Red Army push amid mud nears Lwow and Tarnopol
Russian forces under Zhukov press through spring thaw mud across Ukraine and Galicia, seizing the Odessa Warsaw railway, nearing Lwow, and threatening Tarnopol. Advances include Igrovitsa taken and the Warsaw line cut near Kochnovka and Zelentsy as Soviet columns outflank German positions.
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Moscow
Gregory K. Zhukov
Red Star
Red Army
Odessa-Warsaw
Lwow
Ardrei Belaiev
Belaiev
Ukraine
Tarnopol
London
Romania
Odessa
Kochanovka
Volchisk
Zelentsy
Proskurov
May Reach Agreement on OPA Powers
Reports from Washington indicate the White House aims to unite leaders from both parties to extend the Office of Price Administration beyond its June 30 expiry. Senator Wagner announced Chester Bowles will meet informally with the Senate Banking Committee to discuss extension plans. Admin leaders seek a bipartisan accord on principles to avoid a protracted congressional fight.
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Washington
Capitol
White House
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Wagner
Senate
Chester Bowles
Senate Banking Committee
Weather and FCC testifies on prewar information flow
Washington reports that Japanese forces likely had weather and military data via regular channels before the Pearl Harbor attack. FCC Chairman James L Fly testified that the commission monitored for weeks and found no illicit short wave stations. London shows Yugoslav exile crisis nearing with Tito and King Peter cabinet talks in Cairo. New York stock market advances in steels motors and rubbers with feeders up about a point.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
James L Fly
Federal Communications Commission
Fly
House Committee
FCC
London
Cairo
Peter
Josip Broz
Tito
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
New York
A’s J’s Bow Highlight Philadelphia Baseball Banter
The Philadelphia Record quips that after rechristening the club as The Blue Jays, a headline could sum the summer's baseball news in ten units of type with the line A’s J’s Bow.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia National League Baseball Club
Blue Jays
Philadelphia Record
Saturday Night Show Added To Fair In Fall
Frederick fair officials announce a new Saturday night show at this year’s fair September 26 to 29 with a new revue on September 30. George A Hamid Inc will book grandstand attractions and Spring Garden Band will provide front of grandstand music in York PA. The four afternoon events remain trotting and running races.
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Frederick
Frederick County Agricultural Society
George A. Hamid
Induction Notices Sent for 17 Local Registrants
Seventeen men were ordered for induction by Draft Board Two with eleven to join the Army and seven to enter the Navy. All will report on the same day. most are fathers. A group left for Baltimore for pre induction examinations as the second March call. Army list includes Poole, Shorb, Sawyer, Mehrle Smith, LeGore, Miller, Barkier, Cool, Harbaugh, Morrisey, Murphy. Navy list includes Hamerick, Hessong, Pryor, Stahley, Ford, Roberts.
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Army
Navy
Baltimore
Union Bridge
Howard Hanford Murphy
Tjamsville
Claude Samuel Hamerick Thurmont
James Hessong
Smithsburg
Glen Moody Pryor
Lantz
Joseph Earl Stahley
Emmitsburg
Clarence Elmer Ford
Myersville
Alfred Lewis Roberts
Middle Alley
Short Range Rocket Guns Set Up By Nazis
London reports British naval forces near Holland uncover anti invasion defenses on the German Atlantic wall. Short range rocket guns and automatic cannon are installed for point blank fire against assault craft. The discovery highlights intensified coastal fortifications as the war proceeds.
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London
Holland
Atlantic Wall
Eden says Britain will stay watchful over Argentina
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Britain will maintain a guarded watchful attitude toward Argentina until the country’s political situation is clarified.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Argentina
Lemans Rail Yards Targeted In British Night Attacks
London reports RAF bombers attacked Lemans 110 miles southwest of Paris and Mosquito raids hit western Germany in coordinated strikes aimed at rail yards and engines. The operations, part of a two night rhythm against northern France and Germany, caused no aircraft losses and followed daylight raids on Conches near Dieppe.
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London
RAF
Lemans
Paris
Germany
Air Ministry
France
Trappes
Hilversum
Bremen
Friesland
Conches
U. S
Dieppe
Brest
Nantes
Eisele Brothers Go On Trial In Capital
Clifton M. Eisele and Lewis Eisele, former officers of Southeastern Industrial Bank ers, were on trial in Federal District Court on a 1942 indictment charging fraudulent stock sales. Prosecutors said about 4,000 investors bought roughly 3.5 million dollars of stock, losing more than 80 percent of their investment. The trial was expected to last about three months.
