Yanks Launch First Florence Raid and German Bomb Targets
Allied air power hit Florence in Italy for the first time with Marauders targeting Florence rail yards after prior raids on Rome and the Paris coast. Munster and Pas de Calais were bombed as Liberators and Fortresses struck German and French targets while Allied fighters escorted, with minimal loss.
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London
Munster
Florence
Westphalia
Germany
Pas de Calais
France
Eighth Air Force
Rome
Forth
Italy
Littorio
Tiburtina
Lend-Lease Aid Surpasses Twenty Billion Dollars
Washington reports the lend-lease program has delivered more than 20 billion dollars in aid to Allied nations. Through exchanges, the U S has received about 2 billion in items. In 1943 lend-lease totaled nearly 12 billion with planes tanks ships and other munitions leading the way.
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Washington
United States
Leo T Crowley
Congress
United Kingdom
Russia
Pacific
Far Eastern
Einstein Needs Tax Expert Help Too
Professor Albert Einstein, renowned mathematician, said he too must hire a tax expert to meet the March 15 deadline. When asked about the maze of income tax questions, he quipped that the issue is too difficult for a mathematician and should be posed to a philosopher.
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Princeton
N. J
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Daily Index Highlights Comics Movies and Sports
The page lists features from Marquis Childs and David Lawrence with sections on comics, deaths, and entertainment. Sports and state news are noted along with women's features and media topics.
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David Lawrence
Marion
Epee Area
Drew Pearson
Beiea
Women's Features Media
Ptates
Justice Dept Probes Parachute Procurement Practices
Justice Department official John Darsey said a probe is examining potential collusion in parachute procurement for U S armed forces. The inquiry follows Drew Pearson’s column alleging fatal drownings due to entanglement with parachutes. Army and air corps spokesmen note both single and triple release chutes in use with varying suitability and policy.
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Washington
John Darsey
War Frauds Division
Justice Department
Darsey
Drew Pearson
Camp Mackall
N. C
Pearson
Irvin
Buffalo
N. Y
Army Air Corps
Army
Air Corps
Strike Cuts Off Detroiters Milk Supply
In Detroit 90 percent of residents lacked milk Saturday as 3,000 workers in 35 dairies struck to protest the War Labor Board’s delay in ruling on Local 83 United Dairy Workers CIO demand for overtime pay over 40 hours.
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Britain
Soviet Union
Red Army
British Commonwealth of Nations
Crowley
Russia
China
Himalayas
India
Detroit
INS
Dairies
War Labor Board
United Dairy Workers
CIO
Morale of German forces falters near Anzio beachhead
Allied reports from Naples say German morale has sunk as Hitler’s order to clear the Anzio beachhead failed. U.S. and British forces held the line near Aprilia Littoria and Littoria area with several German losses and prisoner captures.
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Naples
Aprilia
Adolf Hitler
Anzio
Littoria
Hitler
Luftwaffe
High Command
Hendrik van Loon Dies Historian and Author at 62
Hendrik Willem van Loon, 62, historian and author, died Saturday at his Greenwich home from a heart attack. A Dutch-born writer famed for The Story of Mankind, he organized a short wave radio program to Holland from WRUL Boston, earning the nickname Uncle Hank and support from the Free Netherlands government.
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Greenwich
Conn
Hendrik Willem van Loon
van Loon
Holland
WRUL
Boston
Hank
Free Netherlands
Ireland Refusal Triggers U S Bid to Expel Axis Diplomats
The United States rejected Ireland's bid to buy two merchant vessels after Dublin refused to purge German and Japanese diplomats accused of heading a spy ring. Secretary Hull urged expulsion as Britain and the U S weigh drastic anti espionage steps, while De Valera defends Irish counter spy methods and neutrality. The note cites Axis espionage risks, border security, and possible economic and diplomatic measures.
