Hitler Warns of Hard Fight Ahead
Hitler warned of a hard struggle to come and implied the Russia campaign would resume in summer. He praised German allies and warned Bolshevik forces would be defeated, blaming Jewish and capitalist conspirators and criticizing Roosevelt.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Fuehrer
Zeughaus
France
Norway
Balkan
Puehrer
Roosevelt
Germany
Far East
Federal Income Taxes Are Due In Montana Today
Taxpayers face a Sunday deadline rush as eight IRS experts assist in the Butte federal building. The Mar 15 date falls to Monday. Montana income tax returns are due April 15. offices stay open late to handle filings.
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Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue
Butte
Federal
Montana
Soviets Declare Liberation of Kharkov Near
Soviet forces smash through German lines on the Kharkov front and approach the city as reports claim the hour of liberation is near. Battles rage in Ukraine and Donets Basin with many German captures and heavy Soviet casualties cited.
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Kharkov
Timoshenko
Sea of Azov
Ukraine
Moscow
Kharkov- Kursk-Orel
Pittsburgh
Donets
Semeon Timoshenko
Dnieperopetrovsk
Interior Department men to visit Montana meeting
Oscar L. Chapman assistant secretary of the Interior arrives in Butte to discuss stimulating production of strategic minerals at a School of Mines meeting. Western states host five such sessions this month to speed domestic mineral mobilization amid a priority ruling affecting mines. Nelson not present. Denver to Washington move cited. Fire in San Francisco damages military equipment at waterfront warehouse. investigation by Army Navy and FBI begun.
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Montana
School of Mines
Oscar L. Chapman
Department of the Interior
Butte
Department of Interior
Chapman
Wilbur Nelson
War Production Board
West
Nelson
Carl Trauerman
Mining Association of Montana
Traverman
Dr. Nelson
Denver
Washington, D. C
Mining Men of Colorado
San Francisco
Frank Kelly
Army
Navy
Eight Die After DutchAirliner Shot Down North of Broome
Eight of twelve occupants of a Royal Dutch airliner were killed when the plane was strafed and bombed on the ground by three Japanese fighters north of Broome on March 13. Rescue of four others followed the March 15 report from Perth.
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Perth
Australia
Broome
State W B A Convention Set for Butte March 25 26
Eight hundred members from Montana will gather in Butte March 25 and 26 for a state convention of the W B A with Silver City review No 3 hosting. Banquet at Finlen hotel Wednesday at 6 30 p m and a public session at 8 p m Thursday mark the main events. Committees include convention managers Mary McPherson and Clara Burkhart and Mrs Esther Wrenn named personal secretary to Mrs Stafford.
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Montana
Butte
Silver City Review No
Finlen Hotel
Silver City Review
Mary McCracken
Salome ‘Stafford
Great Falls
Mary McPherson
Clara Burkhart
Annie Penrose
Signe Yeager
Peggy York
Edna Rowan
Joseph O’sullivan
Lillian Fisher
Esther Wrenn
Stafford
Mesdames Rose Marceau
Alice Pickthall
Margaret Lidsey
Jule Nichols
Doris Jenkins
Blanche Burch
Eleanor Keane
Mary DeVott
Genevieve Maxwell
Ella Mae Burns
Catherine Moore
Fifteen Die in Kunming Plane Crash In China
A Douglas transport of the Chinese National Aviation Corporation crashed near Kunming killing fifteen people including Major General Lancelot Dennys head of the British military mission in China and five Americans. The injured included Colonel Harvey Edwards and others from the Magruder and Stillwell missions.
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Kunming
China
U.P
Lancelot Dennys
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
O. C. George
U. S. Aviation Corps
Hiawatha
Kan
Frederick Kohler
Harvey Edwards
U. S. Army
Joseph W. Stillwell
Chiang Kai-shek
Congress to Consider Right of Women to Serve in Army Ranks
Washington March 15. The House is expected to approve Edith Nourse Rogers measure creating a women’s Army auxiliary corps for volunteers ages 21 to 45 to handle behind the lines chores. A military affairs amendment would cap the corps at 150,000, with the Senate already ready to pass the bill.
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Washington
House
Edith Nourse Rogers
R.-Mass
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps of
War Department
Military Affairs Committee
Senate
Air Reinforcements In India Aim at Japan Home
Air Marshal Peirse reports large United States air reinforcements pouring into India to launch an aerial offensive against Japan. American, British, and Indian air forces will share planes, with volunteers in Burma praised for destroying 200 Japanese planes at the cost of 42 Allied planes.
