British Warning Hangs Heavy Over Irish Folk
Dublin notes a heavy mood as Prime Minister Churchill warns Ireland to stay isolated from Allied moves amid pre invasion tension. Public figures speak of grim days ahead while pubs close and crowds gather for St Patrick’s Day. Irish public stance divided with few pro Allied crowds and scattered guards at legations.
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Dublin
St. Patrick's Y
Minrt
Churchill
Eire
Ireland
Gay
England
Three Businesses Burn In Fredericksburg Fire
Fire destroyed three establishments inside a single structure at King George Court House early today. Damage listed over 50000 dollars. The frame building was owned by T. Clift with a portion used for a shop. Cars saved attached garage and beauty parlor run by Miss Ia McDaniel. engines from Fredericksburg and Colonial Beach aided.
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Fredericksburg
Lord Death Case Given To Jury
The case of 16 year old Wevid Filgas charged with murder in the December death of Patricia Winter was given to a civil Circuit Court jury of nine men and three women at 1 15 p m. William B Brown explained the duty of the jury to decide if the fire was set with intent to murder or to destroy the body and to return a verdict of not guilty if any reasonable doubt remains.
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Zrand Rapids
Mich
Wevid Filgas
Patricia Winter
William B. Brown
Kia
Pleads Innocent In Slaying Case At Cathedral
Julius Fisher, 31, a handyman, pleaded innocent in District Court to murder in the Washington Cathedral slaying of Miss Catherine Cooper Reardon the cathedral assistant librarian. No trial date set. Reardon’s body was found March 2 in a basement library pit after a brutal beating.
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Washington
Julius Fisher
Washington Cathedral
Catherine Cooper Reardon
Navy officer outlines Pacific war shortages and offense
Commander Mumman describes early Pacific war hardships including equipment shortages and limited aircraft. He details three war stages retreat stand and the January 1943 offensive, noting its impact on the enemy. introduction by Legion of Merit recipient and questions from honorary members.
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U. S. Navy
Mumman
Pacific
Louis N. Nurton
R. Gray Wiliams
Angel of the Red Cross War Fund Poem
A reprint from the Washington Evening Star honors the Red Cross War Fund Drive. The verse portrays the Angel of the Cross soothing those in war torn lands and comforting the bereaved, linking mercy with Calvary and selfless service.
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Angel of the Red Cross
The
Washington Evening Star
Red Cross War Fund
Angel of the Cross
Liberators Reach Truk In First War Raid On Base
U S Pacific Fleet reports Seventh Army Air Force B 24s hit Truk with land based bombers blasting airfields fuel dumps and ammunition stores. One Liberator damaged by anti aircraft fire while no planes were lost.
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U. SS. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Mar
Truk
Keystone
Japan
Marshalls
Seventh Army Air Force
Carolines
Troops Push Toward Lorengau as Manus Assault Ramps Up
Allied forces at Manus Island on March 17 report a landing near Lagos Mission and a push toward Lorengau with heavy bombardment and inland artillery. The First Cavalry Division broke light resistance, suffered minor casualties from mines, and extended the advance toward the Lorengau airstrip, seen as ending the Admiralty campaign.
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Southwest Pacific
Lorengau
Manus Toland
Admiralty
Bismarck Sea
First Cavalry
Lagos Mission
Manus
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
Momote
Quads Die After Birth in Argentine Hospital
In Buenos Aires a quadruplet born to Senora Celio Giac hino De Anguilli died the day after. Reports also note an unverified birth of quintuplets to a wealthy rancher and wife, with no registration yet found under Argentine law. The named quintuplets are Maria Fernanda Maria Esther Franco Maria Cristina and Carlos.
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Buenos Aires
Senora
Celio Giachino de Anguilli
Senor
Senora Franco
Families Broken and Soldiers Decorated in Postwar News
Yesterday and today 61 more detainees faced questions about loyalty and credentials. Mrs Metzl 77 returned from Europe after a long stay since 1879, living with her brother in Chicago. Thirty five wounded American soldiers received Purple Hearts at Halloran Hospital for valor and service.
