Allied Drive Halts German Assault on Anzio Beachhead
Allied headquarters report a two day German push against the Anzio bridgehead was halted two miles from Carroceto after heavy fighting. German losses were heavy with hundreds wounded and at least 700 captured. Allied air power and naval support aided the counteroffensive as Fifth and Eighth Army fronts held.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Naples
Anzio
Carroceto
Anziote
Italy
Eber
Mackensen
Fifth Army
Cassino
Heinrich von Vietinghof
Albert Kesselring
Ocete
Truk Attack Triggers Shake-Up In Japanese High Command
Allied strikes at Truk cost Japan 19 ships and 201 planes and prompted Emperor Hirohito to relieve the army and navy general staffs. Nimitz reported substantial U. S. gains in the Marshalls and Gilberts as Japanese losses mounted including cruisers and destroyers.
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Truk
Navy
Truk Assanlt
Hirohito
Army
Radio Tokyo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
South Pacific
Rabaul
Central Pacific
Eniwe
Marshall Dis
Engebi
Eniwetok Island
Parry Island
U. S
Marshalls
Chester W. Nimitz
Ponape
Kusiaie
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Kavieng
New Ireland
Carolines
Nimitz
Associated Press
United States
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Army General Staff
Shigetai Shimada
Osami Nagano
Navy General Staff
Eniwetok Atoll
Kwajalein
London
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
U. S. Army Airforce
French Indo-China
Red Armies Push Toward Minsk and Pskov Fronts
The Soviet forces report a heavy new push toward Minsk in White Russia with 100,000 troops. Berlin broadcasts note advances near Pskov and Dno, with villages captured and German casualties tallied as the Red Army pushes through snow toward the Baltic gateway.
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London
Baltic
Pskov
Berlin
Red Army
Minsk
White Rascia
Dno
Lake Peipus
Luga
Novgorod
Shimsk
Staraya Russa
Lake
Ilmen
Ukraine
Krivoi Rog
Ore
Dnieper
Korsun
Zashkov
War Food Administration buys vast Ohio food for lend lease
The War Food Administration purchased 26,147,766 pounds of pork and other produce from Ohio farmers in 1943 for lend lease and Red Cross use. Ohio totals included 706,352 pounds beef, 721,500 pounds lamb, 622,080 pounds butter, 739,000 pounds American cheese, 2,940 pounds wheat, 14,864,000 pounds soybeans, 100,000 pounds dehydrated white potatoes and 2,421,646 pounds dried whole eggs.
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Columbus
War Food Administration
Ohio
Red Cross
Walter R. Crispin
WFA Office of Distribution
Canton Man 82 Held in Daughter-in-Law Killing
An 82 year old Canton man was held without bond on an open homicide charge after the death of Betty Schwarm 32. Prosecutor D Dean McLaughlin said Joseph Schwarm confessed to shooting her with a 12 gauge shotgun in self defense when she attacked with a knife during a quarrel.
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Canton
Betty Schwarm
D. Dean McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Crossbones Squadron Sets Record on Rabaul
The Navy Skull and Crossbones Squadron, known as The Crosstones, has reached fame in the Pacific battlefield. In the ninth week of combat they destroyed a record total of 138 Japanese planes at the Rabaul base.
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South Paficic
Navy Skull and Crossbones
Rabaul
Pacific
Says Report of Ships Cracking Up Is Untrue
London reports quote A C Kerr regional director of the U S War Shipping Administration calling eight Liberty Ships allegedly cracking up in the Atlantic and limping to Britain for sea salvor untrue stating no ships were lost and no damage shown by the fleet in transit
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London
A. C. Kerr
U. S. War Shipping Administration
United States
Atlantic
Britain
Silvey Named National CIO Liaison for War Agencies
Ted F. Silvey former secretary treasurer of the Ohio CIO Council will serve as liaison officer between the national CIO and government war agencies CIO President Philip Murray announced last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ted F. Silvey
Ohio Cio Council
National Cio
CIO
Philip Murray
Need for Steel Will Continue To Increase
Washington says rising steel demand for civilian needs will offset cuts in munitions programs. John T. Whiting, director of the WPB Steel Division, cited railroad equipment farm machinery and food containers as drivers, refuting the belief that reduced military demand lowers total steel output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
John T. Whiting
WPB Steel Division
Newspapers Get Post Exchange News for Overseas Troops
Permission granted for weekly overseas editions to reach American soldiers in Europe through post exchanges. The New York Times The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Sun will distribute with Maj. Gen. John Lee confirming similar access for other U S newspapers.
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London
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun
John Lee
Army furloughs 600 merchant seamen to sea duty
The War Shipping Administration reports six hundred former Merchant Marine officers and sailors have been furloughed by the Army to return to sea. The move aims to bolster marine transportation during wartime and draw on experienced personnel for shipping operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Shipping Administration
Ohioan Among Five Killed in Camp Mackall Glider Crash
Second Lt. Thomas H. Hamblin of Hamilton Ohio was one of five soldiers killed when a glider crashed at Camp Mackall North Carolina on Friday.
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Camp Mackall
N. C
Thomas H. Hamblin
Hamilton
Blue Streak Returns From Battlefronts
The Liberator bomber Blue Streak returns to Miami after an 8100 mile Naples Italy mission. Major Ralph P. Thompson reports 1058 combat hours with no crew fatalities and multiple enemy hits including sinking a destroyer and tanker. Thompson earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Presidential Citation.
