Fifth Air Force mounts new raids in Wewak sector
March 24 reports say Fifth Air Force bombers pressed attacks on Wewak base area in New Guinea targetting gun positions ships grounded planes and buildings. Liberators Mitchells and Boston bombers dropped 200 tons on Aitape and destroyed heavy guns and parked planes. One Allied plane reported missing and Solomons base aircrews dropped 36 tons on Rabaul airports and anti aircraft defences.
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Southwest
Pacific
Fifth Air Force
New Guinea
Wewak
Muschu
Aitape
Solomons
Rabaul
Birth of a son and reflections on spring from Drew Pearson note
The Washington Merry-Go-Round column features a personal letter from Drew Pearson to his sister Mrs. Lockwood Fogg Jr. about the birth of her son at Wallingford DP. He writes from a train observing Spring, soil, and family joys while recalling erosion care and wartime Miami scarcity. Continued on Page Four.
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Drew Pearson
Col. Roberts
Army
Washington
Lockwood Fogg, Jr
Wallingford
D.P
Maryland
Florida
Wynne
Miami
Bombers Hit Supply Lines in Northern Italy
Allied headquarters in Naples reports new bombing raids on enemy supply lines in Florence and Padua. American Marauders attacked Campo di Marte freight yards, Florence’s largest yard, with recon photos showing extensive warehouse and track destruction and fires reaching up to 9 000 feet. Casano remained in heavy fight with no major changes in the front.
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Naples
Italy
Florence
Padua
Cassano
Campo di Martel
Kaiser Plans 30 Coastwise Cargo Ships for Pacific Use
Henry J. Kaiser announces a peacetime ship program to cushion industry labor shifts after war. He will build 30 coastwise cargo ships for the Dutch East Indies Government for wartime and peacetime use in the South Pacific. The cash contract needs no lend-lease approval and work is to start early next year.
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Washington
Henry J. Kaiser Kaiser
Dutch East Indies
South Pacific Islands
Netherlands Indies
Kaiser
Peace talks look unlikely in Russia Finland dispute
Moscow reports said further peace conversations between the Soviet Union and Finland are unlikely after Helsinki rejected Moscow's six point armistice plan. Moscow radio announced a negative reply from Helsinki dated March 17 and warned Finland to bear responsibility for any consequences.
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Moscow
Helsinki
Finland
Moscow Radio
Veterans Preference Bill Clears House Committee
Washington March 24 An amended veterans preference measure for government jobs passes the House Service Committee. It adds five to ten points to Civil Service exam scores for veterans and requires veteran names to be prioritized on eligibility lists even when non veterans score higher.
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Washington
House
War May Last Year Or Longer
War outlooks and Allied air and ground actions are reported with Montgomery urging home front unity. In Washington a lobby criticizes Sen Wallgren's Alaska fishing code bill as a subsidy to big canneries, while Allied troops push on toward Imphal and Western Front bombing continues with raids on Lyons and French rail yards.
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London
Bernard Law Montgomery
Montgomery
Washington
Maroh
Peoples Lobby, Inc
United States
Mon GC. Wallgren
of Washington
Alaska
Wallgren
Senate
Alaskan
North America
Associated Press
Russie
Prut River
Bessarabia
Carypathian Mountains
Rumania
Dniester
Konev
Ia Jan
Prut
Tarnopol
Proskurov
Sd “Er
Russia
Gaile
Kovel
Curzon Line
Old Poland
Red Army
Vitebsk
White Russia
Crimea
Retiring Alaska Customs Officer Vandewall Remembered
Collector James J. Connors announces the voluntary retirement of Pred Vandewall of Skagway from the Alaska Customs Service after a long career beginning in 1901 at Eagle Yukon river and ending in Skagway. Vandewall and family contributed to Skagway social life while serving 17,000 yearly travelers and residents. His son Francis serves as a U. S. Army officer near Bend Oregon.
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Collector of Customs
James J. Connors
Customs Service of
Alaska
Pred J. Vandewall
Skagway
Juneau
Bend
Oregon
Vandewall
Connors
Alaska Customs Service
Eagle
Yukon River
Forty Mile
Forty Mile River
Francis
Klondike
Tthe
More Charges Made Against Chairman Fly
Chairman Fly of the Federal Communications Commission calls charges that he delayed Alaska miniature broadcasting stations wholly false. He testified to a House committee that Alaska needed the service and that he did everything to secure it. He said the Army planned to use the small stations to read morale in isolated garrisons.
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Washington
Fly
Federal Communications Commission
Alaska
House
FCC
Fire Raiders Strike London Early Friday
Nazi incendiaries dropped on sections of London in a brief Friday dawn attack causing a third alarm in three hours. The raid targeted the British capital city as emergency services responded to the fires.
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London
Eric Johnston Invited to Russia to Inspect Factories
Eric Johnston of Spokane Washington president of the United States Chamber of Commerce has accepted the Soviet invitation to inspect Russian production facilities. He will depart by plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Johnston
Russia
Washington
Spokane
Wash
United States Chamber of Commerce
Sitka Inlet Excursion Trip Highlights State Leaders
Alaska Coastal Airlines carried passengers McAvoy and J A Harris to Sitka today while Gov Ern est Grutning and Col BE W Norris traveled to Excursion Inlet and were to return to Juneau late today.
