire destroyed one raider.
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London
Corse
Walker's Mill Home Damaged by Fire Today
New Wilmington March 24 A fire on the second floor of a home owned by Mr and Mrs Clarence Miller near Walker's Mills Neshannock Falls caused about 1000 damage. Fire officials say a defective flue started the blaze which was reported by neighbor Mrs Paul Moon who awakened the Millers and alerted the fire department. Neighbors moved furniture and water was pumped from a nearby stream to extinguish the flames.
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New Wilmington
Clarence” Miller
Walker's Mills
Neshannock Falls
Wilmington
Paul ‘Moon
Tames
Minnie Moose
Moan Rani
Miller
Fire destroys food stocks in Wilkes-Barre district
A March fire in Wilkes-Barre destroyed food stocks including army rations, leaving more than 100 workers unemployed. Firefighters, aided by 200 volunteers from surrounding towns and civil defense units, fought the flames until midnight. nine stayed lighted by smoke. Heavy losses hit Franklin Beef, Carr Biscuit, Ameridat Stores warehouse, and Williams Brothers wholesalers.
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Wilkes
Barre
Marah
Wilkes-Barre
Lowns
Élvidai
Lee
Thes Franklin
J.B. Carr’ Biscuit Company Ameridat
Wuhams
Brothers
Carr Company
Russian Forces Driving Forward On Central Front
Russian forces push on the central front with Soviet communique reporting dislodgement of enemy positions near Smolensk and Zhukovschina, with hundreds killed on both sides and some localities captured. Belarus and Belgorod regions also see strikes as tanks and planes suffer losses. continuation promised on page two.
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Bace
Srashia
Smolensk
Tahaiks
Leningrad
Central
Zhukovschina
Hakin
Belgorod
Kharkov
Mem Weis
U S Bombers Attack Mareth Line in North Africa
American airmen report heavy bombing of Mareth Line targets in North Africa as Western Desert Air Force crews engage Axis positions. A South African wing joined bombardment. anti aircraft fire and desert skies saw multiple enemy aircraft shot down or forced to crash.
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Cu TN
Ion
Abase
Tr North
Africa
Western Desert’ Air Force
Boston
Alean v
Mareth
Sestemn
Airforce
Dow
Ianhan
Commandos Land In Norway Report From Oslo Broadcast
Oslo radio heard Monday night that British motor torpedo boats landed in Norway but that no saboteur group was seen. German coastal guards reportedly spotted the invaders and drove them back with heavy losses. The Reuters dispatch from London attributed the report to a British news agency.
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Cinternationnal News Service
London
Marcel
Oslo
Boabs
Air Attack On Rabaul Devastates Jap Base
Allied airmen under General George C. Kennell Kennedy launched a major raid on Rabaul and three enemy airfields, blasting more than 240 aircraft sites with block-buster bombs. Other Japanese bases across a wide region were hit, leaving destruction and fires as reconnaissance teams prepared to assess the damage.
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Ons Elisa Dquaridisas
Pacffc
Douglas’ Mac
Arthurs
Rabaul
United Nations
George C. Kenn
Aso
Habaul
Rommel Has Not Shown Full Hand Yet
Allied North Africa fronts surge toward invasion as Rommel may retreat from Mareth line. If Gabes falls, Rommel could seize the coast and turn Gabes into a Nazi Tobruk while the American advance from Maknassy pressures his flank. Page Two continued.
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Varn Rommel
Pierre J. Wass
North Africa
Erwirr Rommel
Eighth Army
Afrika ‘Korps
Voi Gabes
Winston Churchill
London
el Hamma
Gabes
Rommel
Tobruk
Maknassy
Break Through Report In Error In Africa Campaign
A North Africa dispatch clarifies a British advance near Mareth was not a breakthrough. Churchill in Parliament tempered early misreadings, noting a bridgehead existed but German positions remained largely intact and the Axis front restored after counterattacks.
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Cy Oestreicher
Mhat
Gabes
Montgomery
Churchill
House of Commons
Essew
Erwin Roummel
North Africa
UN Mareth
Une
Ronvuel
Frank
Realis
Death Record for William G Nicholson at 365 East Northo Street
William G. Nicholson, aged 68, died at his home on 365 East Northo Street. The obituary notes his residence and age, with no additional biographical details provided in the fragment. A formal death notice appears in the local record page.
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William
Nicholson
East Northo Street
Europe to Be Bombed Daily in U S Europe Raids
Staff correspondence from Headquarters U S A F reports a plan for daily daylight bombing of Germany by 100 U S bombers by mid summer, coordinated with the British Royal Air Force. Maj Gen Ira C Eaker says round the clock operations will follow targets with day and night raids, citing 51 daylight raids over Europe with 346 Nazi planes down and 90 U S losses.
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GNSS
U. S. A. Asf
Britain
United States
Germany
Berlin
Ira C. Saker
U.S
Eighth ‘Air Porcee
Eaker
Europe
Gaston Post Has Big Night at Founding Anniversary
Gaston Post honors its Founding Anniversary with historian Fredo M. Alexander detailing Legion history since 1919. Eugene Pecnien receives the Distinguished Service Certificate. J. Glenn Berry presents it to him as others look on. Post votes 100 to One Rec. War Funds. Wr. Jung of Pittsburgh discusses Bell Telephone’s war role and presents a film on a bombing mission.
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Perry S. Gaston
New Castle
J. Glenn Berry
Fred
Rentab
B. Randi
McMillen
D.O. Davies
WR. Jung
Pittsburgh
Bell’ Telephone. Company
Bell ‘Telephone
Germany
Savage German Counterattacks Repulsed At Mareth Line
American troops repulsed German counterattacks six miles east of Maknassy amid bitter fighting along the Mareth line. British Eighth Army gains near El Hamma. Two hundred prisoners taken as Axis armor is destroyed. Allied air forces report heavy resistance and advances in southeastern Tunisia.
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ATO Ped
Africa
Maknagsy
Mareth Line
Hdvpor
Loudon
Winston Churchill
Mireth
Maknassy
Mediterranean
Gabes-Mahares
Whey ‘Axis
Maknessy
Eighth Army
Mareth
el Hamma
el Hamm
Djebel
Tebaga
Gabes
U S Fliers Down 356 Nazi Planes in 51 Raids
In Britain on March 24 Maj Gen Tra C Esker announced the United States Eighth Air Force bomber command has shot down 356 Nazi planes in 51 raids over occupied Europe and Germany using Fortresses and Liberator bombers. The raids involved ninety planes.
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Oteyydael
Gandhi named responsible for India riot unrest
A British white paper released in London on March 24 holds Mahatma Gandhi and the All India Congress Party responsible for the recent wave of rioting and unrest in India. The document blames leadership for the disturbances amid calls for restraint and policy review.
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Internationall News Service
London
India
Mohandas’ K, Gandhi
Ihe -Ail
India Congress Party
Unclear newborn note hints at tasks and June
Fragmentary OCR text mentions lawn work plastering cleaning seeds reading and meetings. Weather described as fifty three with tasks to be done soon. Calendar note indicates June. The passage is garbled with many misspellings and incomplete phrases.
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Meister
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