RAF Bombers Suffer Heavy Loss in Nuernberg Raid
A huge RAF daylight raid on Nuernberg and other Reich targets costs 96 planes, the heaviest Allied loss in a single operation. The alert comes as German warnings blanket the region and Sofia in Bulgaria is also attacked in a record March campaign.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Nuernberg
Reich
Vienna
Austria
Hessen-Nassau
Prussia
Frankfurt
RAF
Mediterranean
Sofia
Bulgaria
Draft boards urged to star 4-F workers in essential jobs
Col Francis V. Keesling proposed public 4-F lists with stars for those in essential war work. He told a House subcommittee that local boards should screen 4-Fs, assess who can take war jobs, match plant needs, and direct eligibles into essential roles while penalizing those who leave war work without consent.
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Washington
Col
Francis V. Keesling
Selective Service
Todey
House
Keesling
The Call to Honest Work and Gardening
MR WINCHESTER SAYS old reader urges honest brave work and teachers affirm no task is lowly. The piece notes some avoid work, but many seek labor. With spring here, the editor urges those near the city to cultivate a garden as a wise, rationing era investment.
Auction of 10-share blocks at county courthouse
A sale offering 6 percent preferred shares will be held at 12 noon in front of the County Court House. Coleman Dunn serves as Auctioneer.
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County Court House
Coleman Dunn
Coleman Dunn Auctioneer
Virginia Crewmen Lost As British Shoot Down Plane
The U S Army C 54 transport with a civilian crew of six was shot down by British fighters protecting an Allied convoy in the Atlantic. The War Department and British Admiralty said misidentification caused the loss. Crew members listed include Captain Charles S Garber Arlington Virginia and First Officer George Shelton Alexandria Virginia among others.
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Washington
Atlantic
War Department
British Admiralty
Charles S. Garber
Arlington, Va
George Edward Shelton
Alexandria
Orville V. Schultz
Royce Theodore Welliver
Benford Hermann Mann
Washington, D. C
Avery Bruce Merritt
McLean
Tony Renner Acquitted By Jury After Deliberation
A twelve man jury acquitted Tony Renner after a two hour forty eight minute deliberation in Commonwealth Court. Judge Surr P Harrison presided as James P Reardon prosecuted and Harry R Kern defended. The case stemmed from conflicting testimonies including an eyewitness account by John Reid Fincham and testimony from Renner's employees.
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a_i
Corporation Court
Surr P. Harrison
Commonwealth
James P. Reardon
Harry R. Kern
Renner
John Reid Fincham
Carl Baker
Shawnee
Baker
Britain wide labor strikes hit 135000 idle workers
Britain s war industry strikes spread across coal mines and shipyards with 135000 idle. Apprentices and miners protest draft exemptions, some returning when draft notices threaten work or fight. Yorkshire mining halted 30000 idle, 70 pits crippled, while Belfast shipyards see 20000 on strike. Public sale notice follows.
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London
Britain
Great
Tyneside
Clydeside
Huddersfield
Middlesbrough
Midlands
Yorkshire
South Wales
Belfast
President Lets Service Vote Bill Become Law Without Signature
President Roosevelt notified Congress he would allow the service vote measure to become law without his signature. He urged states to improve the act and asked Congress to broaden access for uniformed personnel overseas to vote via federal ballots, even if state authorization is lacking.
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Congress
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Naval vessels lost in the Mediterranean total 158 since war start
Washington reports 11 small naval craft sunk in the Mediterranean since January due to untrue causes. The largest loss was the 700 ton mine sweeper U S S Portent with about 100 crew. Other vessels included YMS 30 harbor tug YT 198 and eight landing craft.
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Washington
Mediterranean
Navy Department
British torpedo action against Nazi troopship off Norway
British officials claimed a convoy off Norway hit the former liner Monte Rosa twice with torpedoes from RAF Beaufighters, with intense flak obscuring results. Berlin said seven of 18 attacking British planes were shot down. Other reports spoke of British raids near Holland and between Dieppe and Boulogne with ships set afire.
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Norway
Monte Rosa
RAF Beaufighters
Berlin
British Motors
Holland
Dieppe
Boulogne
British surrender at Tiddim and advances near Imphal
British forces surrendered Tiddim in the Chin Hills Burma 100 miles below Imphal. Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck told the Indian Legislature Imphal remains strongly defended despite Japanese probing and the front lines shifting as raiding parties reach the Imphal Kohima road and bridges near Kohima.
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New Delhi
Tiddim
Chin Hills
Burma
Imphal
Sir Claude Auchinleck
India
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Manipur
Auchinleck
Kohima
Brahmaputra
Labor Board Official Indicted Over False Affidavit
Thomas De Lorenzo 35 president of Local 365 United Automobile Workers was indicted by a federal grand jury for making false statements in an affidavit tied to his War Labor Board appointment. He allegedly concealed arrests in 1933 and 193...
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New York
Thomas de Lorenzo
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Canoe
National War Labor Board
de Lorenzo
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
Thomas F. Murphy
U. S. Attorney’s Office
Hackensack
Murphy
World At War Highlights Pack Aerial and Ground Actions
AP tally reports British heavy bombers lose 96 in a Nuernberg raid as Nazis reinforce defenses. Soviet armies push near Czechoslovak borders and Odessa, while Italy sees German gains around Cassino. Pacific forces target Palau, with air strikes on Caroline positions. Burma reports 200 mile advance with Manipur Plain lines breached and a Chin Hills base surrender.