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Europe
Metzl
Painesville
Ohio
Robert Ehrlich
Chicago
Czechoslovakia
Halloran Hospital
Bombing raids expand across Europe in dramatic night operations
British aircraft pounded Stuttgart and western Germany with thousands of tons of bombs as Mosquitos struck targets in the region and minelayers carried out widespread ops. RAF heavy bombers hit Sofia for a second night, while Lancasters bombed Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand in a 1,000-bomber mission. Swiss landings involved several American bombers, with one Liberator lost in a lake and crewmen interned.
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Are
Stuttgart
Germany
RAF
Mediterranean
Sofia
Bulgaria
Air Ministry
Clermont-Ferrand
Amiens
Paris
Channel
Aulnoye
Lille
Dunkerque
Calais
Pas-de-Calais
Europe
Switzerland
Bern
Lake Zoug
Berlin
New Tyue
Armerican Fliers
Forces Of Fifth Presses In Cassino Ridge Struggle
Allied forces push at German positions west and northwest of Cassino while engineers clear the Cassino area replacing bombed streets. New Zealand and Indian troops report heavy German resistance but seize several heights as 70 foot bridge enables tank passage. Royal Air Force strikes Sofia with four motor Halifaxes and targets the Sofia railway network in coordinated attacks.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
RAF
Mediterranean
Strategic Air Force
Rome
Carano
Carroceto
Cassino
Virginians Named Among Wounded in World War II
War Department lists 400 soldiers wounded in action across Asiatic Central Pacific European Mediterranean and southwest Pacific theaters. Virginians named include Elmo M. Dinsmore of Port Republic married to Nannie B. Dinsmore, Peter G. Divers Jr. of Roanoke, Charles W. Garrison of Round Hill, William W. Goforth Jr. of Lexington, Elmer R. Smith of Covington, and Eugene K. Sweet of Lexington with their mothers listed.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Elmo M. Dinsmore
Nannie B. Dinsmore
Port” Republic
Peter G. Divers, Jr
Peter G Divers
Route
Roanoke
Charles W. Garrison
B. Garrison
Round Hill
Tech
William W.W. Goforth, Jr
Lidia Goforth
Lexington
Elmer R. Smith
Florence E. Smith
Covington
Eugene K. Sweet
Emma
Dies Subpoenas Blue Network Over Winchell Broadcasts
The Dies committee orders the Blue Network to hand over scripts and recordings of Walter Winchell broadcasts from the past two years. Robert E. Stripling issued the subpoena to Mark Wood, New York president of the network, amid ongoing clashes over Winchells Sunday night program. Dies accuses Winchell of smearing Congress and mentions Hoffman and Rankin in his remarks to the House. He says he invited Winchell to review the files but received no reply.
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Washington
Walter Winchell
Dies
Blue Network
Winchell
Robert E. Stripling
Mark Wood
New York
D.-Tex
House
Congress
Hoffman
R.-Mich
Rankin
D.-Miss
Ford Production Behind Schedule
Ford production of vital aircraft engines at the Rouge Plant lags behind schedule amid post work stoppage effects. The Army Air Forces provided no specific reasons. Ford suspended 22 more employees for alleged participation in a recent demonstration, amid 92 total suspensions and discharges so far. United Automobile Workers president R J Thomas calls the company claim of union approval for discipline completely untrue.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Army Air Forces
Rouge
AAF
Ford
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Irish St Patrick Parade in New York Crowds Celebrate
Irish names like O Hoolihans O Tooles and O Briens paraded along Fifth Avenue for the 116th St Patricks Day march. About 50 000 marchers were expected with a million spectators possible if weather cooperates.
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New York
Fera O’hoolihans
O’tooles
O’briens
Et al
Fifth Avenue
Erin
Seek To Identify Crash Victims
In Stuart Virginia on March 17, 11 army bomber crew members perished when their aircraft crashed atop Bull Mountain during a routine navigational mission. Bodies burned beyond recognition were removed to an undertaker for identification after surviving crew had no tags.
