Paraguan crackdown and Argentina splits amid Axis pressure
In Paraguay police crushed a revolutionaries' bid led by Liberal party affiliates with one killed and several captured. Argentina severed diplomatic ties with Germany and Japan after lengthy talks, ordering passports for the German and Japanese ambassadors revoked as espionage rings are rounded up in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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Liberal Party
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Germany
Japan
Americas
Pedro Ramirez
Ramirez
Local Paper Clippings Include Jumbled Headlines and Names
A fragmented OCR sample shows scattered words like Comics Deaths Movies and names such as David Lawrence Treanor Sumner Welles and Walter Winchell, with stray punctuation and partial titles. No coherent event or dates are clear from the readable text.
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Spifnaea Clapper
Pete
Farm
David Lawrence
Marlon
Sytees
Cece
Celeste Veces
Tom" Treanor
Sumner Welles
Captain Carl Fliermans Killed in Nebraska Bomber Crash
Capt Carl W Fliermans Jr 23 was among five killed when a B 26 bomber he piloted crashed near Dakota City Nebraska after takeoff from the Sioux City Army Air Base on a combat training flight He was the son of Mr and Mrs Carl Fliermans and is survived by his wife Louise Richards and two sisters The Dodge City Kan base had based the aircraft and he was commissioned two years ago at Mather Field Sacramento Calif He had just been promoted to captain last week and completed CPT training at Cedar Rapids Airways before entering service
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Carl W. Fliermans, Jr
Dakota City
Neb
Sioux City Army Air Base
Fliermans
Carl Fliermans
Fourth Street
Dodge City
Kan
Army Air Forces
Matherfield
Sacramento
Calif
Cedar Rapids Airways
Louise Richards
Georgetown
Ill
F. W. Vanda
Fifth Avenue SW
Harold F. Tyler
Fourth Avéenué
January Heat Records Shock Midwest Cities
A January heat wave set records from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines and Minneapolis. Cedar Rapids reached 58 degrees, Des Moines 60, Council Bluffs 69, and Minneapolis 63, the warmest January day in the cited period. Forecasts called for a drop tonight with a 30-degree low, and skies were mostly cloudy statewide.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Minnesota
Mercury
Austin
Chicago
Weather Bureau
Minneapolis
Springfield
Dies says House Un American Activities probes Peace Now
Chairman Dies asserts the House committee on un American activities is investigating Peace Now, an organization he labels as advocating negotiated termination of hostilities. He says the committee mainly wants to uncover who finances the group.
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Washington
Dies
Texas
The
House
Soviet Drive Severs Nazi Rail Links Near Leningrad
Soviet forces under Gen. Govorov reach Krasnogvardeysk 30 miles southwest of Leningrad cutting off about 250000 German troops. They stormed the rail hub from Puskin and pushed toward Tosno and Chudovo while Meretskov threatens the Leningrad Moscow corridor. In Ukraine Vatutin repulses German counterattacks near Vinnitsa as the Odessa Warsaw axis looms.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Leonid A. Govorov
Krasnogvardeisk
Russia
Reval
Luga
Pskov
Govorov
Puskin
Vladimirskaya
Tosno
Leningrad-Moscow
Chudovo
KX. A. Meretskov
Volkhov
Novgorod
Moscow-Leningrad
Kirishi
Meretskov
Ostrov
Leningrad-Vitebsk
Nikolai Vatutin
Vinnitsa
Khristinovka
Vatutin
Odessa-Warsaw
Five Women Die in Fire at Chicago War Plant
At the Lion Manufacturing war plant on Chicago's North Side a blaze trapped workers and killed at least five women. More than 400 women were inside the one story brick building when the fire started and rescuers later recovered the victims. Firemen lifted cloak room matron Mrs Francis Hurley through a skylight as others escaped.
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Chicago
INS
Lion Manufacturing Company
Francis Hurley
Partisans capture western Bosnian town in six week offensive
A Yugoslav partisan communique reports they seized Mrkonicgrad in western Bosnia and cleared the area of German and Chetnik forces after a six week offensive. The advance comes as Allied units press the region.
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London
Mrkonicgrad
Roosevelt Defends Soldier Vote Law Drive and Fights State Plan
President Roosevelt urged Congress to pass strong federal mechanisms to secure soldiers and sailors voting rights next fall and denounced a state rights plan as a fraud. He criticized a bill Senate passage would shift the issue to states and backed a Green Lucas federal vote plan for overseas ballot delivery by air.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Capitol
House
Mr. Roosevelt
Senate
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Armed Services
Taft
Soldier Vote Presented to Iowa Solons
The Iowa legislature in special session passed a voter bill creating a war ballot commission and extending absent voter ballot access from 20 to 55 days for Jowans in the armed services in the 1944 elections. The House 77 to 24 blocked other business, with similar action expected in the Senate as lawmakers stay focused on the measure.
