British subs sink Italian ships near Messina coast
British submarines struck Italian sea lanes off the Strait of Messina firing torpedoes and shells. They sank two Italian submarines, two supply ships, six schooners, and a troop transport, with Italian shore and air fire interfering with rescue efforts. The Ammiraglio Mille and an Argonauta class submarine were identified as sunk.
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London
Italy
Admiralty
Strait of Messina
Sicily
Adriatic
Britain
Mussolini
II Duce
Argonauta
Naval Battle Off North Africa Rages In Convoy Fight
Italian broadcasts report a heavy naval clash off the North African coast as Axis torpedo planes crippled a British convoy. Italian formations pressed the fight near the Gulf of Sirte as battleships and protecting units attempted to seek cover. London reports deny sinking any ship though others damaged. Berlin says a 6000 ton merchant ship was sunk with two others damaged in an attack on a well protected convoy off the North African coast.
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Rome
North African
Gulf of
Sirte
Bengali
London
Berlin
Africa
High Command
Landis Granted Absolute Divorce From Gemmie Landis
Judge Joseph D. Mish grants Charles B. Landis an absolute divorce from Gemmie Helen Landis. Married in 1939 the couple has two children. Desertion alleged. Calvert K Hartle served as attorney in the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Landis
Joseph D. Mish
Gemmie
Helen Landis
Calvert K Hartle
Small UN merchant vessel torpedoed off Atlantic coast
The Navy announced that a small United Nations merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. The date appears as March 238 (A), with no further details provided on casualties or exact location.
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Washington
United Nations
Atlantic
Resumption Of Libyan Campaign Near In Major Scale
British and Axis forces face a 50 mile no man s land in Libya as preparations for large scale warfare intensify. Observers note June to August as prime campaigning months while Italians reportedly move armored divisions across the Mediterranean. British leaders remain confident in handling renewed heavy fighting with expanded mechanized forces and supply routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McGaffin
STH
Libya
No-Man’s Land
Clements Attlee
Dowinson
Liverpool
Britain
Imperial
NYA Future Discussed In Hagerstown Meeting
National Youth Administration officials from Washington and Baltimore will meet local leaders in Hagerstown to review the NYA program and decide its future in Washington County. John Lasher and Glen Brown will join the local advisory committee and officials at 7 30 p.m. in the NYA building behind the municipal pool to consider converting the recreation building into a resident or induction center as part of a potential wartime plan.
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National Youth Administration
Washington
Baltimore
Hagerstown
NYA
Washington County
Price Stieding
Maryland
John Lasher
Glen D. Brown
Stieding
NYA Recreation
Plane crash near Norfolk after midair fire injures pilot
A single seat army plane burst into flames in the air and crashed in a Princess Anne county orchard. The pilot Ralph H. Baker, 23, baled out with slight burns. Only fragments of the aircraft were recovered as the motor buried itself in the earth.
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Norfolk
Princess Anne County
Ralph H. Baker
Motorist Killed in Bel Air Road Crash
Edward C. W. Seifert aged 65 died when his car crashed into a safety pylon on Bel Air road early today. The fatal accident occurred in Baltimore on March 23.
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Baltimore
Edward C. W. Seifert
Bel Air Road
Tip on Missing Fliers Wins News Tip Contest
A resident at 4 West Church Street alerted authorities early last week about two airport pilot training students missing and overdue. The tip won first prize in the weekly news tip contest, with second prize shared by tips on a body found in a gas-filled room and on several county robberies. Tips are accepted each weekday from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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West Church Street
Would Be Human Bomb To Blast Japs
Sydney resident T A White, 42, married automotive executive with one good eye, offers to become a human bomb to wipe out the enemy. He petitions Air Minister Drakeford for approval to steer a fully armed aircraft or speed boat into a Japanese aircraft carrier and seeks 30 other volunteers like himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
T. A. White
Air
A. S. Drakeford
Coliseum Robbed Again In Nickel Thefts
Raney's Coliseum suffered another robbery with nickels and pennies stolen from a peanut machine. Police investigate with Officer Leroy Karns, noting that suspects appear to be local youths who hid inside after hours. The site has experienced multiple similar thefts in recent months.
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Raney
Nelson OKs Work On Maryland Day
Annapolis Md March 23 War Production Board chairman Donald M Nelson endorsed Governor OConors appeal for a full work schedule on Maryland Day He expressed agreement with observing the holiday by all out production in vital war industries The letter said any effort to observe the day through work will be deeply appreciated
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Annapolis
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
O’conor
Maryland
Nelson
Two Die In Abingdon Car Crash Near Havre De Grace
Two youths died and a third person was injured when their car struck a tree in Abingdon last night. Verna Spanley, 18, of Fallston, died on the way to Harford Memorial Hospital. Henry Francis Reinhard, 18, of Bel Air, died later at the hospital.
