Churchill Voices Confidence in Allied Victory Across Fronts
Prime Minister Churchill, in a home broadcast, expresses confidence in total Allied victory over the Axis, lauds Soviet gains and Allied air power, notes British and American forces surging in Europe while acknowledging slow progress in Italy and the Pacific. He highlights Russian valor, attrition against Japanese shipping, and declares leadership alignments with the United States in the Pacific.
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London
Churchill
Germany
America
Britain
Empire
Hitler
Far East
Luftwaffe
Royal Air Force
Balkans
Mediterranean
United Nations
Pacific
Burma
Burma-India
Italy
Anzio
Rome
Barkley Plans Two Oklahoma Speeches For Stigler Run
Sen. Alben W. Barkley travels to Oklahoma for two speeches in support of William G. Stigler in the Tuesday Second District special election. Sen. E. H. Moore warns a Clark win could end Roosevelt fourth term hopes. Both parties deem the race highly significant with broad national implications.
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Muskogee
Okla
Alben W. Barkley
D-Ky
Senate
Oklahoma
William G. Stigler
E. H. Moore
R-Okla
E. Q. Clark
Roosevelt
Barkley
Okmulgee
Moore
Tulsa
Thomas
D-Okla
Columbia
8. C
South Carolina
New Deal
M. 5
New Party
Mabel
88 Escort Carriers In Service Of Allies
The Associated Press reports an expanded Allied air umbrella with 88 escort carriers in American and British service. About 33 converted merchantmen were turned to Britain under lendlease, roughly 50 in U S anti submarine forces. In the Western Atlantic no sinkings were announced last week, as AP tally shows 701 Allied and neutral cargo carriers sunk by U boats since Pearl Harbor. US Navy notes submarines sank 11 more enemy vessels in Japanese waters, bringing total to 503 ships.
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Associated Press
Seven Seas
Navy
Kince
Knox
Fendlease
United States
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Navy
Few Arrests Made By Police Over Weekend
Weekend police activity yielded only a handful of arrests. Marshall Ropp of Middletown paid $10 collateral for intoxication. Roy Pickett faced $5 collateral for intoxication. Bennie Hurd was colored and intoxicated with $2.50 collateral. Hearings set for tonight. Newton Kefauver Jr. was taken into custody for AWOL and detained pending return to camp. William and Margie Jordan of East Street, both colored, were charged with disturbing the peace and posted $5 collateral each.
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Marshall Ropp
Middletown
Benjamin Phebus
Roy Pickett
Harry Phillips
Bennie Hurd
Norman Trump
Newton Kefauver, Jr
Allen Bartgis
Marshall Murray
William and
Margie Jordan
East Street
Marion Carmack
James Marks
Churchill rails at Mussolini and Axis in wartime blast
In a wartime address Churchill mocks Mussolini as a betrayer who fled to Hitler's table and aided German vengeance. He says Axis nations reel under Allied air power and lauds the Russian Army’s 900 mile yearly advance as Hitler’s undoing, noting U boat peril.
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Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Churchill
Hitler
Axis
Missing in Action Sgt Currens from Lancaster
Sgt. Ralph E. Currens, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Currens of 519 Elm Street, is reported missing in action over Germany after a March 8 loss. He served as a fortress tail gunner, previously involved in a Schweinfurt raid, and trained in Arizona, Texas, and Tennessee. He had been in England about two months and leaves behind a sister in the Women’s Army Corps at Aberdeen.
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Ralph E. Currenus
Edward E. Currens
Elm Street
U. S. Air Corps
War Department
Currens
Germany
U. S
Berlin
Fortress
Sgt. Currens
Europe
Schweinfurt
J. P. McCaskey High School
Lancaster
Monocacy Broadcasting Company
Veterans Administration
Washington
Arizona
Texas
Tennessee
England
Marian V. Currens
Aberdeen
Women’s Army Corps
Yachtmen's Navy To Aid With Invasion
London reports the mot ley yachtmen's Navy, famed for Dunkirk rescues, is asked to stay ready for six months for an invasion role. Admiralty invites river and tidewater craft crews to serve up to four weeks within the period, part of rapid preparatory steps following travel bans and coast protection actions.
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London
Britain
Dunkerque
Admiralty
Royal Navy
Ireland
Eire
England
Europe
Lisbon
Portugal
Kurile IslandsPounded Again By U S Forces
U S Pacific Fleet reports renewed air strikes on Paramushiro and nearby Onnekotan in the Kuriles. A four engine Coronado flying boat sank two small cargo vessels near Ponape in the Caroline Islands. One U S plane was lost in the raids. Fidelis class honors Mrs Waskey on her 77th birthday at Grace Evangelical church. Fibber McGee is improving in Santa Monica hospital with lobar pneumonia.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Eleventh Army Air Force Liberators
North Pacific
Kurile Islands
Paramushiro
Omekolan Island
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Caroline Islands
Coronado
Fleet Airwing
Ponape
Onnekotan
Blackiston
Nemo Bays
Fleet Airwing Four
Shumushu
Kuriles
U. S
Fibber McGee
Santa Monica
Calif
Jim Jordan
St. John’s Hospital
Allied Forces Hold Torokina After Heavy Fighting
Allied headquarters report a fierce battle at Torokina on Bougainville last Thursday ending with Japanese casualties near 300 and their retreat. MacArthur’s forces cleared adjacent islets Amo and Ndrove on Friday while American losses remained light with four dead, 47 wounded, and one missing.