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Des Moines
Iowa
B. B. Hickenlooper
Armed Services
House
Senate
Arthur Wagner Enters Race for City Parks Post
Arthur A Wagner 59 of 119 Fifth Street NW announced his candidacy for Cedar Rapids parks commissioner in the March 14 primaries. A tree surgeon and landscape artist with 35 years in plant care he aims to beautify parks and public properties. He has cared for 250 commercial orchards within a 60 mile radius and is a Cedar Rapids native with four children.
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Arthur A. Wagner
Fifth Street
Wagner
Cedar Rapids
House Approves Vet Pay Compromise for Service Members
The House voted 277 to 103 to send compromise veterans pay legislation to the Senate. It guarantees a minimum $100 and a maximum $300 on discharge, with amounts varying by overseas or Alaska service and total days served.
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Washington
House
Senate
Armed Services
Alaska
Germans Fortify Rome As Allies Press From Cassino
Allied forces push toward Rome with the Cairo radio saying troops are 19 miles away. German resistance tightens around Cassino while shepherding the Gustav line defenses. Evacuations and curfews are reported as fighting concentrates near the Appian Way.
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Algiers
Rome
Cassino
Cairo
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Mussolini Canal
Appian Way
London Daily Telegraph
Velletri
Bern
Gustav Line
James E. Roper
Rapido
Mt. Crace
Eighth Army
Rockets Opened Invasion Paths for Yanks in New Britain
Allied reporters describe multi barreled rocket guns mounted on duck vehicles aiding American landings at Arawe and Cape Gloucester in western New Britain. Rockets fired in four minute barrages blasted beaches, cleared paths, and boosted Marine morale while four machine gun nests were knocked out and over 80 Japanese killed at Cape Gloucester.
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New Britain
Allied
New Guinea
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
Donald Beaver
Kew Gardens
Saidor
W. F. Heavey
P.C. Putnam
Office of Scientific Research and Development
California Institute’ of Technology
War Bond Rally Planned in Cedar Rapids With Stars
A large public war bond rally will tip off Heroes and Stars day in Cedar Rapids next Monday at Memorial Coliseum. The Bond Battalion with Marjorie Woodworth Paul Kelly and five war heroes will be present all day, with a 7:30 p.m. to midnight program featuring continuous dancing and entertainment.
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Cedar Rapids
Marjorie Woodworth
Paul Kelly
Memorial Coliseum
American Legion
I Stanley Vesely
Coliseum
Bond
Air
Crew
Inter-Ocean Chorus
Maurine Hamblin
Rhythm Aces
Dempsy Jones
Ardis Goeken
Sue Elliot
Butch Stober
LaVonne Holets
Rollie Raim
Iiten School of Dancing
Shirley Ann Barker
Carroll Dancing School
Varsity Crew
Kay-Dees
Iowa State Guard
Allies Destroy 54 Planes at Rabaul
Allied air forces claim a major success in the Solomon Islands with raids on Rabaul destroying 54 to 69 Japanese aircraft and damaging shipping. In December the US 14th Air Force sank 17 enemy ships near Fuchow, totaling 9,900 tons, while Burma river craft and a steamer were damaged. New fighting in northern Burma aims to clear the Ledo road toward China.
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Pacific
Rabaul
United States 14Th Air Force
Fuchow
Burma
Ledo
China
Ralph Mitchell
South Pacific
Solomons
New Zealand
Lakunai
Admiralty
Arawe' On
New Britain
Hull reports Soviet rejection of U S good offices in Polish crisis
Secretary Hull said Russia declined to use U S good offices to restart Soviet Polish diplomatic talks in London. Moscow indicated conditions not ripe and would not negotiate until Warsaw accepts Soviet claims in the eastern Polish lands and removes anti Soviet members from the London cabinet. Washington fears a puppet Polish regime may emerge as a result.
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Washington
INS
Hull
Russia
Soviet Union
London
United States
Moscow
Poland
Katyn Massacre Blame Points to Germans in Katyn Report
The Katyn massacre report assigns blame to Germany for the 11 000 Polish wartime prisoners killed in the forest. The incident strained Soviet Polish relations in London as Poland asked the International Red Cross to probe. Britain maintains Churchill’s map-change policy with consent of parties. The Soviet Curzon line proposal would leave Russia with much of 1939 gains.
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London
Katyn Forest
International Red Cross
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Britain
Europe
Churchill
Poland
Russia
Roosevelt Awards M Arthur D S M On 64th Birthday
President Roosevelt awarded General Douglas MacArthur the Distinguished Service Medal for distinguished service as Allied Southwest Pacific supreme commander since 1942. He expelled the enemy from eastern New Guinea secured lodgments on New Britain and directed operations leading to Bougainville and New Georgia.
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New Guinea
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
New Georgia
United States Army and Navy
Bougainville
Night phone rates set to begin at 6 am
The Federal Communications Commission announced that the night rate for interstate telephone calls will start at 6 a.m. Linstead is starting March 1.
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Washington
INS
Federal .Communications Commission
Ms. Linstead
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