Russians Repel Superior German Forces on Multiple Fronts
Moscow reports the Red Army, though outnumbered, pushed back German efforts to cross the Donets and continued advancing toward Smolensk. Intense fighting centered in Chuguev Belgorod with heavy losses to Germans as Soviet artillery disrupted enemy concentrations and destroyed tanks and trucks.
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Moscow
Red Army
Donets
Smolensk
Chuguev
Belgorod
Chinguev
Kharkov
China’s First Lady Urges Freedom in Chicago
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek urged support for the four freedoms during a Chicago rally before about 27 000 at the stadium. She said China fights to help build world civilization and praised the Atlantic charter’s authors as aiming for a better world based on universal principles.
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Chicago
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
San Francisco
Midwest
Chiang
Edward J. Kelly
Paul G. Hoffman
National Fman
United China Relief
Mme, Chiang
Mme. Chiang
Britain
Churchill
Col Lehrbas On Visit in Pocatello with MacArthur aide
Colonel Lloyd Lehrbas of Poca tello and aide de camp to General Douglas MacArthur visits with his father and relatives. He stays until Wednesday evening then flies to Salt Lake City. He notes Pacific area achievements by Lieut Col Ralph Fry and Frank Hewlett, reports Parley Jenks recovering in North Pocatello hospital, and mentions Major A W Stephenson. He says troops live off Australian supplies, morale is high, and health is good.
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Lloyd Lehrbas
Pocatello
Douglas MacArthur
L. A. Lehrbas
Salt Lake City
Lehrbas
Australia
United Press
Parley Jenks
Albert Jenks
North Pocatello
Pacific
A. W. Stephenson
National Parks and Western Airlines
Lehr
Salt Lake City Sees Many Stores Close Over Year
A Salt Lake City survey shows about thirty groceries and many other stores and gas stations closed in the past year. The report notes most closures involved independent groceries and that coal trucking fell by 75 to 80 percent, with no detail on heat alternatives or coal storage.
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Salt Lake City
Emer
Knox Warns Of Lull In the Pacific
Secretary Knox said the Pacific is quiet for now but warned it could precede a storm. He noted the casualty list is variable, called Martinique tense as US supplies are cut, and said in North Africa we are on the move toward Tunisia. The navy was asked about a supposed super-sub and dismissed the idea as exploded.
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Washington
Knox
Pacific
Martinique
Carribbean Island
United States
Georges) Robert
North Africa
Churchill
Tunisia
Atlantic
Dream Comes True in Los Angeles Fireball?
Nicholas de Christopher dreams of seeing his dream walk and will soon catch him. A crane operator reports dozing on a park bench and waking to find bandits robbing him. his wallet and $99 were gone.
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Los Angeles
Nicholas de Christopher
Safeway Reports 1942 Net Profit and Per Share Earnings
Safeway Stores, Inc. reports 1942 consolidated net profit of 4,522,595 dollars, equal to 4.06 dollars a share on common stock, versus 1941 profit of 5,036,060 dollars or 4.79 dollars a share.
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New York
Safeway Stores, Inc
Consolidated
Miners Get Offer to Extend Operations 36 Days
United Mine Workers proposed to Northern Appalachian coal mine operators that all mines in the Appalachian area keep running for 36 days after April 1 under the current contract. Any future wage or hour improvements would be retroactive to that date. The spokesman did not confirm if the proposal followed President Roosevelt's telegram urging no work stoppage after March 31.
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New York
United Mine Workers Union
Appalachian
Roosevelt
Churchill outlines four year plan for postwar Britain
British Prime Minister Churchill sketches a four year program for postwar economy and social security with aims matching the U S National Resources Planning Board. He highlights six core points including insurance health education postwar projects jobs for all and expanded state and private enterprise. The NRPB backs private public partnerships in wartime industries and infrastructure with immediate measures, while Churchill sees changes best enacted after Hitler's downfall.
