Allies Tighten Tunisia Trap and Caucasus Offensives
The column notes Allied advances toward Tunis and Bizerte with British and American forces pushing through key hills as French units cut a road exposing Axis flanks. It also reports a major Russian push around Novo rossisk on the Kuban bridgehead and aerial strikes in east Prussia. President Roosevelt proposes postwar youth service training in camps and plants, aiming to keep national readiness after victory.
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Tunisia
Caucasus
Novorossisk
FDR
North Africa
Tunis
Bizerte
First Army
Plain of
Medjez-El Bab
Patton
Mateur
Tebourba
Montgomery
Eighth
Bou Aoukaz
Berlin
Kuban
Moscow
Red Army
East Prussia
Red
Hitler
America
Roosevelt
FDR Faces Coal Conflict and War Effort Shifts
President Roosevelt threats to use powers to prevent strikes in soft coal fields as 75,000 miners walk out and 450,000 bituminous workers face possible action. War Manpower Commission expands the stabilization program to allow essential workers to transfer to higher paying jobs in other sectors if deemed to aid the war effort.
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Blunt
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U. S
War Manpower Commission
United States
WMC
Commission
Organized Labor
U. S. Employment Service
Withholding Tax Sparks Doughton Assurance On 20 Percent Scheme
House Ways and Means Chairman Doughton said the proposed 20 percent withholding will not take an extra dollar from taxpayers. He explained the withholding is a method to collect taxes due, with refunds for overwithholding and credits against final tax owed, and noted all workers will file a March 15 income tax return.
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Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Teens to fill summer jobs exceed three million
Katherine Lenroot chief of the Children's Bureau says over 3,000,000 youths aged 14 to 18 will hold full or part time work this summer. She urged communities to safeguard the health of high school age workers balancing school and work during vacations or entering full-time jobs.
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Katherine Lenroot
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Miss Lenroot
From Ragged Pockets to Boardroom: Ralph Gallagher’s Standard Oil Rise
Ralph W Gallagher climbs from penniless youth to president of New Jersey Standard and leader in oil and gas. His career spans East Ohio Gas, Standard Oil, and the national rubber patent deal, marking a dramatic rise from patchy pants to vast wealth.
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York
Ralph W. Gallagher
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Gallagher
Standard Gallagher
Standard Oil
East Ohio Gas Company
New Jersey Standard
US Army On Alert For Chemical Warfare Gas Use
The piece discusses Brig. Gen. Alden H. Waitt and Amos Fries detailing chemical warfare, its history from Plataea to modern nitrogen mustard, advantages and risks, and US preparation including bombing spray methods and protective measures. It argues gas could limit losses and cites casualty data, while stressing education and discipline as key defenses.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Germany
Army and Navy Club
Washington
Fries
United States
Chemical Warfare Service
Edgewood Arsenal
Baltimore
Calais
Waitt
Bermuda conference outlines plans to aid refugees
Observers report the Anglo American conference on refugee problems in Hamilton Bermuda endorsed measures to relocate 80 000 refugees from neutral countries to Africa during the war and to provide feeding and care for those unable to depart.
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Europe
Germany
Hamilton
Bermuda
Africa
Smith College students to serve one hour daily for cost relief
Smith college students will provide one hour of daily unpaid service to the college to reduce rising costs and avoid additional fees. President Herbert Davis announced the plan amid ongoing budget concerns. A separate note reports Ontario imposes a beer ration of 36 pints per month. Paul Reynaud, ex French premier, is jailed in a Pyrenees cell writing memoirs. Allied bombers hit a 2,000-ton Japanese vessel in the Arafura Sea north of Australia, per UN HQ.
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Smith College
Herbert Davis
Ontario Liquor Board
Paul Reynaud
Pyrenees
Arafura Sea
Australia
United Nations
Militaerwochenblatt Suspended After 127 Years
Bankhage notes Polish saboteurs killed or wounded 424 Nazis and damaged trains and oil wells within a month. Militaerwochenblatt, the famed German military journal, is reported by London radio to be suspended after 127 years. Also, butter sellers under the meats and fats ration must now collect ration points. Red Cross chapters offer help from nutrition experts.
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Militaerwochenblatt
London Radio
United States
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