British Prepare New Burma Line
Imperial troops withdraw from the Irrawaddy delta and shift northward to a defense position in south central Burma. Rangoon city burned as docks and stores blew up to deny the enemy, while U S lend-lease materiel awaiting delivery to China was destroyed. Japanese threats near Toungoo and plans for a large invasion of the Burma Shan States emerge as the next offensive may aim to cross the Pegu Yoma.
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United Press
Mandalay
Burma
Irrawaddy River
Rangoon
China
United States
Burma Road
Toungoo
Burma Shan
Hartville Girl Scouts Present The Service Candle Play
Scouts to entertain as Hartville Girl Scouts stage The Service Candle for mothers at a school meeting Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartville Girl Scouts
Legal notice notices in Canton Ohio probate matters
A compilation of legal notices from The Canton Repository including name changes and estate proceedings. Phillip Colamonico seeks a court name change to Phillip Joseph Coleman with hearing after April 1 1942. Various administratrix executor and claims notices reference Isaac Yant Rocco Esposito Horace F Bausher Sarah Atkins Charles Davis and Minerva Electric Products cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillip
Joseph Colamonico
Sherrick Rd
Canton
Stark County
Ohio
Colamonico
Phillip Joseph Coleman
Phillip Josep Colamonico
Alice Yant
Isaac Yant
Reuben Z. Wise
O. Calvin Seemann
Ene
Veronita Esposito
Canton, Ohio
Rocco Esposito
Othe Ohio
O. Jos
N. Bernabei
Canton Repository
State of Ohio
Court of Common Pleas
Minerva Electric Products Co
Minerva Electric Products, Inc
Minervalectric Products Company
Chas. K. Correll
First National Bank
Minerva Eectric Products, Inc
Admi
Edna M. Bausher
Horace F Bausher
O. Clayton Hoffman
Dee
George O. Atkins
Sarah Atkins
Curtis
Charles H. Feldbush
O c
Charles R. Davis
Victory Bonds and Stamps Urge Home Front Support
A wartime appeal urges citizens of Allied nations to finance the war effort. The message stresses arms, will, and financial power from civilians, urging immediate purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps at post offices banks and stores to back soldiers on the front lines.
Pacific War Developments Across Three Fronts
Reports from London state Japan could strike in three directions against Ceylon, southern India coast, Australia, or toward the Fiji Islands. Japanese bombers hit Port Moresby for the third day as Tojo warned Australians to submit, offering cooperation if they understand Japan’s intentions. Tokyo claimed Marblehead sunk near Australia and Jan Van Amstel near Lombok, though other sources did not confirm.
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London
Japan
Ceylon
India
Australia
Fiji Islands
Tojo
Port Moresby
Gulf of Papua
New Guinea
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Pacific
Imperial
Marblehead
Indian Ocean
Jan van Amstel
Lombok Strait
United States
Agusta
Houston
Jan van Mastel
Stamps Posters Judged by Committee in Defense Display Week
Stamps from May 1 to 8 will be judged by a committee appointed by J. H. Mason superintendent. Posters then go to downtown store windows for Retailers Defense Stamp Week with patriotic displays and store employee contests to promote Defense Savings Stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Mason
Isaac
Auxiliary of Legion Inducts 10 Members
The Auxiliary of Canton post, American Legion, initiated 10 new members at its meeting in the post home Tuesday night with Mrs. Ernest Scheufler of Brewster, 10th district president, in charge. Forty-five members attended the covered dish dinner before initiation. Mrs. Lee Noble led the business meeting. Stark County council auxiliaries plan a Thursday meeting at Brewster with a noon luncheon, with Mrs. Florence Bohlander and Mrs. J. L. Hilton organizing reservations.
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Auxiliary of
Canton Post
American Legion
Post Home
Ernest Scheufler
Brewster
10Th District
Lee Noble
Stark County Council
American Legion Auxiliaries
Florence Bohlander
J. L. Hilton
First Lady Proposes All-Out Draft To Aid War Effort
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt urges universal draft for men and women and calls for immediate freezing of prices profits and wages in a White House discussion that also involved President Roosevelt and their sons. Her stance strengthens push for wartime economic controls and parity between civilian and military labor.
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United Press
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Fronts blaze across Europe as Red Army gains ground
Reports say Soviet forces strike mass attacks on Moscow and Leningrad fronts while capturing an important Lake Ismen junction and villages. German commands claim heavy losses for the enemy and continuous defense as Axis troops retreat in North Africa amid Allied reassurances over the French fleet.
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Hitler
Moscow
Leningrad
Lake Ismen
16Th Army
Red Army
Rzhev
Vyazma
Navy fliers recount survival at sea and rescue
Pilot Dixon describes a perilous voyage with crew of three after losing clothes and sleep, facing sunburn and hunger, surviving a hurricane and a “cornfield” island with coconuts, then being fed by natives before rescue. Dixon dreams of La Mesa and returning to the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
Aldrich
la Mesa
South Sea
Mr Ball Longtime Merchant Dies After War Travel
Retired merchant Mr Ball built substantial real estate holdings including the Woolworth building and part ownership of Finney Drug Store property. He and Mrs Ball traveled widely visiting Vienna during the Anschluss era and spent summers in Canton and winters in California. Survived only by Mrs Ball, he remained active in church and board duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
Climalene Co
Woolworth
Finney Drug Store
Adolf Hitler
Vienna
Canton
California
Stores Instructed On Raid Protection
The office of civilian defense issued a pamphlet to department and specialty stores detailing air raid protective measures and placing direct responsibility for customer and employee safety on store owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Office of Civilian Defense Today
Nelson Seeks Immediate Expansion of War Plant Output
Nelson declares the nation must match and surpass enemy production by fully utilizing existing machinery. He cites 20 percent of plants idle on Sundays, second shifts at 40 percent capacity and third shifts at 20 percent, totaling thousands of machines idle part of every weekend and eight to sixteen hours on weekdays. He notes 31 aircraft engine plants and says full use could raise output by at least 25 percent.