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Washington
United States
Eire
Britain
de Valera
Ireland
Europe
United Nations
Hull
Dublin
London
Northern Ireland
Dub
Soviet Offensives Smash Nazi Front Across Southern Ukraine
Soviet forces under Konev Zhukov and Malinovsky push 109 mile breakthrough southwest of Cherkasy and advance toward the Bug river, capturing 150 towns, killing 20,000 Germans, and liberating Uman as three armies drive a 500 mile front in southern Russia.
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London
Ukraine
Russia
Moscow
Ivan S. Konev
Cherkasy
Uman
Bug River
Gniloi Tikich
Konev
Dnieper
Kirovograd
Gregory K. Zhukov
Poland
Odessa-Moscow
Proskurov
Krasilov
Rumania
Bug
Vinnitsa
Zhukov
Tarnopol
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Black Sea
Kherson
Nikolaev
Krivoi Rog
Tavkino
Andreyevka
Baratovka
Dobroye
Former Vichyite Doomed to Die For Treason
Pierre Pucheu, ex Vichy interior minister, was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a special military tribunal in Algiers. After a brief defense he claimed the trial a political coup, while pleading for France and warning of internal strife. Others on similar charges remain under trial.
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Algiers
Pierre Pucheu
Vichy
Puchell
Third Republic
Pucheu
Weiss
France
Charles de Gaulle
Committee of National Liberation
Marcel Peyrouton
Pierre Boisson
Jean Marie Bergeret
Pierre- Etienne Flandin
Red Cross Quotas Exceeded by Two Residential Areas
Cedar Rapids workers push toward the 1944 Red Cross drive goal as two precinct residents top their quotas. Mrs Sundberg surpassed $575.50 from Nineteenth precinct and Mrs MacLain reached $617 in precinct No 2. Cedar Rapids Engineering Co employees gave $819.50 toward Linn county’s $147000 target.
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Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
W C Sundberg
Third Avenue
Sundberg
William Schaefer
W. Clyde MacLain
Center Point Road
MacLain
Bryan Cronbaugh
Cedar Rapids Engineering Company
Linn County
New Cold Spell Forecast for Iowa Tonight and Sunday
Weather forecast warns of a quick cold snap across Iowa with rain turning to snow. Cedar Rapids reports 39 degrees this morning while Spencer notes 33 for the state low. Lamont peaks at 59 as clouds and 55 percent humidity persist.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Weather Bureau
Alhough
Spencer
Lamont
Chambers
Ponape Island Base Destroyed In Large Allied Raid
American Liberator bombers reported by UP from the Seventh Air Force destroyed Ponape town and its seaplane base after repeated raids. About half the 10 000 inhabitants were Japanese, and the base was decommissioned. Other strikes hit Kusaio and four Marshall atolls as Allied forces pressed operations in the Carolines and Marshalls.
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Headquarters
Grenadiers
Reichsfuehrer SS
Yugoslavia
Fifth Army
Forty-fifth Division
New Mexico and
Oklahoma
Second Field Regiment of
Royal Artillery
Pearl Harbor
Ponape
Truk
Ray Coll, Jr
Seventh Air Force
Pacific Fleet
Kusaie
Seventh Air Force Liberators
Carolines
Japan
Gilberts
Marshalls
Coll
Kusaio
Japanese Hold Break on Bougainville Counterattack
Allied forces report veteran Marines seized Talasea airstrip and village on New Britain's Willaumez peninsula while Japanese fighters launch a desperate assault on Empress Augusta Bay. Artillery and air strikes target Bougainville as U S forces push inland toward Los Negros and Rabaul strategic targets in the Solomons campaign.
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Associated Press
Talasea
New Britains
Willaumez Peninsula
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainille Island
Solomons
Bougainville
Bismarck Archipelago
Philippines
Tokyo
Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
First Cavalry Division
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Co. Rabaul
Ent
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Southeas
Mediterranean Aerial Command
R.A.F
Stockholm
London Daily Mail
Daily Mail
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Robert O. Bochek
U. S
Bochek
Adele Reid
Avenue NW
Justice Dept
Hendrik van Loon
Cedar Rapids News
New Hanover
New Ireland
Bismarck Sea
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