Nazis Retake Nikolaev as Red Army Pushes Toward Odessa
The Red Army crushed the German garrison at Nikolaev and crossed the Bug River overnight, advancing toward Odessa on a 175 mile front. Moscow reported successful encirclements near Kovel and near Iasi in Romania while Soviet forces neared the Odessa rail line. In Oklahoma, Democrat W G Stigler won a special congressional election, keeping Roosevelt's party dominance in the district as E O Clark trailed.
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Rumania
Iasi
Berlin
Kovel
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Bug River
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Bessarabia
Odessa-Tiraspol
Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
W. G. Stigler
Clark
Stigler
American Legion
State Senate
OPA Hedges On Proposed Gas Increase
Washington news today reports OPA rationing chief Bryan Houston stating a decision on increasing the B gas allotment will not be made for at least thirty days. He notes OPA aims to be liberal as allocations permit and will raise the EB ration to up to 720 miles per month within thirty days to six weeks if the black market remains controlled.
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Washington (P
Bryan Houston
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Houston
First Lady Returns From Caribbean Trip
President Roosevelt announced that Mrs. Roosevelt returned from an extensive tour of South America Central America and the Caribbean. He said the First Lady visited many places where American troops were stationed and did a lot of good. The trip was made at his suggestion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
South America
Central America
Caribbean
Doctor Questioned in Death of Schoolgirl
Detroit authorities questioned a local physician last night over the stabbing death of Joyce Raulston a 14 year old schoolgirl whose battered body was found on a refuse dump. Detective Thomas Gentile said an anonymous tipster named the physician as the assailant. No charges were filed by press time.
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Sheriff's
Joyce Raulston
Thomas Gentile
Aberdeen
Wash
Bernard Arends
J. W. McIntosh
McIntosh
Arends
Lonergan Defense Begins in Slaying Trial
The defense in the first degree murder case against Wayne Lonergan opened as the state rested its evidence. A key witness, interior decorator Mario Gabelline, failed to appear as his name was called, and the defense cross examined Detective Prendergast after the prosecutor stated the state rests.
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Wayne Lonegran
R. C. A. F. Aircraftman
Patricia
Mario Enzo Gabelline
Gabelline
Edward V. Broderick
William Prendergast
Jacob Grumet
Brod
Lonergan
Stimson Urges Price Control Be Continued
Secretary of War Stimson urged continuation of price controls to prevent spiraling costs for the government and the public. He told the Senate banking committee that controls should extend for a year beyond June 30 to aid reconversion and protect returning servicemen. Senator Taft called extension a matter of course with possible tweaks to avoid injustices.
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Washington
Stimson
Taft
Ohio
Senate Banking Committee
President Opposes Poll Tax in Press Conference
President Roosevelt stated he has always believed poll taxes are undemocratic. Meanwhile President Murray of the CIO sent a letter to Senate leaders urging immediate action to advance the anti poll tax bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Philip Murray
Senate
President Roosevelt backs national service law amid manpower debate
President Roosevelt affirmed support for national service legislation despite Paul V. McNutt's claim of no present need. He urged soul searching for unused manpower and noted harvest help is needed from many groups, not just 4F draftees.
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Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
Congress
McNutt
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Mr. Roosevelt
Chaplin Butler Testifies At Mann Act Trial
Chaplin's suave butler testified that Chaplin admitted relations with Joan Berry in a New York hotel and Beverly Hills home. The defense pressed for a directed verdict of acquittal while U.S. Attorney Carr prepared to oppose it. Berry denied asking $150,000 in cash as settlement for paternity of her daughter. Doctors found the child likely not Chaplin's, but courts have not ruled on the paternity claim.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin
Joan Berry
New York
Beverly Hills
Jerry Giesler
U.S
Charles H. Carr
Miss Berry
Carol Ann
County Superior
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
District Court of Appeal
Stephen Leacock Dies in Toronto
Stephen Leacock Canadian economist and humorist died in Toronto General Hospital after several weeks illness. He was long on the staff of McGill University retiring in August 1936. Leacock wrote serious volumes but gained fame for cheerful nonsense in Literary Lapses and Behind the Beyond.
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Toronto
Stephen B. Leacock
Toronto General Hospital
Leacock
McGill University
Nazi Mine Invisibility Stuns Italian Front Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred K. Du Moulin reports a new German land mine on the Italian front that cannot be detected by instruments. He describes it as resembling a bar of soap and capable of blowing off a soldier's foot when stepped on.
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Washington (P
Alfred K. du Moulin
34Th Infantry
Retsing
du Moulin
Bougainville Japs Fake Surrender Then Kill Yanks
On Bougainville Hill 260 in the Solomon Islands an American captain a sergeant and a private were killed after Japanese soldiers pretended to surrender Roy of Mountain Lake Park Maryland recounted talking with the Japs for ten minutes and then watching them open fire from a pillbox.
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Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Richard L. Roy
Mountain Lake Park
Roy
Democratic Victory In Oklahoma Dashes GOP Wartime Signals
Democratic national chairman Robert E Hannegan hailed Oklahoma's Second District win as a decisive reversal of a supposed nationwide Republican trend. He framed the result as broad voter endorsement of the administration's war conduct and leadership under the Democratic Party, noting the 1942 margin and challenging GOP negative critiques.