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Havre DE Grace
Abingdon
Verna Spanley
Fallston
Harford Memorial Hospital
Henry Francis Rinehard
Bel Air
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Begins Arizona Ranch Rest
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau travels to Arizona for a brief rest with friends on a ranch near Tucson. He is expected to stay about eight days.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Arizona
Tuson
Judge Mish Opens Garrett County Circuit Court in Oakland
Judge Joseph D. Mish is in Oakland to preside at the opening today of the Garrett County Circuit Court marking the start of a new term in the Western Maryland county.
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Joseph D. Mish
Oakland
Garrett County Circuit Court
Berlin visit underscores Balkans diplomacy and Axis realignments
In Bern on March 23, reports from Bucharest describe a revived Romania Hungary dispute intensified by Germany’s push to mobilize for spring operations. Bulgaria’s King Boris heads to Germany while Von Papen returns to confer with Hitler as Turkish and Bulgarian envoys converge in Berlin.
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Bern
Switzerland
Balkans
Rumania
Hungary
Germany
Bucharest
Bulgaria
Romania
Boris
von Papen
Sofia
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Ace
Adolf Hitler
Huestev Gerede
Former Local Girl Injured In Horse Accident
Miss Mildred Snyder of Concord street Philadelphia area is hospitalized at St Christopher s Hospital after a horse accident near the hospital left her with a fractured skull and brain concussion. She is superintendent of nurses at St Christopher s and has been with the hospital for years. Her condition today showed improvement and a speedy recovery is expected.
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Mildred Snyder
D. Frank Snyder
Concord Street
St. Christopher's Hospital
Philadelphia
Miss Snyder
St. Christopher's Hspital
Former Countian Fatally Burned
Mrs Minnie Beachley of Boonsboro reports her brother J W Lung a former Smithsburg resident died from fatal burns on Saturday. Lung had lived in Tulsa Oklahoma for thirty years and is survived by sister Mary Schildt of Hagerstown Route 5 brothers E H Lung near Smithsburg and C H W Lung Pittsburgh and four children.
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Minnie Beachley
Boonsboro
J. W. Lung
Smithsburg
Lung
Tulsa
Okla
Beachley
Mary Schildt
Hagerstown
E. H. Lung
C. HW. Lung
Pittsburgh
Advertising Is War To Be Won
New Brunswick March 23 The Federal Government must turn on the full power of advertising to sell us the need for hard fighting Professor Frank B Hutchinson of Rutgers University says Amateur publicity writers cannot carry the program He urges a planned bought and paid for campaign with government action and strong messaging to boost support and bond buying and production efforts
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New Brunswick
N. J
Frank B. Hutchinson
Rutgers University School of Journalism
Hutchinson
Washington
Knudsen Says No Labor Shortage Yet For 40-Hour Week
Lieutenant General William S. Knudsen, head of Army production, reports no evidence of a labor shortage and sees no reason to suspend the 40 hour work week at least until shortages emerge.
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Houston
Tex
William S. Knudsen
Army
Germany Bans Spring Travel For Pleasure
The Zweelf Uhr Blatt reports a proclamation by the ministry of propaganda and communications banning spring travel for civilians. Journeys are allowed only for illness as railways are reserved for the German armed forces.
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Berlin
Zweelf Uhr Blatt
Ministry of Propaganda and Communications
State Ready To Restock Streams In Washington Area
Restocking of trout streams in Washington and nearby counties begins this week as 70,000 rainbow, brook and brown trout of legal size are stocked. Some fish reach 14 inches and will be placed in designated streams. Larger and smaller fish will be reserved for later distribution.
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Washington
Frank L. Bentz
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
Last Chance Saloon Must Relocate in Oakland
The Last Chance, Jack London’s old Oakland waterfront hangout, will be moved as a railroad construction project cuts through its future path in Oakland California on March 23.
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Oakland
Cal
Last Chance
Jack London
Oldest Farm Brings $24,000 at Public Auction Near Funkstown
A Washington county farm dating to 1653 and tied to Gerrard Stonebraker was sold at public auction for $24,000. The sale included 55 fine registered Guernsey cattle fetching $10,770 and modern dairy equipment bought by Martin W. Showalter for about $5,000 to be installed in the Eden Plains Dairy. The property belonged to the late John W. Howell, who managed the farm after his aunt Mrs. Clara Stonebraker Howell’s death.
