Hull Puts 17 Point Policy Out For Postwar World
Secretary Hull unveiled a 17 point foreign policy program urging liberty loving peoples to fight for freedom as Allied divisions prepare for the European invasion. He stressed two way Atlantic Charter obligations, international surveillance of aggressors, and a future world order built on cooperation and peaceful processes.
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Washington
Hull
Europe
Germany
United Nations
Japan
Italy
America
New Vesuvius Flow Engulfs Third Town
A violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius sent four lava streams spilling from the crater engulfing a town and threatening two more at the base. Two Italian boys were killed by a cistern explosion as lava and steam hurled water skyward. Evacuations by Italian, American, and British forces, plus RAF and Allied Government aid, helped move thousands from San Sebastiano and Massa Di Somma, then Cercola as a river of lava 30 feet high and 200 yards wide advanced down the slopes.
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Mount Vesuvius
Massa di Somma
Vesuvius
Giuseppe Imbo
Royal
Vesuvius Observatory
San Sebastiano
RAF
Cercola
Jury Drawn In Trial Of Chaplin
In Los Angeles the first day of Charles Chaplin s trial on Mann Act charges ended with seven men and five women seated as tentative jurors. Jurors were questioned by U S District Judge J F T O Connor about open mindedness and prejudice. The panel included Louis J Odets, retired merchandising and advertising man and father of playwright Clifford Odets.
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Los Angeles
Charle Chaplin
Joan Berry
New York City
Chaplin
U. S
J. F. T. O'Connor
Vetiremen
Louis J. Odets
Clifford Odets
Free Tuberculosis Hospitalization Bill Moves Forward
Albany reports a state health program for free tuberculosis treatment for all. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman William M. Stuart, Steuben County Republican, eliminates the means test and would allow county hospital patients to pay only if they choose to. It advances to the Governor after legislative approval.
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Albany
State Health Department
Dewey
William M. Stuart
Steuben County
Baby Girl Weighs 25 Pounds at Birth in Raleigh
A 25-pound baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Amon Harris at Saint Agnes Hospital in Raleigh. The child measured 32 inches long and was born with a full set of teeth. Both mother and baby are in excellent condition. The couple already has eleven children. Their home is in Method, Wo.
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Raleigh
N. C
Amon Harris
Saint Agnes Hospital
Thomas F. Cathcart
Cathcart
Method
Red Cross Drive At Half Way Mark
Washington and Leon Fraser announce the Red Cross War Fund Drive is past the halfway point with 3,530 of 3,755 chapters reporting. Based on returns on the 21st day of March, pledges total $103,745,538 as campaigns continue nationwide. Unclear fragments reference Utica Club beer ads and a note about rapid return of empty containers.
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Washington LLP
Leon Fraser
Read Cross
Red Cross
Russians Sweep Across Dniester Front To The Prut
Moscow announced a major advance as Russian troops swept across the Dniester into Bessarabia on a 50 mile front. They cut the Cernauti Baltsy railroad and stormed forty villages to within thirty miles of the Prut River. The drive included the capture of Drokiya and Ketrosy, placing forces near German escape lines and threatening the Odessa bottleneck.
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London
Dniester
Bessarabia
Cernauti-Baltsy
Prut
Moscow
Drokiya
Mogilev Podolski
Soroki
West Bank
Ketrosy
Russia
Slopodzeya-Balts
Livow
Monitor
Heavy Snows Close Colorado Schools
One of Colorado's heaviest spring snowstorms in recent years closed scores of schools yesterday. The storm hampered war factories in Denver, disrupted traffic, and blanketed croplands and watersheds. It spread from the plateaus and mountains into Kansas and New Mexico, with earlier falls in Montana, Wyoming, and western Nebraska.
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Trenver UP
Colorado
Denver
Kansas
New Mexico
Montana
Wyoming
Nebraska
Pearls Recovered From Park Avenue Snow After Necklace Lost
Miss Louise Carter lost a double strand necklace valued between 20000 and 30000 dollars during a Park Avenue snowstorm. Passerby Charles Garbus found two pearls, then more surfaced as detectives, with police and traffic aides, probed the slush. Steward Tweedale and others assisted in the two day search as crowds watched.
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New York
Park Avenue
Louise Carter
Avenue S
Charles Garbus
Steward Tweedale
I Miss Carter
Peaka
New Push Also Wins Vital Hill
Allied news reports from Cassino detail fierce German efforts to retake the Continental Hotel and surrounding hills. New Zealand and Indian troops maintain positions at the railway station and Castle Hill while Nazi counterattacks, led by Lieut. Gen. Richard Heidrich, surge to eject Allies from the Liri Valley gateway.
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New Zealand
Richard Heidrich
Cassino
Heidrich
Liri
Rome
Castle Hill
Mount Cassino
Patch Replaces Patton as Seventh Army Commander
The War Department announced Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch will replace Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. as commander of the U S Seventh Army. Patton has been reassigned to another army, location undisclosed, while Patch, a 30 year Army veteran, led Guadalcanal mopping up and directed U S forces in New Caledonia. The Seventh Army’s future base remains a matter of German conjecture.
