Tokyo Hit By Major Earthquake And Allied Air Raids
An earthquake rocked Tokyo and surrounding Honshu while B 29s attacked industrial targets in Tokyo Yokohama with more than 90 planes reported. Allied raids also hit Iwo Jima Kataoka in the Kuriles Yap and Rota in the Marianas with limited enemy defenses observed.
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Washington
Japan
Tokyo
21St Bomber Command
Guam
War Department
Honshu
Tokyo-Yokohama
Domei
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Chain
Aleutian
Kataoka
Kuriles
Yap Island
Carolines
Rota
Marianas
Earthquake Detected Near Japan by Fordham Seismograph
The Fordham University seismograph in New York registered an earthquake about 5,900 miles away, likely off Hokkaido in northern Japan. The tremors were described as very severe but lighter than those felt on the Japanese mainland on December 7.
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New York
INS
Fordham University
Hokkaido
Japan
Involved in Two Accidents Pays $105 in Fines
F. G. O Toole 30 of 2340 A avenue NE Cedar Rapids paid 105 in fines after pleading guilty to charges of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. The two crashes occurred Friday night on First avenue E including a rear end collision with a parked car driven by Lee Winger and a subsequent collision with a bus near Fifteenth street. He received 100 for reckless driving and 5 for leaving the scene.
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Cedar Rapids
F. G. O'Toole
A Avenue
O’toole
First Avenue E
Lee Winger
C Avenue
First Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Beatrice Tank Plant Fire Destroys Half in Beatrice
A Friday blaze at Beatrice Steel Tank Manufacturing in Beatrice Nebraska destroyed the larger of its two plants, likely starting in the paint department and causing about 500000 dollars in damage. Fire crews battled the flames. No injuries are reported.
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Beatrice, Neb
Beatrice Steel Tank Manufacturing Company
Patterson Named to Allied Mission in Postwar Germany
The Army and Navy Journal reports President Roosevelt chose Undersecretary of War Patterson as the American member of the Allied mission in postwar Germany. The plan envisions military control initially, then transition to civil government, with the mission based in Berlin. Patterson, a four star general in rank, reportedly did not seek the role but accepted to serve.
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Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Roosevelt
Patterson
Germany
Berlin
United States
Stimson
McCroy
Wainwright and Prisoners Moved to Mukden Camp
Lt Gen Jonathan W. Wainwright and 176 other prisoners were moved by the Japanese from Formosa to Hoten camp at Mukden in Manchukuo. The group includes 17 generals 119 colonels six navy captains and 34 enlisted personnel. Moves completed in November. next of kin notified.
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Washington
Jonathan W. Wainwright
Philippines
Corregidore
Formosa
Manchukuo
Hoten
Mukden
War Department
Wainwright
Navy
Baby Born in Sleigh on Wilderness Road
Mrs Murray B Waddell 30 and her newborn daughter were reported doing well after a Thursday night delivery in a sleigh on a snow blocked wilderness road. Her husband an army sergeant was away. she started for the doctor in the morning with five children left alone. She delivered in the sleigh and drove home.
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Hampton, N. B
Murray B. Waddell
German U boats sink ships off Nova Scotia coast
Halifax reports long range German submarines attacked Allied convoys near Canadian ports this winter. They torpedoed the Canadian minesweeper Clayoquot and five merchant vessels, killing 36 sailors. One other Canadian freighter sank earlier, raising fears of a threatened North Atlantic supply route disruption.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Navy
New York
Defense
A. G. L. McNaughton
North Atlantic
Cape Breton
Yarmouth
OPA Slap Based on Confidential Report Targets Cedar Rapids
Price Administrator Chester Bowles says price violations remain serious in Cedar Rapids Iowa and other areas based on a confidential government report. A Cedar Rapids survey found about 20 percent of items priced above ceilings versus a 10 percent national average. Local price panels data to the Des Moines district office will substantiate the report.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
OPA
Des Moines
Des Moines Official to Visit Cedar Rapids on Price Violation Probe
Des Moines OPA Director Walter Kline plans a trip to Cedar Rapids early next week to discuss price violations reported by Price Administrator Chester Bowles. He promised more details then. No comment was available from the local price panel.
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Des Moines
OPA
Walter Kline
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Chester Bowles
Jeep name falls into public domain say officials
Dublin reported that the industrial and commercial registration office denied Willys Overland Motors Inc of Toledo Ohio exclusive use of the word jeep, ruling the term has fallen into the public domain.
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Dublin
Willys Overland Motors, Inc
Toledo
Ohio
Jeep
Tough fight for Manila defense slows advance near Pasig
AP dispatch from Manila reports mined streets and Japanese mortars from upper floors delaying American infantry as they push toward the Pasig river dock area. MacArthur calls the fighting the fiercest as Japanese prepare a final stand in intramuros amid fires and wrecked offices.
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Manila
Pasig River
Intramuros
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
38Th
Eighth Army
Moron
Luzon
Soviets Capture Elbing Port and Push Toward Konigsberg
Soviet forces took the East Prussian port of Elbing guarding the Danzig corridor and pressed the attack on Konigsberg. Reports say German forces, including Admiral Scheer, attacked from the sea while Russians widened the Berlin front along the Oder and threatened Liegnitz and other Silesian routes.
