Red Army drives toward Narva and Novosokolniki
Soviet forces push west toward Narva while seizing Novosokolniki the crucial junction of the Leningrad-Vitebsk and Moscow–Vyazma rail lines. The drive includes 60 heavy guns and frees over 30 towns as German defenses along the Leningrad front show strain.
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London
Redny
Leningrad
Zagoritsi
Ovosokolniki
Moscow-Lengrad
Uudovo
Ukraine
Russian Comunique
Vinnitsa
Kstinovka
Berlin
Smela
Dniep
Whitessia
Berezina
Pripet
Sovt
Sovmonitor
Luga
Pskov
Arman
Narvas
Estonia
Stalin
Novosokolniki
Red Vy
M. M. Popov
ningrad-Vitebsk
Moscowiya
Lenrad
Velikie Lukicvich
White Russia
Jezina
Vosokolniki
Moscw
Mothers Demand Revisions to Free Allied Prisoners in War
ANESVILLE WIS. Rock County mothers and kin of Yank Battalion members urge President Roosevelt and Secretary Stimson to secure adequate revisions so prisoners from Bataan and surrounding camps can be liberated quickly. Among 99 Janesville men, reports show 2 killed in action, 12 in prison camps, 2 wounded evacuated to Australia, 33 reported missing, and 50 listed as prisoners.
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Anesville
Wis
Telems
MacArt
Roosevelt
Stimson
Rock County
Bataan
Janesville
Ban
Australia
Battleship "Battle Wagon" Launched at New York Navy Yard
The 45,000 ton U S Missouri battleship slid into the water at the New York Navy Yard on Saturday, months ahead of schedule. About 3,300,499 man days have gone into BANt since its keel was laid January 6, 1941, with National engineers and draftsmen contributing 530 days and 175 4 100 man days on blueprint work.
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York
U.S
Missouri
Syn Navy Yard
Nat
Atrocities in Bataan Report From Manila Observer
Raymond P. Cronin, head of the Associated Press Bureau in Manila, recalls his imprisonment at Santo Tomas Camp and describes brutal Japanese atrocities on American and Filipino soldiers and civilians after the surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. He details beheadings, beatings, bayonet impalement, torture of the wounded, and intentional denial of water.
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Raymond P. Cronin
Associated Press Bureau
Manila
Santo Tomas
Los Angeles
Bataan
Philippines
Army-Navy
Tokyo admits Rabaul is doomed in broadcast
Tokyo radio conceded Rabaul cannot be held as Allied forces claim heavy air attacks. General MacArthur reports more than 400 Japanese planes destroyed at the New Britain fortress this month while Tokyo warns of waning optimism and mounting losses.
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United Nations
Pacific
Rabaul
Tokyo Radio
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Tokyo
Prisoners of War and Pacific Air Raids Highlight WWII Briefing
Seventy six Army and Navy nurses remain prisoners in Japanese hands following the Philippines fall. Reports say 66 Army nurses are captive, with at least ten Navy nurses also held. Allied air forces raid Japanese targets across the Pacific, hitting ships and installations at Kavieng, Rabaul, Madang, Wotje, Maloelap and Mili. In Burma and Thailand, prisoners are being forced to build a railroad, with reported mass deaths and brutal treatment. U S officials vow vengeance and seek unconditional surrender while Britain pledges aid.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Philippines
Manila
Lakunai
Kavieng New Ireland
South Pacific
Rabaul
Admiralty Islands
New Guinea
Madang
Marshall Islands
Little
Phosphate
Nauru
Wotje
Maloelap
Mili
Mili Atolls
Mid-Pacific
Marshalls
Burma
Thailand
Chungking
Japan
Pacific
United States
February Tire Supplies Short
Washington OPA rationing chief Col. Bryan Houston announced that February tire supply will be short by at least 250000 tires. Eligibility for new tires will depend on the car’s purpose rather than distance driven, with few A card holders and only high essentiality B card holders eligible.
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Washington
OPA
Bryan Houston
Cleveland Doctor Endrey Dies in Apparent Suicide
Dr Lazlo L Endrey a 55 year old physician who has practiced in Cleveland since 1923 and was once a war prisoner in Siberia during World War I reportedly killed himself yesterday. He was known as a $25 000 sweepstakes winner in 1936.
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Cleveland
Lazlo L. Endrey
Siberia
Maryland war bond purchases up 50 percent after reports of atrocities
Indignation over alleged Japanese atrocities in the Philippines spurred Maryland residents to buy war bonds. A Fourth War Loan official said Maryland bond purchases rose by about fifty percent on Saturday as part of a nationwide fundraising effort.
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Baltimore
Philippines
Maryland
Dies Group Reports Axis Invasion Before Pearl Harbor
The Dies Committee charged that an Axis invasion of the United States began long before Pearl Harbor. It cited culture groups youth movements bands and tourist bureaus as fronts and said thousands marched in Nazi swastikas and many Japanese Americans pledged loyalty to Japan while security was compromised on the West Coast.
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United States
Pearl Harbor
Dies Committee
Nazi Germany
Japan
Norwegian Royalty Attends White House Birthday Dinner
President and Mrs Roosevelt hosted Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway at the annual White House cuff link dinner honoring the president's birthday. The intimate family affair has been held each year since 1921.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Olaf
Martha of Norway
White House
Banker Drops Plan to Report War Bond Refusals in County
Wahoo Nebraska banker Emil E Placek said he would withdraw his policy to turn over names of non supporters of the Fourth War Loan Drive to local draft and ration boards. The Treasury warned he must resign as Saunders County war finance committee chairman if he persisted. District OPA officials and State Selective Service said draft boards have no authority over bond purchases, and Placek claimed local boards had promised cooperation.
