Americans Cut Off 2 000 Japs Burma Advance
American infantry in Burma under Lt Gen Stilwell opened a northern Burma attack. 299 miles through jungle, encircling about 2,000 Japanese near Maingkwan and Walawbum with Chinese troops pressing from the north. Brig Gen Frank Merrill leads veterans from Puerto Rico, Panama, and the Southwest Pacific. Ledo Road construction advances as Stilwell notes Japanese digging in. Mountbatten reports quiet on the Arakan front.
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New Delhi
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
China
Stilwell
Maingkwan
Hukawng
India
Walawbum
Nritu Ga
Wa Gahtawng
Lashu Ga
Myitkyina
Mandalay
Salween River
Frank Merrill
Buck
Tokyo
Manila
Asia
Merrill
Woodstock
N. H
Puerto Rico
Panama
C. C. Wingate
Ledo Road
Burma Front
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Riverside Hill gunman kills three as police clash at Camp Anza
In Riverside California 2nd Lt Beaufort G Swancutt 31 of La Crosse Wisconsin killed three and wounded five before being shot by police. Two women Miss Dorothy Douglas and Miss Lourdine Livermore both 18 from Long Beach were slain and Riverside Officer A B Simpson was also killed. Swancutt was wounded and underwent military court murder charges while Camp Anza commander Capt Aubrey Ling was shot but survived. Swancutt drove away in a car with several bystanders and was wounded by Lt E F Cole.
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Riverside
Calif
March &Pie
Sarles
Swancutt
Harry J. Light
Bridgeport
Miss Livermore
Miss Douglas
Camp Anza
Light
Grilly
Aldace Minard
Pomona
Aubrey G.ling
Preston
Minn
Serfling
Robert Sampson
Sur John E Roberts
Arlington
Brule
Ray Schlegel
Los Angeles
Schlegel
Terry
Euecl Atchley
Cole
Simpson
Douglas
Los Angeles Harbor
Weather data summary for March and short-term temps
The report covers 24 hour precipitation of .65 inches ending 8 am today and March to date 1.62 inches. Normal March is 3.48 inches. March 1943 shows eight inches. Deficiency in 1944 precipitation to March 1 is .33 inch. Yesterday high 37, low 3. a year ago high 36, low 23. Sun sets at 7.09 pm. rises at 7.33 am. Moon rises 6.03 pm, sets 7.06 am.
Vapor Trails Bane To Pilots
Tech Sergeant Robert L. Yinger, a former News-Post photographer, reports from Muroc Calif that high altitude contrails left by bombers threaten pilot safety by revealing aircraft. He notes contrails form condensation trails, can cause overcast and rain, and may create a visible warning to gunners.
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News-Post
Tech
Seergt
Robert L. Yinger
News - Post
Muroc
Calif
536Th
Sergt
Yinger
Sergt. Yinger
Idaho
Los Angeles
Industry denounces Ickes plan for Arabian oil pipeline
The Petroleum Industry War Council denounces Interior Secretary Ickes plan for a 1000 mile oil pipeline across Arabia as imperialistic. It warns of government ownership and fascist style state control harming private enterprise. Ickes says the project funds oil reserves and carries oil for war needs.
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Washington
Petroleum Industry
War Council
Ickes
Arabia
Petroleum Reserves Corporation
Industry War Council
Petroleum Administration For War
Council
Fast-Moving Police Court Hears Seven Cases
Seven cases were heard, five disposed of and two deferred in a fast moving Monday night Frederick Police Court session led by Magistrate Alton Bennett. Hallman held on $1,000 bond after alleged attempted assault and robbery. Whiting said to have fractured ribs. Other items include taxi driver altercation, fines for speeding, and a $200 speeding fine settlement for Willard Van Sant.