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A.P
Richard E. C. Peirse
India
United States
Japan
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Burma
Java
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Pacific
Indian
Indian Ocean
Sir Archibald Wavell
Imperial
Florida Governor Protests Gasoline Cutbacks
Gov. Spessard L. Holland of Florida denounced a War Production Board order cutting gasoline deliveries to the eastern seaboard and Pacific Northwest by 20 percent starting March 19. He called for fair treatment and to protect tourist traffic as New England governors urged national rationing as the only equitable solution.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Pacific Northwest
New England
Spessard L. Holland
Florida
Tallahassee
War Production Board
Draft Lottery Set to Begin Tuesday Night in Wartime
Washington March 15 The first wartime draft lottery in 24 years will determine the order in which February selective service registrants are called. About 7 000 numbers labeled with T will be drawn from the goldfish bowl in a solemn ceremony at the departmental auditorium with Brig Gen Lewis B Hershey and Sec Henry L Stimson leading the event.
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W.P
Selective Service
United Nations
Lewis B. Hershey
Henry L. Stimson
Bor
Stimson
Frinces Perkins
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Armed Forces
Veterans’ Organizations
Oil Company
WPB
District of Columbia
Oregon
Frank Capra
Hollywood
Pro
War analyst notes rising U S casualties after Java naval battles
Edward E. Bomar argues the Navy report on the battle of Java implies 1000 to 1400 American deaths in the Houston and Pope losses. He frames the Pearl Harbor shock as a sobering reminder of America's growing war toll and compares U S casualties to Russia China and Britain.
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Navy
Java
Houston
Pope
Pearl Harbor
United States
France
Russia
China
Guerrilla Warfare Reported on Crete by British Forces
Washington dispatch reports British troops on Crete waging organized guerrilla warfare against German forces with supply lines from Cairo. Eric Sevareid of CBS said the claim came from an English fighter pilot who just arrived in Washington from Egypt.
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Crete
Cairo
Eric Sevareid
Columbia Broadcasting System
Sevareid
Egypt
Sweden Nears Crisis in World War
Washington diplomats said Sweden faces a looming crisis as war tensions rise in Scandinavia. German troop movements and Baltic coast activity spark two scenarios: Germany invading Sweden for troop transit or an Allied push to move forces through Sweden. Sweden vows to resist any invasion, and a German assault could force Finland toward a renewed peace effort.
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Washington
U.P
Sweden
Norhern
Europe
Scandinavia
Norway
Denmark
Baltic
United Nations
Germany
Finland
Head-on Train Crash Kills Four Workers Near Waverly
Four railroad workers died and two were seriously hurt when a Nashville Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis passenger train collided head on with a freight eight miles west of Waverly Tennessee. The deceased were A C Hargrove Sr fireman on the passenger A C Hargrove Jr fireman on the freight A H Laudermilk engineer of the freight and H Edmondson apprentice fireman on the passenger.
Russia Ready for Defense Against Japs
The Daily Mail reports Russia has issued battle orders ready for instant use at Vladivostok and Nikolaevsk. Moscow strengthens anti aircraft defenses and patrols the Gulf of Tartary as Japan reorganizes in Manchukuo and dispatches senior officials.
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Russia
Vladivostok
Nikolaevsk
Daily Mail
Stockholm
Reuters
Chiungking
Soviet Union
Japan
Yoshitaigu Tatekawa
Moscow
Naotake Sato
Tokyo
Jiro Minami
Korea
Chang Ching Hui
Manchukuo
Sato
Sabudo Kurusu
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Sea of Japan
Amur River
Sakhalin Island
Gulf of Tartary
Two Attacks Made on Port Moresby
Reports from Melbourne say Japanese planes attacked Port Moresby from east and west in two raids on Sunday as an aerial pincers plan against northern Australia may be forming. Allied bombers hit Rabaul and Gasmata, while Japanese bases on New Britain endured strikes.
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U.P
Port Moresby
Australia
Timor
Saturady
Torres Strait
Sealine
Sydney
Port Darwin
North Australian
Papua
South New Guinea
United Nations
Rabaul
Death toll in Greece nears two hundred thousand from war
Greek officials estimate between 150000 and 200000 Greeks killed by German and Italian occupation through execution massacre and famine. They warn half the population could perish if food relief does not reach Greece. Vanderbilt funded aid exists but is small relative to needs. Greece faces crop failure and seed wheat losses due to German disruption.
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Cairo
Egypt
Greece
Vanderbilt Committee
United States
Germany
Great Britain Loses 203 Vessels in World War Conflict
New York March 16 Great Britain suffered the heaviest naval losses in the war up to now. An Associated Press tally based on communiques and reports shows 18 nations' navies have lost 1,118,700 tons of warcraft. The Axis destroyed 203 British vessels including 39 submarines 70 destroyers and 94 other ships for a total tonnage of 523,995.
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New York
Java
Associated Press
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