Russians Reach Oder Front East of Berlin Inching Toward Capital
Soviet forces push to the east bank of the Oder near Kustrin and near Frankfurt as Moscow reports say the Red Army encircles Konigsberg and advances through East Prussia. German high command warns of renewed counterattacks as Berlin braces on a battered eastern front.
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Gregory K. Zhukov
Oder
Kustrin
Berlin
Moscow
Kustria
Warthe
Danzig
Ans
Frankfurt
Zhukov
Austria
Europe
Sternberg- Zielenzing
Berchtesgaden
Adolf Hitler
Brussels
Hitler
Konigsberg
East Prussia
Breslau
Reich
Red Star
Germany
Stettin
Ernst von Hammer
DNB
Landsberg
Stettin-Frankfurt
Oder and
Warthe Rivers
Eee Oder
Henry Wallace Wins The Opening Round
The administration stalled Senate moves on Henry Wallace to keep his cabinet nomination alive. The Bailey motion to force immediate consideration failed 42 to 42 before Taft shifted to no, while Barkley pushed to proceed with the George bill establishing lending agencies as a separate administration. Wallace backers say confirmation hinges on freeing the RFC from the commerce department or Roosevelt action.
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Washington
Henry Wallace
Senate
Wallace
Commerce Department
Bailey
North Carolina
George Bill
RFC
Taft
Ohio
Barkley
George Georgia
Roosevelt
George
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Congress
Italians Hit Naz Oil Installations Near Vienna in Massive Raid
Rome reports heavy U S Fifteenth Air Force bombing of Naz oil facilities 22 miles northwest of Vienna dropping 1357 tons of bombs. Ground action on Fifth and Eighth Army fronts limited to patrol engagements.
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Rome
U. S
15Th Airforce
Naz
Vienna
Generals Arrested Reported by London Radio
A Morocco radio broadcast citing Ankara reports claims that Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the arrest or removal to the rear of one marshal six generals and 240 other officers from the Eastern front command for suspected sympathy with the Free German committee in Moscow.
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London
Morocco
Ankara
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Eastern Front
Free German Committee
Moscow
Fifth in Skirmish Invasion Update From Italy
Rome Feb 1 A large American patrol penetrated German lines near Monte Rondinaio six miles east of the Serchio River in a five hour engagement returning with no losses. German casualties and six prisoners were reported while patrols operated along the Italian front. American B bombs delivered the largest one day weight to the Moobierbaum Oil Refinery near Vienna through overcast. Four German planes appeared but did not engage.
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Rome
U.S. Filth Army
Monte Rondinaio
Serehio
15Th Air Force
Moobierbaum
Vienna
Weather forecast for Amarillo and region
The Amarillo area sees partly cloudy skies this afternoon tonight and Friday with little temperature change. West Texas has considerable cloudiness with occasional rain mainly west of Pecos Valley. New Mexico sees snow flurries in the north with cooler highs and lows across the region.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Churchill Plan for Four-Power German Rhineland Control
Churchill presents at Big Three talks a plan to separate the Rhine land and Ruhr from Germany and place them under economic and political control of Britain, Russia, the United States, and France. An instrument of surrender, signed by John G. Winant, William Strang, and Fyodor Gusev, is to be presented upon German capitulation. The document, created by the European advisory commission, remains highly secret.
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London
Churchill
Rhineland
Ruhr
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
United States
France
U. S
John G. Winant
William Strang
Fyodor Gusev
Britain
Eaders
European Advisory Commission
Mutiny Convictions Hit 73 Soldiers On Oahu
U.S. Army courts martial sentenced 73 negro soldiers to eight to 30 years at hard labor for participating in a mass mutiny at an Oahu air base last July. The trials, first mutiny cases in the area since the war began, convicted the regiment members of refusing orders to report for work on July 31, 1944.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
U. S. Army
Oahu Island
General Service
Four U.S. Soldiers Convicted in French Black Market Deals
Paris February 1 four more enlisted men in a railway operating battalion were convicted of illegal disposal of U S government property in French black market schemes. They received sentences ranging from eight to 25 years. Included in the convictions is Fred N Busby of Abilene Texas.
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Paris
U. S
Fred N. Busby
Abilene
Tex
Allies stall eyed as Russians cite delays in drive on Germany
Moscow writer Pi Konstantine Hoffman says Allied advance from the west is slowed. He cites a London Daily Express report that Nazi troops move east. The London Tribune notes Moscow criticism of western skepticism toward Soviet claims and warns against inflated German loss figures, urging caution in accepting Soviet tallies.