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Alton ¥. Bennett
Mark Hallman
Colored
Centerville
Hallman
Frederick
Whiting
Baker
Doubs
Sonny” Newman
Frank Dorsey
Bennett
Braddock Skating
Preston —Geisler
Rudolph Brandenburg
George Crouse
Geisler
Brandenburg
West Patrick Street
Anna L. Geisler
Charles W. Smith
E. Austin James
Blue Ridge Lines
East Second
East Street
Eugene Richard Hill
Ralph Potts
Lester Ridenour
Hagerstown
H. L. Basore
Allen Leatherman
Sharpsburg
Kenneth Bond
Daniel L. Swomley
Robert J. Brown
Baltimore
George F. Fisher
Rocky Ridge
Walter E. Jeakins
Harpers Ferry
Charles D. Palmer
Woodlawn
James B. Foreman
Martinsburg
W. Va
Willard van Sant
Mt Airy
Philip Culler
Edward J. Smith
Six Months At War Teaches A Soldier To Stay Alive
Kenneth L. Dixon recalls six months overseas in Italy with the American Expeditionary Forces. He finds war reveals esprit de corps and the will to live, noting wounded volunteers, the pull of home letters, the comfort of fellowship, and the transformation of young men into veterans, all in a reflective field report.
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Man
Kenneth L. Dixon
AEF
Italy
Esprit Des Corps
The
Waldorf
First Division Troops Advance on Los Negros
Allied headquarters report the First Division Cavalrymen have pushed north of Momote airfield on Los Negros Island in the Admiralties despite Japanese attempts to halt them. A small American force has landed behind enemy lines 30 miles west of Saidor as units of the 32nd Division move toward Madang. Forward patrols from Saidor reach Her warth Point, 20 miles west. Overhead, more than 200 Allied planes attacked Rabaul, sinking two cargo ships and hitting nine gun positions. Allied forces also bombed Choiseul Island, in the Northern Solomons, with 1035 tons of explosives.
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Southwest Pacific
Los Negros
Admiralties
Momote
Saidor
New Guinea
Madang
Herwarth Point
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Choiseul Island
Maryland Officer Assigned as VPI Military Professor
Col. George Henderson, chief of the Third Service Command security branch, will report April 1 as professor of military science and tactics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg. He will command all students soldiers and cadets in training. Henderson, a Cumberland native, was Cumberland mayor 193? to 1934 and Maryland American Legion commander 1930–1931.
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Baltimore
George Henderson
Third Service Command Security Branch
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Philip Hayes
Col. Henderson
VPI
Henderson
Cumberland
Maryland
American Legion
Du Pont Reports 118 Percent Explosives Rise in 1943
Wilmington based Du Pont reports 1943 explosives production up 118 percent from 1942 with only a 3 percent rise in manpower. Four year total exceeds World War I output by 72 percent. Eleven fatalities in explosives dept. earnings from all sources reach 69,706,819 dollars including 20,000,000 in GM dividends.
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Wilmington
Del
I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc
Ois
General Motors Corporation
Indiana furlough for Staff Sgt Stoner visits wife
Staff Sgt. Stoner son of Mr and Mrs Frank Stoner of Mercersburg Pa recently returned home on furlough and visited his wife Mrs Pauline Proctor Stoner daughter of Mr and Mrs Roger S Proctor of Point of Rocks. He is stationed with the 366th Infantry at Camp Atterbury Ind.
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Stoner
Frank Stoner
Mercersburg
Pauline Proctor Stoner
Roger S. Proctor
Point of Rocks
366Th Infantry
Camp Atterbury
Ind
28 000 Planes Built In U S Sent To Allies
Washington reports under the Lend-Lease Act almost 28 000 American built planes with a value of 2.3 billion have been sent to Allied air forces since March 1941. About 21 000 were lent, 1.7 billion, while the rest were cash purchases. Aircraft engines and parts exceed 1.6 billion in value, bringing total American air aid to allies to 3.9 billion.
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Washington
Foreign Economic Administration
Britain
United States
FEA
Leo T. Crowley
Axis
United Nations
Crowley
New Zealand
RAF
India
East Indies
Pacific
Far East
Russia
British Commonwealth
Mayor Hood Says Army Physical Was Inspected Dissected Rejected
Wichita Falls Texas March 6 Mayor William P Hood wired Mrs Hood after taking his army physical Inspected dissected infected rejected as expected keeping the matter private and noting the result in a terse message.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
William P. Hood
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