Roosevelt Urges War Super Tax
President Roosevelt asked Congress to impose a wartime super tax on net income after regular taxes, capping individuals at 25,000 and couples at 50,000. He warned he would rescind the executive salary limit if such a tax is approved, stressing equity and wartime morale.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Congressional
Disney
Oklahoma
Pearl Harbor
Beauty Prize Restores Hope for Blind and Paralyzed Teen
Phyllis Bernberg, 21, blind and paralyzed since age 15, walked two steps with her father cheering and won second in a beauty contest. The prize sparked a renewed will to live as she plans to see again and continues schooling at home while staying connected with celebrities by phone.
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Eleanor Morehead
New York
Phyllis Bernberg
Phyllis
Tiny Phyllis
Mother
Dad
Federation of Crippled and Disabled
James Monroe High School
Marjorie Lawrence
Ezra Stone
Dorothy Lamour
Pressure to Release Gandhi Grows in India
Indian nationalist leaders press government to free Mohandas K Gandhi after six months of internment and a hunger strike. Viceroy's council members face targeted outreach as Bhulabhai Desai meets with officials amid widespread belief of imminent release despite no official confirmation.
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New Delhi
Mohandas N. Gandhi
Viceroy’s Council
Bhulabhai Desai
All-India Congress Party
Gandhi
Absentees To Feel a Draft
Philadelphia draft board says workers habitually absent from navy yard jobs will be reclassified and given 1-A status. The decision targets draft eligible war workers in a district with heavy navy yard employment.
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Philadelphia
Navy Yard
President Honors Civil Air Patrol rescuers with Army Air Medals
President Roosevelt awarded Army Air Medals to Major Hugh R. Sharp Jr. of Wilmington and Ensign Edmond J. Edwards of Newark for a 8 to 10 foot swell rescue at sea last July. The two pilots steadied a damaged plane and aided Lt. Henry T. Cross and Lt. Charles Shelfus, with Shelfus killed during the mission.
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Washington
Civil Air Patrol
Hugh R. Sharp, Jr
Wilmington
Del
Edmond J. Edward
Newark
Roosevelt
Atlantic Seaboard
Sharp
Edwards
Navy
Sharpe
Henry T. Cross
Columbus
Ohio
Charles E. Shelfus
Shelfus
Railroad Wage Talks Broken Off
Wage negotiations between railroad representatives and 350000 workers from five operating brotherhoods ended without agreement. The national railway mediation board was invoked by both sides to settle the dispute. Alexander the Great is said to have been left handed.
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Chicago
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Alexander the Great
Prisoner of War Message From Java Broadcast Heard
William Visage’s wartime radio message from Java is read by his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harrell, of Amarillo. The letter mentions other Amarillo recipients and notes Visage’s hope to return home.
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William Visage
Tokyo
W. H. Harrell
Lipscomb Street
Monroe Turner
North Beber Street
Colorado Springs
Colo
Amarillo
E. E. Alderman
Grand Avenue No. 47
Dayton
Los Angeles
Harrels
Harrell
Mr. Turner
Java
Paul
Phillips
Texas
O. K
Turner
Japanese Landing Reported in South China Coast
Reuters dispatch from Chungking says Japanese troops landed this morning in the French territory of Kwangchowwan on the South China coast. The move is seen as aimed at operations against China’s southern provinces.
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London
Reuters
Chungking
Kwangchowwan
South China
China
Germans Threaten Axis Flank as Tunisian Drive Looms
Allied forces fight to hold gains west of Faid Pass as Rommel eyes a new thrust to seize a ridge from Robaa to Bou Chebka. Eighth Army advances toward Medinine near the Mareth Line while aircraft pound Rommel’s columns. new German drive could pressure American and French withdrawals from Gafsa.
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Tunisia
Eighth Army
Ben Gardane
Medinine
Mareth Line
Cairo
Rommel
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Robberies Reported Across Texas Cities
A Waco driver was robbed of 63 dollars, a wrist watch and his cab. The Amarillo report notes two suitcases with women's apparel and a wrist watch. Arrested trio had two suitcases a pistol a blackjack. Police link a Houston 10 dollar robbery and a Wichita Falls theft of two blackjacks from a police car.
