Doyle Disqualifies In Perjury Case
Oklahoma City march report shows Judge Thomas H. Doyle declaring to hear a perjury trial motion in Tulsa County amid a clash with two colleagues over his claimed 200 opinions in a year. Judge Barefoot and Judge Jones challenge Doyle’s facts and question his fitness.
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Oklahoma City
Thomas H. Doyle
Criminal Court of Appeals
Tulsa County
Dick Jones
Bert B. Barefoot
Doyle
Barefoot
Jones
Kerr
County Attorneys Association of Oklahoma
Fellows Send Thanks For Red Cross Woolen Helmet
A wartime letter from a frontline serviceman expresses deep appreciation to the local Red Cross Chapter. He writes that Indiana residents knitted a woolen helmet for him, says it will be handy, and extends blessings for the chapter’s labors.
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Red Cross
Indiana
MacArthur’s strategic push toward Rabaul and Gilbert atolls
The text portrays General Douglas MacArthur’s central Pacific campaign as a culminating strategic move beginning with New Georgia and advancing through Woodlark Trobrcano Goodenough Lae Salamaua and Bougainville to threaten Rabaul and Truk. It links Admiral ties occupation to cutting Japan’s outer defenses and widening Allied reach toward New Guinea and the Carolines.
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Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Japan
Pacific Islands
Admiralties
New Georgia Island
Truk
Bismarck Sea
MacArthur Jony
Marshalls
New Guinea
Bonins, Marians
Carolines
Guadalcanal
Owen Stanley Mountains
MacArthur
New Georgia
Munda
Solomons
Woodlark
Trobrcano
Goodenough Island
Lae
Salamaua
Bougainville
Shortheast New Guinea
Finschafen
Empress Augusta Bay
Britain and Finland in Talks Over Peace Terms
The Soviet government signaled readiness for immediate concrete negotiations. Helsinki offered no comment as Finnish parliament debated peace or continued war. Moscow urged Finns to halt fighting and expel Nazi forces, restore the 1940 treaty, and withdraw to 1940 borders while leaving demobilization, reparations, and territorial claims for future Moscow talks. Russia demanded release of all POWs and civilians.
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Finnish Social Democratic Party
Moscow Radio
Finland
Soviet Union
Moscow
Stalin Sees Near Time for Big Trip to Crush Germany
The Soviet leader informed President Roosevelt that Allied talks in Moscow and Teheran set the stage for a joint push. He said the time is near when Soviet, American, and British forces will achieve the final defeat of Hitlerite Germany.
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Stalin
Germany
Washington
Russia
Moscow
Teheran
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
White House
Red Army
Men from Ada area join navy recruits list expands
Since February 1 twenty men from Ada and surrounding territory have joined the navy, said Chief Petty Officer L. E. Walk the local recruiter for this state section. Walk now handles recruiting in the area as his assistant is in Tulsa. The Ada office opens Wednesdays and Saturdays. Names include Pedersen Toliver Walker Thompson Neuburn Hendrix Woods Gist Parker Shipley Penick Murphy Yancy Mansoon Hensley Jones Butler Conley Wilson Bowen plus others from Sulphur Stonewall Byars Wynnewood Harden City Fittstown and Kiowa.
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Ada
Navy
L. E. Walk
Chief Walk
Tulsa
John C. Pedersen
William Tolliver
Jess C. Walker
Marion Z. Thompson
Kenneth E. Neuburn
Kenneth Hendrix
Lindell G. Woods
Wayne T. Gist
Jodie M. Parker
J. D. Shipley
Sulphur
George R. Penick
George Murphy
Stonewall
Lester W. Yancy
Byars
Junior L. Mansoon
Lane
Orlen R. Hensley
Atoka
John R. Jones
Wynnewood
Slip Madigan to Coach Iowa Eleven in 1944
Edward F. Slip Madigan agreed to coach the University of Iowa football team for eight months and will sign an eight month contract upon arrival in Iowa City. Madigan, formerly at St. Mary's College California, previously coached Iowa last season after Dr. Edward W. Anderson joined the army. Bird in Hand Costs a Window in St Louis. Walter Baumstark family watched a quail crash through their window and into the wall, breaking its neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Edward F
Madigan
University of Iowa
Virgil M. Mancher
St. Mary’s
Calif.) College
Iowa
Edward W. Anderson
ST. Louis
Walter A. Baumstark
Baumstark
Sixty Toothpaste Tubes Contain Tin for Plane Soldering
Sixty toothpaste tubes hold enough tin to solder the electrical connections of one Army training plane.