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London
Elbing
Danzig
Koenigsberg
Junkers
Vistula
Marshal Stalin
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Berlin
Admiral Scheer
Oder River
Stettin
Breslau
Silesia
Middle Oder
Kuestrin
Frankfurt
Fuerstenberg
Ivan C. Konev
Liegnitz
Berlin-Breslau
Leignitz
Moscow
Konev
Oder
Saxony
Lebus
Damm
Yanks Hide 23 Days in Loft Behind Nazi-Held Town
Two American infantrymen Sgt Warren Maue and Pfc Richard Hartman hid for 23 days in a hayloft near Herrlisheim after being separated during January 14 combat. They survived on melted snow, scraps, and a barrel of rotten plums with plum wine, rescued as Seventh Army entered the town.
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U.S. Seventh Army
Alsace
Seventh Army
Herrlisheim
Hagenau
Warren E. Maue
Dayton
Ohio
Richard W. Hartman
Lancaster
N. Y
Hartman
Maue
Former Coe Star Will Lose Eye in War Injury
Lt. Col. Theron R. Stuelke, Coe College football and track letterman from Nashua, wounded Jan. 25 in the Philippines area, will lose sight in one eye. Bronze Star recipient, he will receive Purple Heart and Silver Star. His wife and son James reside in Council Bluffs. his parents are in Nashua.
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Theron R. Stuelke
Nashua
Philippine
W. AH. Stuelke
Thirty-second Street
Stuelke
James
Council Bluffs
R. H. Stuelke
New Guinea
Coe
Coe R.O.T.C
Two Cedar Rapids Men Listed Killed Aboard Spence
Seaman Clarence Heaverlo, 20, and Seaman Thomas R. Kelley, Jr., 19, both Cedar Rapids natives, are now listed dead after the destroyer Spence was lost in a Pacific typhoon last December. Heaverlo’s family includes five sisters, two brothers and a grandmother. Kelley is survived by two brothers and five sisters.
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Thomas R. Kelley
Clarence Heaverle
Cedar Rapids
Spence
Navy
Seaman
C. W. Heaverlo
Second Avenue
Thomas R. Kelley, Jr
Ayes Kelley
K_ street
Heaverlo
Francis J. Heaverlo
Charlotte
N. C
Robert E. Heaverlo
Salina
Kaw
Marie
Agnes
Betty
Genevieve
Shirley Ann
Vernon
Richard
Veterans Hospital
Knoxville
Patrol Clashes On Italian Front Escalate Along Front
Fifth Army patrols clashed with stronger enemy opposition across the front with artillery pounding positions south and southeast of Bologna. Mortar duels raged near Mt Castellaro and German counterattacks in the Serchio valley and Lama area were repulsed.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Mt. Castellaro
Serchio
Lama
Dog Blaze Fares High Priority Flight to Hollywood for Roosevelt Kin
Senate subcommittee heard Col. H L George say Blaze the Roosevelt dog received an unauthorized A priority to fly from Washington to Hollywood at Mrs Anna Boettiger's request. Three low priority servicemen were offloaded to make room for the 285 pound Blaze and a 20 pound pup.
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Washington
Elliott Roosevelt
Anna Boettiger
Maybank
D-S.c
H. L. George
Air Transport Command
Senate
George
Subcommittee
Col
Ray W. Ireland
ATC
Memphis
Blaze
England
Atlantic
Bridges
Senate War Investigating Committee
Ireland
Mrs. Roosevelt
Hollywood
Canadians Near Kleve Press Forward as Dam Fell
Canadian First Army troops reach within two miles of Kleve and push through the Reichswald as German demolitions blast the Schwammenauel dam. The Roer flood rises at Dueren then recedes, while Third Army forces near Pruem and Aachen gain ground against stiff German resistance.
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First Army
Kleve
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Ninth Army
Third Army
Pruem
Paris
Reichswald Forest
Schwammenauel
Roer River
Roer
Eorthern
Dueren
Millingen
Tower Rhine
Rhine and
Ruhr
Nuetlerden
Reichswald
Klieve
United States
309Th Regiment
78Th Division
Schwammenauel Dam
Miia
Grew Says Neutrals Dismissive on Axis War Criminal Refuge
Acting Secretary of State Grew announced the United States is dissatisfied with several neutrals stance on sheltering Axis war criminals. He noted no evidence of Nazis fleeing to Argentina via Portugal or Spain, and said American diplomats are watchful for such attempts.
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Washington
Grew
United States
Argentina
Portugal
Spain
Farm Machinery Output Lag Signals War Production Setback
Washington AP report notes the War Production Board states farm machinery output is well behind schedule with little prospect for near term improvement, signaling continued strain on agricultural supply and related industries.
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Washington (Ap
War Production Board
De Gaulle to Join In Parley in Big Three Talks
Paris radio reported Gen Charles de Gaulle will take part in the Big Three conference. The statement comes as Allied leaders plan talks amid ongoing war diplomacy in London.
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de Gaulle
Paris
London
Charles de Gaulle
South Dakota Senate Kills Local Option Liquor Bill
The South Dakota senate voted 17 to 16 to defeat the local option liquor bill with two members absent. The close margin underscored division over liquor control in Pierre.
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