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Waco
Amarillo
Houston
Wichita Falls
War Plant Head Alien Linked to Axis Vested Interests
E. E. Conroy of the New York FBI announced that a $75,000-a-year president of a New York City war plant, operating largely on defense contracts, was among 11 aliens rounded up in last night’s spot searches. His family was also seized. they were taken to Ellis Island for questioning and possible internment. The man fought for Germany 1914 to 1916, earned the iron cross, and had Nazi pensions, having sought to volunteer for the German army in 1940 rather than the U S forces.
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New York
E. E. Conroy
FBI
New York City
Conroy
Axis
New England
Ellis Island
Volnteer
U. S
Ten Crew Members Die in Army Bomber Crash Near Blue Mountains
A two day search found the wreckage of an army bomber that crashed on a ridge of the Blue Mountains east of Walla Walla. All ten crew members are reported dead, including Sgt. Milton D. Johnson of Midland Texas and Sgt. Joseph F. Perkins of Fort Worth Texas.
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Walla Walla
Wash
U.P
Blue Mountains
Here
Civil Air Patrol
Walla Walla Army Air Field
Milton D. Johnson
Midland
Tex
Joseph F. Perkins
Ft. Worth
Tex. A
Doubt Report on Rommel Illness Circulating in North Africa
Allied officers in North Africa dismissed a rumor that Marshal Rommel had fallen ill and returned to Germany. The February 17 report notes skepticism about the claim and confirms no official confirmation of illness or withdrawal.
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Rommel
Allied
North Africa
Tunisian
Germany
Tax Relief Talks Stir Committee Backers of Ruml Plan
Twenty five committee members show growing support for Beardsley Ruml’s plan to cancel 1942 taxes with pay as you go options. Taxpayers would still file 1942 returns and pay at least one fourth by March 15. Ruml says discussions are in early stages and details remain undecided.
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Beardsley Ruml
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Doughton
Kharkov Battle Forces Rout German Army Units
Soviet reports say German panzer divisions Adolf Hitler and Reich fled Kharkov after heavy losses, with 43 tanks and 1 000 men in one sector. Germans withdrew to the Dnieper line as Soviet forces claim vast enemy equipment and troops destroyed or captured. A Turkish broadcast cited rapid Axis troop movements toward Kiev.
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Adolf Hitler
Kharkov
Dnieper
London
Europe
Kiev
Russia
High Command
Hitler
Soviet Forces Break Through North of Kharkov
Soviet communique says the main blow came from the north catching the enemy off guard. Soviet troops smashed to the town outskirts and Kharkov fell, disrupting Axis rail and road networks in Ukraine and giving Col. Gen. Philip Golikov's armies a springboard toward the Dnieper region.
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Kharkov
Ukraine
Philip Golikov
Dnieper
Soviet Push Near Kharkov Encircles Axis Forces
All opposition to the south and southeast of Kharkov closes the net as Axis forces of about 250,000 retreat from Rostov and the Donets Basin. Soviets near the Sea of Azov within 50 miles at the western end of the salient. mid day communique notes Axis troops southwest.
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Kharkov
Rostov
Donets
Sea of Azov
Anne Adams pattern for junior miss dress 4342
Pattern 4342 by Anne Adams offered for junior miss sizes 11 13 15 and 17. Describes a flowered cotton frock with ruffled sleeves and sweetheart neckline, scalloped waist seams and soft darts. Price sixteen cents. order by mail with size name address and style number to The Amarillo Globe Pattern Department.
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Anne Adams
Dickey
Amarillo Globe
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Retreating Soviets Yield Towns on Eastern Salient Front
In a harsh turning of the battlefield, Soviet blows push German positions back along the Voroshiloverod eastern salient causing towns to be abandoned one by one as pressure mounts on the defense.
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Voroshiloverod
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