Unrest Continues as Argentina Faces Coup Attempt
In Montevideo a brief revolt by Lt. Col. Thomas Duco failed quickly as Farrell's government stabilized. Duco surrendered unconditionally after marching from Buenos Aires with about 1,000 troops. Ramirez, backed by Naval support, appeared to gain recognition while foreign powers showed disapproval of Farrell's authority grab.
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Charles H. Guptill
Montevideo
Acing
Inhire
Farrell
Thomas Duco
Itd
Navy
Pedro A
Ramirez
Duce Ang
Buenos Aires
Alberto Teisaire
Teisaire
Supreme Court
Duco
Santa Fe
Cordoba
Bahia Blanca
Parana
Third Infantry
Argentina
War Ministry
United States
Veterans lecture Lewis on strikes by Italian campaign youths
Two self described veterans Corporal Henry Kania of Schenectady New York and Private Jacob Ricotta of Rochester New York visited John L Lewis in the United Mine Workers Building to lecture on strikes and veteran hardships abroad. A UMW official said no blows occurred and noted the youths cried at times during the interview.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Henry Kania
Schenectady
N. Y
Jacob Ricotta
Rochester
C. Adams
United Mine Workers
Adams
Lewis
UMW
Alexandria
Americans Spend Record Liquor Bill in 1948 Shoppers
The commerce department reports Americans bought less liquor by volume but paid more in 1947 or 1948, with spending over 6 billion dollars and alcohol costs amounting to about seven cents of every dollar spent on goods and services.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Greeks kill Nazis near Mt Olympus Greece report says
Four hundred German soldiers including a Nazi general and staff were killed February 22 when Greek guerrillas guided by a British officer mined a troop train near Mount Olympus. Eleven train cars plunged into the Pinios river, authorities report.
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Cairo
Mt. Olympus
Greece
Pinios
Service Bars To Honor Civil Defense Workers In Somerset
L C Cross leads 5 000 hour recipient at March 7 ceremony in court room 1 7 30 pm. E Louise Van Valkenburg will present service bars to 60 Somerset area workers for long time dedication to civilian defense. Other awardees include 3 000 hour group Edwin E Good Harry C Jacobs Kenneth P Lohr. 2 000 hour group led by Clarence M Sanner and Neva S Longridge. 1 000 hour group includes Arthur Waterman Harold Shaukis and more. 500 hour list features Jean Antonacci Arthur A Gall David Weimer and dozens of others from Somerset Jerome and Acosta.
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E. Louise van Valkenburg
United States Citizens Service Corps
Somerset
Somerset County
Larry Cameron Cross
West Main Street
OCD
Cross
Court Room
Somerset Area
Jerome
Edwin E. Good
The
Red Cross
Bona
Harry C. Jacobs
CCD
Kenneth P. Lohr
Navy
Clarence M. Sanner
Edythe Lyon Krebs
Mary D. Lyon
Anna L
Arthur Waterman
Harold C. Shaukis
C.S. Berkey
Margaret B. Mack
Ann Allison Uhl
Fred P. Hare Jr
Karl F. Shank
Isaac T. Kaufman
Boswell
J.L. Lowney
Cynthia R. Shaffer
Frank E. Montgomery
Harold Albright
Michael G Hercules
William J Weaver
Lee B. Dungan
Acosta
Winter wheat crop in Somerset county appears below average
The Somerset county winter wheat crop looks weak this year due to a dry fall and spotty emergence. County agent C. C. McDowell notes March typically reveals crop prospects and warns that repeated freezing could hurt yields, while some farmers report fair to below average outlooks.
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Somerset County
C. C. McDowell
Clark Miller
Somerset R. D
United States
Lend Lease
McDowell
Boswell Flier Eugene Gurzenda Missing in Action
Tech Sgt. Eugene J. Gurzenda is missing in action in the central Pacific per war department word to his Boswell mother Mrs. Marcells Gurzends. He earlier worked at Boswell Meat Market and served as radio technician on a heavy bomber in the Pacific theater.
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Tech
Eugene J. Gurzenda
Central Pacific
War Department
Marcells Gurzends
Boswell
Army Corps
Gurzends
Pacific
War bond drive reports higher sales in Ft Port area
Officials said 1,882,298 E bonds have been sold in the current campaign, up from 1,668,838 in the Third loan. Additional sales of 1.6 million bring the Ft Port area total to 65.7 million, or 84 percent of the 78 million quota.
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Pittsburgh
Britain backs Russia demands on Finland amid war exit talk
London reports Britain supports Moscow terms for Finland as part of the Anglo Russian pact. Optimism grows that Finland may seek peace and possibly influence Bulgaria Romania and Hungary to exit the war. A Finnish armistice mission may head to Moscow led by Juho Paasikivi.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
Great Britain
Hsa
Russia
Finland
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hungary
Moscow
Stockholm
Juho Paasikivi
Germany
Washington
United States
Britain
Hangoe
Helsinki
U. S
State Hull
Most Germans Want Peace Says Lord Halifax in Speech
Lord Halifax told a St. David's society group that if Germans could freely vote they would largely choose peace at once, though such a vote is not possible. He argued Germans surrendered bodies and souls before the war and now cannot control their destiny while noting Axis powers face defensive strains in Europe and the air war.
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Scranton
Lord Halifax
United States
St. David’s Society
Campos
Hug Cracks Mother's Ribs In Homecoming
Corporal Norman Leblanc a radio operator aboard an army transport plane surprised his mother in Lynn Massachusetts after 16 months in the south Pacific. He wrapped her in a great hug and accidentally fractured two of her ribs in the embrace.