Congressmen Worry Over Invitations To Dine Out Tonight
Congress members weigh evening plans as Cleveland war contractors Bill Jack and Ralph Heintz host a dinner for all House and Senate members at the Mayflower and a WPB exhibit preview. About 200 invitations accepted. dinner runs 6 to 10 with a plant tour and speech. Jack defends renegotiation aims to curb postwar factory reserves. WPB exhibit and dinner proceed without coordination.
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Washington
Congress
Jack
Heintz
Mayflower
War Production Board
Commerce Building
Bill Jack
Ralph Heintz
Cleveland War Contractors
House
Senate
Army
Senate Naval Committee
WPB
Early denies Rosenman wrote tax veto message
White House secretary Stephen Early said Judge Samuel S. Rosenman had nothing to do with drafting the tax veto message. Early dismissed anonymous reports that Rosenman wrote the speech and said the judge did not see or contribute to the veto text.
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Washington
Stephen Early
White House
Samuel S. Rosenman
Roosevelt
Rosenman
Earle
Gas Coupons By Mail Set Up For Ration System
The Office of Price Administration plans mail order issuance centers to distribute gas coupons nationwide. The system, first tested experimentally, will expand to ease rationing and reduce stamp handling. Butter and cheese allocations for military use may alter civilian access in March and April, with fuel oil rationing prep for next winter and restricted duck products for essential use after April 1.
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Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
OPA
Wet Food Administration
WFA
The
Petroleum Administration For War
Two Senators Demand Halt to Drafting Fathers
Senators Johnson and Wheeler condemned the physical standards and the ongoing drafting of fathers as the 5,000,000 deferment review was ordered. They urged stopping father drafts until the review is completed while reports show quotas unmet in nearly every state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
D-Colo
Wheeler
D-Mont
Associated Press
New York
Nebraska
Iowa
Transport Pilots Helped in Attack on Italy
Navy air transport pilots flew through severe North African weather to deliver shells to support French and American forces in Italy within 34 hours of leaving the United States. Two planes carried the largest airlifted shell load yet, enabling French ships to rearm as German lines were under pressure. Lt. J. D. Gillian, 34, of Norfolk, broke a leg unloading, and radio operator Jack G. Duff, 20, of Topeka, was part of the crew.
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Washington
Navy
Italy
United States
Bean
America
Naval Air Transport Division
J. D. Gillian
Norfolk
Jack G. Duff
Seabrook
Topeka
Kas
Marine Nails Flag While Snipers Fire
On Engeb i is island the 22nd regiment secured diminished organized resistance after landings. A marine climbed a coconut tree and nailed the American flag despite snipers and shelling. A bugler sounded colors and Marines saluted before resuming the hunt for Japanese snipers.
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Eniwetok
Marshall Islands
Engebi
M. F. Schneider
Clatskaner
Ore
Russians Observe US Amphibious Training in England
The U S Navy says Russian army and navy officers witnessed and took part in American amphibious landing drills in the English coast area. Two Russian admirals and a general joined the two day program, learning assault weapons craft types and training methods as part of ongoing cooperation with Soviet observers.
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London
U. S. Navy
U. S. Army
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Pacific
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Chinese Armies Revitalized by U S Instruction Teams
In southwest China Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell directs a vast program to modernize Chiang Kai-shek's forces. American officers and Chinese troops train together to raise fighting efficiency, with field instruction teams, new weapons use, air support, and logistics expanded across divisions and battalions.
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J. Reilly O’sullivan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Shiao I-Lu
C.E.F
Hukwang Valley
Curma
Heydan Boatner
Arms Ammunition Wanted By French Dispatch Writer
Taylor Henry, chief AP bureau in Vichy during the 1942 German occupation of southern France, wrote this dispatch. After internment at Lourdes and Baden Baden he is now in Portugal awaiting repatriation.
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Taylor Henry
Associated Press
Vichy
France
Lourdes
Baden Baden
Germany
Portugal
French underground seeks arms from Allies in civil war struggle
Lisbon reports underground leaders urge America and Britain to send guns and ammunition to aid the anti Vichy revolt. About 100000 French youths have joined the maquis bands, as air supplies continue but are deemed insufficient amid ongoing resistance. Two Massachusetts women sworn into WAVES on their fifth birthday in Boston. Cecile Kelley and Helena B Crowley, leap year babies born in 1924, celebrate with a cake as they join the reserve, marking a historic anomaly in the program.
