Three More Atolls In Marshalls Invaded
U S Pacific forces report rapid advance in the Marshalls as Roi Kwajalein and surrounding isles fall. Marines secure Ebeye Lat Gugegwe and Lat Islands while seven northern islets are seized. Navy air and sea dominance reduce Japanese resistance and casualties to moderate levels.
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Iryo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Marshalls
Hirohita
New York
United States
Tokyo
Roi
Kwajalein
Kwajalein Atoll
Nimitz
Kwajalein Island
Taxen
Rei
Namur
Howard Handleman
Seventh Army
Ebeye Island
Lee
Ebeye
Gugegwe
Lat
German Pressure Below Rome Fails To Budge Allies
Allied Headquarters in Italy reports a renewed German assault north of Aprilia near Rome repulsed with heavy losses. In the Cassino area, heavy street and mountain fighting continues as Americans and Allies push Germans from Mt Maiola. Berlin orders intensified defense as 1,500 prisoners taken in beachhead since landings. overall German prisoner count in Italy surpasses 10,000 since Calabria invasion.
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Rome
Italy
Aprilia
Carraceta
Fifth Army
Cassino
Mt. Maiola
26Th
Hitler
Reynolds Packard
Adolf Hitler
Calabria
Apuilia
Anzio
Padiglione
Garig- Ilang
Mt. Ornito
Castelforte
Pfc Wendell Reported Seriously Wounded in Italy
Pfc Harry J. Wendell, son of Mr and Mrs Jake Wendell of the northwest area, is reported seriously wounded in Italy. He enlisted in October 1942 and served in Africa before Italy. His brother P Louis Wendell serves in a New Guinea infantry unit and has also been wounded.
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Wendell
de Smet
Harry J. Wendell
Italy
Jake Wendell
Here
Africa
Louis Wendell
New Guinea
Right Killed, 60 Hurt In British Explosion
London report states eight people were killed and 60 injured in an ammunition dump blast near a northern England railway yard yesterday. The blast wrecked the station and scattered debris for miles as service men were handling ammunition just before the explosion.
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London
Northern England
Peace Officers To Meet Sunday
A special meeting of the Peace Officers Association of South Dakota will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Marvin ghitt Hotel. The gathering replaces the usual convention, canceled due to war conditions, with all members invited. Attorney General George T. Mickelson will toastmaster, with talks by Walter Hanni of the FBI and a state motor patrol member.
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Officers of Sheriff's and Police Officers’ Association of
South Dakota
Marvinghitt Hotel
Louis Matson
Matson
George T. Mickelson
Walter Hanni
FBI
State Motor Patrol Department
Navy College Program to Continue, Says Rear Admiral Jacobs
In Washington on February 5 Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs chief of naval personnel stated the Navy Department has no plans to discontinue its college training program. He noted the bureau has received inquiries about such reports and affirmed the program would continue.
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Navy College
Washington
Randall Jacobs
Naval Personnel
Navy Department
Jacobs
Is Bureau
Allied Air Armada Hits Nazi Strongholds in Day Nine
London dispatch reports a major Allied air offensive through central France and western Germany on the ninth day of sustained raids. American heavy bombers and fighters join RAF Mosquito strikes, targeting Wilhelmshaven Frankfurt and other industrial centers with thousands of tons of explosives and heavy losses on both sides.
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Austin Bealmear
London
France
Hitler
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
Frankfurt
Western Reich
Gut
Car Kills Woman Stepping Off Bus in Watertown
Mrs. Clarence DeVries 28 of Sheldon Town was killed instantly twelve miles south of Watertown as she stepped from a bus into an oncoming car. Harold Kannas 18 of Watertown drove the auto. sheriff Judd Langenfeld called the death accidental. DeVries was en route to Castlewood to visit her parents, with her wedding trip family nearby.
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Watertown
Clarence DeVries
Sheldon
Judd Langenfeld
Hamlin County
Harold Kannas
DeVries
Castlewood
K. O. Janssen
John Bakker
Bakkers
Storm Warning Issued For State
The weather bureau issued the winter's first storm warning this morning forecast slowing snow and temperatures dropping to 18 degrees below tonight in all sections. A high of 40 above yesterday slipped to three above by 10 am, while Feb 5’s average is 11 above. Northwest winds gusted to lift snow to .10 inch. 15 mph winds were expected to diminish tonight. The only prior warning this winter was Dec 26 for a cold wave.
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Weather Bureau
RETURNS ON LEAVE FROM CALIFORNIA FOR ACTIVE DUTY
Joseph P. Gross signalman 3je, former Heron College student, arrived home by plane from California on a short leave. He is on active duty in the Pacific area.
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Joseph P. Gross
3Je
Heron College
California
Pacific
British Feeler Attacks At Coast Hint Invasion Prep
German sources say preliminary steps for an Allied invasion of western Europe are under way. Reconnaissance attacks by English units along the Atlantic wall are reported, with air assaults using American Flying Fortresses and English forces. The spokesman warns that spring offers the best chance for invasion and reconnaissance activity may peak.