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Southwest Pacific
Torokina
Bougainville Island
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty Islands
Amo
Ndrove
Manus Island
MacArthur
Manus
Los Negros Islands
St. Matthias
Admiralties
New Guinea
Wewak
Boram
Rabaul
New Britain
Sabillasville Soldier Honored After 25th Mission Over Europe
Sabillasville Md native Sgt Joseph H Dingle engineer and top turret gunner with the Eighth Air Force receives congratulations from First Sgt Harry L Bittner after completing his 25th mission over Nazi Europe in a Flying Fortress. Dingle holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. he arrived in England in 1943 and saw service in North Africa. Bittner has been in England six months and attended Chambersburg Pa High School.
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England
Joseph H. Dingle
Sabillasville
Harry L. Bittner
Nazi Europe
Bittner
Dingle
S. P. Bittner
Benjamin R. Dingle
Army
East Lake Avenue
Baltimore
American Can Company
Eighth Air Force
Regensburg
Stuttgart
Mariensburg
Brunswick
North Africa
Thurmont
Waynesboro
Air Corps
R. Snyder Plumbing and Heating Company
Chambersburg, Pa
Harry H. Mowrey
Chambersburg
Five-man Greek coalition committee formed in Greece
Negotiations at a mountain hideout in Greece yield a five man political committee under Col. E. E Bakirdzis to promote a broader national coalition Greek government. Cairo reports the Greek statement does not name the group but The Team, a large guerrilla faction with about 30,000 followers, is suspected. The exiled government tied broadening talks to reconciling guerrilla groups.
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Cairo
Greece
E. E Bakirdzis
New Golf Pro Hagerstown Signs Kerrigan at Fountain Head
George E Kerrigan ends 13 years at Wykagyl Country Club to become pro at Fountain Head Country Club replacing Rut Coffey who left in 1942. Kerrigan has won the Florida open Massachusetts Open and Southern California PGA and coached Maureen Orcutt, a noted woman golfer. Average soldier coffee ration noted as 40 cups monthly.
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Hagerstown
George E. Kerrigan
Wykagyl
West Chester
N. C
Fountain Head Country Club
Rut Coffey
Kerrigan
St. Augustine
Maureen Orcutt
Fidelis Class Meeting At Grace Reformed Sunday School
The Fidelis Class of Grace Reformed Sunday School met March 7 at Miss Hilda Burke’s home with 15 members and guests. The Red Cross donation of 25 dollars was announced and readings and a class song followed. Guess boxes awarded to Miss Mary Staley and Mrs. Leona Wachter. Next meeting set for April 4 at Mrs. Lydia Starr’s home on Madison Street.
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Fidelis
Grace Evangelical and Reformed Sunday School
Florence Waskey
Anna Edwards
Anna Mae Kemp
Winnimae Lent
C. E. Dryden
W. C. Martin
Mildred Stitely
Ruth King
Harry C. Smith
Margaret Engle
Jessie Tinney
Joseph Houff
Blanche Hoffman
Earl Wachter
F. J. Stockman
C. E. Kinna
Julia Houff
Anna Hoffman
F. M
Evelyn Wachter
Doris Engle
Ira F. Ray
Charlies Kinna
J. Albert Castle
Richard Castle
Bobbie Castle
Grace Reformed Sunday School
Hilda Burke
Red Cross
Harry Smith
Mary Staley
Leona Wachter
Lydia Starr
Madison Street
Greta Garbo to Return in Merchant Marine Film
Hollywood reports Greta Garbo will return to the screen after a three year absence in a new picture about Norwegian merchant marine exploits. Producer Lester Cowan says she accepted the role at the urging of Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Morganstierne.
Kiska Bay Bottom Paved With Jap Ships
Aleutian salvage crews report Kiska Bay littered with sunken ships. Commander B D Wood and Lieutenant William F Lewis describe multiple wrecks including Kano Maru and three Tojo Cigar midget subs. Divers recovered anchors and chain while inspecting a beached submarine and a sunken destroyer amid scattered wreckage.
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Aleutian
Kiska Bay
Kiska
B.D. Wood
Wood
William F. Lewis
San Pedro
Calif
Man shrinks by four tenths inch every decade after forty
A man experiences a gradual height loss of four tenths of an inch each ten years once he passes age forty. The pattern suggests ongoing decline in stature with advancing age.
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U.S
Kentucky
Plowman
Wingate
Tojo
Indigo
Dragon Seed
Pvt
Hargrove
Brooklyn
Bernadette
Bartlett
QUO Vogue
Stillwell
Kelley
Weston
Bemelmans Pearl Buck Hargrove Smith Werfel
G. L. Hill ‘Sons
Belden
Berger’s
N. Market St
Nazis
War Dept
Yorkshire
Fuel Ministry
Ministry of Fuel
Doncaster
Ralph E. Currens
Yachtmen’s Navy
U. 5 S
Liberty
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Comdr
Downes
Delphey’s
W. Patrick St
Frederick
South Market
Burall’s
C. C. Carty’s
East Patrick St
Aleen
Market &T
C. E. Cline & Son Puneral Directors
Hendrickson
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