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Washington
Churchill
National Resources Planning Board
NRPB
Congress
Charles W. Eliot
Hitler
Allies Use Record North Africa Air Power In Battle
Allied air forces launched a massive offensive across North Africa with the largest air effort yet. Bombing runs targeted Mareth line targets near E Hammam and Zarat while cargo planes hit Mazzouna and Sfax airfields. A convoy raid damaged ships and Palermo docks as 23 enemy planes fell and seven Allies were lost.
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Associated Press
North Africa
E Hamma
Mareth
Kettena
Zarat
Mazzouna
Maknassy
Sfax
Palermo
Sicily
Child Drowns in Tub in NAMPA Home
A 19 month old boy Gary Black drowned in a washtub at his home in NAMPA on Monday. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Willis Black.
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Nampa
Gary Black
Willis Black
OPA Watches Meat Profiteering Slide Into War Time
Prentiss Brown reports 1 025 court actions against illegal meat operators from January 15 to March 11. He warns black market activity threatens national morale, inflation control, and war bond funding as wartime shortages invite profiteers. He cites wartime conditions abroad and notes Germany’s harsher measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt Mackenzie Price
Prentiss M. Brown
America
Germany
Fall Proves Fatal In Logan Dentists Career
Dr. Wesley E. Smith former president of the Utah State Dental Association died Monday three days after fainting and falling at his office causing a skull fracture and brain concussion. A Logan native he graduated USC Dental 1917 and practiced in Grace Idaho and near Cleveland Idaho before returning to Logan in 1922 to practice.
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Logan
Utah
Wesley E. Smith
Utah State Dental Association
University of Southern California School of Dentistry
Grace
Idaho
Cleveland
Patrolman Nesbit Tackles Dual Speeding Offenders
In Los Angeles a State Highway Patrolman named W A Nesbit spotted two speeding motorcyclists at once. He overtook one and stopped him, then pursued the second and summoned a wagon for the arrest. Both offenders pleaded guilty.
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Los Angeles
W. A. Nesbit
Kinport Gleams as Spring Arrives
Kinport shines with spring as warm sun returns. The column notes a patrician town in gleaming white, odd seasonal details, and a playful aside about Helen Case’s parrot attempting to nest. Temperature readings show 50 high and 26 low, with noon at 45. The forecast remains continued fair.
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Kinport
Helen Case
Jury Indicts Nazi Agent Viereck For Registration Violations
George Sylvester Viereck of New York, a German propagandist active since World War I, was indicted on six counts for failing to disclose his work for the Nazi foreign office in the United States. The case, led by George McNulty, targets supplements to his original registration statement and notes the government aims to avoid retrial weaknesses.
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Washington
George Sylvester Viereck
New York
Viereck
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Biddle
Justice Department
George McNulty
Alien Property Unit
War Division
Criminal Division
Federal District Court
Foreign Office
Bill Passes to Sell Government Wheat for Stock Feed
Governor Bottolfsen learns a joint resolution passed both houses allowing the sale of 100 million bushels of government wheat for stock feed. Senator John Thomas says the measure awaits presidential signature. The senate expects a signature but the governor hopes to halt sales to protect stockmen.
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Boise
Bortolfsen
John Thomas
Idaho
Senate
Bottolfsen
RAF Bombers Hit U Boat Base and Wilhelmshaven Airfields
RAF heavy bombers attacked the St Nazaire U boat base and Wilhelmshaven, while British Whirlwind fighters hit Brittany targets. The raids, returning one lost plane, followed American strikes by Fortresses and Liberators on Wilhelmshaven. German radio claimed seven bombers down.
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London
RAF
St. Nazaire
Wilhelmshaven
American Flying Fortress
Liberators
Brittany
Air Ministry
United Nations
United States
Associated Press
Axis Confers On New World Order
Tokyo and Berlin broadcasts report a Tokyo conference among Germany Japan and Italy claiming agreement on a new world order and eternal peace. Tojo reportedly attended though no European axis envoy presence suggests mainly diplomacy. Mussolini reportedly called Laval amid strains between Rome and Vichy as talks unfold.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Italy
Hideki Tojo
Europe
Mussolini
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Comei
Butter Shortage Report as Rationing Begins in Boise
Boise grocers faced a rush as butter sales were frozen amid rationing. Women called with missing orders, while many had stockpiled butter after foreseeing the order. Smaller stores catered to motorists buying pounds, and outskirts shops noted buyers with gasoline.