Brazil prepares vote on wartime power after ship sinkings
Brazil awaits parliamentary approval of expanded powers. The move follows four Brazilian ships being sunk by submarines and is seen as a clear signal that the government will act. President Vargas signed a constitutional change granting him authority to declare war when defense requires armed forces.
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Vargas
Olive Tablets Advertisement Urges Constipation Relief
An old advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a remedy for constipation and sluggish liver. It urges ample water and fruit intake, claims to stimulate bile and aid digestion, and notes prices of 15 30 and 60 cents with a claim of wide use by thousands of grateful users. The tone is period marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Edwards
F. M. Edwards
Sugar Registration Delayed Amid Sugar Rationing Plans
Stark county delays distribution of sugar rationing books pending arrival of 332,000 consumer registration cards and 3,300 registrar booklets. County clerk C. F. Sherrard said books arrived but cannot be distributed until supplies arrive. Rationing may start after April 1 with one half pound per person weekly.
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Stark County
C. F. Sherrard
Tuscara
State Defense Council
Columbus
Ships report planes locate and sink submarine near Guantanamo
The U S Navy said planes located and sank a submarine after it shelled a tanker a few miles from Guantanamo Bay naval station. Three American destroyers towed the damaged vessel to the base, three tanker crew members died, and 15 were hospitalized at the Guantanamo naval hospital. Cuban workers named the tanker Ojide, though Lloyds Register lists no such vessel. At Baracoa, 38 Hanseat survivors prepared to depart for Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guantanamo Naval Hospital
Lloyd’s Register
Caribbean Petroleum Co., Ltd
Baracoa
Havana
Somervell Named Lieutenant General by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt nominated Maj. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell for the rank of lieutenant general. Somervell recently became chief of the service of supply in the army's streamlined wartime setup, announced from Washington by the International News Service.
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Brehon Burke Somervell
Service of Supply
Army
Roosevelt
Philippine Situation Stable Temporarily
The War Department reports from Washington that in Bataan Gen Douglas MacArthur faces numerically superior Japanese forces and the situation remains unchanged with no air or ground activity in the past 24 hours. The brief describes temporary stabilization of positions with no reports from other areas.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Canton
Blum Defiant Says Axis Began the War
Leon Blum, former Popular Front premier and defendant, defiantly told the war responsibility trial that Axis nations were guilty of starting the war. He declared the world public conscience knows where lies the responsibility of war and that Axis refusal to disarm in 1936 proved their intent to go to war.
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Associated Press
BIOM
France
Leon Blum
Popular Front
Supreme Court
Clevelander Seeks Ohio Secretaryship
A. R. Thomas of Cleveland obtained nominating petitions from the secretary of state today for the Republican nomination for Ohio secretary of state in Columbus on March 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clevelander
Ohio
Associated Peas
Columbus
A. R. Thomas
Cleveland
Secretary of State
Stimson in Panama on Inspection Tour
United States Secretary of War Stimson visited Balboa Panama on March 11 inspecting the Caribbean defense command and the Panama Canal including the project for a third set of locks. He arrived by air from Miami for his first visit to the combat area.
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International News Service
Balboa
Canal Zone
United States
Stimson
Panama
Caribbean Defense Command
Panama Canal
Miami
Pope Pius XII Reacquires Public Audiences After Illness
Rome reports Pope Pius XII fully recovered from influenza and resuming public audiences at the Vatican. He received 300 young married couples and 2,000 other attendees as he returned to duties.
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Pope Pius
Rome
Pope Pius XII
Vatican
Colorado Tops With Forty Nine Peaks Above Fourteen-Thousand
Colorado records claim forty nine summits exceed fourteen thousand feet while Switzerland counts eight. The comparison highlights Colorado’s rugged high country versus Switzerland’s Alps with fewer ultra high peaks.
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Colorado
Switzerland
Man Dies After Bridge Fall At Little Miami River
In Lebanon Ohio on March 11 the body of Thomas Ryan, 66, was recovered from the Little Miami River. Coroner H. M. Williams stated Ryan fell through a hole in a footbridge created by a falling branch during Sunday's windstorm.
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Lebanon
Thomas Ryan
Little Miami
H. M. Williams
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Haarlem
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Pacific War
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Bellevue
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Bellevue-Stratford
Philadephia
Clauudee
H. Bennett
First Lady
Europe
Lake Chad
Fezzan Desert
Germany
Darlan
NAVY
MR. Ball
Nelson
Brazil
WPB
Norge
Somervell
Philippine
Blum
AXIS
Loe
Sola
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Agency CO
Neval Air Station
Remington
Market
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