Radio reports Japanese defense on Truk after heavy U S air and naval assault
Tokyo broadcasts say ground fighting rages at Truk in the central Carolines after a daylight raid by hundreds of U S Navy planes and carrier task forces. Imperial forces fight to repel assault while Allied raids hit ships and airfields in the Southwest Pacific and at Massau Island.
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Tokyo
mid-Pacific
Truk
United States Navy
Imperial Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Iat Truk
Carolines
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Philippines
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
Solomons
United States
Southwest Pacific
MacArthur
Massau Island
Bismarck Archipelago
Rabaul
New Britain
New Ireland
Green Islands
New Zealand
Second Nazi Offensive in Italy Halted
Allied forces repelled the second German push to seize the Rome beachhead as heavy air power and artillery, with 1,500 Allied sorties, pounded Cassino and surrounding fronts. British actions targeted Formia while German reinforcements arrived. decisive fighting continued amid harsh weather and strategic bombings.
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Rome
Cassino
Lira
Via
Casilina
Mauritius
Formia
Cassino-Garigliano
Via Casilina
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Greece
Frascati
Albano
Castel Gandolfo
Papal Summer Palace
Staraya Russa
Lake Simen
Russia
Novgorod
Stalingrad
Red Army
Korsun
Dnieper
Pskov
Baltic
Estonia
Narva
Ration Stamp 3 Valid for Pork Purchases Through Feb 26
The Office of Price Administration validates Spare Ration Stamp No 3 in War Ration Book No 4 for five points on pork and all sausages through Saturday February 26. The stamp cannot be used for lard. Civilian pork supplies nationwide are reported larger than expected.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Counterfeiter Held In Jail at Wilmington
An alleged attempt to print $30,000 in $20 bills led to Harry Nathan Austin 47 of Lamar Colorado being held at the Clinton County Jail Wilmington awaiting federal grand jury action on his guilty plea to counterfeiting charges.
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Dayton
Harry Nathan Austin
Lamar
Colo
Clinton County
Wilmington
Garage Operator Killed In Collision
Denver H. Young aged 49 a Portsmouth garage operator was killed when the truck he was driving ran into a telephone pole damaging the vehicle and causing fatal injuries authorities reported the crash occurred late yesterday on a city street and the investigation is ongoing
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Portsmouth
Denver H. Young
Yes
German Officers Flee While Ordering Men To Fight On
Izvestia quotes captured Germans saying officers fled the Dnieper Bend trap while urging troops to keep fighting. The piece notes mass desertions among 3 000 commanders attempting transport escapes, with hundreds shot down. 52 000 Germans died. pockets of vodka given to troops. food and ammo ran low.
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Moscow
Dnieper Bend
Izvestia
Junkers
Axis Nations Face Break Up After Defeat
London Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stated in the Commons that Germany and other enemy nations may be dismembered after defeat. He noted the Atlantic Charter does not apply to enemy states, while Russia’s proposals for a defeated Germany were presented to the European Advisory Commission after British and American views were provided.
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London
Germany
Anthony Eden
Russia
European Advisory Commission
Commission
Act To Reduce Prices Of Fresh Citrus Fruits
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration moved to cut citrus fruit prices sold to households. The policy, directed by Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson, lowers retail by the pound versus the dozen with season long national average prices set at oranges 9.5 cents, grapefruit 8 cents, and lemons 13.5 cents.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Fred M. Vinson
Rubber Footwear To Cost More But Improve Quality
The office of price administration announced a six percent price increase for waterproof rubber footwear including galoshes and boots, while promising better wearing quality due to more synthetic rubber and less reclaimed rubber.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Navy confirms Truk blow shifts Pacific balance
The Truk Island attack signals a major drop in Japanese dominance across a vast Pacific zone from the Marshalls to the Philippines. Allied sea air power now threats the area directly, while Japan lacks the repair capacity to rebound, reshaping the strategic landscape and forcing dispersion of Japanese forces.
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Washington
Truk Island
Pacific Ocean
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Truk
Pacific
Marshal Islands
Io Rabaul
South China Sea
Guam
Marshalls
Kwajalein
Japan
Central Pacific
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Command
Allied troopship sinks in European waters with 1000 lost
The Army reports the loss of 1000 American soldiers in a night attack on an Allied troopship in European waters. About 1000 men were rescued, marking a record high toll for Allied convoy forces. Survivors may have been landed in Iceland or the Western Hemisphere. exact date remains undisclosed for security reasons.
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Washington
European
London
Britain
Mediterranean
Iceland
Hemisphere
Navy
Atlantic
Nazis Kill Thousands of Jews in Holland
A smuggled document claims the German occupation wiped out nearly the Dutch Jewish community of 180,000, indicating mass killings in Holland during the occupation.
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Holland
London
Soil Saving in Postwar Plans
Des Moines reports H H Bennett head of the Agriculture Department Soil Conservation Service urged a postwar program to employ up to 200000 men for at least two years after the war. The plan includes drainage of wet lands, reforestation of eroded hills, water resource development, stock reservoirs, flood control, limestone quarrying for acid soils, and other land preservation work.