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Washington
Clifton M. Eisele
Bethesda
Lewis
Southeastern Industrial Bankers, Inc
Federal District Court
John D. Swartz
Rumanians Flee Bucovina as Russian advances noted
In March reports from Bern cite a new flight of Rumanians from Bucovina driven to refuge on trains despite travel bans. Rail hubs Cernowitz Radauz Suzeva and other cities saw station storming by crowds as Northern Bucovina neared Prut river after 1940 boundary shifts. Also announced is Major Frederick W Weitzel promotion and family details.
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Bern
Switzerland
Bucovina
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten
Cernowitz
Radauz
Suzeva
Russia
Germany
Bessarabia
Rumania
Prut River
Spare Parts Kits For Army's Invasion Units
Aberdeen Proving Ground reports invasion units will carry 70 pound repair kits with welding rods solder batteries and gas cylinders for first days of attack. Major depots in North Africa supply tools ammunition and equipment for Gen. Clark’s forces in Italy Sicily Corsica and Sardinia.
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Aberdeen Proving Ground
Europe
North
Africa
Mark Clark
Italy
Sicily
Corsica
Sardinia
Endorse Gas Coupons Under OPA Ration Rules
An OPA investigator checks that city and county motorists properly endorse their gasoline ration coupons. Holders must ink in license numbers and state of registration on each coupon, with old numbers crossed out for 1944 tags. Notices of hearing or violation will be served to noncompliant motorists.
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OPA
Maryland
Decorated action on Kwajalein saves base from blast
In a tinder dry brush fire near a squadron area on Kwajalein atoll, exploding dud shells threatened a wide area. Capt. Earl L. Smith Jr. and Sgts Paul F Barrera and Florentia Garcia volunteered to haul two 600 pound Japanese bombs from the fire. They dragged the bombs to the beach and repeatedly removed mortars shells bangalore torpedoes and grenades. Captain Smith and both sergeants earned decorations for their actions. Smith is the son of Mr and Mrs Earl L Smith of New Market Maryland. He had informed his parents Feb 9 that he had landed at an undisclosed Pacific location. He is an Air Corps officer and an aircraft armorer graduate from Hickam Field Hawaii.
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Marshalls
Kwajalein Atoll
Earl L. Smith, Jr
New Market
Paul F Barrera
Corpus Christi
Tex
Florentia Garcia
Websterville
Smith
Capt. Smith
Earl L. Smith
Pacific
Air Corps
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Ten World Conferences On State Dept Calendar
Washington March 8 Diplomatic machinery to lay foundations for the post war world has begun rolling with at least ten international conferences on the State Department calendar. The agenda includes Anglo American oil talks and a United Nations monetary conference with Pinehurst North Carolina mentioned as a site. Treasury officials have discussed an international currency unit with Britain, Russia and others. Plans for an International Labour Office meeting in Philadelphia were announced. The UN food and agriculture interim commission nears its report on a food board and a UNRRA second meeting may be held in Montreal or Mexico City. An aviation conference is shaping up with Britain Russia China and Canada likely to attend. Post war shipping talks with Great Britain are ongoing. A communications conference, world cable and radio control, and conferences on world trade, economic policy, and health are also contemplated.
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Washington
State Department
Ocr
Edward R. Stettinius
London
United Nations Monetary Conference
Treasury Department
Pinehurst
N. C
Treasury
International Labor Office
Philadelphia
ILO
League of Nations
Montreal
United Nations Food and Agriculture Interim Commission
Council
United Nations
Hot Springs
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Mexico City
UNRRA
Britain
Russia
China
Canada
U. S
Great Britain
Stetlinius
Polish Compromise Offer Rejected by Russia
London dispatch reports Russia rejected the latest Polish compromise on the Russo Polish boundary dispute. Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk said his government in exile had not been informed. Polish circles resented London press reports and Soviet rejection of a temporary settlement that Mikolajczyk called British rather than Polish.
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London
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
No Restrictions On Axis In Argentina
Montevideo March 8 La Raton notes Nazi news agencies appeared to operate freely in Argentina despite the Axis break. It contrasts promises of American solidarity with government actions that contradict those statements.
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Montevideo
United States
la Raton
Argentina
Axis
Denver Republican Wins Special Election
A 59 year old Republican businessman Dean M Gillespie defeated Maj Carl E Wuertele for Denver's vacant congressional seat in Tuesday's special election by 2 978 votes. Gillespie led 41 418 to 38 440 in unofficial tallies and would be Denver's first Republican congressman since 1932 expressing that the people are tired of the Democratic New Deal staff and that business men are coming awake.