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London
Western
Europe
Atlantic Wall
Budapest
Ministry of Information
West Wall
Argentine Nazi Spies Arrested Amid Axis Ring Conflict
Buenos Aires reports Theta describes two rival Nazi spy rings in Argentina. One run by Hitler’s representative Harnisch, married to an Argentine, now under arrest. Government cuts diplomatic ties with four Axis satellites Vichy France Bulgaria Romania Hungary as of January 26.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Adolf Hitler
Col Eprique Gonzales
Pedro Ramirez
Harnisch
Gonzales
Vichy
France
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hungary
Ramirez
Germany
Japan
Atlanta cruiser launched with Mrs. Mitchell as sponsor
The cruiser Atlanta, replacement for the Mighty A sunk at Guadalcanal, will be launched tomorrow at New York shipbuilding yards. Mrs. Margaret Mitchell Marsh, author of Gone With the Wind, will sponsor the craft representing Georgia citizens who bought war bonds totaling 63,397,897 dollars to finance the effort.
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N.N. J
Atlanta
Guadalcanal
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Georgia
Rnance
Margaret’ Mitchell-Marsh
Reds Seal Estonia Escape Gap and Pincer
A wartime dispatch reports Soviet forces under Gen Govorov sealing off a 39 mile Estonian land strip and reaching the Narova River mouth inside Estonia. The Red Army also encircles German units near the Dnieper, claiming heavy losses for the enemy with dozens of Junkers 52 transports shot down and air escort destroyed.
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Moscow
Leonid A. Govorev
Leningrad
Gulf of Finland
Nsrova
Lake Peipus
Govorov
K. 4
Meretskov
Red Army
Ukraine
Dnieper
Cherkasy
Kanev
Zvenigorodka
Shpetsz
Nikolai Vatysin
Ivan S. Konev
Dneiper
Stormovik
Voron
Lake Tlren
Leningrad- Moscow
Novgorod
Meretskevs
Lubin
Narova River
Stockholm
Baltic Sea
Noorkorping
Sweden
Seek To Patch Split In OWI
Washington reports efforts to settle an intramural dispute at the Office of War Information. Director Elmer Davis and overseas director Robert Sherwood are the targets of a negotiated peace urged by President Roosevelt. A revived Board of War Information could supervise propaganda policy, censorship, and information across agencies.
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waAs Iington
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Robert E. Sherwood
Roosevelt
OWI
Board of War Information
Army
Navy
Office of Censorship
Coordinator
Inter-American Affairs
Sherwood
Davis
Washington
Preston Soldier Reported Missing in Italy in Action
LeRoy Stevens, son of Mr and Mrs Nels Stevens of Lake Preston, is reported missing in action since January 14. An air engineer on a B 17, he went overseas in October and completed 15 missions over enemy territory earning the Air Medal for shooting down a German fighter. He leaves a wife and young son living with her parents in Bradley.
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Preston
Lake Preston
Nels Stevens
LeRoy
Airo
Italy
Bradley
Set Their Watches By Mrs. Roosevelt
New York February 5. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at a dinner at 9 o clock sharp. Guests, mostly teachers, asked for the time and the chairman urged them to set their watches as she arrived. The moment was precisely nine.
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New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kenny Promised Polio Fund Help
New York figures say no rift with Sister Elizabeth Kenny amid funding disputes. President Bagil O Connor of the Nation Foundation for Infantile Paralysis asserts continued support for evaluating the Kenny method and other approaches. Kenny alleges Minnesota Institute work is behind the times and seeks 250000 dollars annually for maintenance.
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New York
Bagil O'Connor
The
Nation Foundation For
Elizabeth Kenny
O'Connor
Sister Kenny
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Bond Advertising Measure Seen Approved By House
Washington March 4 chairman Cannon of the appropriations committee forecast the House would pass a bond advertising bill by a large margin. The plan authorizes spending 15 million dollars annually for wartime newspaper ads to promote bond sales. The bill, similar to the Senate version, was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee after prior rejection. Newspaper distribution targets weekly semiweekly triweekly and daily papers in communities of 25 000 or less, raising the population limit from 10 000 to 25 000.
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Washingson
Fee
Cannon
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Ways and Means Comtastier
German claims on 906 British prisoners in Italy
Berlin reported that 900 British soldiers were captured in the Nettuno bridgehead below Rome and that Allied relief efforts had failed. The broadcast also claimed a second Allied advance into Cassino was repulsed and described Italian front fighting as as severe as the Russian front.
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London
Nettuno
Rome
Cassino
Berlin
War Today asks will Rome be destroyed if Hitler orders troops to stay
War analyst Mackenzie Dewitt notes Hitler may gamble on Rome by entrenching troops to deter Allied push while risking civilian suffering. The piece questions whether Rome’s capture remains the objective and if Allies would shell or blockade the city to oust invaders.
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Rome
Hitler
City
Dewitt
MacKenzie
Associated Press
Fuehrer
Italy
Alled High Command
John Edward Weese Dies At Home In Huron
John Edward Weese died at his home at 1372 Fourth Street Southwest early today after a brief illness. Born July 4 1866 in Summum ML he married Billa Mse Danner on November 20 1890. Surviving are his widow and three sons all of Huron, three brothers and one son preceded him in death. Funeral arrangements pending word from out of town relatives.
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John Edward Weese
Fourth Street
Summum
Billa Mse Danner
Beadie County
Huron
Ray Owen
Roy Edward
Paul Allen
Wilson Weese
Canton
Lewis
Japs Call For Sharp Rise In Iron And Copper Output
The Tokyo radio reported the Japanese Munitions Ministry seeks an 80 percent hike in iron ore output and a 30 percent rise in copper, aiming to bolster war needs. About six or seven iron mines and roughly 40 copper mines were designated to boost production.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Brostesst
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