Compromise Merit Rating Bill Passes In New York Legislature
The New York Legislature approved a harmony bill creating a merit rating for employer jobless insurance tax rebates based on payroll stability and business tenure. The measure, sent to the Senate after a 79 to 64 approval of the compromise over the Young-Democratic plan, aims to relieve municipalities. Governor Dewey had earlier been sent a $5,000,000 snow removal appropriation.
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New York State
Tassight
Young-Demp BI
Senate
Irving Mu Ives
Republican Assembly
Legislative Committee On Industrial and Labor Relations
Ives
New York
Demo Hill
Dewey
Navy planes hit Okinawa as US Task Force 38 strikes Ryukyus
Tokyo reports carrier planes from Task Force 38 attacked Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands with over 200 carrier aircraft taking part. Tokyo says enemy ships and planes pressed the assault from dawn today after yesterday’s initial strike and notes the operation involved Vice Admiral Mitscher’s force east of Okinawa.
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San Francisco
Japan
Okinawa
Ryukyu Islands
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Formosa
Tokyo
Adm
Marc’ AL Mitscher
Nippon
Cigarette Line Prank Delays Draft Board Visit
A Philadelphia draft board officer recounts a prank where a prospective draftee lured people into a cigarette line claiming carts hid in the venue. The hoax delayed the routine and may have turned away over a hundred applicants, as the clerk described.
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Philadelphia
Ine
Draft Board
Han
Berlin Bomb Raids Leave Major Reich Cities in Ruins
The Air Ministry reports heavy devastation across German urban centers after three weeks of Allied bombing. Berlin sustains severe destruction with estimates of 400 000 homeless and the center believed wrecked. Essen, Krupp works, and other Ruhr cities suffer major damage as bombers hit rail stations and government buildings.
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Berlin
Air Ministry
Te Tenetineind
Atali Mpd
Raja
Steglitz
Wilmersdorf
Schoenberg
Charlottenberg
Essen
Ruht
Krupp
Krupp Armament Works
Krupa
UNRRA Names Red Heads Polish Mission Head
UNRRA designated Michail Menshikov to lead a mission to Poland after delays in obtaining Russian transit visas for an American representative. John P. Gregg originally was chosen to negotiate a relief agreement. The Polish provisional government in Warsaw remains the only Polish authority UNRRA will deal with amid geopolitical sensitivities.
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Washington
Gpi
Russia
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
TNRRA
Poland
John P. Gregg
Michail Menshikov
UNRRA
Warsaw
Moscow
United States
Britain
London
Author's Wife Dies in Hollywood at 42
Mrs Rupert Hughes, wife of author Rupert Hughes, died yesterday at Bollywood Reveerding Hospital after being taken there by police and ambulance from their home. The 42 year old was reported to have been ill prior to her death.
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Hollywood
Rupert Hughes
Bollywood
4000 Aircraft Continue Air Assault on Ruhr to Open Rhine Drive
More than 4000 Allied warplanes pressed an intensive bombardment in the Ruhr region in prep for a Rhine crossing. American heavy bombers and fighters hit rail centers and airfields while Lancasters targeted supply lines and troop movements. The raid followed weeks of brutal bombing that cratered the area and left it isolated from the west.
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London
Ruhr
Rhine
Germany
Nazis Hoarding Pills and Spies For Last Stand
The Journal de Geneve reports German preparations for a future war after defeat. It cites vitamin pills for children, hidden munition stores, radio and printing plants, and spies posing as anti Nazis as part of a long term plan begun after Stalingrad. It notes emissaries abroad and concealed war funds and industries.
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Born
Switzerland
GPI
Journal
de Geneve
Hich Command
Staliingrad
Strasbourg
War reporter returns home with mumps after frontline service
Kenneth L. Dixon, war correspondent for UPI AP, served 18 months in Africa Italy and the Western Front dodging shells bombs and small arms fire. He returned on leave and yesterday showed up with mumps at Artesia station.