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Lisbon
Marshal Petain
America
England
WACS
Boston
Massachusetts
Cecile Kelley
Haverhill
Helana B. Crowley
Jamaica Plain
Jacob M. Gibson
U.S.N
Women’s Reserve
16 Year Old Houdini Tries Jail Escape From Los Angeles
A 16 year old held on probation violation attempted a jailbreak from a 13th floor window in the Los Angeles county jail. He crawled to the 10th floor and tested radio aerials hoping to slide to the street. The mood around the jail is grim as coal shortages bite and dealers scramble for favors.
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Houdini
Los Angeles
Last of trio in Mississippi jail break recaptured
The final fugitive Ralph Ward, 23, from the San Quentin jailbreak last December, was recaptured at Tchula after a car crash at a roadblock. Two accomplices, Lawrence Motari and Roy Drake, were already seized near Jackson and Belzoni. Arlene McKnight, 16, was abducted during the escape. her father Joe McKnight was wounded. All three faced charges for robbing the Robert E Lee hotel in Jackson.
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Greenwood
Miss
San Quentin
Mississippi
Hinds County
J. T. Naugher
Ralph Ward
Jackson
Ward
Naugher
Tchula
Lawrence Motari
Roy Drake
Ilinois
Phillip Lee
Lee
Arlene McKnight
Cleveland
Joe McKnight
Belzoni
Calif
Beverly Hills
Endorse Gas Coupons or Face Ration Revocation
OPA chief Bowles warned that gasoline rations could be revoked for unendorsed coupons. A nationwide checkup will start next week, with motorists who fail to endorse with their license number ordered to prove full endorsement at local ration boards within ten days. He estimated 2.5 million gallons daily flow to black market channels.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Dewey Leads GOP Preference in 1944 Convention Poll
Chicago insurer James S. Kemper finds Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York leading the 1944 GOP presidential candidate preferences in a survey of 46 states. Dewey totals 65.543 percent, with Willkie 16.603 percent, Brocker 13.484 percent, and MacArthur 3.370 percent. A prior August poll showed Dewey at 27.94 percent.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
James S. Kemper
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Kemper
Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
John W. Brocker
Ohio
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Brocker
Sen
Robert Taft
MacArthur
Willkie
Herbert Hoover
Bricker
Badoglio vows to stay until Rome and beyond
In Naples on February 28 Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio declared he dumped out Fascism and will stay in power with the king until Rome is found a suitable successor or until all Germans are driven from Italy. He pressed for an alliance with the Allies and said Italian troops could field ten divisions with proper gear. He noted Allied governments gave no assurance of an alliance.
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Richard G. Maslock
Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Vittoriomanuele
Churchill
Rome
Badoglio
Marshall
Italy
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Mussolini
Fascism
Early Rise For Fort Douglas Sergeant Starts Day
Fort Douglas Utah sergeant Lewis Newbaurer rises before lights to shave. A squad room rouse woke him as he hurried to the washroom and found it was only 1 a m with men just returning from the night shift.
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Fort Douglas
Utah
Lewis Newbaurer
German Air Fighter Strength Smashed in Weeklong Allied Blitz
Allied air forces pounded Nazi industry with at least 18 000 tons of bombs in 13 raids, destroying 644 German fighters and damaging key production sites at Regensburg and Obertraubling. US Eighth Air Force carried 439 losses. Italy-based 15th Air Force 205. RAF night raids also claimed fighters.
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London
Hitler
U. S
Eighth Air Force
15Th American Airforce
Alps
Eighth
Britain
RAF
Air Ministry
Germany
Italy
Prufening
Regensburg
15Th Air Forces
Obertraublng
Stonewall Methodists Host Special Tuesday Program
The Women's Society of Christian Service at Stonewall Methodist Church will sponsor a program Tuesday at 8 pm with a chicken dinner in the church basement. The program in the auditorium is titled The Church and the American People, led by Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Crain. Public invited.
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Women’s Society of Christian Service
Stonewall Methodist Church
Burns
Stonewall Church
A. J. Crain
Ada First Methodist Church
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Burma
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