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Burma
India
Manipur
Tiddam
Chin Hills
Japan Agrees To Surrendering Her Coal Oil Leases
The Soviet Union signed a protocol in Moscow giving Japan up to Sakhalin oil and coal leases in the north while Japan hands over this property and equipment. Japan will receive 50 000 tons of oil annually for five years and 5 000 000 rubles. The agreement also renews fishing rights in Far Eastern waters for five more years under the 1941 neutrality treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Tokyo
Sakhalin
Japan
Soviet Union
Russia
Sakhalin Island
Navy Roaring Defiance Near Palau Aims At Japan
U S Pacific Fleet reports bold carrier strike near Palau, 600 miles from the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz notes earlier Palau attack echoes Truk and Saipan operations, with hundreds of planes and large carriers involved. Forces moved from Truk toward Palau as Japanese ships fled the area.
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Pacific—Navy
Palau
Philippines
Carolines
Leif Erickson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Japan
Saipan
Tinian
Marianas
Guam
Nimitz
United States
New Guinea
Germans occupy new positions on Monastery Hill near Cassino
Allied reports say German troops moved into two positions on Monastery Hill evacuated days earlier by Indian and New Zealand forces. Air operations dominated, with 65 casualties from German bombing on Anzio hospital areas. Cassino defenses repulsed new German thrusts as artillery hit tanks near the Continental Hotel.
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Italy
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Anzio
Naples
Ins de Cassino
Fifth Army
Sofia
15Th Air Force
Aga
Yugoslavia
Seversn
Hsa
Carroceto
Eighth Army
Orsogna
Imotski
Adriatic
Oun
Judge Turnbull Dies In Hospital
Judge Needham Turnbull Jr. of Victoria Virginia and head of the Thirty Fourth Judicial Circuit died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a period of ill health. Born 1886 in Lawrenceville he practiced law there after 1908 earning an LL B from the University of Virginia. He served as commonwealths attorney for his county from 1912 for three terms and was nominated in 1930 for the Virginia bench vacancy created by Judge Hudgins promotion.
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Baltimore
Pjudge Needham Turnbull, Jr
Victoria
Virginia
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Turnbull
Lawrenceville
Woodberry Forest School
University of Virginia
Victowe
Commonwealth’s
Thirty-Fourth Judicial Circuit
E. W. Hudgins
Chase City
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Merchants Seek More Industries and Harbor Plans in Winchester
Winchester Merchants Association called for expanded local industry and a bigger water supply during last night’s meeting at City Hall. Officers J Ralph Pifer and Andrew Bell were elected, and Bell outlined three Chamber objectives: attract small industries, secure more water, and support post war job planning with veterans programs. The group also set store holidays and summer hours, approving Memorial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s closings with 9 am to 5 pm hours post June 15, except Saturdays.
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Winchester
Dent
Merchants Association
Strader
Corporation Court
City Hall
J. Ralph Pifer
Andrew Bell
Bell
Mihe
Chamber of Commerce
City Ceals
Association
The Green Lantern Theater Delays Opening Near Winchester
A planned opening on Rt. 50 seventeen miles west of Winchester has been postponed beyond April 1 until further notice. The notice cites unspecified conditions causing the delay.
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Winchester
Junior V S Corps Drill Sunday Change
The Junior Corps of the Virginia State Guards shifts its drill from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon April 2 at 2 30 o clock. Commander W A Baker announced the change today.
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Virginia State Guards
W. A. Baker
Bingo Night at Rouss Fire Hall Fridays at 8:30
Community bingo sessions held every Friday evening at 8:30 at the Rouss Fire Hall. Participants gather for ad hoc games with prizes. Proceeds support hall upkeep and local firefighters.
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Rouss
Red Army advances sweep west toward Dnieper estuary
Soviet sources report Red Army forces rolling toward the Dnieper Bug estuary after capturing Ochakov, 40 miles east of Odessa. The Third Ukrainian Front under Malinovskiy seized Ochakov, pushing 32 miles beyond Nikolaev, while Zhukov’s First Ukrainian Army advances toward Hungary and Rumania through Czernowitz and Storozhints. Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army holds the Prut river east bank, securing Lipcani as pressure on Odessa continues.
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Russia
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Munich
Red
Odessa
London
Black Sea
Ochakov
Stalin
Nikolaev
Rodion Y. Malinsovsky
Bug River
Nikolaey
Third Ukrainian Front
Dnieper-Bug
Moscow
Prut
Czernowitz
Gregory K. Zhukov
Carpathian Mountains
Rumania
Zhukov
Delatyn
Epee
Hitler
Ukov
Storozhints
Ivan S. Konev
Konev
Bessarabian
East Bank
Lipcani
Wercome
Patches
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R.A.F
Reds
Germany
M. A. N. Diesel
Faun Motor Works
MR Winchester
Potomac Edison
Tony’’ Renner
Naomi Perry
S. Cameron
Ritenour
Forward
Preston Grover
The
Associated Press
U. S
Lynn Heinzerling
W. R. Strader
Retail Association
Russian War Bulletin
Monkovtsy
Kamenets-Podolsk
Kitaigorod
Kamanets-Podolsk
Proskurov
Rodi
RED Cross War Fund
Armed Forces
American Red Cross
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