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Allied Headquarters
Naples
George S. Patton Jr
U. S. Seventh Army
Alexander M. Patch
Pacific
Washington
War Department
Patton
Europe
Patch
Guadalcanal
Alexander A. Vandegrift
United States
New Caledonia
Fourth Army Corps
Fort Lewis
Wash
Seventh Army
Fifth Army
Italy
Willkie Attacks Chicago Paper Over G O P Allegiances
Appleton Wis Wendell L Willkie warned Republican candidates endorsing the Chicago Tribune or aligned with America First cannot win the presidency He urged repudiation of America First and its leaders before and after nomination and pressed Stassen to quit the primary He said Roosevelt will likely win the Democratic ticket and that GOP fate hinges on party beliefs amid Tribune influence
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Appleton, Wis
Wendell L. Willkie
America First Committee
Chicago Tribune
America
Willkie
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Roosevelt
South
Republican Party
14 000 British Miners Strike in New Dispute
In Yorkshire coal fields 14,000 miners walked out after a new pay dispute emerges. Eight pits were closed as Wales mines operate near normal following the mass return of strikers.
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London
Wales
Yorkshire
Coal Won’t Be Rationed To Consumers
The War Production Board voted against coupon rationing of coal for households for next winter. After a briefing by Undersecretary Abe Fortas, the board said the soft coal shortage for 1944-45 is not serious enough to require rationing by card. The 20,000,000 ton deficit can be handled by dealer allotments and emergency fuel diversions in shortage areas.
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Washington
War Prouction Board
Interior
Abe Fortas
Solid Fuels Administration
Invasion Coast Raided By Liberators And Mustangs
Allied air operation over Pas de Calais and occupied France featured American B 24 Liberators without losses and Eighth Air Force P 51 Mustangs sweeping 450 miles from Paris to the Pyrenees. Mustangs strafed airfields, downed 11 enemy aircraft and destroyed nine on the ground, with seven Mustangs reported missing.
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London
Pas de-Calais
France
Gettysburg Address Sold for 60 000
Vernon L Nickell state superintendent of public instruction presented a 60 000 check to Harris Trust Co and received the Keyes Copy of Lincoln s Gettysburg Address bought by Illinois school children from a collector s estate. The copy, written by Lincoln for the New York Sanitary Fair soldier relief effort, was sold at the heirs request for 60 000, down from 150 000.
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Chicago
Vernon L. Nickell
Public Instruction
Harris Trust Co
Keyes
Lincoln
Illinois
Ilinas
New York
F B L Bates Shipyard Pay Racket Exposed By FBI
The FBI arrested 33 Bethlehem Sparrows Point shipyard workers for falsifying welding records to steal over 1 million dollars annually. Counters charged welders for fictitious extra work, with some reports claiming up to 25 dollars daily while rightful pay was as low as 10. Further arrests expected as scheme operated at least five years. John W. Vincent led the investigation in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Vincent
Baby Tossed Into Ditch Survives
A paper bag containing a newborn boy was tossed into a ditch near Mrs. Mabel Jurge’s house in Marilla Township by an unidentified motorist. State Police reported the baby, weighing about eight pounds and five hours old, was found naked and is in good health with offers of adoption already received.
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Buffalo
Marilla Township
Here
Lawrence J. Kelly
Corp
Edmund L. Broughton
Mabel Jurge
World Relief Bill Passed by Senate
The Senate passed and sent to the House compromise legislation pledging United States participation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The measure cleared on a 47 to 9 roll call after rejecting 26 to 22 a motion to recommit the proposal to Senate and House conferees.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Turks Report Sofia Seizure Amid Balkan Threats
Ankara radio said German forces seized Sofia postal and telegraph offices while troops moved on Bucharest and Budapest. Indications pointed to a Quisling regime plan under German protection as Hungary neared full domination by Hitler’s forces. The Bern recorded report noted the Sofia seizure without independent confirmation.
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London
Sofia
Colupang
Bucharest
Bulgara
Romania
Hungary
Hitler
Budapest
Ankara
Bern
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Moscow Closes Door On Finns
The Associated Press reports Moscow and Helsinki blame each other as Finland rejects Soviet armistice terms on March 1. A Soviet statement in Moscow says Finland bears full responsibility for the breakdown, marking the end of peace negotiations. Stockholm reports Finland’s reaction as confused.
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Moscow
London
Finland
Russia
Edwin Linkomies
Information Bureau of the
Peoples’ Commissariat For Foreign Affairs
U.S
Associated Press
Stockholm
President Roosevelt Drafts Young Scientists to Aid War Effort
Washington U P reported Roosevelt told the American Chemical Society he would deter the conduct of the war by taking men under 26 with special scientific skills and training away from their scientific work to contribute to wartime needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Chemical Society
Romanian premier plans armistice move says Antonescu seeks truce
London dispatches report Premier Ion Antonescu of Romania intends to seek an armistice with the Soviet Union, arguing Germany has lost the war. He reportedly would propose withdrawing Romanian forces from Russia behind the Prut River and renouncing claims to Bessarabia and possibly northern Bucovina.
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London
Ankara
Ion Antonescu
Romania
Russia
Germany
Antonesc
Prut River
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Hungary under German control tightens defense lines
The Budapest radio halted briefly during an air raid and warned of nuisance raiders over Hungarian towns. A Ankara AP dispatch says key transport and southeastern defense are in German hands as Bela Imredi, a former premier and Hungarian Nazi, reportedly forms a government and convokes parliament.
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Hungary
Budapest
United States
Associated Press
Ankara
Andalou Ajans
Bela Imredi
Sofia
U S Pledges Destruction of Vichy Regime in France
The United States pledged to destroy the Vichy regime in France and rejected claims of possible cooperation with Vichy officials. The State Department called such reports false and inspired, reaffirming no dealings with Vichy except to abolish it as Allied forces fight the Axis.
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U.S
France
Washington
United States
State Department
Giers
Axia
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