Guadalcanal Coast action tightens Japanese positions
United States forces push along the Northwest Coast of Guadalcanal gaining a position five miles from Cape Esperance. Allied air power wins clear air superiority in Wau area New Guinea as Salamaua looms. 39 Japanese killed in Wau skirmishes. RAF Liberator bombers strike Rangoon with nearly 30 tons of bombs.
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Associated Press
United States
Guadalcanal
Cape Esperance
Cape
Navy
Solomons
Knox
MacArthur
Wau
New Guinea
Salamaua
Big Island
Australia
Salamauc
Allied Air Strikes Hit Lorient Naples and Sardinia
RAF and USAAF launched a major daylight offensive hitting Lorient U-boat base in France and Naples port, Cagliari in Sardinia, and Sicily. Liberators and B 17s scored direct hits on vessels and airfields while German defenses claimed several aircraft shot down.
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Gabes-Gafsa Road
Malta
Gela
Italy
Libya
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Middle Eastern Command
Tunisia
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Tripoli
Algiers
Bears at Brookfield Zoo Face Guarded Enclosures
Chicago report notes the Brookfield Zoo may install guards for bears if meat shortages deepen. Assistant director Robert Bean Jr says bear meat offers from butchers are declined, with sale limited to other zoos or guaranteed future provisions.
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Chicago
Robert Bean, Jr
Brookfield Zoo
Happy Errol Flynn Criticizes Politics After Acquittal
Hollywood star Errol Flynn, claiming to be almost broke, calls statutory rape charges a political scheme aimed at discrediting him. He says prosecutors never expected a guilty verdict and declines to discuss the alleged scheme.
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Errol Flynn
Hollywood
U.P
Flynn
Betty Hansen
Nebraska
Peggy Satter
Weather forecast and livestock warning notes
The weather bureau predicts a rough cold spell starting tomorrow with increasing cold and strong winds tonight. Today remains mild but windy, and yesterday’s high reached 77 with this morning’s low at 38. A livestock warning is issued for early tomorrow.
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Weather Bureau
Jersey City Hero Safely Rescues Family From Fire
John Koruda a 53 year old meat packing plant worker at a Jersey City home fire risked his life leaning from a third floor window to fling a baby a woman and two men to safety one by one. His actions saved a trapped family and neighbors praised his bravery.
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Jersey City
N. J
U.P
John Koruda
Koruda
Guerrilla Attacks Kill Hundreds in Coastal China Corridor
Chinese guerrillas in the Kiangsu Shangtung coastal region report killing about 300 Japanese. The operations included dynamiting a mixed troop and passenger Lunghan railway train on January 31.
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Chungking
Kiangsu
Shangtung
Lunghan
War Secretary Stimson Urges Lend-Lease to Allies
Secretary of War Stimson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that continuing lend-lease aid is essential for victory. He said supplying munitions to the Allies is not charity but the best way to employ American industry and resources against the enemy.
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Washington
Stimson
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Dutch Nazi Legion Chief Seyffardt Killed in Netherlands
In London the German run Netherlands radio said Lieut Gen Hendrik Seyffardt commander of the Dutch Nazi legion was shot and killed. In Hutchinson Sheriff W O Stapleton jokes about finding liquor while enforcing prohibition. In Sacramento Judge Welsh denied Harry Bridges habeas corpus to avoid deportation to Australia.
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Aneta
Netherlands Radio
Hendrik A. Seyfffardt
Nazi Legion
Hutchinson, Kan
W. O. Stapleton
Bridges
Sacramento
Calif
U.P
Martin I. Welsh
West Coast
CIO
Harry Bridges
Australia
News Tip Winners Named in Local Prize Draw
Mrs. Chester Elliott wins the weekly five dollar prize for a bicycle riding horse tip. Second prize goes to Mrs. J R Brown for an automobile train collision tip, with third to Miss Mary Miner for a purse robbery tip. A list credits other readers and tips received.
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Chester Elliott
Rio Grande Street
J. R. Brown
West Thirteenth Avenue
Brown
Mary Miner
Polk Street
R. T. Normand
Green Haven
C. C. Holt
Rule Street
Clifford Timberlake
Grand Avenue
Jerry Hermann
Harrison Street
Denny Plumlee
Romberg to Perform in Amarillo March 7
Sigmund Romberg and his 48 piece orchestra will appear in Amarillo on March 7 in the High School Auditorium. The concert titled An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and His Orchestra will feature Romberg's music plus selections from Lehar and Herbert with tickets likely selling quickly. The Globe News arranged the stop on the Denver to Oklahoma City tour. In Pittsburgh, Joe Donohoe quit a restaurant and shattered a plate glass window with a coffee cup, awaiting court on malicious mischief charges.