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Moscow
Pi—Konstantine Hoffman
Red Star
Germany
London Daily Express
Eastern Front
Montgomery
London
the Tribune
Znukov
Berlin
Pravda
Investia
von Rundstedt
Goebbels
The
Tribune
Russia
Threatened Edison Strike Could Halt War Production
About 900 Detroit Edison Company workers voted in favor of a strike that would cripple war production in Detroit and other Michigan cities, according to the National Labor Relations Board. No walkout date was set. The notice mentions John Maynard Lumber Co at 800 West Fifth.
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Detroit
U.P
Detroit Edison Company
Michigan
National Relations Board
American Forces Reach Philippines Capital Front
American armored columns crossed the Pampanga River and pushed within about 20 miles of Manila as General MacArthur announced reentry of U S warships into Subic Bay and Seventh Fleet activity near the area. Sixth Army units closed on Calumpit while the Buckeye Division pressed toward Manila. other forces moved toward Olongapo and the Bataan Peninsula, signaling imminent capital liberation.
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M’arthur
Luzon
Pampangas
Manila
Philippines
MacArthur
U. S
Subic Bay
Mania Bay
Bataan
Glengapo
Grande Island
Eighth Army
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Walter Kreuger
Sixth Army
Pampanga
Calumpit
37Th
Buckeye
Highway Three
Olongapo
Potter County Grand Jury Continues. No Indictments at Noon
The Potter County Grand Jury continued in session on its ninth day since being sworn in February 19. No indictments were returned at the noon recess. Since sworn in, the grand jury has indicted four persons, all of whom have been served.
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Potter County
Eight Area Soldiers Among Prisoner Rescue Report
A preliminary list names at least eight soldiers rescued from the Cabanatuan prison camp on Luzon including a Dumas sergeant, a Pampa private, and six New Mexico guards from the Bataan campaign. Families await full lists as AP notes the complete roster of 513 names has not yet been released.
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Yates Mecbantel
Nueva Ecija
Luzon
Japan
Dumas
Pampa
New Mexico
Cabanatuan
Joe C. Burks
Viva Burks
Burks
Bataan
War Department
No 3
Manua
Alein 5
National Guard
Louis Albin
San Antonio
John M. Cook
San Marcos
Cecil Easley
Houston
Elbert A. Easterwood
Weatherford
Ralph E. Wills
Sam Antonio
Leonard A. Gibbs
Willis
James A. Borie
Joshua
Clifton H. Chamberlain
Marlin
James W. Duckworth
Raymond H Knapp
Norman E. Moen
Raymond Osborne
Daston
Alfred C. Pharr
Jasper
Donald W. Sawtelle
Corpus Christi
Dene King
Austin
Emil P. Reed
Dallas
Everett L. Reyes
Wolfe City
Ira W Taylor
Lexington
Associated Press Bureau
San Francisco
Allied Push Through Siegfried Line Near Rhine Front
World War II dispatches describe U S First and Third Army flanks probing the Siegfried Line along a 60 mile front through Belgium Luxembourg and Germany It reports gains toward Prum and Strasbourg and notes heavy rain snow and artillery exchanges while German holds resist in pockets near St Vith and along the Our River.
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U.S. First
Third Army
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
First Army
Alsace
Strasbourg
Patton
Prum
Bievest
Monsenau
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D. Krone
Tczewe
Starogard
Vv Spanoalu
Luckenwalde
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Neustadt
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Troppaw
Truman
Tait
Kentucky
Neely Greenhill Lowndes — Insurance
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W. J. Mearis Insurance Dial
Be. A. Regal Co
Russell StafHhomery
Meyer and
Meyer
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Holtiman
John Maynard Lbr_ Co
Orville Drummon
Clovis
Don H. Adams
Artesia
Burnise L. Fay
Albuquerque
Bent Chavez
Leboveto
Alfredo F. Sanchez
Clarion
Joe D. Chavez
Belen
Siegfried Line
Third Army Front
Threw
St. Vita
Winterspelt
St. Vith
Envelshheid
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Our River
Rhine River
Colmar
Ardennes
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Third Armes
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Siegfried
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Kresternich
Mischau
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