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Washington County
Funkstown
Lord Baltimore
Gerrard Stonebraker
John Stonebraker
Guernsey
Martin W. Showalter
Eden Plains
Showalter
John W. Howell
Clara Stonebraker Howell
Police seek help in stolen car amp. armed vehicle case
Noblesville police appealed to state troopers and Indianapolis police for aid in locating a stolen black automobile. The car carried a sawed off shotgun and bore the painted label Noblesville Police Department on its sides.
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Noblesville
Ind
Indianapolis
Noblesville Police Department
Chinaman Seeks Front Line Role With U S Army Artillery
Ngai Wing Kim, a Brooklyn laundry owner, says he joined the U S Army after Hongkong fell to Japan but requests a transfer from artillery to the machine gun corps to face the enemy directly. He praises the United Nations and President Roosevelt in a Daily News letter.
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New York
Hongkong
Ngai Wing Kim
Tom Lee
Brooklyn
Lee
Rena
United States Army
Uncle Sam
North Carolina
The
Daily News Today
United Nations
Roosevelt
Japan to mass 10 million for Siberia attack plan
Chongqing March 23 A Communist China Daily News report claims Japan is mustering about 10 million troops from Japan Formosa Korea and Occupied China for an attack on Siberia once conditions allow. It cites another 100000 White Russians and notes Russia Britain the United States and China are positioning for major mobilizations.
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Chungking
China
Japan
Formosa
Korea
Siberia
China Daily News
Siberian
Manchukuo
Inner Mongolia
Russia
Germany
Britain
Europe
United States
British Help Hunt U-boats Join US Patrols in Cuba
A Reuters dispatch from Havana reports British aircraft arrived to join United States air patrols in Cuba against Axis U-boats. Planes flew over Havana and dipped in salute to cheering crowds. Authorities declined to comment on the dispatch.
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London
Reuters
Havana
Cuba
United States
Japan Plans for Long War
Tokyo reports Col. Kikusaburo Okada of the War Ministry planning bureau outlining a sustained war strategy. He says Japan will draw supplies from occupied territories to minimize home-front drain and that military administration there must continue for national security. He adds resource development in these areas is essential to wage a prolonged conflict.
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Tokyo
Kikusaburo Okada
War Ministry
Planning Bureau
Japan
Asahi
Col
Okada
Four Slayers Die In Chair In Florida Quadruple Execution
In Florida, four convicted slayers were executed in the electric chair within 58 minutes. Worth Roberson killed Mrs. Annice Roberts in Gilchrist County in 1937, Angie Michael Ciangetti carried out the hammer killing of Mrs. Anna K. Henson at Daytona Beach in 194?, Jacy Crawford stabbed Bronson Sweat in Jacksonville in 1939, and Walter Roberson killed his wife with an axe in Dixie County in 1941. Superintendent L. F. Chapman led the proceedings, calling the act terrible but necessary.
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Raiford
Fla
Florida
Worth Roberson
Annice Roberts
Gilchrist County
Angie Michael Ciangetti
Anna K. Henson
Daytona Beach
Jacy Crawford
Bronson Sweat
Jacksonville
Japs Bomb Port Moresby in Heavy Weekend Raid
Japanese air forces struck Port Moresby amid heavy losses to their bomber and fighter squads. The assault involved 19 bombers and three fighters in two waves, targeting the New Guinea harbor as Australian defenses repelled part of the attack. An Australian communique noted a Japanese fighter was shot down over Dutch Timor and that Dili was bombed.
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C. A. Farnsworth
Associated ‘Press
Australia
MacArthur’ ‘Command
Timor
Wyndham
Western Australia
Dutch Timor
Dili
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Allied submarine torpedoes Japanese carrier off Bali
A Daily Telegraph dispatch from Perth reports an Allied submarine in friendly waters struck a Japanese aircraft carrier off Bali on the night of March 3. The 27,000 ton carrier is believed sunk or at least out of action for a long period.
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London
Perth
Australia
Bali
Gandhi Warns Against Scorched Earth Policy
Mahatma Gandhi warned the Indian government not to adopt a scorched earth policy in defending India. He argued mass opposition and urged an unequivocal public rejection to ease the current situation, writing in Harijan.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Harijan
MacArthur's Household Powers Contrast With Haircut
In Melbourne on March 23, General Douglas MacArthur directs Allied forces but his wife handles home affairs. She took their son Arthur to a barber for a haircut, saying the father is busy with business and Arthur needs a trim to ward off cold.
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Melbourne
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
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