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Stuart
Bull Mountain
Charleston, S. C. Army Air Base
Hunger strike widens as Irish prisoners faced hospital care
In Belfast 29-year-old IRA chief Hugh McAteer and two other prisoners were moved to the prison hospital in serious condition after a 24 day hunger strike. Twelve more inmates join the protest at Belfast jail with reports of further strikes in Londonderry.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Hugh McAteer
Irish Republican Army
McAteer
Terence McSweeney
Cork
McAteér
Londonderry
Finland Delivers Reply to Russia Amid Peace Hope Dims
Finland sent its reply to Russian armistice terms to the Stockholm legation and to Moscow via Mme Alexandra Kollontay. A Finnish source says there is little hope for peace as the deadline nears, with Russia seeking seven German divisions interred and Red Army support. The Finnish Parliament reportedly rejected terms in secret, and Sweden urged acceptance of Moscow's conditions. Helsinki moves to protect church archives and bank records amid potential renewed Russian air attacks.
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Stockholm
Finland
Associated Press
Mme
Alexandra Kollontay
Moscow
Russia
Rosevelt
Germany
Gustav
Sweden
Baron Carl Mannerheim
Red Army
Helsinki
United States Won't Recognize Badoglio Regime
Secretary of State Hull announced that the United States would not extend diplomatic recognition to the Badoglio government in Italy. He said Washington was not consulted by Moscow before exchanging representatives and that policy details are still developing with the Allied advisory council to Italy.
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Washington
Hull
United States
Badoglio
Italy
Moscow
London
Russia
State Department
Allied Advisory Council
Grand Island Navy Man Censors Message Home
A Grand Island resident in the Navy recently shipped abroad wrote home saying he was told by the censor it was all right to tell that they are all deleted by censor. He could share little more but confirmed his unit’s status.
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Grand Island, Neb
Grand Island
Baltimore Markets Reported Quiet and Steady
Market notes from Baltimore dated March 17 show produce mostly unchanged with apples and fowl steady and poultry firm. eggs listed at 3,202 cases while butter reach 79,056 pounds. Demand described as dull and weak with small price movements and typical market frictions noted for roasters and fryers.
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Baltimore
Baltimore hog and cattle market report with steady trends
Office quotations show cattle steady with light demand shifts for cows and calves, hogs active with price gains across most weight classes, sows firmer but over 400 pounds weaker, no sheep or fat lambs offered and undertone steady for good wooll lambs.
Livestock market reports steady to strong Chicago sale
Chicago March 17 livestock prices show hogs 190 to 350 pounds 14.25 to 14.40 with top 14.45, cattle salable 1 000 and calves 500. steers 1280 pounds to 17.00, cows mostly 8.25 to 11.50, bulls 9.50 to 12.75, stock cattle limited. Sheep 3 500 head, western lambs 16.25 to 16.35, ewes 7.25, market active with early clearance and generally steady demand.
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Baltimore
CW. F. A
Office of Distribution
Chicago
Chicago Grain Quotations Open With Mild Profit Taking
Grain prices eased at the Chicago opening with small losses across wheat oats and rye. May wheat stands at 1.72 1 8, July 1.68 1 4, Sept 1.66 3 4 to 5 8, Dec 1.66 3 8. Oats May 81 0 18, Sept 74 3 4, Dec 74 1 2. Rye May 1.30 3 3 to 1.30, July 1.28 7 8 to 1.29, Sept 1.27 to 1.26 7 8, Dec 1.27 1 2.
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Chicago
Police Seek Driver Of Stolen Truck Wrecked In Co
Police hunt a colored youth from Martinsburg who wrecked and abandoned a stolen Ford panel truck at the Back Creek bridge on US Route 522 near Gainesboro. The injured 20 year old, about five eight, 160 pounds, with nappy hair, wore a blue suit and was treated for head cuts at Cross Junction.
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Back Creek Bridge
Gainesboro
Mitchell
Winchester
Martinsburg
Cross Junction
R. Y Braithwaite
Purse Snatchers Strike in Rochester
Two young purse snatchers grabbed Mrs. Rachael Whitehead's handbag in Rochester, taking $3,003 in cash, $164 in checks and a $75 diamond ring. A detective later found the bag atop a parked car, with $3,000 in bills, the checks and the ring missing.
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Rochester
N. Y
Rachael Whitehead
Stock Market Report Balances Gains Amid Profit Taking
New York traders pulled profits from an upswing causing moderate losses in many industrials while rails recovered after a morning stumble. Demand driven by earnings and war prospects supported favorites, but weekend caution trimmed turnover and kept overall activity below the swing-highs. Trading volume ran about half of Thursday as losses narrowed by mid-morning.
