Red Army cracks through Vapnyarka rail hub in Ukraine drive
Moscow said Soviet forces split and pressed German troops defending the Romanian border near Vapnyarka on the Odessa Zhmerinka line. Tanks rolled toward Nikolaev as Reds closed on Vinitsa and Vinnytsia pocket Germans surrendered northeast of Nikolaev while Proskurov battle continued.
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London
Red Army
Vapnyarka
Odessa-Zhmerinka
Ukraine
Moscow
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Vinnitsa
Funder Red Army
Proskurov
Bug River
Tyazhilov
Tyushk
Gnivan
O Leary Death Shrinks Democratic House Margin
Democratic House strength drops to 216 after the death of Representative James A. O Leary of New York. The vacancies include one in Oklahoma and two in New York, with four seats held by minor parties. Eleven special elections in the 78th Congress yield eight Republican wins and three Democratic wins.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
James A. O’leary
Andrews
Alabama
Gillespie
Colorado
Oklaoma
Illinois
Gas Tank Crash Hits Shelter Roof in England
Hollywood star Jimmy Cagney told soldiers at an England camp that a Nazi airstrike crashed a gasoline tank through a shelter roof as he urged them to leave. He quipped about fuel shortages back in the United States and war time travel.
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London
Jimmy Cagney
Hollywood
Cagney
England
States
Cagmney
United States
Hitler
Los Angeles
Pharmacists Arrested Over 4.F Drug Sales in LA Area
Sheriff officials report more than forty men, many pharmacists, arrested for selling 4.F drug to draft dodgers. State and Army officials meet Sheriff Biscailuz to stop the sale. arrests allege dispensing without prescriptions and claim the drug causes apparent mental and physical unfitness for service.
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Los Angeles
Eugene Biscailuz
Sicilian Error Cost 410 Lives
Army discloses that 410 American airborne infantrymen were lost in Sicily when 23 transport planes were shot down by friendly anti aircraft fire and enemy guns during the Gela operation on July 10 11 1943. Sergeant Jack Foisie publicized the incident eight months after censorship began.
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Washington
Sicily
Army
Gela
Sergt
Jack Foisie
Stars and Stripes
San Francisco
Commonwealth Chule
Foisie
Stimson
Manus Island Invaded by Allied Forces Landing at Lorengau
Allied American First Cavalry Division troops landed at Manus, the largest Admiralty Island, and within four hours reached near the Lorengau air field. Supporting fire from destroyers, bombers, and 108 mm artillery aided two groups advancing from Lugos Mission. Casualties were minor, mainly from mine and machine gun fire during the initial landing.
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Southwest Pacific
Manus
Admiralty Islands
Lorengau
Los Negros
Lugos Mission
Aerial Battle Over Southern Germany Cuts Nazi Defenses
American bombers and fighters clashed with German defense over southern Germany in a major daylight raid. The force included heavy bombers and four engined escorts, with claims of 76 German fighters downed by U S. fighters and 13 American planes lost. Berlin and Brussels broadcasts noted raids on Augsburg Ulm and Stuttgart with significant bombardment and casualties.
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London
Germany
Stuttgart
U. S. Army
Berlin
Brussels
United States
Augsburg
Ulm
United States Army
South Germany
Treasure Maps To Save Shrines During Invasion
Allied bomber crews use treasure maps from the United States to locate art treasures shrines and landmarks to spare them from destruction. Maps are prepared at the Frick Art Reference Library New York under the commission for protection and salvage of artistic monuments appointed by the State Department.
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New York UP
United States
Raymond E. Fosdick
Rockefeller Foundation
Frick Art Reference Library
New York
Commission For Protection and Salvage of
State Department
Roosevelt Bids Finns Quit Hateful Partnership
President Roosevelt urged the Finnish people to end the hateful partnership with Germany and support Moscow's peace terms. Finnish parliamentary actions were viewed abroad as resisting the Soviet armistice, amid last minute British American efforts to secure Finland's acceptance.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Germany
Finland
Moscow
Stockholm
U S Airman Bombs Home Town in Reich
A 23 year old German who fled to the United States five years ago described to reporters his participation in bombing his southern German hometown while serving as a waist gunner on an American bomber in England. He spoke tearfully yet with hatred for the Nazis and kept his brother in a Gestapo camp. He chose to fight in Europe after training, seeking a break from the Pacific theater due to personal enmity toward the Nazi regime.