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Denver
Dean M. Gillespie
Carl E. Wuertele
Gillespie
Wuertecle
New Deal
130 000 000 To Be Jobless
Washington reports the International Labor Office estimates more than 130 million people worldwide must be employed after war ends. A proposal for international action to back national postwar employment plans will be discussed at the international labor conference in Philadelphia on April 20.
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Washington
International Labor Office
Philadelphia
Germany
Edward J. Phelan
ILO
British Planes and Armaments Hit World War II Output Figures
London reports Oliver Lyttelton disclosing through Parliament end of 1943 production totals. Britain built over 90,000 planes with four fifths being bombers fighters and naval reconnaissance. Army gear included 83,000 tanks armored cars and carriers and millions of rounds for guns and small arms.
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London
Oliver Lyttelton
Commons
Britain
United States
Lyttelton
Prisoners Make Liquor at Camp Hale in Barracks
German prisoners of war at Camp Hale Colorado were found attempting to manufacture liquor. About 20 gallons of fermenting fruit were destroyed by authorities after being kept in the prisoners barracks and apparently saved from meals.
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Hale
Colo
Strike Streads London Coal Trickles Amid Wage Strike
The flow of coal from Welsh mines, crucial to British war industries, dwindled to a trickle as a wage strike spread across the area with indicators that production could halt entirely by nightfall.
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London
Third Attack In A Week On Berlin With Heavy Escort
Strong U S air forces attacked Berlin for the third time in a week, using Liberator and Fortress bombers with large RAF escort to drop more than 350,000 incendiaries and 10,000 high explosives in the Berlin district. The eight big assault in ten days targeted industrial sites as Marauder bombers joined the continental strike.
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London
U. S
Berlin
United States Air Force
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Hannover
RAF
France
Holland
Turkey Seeks Patch Up With Britain Amid War Material Delays
Ankara officials say Turkey wishes to patch differences with Britain while deliveries under the 1939 alliance fall short. Foreign Minister Mene mencioglu says Ankara will act to preserve the alliance, with potential war participation and revised material estimates. Britain halted shipments, delivering about 19,000,000 pounds of promised 25,000,000 pounds in six months, and only four per cent of later commitments by Churchill at Adana have arrived.
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Ankara
Turkey
Britain
Numan Menemencioglu
London
Tast
Churchill
Adana
Three Die of Burns Near Fairfield in South Mountains
Gettysburg Pa March 8 Three people burned to death today in a fire that leveled a log and frame house three miles west of Fairfield in the South Mountains. The dead were Mrs Margaret Smith 74 her niece Mrs Violet McKee 24 and the latter's one and a half year old son Billy Leroy McKee Percy Smith 41 Mrs Smiths son was rescued the second McKee child Mary Alice 4 from the burning house he later died in hospital stating the fire started in the kitchen and spread rapidly through the four room two story dwelling built before the Civil War.
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Gettysburg
Fairfield
South Mountains
Margaret Smith
Violet McKee
Billy Leroy McKee
Percy Smith
Smith
McKee
Mary Alice
Nazis Prepare For New Drive On Cassino Front
Allied Headquarters Naples reports renewed night combat around Cassino as gunfire, mortars, and grenades plague the Fifth Army front. Observers note German movements behind lines near Rome hinting at a possible fourth push. New Zealand siege guns pound a rail station south of Cassino while US troops duel near Cisterna. Bad weather slows operations and the air force flies 1,300 sorties blasting Toulon and Rome rail yards.
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Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Rome
New Zealand
Cisterna
Carroccio
Toulon
France
Drunken Driver Pleads Guilty in Multiple Wrecks
George H. Graham of Lovettsville Virginia pleaded guilty to operating a truck while intoxicated and failing to stop after striking unattended vehicles and a telephone pole on the National Highway between Plane No. 4 and New Market. Magistrate Edward J. Smith noted the pleas were entered earlier and fines plus costs totaled 105 dollars. State Trooper Harold Basore said no injuries occurred and Graham was stopped on Petersville Road.
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George H. Graham
Lovettsville
Edward J. Smith
Harold Basore
Graham
Plane No. 4
New Market
Petersville
Basore
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Eisele Brothers
Bucovina Province
Frederick W. Weitzel
North Atlantic
Air Transport Command
Manchester
Weitzel
Ox Fibre Brush Co, Inc
Doane College
Crete
State Dept
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