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March 26, 1943

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Headlines from March 26, 1943

SOVIET GAINS GROW; Red Army Stabs Deeper Into Strong Nazi Line on Upper Dnieper BLOWS PARRIED ON DONETS New German Attacks Smashed Above and Below Kharkov by River's Defenders Nazi Attacks Beaten Off Around Kharkov

By the Associated Press

USSR forces gain, Smolensk drive; rept collapse of Ger attacks on Belgorod-Chuguyev sectors; air fighting, Leningrad

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RABAUL IS SMASHED IN 2-HOUR BOMBING; Allies Shower One-Ton Bombs on New Britain Base, Hit 2 Big Ships at Amboina RABAUL IS SMASHED IN 2-HOUR BOMBING

By the United Press

US planes batter Rabaul airdromes and waterfront area, Ubili and Gasmata, New Brit, and Salamaua; hit 2 Jap ships, Ambon; down Jap scout bomber, Dyke Ackland Bay, New Guinea

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Soviet Renews Fisheries Accord With Japan in Far Eastern Waters; RUSSIA AND JAPAN SIGN FISHING PACT

By Associated Press

Jap-USSR accord renewed; Jap cos to pay higher rates

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C.C Davis New Food Chief, Replacing Wickard in Post; President in Surprise Move 'Drafts' Former AAA Administrator, Now Reserve Banker, to Assume Full Powers C.C. DAVIS IS NAMED AS NEW FOOD CHIEF FOOD ADMINISTRATOR

By Charles E. Eganspecial To the New York Times

Davis, C C, Food Admr

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ROMMEL HANGS ON; But Desperate German Blows Fail to Erase 8th Army Salient ALLIED AIR ATTACK RISES Strikes Hard at Airports and Roads, Wrecks Armored Vehicles Near El Hamma Rommel Hangs On in Mareth Line Battle; Americans Edge Forward on Nazi Flank

By Drew Middletonwireless To the New York Times

Allied planes raid El Hamma area

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Notable Births

1943Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of the Interior^[†]

Mustafa Kalemli is a Turkish physician and politician, who served as government minister and Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

1943Bob Woodward, American journalist and author^[†]

Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the honorific title of associate editor there, though the Post no longer employs him.