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Washington
Robert E Hannegan
Oklahoma
House
Hannegan
Air Scoresheet Reveals Allied Losses and Bombing Totals
The Army reports from February 20 to March 9 show 7 044 heavy bomber sorties against Germany escorted by 10 356 fighter series dropping 17 256 tons of bombs. Allied air forces claimed 1 023 enemy fighters down while suffering 114 bomber and 121 fighter losses. RAF personnel losses total 4 261 with half presumed alive as prisoners.
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Washington (P
Army
AAFP
Germany
RAF
Shadow of Military Service Spurs Murders and crisis
A Brooklyn couple married ten days earlier were found dead in a parked car in Wilming ton Del. The Navy letter and a will were found with Carl A. Klint 23 and Ruth M. White 21 both Bendix Aviation Corp. workers. Police call it a deliberate self death pact. The bodies showed they had been dead at least 43 hours and were dressed in their best clothes.
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Klint
Navy
Seabees
Crossing Crash Kills Two At Slingerlands
Two people were killed and two others critically injured when a truck collided with an Albany bound milk train at Font Grove Road crossing in Slingerlands. Victims Ralph McClintock and Domenica Donato died. Joseph and Verna Donato were hospitalized in critical condition.
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Delaware and Hudson
Font Grove Road
Slingerlands
Ralph McClintock
Domenica Donato
Joseph Donato
Verna Ann Donato
St. Peter's Hospital
William P. Degenar
Philip Argus
McClintocks
Willkie Labels Dewey Main Opponent in Wisconsin Primary
Wendell L. Willkie identified Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as his principal rival in the Wisconsin presidential nominating primary on April 4. He warned that the Hearst Milwaukee Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune favor Dewey, while slates list Willkie, Dewey, Stassen, and MacArthur as candidates.
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Wis
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
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Chicago Tribune
Hearst
Milwaukee
Willkie
Milwaukee Sentinel
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Douglas MacArthur
Stassen
Gen. MacArthur
Go.p
Armchair Strategists Disrupt Production
Washington officials report Manpower Chairman Paul V. McNutt told the House military committee that optimistic war end predictions pull workers from war plants back to civilian production and hinder recruiting from non essential to essential work.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
House Military Committee
Ham ration value cut point per pound announced
The Office of Price Administration said ready to eat hams will lose one ration point per pound next month. Fresh and cured hams stay the same. April values for all meats fats and cheeses to be announced this week and take effect April 2.
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Washington LP
Office of Price Administration
Nurse Ada Rasmussen Dies After Cohoes Auto Crash
Miss Ada Rasmussen a 45 year old Metropolitan Life visiting nurse was fatally injured at 430 PM while crossing South Saratoga Street Cohoes to visit a patient. Francis Marsolais 95 Columbia Street Cohoes the driver was released after police said preliminary investigation. She died at Cohoes Hospital 1050 PM from multiple injuries. Coroner Philip Morrissey assisted by Dist Atty Henry Kahn and a police detail led by Chief William Maxwell investigated. An autopsy was planned. Details about the accident were sparse and the driver could not recall the events.
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Brookline Avenue
McKownville
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Saratoga Street
Cohoes
Francis Marsolais
Columbia Street
Misa Rasmussen
Cohoes Hospital
Miss Rasmussen
Roosevelt Says War Bars Jews From Palestine
President Roosevelt said military needs create a temporary serious bar to free entry of Jews into Palestine while the future of the country should be settled later. He noted military spokesmen oppose a resolution backing unrestricted Jewish immigration, while a 1939 British white paper will halt such immigration starting next Saturday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Palestine
United States
Congress
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Stephen 8. Wise
Abba H. Silver
White House
Roosevelt Treated at Naval Hospital for Bronchitis
President Roosevelt went to the Naval Hospital for X rays after three weeks of bronchitis. He told reporters he felt fine aside from coughing and wheezing. He downplayed the pneumonia risk, noting only one in 48,500 cases develops into pneumonia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Hospital
Sonterencs
Albany ALP primary yields 15 on state committee slate
Left wing faction of the American Labor Party wins a clear primary victory as 15 members are elected to the state committee. The right wing warned of Communist influence and noted Roosevelt and Wallace would not accept an ALP nomination if that occurred.
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New York
Albany
American Labor Party
Yelt
Roosevelt
Wallace
State Committee
ALP
New York State
Wendell L. Willkie
Democratic
Republican Organization
Jolie
Labor Party
Germans Shell Allied Lines At Cassino
Allied commands report mounting German unease in the Cassino area with a sharp, unsuccessful hill attack and heavy artillery barrages south of the stronghold. German forces probed Mondsy along the Cairo Terelle road, four miles from Cassino, but were repelled by Allied artillery and infantry. An enemy patrol near Cairo was scattered as German efforts to concentrate forces faced setbacks along Highway 6 toward Rome.
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Naples
Cassino
Fifth Army
Mondsy
Cairo
Terelle
Italy Plans Parliamentary Rule After Rome Victory
Naples report notes King Vittorio Emanuele pledges to form a government with a larger base. An Italian parliament is to be elected within four months after peace. Palevito Togliatti, head of the Communist Party, arrives from Moscow and calls a party leaders meeting for tomorrow.
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Vittorio Ems Manuele
Rome
Palemito Toghatti
Italian Communist Party
Communist International
Moscow
Toghatti
Erecoli
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