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Sigmund Romberg
Amarillo
Globe News
America
Romberg
Lehar
Victor Herbert
Romberg Company
Denver
Oklahoma City
Globe-News
Pittsburgh
U.P
Joe Donohoe
War bonds bought with pennies aid copper drives
Corporal and Mrs. Paul Schneider from Pampa saved 3800 pennies over four years and converted them into 38 dollars in war bonds. The proceeds support Uncle Sam while copper is redirected to war programs.
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Pampa
Paul Schneider
Uncle Sam
RANGOON BOMBER RAID REPORTS FIRES AND DAMAGE
RAF Liberator bombers dropped nearly 30 tons on Rangoon last night causing fires in the target area. Earlier daylight strikes by RAF Blenheims hit a village east of the Kaladan River and destroyed enemy motor transport near Taungup Pass.
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Dutch NewGuinea
Celebes
Cape Gloucester
Burma
RAF
Rangoon
Bay of
Naples
Patrick W. Timberlake
Air Force Bomber Command
Middle East
New Delhi
RAF Blenheims
Kaladan River
Taungup Pass
Soviets Launch Large Offensive Across Rostov Sector
The Associated Press reports the fourth battle of Rostov underway with German positions under shellfire while the Red Army penetrates and encircles Nazi lines along a 500 mile front near Kharkov and Kursk. Russian forces threaten a broad frontal attack from Azov after trapping the Caucasus Axis army. Savitsi, Gosteschevo, and Fatezh are reported captured or cut rail lines amid ongoing fighting.
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Kursk
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Strait of Kerch
Crimea
Azov
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Don
Kramatorskaya
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Belgorod
Fatezh
Orel
Hoover Seeks One Million More Workers For War Effort
Former President Hoover said the nation must add about one million workers including some from the armed forces to end acute shortages in farm, metal, and oil industries. He warned against overstrain on the home front and projected three to five years of total war, with the armed services expected to exceed 11 million by year end 1943. Reshingle and repair services advertised by John Maynard Lumber Co. at 800 W. 5th.
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Hossein Soroosh
Iran
Texas State College For Women
Denton
Peggy Lipscomb
Quitman
Tex
TSCW
American College of Terry
University of Texas
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Japan
Indian Troops Hammer Back Japs in Burma
Indian troops fought a daylong battle near Donbaik 20 miles northwest of Akyab in western Burma, driving back stubborn Japanese defenders. The writer, wounded by a fragment, observed from a hilltop as British guns pounded Japanese positions and advancing Indian units penetrated to the rear.
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Walter L. Briggs Witt
Maya Peninsula
U.P
Donbaik
Akyab
Burma
Report Says 14 British Fliers Landed in Turkey En Route to Internment
A circulated report claims 14 British airmen in two planes forced to land in Turkish territory likely in Thrace and were moving toward the Ankara district for internment. The note appears in dispatches from Ankara dated February 6 with delay noted.
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Ankara
Thrace
Germans Claim Sinking 14 Ships in convoy attacks
The German high command issued a bulletin claiming a U boat pack sunk 14 Allied vessels totaling 109000 tons including five tankers in day to day attacks on the eastbound convoy to Britain. Allied confirmation was not yet received and the report overlaps with a prior bulletin.
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Associated Press
Britain
1 145 Sailings For Lend Lease
War Shipping Administrator Emory Land reported that American controlled ships in the year to Oct 31 1942 completed 1745 sailings loaded with lend lease material with 1375 to Britain 304 to Russia and 66 to China. He urged continuation of the lend lease act before the House foreign affairs committee noting most vessels reached their destinations.
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Washington
Emory Land
Britain
Russia
China
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rationing Starts for Shoes With Three Pairs Per Year
Washington officials announce shoe rationing starting immediately with three pairs allowed per year per person. By present rules no registration or waits, coupons drawn from sugar coffee ration books, No. 17 stamp valid until June 15, exemptions listed for slippers infants’ shoes and storm wear, manufacturing bans on certain styles.
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Washington
White House
Economic Stabilization
James F. Byrnes
New York
Kansas City
Detroit
Columbus
Ohio
New Orleans
Byrnes
Armed Services
Harold W. Volk
Dallas
Texas
National Shoe Retailers Association
Weather Bulletin Warns Cold Wave and Livestock Risk
Amarillo and vicinity report continued mild winds then a sharp cold wave late Tuesday with strong winds and livestock warnings. West Texas and Panhandle expect warmer stray readings today but much colder tonight and Tuesday with brisk winds. New Mexico shows little temperature change with a low near forecast.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
Panshandle
South Plains
New Mexico
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