Aerial Blitz Paving Way For Invasion
Allied air forces led a four day bombing surge targeting German aircraft plants and industry. U S claims 343 German planes downed in four days, including 33 yesterday over Steyr Austria, with Libera tor bombers and Italian escorts backing the effort. American heavy bombers from Italy pressed the raid, facing strong German opposition yet striking two Steyr factories, potentially reducing Luftwaffe strength and easing invasion casualties.
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Italy
Allied
Naples
Germany
Steyr
Austria
Wnaples
Navy Man Found Dead in Capital
Machinist Mate Francis Scott Key, 36, of the Navy Construction Battalion, was found dead in an alley in Washington. Police said he fell or jumped from a building. His wife Cecilia Lucrecia Key of San Francisco was notified. Key had temporary duty at the Naval Research Laboratory in Bellevue and was regularly assigned at Camp Peary, Virginia.
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Francis Scott Key
Navy
Key
Cecilia Lucrecia Key
Nos St
San Francisco
Naval Research Laboratory
Bellevue
D. C
Camp Peary
Congress Ready To Rebuke FDR
Congress proposes major tax shifts impacting liquor, postal, Social Security, war contracts, and income taxes. A 3 percent victory tax replaces earned income credit, and many excises rise. Corporations face higher excess profits, and a broad sales tax expands to cosmetics, furs, jewelry, rail services, and more.
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Roosevelt
Playboyrd Householder
Gestapo units in American prison camps claim five murders
Gerhart H. Seger, editor of Neue Volkszeitung, told reporters in Baltimore that Nazis are organized in U S prisoner camps. He said five German prisoners were murdered by fellow inmates for democratic ideas and that some are beyond hope for re education. Seger advocates Geneva Convention style re education but doubts it will always succeed. He spoke at an Institute of International Understanding event hosted by the Baltimore Rotary Club.
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Gestapo
Germany
Reichstag
Gerhart H. Seger
New York City
Neue Volkszeitung
America
Seger
Institute of International Understanding
Rotary Club
Tojo May Move Cabinet Meetings to Imperial Palace
A Tokyo newspaper report relayed by the Vichy home radio says future Cabinet meetings may be held in the Imperial Palace rather than at Tojo’s official residence, signaling possible steps to handle a crisis.
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New York
Hideki Tojo
Vichy Home Radio Tonight
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Tojo
Farm deferments tightened for single war workers
War farm policy changes require single farm workers to produce 16 units for deferment up from eight. Senator Bankhead estimates about half of the 1,700,000 farm workers now deferred could face induction under the new rules. The Senate farm committee plans to hear Selective Service Director Hershey on the impact for 1944 farm labor.
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Bankhead
Alabama
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Agriculture Department
Senate Farm Committee
Briz
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
American Farm Bureau Federation
Cooperative groups join to push dairy policy reforms
The National Grange, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation unite to advocate policy changes benefiting dairy producers.
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Tional Grange
The
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Local Boy Lost In Jungle Safe
Sgt Alter and Sgt Cohii survived seven days in a jungle after bailing from 13 000 feet. They, with three armed crew mates, endured hunger and thirst until an Indian guided them to an American camp in India. Six men and two officers were accounted for. others remained missing. Local families await more word as recuperation continues.
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Alter
India
Sgt
Cohii
Hagerstown
West Washington Street
Aer
Synthetic Tires Draw Big Crowd at Hagerstown Event
City and county motorists, truckers, and farm vehicle operators attended a Franklin Court event by the Hagerstown District Maintenance Advisory Committee to compare synthetic and natural rubber tires. Tire dealers from Hagerstown, representatives of major manufacturers, and officials from the Office of Price Administration and Office of Defense Transportation spoke.
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Hagerstown
Office of Price Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
Edward R. Gisburne
ODT
Thomas Bittle
Neel Pinson
Blue Ridge Bus Lines
H. D. Weller
Akron
E. K. Owens
W. V. Dingling
Collision collision leads to collateral posting after truck crash
A delegation of farmers and tire dealers along with private motorists and truck owners attended addresses. R L Funkhouser posted collateral for a later hearing after his truck collided with a parked car on North Cannon avenue near East avenue last night.
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R. L. Funkhouser
Newt
East Avenue
North Cannon Avenue
Appointment of Edward Brown Jr as county forest warden
The Board of County Commissioners confirmed the appointment of Edward 8 Brown Jr to serve as county forest warden. He resides on Hamilton Boulevard and takes on duties to manage forest lands for the county.
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Edward
Brown, Jr
Hamilton Boulevard
Mandel Rejected for Military Service in Detroit Lions Owner
Chicago Feb 23 Fred Mandel Jr owner of the Detroit Lions was rejected for military service after undergoing pre induction medical examination.
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Mandel
Chicago
Fred Mandel, Jr
Detroit Lions
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Willard, Tenn
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