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McAvoy
J. A. Harris
Sitka
Alaska Coastal Airlines
Ernest Grutning
Col
BE. W. Norris
Excursion Inlet
Roosevelt proposes refugee openness and Philippines pledge
President Roosevelt, in a statement on refugees, urges temporary open borders for victims and reiterates the Philippines independence pledge. He defends foreign policy amid critics and cites a world built on freedom and justice for all. Churchill visits American airborne troops and foresees a new opportunity to land on Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Europe
Asia
United Nations
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Churchill
Woodley Airways plane heads west with passengers
A Woodley Airways aircraft departed westward today carrying W Anderson W B Tallman and Mrs H Corey bound for Anchorage. Mike Hanner traveled to Yakutat.
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Woodley Airways
W. Anderson
W. B. Tallman
H. Corey
Anchorage
Mike Hanner
Yakutat
Moose Lodge Tonight and Weekend Activities
The Moose Lodge holds a regular business meeting at 8 o clock tonight at the Seward Building with refreshments to follow. Saturday at 8 pm members gather for a game party. Police Court fines total 25 dollars for four individuals charged with being drunk and disorderly this morning. Articles of incorporation filed for Prince William Sound Logging Company with main offices in Anchorage and incorporators Robert W. Slater of Fairbanks and G O H Saindon and Vernon Hillier of Anchorage.
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Moose Lodge
Seward Building
Frank J. Daniel
Sandro Lazerin
Sophie Kitechto
Daniel Perrin
Logging Company
Territorial Auditor’s
Prince Willian Sound
Penicillin Used for First Time by Alaska Civilian
In Ketchikan Alaska on March 24 George Hemnes became the first Alaska civilian to receive penicillin for a strep throat infection. The drug was provided by the military after Dr G Lee Stagg arranged a mission units loan from Evans Memorial Hospital Boston, with repayment to the military and case history to be reported to Boston. results are not yet known.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
George Hemnes
G. Lee Stagg
Evans Memorial Hospital
Boston
New Airways Line Proposed to Alaska
Christopher Abbott, president of the Prairie Airways Alliance of Nebraska, applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to operate an air service from Great Falls to Nome Alaska via Lethridge Edmonton Port St John Sesitemaree and Palrbanks.
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Washington
Christopher Abbott
Prairie Airways Alliance of Nebraska
Civil Aeronautics Board
Great Falls
Nome
Alaska
Lethridge
Edmonton
Port St. John
Sesitemaree
Palrbanks
Edward Wielsens Independent Council Bid Nominated
Edward Wielsens files for council as an independent candidate in New York. Gov Dewey to speak on NBC national hookup at 10:15 p.m. Nielsen, a Piggly Wiggly employee, is listed as a petitioning candidate for the CIA Association of New York. Arrival note: Albert Carlyon arrives from Sitka at the Gastineau Hotel.
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New York
Thomas FE. Dewey
National Broadcasting Company
Edward 8
Nielson
CIA Association of New York
Ee. Nielsen
Piggly Wigsly
Albert Carlyon
Sitka and
Gastineau Hotel
British Subs Sunk Nippon Vessels Amid East Front Actions
The British Naval Affairs body reports Japanese naval losses since January include a Kuma class cruiser a 7 000 ton aircraft carrier eight supply ships and assorted naval craft sunk east of the Meet. Kuma class cruisers displace about 1600 tons and carry roughly 489 officers and men.
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London
Confusion Prevails In Europe
London reports that Berlin’s destruction by explosions has caused widespread administrative confusion across Germany. RAF commentators describe Berlin as a "mess" with many workers fleeing unpermitted and work stoppages halting key war effort processes.
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London
Berlin
Germany
Europe
Ufe
Aickens
RAF
Hitler ramps up troop moves in Balkans on Black Sea coast
London reports Hitler is rushing German reinforcements to Romanian and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts as a possible prelude to occupying Romania and drawing the Balkans into the war under Nazi control. Turkey watches anxiously as Danube movements expand and rumors of 25 divisions in reserve surface.
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London
Hitler
Black Sea
Rumania
Balkans
Turkey
Europe
Istanbul
Danube
Germany
Hungary
Bulgaria
Neal
Danubien
Yugoslavia
Hirsts' Reception Tonight at Northern Light Church
A public reception honors Mr and Mrs Claude M Hirst at Northern Light Presbyterian Church tonight from 8 to 10 PM. The couple will soon depart for the States after years as Juneau residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude M. Hirst
Northern Light Presbyterian Church
States
Juneau
Johnson to Wrangell assignment and deputy customs post
Johnson left today for Wrangell to take temporary charge of the fill laundry there. The former operator R S Harbroich has been appointed Deputy Customs Collector to be stationed at Ketchikan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. ©. Johnson
Wrangell
World War II Updates From Washington London Front
Reports indicate an American plane bombed Ant Island near Ponape, with additional bombings in the Eastern Marshalls. President Roosevelt signals possible action on the soldier vote bill next week while Navy announces eleven more Japanese ships sunk. Allied raids hit Schweinfurt Frankfurt Nancy and Salty Dizek in France as Soviet forces capture Chortkov and repel German counterattacks at Turnopol and Proskurovy.
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Washington
Ant Island
Atoll
Ponape
Marshalls
London
Red Army
Chortkov
Stalin
Turnopol
Proskurovy
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Trnal
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Paris
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Customs Service
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New Airways
Edward Wielsen
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Salat Dizek
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