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New York
Sailor Who Fled Japs Is Safe
An American sailor, Jopaul Little, 22, Ordnanceman Third Class, escaped a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines and aided in liberating other prisoners. His mother, Mrs. L. E. Jackson of Seattle, said he is safe near the camp. Little had been listed missing in action on Corregidor and was held 22 months. The Navy notified his mother three weeks earlier. No details on other escapees were released.
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Seattle
Philippines
L. E. Jackson
Jopaul Little
Corregidor
Little
Anxious to Fight Draft Board Man Threatens Court
Sam Wilson, 27, a Long Island Railroad signalman with a wife and four year old daughter, told Queens Magistrate Court he wants to fight the draft board after repeated deferments and offered to punch the board chairman. He was found guilty of disorderly conduct with a suspended sentence.
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New York
Sam Wilson
Queens
Long Island Railroad
Wilson
Son of World War I casualty killed in Anzio
Lieut Otis Webb Davey Jr only five months old when his father died in France. The 24 year old Ranger lieutenant Otis Webb Davey died in the Anzio fighting, leaving his infant son and his mother Mrs Randolph Eberstadt of Canton Ohio living with her parents in Hempstead New York.
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Orange
N. J
Otis Webb Davey
France
Anzio
War Department
Otis Davey
Randolph Eberstadt
Canton
Ohio
Otis Webb Davey, Jr
Theodoria P. Andrews
Edward Pres— Andrews
Hempstead, N
Veteran Aid Bill Endorsed by Senate Finance Committee
The American Legion bill to authorize up to 3.5 billion dollars for veterans aid was approved unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee. Chairman George estimated 3 billion for benefits such as education and unemployment, plus 500 million for new hospital construction. The measure lists 81 sponsoring Senators and will be taken up by the full Senate next week.
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Washington
The
American Legion
G. I
Senate Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
Senate
Clark
D.-Mo
Germans Retreat as Soviets Report Massive German Losses
The Soviet communique claimed 10 000 German dead and 4 000 captured with hundreds surrendering as fighting raged in the Proskurov area near the old Polish border. It noted German attempts to counter attack and did not mention Tarnopol where Germans held against the Russians toward Carpathian borders.
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Nikolaev
Moscow
Proskurov
Tarnopol
Carpathian
Rumania
Hungary
Sea Clash Would Hasten Climax
San Francisco March 17 An address prepared for the Commonwealth Club warned that a head on clash between the American Navy and the Japanese grand fleet could end only in annihilation with heavy losses on both sides. Admiral Carlton H. Wrrst, commander of the 12th Naval District, said there is no doubt which side holds the ball in the Central Pacific though warning against an early Allied victory. He noted the absence of major enemy units at Truk and that carrier planes can to some extent threaten ships near shore bases.
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San Francisco
Grand Fleet
Carleton H Wrrst
Commonwealth Club
Central Pacific
Truk
Jewish Question Put On Shelf
The House Foreign Committee, advised by military authorities, shelved a resolution seeking congressional disapproval of Britain on Palestine. It urged free Jewish migration and a Jewish commonwealth, opposing the British white paper quota limits. Senate aides said they were asked to delay action on Palestine for military reasons. Chairman Bloom said the panel tabbed the measure after a letter from Secretary Stimson.
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Washington
House Foreign Committee
Congress
Britain
Palestine
Senate Foreign Affairs
U. S
Bailey is given suspended sentence for drunken disorderly conduct
In Civil and Police Court Judge John Rice disposed the case of Jake H. Bailey of Virginia for drunken and disorderly conduct. Bailey received six months suspended and costs of 4.25 dollars.
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John Rice
Jake H. Bailey
Civil Suit Continued Involving Elliott Motor Lines
The civil suit of ter A. Elliott Jr trading as Elliott Motor Lines against S A Riley and William E Riley is continued to April 21. The case had been set for next Tuesday.
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Ofter A. Elliott, Jr
Elliott Motor Lines
S. A
William, E. Riley
Answers to the Daily Quiz Corrected
Answers to the daily quiz list correct responses for page four. items include protest ignored, a top down approach, and a misquoted Ali Baba reference with the President as commander in chief.
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Ali Baba
Ess
Magyar
Gracies
Bird
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