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Artesia
M.upi-Ap
Kenneth L
Dixon
Africa
Italy
Oder Defense Line Breaks In Soviet Berlin Offensive
Soviet forces pushed near Danzig and Gdynia as they split defenders with a drive toward Danzig Bay. Moscow cited heavy German losses while Berlin claimed major Soviet thrusts were imminent as tanks and aircraft battered the eastern front.
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UPI
Berlin
Oder River
Seling
East Prussia
Danzig
Silesia
Moscow
Hungary
Komarorm
Danbuckey
Austria
Vienna
Japs Plan To Recapture Lost Islands Says Premier Koiso
Premier Koiso told the Japanese Diet that Nippon is ready to defend the homeland and plans an offensive to recapture Iwo, Saipan, and Guadal Canal. Tokyo radio reports heard by the FCC quote Koiso as confident and facing Diet questions about leadership and war effort, with measures for wartime labor stabilization due by March end.
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Kuniaki Koiso
Nippon
Iwo
Lima
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Tokyo
FCC
Diet
Koiso
Hitohito
Suziyama
Mitsimasa- Youai
Boieo
Imperial Comurigue
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Japan
Iland Sea
Eclairs Sickens Niagara Falls Residents
Over two days 42 residents in Niagara Falls and Buffalo contracted illness from contaminated chocolate eclairs. Dr Edward Gillick, Fall health officer, reports 36 cases in the city with most hospitalized.
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Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Edward 5. Gillick
Siagasa
Government Jumps Chicken Prices to Boost Production
The government raised retail chicken prices by about 1.5 cents per half pound to spur production as meat shortages persist. The move, approved by William H. Davis, aims to encourage more broods this summer while officials debate broader food supply issues in a Senate agriculture subcommittee hearing.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
William H. Davis
War Food Administration
Davis
War Output Near Peak Says WPB Weekly Summary
The War Production Board reports munitions output has nearly reached its peak with military and civilian demands squeezing resources. Officials study adjustments to favor civilian needs while maintaining war supplies.
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WPB
Washington
War Production Board
Hilana G. Batchelor
Bismarck Sea Sunk Off Iwo Jima in World War II
The escort carrier Bismarck Sea was sunk February 21 near Iwo Jima after enemy air attack. Most crew were rescued. Captain Joan Lockwood Pratt and others survived. The ship, part of the Casablanca class, displaced about 4 600 tons and carried roughly 27 aircraft.
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Guam
Bismarck Sea
Jima
Aden
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Joan Lockwood Pratt
Milford
Del
Coronado
Cal
Kaiser
Afa
Luzon
Atthe Pratt
MacArthur Moves Toward Jap HQ Near North Luzon
General MacArthur reports progress as U.S. forces push toward Baguio from multiple fronts. American infantry advance near Naguilian River and town as ships damaged and supplies disrupted in the campaign to seize the area and break Japan’s Luzon defense.
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Thimi
Baguio
Lauzon
Douglas
Naguiliag
Clarkson
Tormous Kennon Canyon
MacArthur
Naguilian
Patton Opens Rhine Crossing Inland in Sudden Blitz
Allied forces led by General Patton crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and pressed inland on the Frankfurt Plain in a rapid, disorienting assault. German troops were caught unprepared, with 100,000 prisoners reported and the bridgehead steadily expanding despite light resistance.
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Rhine
Mainz
Berlin
Frankfurt
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Remagen
SU. S. Seventh Army
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Patton
Rhing
Germany
U.S
Ludendortf
Oppenheim
U. S
Aml
Syiaten Eens
Fifth Army Relieved as Kesselring Departed to Western Front
German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring is reassigned to the Western Front, a move welcomed by Allied officers who credit him with delaying their advance on the Italian peninsula. The transfer follows weeks of reorganization with no immediate larger battles reported on the Italian front.
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Alsert Keselring
Rhine
Asain
Kesselring
Am Exin
Sher
Hease
von Rundstedt
Jon Hall Cleared for Military Service Following Exam
Actor Jon Hall may lose his 4-F status as selective service officials report he has been marked acceptable for military service after a physical examination. He is married to Frances Langford.
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Hollywood
Jon Hall
Frances Langford
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