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Des Moines
H. H. Bennett
Agriculture Department
Soil Conservation Service
Bennett
Seventh National Farm Institute
Benett
Salem couple visits wounded airman in Washington
Flying Lieut. Dudley R. Clark of Salem who lost a leg in Sicily takes a walk on his artificial limb with his fiancee Sara Felton of Manchester. She visits daily at Walter Reed Hospital and helps him adjust to the new leg.
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Dudley R. Clark
Salem
Mass
Sicily
Sara Felton
Manchester
N. H
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Ohioans Are Returned To Voting Rolls
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel ordered all 88 county election boards to restore names of service members who were removed for not voting in the last two elections. The move follows Judge John R. King of Franklin County ruling that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote due to service in the armed forces, with similar suits pending in Warren and Cleveland.
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Columbus
Edward J. Hummel
Ohio
Hummel
Boards of Election
John R. King
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Local Election Board
Judge King
Common Pleas
Ot Warren
Cleveland
Cuyahoga Board
First Negro Paratroop Group Awarded Wings
Sixteen African American soldiers at Fort Benning Georgia earned airborne wings after four weeks of training. They completed their fifth and qualifying night jump from a transport plane and were assigned to help train an all Negro parachute unit. Officers said combat training would begin as soon as the unit reached full strength.
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Fort Benning
Army
Miner Edward Owen Dead in Slate Fall at Salem Mine
Edward Owen a 35 year old coal miner was crushed to death by a slate fall in a Salem area mine. He leaves behind five children and a grieving family.
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Salem
Edward Owen
Pleas of Wallace Arouse GOP Hoots
Acting Senate Republican Leader White denounces Vice President Wallace for claiming the war effort would slow if Roosevelt seeks a fourth term. Wallace cites servicemen preferring Roosevelt, while Senator Taft argues the war effort would advance better under a Republican leadership.
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Wallace
Washington
Hooey
Senate
White
Maine
Roosevelt
Taft
Ohio
Ohio Democrats Endorse Roosevelt For Fourth Term
In Columbus, state Democratic leaders endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term. The Ohio executive and central committees backed his renomination and re election, with Ray T. Miller presenting the resolution. Joseph T. Ferguson was endorsed as the favorite son to qualify delegate candidates under Ohio law.
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Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt
Ray T. Miller
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Joseph T. Ferguson
Dete
Ferguson
Sixth Air Force Reorganized for European Invasion
The Ninth Air Force, with origins in the Middle and Asia, has been reorganized and expanded in Britain to join RAF ground units as the Allied Expeditionary Air Force under Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory. Maj. Gen. William O. Butler is named deputy commander, having previously led U S air forces in Alaska against Japan.
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London
United States
Ninth Air Force
Middle
Asia
Britain
Europe
Supreme Allied Command
Ninth
RAF
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory
Germany
William O. Butler
Leigh Mallory
Expeditionary Air Force
Butler
U. S
Alaska
Aleutians
Cleveland Navy Contract Boosts Landing Craft Output
Capt. R. T. Hanson announces Cleveland district will build 50 million dollars of landing craft this year and deliver about 75 craft monthly to the Navy to support invasions of Europe and Japan. Matthews Boat Co. hosts a demonstration of LCVP invasion barges for reporters.
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Clinton
Cleveland
Navy
Europe
Japan
R. T. Hanson
Matthews Boat Co
Roosevelt Vetoes Subsidy Bill And Likely Tax Measure
President Roosevelt rejected Congress anti subsidy legislation saying it would worsen inflation and living costs. He argued end of food subsidies after June 30 would not stabilize wages and warned of broader economic harm. He plans to return the $2.515 billion tax bill to Congress early next week with a veto.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Private Phone System for Oil Pipelines
Cincinnati hosts the completion of a 1 340 mile 67 station private telephone line the longest in the country. The system runs along the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines from Texas to the East Coast and was installed by American Telephone and Telegraph Co for War Emergency Pipelines Inc.
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Cincinnati
Texas
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Explosion Injures Seven At Goodyear Chemical Plant
An early morning explosion and fire at Goodyear’s synthetic rubber plant in East Akron injures seven. Firefighters battle flames for over two hours before controlling the blaze and saving chemical tanks from danger.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Transport Survivors Reach Allied Base After 60 Day Flight
A small group of American nurses and soldiers reached an Allied base in Italy after a 60 day trek through Nazi controlled territory. They began with a hospital plane crash in Albania last November and faced blizzards, a 26 hour march, and a failed rescue before finally escaping to safety.
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Allied Base
Hal Boyle
U. S
Italy
Albania
Agnes A. Jensen
Stanwood, Mich
Sicily
Aged Politician Dies In Lima Hospital
James A. Beatty, 70, longtime Ohio political aspirant, died of a heart attack yesterday at the state hospital for the criminal insane in Lima. Beatty sought the GOP nomination once and the Democratic bid twice and had been committed after a Hamilton County grand jury convicted him on a bail check charge.
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Lima
James A. Beatty
Ohio
State
Beatty
Hamilton County
War spending dips in January after peak month
Washington reports January war expenditures totaled 7.416 billion dollars, up 6.7 percent from December but 378 million less than November 1943, suggesting November may have been the war’s peak spending month. Governor Bricker to speak in Boston at university institute on postal issues March 12.
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Washington
Ourgo
War Production Board
Boston
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Bosto University
Institute
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By John M. Hightower
Wales
6Th Air Force
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