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Lynn
Mass
Wrr
Norman Leblanc
South Pacific
Red Army advances across Estonia and Belarus front lines
Moscow reported a major push as Red Army units punched a bridgehead across the Narva river south of Narva and cut the escape railway. Southward near Pskov Russians seized 70 localities and cut key rail links, threatening to flank Pskov. Berlin noted some gains but admitted partial bridgehead losses amid heavy fighting.
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Tom Yargrough
London
Moscow
Etonia
Natova River
Narva
Pskov
Piskov-Idritasa
Skulovichi
Narova
Auvere
Nava
Reval
Estonia
Gulf of Finland
Berlin
Baltic States
Nevaditsy
Lia
Red Army
Ivichesa
Dvina
Vitebsk
Stockholm
Kovno
Kaunas
Lithuania
Powers See Japan Unable To Break U S Attack
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale and Lieut. Gen. A A Vandergrift told reporters in Washington that Japan cannot stop the American onslaught in the Pacific. Hale warned the pattern will be to neutralize island groups between the U S and Japan, as bases from the Marshalls enable strikes toward Truk and beyond along a map line through the Marianas and Bonins toward Palau and the Philippines.
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James J. Strebig
Associated Press
Washington
Japan
Pacific
Marshalls
Willis H. Hale
7Th Air Force
Central Pacific
Truk
Hale
Carolines
Marianas
Bonins
Islands
Palau Islands
Philippines
German Lunge on Anzio Beachhead Blocked by Allies
Allied forces halted a German push on the Anzio beachhead as fighting continued around a 25 mile perimeter. Field guns mortars and air power supported by Isola Bella and Cisterna area actions restrained Nazi tanks and infantry in a hard sustained attack with mixed success.
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Anzio
Richard G. Maslock
Allied
Naples
Albert Kesselring
No-Man’s Land
Midway
Carroceto
Cisterna
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Isola Bella
Kennedy
Carroceto-Anzio
German
High Command
DNB
MacArthur Sees Invasion From Ship
Allied dispatch reports General MacArthur personally directed the Momote airfield invasion on Los Negros Island. Japanese counterattack repulsed in rain soaked jungle with near 100 enemy dead. American losses negligible. First Cavalry division troops consolidated position and airfield to be used by air forces.
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Robert Eunson
Southwest Pacific
Momote
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Douglas MacArthur
First Cavalry
sustGravbee
MacArthur
Marauder Power Up Signals Bigger Bomber Raids
Berlin radio systems went off air last night amid RAF activity over Europe. U S reports show American Marauder medium bombers dropping 200 tons of bombs in 20 February operations, averaging 1.6 tons per plane, with a record air base raid near St Trond Belgium and Venlo Holland involving over 250 planes. Thirteen Marauders were lost in February to anti aircraft fire and fighters. British Mosquito bombers conducted a western Germany mission with no losses.
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Ninth Air Force
England
St. Trond
Belgium
Venlo
Holland
Germany
President Roosevelt hosts Wedemeyer at White House
President Roosevelt met with Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer third member of the allied high command in southeast Asia at the White House. Wedemeyer visits within a fortnight to discuss allied strategy.
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Lees Wedemeyer
Washington
Roosevelt
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Allied High Command
Southeast Asia
White House
Bullitt and Biddle Named Philadelphia Delegates
William C. Bullitt former ambassador to France and Russia and Francis Biddle U S Attorney General are named Philadelphia delegates at large to the Democratic national convention in July.
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Philadelphia
William C. Bullitt
France
Russia
U. S
Francis Biddle
Philippines Lie Beyond Admiralties
Washington reacts to MacArthur forces landing at Rabaul as the Philippines loom in the southwest Pacific. The drive aims to reoccupy the Philippines for a China coastal push and to sever Japan’s sea lines toward Burma Malaya the Indies and southeast Asia.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Admiralty Islands
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
Southwest Pacific
America
Pacific
Japan
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
New Britain
Central Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
MacArthur
South Pacific
China
Burma
Malaya
Netherlands Indies
Southeast Asia
Juvenile Put Under Probation For Railroad Derailment
A 14 year old boy was placed on five years probation by Judge R M Gibson after pleading guilty to interfering with a war facility and placing a 181 pound rock on Baltimore and Ohio tracks near Fenelton Butler County at last Christmas causing a freight engine derailment.
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Pittsburgh
R. M. Gibson
Baltimore & Ohio
Fenelton
Butler County
State pays second class townships for road funding
Harrisburg reports the state highway department mailed checks totaling 875000 to second class townships as the first quarterly payment of an 8500000 appropriation for maintenance and construction of roads and bridges.
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Harrisburg
State Highway Department
Troutman Files Nominating Petitions for State Senate
William Troutman of Shamokin Pennsylvania filed nominating petitions today to run for state senator from the 27th district. The former congressman-at-large, whose post was eliminated under the 1944 congressional reapportionment act, announced his candidacy in Harrisburg.
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Troutman
State
Harrisburg
William Troutman
Shamokin
Pennsylvania
Smith Announces Senate Bid in New Jersey Primary
H. Alexander Smith of Princeton announced his bid for the Republican nomination for United States senator at the May 16 primary, backed by New Jersey's top GOP leaders.
Maryland and PA forecast for Thursday fair and rising heat
Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania expect Thursday fair weather with temperatures climbing. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia should see thicker clouds later with a slow temperature rise.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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