Phone Girls File Notice Of Strike In New York
Two unions representing 18 800 telephone workers filed strike notices under the Smith Connally Act with the War Labor Board in Washington on Feb 23 approved a $3 weekly wage raise for those earning that amount The Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers and the Traff ic Employees Association said rehearings would be sought and the unions waited a week for the board to act Local NY Telephone Co operators were to vote Feb 7 but the plan was halted pending wage talks with Bell system managers
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New York
New York City
Jast
Smith-Connally
War Labor Board
Washington
Federation of
Lang Joines Telephone Workers
Traffe Employees Association
Long Lines Telephone Workers
American Telephone and ‘Telegraph Co
New York Telephone Co
Henry Mayer
Long Lines Workers
Wet Labor Board
WLB
Roth Telephone Companies
Long Lines
Jen, Mb
Red Army closes in on Stettin as Berlin approach nears
Soviet forces continuing a 23 mile advance reached the Oder estuary area near Stettin and Cammin while reporting captures at Greifenberg Guelzow and Plathe. Premier Stalin praised a northward drive through Pomerania and said Stettin was within 40 miles as German resistance crumbled in the Oder River region.
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London
Gpi
Oder River
Berlin
Stalin
Pomerania
Cammin
Oderdélta
Drievetow
Stettie
Treptow
Ammin
Greifenberg
Guelzow
Plathe
Stettin
Baltic
Sheragelvés
Red Cross Loans Help Servicemen and Families
Red Cross loans and grants aid armed forces for emergency furloughs convalescence and personal needs. In 26 months the organization spent 37.9 million dollars aiding servicemen and their dependents, with local Home Service totaling 25 152 82 from May 1 1943 to the 74th of least minutes. The article notes maintenance support for dependents awaiting allowance and for ex servicemen amid claims adjudication as part of morale services.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Lest
Home Service Department
Red Cros
Rome Rioters Demand Bonomi Resignation After Roatta Escape
Police fire on rioters outside the Royal Palace as crowds protest Premier Ivance Bonomi’s resignation demands. A demonstrator, Giuseppe Lastagna Mancini, is identified dead. others wounded. Thousands gathered, with clashes turning to stone and brick barrages. crown prince Umberto present but not seen.
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Rome
Roatta
Royal
Ivance Bonomi
Mario Roatta
Yaaly
Bonomi
Guiseppe Lastagna Mancini
Communist Party
Hie Orker
Royal Palace
Limberto Lar
Umberto
Vittorio Emanuele
Carabinieri
Salerno
Colosseum Square
Rostta
Amendment Lets Nurses Decide Draft Status
The House approved a provision allowing nurses to choose whether to be drafted as commissioned officers. The measure, approved 135 to 88, would let any nurse reject a commission and avoid draft, withWar Department lawyers confirming the reading. The House also removed the Cadet Nurse Corps induction requirement and added a race and creed discrimination prohibition by voice vote.
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Washington
House
Armed Services
War Department
May
D-Ky
Harness Relndy
Ascoli Clipper Fills Pan American Plane With Family
RL Ascoli and her 14 children of Kingston Jamaica will fill all seats on a Pan American clipper for a Miami departure. The airline dubs the plane the Ascoli Clipper for the occasion.
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Miami
Civilian Jobs Last for Fired War Workers
The War Production Board outlined postwar layoff plans to keep workers at their current plants when possible. Large cutbacks will be channelled by a Production Readjustment Committee to minimize unemployment and preserve essential civilian and military production.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Germany
WPE
James Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
The
Armed Services, War Manpower Commission
V-E
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
WPS
AP Reporter Captured by Germans in December
AP war correspondent Morton who provided early eyewitness accounts of Bucharest and Romania’s actions was captured by German forces on December 26 and taken to a German prisoner of war camp. A British officer, witnessing the seizure of men in American uniforms, corroborated Morton’s capture and reported frostbite from mountain conditions.
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CPI
Joseph Morton
Asso
Bucharest
Mihai
Romania
Axia
Morton
Energy
Alled
Sted Herranaan
G. Air Force
Jewish Church Services Held in Goebbels Castle
Propaganda minister Goebbels castle near Rheydt served as a Jewish church yesterday with Chaplain Manuel M Poliskof of Baltimore conducting services for U S 29th Division troops in Germany.
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Jewish Church
Goebbels
U. S
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Rheydt
Manuel M. Poliskof
Baltimore
Marines Break Iwo Stalemate in Sudden North Offensive
US Marines resume the Iwo Jima push after a day of heavy bombardment. Maj Gen Keller E. Rockey’s 5th Marine Division and Lt Gen Crutchfield Gates' 4th Marine Division push along the west and center as 14,000 enemy dead are counted. Carrier planes from the Fifth Fleet support the drive from Motoyama airfield No. 1 with fire on Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Keller E Rockeys
Fifth Marine Division
Lfej
Adm
Chester W. Wimitz
U.S. Fifth Fleet
Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Bonin Islands
Palau Islands
Cana J Lines
Marianas
Yessern
Ship Explodes In Vancouver Harbor Killing and Injuring Dozens
A blast-riddled explosion on the freighter Greenhill Park in Vancouver harbor killed at least five and left 18 men hospitalized. Hundreds fled panicked in the downtown business district as debris shattered windows and sustained injuries. About 103 men were aboard when the blast occurred. the ship carried tin plate, box shoots, and cargo including gunpowder rockets and shells.