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Miami
Fla
Ralph P. Thompson
Galena
Delaware County
Naples
Italy
Mediterranean
Thompson
Maryland State Police
Ploesti Oi
Grill Soldier Aided Nazi Prisoners' Escape
Harvard educated American soldier Pfc Dale H Maple 23 of Middletown Rhode Island and two German prisoners of war were questioned by federal agents in Denver about funds for a flight that ended near the Mexican border. Maple faces a federal treason charge with bond set at 100000 while admitting Nazi sympathies.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Camp Hale
Colo
Dale H. Maple
Middletown
R. L
FBI
D. A. Bryce
Charge Turks Being Swayed by Nazi Chiefs
Moscow broadcasts claim German propagandists are intensifying activity aided by Turkish official circles. The Turkish government response remains blunt and critical amid rising wartime tensions between the Allies and Axis powers.
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London
Moscow
May Change Age Limits On Draftees
The House Military Committee favors using current service members rather than lowering the induction age from 18 to 17. If change is needed, Chairman May proposes raising the age instead of reducing it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Roosevelt to veto 2.315 billion tax bill in Congress
Speaker Rayburn says President Roosevelt will send a veto message to Congress tomorrow on the 2.315 billion new tax bill. He notes the veto would be sustained and discusses draft age and policy shifts affecting fathers and 16 year olds amid looming home front issues and campaign repercussions.
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Washington
Rayburn
Tex
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Wendell L. Willkie
Bernard Ruch
Senate Debates Skim Milk Labeling Change
Senator Overton of Louisiana led opposition to a House approved bill to relabel powdered skim milk as nonfat dry milk solids or defatted milk solids. He argued the proposed terms would confuse colleagues and defended the current labeling standards amid broader tax, service voting, and subsidies debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Senator Overton
D-La
Overton
Attempted Assassination Of King Peter Reported
A Cairo dated Tass dispatch broadcast via Moscow radio says an attempt was made to assassinate King Peter of Yugoslavia. The report alleges Fascists attempted to blame Yugoslav soldiers returning home to join Tito’s partisan fight.
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London
Moscow
Peter
Yugoslavia
Dispatch
Josip Broz
Tito
Engineer hero flies Fortress to base dies in crash
At an English U S bomber base an engineer known as the pilot in command tried to guide the crippled Fortress home with about 15 minutes of fuel left Five gunners jumped but three stayed aboard along with the wounded co pilot and navigator dying in the landing The names cannot be released until next of kin are notified
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Howard Cowan
U. S
England
Hase
War Workers and New Jobs In Ohio Plants
Ohio workers laid off due to war production shifts have largely been rehired by industry says the U S Employment Service in a OWI released report. Jitters over cuts and rumors of contract changes caused more disruption than actual reductions, with Canton cited as an example.
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Washington
Ohio
United States Employment Service
Office of ‘War Information
Michigan
Kentucky
OWI
War Manpower Commission Regional Management Labor Committee
WMC
Canton
Germans Return to London Sunday Night
Nazi air raiders scattered incendiaries and explosives over London in a short but fierce attack last night causing fires in many areas and some casualties. The assault appears to be an effort to repeat the big fire raid carried out against London early Saturday morning, the heaviest blow the British capital has suffered in 1949.
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London
Grand Jury to Hear Four Cases In Vinton County
The Vinton County Grand Jury, called by Prosecuting Attorney James W. Darby for February 28, will hear four cases including the shotgun death of Mrs. Martha Victorson on January 30. The Victorson case was investigated by State Highway Patrol sergeants W. V. Vance and James L. Hanley over the prior three weeks.
Three German U Boats Sunk Near Gibraltar
London reports the destruction of three U boats from a pack attempting to pass into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar. The destroyer Janus was lost. Germany asserts submarines sank 11 escorting destroyers in the Atlantic in recent days, though this claim is unconfirmed.
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London
Mediterranean
Strait of Gibraltar
Janus
Atlantic
Benito Mussolini Lives in Modest Italian Home
A German paper reports Benito Mussolini dwelling in a small room within a modest Northern Italian farmhouse. The sole decoration is a bust of Frederick the Great, the 18th century Prussian king, highlighting a stark simple setting.
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Stockholm
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Frederick the Great
Voelkischer Beobachter
Transport Reported Sunk by Bomb at Sea
The Vichy radio reported an American transport sunk between Taranto and Brindisi by a hull hidden bomb, with no independent confirmation. In Ohio, Cleveland candidate Marvin C. Harrison announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.
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London
Vichy
Taranto
Brindisi
Italy
Ohio
Cleveland
Marvin C. Harrison
United States
Young Motorist Dies in Columbus Crash
John H. Wol ford, sixteen, was killed and Paul E. Congreve, nineteen, severely injured when the car they rode in plunged over an embankment in Columbus.
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Columbus
John H. Wolford
Paul E.congreve
Bombers Deliver Major Blow to German War Industry
Allied air forces led by U S bombers and Liberators struck seven German aircraft centers including Rostock and Posen, with RAF Stuttgart raid and Leipzig targets. About 15,000 American fliers participated as 126 enemy planes were shot down and 21 American bombers and three fighters were lost.
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London
H. H. Arnold
RAF
Stuttgart
Germany
Europe
Rostock
Baltic
U. S
Hilversum
Holland
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Blue Streak
Josip
Tito") Broz
Vinton Grand Jury
Gibraltar
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Posen
Poland
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Air Ministry
Munich
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Leipzig
Guternburg
Brunswick
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Oschersleben
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