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Boise
Three Get Awards At Allied Headquarters In Australia
Three American soldiers were awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action by Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger. The recipients were Pic. Julius Aschenbrenner of Pinckney Michigan Sgt. Howard Purtyman of Sedona Arizona and Technician Floyd J. Nichols of San Antonio Texas. Aschenbrenner earned his Silver Star for a November 21 action near Buna in New Guinea where he led a charge on a Japanese machine gun nest armed only with a pistol.
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Australia
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S
New Guinea
Pic
Julius Aschenbrenner
Pinckney
Mich
Howard Purtyman
Sedona
Ariz
Floyd J. Nichols
San Anton
Texas
Aschenbrenner
Buna
Navy Raids Kiska in Aleutians Two Sunday Air Attacks
Communique No. 321 reports two Army bomber offensives against the Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutians on Sunday. Bombers included Liberator B-24s and Mitchell B-25s with fighter escort. one large fire observed. Total American air attacks on Kiska for March reach 21.
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Associated Press
Navy
Kiska
Aleutians
North Pacific
Troops Clear Jungle of 700 Japanese in New Guinea Valley
Allied forces credited with killing at least 700 Japanese troops in the Mambare river valley on New Guinea's northeast coast. 100+ prisoners taken. many inferred to have died from starvation and disease after a failed December landing.
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Mambare River
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Mambare
Buna
New Britain
Imperial Tokyo
Japan
Hupeh
Kiangsu
Lake Tungting
Yangtze
89Th Chungking Army
Fourth Communist Army
Envoys Take New Duties
President Roosevelt elevated seven Latin American envoys to ambassadors boosting U S representation in Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua El Salvador the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The move strengthens ties and honors juridical equality among American republics as ministers become ambassadors while incumbents keep a $10 000 salary.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Senate
State Department
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Dominican Republic
Haiti
White House
Soldier in crash listed in critical condition
Four Private Robert Parrish of Fort Douglas was injured when a private plane struck a tree and crashed in Centerville on Sunday. Parrish, on leave, suffered a fractured skull and remained in critical condition as investigators described the aircraft as obtained from a flying school.
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Salt Lake City
Robert Parrish
Fort Douglas
Centerville
Parrish
Patton Leads Yankees in Frontal Blow
Allied dispatches report the British eighth army driving a frontal assault at Rommel's Mareth line while American forces under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr inch toward the Gulf of Gabes near Maknassy. German counterattacks targeted American units in El Guetar southwest of Maknassy as a bridgehead formed at the Mareth positions.
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Eighth Army
Arrow
Tunisia
Rommel
U. S
Gabes
Mahares
Mareth Line
Axis
North Africa
el Guetar
Maknassy
George 8. Patton, Jr
Gulf of Gabes
Bernard L. Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Mareth
Flyers Down Seven Enemies in Tunisian Air Battle
In Tunisia an American Spitfire group destroyed eight German planes in a single raid day. Pilots Lt Cowell Van Deventer Capt Norman L. McDonald and Lt Robert Armstrong led the effort with multiple victories, the crew celebrating like scoring a touchdown after each success.
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Tunisia
Gines
Cowell van Deventer
St. Louis
Norman L. McDonald
Framingham
Mass
Robert Armstrong
Knoxville
Tenn
Messerschmitta
Gereman
Nampa Creamery Workers to Vote on Union Within 30 Days
The NLRB ordered a secret ballot election among employees of a Nampa Idaho creamery within 30 days to choose a collective bargaining agent. The vote will be overseen by the director of the 19th region after a Feb 26 hearing prompted by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 4, Warehousemen and Clerical Workers.
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Washington
Nampa
Idaho
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Fours, Warehousemen and of America
APL
Kenneth
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