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WAHOO
Neb
Emil E. Placek
United States Treasury Department
Treasury Department
Placek
Saunders County War Finance Committee
Wahoo Wasp
OPA
Selective Service
Bricker To Be Chief Lincoln Day Speaker
Washington plans set for the Republican Lincoln Day banquet on February 10 with Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio as principal speaker in his first Washington appearance as a presidential candidate. Rep John R Robsson of Kentucky will chair and act as toastmaster with Senate minority leader McNary and House minority leader Martin as vice chairs. Mrs Bricker to attend a tea hosted by Ohio GOP wives at Mrs Robert Taft’s home.
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Washington
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Congress
League of Republican Women
Lincoln
John R. Robsson
Kentucky
McNary
R-Ore
Senate
Representative Martin
R-Mass
House
Bricker
Robert A. Taft
20000 British Miners Idle in Wage Dispute
London reports a wage dispute idle over a new national minimum of $20 weekly for underground workers and $18 for surface workers. About thirty eight pits across Lancashire Staffordshire and South Wales affected with many workers idle due to walkouts and work shortages.
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London
Lancashire
Staffordshire
South Wales
Talbot, Former Bryan Partner, Dies at 84 in Lincoln
Adolphus Robert Talbot aged 84 a former law partner of the late William Jennings Bryan and national president of the Modern Woodmen of America for 35 years died last night in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Neb
Adolphus Robert Talbot
William Jennings Bryan
Modern
Woodmen of America
Doom Looms Over Berlin As Allies Bombard City
London dispatch recalls the day eleven years ago when the Swastika rose over Germany. Berlin awoke to a sky lit by burning ruins as Allied bombers struck, leaving ash piles and signs of looming doom over the city.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Swiss Rumors Say Himmler May Be Dead
NBC correspondent Paul Archinard quoted Journal De Geneve from Bern that Heinrich Himmler may have been executed over plots to replace Hitler. The report said Martin Bormann succeeded as interior minister while Himmler retained some ministerial title but lost influence.
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New York
NBC
Paul Archinard
Bern
Switzerland
Journal de Geneve
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Archinald
Himmler
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Fuehrer
Associated Press
Interior
Bormann
York Flier Is Lost in Action
Nelsonville, Staff Sgt. John C. Monks age 23 is missing in action since January 14 on a mission to France. Monks served in the Army Air Forces as an engineer and gunner on a B 26 bomber and had been overseas since early fall. He is a Nelsonville High School graduate employed at the Standard Oil Co filling station and was inducted in 1942, home on furlough last August.
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Nelsonville
John C
Cobby) Monks
France
War Department
C. H. Monks
Monks
Army Air Forces
Nelsonville High School
Standard Oil Co
Thousands of Dancers Aid Paralysis Campaign
Thousands of dancers raised funds for infantile paralysis research in Washington hotels and ballrooms honoring President Roosevelt. The event supported veterans and civilians, with VUSO clubs for Black service members creating a headline moment alongside Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt touring hotel halls.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
VU. S. O
Prisoner recalls Corregidor fall and Manila march
Maj. Jack Hawkins describes the 1942 capture at Corregidor and forced wade ashore through waist deep water near Manila. He says prisoners were herded in columns, exhausted, kicked, and flailed as they were marched through the city. He notes a high death rate at Cabanatuan from a rice diet.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Jack Hawkins
Corregidor
Manila
Hawkins
Cabanatuan
Fear Publicity May Increase Jap Atrocities
Washington officials weigh risks of releasing the Philippines atrocity report after months of secrecy. Some fear publicity could provoke greater brutality toward American prisoners, while others argue the public has a right to know the full facts. The debate centers on OWI versus the armed services over when and how to disclose the wartime details.
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Washington
Japan
Armed Services
Office of War Information
War and Navy Departments
Pearl Harbor
OWI
William Allen White Dies at 75 Sage of Emporia
William Allen White, longtime editor of The Emporia Gazette, died Saturday at age 75. White bought the paper in 1895 with $3,000 borrowed, became a trusted adviser to presidents and governors, and later served as a Republican elder statesman.
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William Allen White
Emporia
Emporia, Kas
Emporia Gazette
White
Gazette
Republican Party
Convicted Draft Dodgers Sentenced in Federal Court
Fight men convicted in federal court of failure to report for military service were sentenced to prison terms of five years and fines of $1,000 each.
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Columbus
Doolittle’s Tokyo Bombers Victims Of Jap Torture, Witness Asserts
J B Powell former China Weekly Review editor says American pilots captured after Doolittle raid were tortured daily by Japanese in Shanghai bridgehouse prison before some were moved to Japan and executed. He recounts seeing six victims in the next cell, detailing their brutal treatment and later repatriation. Powell, now in Presbyterian Hospital, describes his own physical change after captivity.
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Doolittle
Tokyo
J. B. Powell
China Weekly Review
Shanghai
Frances Long
Pesi Harbor
Manila
Powell
Philippines
New York
Jimmy Doolittle
Japan
Presbyterian Hospital
New Tactics Employed by Yank Fliers
Allied air forces unleash massive bombing on Frankfurt and Berlin in coordinated operations. The Eighth Air Force targets Frankfurt with a novel bomber corridor tactic while RAF strikes Berlin as the war effort expands in Italy near Rome, Cassino, and Anzio. Allied fighters escort and adapt, unions of American and British air power test German defenses.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Eighth
RAF
Berlin
Hell
Tempelhof
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
OPEL
I. G
Rome
Anzio
Cisterna
Appian Way
Cassino
High Command
Italy
Adriatic
Hitler
Hummel Files Columbus Nomination Petitions
Publican official filed petitions for re nomination on Saturday in Columbus claiming to seek another term. The move aims to secure party backing and continue current public service.
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Hummel
Columbus
Secretary of Publican
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