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England
United States
Germany
Gestapo
Pacific Theater
Quads Share Stage with Argentine Mystery Quints
In Buenos Aires a 38 year old Argentine woman gave birth to quadruplets two boys and two girls. Three infants died overnight, leaving a surviving girl weighing just over two pounds. The birth occurred near Buenos Aires and officials questioned quintuplet births reported elsewhere. No birth registration found in Argentina within three days as required by law. Franco Diligenti presented a birth certificate for one baby but blocked access to reporters. The births reportedly occurred at the home of midwife Angelica Delfino.
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Buenos Aires
Senora
Celio Giachino de Angiulli
Parente
Franco Diligenti
Angelica Delfino
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Tours Brazil War Effort
Mrs Roosevelt spent forty hours inspecting American and Brazilian military and naval facilities at Natal and declared Brazil's cooperation had immeasurably lightened the Allies burden. She said the war would be longer and harder without Brazil’s help and that it would be costly for the Allies if Brazil did not cooperate.
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Brazil
Natal
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mra. Roosevelt
Tighten Restrictions on Sale of Army Goods
Rep Cochran of Missouri said an Army employee bought two lots of over-age dry cell batteries for 15 and 65 dollars and parts were resold for 20000 dollars. He cited preliminary Army findings of no fraud but said disposal rules for salvaged Army property would be tightened.
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Washington
P)i
Cochran
D-Mo
Army
Finland urged to break with Germany amid armistice terms
Sweden's foreign office said King Gustav V informed Finnish authorities of Russia’s armistice terms. Roosevelt urged Finland to end its Nazi partnership, stressing hope Finland will withdraw before the Soviet deadline. The appeal aired in Scandinavian languages as Moscow set a deadline for Finland to decide.
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Stockholm
Finland
Roosevelt
United States
Nazi Germany
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Corinth Man Among 11 Drowned Soldiers
Eleven soldiers of the 66th Division drowned when two assault boats capsized in a lake five miles north of Little Rock during amphibious maneuvers. All bodies were recovered. Among the dead was Pfc. Emerson D. Washburn of Corinth New York Route 2.
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Little Rock
Ark
66Th Division
Here
Emerson D. Washburn
Corinth
N.Y
Wisconsin trip opens for Wendell Walkie campaign
UPI reports Wendell Walkie and Wisconsin Bo will depart today to launch an active campaign in Wisconsin. They plan to push a slate of delegates pledged to him for the April 4 Republican presidential primary.
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New York
UPI
Wendell Walkie
Wisconsin
Nazis Reenter Cassino Town After Heavy Bombardment
Allied forces report Cassino largely seized after a 2,500 ton air and artillery assault. German troops, clinging to the ruined Via Casilina toward Rome, gamble on delaying retreat while Monte Cassino caves shelter survivors. Lieut. Gen. Eaker’s Mediterranean Air Force logged 2,500 sorties with six planes lost. Continuous bombardment left the town in ruins as resistance persisted.
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Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Sappesa
Rome
Via Casilina
War Production Must Defer To Needs Of Young Man's Army
The War Production Board told steel industry leaders that military needs will take priority in supplying eligible men under 26 for combat. Selective Service Director Hershey voiced sympathy for industry manpower problems but urged acceptance of possible production shortfalls due to the draft. The message warned of severe manpower losses in coming months as the Army and Navy require more young men.
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Washington
Steel
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Steel Industry Advisory Committee
Army
Navy
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Czech government to govern liberated Czech areas
London dispatch says the Czech government in exile is expected to take civil administration of the country as it is liberated. President Benes reportedly secured Stalin’s consent to assume control, with Czech legions possibly among first troops to enter and help admin the homeland.
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London
Civi
Red Army
Eduard Benes
Stalin
Benes
Moscow
Soviet Union
Dirksen Open to Alabama? Run With Dewey Vice Presidential Ticket
Illinois Senator Everett M. Dirksen who just finished a 20,000 mile tour of 22 states to bolster his availability for the Republican nomination was described by associates as receptive to a vice presidential run on a ticket with Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
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Wahington
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Plan Would Assign 4-Fs to War Work
Washington UP reports a House military subcommittee heard a plan to use 4-F men in essential occupations similar to conscientious objectors. The approach would adapt wartime labor practices to keep key services staffed while acknowledging their draft status.