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Vancouver
B.C
Hase Pitals
Flagnes
Canada Shipping Co
Agénis
Frank Hibbs
Downess Park
Greenhill Park
Navy Bans Coffee Hour in Department Cafeteria
The Navy Department ends the midmorning coffee hour due to wartime needs. Administrative officer Commander Ronald J. Chinnock ordered the sale of coffee in the department cafeteria between 3 and 10 45 a.m. to be discontinued starting next Monday.
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Washington
Navy Department
Ronald J. Chinnock
Allies Bomb Wesel and Berlin as Mosquito raids continue
Allied air forces pressed attacks on Wesel with Lancasters and Mosquitos striking the Rhine town crowded with German troops and vehicles. Mosquito crews reported dense enemy concentrations and also hit Berlin with two ton bombs as RAF heavies maintained a daylight offensive across Germany for a 15th day.
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London
Rhine
Wesel
Berlin
Germany
German Wil
Tme
President Asked To Intercede for Doomed Soldier
Boston opinion piece notes that state senator Charles claims to have urged clemency for Pvt Karl G Hulton an American facing execution in London for taxi driver slaying. It reports Morrison rejected clemency appeal and that Innes cannot say what action remains.
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Boston
Charies
Karl G. Hulton
London
Roosvelt
Gimmes
Hulton
Herbert Morrison
Innes
Rain-Swept Ohio River Flood Worsens Across Three States
Flooded Ohio River sweeps toward dangerous heights as rain from four inches falls along the watershed. Six deaths confirmed across three states as war plants shut down and shelters rise. Red Cross evacuations reach 3400 to 6300 families with 1500 homeless in Cincinnati. Coast Guard airlift and state guard mobilizations assist. Bridges and facilities threatened as the river climbs past flood stages in Louisville and Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Midwest
American Red Cross
Army
Fifth Service Command
Columbus. O
Coast Guard
Boston
Ohio State Guard
Louisville
Portsmouth
Cincinnairs Lanken
Port
Cincinnair
Newpor
MacArthur Prepares For Final Luzon Campaign
General Douglas MacArthur said American forces were regrouping for the final phases of the Luzon campaign with limited activity against about four Japanese divisions still on the island. Allied air power remained active sinking a 6000-ton freighter off Formosa, a destroyer escort in flames, a small freighter, and damaging another southeast of Shanghai. Ships were sent down the coast east of Hong Kong.
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Manila
Luzon
Douglas Macarthur
Formosa
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Patton's Drive Near Rhine After Breakthrough in Two Days
Allied forces led by Patton swept across Germany's western front pushing toward the Rhine. By dusk they reported over 1500 German casualties and reached within twenty miles of the Rhine while Cologne faced weak defense. The advance, aided by British and Canadian units, encircled Cologne and pressed toward Bonn and Neuss as German resistance collapsed along the river corridors.
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Vanes
Rhine
First Army
Cologne
Rheinberg
Patton
Third Army
Coblenz
Ninth Army
Harse
Sir the Rhine
Moschie
London
Frankane
Rartisson
Bonn
Bitburg
Normandy
France
U. S. Third Armored
10Th Infantry
Hobhenzollern Bridge
Associated Press Front
Don Whitehead
Aachen
Boan
Neuss
Duesseldorf
Zons
Uch
Wesel
Bernard L. Montgomerys
Issum-Wesel
Alpen
Sonsbeck
Churchill Appears On Western Front Amid Battle News
Prime Minister Churchill tours the Western Front in Germany with British and Allied troops. He tells Scottish forces that the Rhine crossing will end the war, recalls past vows by Hitler, and is greeted with cheering by troops and civilians as he surveys the misty Rhine and oversees Allied advances.
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Churchill
Germany
Rhine
Todaty
Capuchan
Hitler
London
Britain
Churchil
Western Front
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Churcark
Belsia
Board Refuses To Ease Curfew For St Patrick Night
New York officials deny a request by the United Irish Counties Association to allow St Patrick’s Night celebrations to continue past curfew in hotels and ballrooms. War Manpower Commission chair Paul McNatt to decide on appeal. Mulrooney says curfew applies to all similar requests and that music after midnight may proceed in venues with prior permits if not contrary to law. Theatre groups to respond Friday on potential earlier curtain times and shorter intermissions.
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New York U
United Irish Counties Association
Paul O'Dwyer
Paul ¥. McNatt
War Manpower Commission
Edward P. Muhroonex
Mulroonty
Mulrooney
Flood Waters Endanger Pittsburg Rail and Homes
Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers swelled to 27.3 feet at The Point Pittsburg forcing thousands from lowland homes and closing plants. Police, guards and volunteers aided evacuations as river levels rise toward a crest above 33 feet along communities above Pittsburgh.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Ohio River
West Point
Fort Knox
Pittsburg
UPI
Monongahela
Allegheny
I Jiteburg
Pitsburg
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MacArthur
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