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Washington
House
Zimmer Bill Goes To Governor
Albany report notes the Upper House sent to Governor Thomas E. Dewey the Zimmer Hastings Bill authorizing Troy Mayor John J. Ahern to appoint a housing authority to secure federal or state grants for postwar housing. The Lower House meanwhile passed a highway aid bill favoring upstate communities, claiming New York City Democrats are being shorted. The article closes with a continuation note on Page Twenty-five.
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Albany
New York State
Thomas EB
Dewey
Hastings
John J. Ahern
Troy
New York City
Frank A. Emma
Utica
Zimmer
African native’s fever serum saved millions worldwide
A blood specimen from a West African native named Asibi taken in 1927 at the Rockefeller yellow fever lab Lagos was injected into a rhesus monkey. The monkey died, but Asibi’s strain has become the basis for yellow fever vaccines produced over the last seven years, credited by president Raymond E. Fosdick as the source of immunity for millions across many countries.
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New York
Astbi
Rockefeller Foundation
Foundation
Lagos
West Africa
India
Raymond EB. Fosdick
Allied Ends in Italy Achieved War Goals Declared
Washington reports Allied forces have met six core aims in Italy despite weather delays. War Secretary Stimson outlined progress, saying Italy is no longer an Axis weapon, Mediterranean shipping is open, southern airports are seized, Adriatic control expanded, German divisions diverted from Russia, and enemy losses exceed Allied losses. Weather hindered Cassino bombing but progress remains, with notes of hope for other fronts.
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Washington
Italy
Stimson
Cassino
Mediterranean
Balkans
Adriatic
Negro Troops See Action Against Japs in South Pacific
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports American Negro infantrymen in frontline action in the South Pacific for the first time. Tech. Sgt. Alonzo Douglas of Chicago is named as the first Negro infantryman to kill a Japanese, as his patrol from the 24th Negro Regiment infiltrated Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay and returned after evading an ambush.
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South Pacific
Tech
Sergt
Alonzo Douglas
Chicago
Solomons
24Th
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Appointment Confirmed Washington GP
Promotion of Tokyo raider James Harold Doo little to the temporary rank of lieutenant general was confirmed by the Senate yesterday in Alameda California motive noted as part of the confirmation process.
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Washington
Tokyo
James Harold Doolittle
Alameda
Cal
Senate
Pigs Die in Rail Crash Near Town Park
State police report about 200 pigs killed or injured when an eastbound New York Central freight derailed blocking three tracks. The locomotive and 28 cars left rails. 22 cars demolished, some crashing into a control tower. One tire broke causing the wreck. no injuries reported to crew. Eastbound passenger trains rerouted. four tracks to clear.
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St Johnsville
New York Central Railroad
Charles Porter
Dies Report Held Cause Of Disunity
Representative Ebberharter charged the Dies subcommittee investigating riots at Tule Lake California had pursued publicity over facts. He said the panel avoided officials at War Relocation Authority and spread groundless fears and distrust of the agency during a time needing national unity.
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Washington
Ebere Harter
D-Pemna
Dies
Tule Lake
Cal
Ebberharter
War Relocation Authority
Purse Snatchers Grab $3,000 From Woman in Rochester
In Rochester detectives report two young suspects snatched a handbag containing 3000 in cash, 164 in checks and a 73 diamond ring from a downtown woman. The bag was later found on a parked car with 3000 in bills still wrapped. The victim pursued but fell and suffered the escape of the robbers.
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Rochester
Henry van Auker
Rachael White
Must Go to Trial in Chaplin Paternity Suit
Los Angeles film producer Charles Chaplin must face trial in a high profile paternity case brought by Joan Berry. The District Court of Appeals rejected defense objections, ruling the matter proceed to court. The decision sustains the trial timeline and maintains pressure on Chaplin amid ongoing legal scrutiny.
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Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Charles Chaplin
District Court of Appeals
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